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Fantastico!
Hey, Shinobu.
Morning.
Morntastico.
That's what it was.
A prime case of 'It's always darkest under the candlestick.'
I thought I would get some sugar during break time.
Are they donuts?
They’re donuts, right?
They have to be donuts!
Well, they are donuts.
So they are donuts! That's magnificent!
Now, my master, please present those donuts to me immediately!
My master.
What is it?
What are these?
Are they a new product of Mister Donut?
No, no.
Senjougahara visited just now.
She brought me these donuts as a sign of support.
For what reason?
Well, if you have to ask me that…
Then it’s to encourage me in my exam preparation.
Is it not cheaper to buy them?
Senjougahara made these donuts for me for no charge.
Did you not pay any money, my master?
I’ve never heard of a girlfriend that asks for money in exchange for refreshments.
Impossible!
To think that miser would…
Be careful, my master!
There could be something in these!
Now hold on, what do you think a person's girlfriend is?
If anything's in them, it's love.
You personally experienced last month how love
can turn into poison depending on how it's prepared, no?
What is this hole?
Hole?
This suspicious hole.
It’s possible that something was injected into this donut via this hole.
No, stop trying to act like such a clichéd idiot.
Donuts are supposed to have holes in them.
Why is that?
Donuts like that with holes in them are a variety of donut called torus donuts.
By making a hole in the center like that, the heat can circulate better when they are fried.
So you call this shape a torus?
If you’re going to check whether it’s poisoned,
the best way would be to taste it, you know?
Are you telling me to be your poison taster?
What a cruel master I have!
I have no words!
Im telling you now,
I’m not one to think that all donuts are fine, you know?
If you want to escape from my investigation,
then you should go to the Mister Donut Shinobu branch store immediately
and buy the Pon De Ring Nama Choco Golden!
Can you believe it?
It’s already a breakthrough to make a Nama form of the Pon De Ring,
but then they arranged it like a Golden Chocolate, you know?
I haven’t tasted it yet,
but just by imagining the flavor, I can almost feel it expanding in my mouth,
and I’m certain that I’ll shout, without being afraid of what others might think,
Japantastico!
It's become more like a war cry extolling Japan.
Well done!
Call that tsundere girl immediately! I wish to praise her directly!
You’ve come all this way hardly ever interacting with Senjougahara,
wouldn't it be odd suddenly meeting her after being moved by donuts?
What are you doing?
I could ask the same thing, my master.
The poison tasting is not yet over.
No, it is over, right?
You ate it as normal and said it was delicious as normal, didn’t you?
You never know.
It could be poison with a delayed effect.
And so, the poison inspection shall continue.
If I do a comparison inspection of four more samples, I should be able to derive the results.
Four samples?
Dear Shinobu, from what I can see,
the number of remaining donuts happens to be exactly four.
The exact number? Now that is an ideal coincidence.
No, you just intentionally set up the experiment to suit your needs!
Hand over that plate!
I will not.
As my master’s attendant,
it is my duty to protect him from any risk, no matter how small!
Don’t act like my attendant only when it’s convenient for you!
This is your last warning, Shinobu. Hand over that plate!
Haha
You sure are poor at negotiations, my master.
Never letting go of that stubborn attitude, persistently repeating 'hand it over.’
Isn’t that the reason that the talisman entrusted to you
by the boss of the specialists was stolen from you?
If back then you had been able to negotiate properly,
we wouldn’t be trapped in the situation we're in right now.
You need to reflect on your actions.
But I don't want to be told that by you.
Why do I need negotiation skills to keep you in check
each and every time you want to eat donuts?
Before negotiation skills, my master, you should first hone your sense of secrecy.
Secrecy?
If you had simply hid that talisman in a better place,
you wouldn't have had to do any negotiating to keep us out of this situation.
That talisman, hidden in that easy-to-find hiding place,
can be said to be the beginning of this tragedy.
If it were me, I would definitely have hidden that talisman better.
And would definitely have hidden the donuts better, as well.
My master, know that your own foolishness
is what brought about our unfortunate circumstances!
