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“-and then everyone started screaming,” Saki shares, incredibly enthusiastically.
Emu gasps, perfectly in sync. “No!”
“Yes!” Saki responds.
Shiho quite literally rolls her eyes to the ceiling. “You’re so dramatic, Saki.”
“And that’s why you love me!” she responds proudly. Shiho doesn’t seem to have a response to that.
Sensing a lull in the conversation, Minori steps in. “How are my favorite band members- uh, I mean, band members and theater troupe members- band members and theater troupe member? Ugh! Why is grammar so hard?”
Emu beams. “That’s okay, Minori! We totally understood what you were trying to say! Also, I could be considered part of a band, since we sing sometimes!”
“That’s true!” Minori responds, already feeling a little better. “Anyway, how are my favorite people doing today?”
Shiho mumbles something about ‘too much positivity in one place’ and walks away.
“Oh, we’re doing great!” Saki exclaims cheerfully. Emu nods along. “How about you, Minori?”
“Oh, I’m great as well!” Minori responds without a thought.
Everyone stares at each other for a second, identical wide smiles on their faces.
(Maybe Shiho has a point.)
“Ah! I was just telling Emu about my experience at The Great Escape with Shiho, Ichika and Honami. Would you like to hear about it as well?” Saki asks.
“What’s The Great Escape?”
“It’s this giiiiiiiant building that has a bunch of escape rooms! They lock everyone in a room together, and you solve these clues to get out!” Emu answers, making motions with her hands as if to measure out how large the place is.
“That sounds fun, but a little scary…” Minori mutters, hesitantly.
“It won’t be, don’t worry! Especially if you have unflappable Haruka and determined Airi on your team!” Saki responds earnestly.
Minori steadfastly ignores the instant blush on her face that appears at the mere mention of Haruka’s name and continues the conversation. “So you think I should go with them?” Minori wonders. “Hmm… I don’t know if my teammates would agree, though.”
“Hmmm… Tell them it’s a ‘teambuilding activity!’ Rui told me about that phrase, and actually, Tsukasa always agrees to join when we mention it!!” Emu adds cheerfully.
“That’s true,” Minori agrees. “We could even vlog it! It’d be really cool for our fans to see us doing that.”
“I’d definitely watch it!” Saki exclaims. Emu nods vigorously in agreement.
“Now, there’s only one problem,” Minori muses. “Shizuku. If we brought her to an escape room with clues, she’d probably end up breaking half of its contents!”
“I’m sure you’ll be alright!” Emu encourages. “If she has to focus, she might mess up less?”
And with that, it’s decided. Minori quickly makes plans to take her idol group to the Great Escape in two days.
“Minori, you know I trust you,” Haruka says hesitantly, “but are you sure this is safe?”
After some in-depth online sleuthing (read: looking at Leo/need’s Instagram page), Minori had found the exact Great Escape location they had gone to and booked a different room of the same difficulty there.
“Yes, I’m sure!” Minori responds, eager to soothe Haruka’s worried expression. Then she reconsiders. “Maybe. Probably?”
“It’s fine,” Airi juts in. “Never fear, because Airi’s here!”
“And Shizuku!” Shizuku adds excitedly, smashing her fist into the air and almost knocking it into a decorative tree.
“Well, she gets points for effort,” Airi mutters, aggravated but fond.
“This is a good opportunity for us to vlog,” Haruka pipes up softly. “This was very surprising to me, since usually fans want to see their idols as perfect and untouchable, but our followers seem to really want snapshots of our humanity. Doing random activities like this is perfect to showcase that.”
They keep up an idle stream of chatter until they reach their destination, mostly about various riddles they’ve encountered in the past and how to deal with those. Airi is absolutely determined to ‘win this escape room,’ and Minori knows Haruka, while she’ll never say it, is very much a perfectionist as well.
Shizuku (and those darn long legs, as Airi puts it) reaches the door first, pushing it open- and promptly accidentally slamming it into the wall on the side. The whole wall rattles and a clock that had been hung on it falls to the floor.
“Oops!” she exclaims, bending over to pick it up- and letting go of the door in the process, which causes it to promptly slam into Airi’s face as she tries to enter.
Minori giggles in the background- then promptly trips over Airi as she’s facing recoil from the impact, falling to the floor. They quickly form an indistinguishable Minori-Airi heap, struggling to untangle themselves as Haruka watches in morbid curiosity.
