Dear Diary,

Today we mixed a few foods together to test them. So far they're magicless, but we're going down in complexity, and something might work eventually. The french fry pizza is baking, so I have a couple minutes.

A couple minutes in which to say… I got Fire to ask Y about his family! Apparently he's half Japanese and half Lebanese. No wonder I couldn't figure out where he was from. And his grandparents all had restaurants, so that's why he's good at cooking!

That just felt important to write down. In case I forget. Or something.

Anyways, Kimi should get here tonight, so no more energy drink making. It was fun while it lasted.

The pizza timer went off!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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Kimi pushed the reset button and felt magic surround her. She landed in her room on Floor 1.

Smiling, she opened her door and listened for voices. Y and Nikki were downstairs, talking about chicken stuffing. From the volume Kimi judged Y to be closer to the stairwell.

Perfect.

She snuck to the stairs, crouching at the top to see as much as possible. Y was just walking by, going from the kitchen to the common area. He glanced up and did a double-take when he saw her.

Kimi launched herself down the stairs, landing like a cat on his chest.

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Y yelped, stumbled back, and collapsed laughing into a chair.

"Hey there, Upsilon." She kissed him.

Nikki's voice interrupted. "We also exist. In case you didn't know."

"Like you won't do the same when Avi gets here," Kimi said, her eyes locked on Y's.

"Not in public," Nikki grumbled.

"Coward." She adjusted her position, kissing her husband again.

"Oh," a voice she didn't recognize said. "She is your sister."

"What?" Nikki asked.

Kimi sat back, finally looking over. A pale fairy sat on the kitchen counter, her feet dangling over the side.

"Y being married to your sister would answer all my questions about your relationship," the fairy told Nikki.

Kimi teleported over and noogied the space between Nikki's ears before she could deny it. "Yep, this is my baby sister!"

"Ow, hey!" Nikki pushed her away. "Why am I the baby?"

"Because I'm older," Kimi said.

"Oh yeah."

Y cleared his throat, calmly walking over. "Kim, Fire; Fire, Kim."

"It is nice to meet you," Fire said. "You call him by the Greek letter?"

Kimi smiled. "Yep!"

"Is that what that is," Nikki muttered, going back to her cooking.

"You didn't know?" Y asked.

"No," Nikki said. "I am a normal person. Normal people don't know the Greek alphabet by heart."

Fire turned towards her. "Alpha beta gamma del-"

"Sorry, I also don't care, thanks."

Kimi put her arm around her. "Aww, don't be mad, Sis, just because you aren't as special as… Why are you stuffing a chicken with fish cubes?"

"We also stuffed chicken with hamburger," Y said helpfully.

"They are attempting to gain extra buffs by eating two things at once," Fire told her. "It will not work."

"It might," Nikki said. "We won't know until we try."

"It will not."

Kimi laughed, moving back to Y. "Well, as long as it isn't another energy drink."

"The energy drink was quite vile, yes," Fire said.

Nikki and Y froze.

"You didn't," Kimi growled.

Y took her arm. "Kim, look!" He turned her towards a wall. "I wrote this out, do you think it's correct?"

Kimi sighed, rolled her eyes, and focused on the equation.