After my business trip in Izu, I called Chika over to hang out for the entire day. I wanted to see how it feels to be impetuous like her. I prepared her favorite food - tofu - for the whole day. I tried to figure out what kind of tofu dishes she'd like through recalling Yuichi's complaints about the inn that Chika recommended.

As I cooked tofu the whole day, I couldn't help but ponder over this food. In a sense, it's both a meaningful and an interesting food to me. If the inn had served anything but tofu, which Yuichi did not believe is suitable for a growing boy like him, he wouldn't have complained to me on the phone, and I wouldn't have rushed to bring him the katsudon. That made me think about how people demonize tofu and claim they have feminizing effects on men. I guess maybe that's why they call it "monk's food", as monks are surely not people's first choice of representation for masculinity. Either way, it's a ridiculous claim, I concluded before returning to reality and hung out with Chika for the rest of the day.