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Ring Toss
Nord-tousan asked me to explain the entertainment ideas I told them, so I explained the ideas I came up with simply.
It’s just that, they were able to understand what kind of games they are but they will not know the exact fun it gives you. Especially the entertainments like ring toss and small fish scooping.
That’s certainly true in a sense. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Words alone can’t describe how fun the game is when someone asks what kind of fun can you feel by throwing a ring at the target. And so, by actually demonstrating how to play it in the courtyard, I decided to let them experience the fun of playing the actual thing.
When I go out to the courtyard everyone also follows me in succession.
While being subjected to the peculiar gazes of everyone, I cast Earth magic on a suitably sandy area.
I created a simple square board and created the supports for the board so that it would tilt diagonally.
「What’s that? That looks like a table with missing legs 」
Immediately after I made that, Eleonora-neesan - who was behind me - said that like she was mocking the shape. What an interesting example, a table with a missing leg.
Indeed, if someone were to see it, they would think that it looks like it lost its leg on one side and fell down to the side.
While chuckling at Eleonora-neesan’s sensibility, I divide the table into a grid of nine squares and raise pegs at the center of those nine squares.
Then from the upper left corner of the square table, I make numbers 1, 2, and 3, and then I make the ring with Earth magic for throwing and it’s complete.
「There, it’s done!」
After I said that aloud, everyone who had been watching from afar came over.
「You made it with Earth magic in an instant. Don’t you think you can make a living with just this?」
「I also think so」
Elna-kaasan and Nord-tousan said something like that, but I have no plan of working.
No matter how successful I can go down that path, working in it would still take me off the path of my future plan.
I’m fine with earning money from reversi, table tennis, and spaghetti without doing anything.
Oh well, it would be great if I could sell something as a hobby again this time. Yeah, but that’s with the assumption that I don’t get to sell them myself. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「So, I just have to throw this ring to those pegs?」
「Un, if you manage to throw onto the pegs, then the numbers written there will be your score. You play it against another and the one with the most points will win」
「Heeー, fine I’ll try playing so you be my opponent」
「Sure」
Eleonora-neesan challenges me full of confidence, so I accept it.
Or rather, it won’t go smoothly from here if I - as the one who came up with the idea - don’t show how to play it.
When I nodded to her, Eleonora-neesan took half of the rings on my arm.
Even if she always complains about something or another, it looks like she still wants to try it first.
And when Eleonora-neesan arrived in front of the stand, she turned around to look at me.
「This, where do you throw them from?」
「Hーm, around five meters should be just the right distance」
I also approach the stand to measure the sense of distance.
It has to be at the right distance, not too close or not too far.
「Don’t you think it’s close?」
「This is enough for the start. If it’s too easy then we can just make it farther from the target」
Maybe Eleonora-neesan accepted that reason for now since after I said that, she moved five meters away from the target and stood there.
「Then, you can throw five times」
If we were going to follow the official rules, there are specific details where you can throw it nine times for each person or align the rings vertically for fifteen points, but we will keep it simple this time.
And allowing each person to throw nine times is too long. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Well then, I’ll start」
Eleonora-neesan took one ring and then she threw it as it flew horizontally.
The ring that flew while maintaining stability hit and bounced off a single square in the upper left corner.
「Aaaahh! It got bounced off!」
「Well, the ring will just get bounced away if you throw it strongly」
It’s not like a shuriken or a frisbee, so if you strongly throw it like that, it will definitely get bounced off.
Since it’s a ring toss, you will think that it will be fine to use the snapping motion of your wrist to throw the ring, but that’s actually wrong.
The trick is to hold the ring around the front at the center of your body and throw the ring as if you’re pushing it away.
「R, right. Then, I will adjust the throw slightly before throwing it」
Taking her previous mistake as a lesson, Eleonora-neesan throws the ring while adjusting her strength.
Although, she still throws it like the previous one where she used the snap of her wrist.
The ring didn’t hit the pegs as it hit an empty space and bounced off.
「Ahahaha, you missed it despite being so confident」
「……hey, can I move farther than this?」
I thought she would stamp her feet in frustration at my provocation, but Eleonora-neesan only said that to me calmly.
「Sure, it’s fine though?」
The farther you move away from the target, the greater your distance and the ring will get more air resistance, making it more difficult. There shouldn’t be any meaning in throwing from farther away.
While I look at her in doubt, Eleonora-neesan moves farther away www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
The distance between her and the target now seems to be around twenty meters.
I wonder if it’s something that can be thrown from such a distance.
And when I was having such doubts, Eleonora-neesan started to make the same motion from earlier.
