[If they're working together, it's a joint venture!! Your success is my success. Your rocks are my rocks. It's not as if she isn't volunteering any of her own hard-earned... granular aggregates.]

I...

Don't understand.

Are you saying a man followed you around the world - you, and only you - hoping that you would find him on your path? While disguising himself?

What if you missed him somewhere? And -- can't you ask normal people for recipes, or was he the premier cook across the land? But how could he be if he spent his time following you in disguise?

[lysithea is from a jrpg and she is not amused]