Shizuku, once she recovers from her shock, quickly leans forward to help.
“Shizuku, no-”
She promptly trips and joins the heap.
Haruka steps neatly over them and walks up to the man at the front desk, holding out her hand to shake. Or, at least, Minori assumes she does, since all she can see at the moment is the back of Airi’s elbow and Shizuku’s left thigh.
Minori starts to painstakingly untangle herself from the group, only to tumble back in when Airi attempts to yank her hair out of where it’s tangled in Minori’s pants. The resulting momentum causes her to roll into Shizuku, who has been trying to sit up. She proceeds to get knocked down like a bowling pin.
At this point, the whole establishment, minus Haruka and the man at the front desk, is staring at them. Some idols they are.
Somehow, after much bickering and hair-pulling, they manage to get themselves out of their predicament and walk up to the front desk. Of course, Shizuku and Airi look as impeccable as always. Minori, on the other hand, looks like a bald eagle decided to spontaneously make a nest in her hair.
Sigh.
Haruka has just finished checking their group in, and the strange-looking man at the front desk indicates that they should follow him down a hallway. Minori does, keeping a respectable distance between her and Airi and Shizuku in case they get mixed up in a tangle again.
Unfortunately, it seems as if Minori is perfectly capable of getting into her own tangles without the help of those two. As she walks down the hallway, she trips over a small bump in the floor and goes careening into the wall at her side. Convinced she is about to eat dust, she braces for impact- and instead finds herself in two sturdy arms.
When she looks up, she sees Haruka, who pulls her upwards, a resolute expression on her face.
“Be careful, Minori,” she says, in quite possibly the softest scolding voice anyone has ever used.
Minori promptly swoons and falls to the ground once again, leaving Haruka too stupefied for a quick reaction.
After she manages to peel herself off the floor again, they reach their destination without further incident. As Minori walks up to the door the creepy guy indicated, she reads the inscription on the wall above it.
COVIC-37
There’s an informational video playing on the wall behind them. COVIC-37 is apparently a deadly virus that was released on the world by a gang of evil American scientists, but one double agent has left clues in his office that lead to the cure. Their job is to find the cure and get out before a bomb goes off in thirty minutes.
“In you go!” the guy exclaims, opening the door and shoving them all inside unceremoniously.
Minori trips again. Fortunately, this time, she doesn’t take any of the others with her. Unfortunately, there’s no dreamy Haruka waiting to catch her.
The aforementioned Haruka sighs, offering Minori an arm so she can get off the ground.
“Those bruises definitely aren’t going to be fun tomorrow,” she mutters. “Let’s solve this fast so I can treat them back at home.”
Minori looks around a bit. It seems to be almost entirely nondescript, with the exception of a couple of locked boxes on a shelf to their right and some kind of room control panel on the other side. She begins to turn to the wall behind her, just when Airi speaks up.
“Over here!” Airi indicates.
Minori and Haruka turn to look at the wall she’s pointing at, which happens to be the one they haven’t seen yet. It has some kind of riddle written on it.
Doctor Franz once had four donuts, forced to give his friends three.
All joy sapped from his being, incredibly sad was he.
But then, after a lengthy trip to the store,
He purchased a dozen, satisfying his desire for more.
“... What?”
The sentiment is echoed by all of them. Who is this Doctor Franz? The guy trying to sabotage the proponents of chemical warfare? Why does he want so many donuts? Isn’t one enough, usually?
“Okay, let’s think about this systematically,” Airi suggests. “Line by line. Okay, first. Doctor Franz had four donuts, forced to give his friends three. So now he has one donut?”
“Wait- I have an idea!” Minori blurts out. “Let me check-”
She runs over to the lockboxes in the corner, taking a look at the one closest to the wall. It’s held in place by a lock that has a four-number code.
“I think the numbers we’ll find in this rhyme tell us what numbers unlock the box!”
“That makes a lot of sense. Good job, Minori,” Haruka says, a proud smile on her face. Minori slides to the ground, knees weak and face in her hands, and starts squealing on the spot.
Everyone opts to ignore her, too used to her antics by now.
“Anyway,” she continues. “It says all joy was sapped from his being and he was incredibly sad.”
