

when souma came back from his first tour abroad, they were already about to graduate as third years it was erina’s teary, frustrated face, as if ready to smack him (and she does) when she sees him again that puts everything into place for him.HEADCANONS (since Tsukuda said the rest was free to our imagination, and anyway he confirmed their romantic feelings towards each other already, so many possibilities and I hope the anime builds on it)

wouldn’t even be surprised if after this chapter he really did propose with all their friends surrounding them because of how he ‘swears’ that this’ll finally be the dish to make her say ‘delicious’ (at this point delicious has become code for ‘I do’ between them not kidding)

headcanon that that’s why he wants there to be a lot of witnesses when he didn’t before because he could propose at any time. wouldn’t surprise me that when erina finally says ‘delicious’, he’ll just propose there on the spot. it seemed to me that it’s in this chapter that he came to a resolution that it’s forever, no-takebacks between them. he’s been dedicating his cooking to erina all this time after all. what his dad and asahi said has already been on his mind for a while and in this chapter it’s already solidified into an absolute certainty, the ‘forever’ is what clinches it to me. it’s actually souma’s inner monologue that convinces me.THEY ARE LITERALLY HUSBAND AND WIFE MATERIAL. the ‘i’m home’ on souma’s part and the ‘welcome home’ on erina’s part and how erina is probably always the first to welcome him home since he calls her first and ‘home’ for them doesn’t just mean ‘japan’ but coming home to ‘yukihira’s’ and even better coming home to ‘her’ waiting at the place he calls home. that whole reunion! so soft, after both their inner monologues, and just for them alone.the familiarity between erina and grandfather the way he calls her erina-chan or how he leaves it to her to tell ‘the boys’ where he’ll be, and just how he speaks to her as if already seeing her as a granddaughter-in-law.it seems the usual thing is that erina arrives earlier than him to yukihira and that she waits inside for him so that means she’s the one who usually opens up the diner that’s right it looks like she’s even been given keys to yukihira’s! if that doesn’t scream domesticity, I don’t know what does.he calls her first out of absolutely anyone he knows when he comes back home and from erina’s dialogue they’ve had this practice for quite a while, literally an ldr right there folks.heck if tsukuda hadn’t said he planned for them to be married, I would’ve thought they had been since I don’t see either of them changing their last names) (because there is absolutely no way they aren’t AT LEAST dating by that point.
