Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"The question is, what is the cause... There seems to be no doubt that it is a curse..."

"... are you sure it's a curse?

"That's right. 'Cause I was just watching Catalina cook, but it didn't look like there was a problem anywhere..."

Those who had lost consciousness by eating Catalina's (large) dishes were unconscious by eating separate dishes for each of them. This means that Catalina did some kind of ruinous cooking in all its dishes... From Leah's point of view, it didn't seem like Catalina was acting strange.

"Can't you think of anything more than a curse?

"Why the hell..."

"Maybe there's a cause for the experimental animals Catalina's been sacrificing?

To that word of Leah, Catalina could not argue. Rather, it seems that only affirmation could be made. Apparently, he remembered doing less for himself.

But well thought out, she ends up denying Leah that allegation.

"... no. Before I really started experimenting... I think I couldn't cook anymore right after I met Mr. Waltz."

"So there's a cause in or around Waltz already, isn't there something else? Do you remember anything?

"... if I could tell, I wouldn't be bothered for nearly a year..."

"Well, right..."

Then Leah kept asking Catalina questions about standing up.... since I met Waltz, things I've made with her, and meeting my buddies, etc...

"... you've had a lot of valuable experiences since you broke up with us..."

"Yeah, well," hey.

"But you don't know what's causing it..."

Leah, who heard Catalina explain, sighed heavily. The sigh seemed to contain a lot of "something" other than how much the curse was caused by not knowing. Yes, if you like, something like jealousy......

Then for a while, Leah thinks. I thought one by one about the knowledge, experience I had acquired so far, what I only knew and Catalina wouldn't know.

As a result, she says something like this with a potpourri.

"And then... curse gear, or something?

"What..."

"Catalina... something, some kind of cursed gear, not wearing it?

…………

"... Catalina?

Catalina was unable to answer Leah's query. She said, 'Aren't you cursed?' Asked, he was wearing a large quantity of undeniable equipment.

At the beginning of it Catalina is --,

".................." Sa

—— and took off the white coat that was woven with feathers.

"Hmm? What's going on?

"… this white coat, a living white coat made of sticky fungus"

"What...?

".................." sooo

"... Now what?

"This shoe also has a sticky fungus on the sole of the shoe that can be used to walk the wall"

"... but by the way. What's that nenkin '?

"A sticky fungus is like a mushroom. If I tell you... it's like a little demon--"

Hearing the words, Leah said this, blocking Catalina's words, holding her head by her hand as if she were frightened.

"... Okay, Catalina. You... get naked. Yeah, that's all I got."

"What?"

"Otherwise, take off all the suspicious things you're wearing.... but isn't that, I mean... the same thing as getting naked?

"I don't have that. Exactly like underwear..."

"So, other than underwear?

…………

And Catalina, unanswered to Leah's inquiry, silenced herself with a musty look on her face. Apparently, Leah's point was a star.

But when you kept your mouth shut, did you feel like you were losing to Leah... Catalina kept her eyes open and asked questions to her rivals.

"... what do you do after you look like underwear, by the way?

"Naturally, it's cooking. So you wear clothes and gear little by little, and you look for gear that will have the effect of cursing? Well, if you wear an apron, aren't you ashamed?

Hearing Leah's words, Catalina narrowed her eyes even more.

"I see...... I mean, Leah says she's not ashamed of the act of wearing an apron and cooking naked, is she? Ok. Now let's cook together."

"What..."

"... Could Leah say she's not responsible for what she says? Well, that's fine. Yeah, I thought Leah was an irresponsible person."

Only one naked apron —— did you feel ashamed to be in a lingerie apron and cook, Catalina, trying to get involved about Leah. Such a provocation on her part shames Leah --,

"... that word, I'll make you regret it!

--Looks like it went over lightly.

As a result, my fox daughter and Tanuki daughter are each in underwear aprons, and I'm going to start cooking something--

"... Hey, Sophie"

"... you're trying to tell me that our next toxic taster is us, right? Yeah, I get it..."

"Yeah...... That's true too...... how did this happen?

"... I don't know."

…………

—— Seeing those two incomprehensible behaviors only made their faces bluish because only women were in the kitchen, or because everyone knew exactly how horrible the two were...

Thus began a Russian roulette named "Cursed Cuisine".