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| Publication Date: March 5, 2014 | |
| Pages: 4 (full color) 28 (black and white) | |
| Anime Adaptation: None | |
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The Witch and Dinner
魔女とディナー
Majo to Dinaa
Mr. Itokawa's wife died three years ago. Since then he has found his life lonely and empty. Because his wife cooked for him he now finds mealtime lonesome and rarely eats much at all. He has become very thin when he hires a housekeeper, Ms. Tabei, who comes every other Sunday. Ms. Tabei starts to cook for Mr. Itokawa as well. At a corporate dinner Yoshino Shinjo, the head of the Mikoto Cosmetics line, spills her food on Mr. Itokawa and kindly offers to help clean him up and get him a change of clothes. She takes Itokawa upstairs to her hotel room and lets him shower and gives him a custom-made suit. Later Itokawa searches for information about Yoshino online and is shocked to find out she is 49 years old.
A few days later Itokawa's boss comes and tells him that Yoshino Shinjo came by corporate headquarters and said she wanted to have dinner with Itokawa alone. Everyone is jealous that lowly old Mr. Itokawa seems to have made an impression on gorgeous Yoshino. At dinner Yoshino gives Itokawa a necktie and asks him to put it on immediately before she begins wolfing down her dinner. She requests that he wear it next time they have dinner as well. Mr. Itokawa is shocked that there will be a "next time". Soon rumors are getting out on the internet that Mr. Itokawa is having an affair with the the married Yoshino Shinjo as they continue to be seen in public together at their dinners. More confusingly Mr. Itokawa is gaining a tremendous amount of weight while Yoshino, who eats incredible portion sizes, shows no weight gain at all. Even stranger is that when Yoshino orders dinner she orders huge meals for herself and very low calorie meals for Mr. Itokawa.
Ms. Tabei, the house keeper, soon warns Mr. Itokawa that he should not continue to meet with Yoshino. Ms. Tabei tells Itokawa that Yoshino is a witch and asks if she has given him any gifts. When he shows her the necktie she discovers a hair hidden inside. Snipping it with a pair of scissors the necktie bursts into flames. Despite this Yoshino soon contacts Mr. Itokawa again and suggests that they should meet for more than dinner, insinuating they will have sex. When Mr. Itokawa shows up at the hotel Yoshino ties another necktie to him. Much to his shock, Ms. Tabei barges in and splashes champagne onto Yoshino. It turns out Ms. Tabei is the witch and she used to clean Yoshino's house. She was offered a huge sum of money to give Yoshino a calorie-reverse spell that allowed her to lose weight and transfer it to someone else. It turns out her husband was the first victim of this process and now she needed a very thin man to slip the pounds to in the future. With the spell broken Mr. Itokawa says that Yoshino Shinjo never appeared in television commmercials again.