While investigating a terrible incident, Minako becomes Soulbound to Sasuke Uchiha because of an ancient spell.
𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙥𝙖𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨:
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• Kingyo sukui - (also called Scooping Goldfish) a traditional Japanese game in which a player scoops goldfish with a special scooper which is usually made of paper.
• Sunagimo - a traditional Japanese yakitori dish made with chicken gizzards. Chicken gizzards are placed on skewers, then grilled until fully done. The taste of sunagimo is often described as crispy, yet tender, while the flavors are generally mild.
• Tanzaku strips - colorful strips of paper where handwritten wishes are written by those who celebrate Tanabata and hung on bamboo to offer to the gods.
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I should have left right away but leaving two elderly women to set up the stall seemed like an ill-mannered thing to do. That's why I decided to help them put the cloth banners on their stall and set up their posters and signboards. It's not because I care about what happens to these people. No. Helping them benefits me and that's why I am doing it.
Espionage entails that one assimilates with one's surroundings. One must appear to belong and have a legitimate purpose in the area where one operates in order to add credibility to one's disguise. Helping out makes me appear like I am part of this crowd which in turn will dissuade others to doubt my identity.
But now that I've put in the work, I think now is as good a time as any to reap the rewards and get on my way. It's the perfect time to do it. Grandma Ai just left to talk to the organizers of the contest. Naga has run off to play kingyo sukui with the other children that he made friends with. I only have to worry about this odd woman with me who is grating on my nerves.
I have enough self-awareness to know I tend to talk a lot at times. But this woman is an absolute chatterbox. Thirty minutes in -- while we're minding the stall -- she's already made it a point to tell me all about the origins of Tanabata.
She rambled on and on about how Tanabata is about a weaver deity named Orihime who married a cow herder deity named Hikoboshi. The two were apparently so in love that they stopped working because they wanted to spend every waking hour together. Orihime's father separated them because of it but promised they can meet once a year -- the 7th day of the 7th month. But they can't meet if it rains because of some magpies and they wait another year. I am not sure if I got that correctly.
