6th Recipe - Scrambled Eggs [Open]

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi and You!
Setting: The cafeteria
Format: Action
Summary: Finding the issue with the languages, Kazumi decides to use the universal language: food!
Warnings: None so far

[Kazumi had never really thought that much before about the fact that everyone here could talk to each other... but now, suddenly they can't! Somehow, the Tower sounds noisier than ever as all the talking becomes a cacophony of different languages. Still, people would need to eat so... maybe they could all agree on that at least, without a need for words? Whipping up an array of dishes - casserole, curry, pastas... all unfortunately kind of orange due to the weird food dye this month - Kazumi was keeping busy. Of course, the newest addition to the kitchen wasn't helping]

Ah, Toto! Don't play with that!

[Unfortunately, the cat didn't understand Japanese any better than the kitchen workers today, so the scruffy black critter was happy to push over the canister of sugar and spill it all over the floor.]

Comments

[starofpleiades]

Huh... the "masters", right? Oh right, there are some of those here, aren't there? Hmm...

But, some of them might have been your enemies! Are there ones here I should watch out for?

[scorchedchivalry]

Stay away from Caster's master, Ryuunosuke Uryuu, and leave Rin Matou alone. I suggest asking either Irisviel or Illya von Einzbern or Waver Velvet.

[starofpleiades]

Oh, I met Irisviel recently! Eheh... she's really nice.

[scorchedchivalry]

She is. [Saber gets a soft smile on her face as she pets the cat.] She is my princess.

[starofpleiades]

Oh? Your real, actual princess? Heheh... I can really see that, with you as her handsome knight!

[scorchedchivalry]

As close as one can get without being royalty. She is my princess by choice, not by lineage.

[starofpleiades]

Wow, that's so wonderful. It must be nice to have her here, where you can protect her.

[scorchedchivalry]

A second chance...

[The knight seems lost in thought, looking down at the cat.]

[starofpleiades]

A... second chance?

[Kazumi doesn't really get it]

[scorchedchivalry]

Irisviel is from the first Holy Grail War I was summoned to. She did not survive.

[Saber's voice has a disquieting detachment from those words.]

[starofpleiades]

Oh no... I'm so sorry to hear that.

So then... this is the first time you've met her since then, huh?

[scorchedchivalry]

That is correct. I had believed I would never see her again.

[starofpleiades]

I guess... sometimes this tower can make good things happen, huh?

[scorchedchivalry]

Yes... But they are much like a double-edged sword. This place has given me Irisviel back, but it can also take her from me again.

[Or cause Saber to fail her princess again...]

[starofpleiades]

I see... that's true but... I think, it's better to have the opportunity to see her again, even if it means you might lose her again, then never to see her at all!

[scorchedchivalry]

Perhaps. [Saber sits down and scritches the cat behind its ears.]

[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi smiles an turns back, lowering the heat on the curry; it's just about ready!]

Hmm... so do you know all the Servants and Masters here?

[scorchedchivalry]

Most of them. Some are not from the two Wars I've been in. I believe I have at least met all of them, though.

[starofpleiades]

Oh, are there a lot here? That's kind of exciting.

[scorchedchivalry]

Only if you find inevitable war exciting.

[starofpleiades]

Ah... you think that will really happen? But... this isn't a leyline place is it? And besides, there's no Grail! Unless someone brought it with them?

[scorchedchivalry]

The Holy Grail is magic, Kazumi. It is not exactly a physical object like you are imagining until the final moments of the war.

[starofpleiades]

Ohh... so, then... anyone who has that kind of magic could produce it, then?

[scorchedchivalry]

It is more complicated than that, Kazumi. Perhaps that is a subject Irisviel can explain better than I. She is a magus, after all, and her family has deep, deep ties to the Holy Grail. I know of no one that understands it better than her.

[starofpleiades]

I guess that's like my other question, so okay! In any case... I really hope a war like that doesn't start. It's bad enough we're stuck here without fighting amongst each other...