With a solemn expression, she throws the ring in her right hand flying with a snap of her wrist.
The sharply flying ring didn’t waver in the slightest as it flew straight and went into the peg in the upper left side.
「It went in!」
「Haa, what the heck was that!?」
「What? I just have to put the ring into the peg with the numbers on it, right?」
「U, un, that’s true, but......」
This is different from the ring toss that I know of.
「It looks difficult trying to throw the ring onto the peg from such a distance」
「I feel like I will not be able to reach the peg if I throw it」
Elna-kaasan, Syvlio-niisan, please don’t misunderstand the game.
That’s not the correct ring toss game.
「In any case, now I have one point! Next, I will be aiming to get a high score of nine points!」
Eleonora-neesan continues to throw the rings, aiming for the nine points in the lower right.
It’s a difficult place since if you’re bad at it, then the ring will just get bounced off when it hits the ground or other pegs. Nevertheless, Eleonora-neesan still managed to throw her ring cleanly onto it.
Then she continues to throw the third one and the fourth one.
It’s like I’m watching circus acrobatics.
Even though it should have been more difficult when you used the snap of your wrist to control it.
And then, the last throw.
The ring Eleonora-neesan released flies straight ahead.
And, just when we thought that the ring would completely loop onto the peg again, but I guess it’s because the peg already has rings on it, that newest ring got bounced off. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Ahhー mou! Why did it get bounced off like that!」
「That’s because the farther you are from the target, the more force the ring will naturally have 」
Eleonora-neesan stamps her feet, looking vexed.
It looks like she is very frustrated she can’t make the last ring go onto the peg.
It seems like she really underestimated a ring toss, but she appears to become completely engrossed after she tried it.
「Eleonora, how many points did you get?」
Elna-kaasan suddenly asked a math question when I was watching Eleonora-neesan with a wry smile on my face.
「Eee…………twenty eight points」
「Just now, there was a long pause, right?」
「That, that’s because kaasan asked me so suddenly so I was just surprised!」
Considering the situation, I feel like quite a bit of time has passed.
Eleonora-neesan becomes a little flustered when Elna-kaasan sharply stares at her.
「Then, it’s my turn next」
Since Eleonora-neesan finished throwing five rings, it is now my turn.
Although, the rings stuck on the pegs are in the way, I collect them from the pegs with Psychic magic.
Then I gave it to Sylvio-niisan, who seemed to want to touch it for some reason.
And then, Nord-tousan and Elna-kaasan - who were standing restlessly nearby - also gathered and started to touch the rings.
Seeing adults holding the rings with great interest is heartwarming.
After I’m ready, I move five meters away from the peg stand.
I then drew a line on the ground and used it as a reference.
Immediately after that, Eleonora-neesan calls out sounding unhappy.
「You’re throwing from that close?」
「We normally should throw from this distance, you know」
Eleonora-neesan who managed to make a long throw like before is the ridiculous one. Rather, the ring toss I suggested is not like that. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I hold the ring in front of the center part of my body while my right foot is facing the stand. Then I throw the ring as if pushing the ring slightly and diagonally upward.
Then, gently flew and then fell onto the ninth square peg with a thump.
I just have to repeat that four more times.
And when I threw them, all four of the rings also fell onto the ninth square peg as though they were being sucked in.
「There, I got forty-five points in total. This is my overwhelming victory」
Fuh, I have always been good at obtaining toys at the street stand since a long time ago.
I might be lacking in my athletic ability compared to Eleonora-neesan, but our experience in ring toss is different.
And when I directed a smug look at her, Eleonora-neesan approached me.
「Hey just what was that! How could the rings land so easily like that! You’re cheating using that Psychic again, didn’t you!?」
「I didn’t. This is my real ability」
Good grief, to doubt me for using magic, what a sad thing it is. Even though I usually fight fair and square.
「Eii! Ara, it landed nicely. Six points」
「Oh, me too. Five points」
「Ahaha, mine got bounced off」
Looking to the side, there were Elna-kaasan, Nord-tousan, and Sylvio-niisan tossing the rings.
As long as they’re having fun doing it, guess the reactions are not bad.
If anything, they seem to be peacefully competing for who gets the most points after throwing the ring and picking them.
「I thought it was just throwing rings onto the pegs and I don’t understand what fun is in doing that, but it is surprisingly fun when you try it like this」
「This will also make you naturally calculate your points, making this a good game to educate the villagers in numbers」
「Even small children can play something like this」
Hmm, there is certainly that part of aspect in the game. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Still, it is a game deeply rooted in my previous life’s society, so I guess there are all sorts of good things about it.
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