None of the regular characters appeared here, not even Hans 🤯
It's crazy how effective this series has been with its world building and character development. I'm constantly in shock at how much political drama and intrigue has been stirred up and spurred on with just cuisine. One of the nobles appreciating knowledge of their local food and the other noble recognizing what soy sauce was to get the ball rolling even further honestly had me super excited.
Seeing this whole eyeglasses subplot move along too has been extremely fascinating too, especially because all Nobu did was set the stage for this whole thing to push on. Zezeman intuiting what they should do to market the glasses and get em spread out honestly had me wilding and feeling just as short-sighted as Lonbauldt when it came to the scale and cost LOL. Lonbauldt's whole arc and this expansion of Aitheria's commerce is just so satisfying aaaargh!
I can't wait to see how things look in the kitchen after this too, Ludwig took so many things to heart and it paid off tremendously!!!
(also shout out benedicta she looks so GOOD in those glasses)