I witnessed an unnatural failure
“I-I made it!”
“Oh?”
Just as I was thinking about returning to Ms. Gelda…I heard her voice.
When I turned to look, I saw her raise her arms triumphantly into the air.
Well, it seemed like she had finally succeeded.
“Mr. Takumi. I managed to finish one of them!”
She said happily when I reached her table.
“That is… Yes, it seems alright.”
Indeed, there was a proper, round meat patty on the table.
There was even a dent in the center to help prevent it from cracking.
“I-I finally did it…!”
She seemed to be feeling an immense sense of accomplishment.
I had not been around when she did it. Perhaps it was better when no one is watching?
“Alright, then try making another one. I want to see if you can do the next one properly.”
“Huh…?”
There was still plenty of grounded meat left, so I encouraged her to continue.
But she gave me a dumb-founded look.
“I-I understand… You are much more strict than I expected, Mr. Takumi…”
She nodded and picked up more of the meat.
I didn’t mean to be strict… But perhaps it was a little severe, considering how many times she failed.
“…Oh… But I was able to do it before. Why…”
“Hmm…”
While Ms. Gelda had succeeded once, she failed multiple times after that.
“Chichi…”
“Chi…”
Even the cockatrices were lying on their backs, as if they could not eat any more.
They would surely not care about dinner now… Well, that was predictable.
That meant that if Ms. Gelda continued to fail, then the meat would go to waist.
“Ms. Gelda. I think that you should…”
Just as I tried to tell her to give up for today, the meat flew from Ms. Gelda’s tight grip and went flying into the air.
Thankfully, it was in my direction, so I was able to catch it.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Takumi!”
“No, it’s fine. Don’t worry. I expected as much. Still, wasn’t that a little…unnatural?”
“Huh? Really?”
“Hmm… What do you think, Ms. Jane?”
“Now that you mention it…”
Just as I was trying to stop her, Ms. Gelda had been moving the meat from her right hand to her left hand.
And yet it seemed…to change trajectory. As if it had been hit out of the air. And then it came towards me.
It was no wonder she was unable to catch it…
“I’m sory, Ms. Gelda. Could you do it one more time?”
“Huh? Uh, yes…”
I had wanted to stop this, but after witnessing something so strange, I thought we should test it one more time.
And so Ms. Jane and I watched closely as Ms. Gelda repeated it one more time…
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