It was the day. The day of the culture fest.
Everyone had spent a great deal of time and effort into preparing their classroom for this stupid thing. People had moved chairs. People had moved tables. People had moved themselves. Most of them had just stood there asking Chiyo questions. "Where do I put this?" That was a pretty common one.
Despite the seemingly incompetent students, the class had managed to move five tables into position in almost three hours. How are these the people with the strongest economy in the world? Sure they'd put up banners and stuff too but still, three hours, five tables! How can the U.S. be losing to them? Don't believe me just watch episode 16!
But despite the poor show they made in setting up, when the culture fest actually happened…they were ready. They were so ready. THEY WERE REALLY FREAKIN' READY! Or were they?
"Practice serving coffee quickly," Tomo idiotically chanted to herself.
Kagura decided to follow her lead, generally a bad idea.
"Practice bringing out coffee quickly," Kagura said.
Unfortunately for Kagura she decided to skip over there while serving. (Those of you with impeccable powers of observation will understand the title now). While she was skipping towards a table with real hot coffee, using real pieces of ceramic, Kagura tripped.
It was possibly the most epic trip the world will ever see. The little ceramic serving tray crashed into the unforgiving concrete-ish floor (kind of like GPAs crash into the unforgiving floor of high level math classes). The irreplaceable ceramic cups shattered into a myriad of shards. The scalding hot tea…err coffee, splashed all over Kagura's face and clothes. The shards from the broken pieces of ceramic acted like the shrapnel from a grenade. The sharp pieces gave the equivalent of deep-ish paper cuts all over Kagura's face and hands. The scalding hot liquid left painful burns that would immediately need cold water to reduce the pain. Blood dripped down Kagura's face and hands leaving tiny little red spots on a small section of the floor.
Screaming with pain Kagura ran off towards the nearest bathroom to try and bandage herself. After almost twenty minutes in the bathroom Kagura emerged, no trace of her accident visible (which after how I described it is kind of weird). Sakaki and Chiyo who had stood two feet away from her at the time didn't even notice.