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Matsumura Sakine’s point of view
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When we entered the candy fruit room, we found the same stalls lined up in the same way as at the yo-yo fishing event, and even music that we had heard sometime before.
There were fewer people there than before, but those who were ahead of us were already working on solving the riddles.
We headed for the empty stalls so as not to fall behind.
“I have a pineapple candy. I have an apple candy~Pineapple Apple Skewer ……”
We instinctively backed away from this outdated joke when the owner stopped us.
“…. Don’t do that. Sorry, sorry, I guess this is out of fashion. “
“So what’s the mystery here?”
“This is the mystery of the candy fruit stall. This stall sells three kinds of candy fruits (apple, pineapple, and grape), and I want you to arrange eight of them neatly on these four rows and two columns of shelves. The numbers are not always equal. How about it? Are you up for the challenge?”
“Sure!”
“Then, I’ll take 300 yen for the challenge.”
Onii chan handed the rim to the stall owner, and we immediately began to solve the riddle.
“Can I put them together in any way I want?”
“I don’t think so, because then it wouldn’t be a riddle. ……”
“What is the order?”
While I was thinking about it, I looked again at the table where the fruit candy was lined up, and noticed that each of the holes pointing to the fruit candy had some sort of pattern drawn on them.
“Onii chan onee chan! There is a pattern near the hole!”
“That’s right.”
“I wonder if this is a clue.”
1123
3121.
“1123, 3121?”
“Some kind of number?”
Here it simmered down.
It had been about five minutes since we arrived at the candy store.
Then the manager of the candy store interrupted us.
“Don’t you understand? I’ll give you a hint~. the layout of the store and the fairgrounds.
Take a look around.”
“Layout and venue?”
“Yes, I think the important thing about candy fruits is their delicious colors.”
We reconsidered the hint.
The layout probably means the pattern corresponding to the holes, but I don’t know the venue of the fair.
Is color important?
“Fruits come in red, yellow, and purple.”
“Red, yellow, purple.”
“I think I’ve seen this lineup somewhere.~”
Onii chan looked at me with his eyes wide open, as if he had solved the mystery.
“Where was it?~”
My brother looked at my hand and said to me, “Where was it?”
In my right hand I have a yo-yo and the candy I got that time.
In my left hand is a lottery ticket……
[I wonder what it is. There is a lottery, but it seems strange. I understand that the first prize is gold and the losers are white, but the second and third prizes are red and purple]
“A lottery!”
“Fortune draw?”
“You said so yourself Onee chan. You said, ‘There are lottery, but it’s strange. I understand that the first prize is gold and the losers are white, but the second and third prizes are red and purple'”
“Sakine-chan is right! The colors of the candy fruits are related to the three colors of the fukubiki, and if you match the colors according to the number of the patterns on the candy fruit stand, you can probably solve the mystery.”
“I see!”
Onee chan was also convinced by Onii chan’s explanation, and we all proceeded to line up the candy fruits on the stall.
“Pineapple, pineapple, apple, grape.”
“Grapes, pineapple, apple, pineapple!”
“Whoa, I see you’ve finished arranging everything. Let’s see, ……! All of them are right! Good job. Well then, each one of you can take a piece of your favorite fruit candy! And here’s your lottery ticket.”
Onee chan and I chose the apple candy, and onee chan chose the grape candy.
“Next, you should go to the shooting range.”
We headed for the shooting range.
At the target-shooting parlor, Onii chan paid 300 yen and solved the mystery in no time with his shooting skills and flash of inspiration.
The shopkeeper was surprised, onii chan gave me and onee chan toys as prizes with a natural look
I guess we solved the three riddles faster than we had expected, so the clerk stopped us before we could do the lottery to make sure we were in line with the others, and we had to wait a little while.
“We did it, onii chan”
“Yes! You did well too, Sakine-chan!”
“I’m not good at all.”
“That’s not true. I know this is the last mystery, but there are still 100 rims left over from the entrance. I wonder where they are going to use them.”
“Isn’t it for just in case?”
“I wonder if that’s so.~”
Onii chan floated such a small question, but I was curious about the money box next to the lucky draw.
“Onee chan onii chan. Let’s make a wish!”
They seemed to think my suggestion was a good way to pass the time.
“Since we’re here, let’s put in this 100 yen as a donation, shall we?”
“I agree. It would be a waste if we don’t use it.”
“Sakine wants to put it in!”
After receiving the 100 yen from Onii chan, I threw the coin into the money box.
After the sound of the coins colliding with the cardboard, we all bowed in unison, two cheers and one bow, and made our request.
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