Chapter 4 (Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen)

Chapter 4 (Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen)
Chapter Information
Cover Characters	Olruggio
Volume	1
Pages	12
Date Released	JP: 22 Dec 2019
Chapter Guide
Previous	Chapter 3
Next	Chapter 5

Chapter Four of Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen.

Summary

One night, Olruggio is complaining to the group about how he made a functional contraption for a client but they want it to look stylish as well. He talks about how it's hard to make contraptions more visually interesting without it interfering with the mechanisms of the magic, and isn't sure what to do. Coco suggests putting flowers in his workshop to help inspire him, as it always looks too serious in there. Olruggio objects, exclaiming how the flowers would look sad among all his tools. He promptly leaves to go to bed, and warns the others to not stay up late. They watch him go, all thinking that he is too nice to feel bad for the flowers. However, this gives Qifrey an idea.

In the kitchen, Qifrey pulls out a box full of ripe, yellow Mountain Apples that he and the girls had picked during Chapter 3's field trip. Thinking of it as also a way to thank Olruggio for helping to make sandwiches for their lunch that day, Qifrey sets out to make him a surprise. Starting with making the dough for the crust, he then goes on to slicing the mountain apples. The shorter slices are simmered into a jam while the longer ones will marinate in a bowl in warm syrup. When the dough is ready, he slices it into strips and lines up the marinated apple slices along it. When the strip is rolled up, it takes on the appearance of a rose. After baking them in the hearth, Qifrey brushes on the mountain apple jam, and adds Glowsugar on top as a finishing touch.

In the morning, the girls get one Glowrose tart each, and Coco fawns over how pretty it is. She laments that it's too bad Olruggio isn't awake to see it, but Qifrey says he doesn't think Olruggio will be sleeping in today. Olruggio is then shown in his room, looking at his entire bouquet of Glowrose tarts. He complains about how is he to sleep while this is sparkling in his room. Back in the kitchen, Qifrey smiles in his direction and encourages him to keep at it.

Recipes

• Glowrose Tart

• Glowrose Tart Bouquet

Characters by Appearance

• Olruggio
• Tetia
• Richeh
• Agott
• Coco
• Qifrey

Gallery

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  Qifrey peeling and slicing the mountain apples

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  Qifrey sprinkling glowsugar onto the tarts

Translation Notes

• At the end of the chapter, in Japanese Qifrey mentally wishes Olruggio to keep at it (with his project). In the English translation, Olruggio's name is omitted so Qifrey instead says "My friend."

Chapter Notes

• Brushbuddy does not appear at all in this chapter.
• This chapter and Chapter 3 originally published together in the February 2020 issue of Morning Two magazine.