Come in.
Good morning, Jun.
Breakfast is ready.
Good morning, Kaya-san.
Was it seasoned too lightly?
You're right.
Could you pass the salt?
Are you mocking me?
This isn't my line of work!
It's hot again today...
Natsu no Arashi!
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Hajime-chan!
It's morning already, Hajime-chan.
We'll be late, Hajime-chan.
If we're late, Kaya will never let us hear the end of it.
Oh, good morning, Arashi-san.
Good morning, Hajime-chan.
What did you do? Pull an all-nighter?
Yeah.
In this era, we also have these research projects on top of homework.
Guess what this is.
All I can see is a cherry...
This is Yasaka Hajime's greatest invention!
I name this the Cherry Bomb!
Cherry Bomb?
It may look like an ordinary cherry at first sight, but do not be deceived!
In fact, it's a mixture of pop rocks, a large sum of cayenne pepper powder,
Japanese pepper, normal pepper, finely ground wasabi and mustard powders.
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I don't really like the "bomb" part.
Then what do you suggest?
Let's change its name.
How about Cutie Cherry-chan?
I'll be handing this in at school!
No way I'm going to name it something so embarrassing.
But it's cute.
That settles it.
Cutie Cherry-chan it is!
Hey, wait a minute...
How great is my ultimate weapon?
It's near perfection.
I can't wait to test it out.
What are you so happy about, Yasaka?
Nothing!
But, dare I say it's a mad scientist's ambition?
Huh?
Oh yeah, there's something that's been bothering me.
What is it, Master?
You see...
Kyaa! It's Akagi Keiichiro!
Excuse me for a moment.
You really like him?
Me too, actually.
Is it really him?
I'll check it out, too.
Me too.
You too?
What, you're not a fan of The Third Man, Tony?
Let me show you, then. Come with me.
Hey, Tony!
There's no one here.
Was it a prank?
Oh yeah, Akagi Keiichiro died before I was born.
Realize that first!
Geez, what a load of trouble.
Did its position change slightly?
So, what were you saying earlier?
You see, it's about this.
This again?
There was another carton in the fridge.
What are you talking about?
It's expired milk.
June 1st?
That's over two months ago!
I want you to take this and travel back to May.
Ah, I see. If it's before the expiration date, then it's okay to drink it.
No, that's not how it works!
Is that wrong?
Spoiled milk is spoiled regardless of where you bring it.
It's the same as not getting any younger when you travel back in time.
You won't be able to drink it.
Oh, I see.
Arashi-san, are you saying you didn't understand until now?
Master, you too. Stop trying to confuse people.
They'll believe you.
Let me finish.
I've thought about it, and I have an even better idea now.
The fault lies in trying to drink the expired milk.
Instead, take this back in time and swap it with the unexpired milk.
So you would bring back the fresh milk and drink that?
I see, that sounds reasonable.
Since it just sat in the fridge and nobody drank it, there'd be no problem in swapping it with expired milk.
That's amazing! You're so clever, Master.
I don't really get it yet, but cool.
It's nothing.
Anyway, can you go back in time and swap it with a fresh carton?
I'm still not content...
If Master's satisfied, then why not?
Hmm?
What's the matter, Jun?
If we bring this back, and the plan succeeds...
No, let's first assume it already succeeded.
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This milk has gone through two months twice already!
So our milk right now is four months past the expiration date!
Who cares?
No one's going to drink it anyway, so who cares if it's been expired for two or four months?
That's true too.
Hold on!
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Shouldn't there be two cartons of expired milk in the fridge?
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If it went through the fridge for two months twice,
the two month and four month old cartons should both be in the fridge.
But there was only one carton in the fridge.
It must be like quantum physics...
It spoils twice simultaneously.
Like Schrödinger's cat, the milk is in a quantum state until opened, revealing four month old spoiled milk.
That's the Uncertainty Principle, right?
Note: It is actually Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, not Schrödinger's.
You know such complicated things.
It was in the book the detective brought me.
Wait, that theory doesn't make sense either.
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You're going back in time to bring back the fresh milk and drink it, right?
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Gulp
That's right.
Gulp
If you drink it, then the fresh milk will be gone, meaning the expired milk wouldn't exist.
