R Murr (A Sparkling Discovery) "All part of the plan!” (South Prelude)

CARD STORY

All part of the plan!

Murr: Oh, look, look, Master Sage! Clouds today are super fluffy!

Akira: You’re right. They look kind of like cotton candy. ⁽¹⁾

Murr: Cotton death? How can air die?

Akira: It-it has nothing to do with death...! It’s a sweet treat, fluffy as a cloud.

Murr: Wow! So you can even eat something like that back in your world, Master Sage!?

Akira: Yup.

Murr: I want to try it out! I wonder if we can also eat clouds in this world?! Let’s take my broom!

Akira: Huh, Murr? ... Wai-!?

Murr: Master Sage, let’s gooo!

Akira: (Aaah, you’ve got it all wrong, Murr...!)

Murr: Would these clouds do the trick? I'll just use magic to harden them like this, and... Ahaha! Perfectly cut!

Alright, time to dig in!

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Akira: (He looks really, really disappointed now...)

Murr: It’s so bland! Not even sweet or savoury!

Hey, why are the clouds in Master Sage's world so delicious, then? Do you have a cook living up there in the sky?

Akira: Weeell, clouds aren’t made of candy to begin with… Cotton candy is a sweet that resembles them.

Murr: Right… So it’s not a real cloud.

Akira: I’m sorry, I should have told you from the beginning. Though if we have sweets around, I can make some.

Murr: ...Really!? If it’s sugar, I’ll handle it! How about a mountain of it?

Akira: Haha, we won’t need that many. I’ll hand you some once it’s done.

Murr: Yay! I was waiting for you to say that, Master Sage!

Akira: What?

Murr: What? Ah- Looking forward to your cotton candy!

Akira: (...Don’t tell me… Murr knew all along…?)

 

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⁽¹⁾ Play on word: 綿菓子(watagashi) means ‘cotton candy’, but as Murr doesn’t know what it is, he uses the only word he understands which is 死 (shi) meaning ‘death’.