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Zen Garden Chocolate
A Valentine's Day chocolate(?) from Yui Shousetsu.
This traditional rock garden is made of chocolate and arranged atop Japanese earthenware. At first glance, it seems to be a splendidly crafted miniature landscape. That it is made of chocolate is not immediately apparent. In fact, Shousetsu seems to have misunderstood chocolate as "modern-day clay craft" and did not make it with the intent that it be edible at all.
She did at least use white chocolate, sugar, cream, red food coloring, and so on to create the colors, faithfully following advice from the kitchen Heroic Spirits. But while working, Shousetsu began to think to herself,
"Do people use sugar to create clay crafts now? You're not supposed to eat them, though. What a prosperous era this is..."
In the end, she never realized that chocolate is meant to be food.

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