compnetwork | 1st Conception

[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]

As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.

It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.

[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]

Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.

[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]

While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.

So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-

[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]

Or the dish made with chocolate?

[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]

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It does. I can assure you it tastes as good as it looks.

[And Hikawa brings the camera back around to center on him.]

It's a simple fact. Eggs are known to taste good. Chocolate is known to taste good. Logic would dictate that both together would taste good, but this is clearly not the case.

Sometimes when one tries to have too much of a good thing, you ruin it.

*Selphie pulls a face at that - she can't even imagine. But then, she offers a friendly suggestion*

Maybe that's why at Easter they do chocolate eggs that are just chocolate but egg shaped, and not actually mixed.

They do it for reasons they don't know. Easter has become an amalgamation of religious and secular practices. I doubt taste had much reason for the way they prepare their eggs.

*Selphie's staring with her mouth gaping open as she tried to concentrate on what he was saying. But all she knew was that Easter was a celebration that involved chocolate eggs and bunnies*

Sure... Do you like chocolate eggs?

No. I'm not fond of sweet things.

*blink*

So...how come you decided to mix chocolate and eggs up, if you don't even like chocolate in the first place?

[Just a small sigh.]

It was a metaphor. I wasn't talking about cooking.

[How many people are not going to realize that?]

A metaphor, huh?

*Her nose wriggles a little and her eyes glance from side to side ~ apparently, she's thinking quite hard*

Metaphor for what?

Choices.

There are the right and simple choices, and choices that look good but could be disastrous.

Oh.. I see.. So maybe something seems like a good idea, but actually it isnt?

*Selphie grins gently and flashes a quick wink*

You mean..like a lady friend?

Precisely.

Companionship is fine, intimacy however tends to be more draining that it is worth.

[This is said in all seriousness, as well.]

*Well, Selphie certainly looks interested, anyway*

I see... you had a bad experience? Or..is this just you guessin'?

It's knowledge.

To work together towards a common goal with another is fine. But there is no necessity for anything beyond that.

[Although other people have apparently never grasped this as much as he had, causing him to have to fake and/or lie about emotions before.]

I see...

*Selphie wriggles her nose at that, clearly thinking on it*

But - isn't the whole idea about enjoying yourself, and being happy? Like...getting to the point of being with someone that it really does turn into a necessity?

*Coming from a young woman who sounds like she vaguely knows what she's talking about*

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