Kazumi Magica Extra: Dream-Colored Spoon

Translation courtesy of DeepL.

Puella Magi Kazumi Magica Extra Edition - Dream Colored Spoon

A shard of the vase that had shattered at her feet struck Yuuri Asuka on the cheek. Without changing her expression, she looks at the person who threw the vase at her - her best friend, Airi Anri, who is lying on a hospital bed. Her friend, which had been given only three months to live, was so thin and withered that it was hard to believe that she was still a junior high school student. "My life is not over," Yuuri replies to Airi, her back shaking, "It's not over at all."

"Don't tell me to live the rest of my life to the fullest."

"It's up to you."

Yuuri's eyes meet with Airi's as she looks back at her for the first time.

"If you want to live, I will do whatever I can to help you. If you want to live, I will do everything in my power to help you, but if you want to give up on life, then I will not help you."

"Help me, Yuuri."

Yuuri's words were interrupted by Airi's tearful voice.

"I don't want to die. I want to live more. I want to eat many delicious foods with you."

She then took off the spoon pendant from around her neck and placed it on Airi.

The spoon sparkled in rainbow colors. It was a harbinger of good things to come. A dream-colored amulet. "Keep it with you until I return."

When asked where she was going, Yuuri turned around in her hospital bed and said, "It's a secret"-she flicked her tongue mischievously.

When he went down the hallway, a dark-faced doctor and nurse came out from a room a little further down the hall. It was the room of a little girl named Miyuki-chan. Through the door, the sobs of her older sister, who is about the same age as Yuuri, came out.

She looked fine until yesterday, but now she is crying. She looked fine until yesterday. ...... Yuuri bit her lip in disbelief and thought that she had to save Airi as soon as possible.

It was two years ago that Airi became an irreplaceable best friend to Yuuri. It all started two years ago when they were preparing for the school festival.

The class decided to hold a café, and Yuuri, who loved cooking, was put in charge of the menu. As the class was tasting the dishes she had prepared the night before, one of the female students suddenly said, "I don't feel well," and started to do the dishes.

She dropped her plate, saying, "I don't feel well."

As if in response to the student who complained that she had gotten sick from eating Yuuri's dish, the other students began to feel strange, and the tasting was cancelled. The tasting was cancelled. Yuuri threw away all of her dishes in the garbage bucket.

The next day, she stopped going to school and locked herself in her room.

A few days later. A few days later, on a rainy Sunday, Airi visited Asuka's house. She sat down and leaned against the door of Yuuri's room, ignoring Yuuri's repeated pleas to go home.

In the afternoon, when the rain stopped, Airi continued to sit down. The setting sun was just beginning to stain Airi's dozing cheeks.

A small voice asked, "Did you go home?" Airi jumped out of bed at the sound of a small voice saying, "Are you home?" The door was slightly open, and Yuuri's face was peeking out.

"Why did you come ...... for me?"

"The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're looking for. I haven't eaten anything since this morning. If you don't mind, could you make me something?"

"Are you serious? I'm not going to do that."

"I ate it. I ate your cooking. I ate everything you threw away."

"Why did you eat ...... what I threw away?"

"Because it was delicious! Everyone was fussing about it, but it wasn't damaged or anything. It didn't hurt my stomach. And ...... that girl who got sick the first time was lying."

When she saw that the boy was pleased with Yuuri's cooking, she pretended to be a glutton. She told Yuuri the "truth of the matter" that her classmates were in a state of mass hysteria and started to make a fuss because of her acting too much.

The boy was so excited that his classmates became hysterical and started to make a fuss, Airi told Yuuri.

"I'm glad to hear that,......, but why did you go to such lengths?"

"The first thing to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're looking for. I'm sure you've seen me wash my hands very carefully before serving food and during home economics class. Even between the nails. The plates were so shiny that there was not a fingerprint on them."

I thought she was going to be a cook in the future. I thought she was going to be a cook in the future. How could someone like that possibly get a stomach ache from the food she cooks?

"What are you ......?"

"I want to be a detective in the future. Do you know what it is? Do you know 'Gourmet Detective Neko Uluru'? A detective needs a friend who is a chef. So, this case was a great opportunity for me."

To make friends with Yuuri.

Airi stuck out her tongue mischievously and shrugged her shoulders.

"Now, cook me dinner!"

Airi pulled a bewildered Yuuri out of the room.

The pendant of a spoon that had been given to her as a child by her favorite cook, Slice Akiyama, on his TV show, glittered on her chest. It was a sparkle of seven colors, just like a rainbow in the sky.

At that moment, Airi became Yuuri's best friend.

With the memory of Airi in his heart, Yuuri wandered the city at night. Yuuri had only one "wish" in mind, but it was really a small wish. It was only one, small wish.

A few days ago, when she wandered into a strange world near the hospital and was attacked by the master of that world, a monster called a witch, a girl appeared like the wind and saved him, defeating the witch like a storm.

Maybe it was a dream. But if it was not a dream, her magic might be able to save Airi. Yuuri put her trust in the miracle of magic. And then...

"Chao! We meet again!"

The magical girl in the big black hat and cape remembered Yuuri. But when she heard Yuuri's wish, she replied, "I can't use magic to cure illness."

A white cat-like fairy who spoke human language appeared at the feet of the Puella Magi, who smiled at Yuuri as he lost his strength.

"You have the power to save your best friend's life," it said.

"I have that kind of power ......?"

"I'm sure."

That night, Asuka Yuuri became a magical girl with a prayer for her friends in her heart.