The Worst Scavenger Hunt

“Don’t you think this is weird or somethin’?” the kid in the red hat asked once they reached the platform of their destination. Goro shook his head, though finding that if he moved himself too much the stack in his arms swayed, too. He kept still.

“I’m assuming this is a prank, or something,” he said, remembering perhaps too well the strange pranks that Futaba and Akira would team up to plan for him.

“Well, you’re wrong!” the young boy said with conviction, pointing at him and his dumb stack of pancakes. “It’s– uh–” He faltered mid-speech, his outstretched finger retreating back for his hands to sit folded in his lap instead when he couldn’t find an excuse. “It’s a prank.”

Or, Goro barely remembers what day it is when he finds a pancake on the ground and begrudgingly embarks on a meticulously and ridiculously planned scavenger hunt to find out why.