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"There is a delicate balance between work and personal interests in your life at the moment, and you need to pay close attention to it. While you desire to improve your position at work, you also desire to play and have a social life. There will be moments when you can combine the two very successfully. However, on the occasions where you cannot combine them, try to give each its fair share of time."

[ Hmm.. after reading it outloud, Alice makes a thoughtful sound. That's like practically every day. She plays and works and she has Ryo with her so he's a personal interest because he's her aide and he lives with her. That just sounds so generic, but, ah- ]

Oh, 3's not bad! Who's a Scorpio?

It's my birthday on Sunday by the way, so don't forget, everyone! --But if we do anything make sure it's earlier in the day, Nakiba's still going to be open that evening.

[ And then she whispers, even though it's a public broadcast. ]

Ryo, I want to be head chef on my birthday so we're having a battle tonight.

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So you guys battling is like the most literal form of a food-fight, right?

It's not the kind you throw around, that's a waste of food. We're fighting with our culinary skills. Ryo and I do it often enough that we don't really do a formal shokugeki though.

Then we also get dinner afterward.

I was thinking more like dueling using baguettes as your swords but, yeah, that would still be a waste of food. What's a show-...coo-getti?

Who makes the dinner?

A shokugeki is a formal challenge between two chefs that typically has something of value wagered on it to see who cooks the better food according to the agreed upon theme.

So we make the dinner, obviously.

Who usually judges these? I'm not asking because I think I have some sort of addiction to your food wizardry and am trying to figure out how to become a professional taster of all things.

It depends on the challenge. Typically we have experts in the culinary field, celebrities, Mom, teachers... It can be anyone really, but since we're trying to be the best we need people who will push us to our limits.

Edited 2016-04-16 02:25 (UTC)

I like how "Mom" is there. Is that a thing? Are all moms culinary experts?

And okay. So. What kind of limits would you be pushing now-ish?

My mother is. She's the head of the Research Division at Nakiri International.

I want to beat Ryo, Yukihira, and Hayama and show the worlds a whole new way to eat. But before that, the limits on how much fun you can have at a birthday party.

Holy fuck. You've taken it international. I mean, of course you have, because the family birth right of creating deliciousness in all forms of the word can't be contained by any one continent. It's an explosion of flavor crossing the globe passed down from mom to daughter for generations, ruining everyone's tastes buds along the way.

That. Is the best goal I have ever heard of.

[ Yeah, that sounds about right to her. Dave's descriptions are her favorite. ] Hmm, it sounds like you're saying you've gotten addicted to my cooking. Careful or you won't be able to eat anything less soon~

Well, I can't really fulfill my whole goal here. [ She wants to make her cousin admit her cooking is damn good and a few other things, but those involve other people who aren't here. Culinary world domination will have to be the goal. ] Dave, what do you normally do on your birthday?

I ain't even going to deny the truth of that. Nobody weened me in to normal food. I went straight from alien cuisine which honestly tastes like when you accidentally eat Play-Doh a lot of the time to your cooking. I'm going to starve to death unless you feed me. Addiction's a hell of a thing.

On my birthday? Start the day by getting yanked outta bed by my ankles and dangled off the edge of the roof until I won my right to celebrate the survival of another year by figuring out how to get out of the death grip without splatting on the sidewalk. Then I fight to get the gift, obviously, and- [ he cuts himself off abruptly ]

Uh. My friends exchange gifts on birthdays but the party front has been lacking. I don't know.

Edited 2016-04-16 19:17 (UTC)

[ Hmmm.. Alice seems like she's taking half a moment to process that, then comes to a very simple conclusion: ]

You're pretty weird.

Why does everyone keep saying that?

You just said your birthday ritual is to get dangled off a roof and you eat crappy alien cuisine.

[ So that could be why. She doesn't dislike it, it's just an observation. Alice hardly has the right to call anyone weird anyway. ]

Was. Breaking tradition.

But yeah, okay. I mean, I totally get it. My life is a traveling freakshow of the most fucked up circus in town. Step right up and take a gander at the guy who was granted magic pajamas from the sun after blowing himself up along with his sister and a robotic rabbit. But there's no way I'm the weird kid here in comparison to everyone else.

I mean, you're normal so you can say it. But I'll be damned if I get called weird by the ghost superhero.

Edited (bluh bluh typos) 2016-04-16 22:15 (UTC)

[She sounds cute, anyway, so he ends up speaking without thinking beforehand.]

Wouldn't you prefer to have someone else cook for you on the day you were presented to this ugly world? Or maybe you'd rather have someone devour you...

[Suddenly embarrassed noises. Sorry he's not speaking now.]

You battle on your birthday?

[This is a new concept for Airy.]

[ GASP. OF ALL THE THINGS SHE EXPECTED SHE DIDN'T EXPECT.. ]

Sexual harassment before even giving your name?

[ She doesn't care if he's embarrassed, she's saying it. ]

We battle every day almost, but we battle for who gets to be head chef once a week.I want to do it early though since it's my birthday.

I don't know, you have magical sun pajamas. I don't think anyone else has those.

There's a ghost superhero here?

[He moans sadly he's so embarrassed.]

Mikoto Mikoshiba.

[But something stands out to him.]

You're okay with it if they give you their name...?

They're vintage.

Yes. I guess if you haven't heard of them he hasn't been doing too much superheroing. That or you don't see him because he's, like, a ghost and shit.

So it's like iron chef?

[She likes watching the cooking channel.]

Yes, Miss. Would you like to have the battle before, during or after work?

You should speak to m'lady with more respect. [Said in the calmest, most threatening way possible.]

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