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Week 3 July 26
Chapter 1 part 3
Pages with text ~10
Ending line End of Chapter

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Ok that wasn’t really the resolution I was expecting :joy:

So she became overly reliant on the calculation demon, which caused her to… misread にげろ as an equation, thus putting her face to face with a wild boar :thinking: I was expecting more like, she became overly reliant on the calculation demon but then is put in a situation where she doesn’t have it and is asked to do math, thus revealing she has no math skills. :person_shrugging: Also, we didn’t see whether she returned the calculation demon to the museum or not?

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I was very …あれ? about the resolution. Like, I see why they wanted to get the 1= 1+ 3 joke in there, but why the boar? Was she misreading other words or just that one? It felt very out of left field …

Oh that’s a good point… I kinda assumed that they took it back, but it doesn’t actually say in the story.

At least she did eventually return the DVD :joy:

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Done with the chapter and that was also not the resolution I was expecting.

I’m glad I am not the only one who was confused about why the boar :joy:

I was expecting more of kid’s horror ending where she gets turned into an equation or something in the end.

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ALSO

I went back and looked at the picture of 1= 1+ 3 in the book and they drew the ten ten on げ in a completely different, barely visible way from the rest of the"letters". I know Yakata-san comments that they’re supposed to be hard to see, but it seems really misleading. I would not have been able to figure out the joke if it hadn’t been explained at the end.

I enjoyed the rest of the chapter but I feel cheated by the ending. :joy:

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