Chapter 4

I tried to make sure the kitchen was fully stocked, so feel free to use anything you need.

Are you ready to bake a cake?

You've got to beat the cream till it forms peaks.

Okay!

I told you, the water in the double boiler has to be at room temperature. Your water's too hot.

Look, you've got a bubbling cauldron there. You might as well cook them in a hot spring. Start over again!

I-I-I... I'm sorry! Of course!

No! No! No! That's too small!!

If you don't like it, then why don't you do it yourself?!

I can't! If I could do it myself, I would, but I'm dead!

We still have to taste it first to see if it's all right.

Oh, that does make sense, I guess.

Once we're sure that this one tastes good, then we can make another just like it and give that one to my mother. There's just one problem... I'm dead, so I can't taste it.

We've never tasted a cake before, so we're not exactly sure how it's supposed to taste.

We don't have cake in the Soul Society, so we've no way of knowing.

Don't you know anyone who's tasted cake before?

Excuse me...

...and that's why I brought it out here.

So, we're supposed to try it and tell you how it tastes?

I've eaten cake before, but I'm not sure what I can tell you.

Well, I'm an expert on everything in the World of the Living, so I can tell you how it is!

Here you go.

Uh...

We're never going to make a decent cake for his mother, are we?

Hey, don't say that. We've just got to keep trying, that's all! Poor Heita...

He says that his mother is going to be moving away tomorrow.

Wow, so I guess that means tomorrow's the last day she'll be coming to leave him flowers.

............

Excellent! Now that's what I'm talking about!

We've got to get it right before tomorrow. We're going to make your mother the most beautiful cake ever, and it's going to be delicious.