Young Kintsugi learns to take a break with Etsudo

The Gardener

This... this is unacceptable. My instrument of correction reduced to... cutlery.

Kittysamma

Technically it's still a fork. Just... bite-sized justice.

Etsudo Tatchibana

Kintsugi, maybe take a break? The world's not ending today.

The Gardener

Young Entities who pause get erased. I must keep fixing before—

Kittysamma

Before what? Someone eats salad incorrectly?

Kittysamma

You're not wrong about young entities. They burn bright, then—poof—cosmic correction.

The Gardener

I don't want to disappear unfinished.

Etsudo Tatchibana

Then stay here. Finish your sandwich. Correct slowly.

The Gardener

But what if being slow means being wrong forever?

Kittysamma

Forever's relative when you can rewrite the ending.

The Gardener

This sandwich... it's perfectly aligned. Nothing to fix.

Kittysamma

Give it time. The bread gets stale, the lettuce wilts—entropy always wins.

Etsudo Tatchibana

That's why we eat them before they become problems!

The Gardener

It tastes like... like not being responsible for once.

Kittysamma

I crown thee Kintsugi, Queen of Taking Five Minutes.

Etsudo Tatchibana

Welcome to the 'We'll Deal With Reality Later' club!

The Gardener

Does this club have more sandwiches?