Dagashi Kashi 32

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32nd Sweet: Kendama

TL note: A kendama is a traditional Japanese wooden toy, with which you can play a kind of cup-and-ball game.


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…….Oh…
You must be joking again…

sfx: sigh
sfx: shake shake
……

No, I’m serious! It’s really popular right now!
……

Especially amongst young people on the streets of Harajuku! All the hip-hop kids!

All the hip-hop kids in Harajuku…
are playing Kendama…



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……

You’re lying!! There’s no way that can be true!!
I’m not lying!! It’s really popular!!

If it were popular, we would be selling more of them at our store!!
Packages: Kendama
1300 yen
Ack…! He’s got a point…!!
And they’re more expensive than I thought.

Those have been sitting there since I was little.
…So if they sell…

Hm?
…then you’d believe me…?

No way, Tou-kun…!!
If I bought them, you’d believe me!?



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Please give me two of them. (One for you, too.)

“I thought he was just joking and that he’d give up soon. But he’s not”, Kokonotsu thought. You shouldn’t underestimate a man’s determination.
That’s what it means to be a real man…

That’ll be 2600 yen… yen… yen…
sign: Shikata dagashi
Tou-kun only has 200 yen left now.

sign: Shikata dagashi
……

There!


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……

…Wait a minute. It’s too early to decide whether this is fun or not…
I haven’t said anything yet, so why’d you answer me!!?

It’s… not really about having “fun” or not… But isn’t this too hard…?
That’s strange… It looked really cool and easy on the videos I saw online.

What’d they do in the videos?
Hmm… They’d hold the ball like this…
Throw up the body…

and catch it in the hole of the ball…


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Gyaaaaaah!!

Tou-kun!!
……Ow!!


Anyways… They did tricks like that…
sfx: smile
sfx: throb throb
I don’t get it!! And your finger is bent in a weird way!!

Oh, there you are.

Saya-chan.
Hi.


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Why’re you here?
No reason. I’m not here to see you, at least.
Isn’t Hotaru-san coming today…?

Oh.
That’s a kendama!
Y-yeah… Wanna play?

I used to play kendama all the time when I was little.

sfx: tap tap tap
It’s pretty easy once you get used to it.

Hey, I think I can still do it.
Wooooow!! That’s so coooool, Saya-chan!!


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Huh… It’s popular again?
How’d she do that?
sign: dagashi
Apparently, yeah.

Tou-kun just came to the store and bought some.
What?

I’m sure we have some in a drawer at home…
Kendama, I mean.

…….Oh, I just really wanted a new one.

He spent almost all of his money on new kendama, but got bored of playing with them after 3 days.