"Yosh! Everyone!" Cater waved to his phone scene. It was on selfie mode, recording-live for his magicam. "We're here, live at the Night Raven College Kitchen!" He walked backward toward Trey and put his arm around his shoulder. "Tell me, Masterchef Trey, what are we doing today?"
Trey chuckled as he tied his apron behind his back. "Special mont blanc with some tutty-fruity topping!"
"Oh~ Sound delicious!" Cater then moved the camera to the group of first-years who are preparing the chestnut on an oven tray. "And these are our mini helpers! Say hi, boys!"
Grim was excited, waving his paws to the camera, while Ace threw up a peace sign and he threw his arm around Jonah himself looked confused. Glancing at his friends, he decided to give an awkward wave. Meanwhile, Deuce was sulking in the background. You can imagine the gloomy rain cloud hovering above him.
"Hey, what's happened to him?" Cater asked, turning the camera to Ace.
Ace visibly winched. "Chick shock..."
"I've been lied to for sixteen years..." muttered Deuce. Lucky for him, it didn't get caught by the camera. Cater focused the camera on himself again.
"We'll be recording bits by bits through the process. So stay tune~!"
"We have two teams here!" Cater said, as he shot the two occupied counter with normal camera mode. He walked toward Trey and Ace. "What's going on here, boys?"
Ace was busy drawing a large size circle on a piece of parchment paper. This was the first time they had ever seen Ace in complete focus.
"We'll be making the meringues." Cater moved the camera on to Trey who just spoke. "The oven is pre-heated and now for the ingredients." Trey took out a large bowl and cracked the eggs before adding the salt and started beating it.
"Ace, help me put the tartar cream for a second," Trey said, still focusing on beating.
"Gotcha!" Ace said as he put down the pencil for a moment and put in the cream of tartar in the bowl. Trey said his thanks and Ace went back to his drawing. Taking out another parchment paper, he started to draw some smaller circles of the same size.
"We'll be moving the other side~" Cater walked toward the other counter where Deuce, Jonah and Grim were on the chestnut peeling duty. "How is it going so far~?"
"Look, look!" Grim suddenly flew so close to the camera that Cater needed to step back. "See how clean they are? I'm the best at these. Compare to those two!"
Deuce stopped, looking so offended. "I peeled them cleanly, too!" He raised the peeled chestnut in his hand. "Take a look for yourself!"
Cater zoomed in to the chestnut. "Oo~ Those are good!" He then turned to Jonah who was very focused. "Whoa! Jonah! Look at that!" Cater picked up the nearly full bowl of peeled chestnut and Jonah was still going. "You're good at this! So quick."
Jonah raised his head. "What?" He glanced at his chestnut. "It was easy." Awkwardly, he gave the camera another wave, making Cater laughed.
"Look at these guys!" Cater raised the whisk from the bowl of stiff meringue. "Perfectly whisked!" He then moved to Trey who just finished putting the meringue into a pastry bag. "Now, pay attention! You're about to see a masterpiece!"
Trey piped the meringue slowly onto one of the small circles that Ace just drew. It fit perfectly into the circle and Cater cheered. "Like a master!" Trey pushed his glasses up to his nose. Cater then moved to Ace. The ginger-haired boy piped the cream, nearly as perfect as Trey. "Whoa! You're good at this!"
Ace grinned. "Thanks! I'm pretty dexterous, you know."
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Cater filmed Jonah toasting the chestnut, tossing them up, and catching them in the pan without spilling anything. Deuce and Grim watched him in awe. "We have a natural talent here!" Earlier, they found out that the ovenproof dish didn't have enough space to roast the chestnuts, so they did manually too.
"Where did you learn this?" Cater asked. Jonah tossed it a few times more before looking up.
"What? It's pretty easy," the eye-patch boy answer, which caused Deuce and Grim's jaws to drop.
"That's just no way!" Cater immediately zoomed to Ace who just said that. "There's just no way that's a natural talent."
Cater moved to Jonah again, who kept tossing the chestnut, completely ignoring Ace.
Cater inhaled loudly and deeply. "You guys can't smell this, but the smell of toasted chestnut is just so good…"
"Okay, the chestnuts are toasted, peeled again, and just finished boiling for 30 minutes," Cater said, aiming the camera at Trey. "What should we do next, chef?"
Trey turned out the stove. "We're going to pure the chestnut with some thin sugar syrup with some oyster sauce."
They could hear the pan cluttered in the background. "Oyster sauce?!" shouted Ace and Deuce in the background.
"Exactly," Trey smiled at them. "The savory flavor of the chestnuts gives the cream a rich flavor." Turning his head to the camera, he lifted a bottle. "And then, to make it better, I use this 'Walrus-Brand Young Oyster Sauce'. There's no famous pâtissière who doesn't use this for their tarts, you know?"
"Really...?" Deuce peaked from behind one of Trey's shoulder. "It's a pretty salty sauce, isn't it?"
"You know how they put chocolate in curry, too?" Ace peaked from Trey's other shoulder. "It kinda makes sense..."
Trey snorted, before laughing out loud, looking at the freshmen. "I was just joking! There's no way I'd put oyster sauce in a dessert, you know?"
"What the heck!?" Ace screamed. "Are you making fun of us!?"
"Haha! It's obviously impossible if you think about it a little~" Trey looked at the camera again. "The moral lesson here is that you shouldn't believe anything you're told. Learn to doubt a bit, okay~?"
Trey picked up the (luckily) white syrup and pour it into the food processor that was filled with chestnut. Grim ended it by closing the food processor.
"Now a small warning for headphone users, because this is about to get loud," Cater said.
"Ready!" said Grim and Jonah nodded in response, turning on the food processor. Grim, who kept his paws on the lid, was shaking along with the pureeing process.
