Peppino is currently in the kitchen, having just placed a pizza in the oven. "And dere! Now de piz-za is-a in de oven-a! Joost ave to wait forrr it to finish cooking-a." He says, then looking over at Cirno, "Tanks again forrr elping me out in de kitchen-a, lit-tle fairrry."
The ice fairy puffs up with pride, "Of course! Eye'm the strongest! I am the best choice!" She states.
"Obviously. Without you, de piz-za would've taken mooch longoi to make!..." The chef states, keeping the ice fairy at bay. Then whispers to his pizza, "best not mention de fact she did absolootely nothing to elp-a..."
The chef placed down a cooking timer, setting it to 15 minutes, and leaving the kitchen for a moment, "Come now-a, piz-za is-a in de oven-a, so I might as wel-l tel-l you storrries-a!"
Cirno flies along, asking "Wait, stories?!" with starry eyes. "Tell me about where you were when you had to go through poop!" She demands, getting a sigh from the chef.
"W-well-." He started, but then the bell rang, signifying that someone entered the restaurant. This made the anxious chef excited, "Customer!" and he zipped to man the cash register.
Thef chef had his eyes closed, smiling, "Welcome! Welcome to Pep-pino's Piz-zarrria, ome of de finest and speediest piz-za!" He opens his eyes, letting out a terrified ,"-eh-a?!".
Because who he saw was the same person who just beat him up just before, Marisa Kirisame. She was smiling widely, from presumably seeing the chef again, "You own this place?" She asks.
Being reminded of owning the restaurant, he lets out a anxious and pained sigh, "Not anymorrre..." He says, catching her interest.
"What do you mean? ze" She asks in confusion, "You are inside your restaurant which has your face on it." She points out, then asks in utter bewilderment, "How can you not be the owner anymore?"
"My- my piz-zarrria is-a being eld ostage by someone." The chef began telling his woes, "Dey took de papois tat prrrove I'm-a de sole ownoi of de rrrestaurrrant-a. If I don't ave de papois-a, I might as wel-l be kicked out of my own rrrestaurrrant-a!" He began actually crying, "De poison keeping my rrrestaurrrant captive is-a forrrcing me to go al-l arrround tis place, I am-a simply a chef with a foon-ny ac-cent-a, forrr god sake!" Before suddenly slamming his face onto the counter near the register, crying loudly as a flow of tears began to form and cause a waterfall.
The magician looks awkwardly at the chef. She stayed silent for a while, before gently patting the chef's back over the counter, "There, there. Everything will be alright..." She tells him, attempting to help.
Though, the chef was a hard one to calm down, "No! Evoiything is-a not alrrright-a! What sorrrt of Italiano chef am-a I, if don't own de image and rrrestaurrrant-a?!" His muffles could be heard, his face still plastered onto the counter.
"Well, uh..." She pauses, thinking what to even say to the chef. In the end, she just kept quiet and let the man cry out his woes...
After about 10 minutes passing, the cooking timer went off, making the ice fairy yell, "IT DINGED!".
This causes Peppino to get up, "Wel-l-a, Piz-za is-a rrready. I'l-l go get it-a." He says, walking over to the kitchen. "You want some too?" He asks the blonde magician.
She smiles, "Sure! I haven't eaten anything yet." "Okay den-a, I'l-l coot some forrr you too." The chef says, heading over to the kitchen.
When Peppino opened the door, he saw Cirno flying around and chanting "Piz-!" and "-za!"
He ran inside, yelling in panic, "No no! Don't fly arrround in de kitchen-a!" which soon after the door closed, muffling the sounds coming from the kitchen. Marisa was laughing at the duo's antics...
The trio are sitting at the counter, with Cirno having her legs tied and taped down with duct tape.
All three had playing cards, Peppino had his in hand, looking peeved and confused. Marisa had hers also in her hand, whilst enjoying a slice of pizza. her hat was placed on a coat hanger.
And Cirno had hers on the table, displayed upwards whilst looking proud... Though, somehow she has cards that are nothing like playing cards.
And secretly, there was a small portal and a hand reaching downward toward the pizza, whilst others weren't paying attention...
Next Up:
the Forest and the House of Dolls!
A/N: Sorry for taking a while. Head empty.
Hey, you lads probably heard of the freaking theater trope? Ya know, characters being taken to a multiversal theater by the author to react to some stuff?
I'm sorta thinking of attempting to do that soon. Having Touhou cast react to games...
Yeah, that's all I have to say...
No! Wait! About the cover!... Uhh... I scrapped it. I got too lazy. It was basically gonna be Yukari Yakumo looming behind a terrified Peppino. That's it.
Now I said everything. And you lot certainly know what comes next and who the encounter is gonna be!