Tachibana Kippei

I find myself with less and less time as the days go by. Updating this as frequently as I should is very difficult. I apologize.

Thanks to an anonymous renovation to my kitchen, I've been able to cook food a lot faster, and with Momoshiro-kun and Shinji helping with that, I think our efficiency in the deli has improved a lot. It's nice. It means I can do more with my time, such as make more food for the soup-kitchens and spend more time coming up with recipes for the Youtube cooking show. It's a pleasant way to spend my time, thinking of new ideas for dishes and ways of cooking things. It involves a lot of cooking with foreign fruits and finding obscure, high-scale grocery shops so I can experiment, but it's worth it.

Renge's also been very busy. She has a dance recital coming up in a week, so she's very nervous for that. I promised her that I'd go see it, so I will be missing for a couple of hours next Friday morning. She's been trying so hard and I can't wait to see it. Though, at times, I still feel like she's trying to pay me back by doing everything perfectly, instead of just acting like herself, like a normal child. I don't know what to say to her to make her feel less like her life is a favour she has to pay back.

Sometimes I wonder why we live in a world where some children are forced to grow up so fast and think that everything has a price.

-Tachibana

Ahh, it is odd. I've been rather busy for the past few days, because there's been a huge increase in customers! I admit, it's quite a surprise, but I'm very glad. If I could just figure out why....

Oh, and in interesting news today, it seems that Fudoumine middle school tennis team are in the Kanto again, for the first time since our time. The whole team had a celebratory dinner at my place yesterday, seeing as they won Prefecturals. It was nice chatting with all of them and they all seemed interested in learning more about how to improve their tennis.

Akira, Shinji, if you're free sometime, maybe we could drop by during their practise and help them figure out what they need to improve? Seems that they only have a teacher patron and not an actual coach. They're better off than we were, but they'll need something if they're to get very far in Kanto.

~Tachibana