Thanks for the chap
I mean , even if there aren’t ppl “as good” as mc cooking wise, even tho some basic techniques shouldn’t be too hard to teach you’d think there’d be ppl prepping and helping like peeling potatoes and such (he's even doing the dishes by himself too instead of everyone washing their own but i guess soldiers are busy)
I'd assume it's largely because they're soldiers, not cooks by nature. So they wouldn't have the interest, inclination, or ability to learn. They
did say previously that they had a hard time convincing any cooks to join their expeditions, so the MC is probably the only real cook there. For the dishes, yeah...I got nothin', except people using the excuse(?) to slack off from certain kinds of work, and using the reasoning that dedicated units should stick to the job they're best at.
I think Aurius as a mage is the type who is stand-offish while she assesses anything. If mages here are academics like in other stories, she may have spent a lot of her time with her nose buried in tomes and grimoires, so she's not the most social type of person either. She's probably curious about the MC for a variety of reasons, but was trying to observe as much as she could first before confronting him.