My workplace recently started cracking down on attendance, so I can’t show up a few minutes late whenever I feel like it anymore. That means I don’t dare go home at lunch either — I have to eat at work. I used to eat in the cafeteria, but my meal card doesn’t cover enough, and the cafeteria is both expensive and not very good, so I switched to takeout. At first I ordered from 鸡尿外卖; then I realized the discounts only applied to the first few orders, and after that it just kept getting pricier. A few orders in, I noticed it wasn’t just expensive — the taste was mediocre too. Then I was playing an eroge and saw a scene where the heroine makes bento for the protagonist, and it hit me: “Shit, why don’t I just make my own bento and eat that?”