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[parttimes]

[It seemed like a good idea at the time. Try to use new ingredients to figure out if they can make some more familiar foods. But it's one thing to taste test fruits and veggies they've never seen before and trying to make food out of that, and...another entire to be able to use them in recipes.

It.

It's...going...?

(But not well.)

Kou squints at Rion's pan.]

Uh, Rion--

[IT'S BUBBLING...]

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[flyingsolos]

Oh, no!! I could've sworn I had the heat turned down!

[ gosh dang it.

The heat is not the problem. ]

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[The heat is not the problem.]

Is--is the vegetable reacting weirdly to the spices you put in?

[What is even happening here, he can't cope with these weird veggies...!!]

[flyingsolos]

It... might be?? I've never used this vegetable but it looked enough like a carrot--

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I've never seen food react like this--

[A beat.

He slams the lid over the pan and amends:]

Well, not since Yuuki tried to make that omurice, anyway.

[flyingsolos]

Let's not talk about that. It's a painful memory.

[ Much like this is going to be. ]

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Like this is turning out to be?

[Yeah, he'll say that meta text.]

I can't just hold the lid here forever, we gotta do something about this mess.

[flyingsolos]

Chuck it out a window before it explodes? Maybe we can drown it.

[ Oh god the pot's rattling. ]

[parttimes]

Dumping it into the water sounds like the best option at this point. What if it explodes otherwise?

[This is how they end up with concoctions like Too Damn Hard.]

Ready...?!

[flyingsolos]

Ready!!

[ She's going to clear a path. ]

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[And into the water the dish goes, dumped out of the pan...!!

This is how they end up with said concoctions for sure, because now it's a rapidly hardening, gloopy mess.

E....ew.... Kou's definitely peering at it with disgruntlement, pan still in cloth-covered hands.]

[flyingsolos]

... Um. It wasn't purple when we started.

[ Ugh. ]

I guess this one's a bust.

[parttimes]

... This looks totally inedible, yeah.

[WHOOPS....]

I guess we...tried?

[flyingsolos]

Wanna keep it? Maybe use it as a weapon one day?

[ It's a legitimate point. ]

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[Kou tugs at it.

It...stretches, alarmingly, sort of like taffy.]

... Seems deadly enough, honestly. If we had a container to stick it in, I'd consider it.

[flyingsolos]

I have a bag? We'd just have to never open it again.

[parttimes]

You willing to sacrifice the bag for the sake of this possible-weapon?

[It works...]

[flyingsolos]

Sacrifices must be made.

[ It's fine. ]

[parttimes]

Alright then...here goes...

[Yanking that disgusting mixture out of the water (the taffy consistency seems to be sticking around), and then he shoves it into that bag.

Phew.]

Mission...accomplished...?

[flyingsolos]

... But I'm still hungry.

[ So. ]

[parttimes]

Guess it's back to the drawing board with us then. Let's try using some safer ingredients this time...

[Maybe.]

[flyingsolos]

"Safer" as in, "they exist back home"?

[parttimes]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Experimenting has not gone too well for them...]

It's hard to come up with totally new recipes. Too bad there isn't a recipe book here we could borrow.

[flyingsolos]

Technically, there is. We'd just have to ask everyone here if they've got a favorite recipe and find a way to compile it.

[parttimes]

... That sounds like a ton of work.

[HE'S NOT INTO THAT IDEA even though it's a good idea.

As if that's not basically what you do back home, Kou....]