"Why won't it come out…?" Deuce muttered as he tried to squeeze the chestnut puree around the prepared meringue in a silicon cup. Deuce turned the piping back around, nothing seemed wrong with it. He pressed the puree from the top, trying to make it slide down to the plastic-
Only for the bag to tear from the side, puree spilling down. "NO!"
In the background, Ace was laughing out loud along with the shaking camera.
"Let's try little by little…" This time Deuce prepared less puree into the plastic. He tried to press it again. "So hard…"
Unfortunately, there was a little hole just right next to the tip. "It came from the side!"
The camera shook again, followed by Cater's laughed.
"Dude, you wasting our chestnuts!" Ace yelled between his laugh.
"Third time the charm…" This time, Deuce had even lesser puree in the piping back. The gang gathered behind him, watching him squeezed the bag. "Please…"
The puree came out normally. "Yes!"
The camera shook again as the gang clapped and cheered for the blunette. "Hip hip hurray!" Cater cheered, ruffling Deuce's hair. "Character skill achieved right there, guys!"
"Guys, look at this…" Cater, on selfie mode, lifted the finished mont blanc. It was decorated with whipped cream and canned fruit on top and sprinkled with powder sugar. "Look at this delicious delicacy… And check this out!"
Lowering the smaller moth blanc from the camera, he revealed a bigger mont blanc on the counter, with Ace and Grim singing 'TA-RA-RA-RAAA!'
"That has to be the biggest mont blanc I've ever seen!" Cater cheered with the others cheering in the background. "Great work, guys!"
The camera was on normal mode as Cater recorded the juniors eating the dessert. "How does it taste like, boys?"
Grim literally went flying when he took a bite of the tart. "It's not overly sweet but still has a richness to it! My mouth feels like it's in a field of chestnuts, yanno~!"
Trey chuckled. "I'll take that as a compliment."
"Oh, damn…!" Ace said with a mouth filled with cream.
"Was it worth it for the whole piping struggle, Deuce?" Cater moved to Deuce. He didn't say anything, just giving the camera a thumbs up.
Cater moved to Jonah. "Dude, you have whipped cream on your nose!" Jonah immediately wiped it with the back of his hand.
Cater turned back to Trey. "Hey, Trey. You should show them the thing."
Trey raised an eyebrow. "'The thing'?"
"You know…" Not shown in the camera, Cater was making some wand-waving movement. Slowly Trey nodded in understanding. "Oh…" He turned to the juniors. "You boys, what are your favorite foods?
Ace took another bite of the tart. "Mine is… Cherry pie and hamburger," he said with a full mouth.
Grim licked his lips. "Mine is canned tuna. Oh, and cheesy omelet, grilled meat, pudding, and-"
Deuce quickly cut him off before he could list every food in the land, "If I were to choose, I'd probably pick rice omelet."
Cater quickly turned the camera around so his face was shown. "Mine is grilled rum meat with diablo sauce."
He turned the camera again toward Jonah "I guess… Bonzabeast stew?"
Trey nodded. "Alright." He put his tart on the counter before taking out his magical pen. "Here we go. [Doodle Suit]!" A tiny magic circle appeared underneath each mont blanc the kids were holding and suddenly burst into white sprinkles, coating the dessert. "Take another bite of the mont blanc, if you'd please."
The kids exchanged glanced before doing what Trey said. The camera zoomed in to Jonah's widened eye. "This is-?!"
Ace licked the whipped cream a little. "EH?!" He eyed his tart in amazement. "This is… It's a mont blanc, but I can taste cherry pie!"
Grim eyes widened as he bites into the tart. "It's canned tuna flavor!" He took another bite. "Now it's cheesy omelet!" And another. "Grilled chicken and then…" He licked the whipped cream. "Pudding!"
"It's amazing!" Deuce exclaimed as he wiped his mouth. "Is changing something's flavor your unique magic, Senior Clover?"
"Yeah, Trey," Cater turned the camera to himself and gave Trey a one-sided hug. "Explain to us about your unique magic."
Trey chuckled as he pushed his glasses. "It's the ability to overwrite things with what you imagine, not only taste but colors and smells," he explained. "It's not a permanent effect so it's sort of like a sketch only. That's why I call this magic 'doodle'. It's merely sketching."
"It's interesting, right?!" Cater said. "Don'tcha think that'll fly well if you do this at a tea party with girls~?" He then turned the camera to Ace. "You think this will satisfied Riddle?"
"Oh, definitely!" Ace grinned. "I'll definitely make him remove this damn collar! Just you wait, Prefect!"
The camera was in selfie mode again, with Cater on the front and the other showing up on the back, posing and waving. "That's all for today, guys! Thank you for tuning in~"
A few seconds later, Cater posted a picture to end the great moment. He stood in the very front, holding the camera in one hand and his mont blanc in the other. Everyone else also had their mont blanc in their hand. Grim looked like he tried to be front and center, but Ace pushed him down and Deuce looking so stiff in the picture. Trey and Jonah were at the back with Trey tipping his head and Jonah giving an awkward wave. They were all smiling, raising their pastry, looking all happy.
*knock knock*
In a dim lilted room, Riddle put his book down as he said, "Enter."
A group of Heartslabyul students walked into his room with terrified looks on their faces. They should be. They had broken the Laws of the Queen of Hearts Number #256: One should not drink lemonade with honey when it's past 8 in the evening.
Rule breakers should be punished. They mustn't get away with it.
Riddle stood up from his seat as he slowly walked toward the students. "I hope you understand what you have done…"
Even their pleading and kneeling didn't faze the prefect. Riddle clenched onto his magical pen again, changing it into his staff as he looked at the miserable students, summoning a magic circle around their necks.
"[OFF WITH YOUR HEAD]!"
