The Challenge

**The Challenge** is the twenty-first installment in *Silylily - The Story*.

## Summary

CUL notices Gumi, Lily, and kokone have problems obsessing over carrots, honey, and chocolate respectively. She challenges them to see who can go the longest without eating their favorite food, promising the winner a letter of recommendation from her sister for the newest vocal-synth program, Synth V. Later, at a honey bar, Lily is tempted by the bartender to order "Honey Plus," but she sees a disguised CUL watching from afar and turns it down. She watches Winnie the Pooh tear into a honey pot beside her and cusses him out.

At home, kokone struggles when she sees Ryuto and Gakupo eating chocolate, learning that a chocolate factory is having a "free chocolate day." Meanwhile, Gumi eats a carrot without a second thought, causing her to be eliminated from the challenge. Now against one another, Lily and kokone tempt the other by consuming products that the other must avoid. Lily eats chocolate, chocolate cake, and buys a chocolate factory while kokone eats honey, uses honey shampoo, and buys a bee farm. Ultimately, Lily goes to get chocolate from the source by obtaining cocoa beans. kokone attempts to replicate it by approaching a beehive, but Lily observes she is not trained in stealing honey from hives. Two bees notice kokone trying to steal their honey and they unleash a swarm on her. Lily jumps in to save kokone from an onslaught of angry bees.

Later, the wounded Lily and kokone rest on a couch just as CUL arrives to tell them Synth V does not accept letters of recommendation. She hurries off, cackling to herself about how she made Lily and kokone invade the beehive. A couple bees overhear this and decide to unleash a swarm on her. CUL is attacked by bees while Gumi approaches Lily and kokone. Gumi tells them they should have followed her example and did what they wanted to do. Lily and kokone realize the error of giving up what they love to impress other people, so they agree to never repeat the same mistake. They toast a bottle of honey and a glass of chocolate milk and drink to their agreement, but kokone is the first to take a sip, causing Lily to declare herself the winner.

## Characters

* CUL
* Gumi
* kokone
* Lily from anim.o.v.e
* ROSA *(Mentioned)*
* Bartender *(Debut; Unseen)*
* Winnie the Pooh *(Debut)*
* Ryuto
* Kamui Gakupo
* Buzz the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee *(Debut)*
* Rumor Honeybottoms *(Debut)*
* The Bees *(Debut)*

## Trivia

* "Honey Plus" is a reference to "Milk Plus" from *A Clockwork Orange*. The bartender's dialogue is also stylized to parody the dialogue from it.
* The admin of silylilyanimove has claimed this comic to be their favorite.
* The bees that attack kokone, Lily, and CUL are the bees from *Minecraft*.
* The chocolate cake Lily eats is the same chocolate cake from *Portal*.
* The "chocolate factory" Lily buys is the factory from the cover of *Animals* by Pink Floyd.
* The first page of this comic was once remade to replace the characters with the cast of *Breaking Bad*.
* The two bees that notice kokone are the Honey Nut Cheerios mascot and a boss from *Cuphead*.
* This is the final installment in the "Comic Streak," where four continuous comics were posted four days in a row.
* While eating chocolate, Ryuto describes it as being poisonous to him. This is a reference to a line in An Intelligent Conversation where he says "choccy milk is poisonous to me."