“Poor guy,” Shizuku interjects. “Hmm! Maybe that’s the point of this room! To bring him joy! Maybe we-”
“ No ,” Airi snaps. Shizuku looks vaguely downcast for a second, before snapping out of her funk and bouncing up to where the others are standing near the wall. Minori also rejoins them after the period of her gay panic has passed.
“Could just be zero,” she contributes. “Because, you know? No joy? Zero joy?”
Airi nods. “We’ll write that down for now. Okay, so this last bit. So he goes to the store and then-”
“It’s twelve. A dozen. No need to read the whole story.” Haruka interjects. “It’s going to set Shizuku off again.”
Shizuku looks at her, vaguely confused.
“Okay, so our number’s 1-0-12?” Minori asks.
“Yep,” Airi responds.
Minori feels a little guilty that Shizuku hasn’t had the chance to do anything yet. “Shizuku, want to put the numbers into the box?”
“Sure!” she agrees enthusiastically, attempting to walk normally but unintentionally sauntering up to the locked box and fiddling with the lock. Airi and Haruka wander away, inspecting other parts of the sparse room such as the floor and the blank walls.
After two minutes, ostensibly too long to put a simple code into a lock, Shizuku looks up. “This isn’t working.”
Minori attempts to go help her, but before she can move, Airi has already gotten there.
Shizuku holds up the lock, showing Airi where she’s lined up the numbers. 1 - 0 - 1 - 2. Airi stares at the lock for a second, then heaves an aggrieved sigh.
“Shizuku. Do you see this line here? The line on the side? That is where you’re supposed to line up the numbers. See?” Airi jabs her finger at the line multiple times to make sure Shizuku knows where it is. “There’s a line there because it’s supposed to indicate the place where you line the numbers up. Where did you even put them? They’re at the top of the lock. Why are they at the top of the lock??”
Minori smiles to herself. Airi might sound harsh, but she knows that she’ll only tolerate this tomfoolery for Shizuku.
As Airi clicks the lock into place, she pulls on it, and it snaps open, revealing a box that has a piece of paper sitting in it. Shizuku picks it up, being extremely careful to ensure she doesn’t accidentally rip it or spill something on it or feed it to a wild koala or anything.
“It’s a map!” she says excitedly. “Of a room of some kind.”
Airi sighs. “Shizuku. That’s the room we’re in right now.”
“Wow, how’d you figure that out?” Shizuku asks, incredulous.
“It says so. On the top.”
“There’s a hole in the map, though,” Haruka indicates. “A chunk of one of the walls is missing, plus some area behind it.”
“I guess finding it is part of the challenge of the room,” Minori suggests.
“So… what do we do now?” Shizuku asks.
No one has an answer.
“Ugh, it’s really cold in here,” Airi mutters. “What’s going on with the air circulation?”
“There’s a fan up there,” Haruka indicates. Minori looks up as well.
The fan is spinning at an incredibly high rate, but she can still see snippets of each blade. She’s about to let it be- but suddenly, she notices something. A piece of paper, flapping around a little bit on one of the blades.
“There’s something on the fan!” she exclaims loudly.
“What?” Airi asks.
“Turn it off and let’s see it,” Haruka suggests.
Shizuku nods, determined. “That’s probably the switch!”
She makes her way towards a power plug near the floor that Minori hadn’t even noticed. Minori grins, proud that she had been able to notice a crucial clue.
She realizes what’s going to happen when Shizuku pulls the plug too late.
“Shizuku, NO!”
As she yanks on the plug, she pulls it at an angle such that it gets stuck in the plug holes.
“I- can’t get it out.”
Poor Airi looks like she’s about to blow a gasket.
“Shizuku, get away from there!”
“But-”
Upon hearing the slightest hint of resistance, Airi lunges.
Minori imagines that her original intent was to grab Shizuku and pull her away from the electrical socket. However, the reality manifested… significantly differently from that. When Airi aimed to grab Shizuku’s left shoulder, she pulled away, leaving Airi floundering for a place to put her hand. She chose the nearest wall, slamming into it and practically caging Shizuku in.
Shizuku blushes.
Airi blushes as well.
The room falls silent.
“Did you just kabedon her?” Minori asks, breaking the already awkward enough silence and making it even more awkward.
In hindsight, not a great thing to ask right at that moment.
“The fan is stuck,” Haruka mumbles to herself, choosing to distract herself from the situation.