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Thus, there must be no milk left.
Wouldn't spoiled milk be spoiled more as you drink the fresh milk?
It's been proven that time travel can't change history.
It would be strange if the unexpired and expired milk co-existed.
Does a carton of fresh milk really exist?
Which milk is really spoiled?
Perhaps we're now facing a time paradox that has never been solved.
This must be a mystery that's gone unsolved since the beginning of mankind!
Anyway, I'll go buy a new carton, so let's throw this out.
Mankind's mystery!
Welcome.
Yo, Arashi-san.
Yamashiro-san.
It's hot again today, Arashi-san.
Don't you feel stuffy wearing that kimono?
I'm fine. It actually has nice ventilation.
Damn him!
He forgets about us saving him and goes after Arashi-san?
Ungrateful bastard!
But I've already prepared something for this situation.
You always order a lemon squash.
I'll just place my new weapon, the Cutie Cherry-chan, in your lemon squash, and see how you like it!
Oh, do have a taste of my ultimate weapon.
Have you decided on your order?
Let's see, I'll have the usual strawberry shortcake and green tea for today.
Why?
Why didn't you get the usual lemon squash?
It's nice to have a hot drink on a hot day sometimes.
It makes you sweat, which cools you down, right?
Damn it! I let my guard down.
Changing his order? What a miscalculation.
Has this plan failed?
No! I still have other options!
What are you doing, Yasaka?
Who puts cherries in green tea?
I thought I'd give our regular customer a special service...
That's more like harassment than a service.
Anything's fine as long as my intentions are good!
No it's not!
Oh, is it ready?
I'll take this.
Uh, Arashi-san...
Sorry for the wait.
I stayed up all night making it...
Natsu no Arashi!
That sounds fun.
I'll bring the book next time.
Really? I can't wait!
Damn, I should've planted it on the cake instead of in the drink...
I bought new milk.
Isn't this the expensive kind?
It's organic milk from cows in pesticide-free fields.
Please drink it before it expires this time.
Also, cherries were on sale, so I bought some.
Oh! Maybe I'll make a special cherry menu.
Here are your free cherries.
Thank you, please have some cherries.
A service for you too, Yamashiro-san.
Thank you, Arashi-san.
That's what I should've done from the beginning!
Hey, these are good.
Have one.
I'm good.
No need for manners. Here...
I don't want it!
I don't even want to look at them!
What are you so mad about?
You're so weird.
Oh, is this the Cutie Cherry-chan?
Hajime's cherry
Do not eat!
Hajime's cherry
Do not eat!
Hajime's cherry
Do not eat!
It'll be trouble if we accidentally give it to a customer, so I'll hang on to it.
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Do not eat!
Uh, Arashi-san, that's just a normal cherry...
No, more importantly, the real Cutie Cherry-chan is in that pile!
Hey, let me have one.
It's pretty good.
I'll have one too.
May I have one as well?
Me too.
My, these are good.
They're so fresh and sweet!
This is just like Russian Roulette...
If I don't do something about it soon, it'll drive me crazy!
Hey, Arashi-san, can you do this?
Wow, amazing!
I'm going to try!
Me too.
Can I try as well?
You, what are you doing!?
What? Did I do something wrong?
See?
You're pretty skilled, Master.
Did you know? If you're good at this, it means you're a great kisser.
K... Ki...!
What are you trying to teach Yayoi?
Uh, I didn't do anything....
Thank god... No one was bombed.
Let's think this through logically.
The Cutie Cherry-chan is somewhere in there.
My mission is to retrieve it or dispose of it before anyone grabs it.
Alternatively, I hit Yamashiro with it as originally planned.
This means I must somehow identify the real Cutie Cherry-chan.
But my creation is perfect. It's meant to be indistinguishable.
There are three possibilities.
One: Retrieve the rest of them.
Two: Dispose of the rest of them.
Three: Give the rest to Yamashiro.
What?
I can't possibly eat all these.
They say cherries reside in a different part of the stomach.
Please, don't hold back!
What are you doing?
I thought I'd give our regular customer a special service...
That's more like harassment than a service.
There's a limit to these things.
So this option is no good.
