Chapter 98

Tohru and School Lunches is the ninety-eighth chapter of Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon.

Summary
Kanna enjoys the school lunches more than Tohru's cooking.

Plot
Kobayashi notices Kanna is taking her time to eat and Tohru boasts she should because its a meal prepared by her. Kanna says she's grateful but her meals aren't that different from her school lunches but Tohru doesn't believe her. Kobayashi remember that the school will be open all day and she explains to Tohru that elementary schools will be open to parents and watch their kids as well as try their lunches, like a deluxe version of Parent's Day. Kobayashi was planning to go and is now exited to compare Kanna's lunches to Tohru's cooking, and Illulu adds that the school sandwiches kids giver her are delicious. When Kanna tells Tohru to make school lunches at home, Tohru gets jealous because people say the school lunches are better than her cooking although she is the main maid chef. When Tohru arrives at school using perception blocking, she goes to the kitchen to watch the cooks make the lunches and recreates the lunch at home which surprises Kanna. The girls start eating the food but Illulu points out she likes Tohru's original cooking better, which prompts Tohru to tell Kanna to accepts her cooking since she worked for nothing. Illulu thinks Kanna did a prank, but Kanna explains the school meals taste better somehow, and Kobayashi realizes what she means and says that Tohru will not be able to reproduce it. Tohru decides to have a closer look at the kitchen and dresses as one of the workers using enemy blending and notices that the food isn't made any different from hers. As open day is tomorrow, the cooks want to work their hardest and Tohru gets scared Kobayashi will fire her thinking that school lunches will be better and has to find the secret fast. She works harder than ever before but in the end she never finds it as she walks Kanna home from school. Tohru remembers how happy everyone was with her there but as a different person as enemy blending makes people see her as a different person and feels better as Kobayashi will still be able to eat lunch made by her. The next day, a truck carrying the ingredients for lunch had an accident so Tohru turns into a dragon to bring the truck to school and starts to cook. Kobayashi starts explaining to Kanna explaining that the reason the food tastes different might be the place as she added the memories with her school mates with her to the flavor but thinks that the taste of food is subjected to each person so it is unfair to compare. Kobayashi says that Tohru might have realized it too and Saikawa tells Kanna the lunches are ready. As Tohru arrives inside the classroom, Kobayashi invites her to eat but Tohru declines, sating she already ate outside and shows Tohru eating with the other lunch personnel.

Characters

 * Tohru
 * Kanna Kamui
 * Kobayashi
 * Ilulu
 * Riko Saikawa