"I don't know how to feel about this," Noriko says after a long, silent pause as she slices wafer-thin rounds of lotus root. "About helping you cook like this."

It's exciting, it's daring, she likes that aspect and she has no problem with breaking and entering, but...that muscle he's about to eat didn't come from a cow or a pig or anything else she's used to or has heard of eating, realistically. The fact that she isn't running away from it scares her.