In another world, I make pudding with a witch.

A convenience store at midnight. Minato, an office worker exhausted from grueling work, had one simple pleasure: buying herself a reward on the way home—a luxurious smooth custard pudding. However, the moment she stepped out of the convenience store pudding in hand, Minato suddenly found herself standing in an unfamiliar forest. The convenience store and apartment buildings around her had vanished, replaced by giant glowing mushrooms instead of streetlights. Minato was confused. Then appeared a beautiful witch on a broomstick—Elde. She was a being who had lived alone in this other world for hundreds of years. Minato wished to return to her original world, but Elde concealed the only way the "return door" would open and lied to her. In that situation, the "pudding" from the convenience store that Minato possessed struck directly at the tongue and heart of the witch, worn down by hundreds of years of solitude. "Please, could you somehow make this!?" Minato searching for a clue to return to her original world, and the witch seeking the ultimate sweetness. Their strange cohabitation begins, and they become absorbed in an unprecedented "pudding-making" using materials from the other world and magic. Laughing together at each failure, clashing with one another, Minato's heart is healed, and in Elde's heart blooms for the first time... "love." However, loving Minato from the heart meant the witch's resolve to "part"—that she must not trap her in this world forever. When the ultimate pudding is completed, their feelings intersect and the "return door" opens. "I don't want to go back!" "You... will return." Minato's desire to stay, Elde's anguished cry of "I love you." The fate of the two torn apart is set in motion once again by a single "pudding container" that Minato clutches tightly. What kind of change will the ultimate pudding they create together bring to this eternally stagnant world—? —————————————— Approximately 8,300 characters. ※Also posted on "Kakuyomu." The content is the same, and that version is a 4-part conclusion. ※Originally created as a long-form story, condensed into a short story of less than 10,000 characters.