[Console][Video] 1st Donut Eaten

[croissaunt]

[Have a nice, middle-aged woman with short brown hair waving at the camera. Cass is smiling brightly. Hello! I'm Cass Rudolph, Tadashi and Hiro Hamadas' Aunt!

[She clasps tougher her hands briefly!] I hope they haven't been too much trouble!

.... Speaking of which! I have a quick public service announcement!

[Cass unclasps her hands and instead puts them on the console, leaning in as her smile turns into a frown, her brows furrowing.]

Hi-ro Ha-ma-da. Where. Is. My. Rice. Cook-er?

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[akito]

Tadashi-nii's aunt Cass, who owns a café and makes very delicious donuts and he's missed very much?

[croissaunt]

[Everyone and everything is conspiring against Cass and her well-deserved anger towards her youngest nephew. That question from this new face puts the last twenty or so nails in her anger's coffin.

It's not the café or the compliments about her donuts that gets her. It's the fact that they came from Tadashi. That Tadashi had missed her very much. That he could say he missed her very much.

Oh, sweetie. She lets out a bit of a sigh and smiles, putting a hand over her heart. Tadashi is probably going to get another hug the next time she catches sight of him. Well, both of the brothers, really. She can't hug one without hugging the other. They come as a unit, and now the unit is once again whole.

... She's still annoyed, though! Not happy! Annoyed! But she's also a bit touched.]

He said that...?

[akito]

[ that answers that question! He offers a small, but earnest smile. ]

I don't remember exactly what he said, I just know when I was sick and he took care of me, he talked about his home at the café with his aunt and baby brother. I definitely remember about the donuts though, because I made him some as a thank-you! But I bet they were nowhere near as good as auntie Cass'.


Also, if Hiro is trying to reverse engineer your rice cooker, can you tell him to give me one? And that if he doesn't ask you first next time I'll make Bird poop in his hair.

[ --ack, too much talking. He coughs a little into his sleeve, and gives an annoyed sniff. ]

[croissaunt]

[Oh, Tadashi. You're getting a hug the next time she sees you. Of course, you were getting one anyway, but that's not the point!]

You're both so sweet.

... And it's so sweet that you think the best of Hiro. He just likes to take things apart. Always has.

[Oh no she's definitely thinking that Hiro took it apart due to boredom. ... also she's not addressing the bird poop thing. Nope.

She does look slightly worried at the coughing, though. But she's not going to call him out on it. Only if that keeps up, perhaps.]

[akito]

[ he doesn't know why she says 'you're both', but won't comment on it because more important things! ]

But Hiro-kun has a genius-level intellect, ne? Rice cookers would bring in a good profit to help start up their business... But he is also still a kid. [ another nod, and another small cough hidden in the crook of his arm. Akito doesn't seem to notice he did it, since, well. It's become habit the past week. ] And being a kid too, I think if I wasn't thinking about money I would definitely take a rice cooker apart for fun.

[ it also goes without saying - to Akito, at least - that it would be put back together afterwards. Since that's half the fun! ]

Oh! Um, and welcome to Keeliai. It's good to see you! I'm Akito. I run Gazelle Delivery, so if you need any deliveries made I can do them very fast and safely! Though I am on vacation for a little while longer.

[croissaunt]

... Maybe. [That's a weird thought. Hiro taking apart something to learn how to build more like it is something new.] Back home, if he's not taking something apart for fun, he's taking apart something so he can use parts of it to make something else. Usually something dangerous.

[She has lots of experience with that. LOTS.]

Thank you, Akito. I'll keep you in mind.

[akito]

[ hmm... that makes him wonder how a rice cooker could be turned into something dangerous. and now all he can picture is a giant mecha that turns into a rice cooker as its cover, which ends up with him giggling. ]

That sounds like what my friends would try to do at home, if they were book-smart.


Electronic and mechanical parts are not very easy to come by here, so be sure to keep a close eye on your rice cooker after it is put back together! Otherwise Miss Cass might end up with a cooker that shoots rice balls at intruders, ne?

[croissaunt]

[She rubs at her temples a bit.]

Or half of it in something that flies.

[There were way too many flying things in her house. You don't understand. So. Many. Things. They made the "spin cycle" take on a whole different meaning.]