Haruka’s right. The fan has become even faster, and none of her attempts to get the plug out of the socket have worked.
“Sorry,” Shizuku says, extricating herself from Airi’s wallslam.
“No, it’s fine,” Haruka mutters, reaching for the power plug. “I can fix it.”
She wiggles the connector around in its socket, moving it from the left to the right until it has some freedom of movement. She then puts it against the wall of the inside of the socket and BAM! yanks it until the prong straightens out. After that, it’s child’s play to pull it out.
There’s a small smile on Haruka’s face. “We’re all good.”
Minori is going to die. Right here on the escape room floor.
Such SKILL! Such COMPETENCE! Her poor heart can’t handle this.
“Haruka-chan…!”
As the fan spins to a stop, everyone watches the blade that isn’t uniformly white-colored. It seems to have a piece of… something … stuck to it.
“It’s the map piece we’re missing,” Airi judges.
“There’s no way we can reach that, though…” Minori responds.
“Shizuku?” Haruka questions.
Shizuku walks to the middle of the room and reaches as far up as she can. She’s about six inches off.
“If none of us can reach it, how do we finish the room?” she asks.
“It’s just another product of this misogynistic world,” Airi mutters angrily. “Everything is made for men, who are taller, and we get nothing. Shame, shame.”
“Uh… maybe there’s something that will help us reach it later in the game?” Minori suggests. “I mean, it seems kinda weird that they’d stop us from reaching something necessary…”
“That’s true,” Haruka agrees. “There’s probably a step stool or something somewhere to help us out.”
“In that case, on to solve more clues!” Shizuku proclaims.
With that, the group decides to split up. Haruka moves toward the table where the locked box was, presumably to see if there are any other relevant clues there. Shizuku starts examining the walls, a safe, non-electrical activity. Minori and Airi, on the other hand, head towards the room control panel-looking object.
Upon closer examination, it seems to be covered in a patchwork of wires, each in a different color. There’s red, green, blue and yellow. However, they’re hopelessly tangled together, and it’s impossible to see where one ends and the next begins.
On one side of the board, all the wires are plugged into different pegs. On the other side, however, there are the same number of pegs, but no wires plugged in. Strange.
Airi, being Airi, reaches out to touch the wires.
Just as she’s doing it, Haruka looks over. “Airi, that might be a bad idea. I’m pretty sure those wires control this room. What if you touch it and the lights go out, or the air conditioning stops working, or-”
“ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR!” Airi yells, smashing her hand into the wires. Minori holds her breath, ready to duck for cover and drag Airi with her in case the worst happens.
Nothing happens.
Minori releases a breath, standing up. “Whew. That was scary.”
“No, it wasn’t,” Airi bragged. “I knew nothing was going to happen.”
“Really? Because you were clenching your fists and your teeth,” Shizuku points out nonchalantly.
Haruka tries to stifle her laughter as properly as possible by covering her mouth, but some giggling can still be heard from behind her hand. (“How pretty,” Minori thinks, despite herself.)
“You can definitely trust Shizuku to say things how they are, huh?”
Airi glares at Shizuku playfully, although she’s not really hurt. “Some girlfriend you are! You’re supposed to take MY side.”
“Oh, really?” Shizuku asks innocently. “But just earlier today, you were cheering for Shiho when I was playing against her in a Puyo Puyo match. Last week, you were upset that Akito didn’t win that race against me. Last month-”
“Okay, okay!” Airi blurts out, face flaming. “You win.”
Shizuku laughs, dragging Airi into a bear hug.
While they sort themselves out behind her, Minori reaches for the control panel.
Hmm. Airi touching it hadn’t done anything- or, for that matter, triggered any alerts from outside- so it seems they have to do something with it.
There are four pegs on one side, and four pegs on the other side. The left side’s plugs are ordered - red, blue, green, yellow.
Maybe- maybe if she plugs in the wires on the right side in the same order?
Yes, Minori’s more confident now. She remembers similar logic and spatial reasoning puzzles she had done as a child.
Minori glances behind her. It looks like Airi and Shizuku are having some kind of sappy moment, which Haruka is taking a video of. Probably not for the vlog, because some of their fans would not be happy if they knew their idols were in romantic relationships. Instead, it’s probably a personal video for them to rewatch someday and laugh at with their kids.
