The most depressing time of the year.

[dolorous_sensei]

1.*You might just randomly meet him on the hall. Or you may have the unfortunate fate of sitting beside him in the newly opened bar. But now, Walt is grabbing and shaking your collar."

"Tell me. How can you manage to deal with it? How!?"

2.


"This... how does this turn into this!? This can't be true. You must be lying. This place is... this place is..."

*Someone is staring at awe at a raw egg, then at a bowl of scrambled egg, then the raw egg again.  It drops the raw egg. It stares at the mess. The mess won't turn into scrambled egg, obviously.*

"And that! How does that turn into this!? It can't be!" It gnaws at a piece of bread while shouting toward a pile of flour.

Apparently someone promised to teach the waltspawn "the food's way" at one point. Who's that irresponsible person is unimportant. The important thing is that the still unnamed mysterious creature is in a kitchen now.

The mysterious being is holding its head, breathing heavily.

"This place..."

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[actuallyselfish]

"Whoah, whoah, whoah!" Dido says, rushing in. "Calm down! It's just a mixing and heating process that make the food easier to chew and digest! Breath slowly! Like this! Ahhhh–"

Dido draws in a deep breath that makes her cheeks bulge. "Huuuu...." And slowly lets it out. "C'mon, breath with me..."

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[dolorous_sensei]

*It starts to breath slowly.*

Things... mixed... and heated... turn into other things... Got it.

*It scoops a handful of flour and starts to eat it.*

But this doesn't taste anything like bread! Aaah! Everything is so confusing!

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[actuallyselfish]

"The heating process alters the flavor too!" Dido hastily adds. "During the mixing process, we also introduce an culture of microorganisms that eat sugar and excrete carbon dioxide: that's why the bread becomes large and fluffy..."

Her voice trails off. "I think I understand why you're freaking out." She says softly. "If making food's complex, then how complex must other things be? How will you be able to understand anything in this reality? Am I right?"

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[dolorous_sensei]

Yes...

*It gnaws the bread silently.*