A Sato Special

"Come on, don't be a hard ass." Sato laughed, waving his bowl around as he tried to get Luna to pour him some of this bland soup. “What do you want?” Sato gave up after a few seconds.

“Money, dummy.” Luna looked over at Sunya, who was patiently sitting on the log. “You were willing to pay six gold for that feline- so one gold coin- please.” Luna extended out a paw to him,

“Are you a world-renowned chef charging that much?” Prix choked on the number,

“You get nothing for nothing.” Luna sneered, turning her nose up at Prix,

"I'll pay one gold coin for the two of us," Sato said, presenting a gold coin which Luna snatched.

“Fine,” Luna said, taking Sato’s bowl and filling it up with her ladle before doing the same for Prix, who grumbled about not having a spoon. But they both still sat down to eat it.

"This is terrible," Sato complained loudly after he tried a spoonful,

“Did you put any herbs in this?" Prix added to the chorus as she drank the soup,

"You want herbs?" Luna angrily plucked some grass as she walked over to Prix and dumped it into her bowl. “Your herbs!”

Sato fed some of the soup to Sunya. "I think it tastes good~," Sunya said nervously,

“Because it tastes of triumph.” Luna giggled as she sat down in front of the cauldron and continued eating using the same ladle with which she poured everyone’s soup.

“I think we should tell some stories.” Sato started as he walked up to Luna for a refill, which Luna gave him after catching a glance from Idalec. “Like I’ll start!” Sato presented the bowl of soup to Sunya to enjoy. “I am actually from another world-”

Idalec’s ears tensed up. He was about to kill this coalition agent-

“- I’m from Earth!” Sato exclaimed as he turned to face everyone. Idalec eased up; if Sato had been even a jiffy slower, Prix, Sunya, and Sato would have all been erased off the face of this world. “From the country of-” Sato tried to build up non-existent tension “-Japan!” Sato dropped this revelation with his mouth agape,

Idalec got up for seconds of the soup as well,

“Come on, guy!” Sato said, turning to Prix, “Why don’t you guys care?” Sato looked at Sunya, who was gleefully enjoying her meal. “I’m literally from a different world!”

“That’s really cool, master~” Sunya agreed,

“Thank you,” Sato said with a sincere nod. “Where are you from, Sunya?”

“...” Sunya let the silence hang as she lifted her spoon a little before putting it back in the soup. “I-” Sunya chose her words carefully. “I’m from a small village~” Sunya nodded, looked up at Sato,

“That's hype; you know I’m from something of a small village.” Sato smiled, “They call it Tokyo back where I’m from…” Sato looked around as everyone just nodded along. “Come onnnnn.” Sato rolled his head, “Idalec where are you from?”

“Her-” Idalec blinked. “I mean, it’s near here.” Idalec looked up at everyone. “Do you know where Gironde is?”

“I do.” Prix nodded,

“You know what’s funny? I actually know where that is!” Sato said, wagging his finger, “It’s this place in France that’s really cool- I read about it once-it’s from back in MY world.” Sato added smugly,

“Sato, you shouldn’t go around saying that,” Prix whispered in between small spoonfuls of soup.

Sato looked at her with a small frown. “Prix, when are you going to tell everyone that you're a princess?”

Now this caused Prix to nearly choke on her soup. Sunya gasped,

“That explains a lot.” Idalec softly laughed as he sat back down to keep eating,

"Of course a princess can't eat real food! Since she's so spoiled!" Luna brandished her ladle at Prix,

"I finished your soup, Luna!” Prix showed Luna her empty bowl. “And what’s this meat anyway?" Prix tried to change the topic,

"You're a princess?" Sunya asked, her jaw slack,

“I thought it was pretty obvious, Your Highness Ma-” Idalec added, catching a glare from Prix,

"Yeah, Princess Prix-Pretenous?" Luna laughed loudly at her own joke,

"Why did you have to say that, Sato!" Prix pouted,

"But you are a princess?" Sato said, seemingly not getting what was wrong with just saying it, “I’m just spitting facts out here!” Sato rhymed his words.

“The only thing you're spitting on is my cover!” Prix cried out,

"Ooohhhhhhh!" Sato realized, putting his hands on his head, “Then we should use code names-” Sato suggested striking an honestly heroic looking pose, with his hand on his hilt, “-You can call me-” Sato wetted his lips, “-Darksama-sama.” which cracked everyone up. “Hey! Is it a good codename? Why are you all still laughing at me!” Sato whined to the peanut gallery, “If you keep doing that, I'll leave!” Sato demanded, red in the face and on the verge of tears,

“It's just a little silly, Sato,” Prix said politely, putting a hand over her mouth,

"Like you could come up with something better. What's your codename if you're undercover? Huh?" Sato scoffed, “Bet you didn’t think of that!”

“Prix.” Prix answered, "Prix isn’t my real name.”

Sato’s jaw dropped,

‘It would be fun to have a code name.’ Idalec thought there was a real festive vibe between them; it almost felt like you could dance, and someone would play some music on a gramophone. “I think it would be fun to have a code name.” Idalec smiled towards Sato. “What if all of you called me-” Idalec took a moment. “Dumahze?” ‘It’s almost like my old name.’

“Ok, Dumahze, I can work with that.” Sato nodding affirmingly

“You got it Darksama-sama!” Sunya said nervously, which got Sato to beam at her with pride,

“What about the rest of you?” Sato asked, jumping up with excitement,

“You can call me Captain." Luna hummed,

“That ain’t it, man.” Sato shook his head and put his hands on his face. “Let me cook-” Luna looked up at him with disgust. “You're a heckin chonker, chocolate cat-” Sato’s eyes widened as he looked at Luna. “-I got it! Shadow-pussy” Sato gulped, possibly his last words.