(Oh god, now is not the time to be thinking about kids. But- but if Minori and Haruka have- Wait, wait, no. No. No more thoughts, Minori. No more thoughts. Focus. Daydreaming comes later.)
Snapping herself out of her sappy thoughts, Minori considers calling them over to put in the pegs, but eventually decides against it. This is her moment. She cracked the riddle - she’s going to put the pegs in and impress them all!
Red. Blue. Green. Yellow.
A sound like a latch unlocking echoes through the room, and the board with the pegs on it swings forward slightly, revealing a cabinet behind it.
Within the cabinet is a stepstool.
“Minori, you did it!” Haruka celebrates, coming over to hug her and vanquishing her last brain cell in the process.
While Minori is indisposed (brain empty only Haruka Kiritani, everyone understands, surely?), Shizuku grabs the stepstool and sets it on the floor just underneath the stationary fan.
“Wait, should we let her go up there…?” Haruka mumbles into Minori’s ear.
“Shizuku… be careful!” Minori yells.
She smiles back serenely. Minori isn’t the only person in the room without a single functional brain cell left in their head. “I will be.”
Airi steps closer to the stool, ready to catch Shizuku in case she either falls or causes the piece of map on the fan to fall. (Or, god forbid, somehow causes the giant fan to fall.)
Shizuku steps onto the stool, and the others hold their breath.
She reaches up to the fan and carefully uses her nails to pry the tape off of the corners of the map piece. Once she’s done this to three corners out of four, she carefully peels the fourth one off, taking the paper into her hands. Everyone collectively exhales a sigh of relief.
“That was great!” Minori cheers. “Shizuku, I really thought you wouldn’t be able to-”
Shizuku steps off the stool and immediately trips over a wire in the floor, falling flat onto her face.
She takes Airi with her too, since she hadn’t moved out of the way fast enough when Shizuku started careening over. (The girl really is tall- tall enough to have a huge radius of damage when she’s clawing at stuff randomly when falling over.)
Shizuku and Airi crash into each other, rolling towards Minori and knocking her feet out from under her. She trips, joining the pile.
After much rolling, bumping and elbowing, they end up in yet another solid heap on the floor.
“I’m getting deja vu ,” Airi groans.
After, once again, painstakingly untangling themselves, they walk up to Haruka, only to find that she’s already fit the missing piece into the map they found at the start of the game. The piece reveals a hidden door in its stretch of wall, and it also indicates which tile they should press to open up the door.
Shizuku makes as if to walk up to the door and click the latch, but Airi grabs her around the waist and doesn’t let go.
“You, miss, are staying right here with me.”
Instead, Minori goes, feeling around unsuccessfully for 20 seconds or so before she clicks the correct latch. The door clicks and comes away from the wall slightly, revealing a tight corridor.
“Yay! More slipping hazards!” Airi says sarcastically.
They make their way through the corridor, one by one. Thankfully, no one trips this time, although, surprisingly enough, Haruka comes close a couple of times.
When they exit the corridor, they find themselves in a new room lit up by a fluorescent glow. This one, unlike the previous room, is filled to the brim with strange contraptions. There’s animals in display cases on the walls, a bubbling chemistry setup on one table, and a blackboard on the wall covered in equations.
“Those equations are nonsensical,” Haruka pipes up. “Why would you put e=mc2 next to the Bohr model?”
“Aesthetic effect, Haruka,” Shizuku responds. “You’re smart, so you know what that is, but the rest of us don’t, so it doesn’t matter to us.”
“It matters to me, though,” Haruka replies, frustrated. “I mean, come on! Chemistry setups don’t look like that! There’s no bubbling blue liquid!”
“Aesthetic effect, Haruka,” Airi and Minori add at the same time. Everyone besides Haruka promptly starts laughing.
“Hmph.” Haruka decides to drop the topic, walking off to investigate some of the animal displays.
“I don’t know about this, but I think the way out of here has something to do with this?” Shizuku questions, pointing at a round display case located in the middle of the room.
She reaches for the glass door, sliding it open. Inside is what looks to be a test tube rack, containing four slots. Each of the empty slots has some markings around it, but it’s impossible to tell what they are.
“So all we need to do is find the test tubes and put them in so that they match with the markings, and we’re all set?” Haruka wonders.
