Two stops away from Kameka Station, you can reach the newly opened video game arcade that Akemi Miyano said.

Super Player is the name of this arcade located in Rice Flower Town.

Fujiwara Yu looked up at the shop signs that flashed neon lights during the day, and he was a little worried about the boss's monthly profits of the store, whether he would not even make back the commercial electricity consumption.

But when the auto-sensor door opens, you're greeted by deafening music, passionate howls from players, and no idea what game they're playing that would make everyone shout as if no one else was around.

Fujiwara Yoshi was in such an environment, and when he walked to the bar, he couldn't help but raise his voice and asked loudly:

"How much in-game currency do you think is appropriate for us?"

"This store doesn't use in-game currency." Akemi Miyano stretched out her hand and pointed to the poster next to her, and explained with a smile: "It seems that you can just use a hundred yen coins, and one is a game, which is quite cheap." ”

"So, what do you want to play?"

After thinking for a moment, Miyano Akemi's eyes fell on the place where many couples gathered, she raised her hand and pointed to the whole row of crane machines, and proposed:

"Why don't we go and catch the doll, who catches more of the five coins in the competition?"

"Yes."

The two came to the claw catching area, and before they put in the coin, they heard the girl next to them praise their boyfriend, because her boyfriend seemed to have a talent in catching dolls, and it could be seen from the dolls piled up into a hill next to them that their record was very good.

Fujiwara, who was inexplicably eager to win, was as serious as the last additional question in the exam, and he tightened his brows and began to look around the claw machine, in order to calculate the best gripping angle and grasping time with the naked eye.

"Fujiwara-kun, what are you doing?" Akemi Miyano tilted her head suspiciously, she didn't understand why Fujiwara wanted to look at the crane machine from multiple angles, so she asked out loud.

"After calculating the optimal gripping angle and time, well, it should be fine."

Fujiwara Yu, who had been calculating in his head, finally threw the 100 yen coin into the machine, and after his own calculations, he quickly pressed the grab button when he reached the appropriate aiming position, his hands folded around his chest, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and the word "confidence" was written all over his face.

The claws did grasp the rabbit doll closest to the exit very accurately, but the claws that Fujiwara didn't expect were so small that they couldn't bear the weight of the doll, and even a slight shake during the movement caused the doll to fall.

The faint smile on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by wondering.

Akemi Miyano, who was standing next to him, covered her mouth and snickered, she really didn't expect the deflated Fujiwara-kun to be quite cute.

Fujiwara Yu didn't expect the grasping force of this game machine to be so small, and he began to calculate the inertia of the object and what kind of way to make the doll successfully transport it to the exit, and after his brain was running rapidly, he shot again.

But reality is often the opposite of ideals, and the failure of the brace gave him a taste of the Waterloo called "reality", and the final answer was that all five coins failed, and all the money was lost.

"Can you give me another chance?"

"Okay, give Fujiwara-kun one more chance, I'll catch it with you."

"Hmm."

Fujiwara Yu tightened his brows and took a deep breath and sighed slowly, he took out the high concentration that he would only have when he shot an arrow, and made reasonable use of the physics knowledge he had learned to shoot again, but what he was waiting for was the sixth failure.

Is this crane machine a pit man? Isn't it impossible to catch something?

Just when Fujiwara Yoo's thoughts erupted, he felt that something poked his arm twice, and he looked sideways in confusion to find a cute tiger doll in his field of vision, and the owner holding the tiger doll was Saito Masami, who was in a hurry.

“…… Did you catch it? ”

"yes, I thought I didn't catch it, but who knew that I was lucky to touch the one at the entrance when I fell!"

Is this the difference between a European emperor and a non-chief? Fujiwara Yu, who had always encountered cases before, didn't think it was his bad luck, but now a claw machine made him want to go to the shrine to ask for a guard to get bad luck.

Akemi Miyano smiled at the corner of her mouth, but she didn't continue to catch it, but pointed to the King of Fighters arcade machine on the side with satisfaction, wanting to save a little face for Fujiwara Yo, but the result was not satisfactory.

Originally, Akemi Miyano thought that Fujiwara Yoo was just a little unlucky, but I didn't expect that he was not good at playing games at all, and even the battle-type fighting arcade games that boys were basically good at were hard to say - I really didn't expect Fujiwara-kun to be a game black hole.

She noticed early on that Fujiwara Yoshi, who had a straight back, was so decadent that he was hunched back after losing again and again, like a Tokumu who wanted to show his strength and kept losing in the game, so she couldn't help but raise her hand and gently rub his head twice, and this action also made the opponent's body stiff.

The slightly intimate gesture made Fujiwara's ears flush, and he blinked his eyes quickly as much as he could, so that his voice did not sound trembling, and asked softly:

"What's wrong? Is there anything dirty in my hair? ”

"Ah...... Well, there's a fly. Akemi Miyano withdrew her hand in time, and said with a little embarrassment in her tone: "I feel like I've been playing here for a long time, otherwise I'll go to the nearby Rice Flower Shrine?" I'm kind of tempted to go over there and buy an omamori. ”

"Okay, it just so happens that the smell of smoke here is a bit strong, and it's not good for your health to stay for a long time." Fujiwara Yu couldn't help cheering in his heart, and secretly made up his mind to find a way to play all the facilities in the video game hall, and even had the urge to recharge the VIP, so that he could find the home field here in the future.

After the two of them left the smoky video game hall, they finally breathed fresh air, and even the noise in their ears was eliminated, so that people didn't have to raise their voices to chat, and if they stayed any longer, they might have hoarse throats.

Walking along the 3-chome road all the way north to the largest shrine in Rice Flower Town, Rice Flower Shrine, standing at the T-junction waiting for the traffic light, Miyano Akemi suddenly noticed that the plastic bag in the grandmother's hand across the street was leaking, and one after another oranges fell, she hurriedly ran forward when the red light turned green, and bent down to help pick up the grandmother's oranges.

"Grandma! Your oranges have fallen! ”

The gray-haired grandmother couldn't help but turn around, and when she saw the young men and girls standing behind her who kept bending down to help pick up oranges, she smiled embarrassedly and said:

"Oh, thank you for helping me!"

"You're welcome." After Fujiwara Yu quickly helped pick up the oranges, he looked around to make sure that nothing was missed before saying, "Grandma, where do you live, let's give you a ride." ”

"I'm sorry, I live in an apartment building over there."

Akemi Miyano also took out the cloth bag on the outside of the lunch box from her bag, put all the oranges in it, and said with a smile:

"That way it won't leak, grandma, you lead the way."