Muku Sakisaka/Fairytale Crepe-er

Fairytale Crepe-er

Backstage Stories

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Omi	Is there anything you want to eat for dinner today?
Tsuzuru	That’s right. Fushimi’s cooking’s great no matter what it is.
Muku	Omi-san! I have a favour to ask of you……!
Masumi	Your voice’s too loud.
Tsuzuru	T-That was surprising. He seems to be rather hyped……
Omi	Y-Yeah. What’s the matter?
Muku	Suu— haa~~……
	Please! Teach me how to make a chocolate cake!
Omi	Chocolate cake?
Muku	Yup! Chocolate cake!
Masumi	……My eardrums are going to break.
Tsuzuru	This is the first time I’ve ever heard Muku’s voice this loud.
Omi	Got it. Alright.
Muku	I’m relieved……I mean, I’m clumsy and all and am just like the dandelions over there so I was really sure that you’d refuse……
Tsuzuru	No, you’re saying that you’re just like a dandelion’s going too far, I say!
Omi	Even so, why are you suddenly asking about chocolate cakes?
Muku	Actually, there’s a shoujo-manga I’m really into recently……
	In the main scene of that manga……Oh, it’s a scene that happens on the 54th page of the 3rd volume of that manga.
Tsuzuru	You memorised everything even down till the page numbers huh.
Muku	In that scene, the boy gives his handmade chocolate cake on Valentine’s day.
	That’s reaaaaally really brilliant!
	That’s why I want to give the director my handmade chocolate cake too……
Masumi	……!
	I’ll make it too.
Tsuzuru	That’s what I thought you’d say……
Masumi	First of all, if I’m going to be making a specially handmade chocolate cake for the director, I’d like to do it’s arrangement to make it something special. First, from the Cacao itself.
Tsuzuru	Starting from the Cacao itself!?
Muku	Masumi-kun, you’re amazing!
Omi	If that’s how it is, I guess I don’t have to bother about the milk then.
Tsuzuru	The both of you, you know it’s not possible to do that! Also Masumi, don’t just go off starting to look for ranches!
Omi	in other words. The chocolate cake class begins.
Muku	I wonder if it’s a good thing that someone like me can really be doing this together with Masumi-kun……
Tsuzuru	It’ll be fine. We’ll get through it somehow.
	Well but that’s because this guy’s been saying that he’d start from the picking and procurement of the cacao……
Yuki	As expected of villager C. There’s no space for the poor.
Tsuzuru	That’s a hard spot since I can’t deny that either.
Omi	Well then, let’s start making it right away. First, we have to weigh the ingredients.
Muku	Yeah! Let’s see, we need 100g of sugar so…… Let’s put it a little, a little more……A little more? Followed by the Choco and……
Tsuzuru	No, no matter what it is this time you’re being too careful aren’t you.
Yuki	The night will be over before the cake gets completed.
Omi	Muku, it’ll be alright if you place everything in there now. Let’s stir the mixture once you’re done measuring everything.
Muku	Okay!
	Hm—……
Tsuzuru	Oven Watchmen! You don’t have to keep staring at it like that do you.
Muku	T-That’s true! But I’m worried about it……Since everyone was cheering for me while I made it.
	If the cake turns into a black lump just like charred black charcoal……
	W-Well, it’s one thing if you guys got caught up in an explosion and we’re blasted away or something if the cake went wrong.
	What if everyone’s sleeping place’s gone and we all have to camp out at the street fronts without lodgings……!?
Yuki	If something’s gonna explode, it won’t be the cake but rather you and your negative thoughts, Muku.
Omi	Alright, it’s completed. It’s rather well made isn’t it?
Tsuzuru	Ohh, looks delicious.
Yuki	Heh~ I thought that something would have happened along the way but isn’t this well done.
Muku	Amazing……It seems so delicious that it’s almost as if I wasn’t the one who made it! It’s thanks to Omi-san and everyone!
Omi	All that’s left is just for you to give it to the director when she returns. Go for it, Muku.
Muku	Y-Yes……!

Yuki	Villager C. Move more towards that side. I can’t see.
Tsuzuru	If I go any further, I’ll be seen by the director!
Omi	I feel a little bad for looking at them in secret but I’m still worried after all.
Tsuzuru	This isn’t peeping, it’s watching over them.
Yuki	You’re just putting it in another way but you’re still peeping at them anyway. In the first place, what kind of situation was in that shoujo manga anyway?
Omi	Come to think of it, we didn’t hear it till that far. All we know was that the man handed it over to the heroine.
Tsuzuru	Since Muku aspires for it to happen, isn’t it a little romantic at least?
Yuki	Romantic huh……
Muku	U-Um, I’m sorry for asking you to come to the balcony all of the sudden……
Izumi	Not at all, it’s fine. What did you want to talk about? A consultation?
Muku	No! Err……Erm……
	Here! I made this for you! Please do eat it!
Izumi	This is…A cake? Did you make it?
Muku	It might be a little odd since it’s the first time I’ve made something for a Valentine present but……
	But! It should taste delicious since Omi-san was the one who taught me how to make it!
Izumi	To think that you’d go all the way so as to handmake it. Thanks, Muku-kun.
Muku	Yup!
Tsuzuru/Yuki /Omi	…………
Tsuzuru/Yuki	…… It’s entirely normal isn’t it!!!!
Yuki	It’s super normal!! Through and through!!
Omi	Haha, but isn’t it great and all that he managed to hand it over?
Tsuzuru	No, well, that’s true though……
Yuki	I thought that it would have been a more special scene……
Omi	It’s just like Muku to do so. But he seemed to be really elated so I guess it’s worth the effort.
Muku	I’m back.
Omi	Welcome back……Hey, that’s some rather large baggage you have there.
Kazunari	Seriously. What do have in those paper bags you’re holding in both hands?
Muku	Chocolates from everyone in school.
Tsuzuru	Choco, wait……Whaaat!? You received that much!?
Muku	They’re friendship chocolates. It seems like everyone was given some so it’s not chocolates meant for their favourite or anything.
Kazunari	It’s interesting and mysterious! Show them to me for a while!
	A pink wrapping, fluffy ribbon and a pretty cute and elaborate box……
Yuki	Oh, the one inside this paper bag’s a heart one.
Kazunari	No no no, one wouldn’t give a heart chocolate like this out of the blue!! No matter how I see it, it’s a choco meant for favourites!! Tough love!
Muku	N-No way! It’s not even a matter of the person who gave it’s cute or not! If they’re giving me a heart-shaped one then it’s a given that they are!
Omi	Heh, you’re popular.
Yuki	Right. Muku, you’re actually liked. You have good motor reflexes and you’re also good at studying.
Kazunari	Se—rious—ly!? Peanuts! Miraculous hyper teenage! I’ll explain it to you! I’ll shine light on you!
Omi	……Compared to the scene from yesterday, isn’t this one much more shoujo-manga like?
Yuki	I think so too.

Ran