do all the ones that involve strawberries 4 anyone o/
strawberry shortcake: your favorite place to relax
In the background, before Saori perks up to answer, you can just barely make out Rover trying to beatbox a version of: "strawberry shortcake, huckleberry pie, who's gonna be your lucky guy...!" in the background.
"When I lived in the Gion District, our Okiya had a large garden...! We... we were a relatively wealthy Okiya —our geiko were all very successful— but instead of hiring... gardeners? People to tend to the trees and flowers, the shikomi would take care of the plants. After I became a maiko the duty was not mine, but whenever there was a particularly tough day of training, or a long night out, it was always nice to water the flowers or set up little support sticks for the younger trees."
Ichigo daifuku: a happy memory from your childhood
"... When I first began training for the circus, there was girl who slept on the bunker next to me who needed to count to a certain number before she could sleep — she'd explained to me once it was how she could be sure her younger sister at home would be safe. Some of the other girls would yell at her because her mumbling was annoying, so I took it upon myself to shoot threatening looks at the people who were about to interrupt her. She was eventually sent home because she was completely useless at whatever it was she was doing, but I got particularly good at menacing gazes thanks to her."
... Is that it? She goes silent, so.. apparently so.
ichigo sandwich: something that you are good at cooking
"Alright, alright. So my Hot 'n' Spicy Chocolate Cake is the best — s'like putting fireworks in your mouth or something, an' I figured out how to, like, stuff chicken, I guess? Only instead of stuffing the chicken with, uh, bread or whatever it is you usually stuff in it, you stuff it with pasta! Makes the chicken taste like pasta and the pasta taste like chicken!"
"See my dad usually teaches me all the, uh.. normal stuff. An' then I teach myself all the other stuff, but my mom's the best at apple pie. Usually you're not allowed in the kitchen when she's cookin' it 'cause it's like a warzone, but she said she'd teach me how to make it when 'm a bit older. I mean it's not.. something i'm good at now, but I will be good at it, so may as well count it, yeah?"