Minori nods. “That makes the most sense. Hey, looks like we’re getting pretty good at this escape room thing!”
“So where do we find the test tubes?” Airi asks, crossing her arms.
No one answers. Minori feels like she can hear crickets chirping in the background.
After some fumbling, each of the girls agrees to search one corner of the room. Over the course of ten painstakingly long minutes, Minori finds a test tube hidden behind an animal exhibit, Haruka sees one submerged into some blue liquid that’s part of the chemistry setup, Shizuku sees one on top of the radiator, and everyone helps Airi comb through some files in the drawers that are in her corner of the room, only to find the test tube stuck to the very back of the lowest compartment.
Each of the tubes has some markings on it, although it’s hard to tell what they are.
“Okay, so now… we go place the tubes into the rack?” Shizuku asks.
That’s just what they do. They have no idea what order to place them in, so Minori places her tube first, followed by Haruka’s, then Airi’s, and Shizuku trails the party.
Absolutely nothing happens.
“What if we twist them around a little bit?” Minori suggests.
Absolutely nothing happens again, except for the fact that the markings on the tubes come into view. They don’t match up very well with what’s on the test tube rack at all.
“Wait,” Haruka says.
“Waiting,” Airi responds.
“What if we reorder the tubes so that the markings match?”
“That makes the most sense,” Minori agrees. “So, should we-”
“Done!” Shizuku exclaims.
Just like that, she’s reordered the tubes. Each one now perfectly lines up with the external markings. For instance, Minori’s, which had had markings shaped like an hourglass, now resembles-
“An 8!”
“Mine’s a 5,” Haruka agrees.
“I’ve got a 3,” Airi points out.
“And mine is a 1,” Shizuku states proudly.
She ponders for a second.
“So… what do we do now?”
Minori and Airi are already lunging for what seems to be the exit door, Haruka not trailing far behind. They quickly punch in the code, 5138, and the door beeps before clicking open.
“LET’S GO!” Airi yells.
“Ah, but wait,” the woman who had been waiting for them just outside the door says. “You don’t know if you’ve won yet.”
“Oh,” she responds, dejected. “I thought you’d have removed us if time expired. I guess we didn’t beat the clock.”
“Now, now, I didn’t say you lost , either. I just said you don’t know yet.”
Airi looks up, newfound hope in her eyes.
“As a matter of fact, why don’t you girls do a little drumroll for me to announce it?”
Minori drumrolls, quickly joined by the others.
“You…”
“... beat the room!”
“LET’S GO!!” Airi yells, even louder this time. She grabs them all in a bear hug.
In between Airi’s squeezes and screaming in her ear, Minori hears the woman mumble “unlike those girls who came in earlier.” But… hadn’t Saki said her team won?
Minori turns her attention back to the group, where everyone seems to be trading compliments, speaking at the adrenaline-fueled speed of light.
“It’s all thanks to you, Shizuku. I mean, that last room was crazy!”
“Yes, but Minori figured out the thing with the wires!”
“Yeah, but I think Haruka was definitely the coolest with fixing that fan!”
“Let’s go take pictures to commemorate this moment. We can even post them!”
“Oh no!” Minori suddenly realizes. “We forgot to take a video for our vlog. Sorry, Airi. I know you really wanted to do that.”
Airi shrugs. “It was a fun experience with my girlfriend and my best friends. When I have that, who needs a vlog?”
Minori beams from ear to ear.
They make their way back through the corridor towards the photo booth station, jumping around gleefully the whole way. (Well, Haruka doesn’t jump. The others do, though.) Somehow, no one trips.
When they get there, they see a silly cardboard cutout that they can all stick their faces into, which they immediately decide is the ideal use of their limited camera space.
It seems that Minori has spoken too soon about not tripping. Somehow, as they approach the cutout, both Shizuku and Minori bump into the floor supports at the same time. They go careening over, and the stand goes with them. On instinct, Airi and Haruka lunge to catch them respectively.
For a few blissful seconds, they both end up in bridal carries a la their girlfriends. It is a beautiful, romantic moment- and then Haruka and Airi get unbalanced and fall over.
Airi, Minori and Shizuku end up, once again, in a tangle on the floor - just with an extra person to accompany them this time. The cardboard cutout also decides it’s a wonderful time to lose its balance, falling right on top of the pile of idols.
“Whoops,” Shizuku says.