Then, tell me this, Shinobu.
The case of the talisman aside,
if it were you, how would you have hidden the donuts?
If you give me just five minutes,
I’ll have these donuts disappear before your very eyes with splendor.
You’ll never be able to find them.
Now hold on,
if I gave you five minutes, you’ll just eat the rest of the donuts in that time.
If you just eat them and say, "Look, they're gone!" then that's totally cheating.
Do you really think I’d use such a crafty trick?
Definitely, you would.
Well, I don’t know about all four of them, but if it was one or two, I could definitely hide them.
How about we bet
whether I can hide the donuts in five minutes,
5
and whether you can find them in five minutes.
5
The rule will be that out of the four donuts,
the donuts that you were unable to find will be mine to eat.
In other words my master, if you are able to find all four of them,
then you may eat all four of them.
All right, I got it.
But I’ll say this once more, hiding it does not mean eating it, okay?
I get it, I get it,
and hiding it in my cleavage is not allowed either, of course.
Where is there any cleavage on that little girl's chest?
There’s still another problem.
And it isn't to do with cheating prevention,
but a more realistic problem regarding the game.
What is it?
You’re bound to my shadow, aren’t you?
In that case, wouldn’t it be really hard to hide from me and be secretive in the first place?
Well, the only choice is to use a blindfold.
Now for the epilogue, or rather, the punch line.
Hanekawa Tsubasa
Hands Free
Using leggings as a blindfold?
Pervert.
I’ll stop you there, Hanekawa.
It’s not that I myself wanted to use the leggings as a blindfold.
Blindfolding me with leggings,
and stuffing leggings into my mouth,
was all Shinobu’s doing.
Hanekawa Tsubasa
Hands Free
Stuffing leggings into your mouth…?
Slip of the tongue.
Well, Hanekawa, I want to ask you.
Where do you think Shinobu hid the donuts?
I was able to find three of the donuts that she hid, but I couldn’t find the last one.
I mean, it’s my room, right?
There’s a limit to where you can hide stuff in there.
Hanekawa Tsubasa
Hands Free
In that case, I can only think that Shinobu must have eaten it…
But after saying that much, it’s hard to believe that she would go against the rules like that.
So despite everything you've said you still have faith in Shinobu.
Well, if Araragi says so,
then she must have gone with the second strongest possibility.
The second strongest?
So there was something I overlooked?
You said the donuts had various sizes, right?
Then, among the four remaining donuts,
the smallest donut would have been hidden in the largest donut, surely?
Araragi Koyomi
Hands Free
Hold on, you can’t do that, can you?
You can, with fried donuts.
Regardless of the outside, the inside is soft enough.
You can just press it in.
The inside may be soft, but the outside is hard, you know?
If she did something like that,
Boiling Water
Three Minutes
then I would’ve seen it.
The donut was split in two from the beginning,
so there would be no need to do anything to the outside.
Rather, the cream could act as an adhesive after the other donut was pressed in, perhaps?
But anyway… I don’t have any evidence.
Since you would have eaten the evidence, Araragi.
In that sense, you could say that Shinobu hid the donuts in your stomach, Araragi.
However, isn’t that bad?
Wasn’t Shinobu’s objective to eat the donuts?
Having me eat them despite that would be putting the cart before the horse.
She hasn't fulfilled her objective.
That’s the important part, Araragi.
Araragi Koyomi
Hands Free
Basically,
abandoning her motives and personal gain.
Not taking into account her own self-centered opinions.
To put it another way, being completely selfless, even at the risk of one’s life.
That’s the point that Shinobu was teaching you about.
Araragi Koyomi
Hands Free
…Point about what, negotiations? Secrecy?
About love.
I kick a stone away to get rid of my worries,
I'm downplaying the flutter I feel this April.
We were happy children full of curiosity,
I was the one who pushed you forward,
from that day onward.
Let's escape our confines
and take our time along the way
Let's ride our bikes to far away
carrying our hopes and dreams in the basket
Is the future we heard so many rumors about,
A nice place to be?
Even if we ask our extending shadows about it,
we'll still be none the wiser