[Day 7, Mid-Morning] Back In Business (Open)

[Bayushi Choudai]

Choudai ducked into the Sunset Leaves, relieved to see the kitchen was back in operation.

That stupid bastard Utemaro and that vindictive harpy of a Horiuchi clearly don't care who they hurt when they flail after me.

He took up his customary seat, ordered a pot of the tumeric three roots and a few senbei, and started engaging in the very un-samurai activity of checking what that little stunt had cost the establishment.

I think I can help make this up. Some of those modified Crazy Hare recipes are no better than what Akijin is already making, but they'll have the "as tasted by guests at the Imperial Winter Court" cachet to drum up extra business. The Crane are nothing if not fashionable.

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Really one of the nicer things about them...