>>5156339You’ve arrived at Lucremoola’s Pastry Shop. The place is doing a cross-branding promotion with a cartoon show that airs every day at 7PM about a detective cat, you can’t recall the name since you always miss the opening. Ema likes the show a lot. That damn cat is better at your job than you are. You’re not that jealous. It’s a tiny two storey shop, it’s counter goes from one wall to the other, and there’s a poor guy wearing the detective cat’s costume behind the register.
“Hello there, sir! How can I help you?” The enthusiastic man inside the costume wonders. You say man, but their voice is rather indescribably indecipherable.
“Can I ask you something first? How comfortable is wearing something like that?” Maybe you can buy a giant cactus costume to cheer up Ema. Trying to cheer up people is a bad habit of yours.
“Well, sir! I’m glad I won’t have to wear this for the rest of my life! Perhaps, I’m being too much of a downer. It’s my first day, so I probably need to get used to it.” The cheerful employee raises his fist.
“I see, I see. You look good in it.” That’s not the best compliment you could’ve come up with. “You’re the only one working here?” You look around trying to spot Vanessa.
“Of course not! There’s people working in the kitchen and upstairs!” The Cat wobbles its head like nodding. “We have a counter up there for special requests.”
“Is that where I can get one of Bombastus’ cakes?” You got something here.
“Precisely. Are you an acquaintance of his?” The Cat head wonders.
“You could say that.” That’s a funny way of saying <span class="mu-i">not at all</span>.
“Does your name happen to be Kobashi?” The Weird shopkeeper is being intrusive.
<span class="mu-s">How do you respond?</span>
>“Some call me Coolbashi.” Wink.>“No, actually, my name’s Kobayashi.” Pretend to be someone else.>“Yeah, is anything wrong?” Have you met this person before…?>Write In. 