"Don't tease me like that, man. I can be dangerous around a cake pan." He grins and cuts himself a heaping slice.

He nods. "Good point. For what it's worth, the cake passes my crazy high standards. So you're just going to practice in here with what, the whole Martha Stewart cookbook?"

Someday he's going to make a clip reel of things Zouichi does in the Sensoriums, and he'll edit the cake baking to riiiiight/i> after Zouichi blows up some zombies and jumps a trench with his motorcycle.