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[01]
Watanuki: I'm sorry for making you come all this way.

Client: Not at all.
But if you're going to teach me cooking,
Wouldn't my house...

[02-03]
When the butterfly's dream is granted,
what sort of truth will be created? 

Haruka said it:
That "even if it is a dream, if there are people who are believed, wished for,
loved, then it will become reality.
And that butterfly is still dreaming."

And so Watanuki asked:

"Is the butterfly Yuuko-san?"

Now, without waking,
To what sort of truth is the dream
Becoming connected
!?

[04]
Yuuko: Cooking here?

Watanuki: ...Yes.

[05]
Yuuko: Weren't you teaching her at her house?

Watanuki: That's right.

But

Yuuko: ...I understand.

The usage fee will be the Japanese liquor from the day before yesterday and Watanuki's strong alcohol side dish.

Watanuki: I've got it!

I'll make dressed boiled bonito.

[06]
Yuuko: Will you teach that to her?

Watanuki: ...No,
Not to that person.

Client: Rice balls?

Watanuki: Yes.

[07]
Client: Um,
I think I can make that without being instructed.

Watanuki: Indeed.

But, today I want to make and eat them.

You, that is.

[08]
Mokona: So she came.

Doumeki: Yeah.

Mokona: I wonder if she'll eat, that client.

FX: Quaff

Doumeki: He'll manage something,

Somehow.

[09]
FX: Grin

Mokona: Drink up.

Doumeki: Yeah.

FX: Glug glug of bottle

Client: I thought we discussed this, but
What I've made, I...

Watanuki: You don't want to eat it.

Because what you've made is disgusting.

[10]
Client: Yes.

Watanuki: You're fine with watching, huh?

Client: Huh?

Watanuki: You're fine with
Watching yourself.

[11]
Client: That is

...Yes.

Watanuki: You're fine with
touching yourself too.

Client: ...I don't understand
What you want to say.

[12]
Himawari: Hello.

Doumeki: Hey.

Kohane: Hello.

Himawari: I met her just up the road.
Since Kohane-chan said she was going to Yuuko-san's store too, we came together.

FX: Nod

I came to speak to Watanuki-kun, but...

FX: Bounce

[13]
Kohane: Kimihiro-kun is in the kitchen?

Doumeki: Right.

Kohane: Is it all right if I go to help?

FX: Bounce

Mokona: At the moment there's a client
in the kitchen.

Watanuki is with that client.

Himawari: A client of Yuuko-san?

[14]
Mokona: No.

Of Watanuki.

Watanuki: ...I, at the moment I can't tell the taste of what I've made.

Client: ...Huh?

Watanuki: To be precise, I have no memory of having tasted.

[15]
Client: Your meaning, I...

Watanuki: Don't understand.
Neither do I.

But I can cook.

Because even without memories, the body remembers.

[16]
Watanuki: I like it.
Cooking.

Since I live alone, I can do various other household chores too,
but cooking is my favorite.

I certainly enjoy what I've made.

But, I said I thought that it wasn't just that when someone asked me before.

[17]
Watanuki: I wonder if it's because you show yourself in cooking.

Client: Yourself...?

Watanuki: What the person who made it likes,
Dislikes,

What they ate, whom they met, what they were thinking about.

So

[18]
Watanuki: It's because you want them to know who you are that you have people eat the food that you've made.

I thought, "Eating what you've made yourself is a way of knowing yourself, isn't it?"

FX: Clench

                                                             
T/N
p.2: "Truth" is written "reality."
                                                            
So the gang's all here, and bastard!Watanuki is raking the client over the coals. Good for him. I've got five hundred yen that says this is the last volume.

p.s. love the color spread.
p.p.s. Doumeki + Mokona = <3
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