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Matsumura Sakine’s point of view
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When I entered the yo-yo fishing room, I found several yo-yo fishing spots lined up in a row.
I could see that people who had already solved the riddles were already trying to solve them.
I also took onii chan and onee chan by the hand and headed for an empty yo-yo fishing spot.
“Welcome to the yo-yo fishing area~. The amulet is white. I’ll take 300 yen as a challenge fee! I’ll explain about yo-yo fishing.”
The man at the yo-yo fishing stall checked the color of the amulet I was holding and began to explain about yo-yo fishing.
“As you can see, the yo-yo fishing here is divided into two groups, left and right, by a partition. YO! Each yo-yo has a letter written on it, and there is one set for each tank on the left and right. When you take the set, you’ll be left with three yo-yos! Please tell me the old story you can imagine based on the letters on the remaining yo-yos! By the way, the color of the yo-yos doesn’t matter!”
The letters on the yo-yo in the tank on the right
ice, box, smoke, turtle, grass, dog
Yo-yo characters in the tank on the left
Stick, crane, silence, sea, bowl
“Which one and which one is the set?”
“Ah, got it! It’s a dog and a stick! And the turtle and the crane!”
“Why?”
“Because when a dog walks, it hits a stick, right? Cranes live a thousand years, turtles live ten thousand.”
“You’re so smart onee chan!”
I tried to take the dog, the stick, the crane and the turtle yo-yo just like she said, but onii chan interrupted me.
“Wait a minute. Then you won’t be able to continue.”
“Eh? No? I don’t get it then.~”
“It’s so hard.”
“Don’t you have a clue? Hint.”
Onee chan, having been denied her own answer, half-heartedly asks the waiter for a hint.
“Oh, I forgot, here is a hint for the set!”
The clerk handed her a piece of paper with the following information on it.
Cotton candy – disharmony
Milk – words
Anger – can
Dizziness – storehouse
Cough – navy blue
Soda Sign – Language
Bee – Sentence.
“Another lot of kanji. Sakine can’t read it.”
“I’ll help you, so use hiragana and write the reading kana on a piece of paper. Wataame”
“Watashi ame.”
“Fuwa.”
“Fuwa.”
I followed her instructions, repeating back the kanji that she read to me and writing furigana as she told me.
“Gyunyu”
“Gyunyu.”
“Goku.”
“Goku”
“Okoru”
“Okoru”
“Kan.”
“Kan…”
“Naruhodo (I understand)”
“Naruho …….Hee?”
“Naruho ……. Eh?”
We were listening to the exchange and we were caught off guard by the words of onii chan and turned to him with surprised eyes.
“I understand. What and what will be included in the set”
“Really?!”
“Don’t tell me the answer yet! Give me a hint, a hint!”
I wanted to solve the puzzle myself, so instead of asking onii chan for the answer, I asked him for a hint.
“Well, I guess the easiest way to figure it out is with soda.”
“Soda and sign language?”
“Yeah. What else is soda called? When I explain it to little kids, for example.”
“Soda~…… sizzling!”
“Yes! Sign language sign language.”
“I get it!”
After getting a hint from my brother, which I thought was the answer, I turned my attention back to the tank with the yo-yo in it.
The yo-yo in the tank on the right reads
Ice, box, smoke, turtle, grass, dog
The yo-yo characters in the tank on the left
stick, crane, silence, sea, bowl
“The dog is a bowl because it’s a dog!”
“Then, the smoke is a crane, so it’s a bowl.”
“The grass is very sticky, so it’s a bowl.”
“Ice is smooth, so crane.”
“Then what’s left?”
“The box, the turtle, and the sea. What are the three old stories that come to mind with these three?”
Onii chan told me that and I remembered an old tale.
Turtle, box, sea…As I kept calling them out in my head, one of the old tales came to mind.
“Urashima Taro!”
“The correct answer will be rewarded with a yo-yo and a piece of your favorite candy from this box. And here is a ticket for a lucky draw!”
With these words, we each received a yo-yo and a candy of our choice.
“Next, you can go to the fruit candy shop.”
“You should go to the candy fruit shop next!
“The map says the candy store is one class over.”
“Well, let’s go there.”
And so we successfully solved the second riddle and headed to the candy store room, where the next riddle was to be found.
(TL/N : I don’t understand these chapters at all lmao)
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