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[Today was as good of a day as it can get for Kohaku to be out. But today she's doing something new. There are still quite a few trees with leaves on them, and she's decided to help them out a little. From morning to mid-day people will be able to see something interesting at the very least.

Every tree around town with a bit too many leaves left Kohaku can be spotted as close to the middle of the tree as possible, and instantly every single leaf that's ready to come off the tree will puff right out and fall to the ground without the tree even moving. But don't worry about them leaving a big mess, a gust of wind will bring them all back to the base of the tree, nice and neat. Since she would've felt horrible if she had to harvest any of the food people were, this is the most she can do.

Later in the day though she can be found seriously staring down two foods in particular. Given that's she's never even really looked at any food other than milk and honey, she doesn't have a clue about ingredients, let alone know that they're even there. Which is why she's staring food down for a long while before going to her journal.]

...This may seem like a strange question, but I've been thinking about it for a long time.

What's added to milk to make cheese and yogurt?

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As far as I know, natural yogurt has nothing but milk and some sugar on it. It's basically curdled milk, with fruits added to it for flavors at times or just sugar to make it less sour.

I think cheese is similar, I know a kind that is made with just some vinegar added to the milk.

[Pause.]

Trying to find something new to eat?

So nothing with just milk...

More curious really.

There are yogurts that have nothing on them besides the milk. Not sure about the cheese but there probably are some like that. Yogurt and cheese are quite basic to make, so long as you have milk and time you can make both without needing anything else.

So I actually can eat them.

[Which she sounds mostly happy about.]

...What do they taste like?

If you don't add anything else? Sour. Pretty much like milk but stronger.

...

I can't seem to imagine it.

Why? Does milk taste differently for you?

That's not it. I can't think of something sour.

Milk is sour. Raw milk at least.

[At least it's so for him.]

Do you drink it when it's not good anymore?

You mean when it's curdled? No unless I have no other options.

Then...why would it taste sour? Milk has almost no taste.

Maybe for you, for me it does. But it may be just me, the milk's taste has never been something I worried before and talked about with others.

So you're just not a fan of milk.

If I wasn't a fan of milk I wouldn't drink it, you know.

[She's a bit confused...]

That's true...

Did you think that just because it tastes sour to me I wouldn't drink it? I actually like how it tastes.

I-I don't know. The word sour doesn't make it sound good.

[Ikki chuckles at that.]

Compared to something sweet, it's certainly not good. But that doesn't mean you can't like the taste. Coffee is also sour most of the time unless you add sugar to it, for example, and many people like it without any sugar because they prefer it sour.

So sour isn't a bad thing?

As long as you like it, that is.

Then...I'll have to try them to find out myself.

[Though she isn't quite sure she's actually going to just yet. She hasn't gotten past staring them down for a long time.]

That's how it normally is with food, people can tell you their opinion about something but that doesn't mean you will agree with them once you try it.

[Pause.]

Just make sure that they are natural and with no other ingredients.

[Given her restrictions regarding food it's necessary.]

How do I figure out if they don't have anything else in them?

It should say so on the labels of the packages and show a list of what they have and how much of each ingredient there is.

Oh. I should've noticed that earlier.

Not really, they usually use a fine and small print so unless you know what you're looking for or are the type to check everything thoughtfully it's easy to miss. Did you get some cheese and yogurt or are you at the store staring at the shelves?

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