Time rewound slightly.
While Larkspur was still enduring that endless dessert marathon in the restaurant, the three juniors staying at the inn were continuing their "battle" in the kitchen.
With the assistance of magical tools, making chocolate had indeed become unimaginably easy. The three of them did not need to spend much effort adjusting the chocolate's flavor and texture. They only needed to make slight changes to the existing recipes according to their preferences, and they could create chocolates with distinctly different but equally delicious flavors.
As such, once she had roughly settled on the flavor her chocolate should have, Lin Xiaolu was destined to devote most of her energy to its appearance.
The magical tools provided by the shop could help with simple molding, but they did not offer custom shape options, so that part was entirely up to Lin Xiaolu. Yet after a long period of thought, she had achieved no useful results, because she had gotten stuck on the very first step:
—What shape should she make them?
Since making chocolate had been a spur-of-the-moment idea, Lin Xiaolu had not done much research beforehand. With the knowledge she had hastily crammed now, all she could think of were flower petals, simple cartoon animals, or hearts... but she did not particularly like any of those shapes.
Petals fit a Magical Girl's identity somewhat, but they were rather plain; little animal shapes were adorable, but they felt oddly out of place as Valentine's Day chocolates, and perhaps a little childish; as for hearts, they were certainly the classic choice for a holiday like this, but were they not a bit too cliché?
In the end, what kind of feelings did she actually have that made her want to give Larkspur chocolate?
She cut off a small piece of half-set