Why would you want to eat something that tastes of despair? I could understand eating something that despairs, but that doesn't change the taste.

[ Said like a cat, rather than a sadist. Playing with her food is something Shijima is entirely familiar with. It's more fun to terrify than to eat, sometimes. Humans do not usually agree, since it is apparently some sort of ill-mannered thing, to play with one's food.

Or to eat things raw, given most of the reactions she's gotten on that count. ]

And what game is that? Do they play with their food, these Orlesians?