Chloe watched Tanemoto walk over, her face its usual mask of grim stoicness. The only shift her features made was when she looked at Miyume and nodded, her gaze softening somewhat. It lasted only a few moments before she looked back at Ryuta.

"You treat cooking like a calculation. Like a series of strict rules." She paused, her icy gaze falling on his batch of cookies. "It's not. Cooking is an art, and sometimes you mess up. Mistakes are important," she nodded towards the burnt cookies, "and they are never a waste."

That was probably the most Chloe had said at one time since leaving Germany. It was true, though. Blindly following the recipe as if it were rules to success basically took the point out of cooking. Mistakes need to be made in order to learn.