towerofanimus | 9th Recipe - Surprise Banquet [Open]

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9th Recipe - Surprise Banquet [Open]

Characters: Kazumi and You!
Setting: Cafeteria; Floor Sixty Kitchen
Format: Either
Summary: Kazumi is running around trying to cook things for all the newcomers so they don't have to just eat what's on the menu! Also, stocking up the other kitchen
Warnings: None foreseen

[Cafeteria]

[A young girl with short hair is hurrying in and out of the kitchen, greeting various people and coming back out with various dishes. Anyone who isn't seated and eating yet, she'll approach, or if she knows you, she'll approach anyway! Newcomer or Tower Resident, she wants to make sure everyone can have what they want - the menu's not that bad this month, but everyone always has different preferences, right? Though, all the guests have to make sure they have their oatmeal first!]

Hi! Are you hungry? What can I get for you?

[Cafeteria Kitchen]

[There's about eight different things cooking in here at any one time as Kazumi runs in and out and cooks various things while working around the staff. She's doing surprisingly well considering how much is going on! But she looks like she's about to run herself ragged...]

[Floor 60 - Deluxe Kitchen]

[Later in the day, one might find Kazumi here... there's an enormous pile of foods here, mostly things like sacks of flour and sugar and so on, but also vegetables and fruits and meat. It looks like she basically stole everything out of the cafeteria...]

Ummm, now how to organize this...?

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[Kazumi just giggles a bit at the head pat; she doesn't mind at all]

Eheh... yeah, a little. My friends and I fight witches, so there's been some life-threatening situations!

[Tohko looked a little puzzled at that.]

I'm sorry to hear that. That must be really horrid..but why do you fight witches? They're not all bad, I think.

Um, well... where I come from, witches are beings born from despair that prey on humans and curse them. They're more like monsters than the kind of witches you hear about in story books...

Oh, alright then. It must be pretty dangerous to fight them then..I'm sorry that you don't have anyone else around to help you. How are witches created from despair? If you knew how, you might be able to use joy to destroy them before they're born.

Yeah, it can be pretty dangerous. But, I'm not alone - my friends and I work together to fight them, as magical girls!

[Kazumi's optimism withers though at the question about where witches come from.]

...magical girls are born from hopes and wishes, given magic and the duty to fight witches in exchange for a single wish. But when those girls use too much of their power and fall into despair... they become witches.

[Okay, that earns you another headpat and a concerned look.]

But that means that, eventually, you and your friends will become witches too!

[She sighed.]

..Is there any way to reverse the process? There's a way to become a magical girl, so there has to be a way to undo it.

[She nods]

It's... the fate of all Puella Magi.

[She shakes our head]

Not that we know of. My friends and I are looking for a way to put a stop to that system, but...

[Tohko looked a little confused at the term, mainly because Kazumi was changing it on her.]

Puella Magi? I know what Magi means, but what does Puella mean?

[Tohko then sighed and gave Kazumi another headpat.]

Alright then. I wish you the best of luck in breaking down that system then! If there's any way I can help, let me know. How do you become magical girls anyway?

Ah, well, it just means "girl", so it's just another way of saying "magical girl" really.

[She nods a little solemnly, glad for the support]

Well, we're offered a contract by a fairy, like Jyuubey or Kyuubey. In exchange for granting one wish, we would take on the task of fighting witches. They... never told us that we would become witches.

Ah, alright then.

[Tohko nodded again, thinking.]

I'm sorry to hear that..that's pretty horrible. They're Woland-like characters then. They should have told you.

[Hang on here..Woland-like characters..Tohko would have to speak with Kyoko later. This sounded too familiar.]

But..if they can turn you into magical girls, maybe they know a way to reverse the process. Are they here in the Tower now?

Woland? [She's never heard of that one]

They said there isn't one. And if there was, Umika would have extracted that from them.

Well, there's two Kyuubeys here. One is the normal kind that acts very coldly, and the other is the one who was given emotions. Fortunately, they can't make contracts here.

Woland. He's a character from The Master and Margarita. He's basically the Devil, and pulls various cruel tricks on various people..but he's not a wholly terrible person, as he does some good.

[She then sighed.]

I see..maybe we can get the one who has emotions to help us. If the one without emotions was lying, then the one without emotions might tell the truth..or we could pick out his lies a bit easier. But it's good that they can't make any contracts here!

Hmm... it's cruel, but I think that's because they don't have a concept of cruelty, really. I'm not sure about doing good either though...

Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell whether they're lying or not... since there's not much way to test it. There aren't even witches here either.

I'm guessing that they run on blue and orange morality. That may be why it's hart for you to figure them out.

..And that's true..but that doesn't mean we can't try to pull the truth out of them.

Blue... and orange morality? [What even]

I guess so. Maybe if Umika or someone with mental abilities like that were here...

Yup, blue and orange morality! You know how people usually refer to morality in terms of black and white? Well, when someone is operating on a different morality system entirely, you would call that system blue and orange.

[Tohko then looked a little puzzled.]

Is Umika a friend of yours? What sort of abilities does she have?

Eh? I've never heard of that... I guess it makes sense? I... guess that's kind of how they work, yeah.

She is! {Well, uh, sort of? Kazumi... didn't want to think about that.] She has memory magic, like the power to extract the thoughts of an enemy so we can know their weakness, things like that.

Well..it might be how they work. It's a term mostly used in fiction, so I'm not surprised that you haven't heard it before.

[Tohko then smiled and thought up a plan.]

..Is it possible to extract Kyuubey's and Jyuubey's thoughts?

I guess I haven't really read many books like that.

Umm, maybe? I'm not exactly sure how it works. I know it works on Witches, and she can work with people's memories, but those two...

I see..you should read more books like that! They may be able to help you out in ways no one else can!

..but you're not sure whether it will work on them. But..it's still worth a try, right?

Maybe! Or I could ask someone like you who's read them.

It would be, but Umika's not here...

But I may not always be here. Besides, the books are wonderful! It would be a shame if you didn't read them.

[Tohko then patted Kazumi's head again.]

Alright then. We'll think of an alternative. I'll help you in any way I can!

Well, maybe I'll try it in my spare time. I know we have a library on one of the floors...

Eheh, thanks, Tohko! Hopefully we can find something... though really, just getting through all the things the tower throws at us is pretty tough.

[At that, Tohko smiled.]

That's great! You'll be happy we did...and we have two libraries-the fiction is on the third floor and the nonfiction is on the nineteenth floor.

And you're welcome! I'm always happy to help, especially with Wolands..and dealing with the Tower is pretty tough..but I'm sure that we'll come out alright in the end!

Do we? Haha, I guess you'd know, huh? I definitely prefer fiction though.

Mm, yeah. I hold that hope as well.

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