The next morning at the Fei household.
As if she were living in her own home, Ran Mouri had already gotten up early in the morning to prepare breakfast and lunch.
In fact, she had gotten up even earlier than usual today.
This wasn't because she didn't want to sleep in a little longer.
Instead, her appetite had increased dramatically, leading to an increase in the amount of breakfast and lunch she needed to prepare, so she had to get up earlier to start preparing.
However, these preparations kept Ran Mouri busy in the kitchen for nearly three hours.
The sky outside the window began to brighten gradually.
“Click!”
Yingli Fei, yawning and wearing only a nightgown, stumbled out of the room.
“Sniff, sniff~”
The pleasant fragrance in the room made her open her eyes a little.
Following the scent, she walked towards the kitchen.
She saw her daughter, also in her nightgown and with an apron tied around her waist, working hard in the kitchen.
Just as she was about to go over and greet her daughter, her peripheral vision caught sight of the table, and she was stunned.
“……So much?”
There were already many prepared dishes on the table.
Yingli Fei knew which lunchbox was hers.
But what was the matter with the one next to it, which was four times the size of hers?
Yingli Fei wiped her eyes and went over to compare them.
“It's four times bigger than my lunchbox.”
“This should be two or three times the amount a grown man can eat.”
The square box for comparison was only the first layer for storing white rice.
Next to it were four other boxes of the same size, filled to the brim with all sorts of dishes.
There were various meat dishes, as well as fried chicken, fried pork cutlets, broccoli, bamboo shoots, and hamburger meat.
There was nothing wrong with the variety, and the nutrition combination was also very good.
However, the quantity was a bit off.
“Is she planning on eating with Sonoko today?”
“Even if that's the case, the amount is still a bit too much.”
“Is she still in shock?”
Yesterday, Yingli Fei stayed home the whole day without going to work and just kept Ran company.
However, she didn't notice any excessive sadness from Ran, or even any strange behavior.
Adjusting her mindset, Yingli Fei came to the kitchen doorway and leaned against the door frame.
“Ran, you're up so early?”
“Yeah, I have a bit more to prepare today.”
“……Ran, did you make a date to eat with Sonoko today?”
“No.”
This single sentence completely crushed her guess.
“I didn't make any such arrangement with Sonoko.”
“Then……are you preparing all this for yourself?”
“……Yeah, it's for myself.”
This sentence almost made Yingli Fei collapse on the spot.
She turned around and looked at the table again, and looking at the amount, which was almost equivalent to that of several grown men, it didn't look like Ran's usual amount at all.
“Is she binge eating because of the shock?”
Yingli Fei's breathing even paused for a moment.
She carefully walked to Ran's side, paying close attention to Ran's emotions.
“Ran, you can't eat this much all by yourself.”
“Come on, tell Mom, is it because of that boy?”
“……”
Ran Mouri knew her mother was mistaken as soon as she heard it.
“Why would I be because of Shinichi!”
“He's not dead!”
“The reason I'm eating so much is entirely because of the title I got from the diary lottery.”
“It's both Big Eater and Digestive Monster, if I don't prepare more, my stomach won't be able to handle it.”
However, she couldn't tell her mother these things.
No, to be precise, she felt that if she told her mother this now, her mother would think that she was having hallucinations because of Shinichi.
She might even drag her to see a psychiatrist.
To avoid being dragged to see a psychiatrist by her mother, she thought it was better to keep it to herself.
“No, nothing like that.”
“Just recently, the training intensity of the karate club has increased quite a bit, and several times after training, I've been so hungry that I can't bear it.”
“So I just prepared a little more.”
“Is that so?”
“Of course, I'm still growing, so it's okay to eat a little more.”
“It's more like I've been eating too little before.”
“It's mainly Dad's fault.”
“Sorry, Dad, this is to prevent me from being dragged to see a psychiatrist by Mom.”
After blaming the fault on Kogoro Mori, Yingli Fei started thinking more about it.
“That unreliable fellow, could he be taking Ran's food allowance for drinking?”
While such an action was unreliable, she suddenly felt that the unreliable Kogoro fellow could actually do it.
She looked back at the table and thought about Ran participating in the karate club at school.
The energy expenditure was high, and if she didn't get enough calories, she might actually get hungry.
After thinking about it, she no longer considered it to be a psychological problem.
She had been observing Ran's emotional fluctuations, and she didn't seem to be as overwhelmed as she had imagined.
“Let's observe for a while.”
Thinking this, Yingli Fei became less anxious.
“Kogoro, that unreliable fellow.”
“He doesn't earn enough himself, and he still has to cut back on Ran's food allowance, I'll have a good chat with him later.”
“Ran, are you done preparing?”
“Yeah, I'm finished.”
“Then let's eat.”
Mother and daughter sat opposite each other and began their breakfast.
Then Yingli Fei watched as her daughter quickly finished the breakfast in front of her, which was far beyond the amount three grown men could eat.
Meat sauce noodles, fried chicken nuggets, vegetable salad, and three large bowls of rice.
“This……this……”
“Is Ran's appetite that big?”
Yingli Fei didn't eat a single bite.
She was already feeling a bit full just from watching her daughter eat such an abnormal amount.
Even though Ran's eating manners weren't bad, why could she eat such a large amount?
Yingli Fei just felt a headache coming on.
She turned her head to look at her daughter's stomach.
Well, she couldn't see any bulging at all, it was exactly the same as when she hadn't eaten.
So, this wasn't a struggle?
It wasn't even a psychological effect?
Yingli Fei held her forehead, she felt she needed to confirm Ran's situation with Kogoro.
This didn't seem like a simple growth spurt.
If Kogoro faced Ran's appetite like this, with Kogoro's savings, he definitely wouldn't be able to support it.
A few minutes later, Ran Mouri had already wiped the dirt from the corners of her mouth with a napkin.
“Hmm? Mom, aren't you eating?”
“Uh…I'll eat later.”
“Ran, do you really not feel anything uncomfortable?”
“No, I don't.”
Ran Mouri touched her stomach and didn't feel any bulging, everything was within her body's tolerance range.
Only seeing her mother's shocked expression, she also knew that her eating manners were a bit bad today.
As for all the reasons, she really couldn't say.
The only choice now was to leave.
“Mom, I'm going to school then.”
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