“Daddy, can you open this?”
Tamaki’s heart stills. His precious, precocious baby girl toddles over to him, holding out chocolate pudding.
This is his biggest parenting text yet. With his squad and partner watching behind him, he rolls up his sleeve and tugs on the cover.
It still won’t open.
“No,” he whimpers to himself, tugging harder and harder.
“Want help?” Suzuya offers eagerly.
“No!” he cries, finally tearing it open. The chocolate flies everywhere – mostly onto himself. “Sh – Oops.”
“Daddy, don’t take it all!” His daughter stomps her foot. “Why are you being mean?”
“I – I’m not, I promise,” he begs, despising himself for his failure. Forget ghouls. Disappointing his daughter over pudding is far worse pain. “I just can’t open them.”
She tosses her head. “Uncle Juuzou, can you teach me to open puddings?”
“Sure!” Suzuya cheers.
Mercy and Magic 