Mingle Post! Our First Class Post~ [Action]

[netherworld_lolitics]

[You've all arrived by your own will or have been hustled into a classroom by a flock of stampeding prinnies. You've been in the room for a few minutes before your first teacher shows up, fashionably late~]

[It's some kind of effeminate flower person: Senator Trap!]

... why are you all here? This is class. You don't belong here.

[Sigh] Making my life hard.

Alright, whatever. I'm Senator Trap and this class is "Zen-Not-Giving-A-Care." I'd have prepared a lesson plan, but it turns out I'm already a master at not caring. So I guess that means you're all going to have to learn from my example as I spend the next hour and a half playing Tetris. [pulls out his myPhone.]

Of course, if you actually care about learning, you're already failing this class.

Comments

[cutestsuperweapon]

Now I am confused, and I am not even a pig...

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

But you are trying to learn, which is excellent! You cannot know a dish's true flavor until you taste it.

[cutestsuperweapon]

Well, I know a pudding tastes yummy just by looking at it, right?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

[Without anyone noticing, Champloo immediately makes some pudding, and promptly offers it to her in a bowl.]

If this is yummy, then eat!

[It looks like delicious chocolate pudding. It is turnip and coconut with curry powder.]

[cutestsuperweapon]

Yay, thank you! You made this just for me? I...

[With tears in her eyes, she poked the pudding, then dug right in full-speed.]

Huh? Uhm, I must have eaten it wrong. Maybe I bit my tongue in the middle...?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

Appearances can deceive! The proof is, as they say, in the pudding.

[cutestsuperweapon]

But there's no pudding left, I ate it...

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

Though the pudding has been eaten, is it gone? Or have the ingredients merely assumed a new form?

[cutestsuperweapon]

Ooh! So it's like the pudding is elsewhere, with his family, and having a good time now! Just not as a pudding?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

It is certainly communing with other ingredients, both present as past! You have taken the pudding into yourself. Now it is an ingredient in the dish that is you!

[cutestsuperweapon]

But I don't want to be eaten! I wouldn't taste well!

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

You can only understand the heart of cooking by accepting you are an ingredient. To know the heart of cooking is to represent the voices of ingredients that can't talk back!

However, this does not mean you must be eaten. To truly live -- as dish, ingredient, and chef -- you must live in tune with your heart!

[cutestsuperweapon]

Well, I think that's what I'm doing, by being evil, which is about being nice. That counts, right?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

In Evil Academy -- I mean, Netherworld Academy -- to be nice is the path of the delinquent, whereas to be evil is the path of the honor student!

...however, these are merely distinctions. Pay them no mind. Live according to your heart.

[cutestsuperweapon]

Alright, so I'll be honorably evil. That fits, right?

This place is too confusing!

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

The clean, pure taste of beef can cut through even the smokiest marinade, boom!

[cutestsuperweapon]

Like pudding shines through me?

[Worth a try.]

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

It is not pudding that shines within you.

[cutestsuperweapon]

...Then the remains of the pudding that turned evil within me and are now also me?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

Hyahya, a noble attempt! But you are vanilla.

[cutestsuperweapon]

Even if I ate chocolate pudding with cream?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

I cannot imagine an ingredient which would change the taste of your heart!

[cutestsuperweapon]

Which is a metafor, right?

[kitchenfistfirechaosstyle]

Cooking is more than a metaphor for life! ...but if it helps, you may digest what I have given you in that manner.

[cutestsuperweapon]

I see. I will keep this in mind, I think. You taught me a valuable lesson!

Do not mix salt with pepper!