Tako

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* Leaper Phase

**Tako** is a 1-Star, **Flame**/**Mage** Leaper in *Space Leaper: Cocoon*.

## Basic Files

An Alienated Ville that calls herself Tako was discovered by Explorer-9 on November 30th, 3241 on the planet Flame-237 in the ruins of a steak house. She has the appearance and mental maturity of a 12 year-old girl and the power to infuse objects with a sweet and spicy flavor.

According to later questioning, Tako claims that was tricked into working for free at a steak house. She frequently pretends to be something called a "Mini Mato." If a conversation continues long enough, Tako quickly tells the truth of any situation.

## Deep Level Files

**Background Story (I): Mini Mato.**

All Leapers undergo a thorough process of information registration when they arrive at Base, and every Leaper has an interesting past, but Ms. Tako left a particularly deep impression on me. As usual, J-001 stoically ran through the regular questions— name, age, height and weight, etc.— Tako responded quickly to each question in turn. The atmosphere must have been fairly relaxed, because Tako soon calmed down and started talking faster and faster without thinking about it.

"Last, what is Ms. Tako's race...."

"Ville!" She almost spoke over J-001, she was so eager.

"Record creation complete...."

"No! Hold on!" Ms. Tako suddenly stood up and cried, "I'm not a Ville, I'm a Mini Mato!"

It looked like she had blurted out her secret on accident, but what's the difference between a Ville and a Mini Mato?

I'm just a scanner with no real feelings though, what do I know.

**Background Story (II): Research assisstant.**

Gaia was the one that arranged for Tako to come be an assistant in the laboratory. I'm not interested in the reason why, she's a little dummy but she never has a problem finishing manual labor tasks.

Gaia had a very serious conversation with me about this, though: it was at Tako's own request because she doesn't want any of the other Leapers— especially Owen— to discover her true identity, otherwise she'll be taken away and used to make sauces for cooking.

Hmm.... Is this how the organisms on other planets think? Such a plentiful imagination, it seems a shame to waste it on anything other than science.

Also, from the first day she arrived everyone in Base knew she was a Ville.

I'm curious as to why the intelligent Ville of MR-237 and the totally unintelligent chili peppers of Earth have the same flavor?

Now there's something worth looking into, hahahahaha!

**Background Story (III): Sweet and aromatic.**

Ms. Tako smells sweet and aromatic, how can I describe it.... Anyway, Eggzy likes! But Ms. Tako doesn't wanna talk about it, hmph- No biggie, Eggzy can sneak into her room and find out her secret! All that was in Ms. Tako's room was a few bright red bottles with a sign drawn on them that meant Don't Touch. Like anyone would ever believe that, I think I found her secret!

Aaaaaugh—!!! So spice, so spice! What is this stuff!

"It's concentrated spicy flavor, anyone who touches it mightgethurt—augh, so spicy!" Ms. Tako got carried away and started talking too fast, then she bit her own tongue and got spiced too.

"Because the spicy flavor is constantly being extracted, she smells sweet." Doctor Wood looked at me super seriously and said, "You won't die, just wait there."

Whoo.... I think I prefer the sweet, nice-smelling Ms. Tako!

**Background Story (IV): Being in the sun.**

Ms. Tako often comes to rest with me— oh right, I'm everyone's favorite solar battery station, most of the energy used at Base is provided by me and my brothers.

I'm getting off topic. Everyone knows Ms. Tako loves to hang out in the sun, and this is the place with the most sunlight In all of Base. What's strange is, sometimes she runs here, panting for breath, and frantically tries to climb up to the control tower. She's missed the handrail several times and fallen down onto me... not that I feel any pain from it.

So I started to make some observations.

In the end, I found that every time Ms. Tako starts climbing up the tower I can hear the sound of Ms. Owen in the distance saying something about helping her with some kind of sauce.... Don't know what that's about.

Every time Ms. Tako hides under the electrical boards part of her head sticks out though— does she really not know?

This can't just be about finding some the sunlight....

**Background Story (V): Biggest dream**

I was once the greatest of the arena gladiators, I still remember the cheers of the crowd and the roast meat served to us fighters. Such incredible memories!

I heard Ms. Tako is also from Becue, no wonder she has a familiar smell about her.... She even smells like my favorite steak house!
 "It's just regular steak...." That's what Ms. Tako said when I asked her.

Looks like she doesn't have any special feelings for roast meat, which was the greatest thing on our planet.

"Ms. Leonlev is the greatest gladiator, I totally worship you! My biggest dream is to take a picture with you!"

That's great, but my biggest dream is to taste that wonderful roast meat again....

"Awesome! We can take a picture— and even hug!"

Wait a second— charging over and just doing it is cheating!