THREE ⌘ Yotsuba and Eating Out [Video]

[rollypolyclover]

Hey. Heeey!

[She's talking to you, journal.]

There's no money here. Why don't we eat out every day, every single day? Back home we got some milk, it was really eckspensive! 600 yen, and it was good. But why don't we drink that milk here? If there's no money and everything is free then it would cost... No yen.

[...]

Yotsuba wants to go to a restaurant and eat today. Is that okay?

[For added effect her stomach starts to rumble.]

...It's really okay, right? Yotsuba wants to eat eyeball-fry. With a knife and fork! Even if it's still really cold it's a good idea, so everyone should come and eat with me.

Comments

[abidinglaw]

You and I? No. I do not expect that would be wise. I am a stranger, am I not?

[How better to educate the girl than with a relevant example?

This is a good idea.

Yup.]

[rollypolyclover]

You are?!

[Quickly sliding away from the journal. Oh gosh, she's talking to a stranger. But she's stuck in the apartment right now so she can't run away.]

Daddy! Straaanger...

[abidinglaw]

Your father is with you.

[Well that was a relief. He might be sabotaging himself, but she seemed to have the right idea now. It was a worthy cause.]

Yes, run along and tell your father that you encountered a stranger through your book.

[With any luck he would prevent her from using it in this manner. Norrington could wash his hands of the issue.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Too bad daddy isn't here and Otonashi and Naoi seem to be preoccupied somewhere else. The best she can manage right now is to move all the way over to the other side of the room and peer at the journal carefully from the safety of the couch.]

Stranger! Go away stranger!!

[Sniffing a little, going on the verge of tears.]

Yotsuba is all alone with a stranger!

[abidinglaw]

[Children.]

But I am not there, child, any more than I am -- why, any more than I am on the moon. You need only close the book and you may be rid of me at once.

[But surely her sounds of distress aught to have summoned a guardian by now?]

Now, where is your father?

[rollypolyclover]

Not here!! Daddy is back home, Yotsuba is heeere!!

[Seems as though she has to explain this to a lot of people, how her father isn't here. Yet.]

But he's gonna come one day, and he'll be really proud of Yotsuba, and we'll eat ice cream and catch cicadas a-and go out in typhoons!!

[Grabbing one of the cushions off of the couch and putting it in front of her face. If she can't see the journal then the stranger isn't there. Or. Something. It makes her feel better either way!]

And you're there! You're there and you're talking to Yotsuba and Yotsuba can't run away!!

[abidinglaw]

[This is his patience face.]

If you would like me to go, then you need only ask. As for being able to run away - I have already explained this matter. All that it requires is that you close the journal.

[rollypolyclover]

[But the journal is all the way over theeere and now she's scared of it because a stranger is talking out of it! ...Or at least a stranger who has identified themselves as one.]

Who are you, stranger who might want to steal Yotsuba's candy...? Or Yotsuba!

[This is a logical conclusion. Stranger wants her candy. He's going to bite her head off of her ice cream and laugh at her!]