That's it! It's too much trouble to deal with it now, after it's already gone into the basket.
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There wouldn't be a problem if the cherry was real in the first place.
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I can just go back to this morning and replace the Cutie Cherry-chan with a real cherry!
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But for that to happen, I have to bring a real cherry into the past.
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If I mistakenly bring the Cutie Cherry-chan...
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I know!
Back to this morning?
That's right, I want to bring the Cutie Cherry-chan you took away from me back to this morning.
You see, what Master said about the milk this morning has been bothering me.
Oh, something about taking spoiled things back to the past and swapping them?
I just thought we could experiment with the Cutie Cherry-chan.
Experiment?
For my research project! My research.
You know, homework for school.
Arashi-san took a real cherry.
If I can take that to the past and swap it, that'll solve everything.
Well, if it's for homework, it can't be helped.
Wait here, I'll go get it.
How many times do we have to explain it before Master finally understands?
She should just drink it before it expires.
And it's organic milk too...
Let's swap it already and head back.
Jun, initiate the decoy tactic.
I guess I have no choice.
Alright then, Hajime-chan.
Kyaa! It's Kobayashi Akira!
Excuse me.
You really like him?
Oh, me too!
I'll show you Might Guy's charms.
Hey, wait! Guy!
Everyone's gone outside.
Good work, Jun.
Let's swap the milk while we have the chance.
Didn't we do something like this before?
I think I used Takakura Ken last time...
Takakura Ken?
I remember now.
I went through unspeakable humiliation because of Hajime!
I won't forget such a disgrace until I die!
You're already a ghost.
Fine, allow me to show Hajime what he did!
Wasabi, mustard powder, cayenne pepper powder, pepper, and Japanese pepper.
Mixing these with Tabasco creates an extremely hot cream.
Next, we cut a cherry in half, scoop out its insides and fill it with the cream we just made.
Finally, we fix it with scotch tape and it's done!
Scotch tape?
Don't worry, it's transparent, so he won't notice.
This awkward sense of a difference in civilization makes me realize that she really is from the past.
See? Unnoticeable.
Amazing! Her techniques have surpassed technology.
I'll have him eat this and re-live my humiliation.
Kaya-san, could that be...
The thing from back then?
No way!
I thought Master's skills were to blame.
Could I have made something truly terrible?
Hey, I'm disappearing!
There was no Might Guy.
Too bad, maybe he was to busy filming.
This isn't good, let's leave.
Wait, Jun. Terrible things will happen if we don't do something!
There's no way, Kaya-san!
Time is up, we'll disappear!
No, please! Can history never be toppled?
Wasn't it a prank?
I thought Might Guy would answer my expectations.
What kind of confidence is that?
It'll spoil if we leave it out.
Let's put this where we can see it.
Well then, Hajime-chan. Let's go.
Yes.
Now the question is: How do I swap this with the Cutie Cherry-chan?
We're inside the store, after all.
Leave it to me.
Kyaa! It's Akagi Keiichirou!
Oh, that was you this morning...
I'm worn out.
Business was great today.
It's all thanks to Kaya-san's cherries.
We nearly used them all up.
Master, remember to drink the milk before it expires, as well.
That's true.
Alright, I'll make you a fruit blend in return.
Okay, the fuse is out, so this won't explode.
Oh, that's great.
Taking a cue from this event, I should design a one-hit-kill next time.
So, how did your research go?
What happened when you swapped this with the one in the past?
It went great! Great!
Here you go.
Thanks for the drink.
Kaya and the others are screaming.
Did they see Might Guy?
I read an interesting book yesterday.
Oh, what was it called?
It was... Oh, I forgot the title.
Let's hear what it was about.
Yeah, sure.
It was the story of a young man troubled by justice.
He, worshipping a legendary hero, brings down the hammer of justice against evil.
But he would take down even the innocent people.
With his brilliant mind, he enters a psychological battle with a judge who's pursuing a case.
But he finds himself conflicting with the crimes...
That's Crime and Punishment.
Dostoyevsky!?
It's alright! It's alright!
Everything will work out, so it's alright!
It's alright! It's alright!
Everything will - hugyaa!
It's alright...
Kanamemo... desu.