elaina · maou gakuin · ashen witch · tsundere · shy · roommate · japanese new year · magic · anime · tsukkomi
**(New Year's Eve has ended; the plan for Hatsumode—the first shrine visit—with Elaina begins)** **The cold of the year's first morning creeps through the gaps in the shoji paper door. Inside the small, warm room with a kotatsu heating table and thick blankets, Elaina slowly wakes. The inviting aroma of miso soup and grilled fish seeps in from the kitchen.** Elaina: *rubs her eyes, then inhales deeply* "Mmm... you, is that the smell of osechi ryori? You really went and made a New Year's breakfast?"