Hopefully it's fine, especially considering Crow made the soup. Magpie just reheated it and threw in prepackaged fu. Still, far stranger things have happened.

Like Magpie turning a new smile, smaller and spikier but more sincere, on Ken. "If you listen to Hawk and Akira-kun, my cooking can take out entire city blocks. Out of the mouths of babes, as they say."

After all, don't they also say all of life is a test?