Awwww! The chapter page features Ena in an adorable cake-seller's outfit. I guess that's what it is. She's holding a handled box with "Mercredi" on it. To her right is a "New Special Menu", "New" being written in English. Maybe also Japanese. Apricot tart: 400 yen. Peach yogurt mousse: 380 yen. Rare cheese fromage: 350 yen. (Knowing that "fromage" is French for "cheese" and that the foodstuff is therefore a "rare cheese cheese": priceless.) There are also flowers in a basket being held by one of those wrought iron stands.
Yotsuba and Ena are playing with teddy bears. Yotsuba's (meaning the one she's holding, not one that's actually hers) bear welcomes Ena's (in both senses) bear. Ena's introduces herself as "Anne" and asks the name of Yotsuba's. Yotsuba has trouble pronouncing it, and comes up with "Juralumin
". Ena goes ahead and uses it, but remarks that it's really "Julietta". "It's not much," Juralumin "says", "but please take yourself a home." (I think koiwai.biz has "Please make home at yourself.")
"Hello!" is called. It's Miura (in a Lakers shirt, #34, to be precise), asking if Ena is home. "My, my," says Yotsuba, approaching her, "if it isn't dear Miura-chan!" She holds her arm out, showing her to the living room. "Please, won't you come in? I shannot be long," she says. "What's wrong with you?" asks Miura. "Miura is come to visit," announces Yotsuba. She places a cushion on the floor and tells her, "You may take this chair here." "Chair?" wonders Miura. Yotsuba leaves the room, Miura watching her. Miura wonders what's up with her. Ena explains that she's playing hostess to her.
Yotsuba returns with a glass of liquid, setting it down with a tan ("thump"), spilling it a bit, as Miura notes. Yotsuba calls it tea, though it's water, as Miura remarks that it looks a lot like, thanking her anyway. Yotsuba asks if Miura has decided on her order. Miura thinks for a little bit, and decides on cake. Yotsuba leaves again, even though Miura says she was joking.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Ayase is looking at a catalog when Yotsuba enters. Yotsuba opens the refrigerator and starts looking through it. Mrs. Ayase asks what she's looking for. "Cake," Yotsuba replies. "I got an order for it." Mrs. Ayase laughs and says they don't have any around. Yotsuba notices meat, but Mrs. Ayase tells her not to take it. Yotsuba heads back to the other room, leaving Mrs. Ayase thinking about cake.
Yotsuba reports the lack; Miura is shocked that she went rummaging in their fridge. Mrs. Ayase pokes her head in and asks them to go buy some cake. Miura is worried that it's just because of her, but Mrs. Ayase says, "I want some." Yotsuba confirms with Mrs. Ayase that they're really going to get cake. She asks if it's a "speshal" day, but Ena says it's a normal day. She pyons around, asking = what's going on. Mrs. Ayase tells Ena she wants strawberry. Ena asks how many they need, if they'll need enough for big sister Asagi as well, but Mrs. Ayase says she and Fuuka are out with friends and probably won't be back for a while, so all they need is four.
They head off, Yotsuba singing along the way. "Caaake! Caaake! It's like a dreeeeam!" "That great?" Miura remarks. "¡¡Olé!!" (Inverted exclamation marks mine.) Ena is shocked.
Miura recalls that there are two cake places, and asks where they should go. Ena asks which one she thinks would be better. Miura figures Asagi would know. Ena decides to go to the closer one. Yotsuba is distracted by a taiyaki shop. (Taiyaki is a filled pastry shaped like sea bream, supposedly a lucky fish.) The clerk asks if she'd like to buy some, and Yotsuba asks what it is. The man is surprised that she hasn't had any, and says it's "realllly" good. Yotsuba figures it'd have to be "epxensive", but he says it's only 100 yen. Yotsuba is just about considering it when Miura and Ena call her, which reminds her that she's out for cake, which is what she declares. Off she goes with another "¡Olé!"
They end up going to Mercredi, and are welcomed. MMmmmm, those pictures look so good! Yotsuba sees the variety and asks which one is cake. Ena says they're all cakes. Yotsuba is surprised that such different things could all be cake. Ena says she can pick out whichever one she wants. Yotsuba accidentally casts Feather Fall in her excitement. Miura tells the clerk that they'll be having four total, one of which will be the strawberry one. Yotsuba asks the clerk if she made them. She didn't. (She's cute!) Yotsuba asks if it was a "sheff". (Why the alternative spelling? It's said the same... wait, is it "shefu" in the original?) The clerk confirms it, which impresses Yotsuba. Miura selects a chocolate cake. Yotsuba notices that it's black, and says Miura is grown-up for being so small. She then asks Ena which one she's getting.
IN. TENSE. She considers her selection. Then she SEES what she wants, and POINTS AT IIIIIIT!!! The clerk asks if it's the pumpkin mont blanc ("a dessert of meringue, chestnut purée, and whipped cream often made to resemble a snow-capped mountain") that she wants, and Ena confirms it. Yotsuba says it's gross and resembles mud, which shocks Ena. Yotsuba uses Mrs. Ayase's choice as a guide, and selects one, too.
Yotsuba hums on the way home. She asks if Ena wants her to hold the cakes, but she declines the assistance. At the Ayase home, they have it set at the coffee table, where they're all knelt around it. "Itadakimasu!" (Okay, okay, this has it localized to "Okay, let's eat!", "Yes, let's!" and "LET'S EAT!!", but I assume they said that in the original.) Yotsuba chomps down on a bite, and sways side-to-side in the deliciousness. She jumps up and wants to call the "sheff" because it's so yummy. Mrs. Ayase agrees that it is, but tells them not to tell Asagi.
Guess who Ena sees through the windows in the doors.
If you guessed "Asagi", you're right! She sneaks up behind her mother with her fingers to her lips. Mrs. Ayase guesses she's got to save the strawberry for last, but she guesses wrong; with a "Yer strawberry's miiiine!!", Asagi yoinks it and eats it! The girls are shocked; Mrs. Ayase is stunned. Asagi notices Yotsuba's strawberry, and swipes it...
...but then she sees Yotsuba's face. She looks at the strawberry... and swooshes it around making airplane noises before returning it to the cake, saying she's just kidding.
Mrs. Ayase looks closely at her cake... and jumps up, yelling, which scares Asagi. Mrs. Ayase tells her it wasn't funny, how hideous it was, and that she must be demon spawn, but Asagi says she's her spawn. (The kids set to munching their cakes and attempting to ignore it.)
Next time: Chapter 11!
