Culture festival, served with a smile 1-4N

Culture festival, served with a smile 1-4N

[Orchard]

Fuu: Ooh, your group's harvested a lot already.

Suz: Mebu and Karin made a competition out of it, so the harvest is advancing rapidly...

Kar: I'm the best when it comes to harvesting quickly! Take a look! I have more than Mebuki, don't I?

Meb: Oh? But the quality of the harvested fruit is better on my side. Look at these vividly-coloured grapes.

Fuu: Right, right. Good job, you're working hard. You must be tired, so let's take a break.

Meb: But the competition!

Fuu: The owner said she wanted us to try sweets and juice made from the fruits here.

Suz: Is that so!? Hurray! Come on, Mebu and Karin-san, let's go! Would be rude to refuse!

Suz: Aah. This grape juice is so good, sweet and sour.

Tak: This fig jam is good too! Gun-chan, try it out, I put it on a cracker.

Chi: *nom* ...You're right, it's delicious.

Yuu: This pear jelly is great too! Tougou-san, can we put it on the menu?

Tou: Sounds good. I'll ask her the recipe later.

Uta: We've harvested a lot and the menu's beginning to take shape. I'm glad.

Suz: Now our victory is certain!

Fuu: I'd love to say that, but... The culture festival isn't that forgiving.

Fuu: It's nice that we got a lot of tasty stuff, but we don't have a showstopper like matsutake mushrooms two years ago. [1]

Yuu: A showstopper, huh.

Tou: You're right, it would be nice to have some intense menu item that would make customers gather just for it alone...

Orchard owner: Then how about mube? [2]

Tak: What's a mube? I've never heard of that before.

Chi: Mube... Mube... Sounds like a spell to me.

Orchard owner: Mube is the name of a fruit. They say it staves off illness and grants longevity.

Suz: Eeh!? Just eating a fruit can grant such a huge dream!? Incredible!

Orchard owner: Well, that's just how the tales go. They were offered to influential people since a long time ago.

Meb: That's some very enticing information. Can you pick those mube in this orchard?

Orchard owner: We don't grow them here, but I think the owner of this orchard two generations back tried to cultivate them somewhere behind the mountain.

Kar: Which means we could find it if we go there, right?

Orchard owner: I can't guarantee that. Right now isn't supposed to be the time to harvest it either, and even if you find it, it won't necessarily be bearing fruit...

Tou: I've heard that climate change has shifted the harvest seasons for a lot of produce lately.

Yuu: So you're saying it might be miraculously be in season right now!?

Fuu: Then it's decided! Our showstopper for this year is the mube!

Yuu/Suz/Tou: Agreed!

Meb: Then let's not waste time and start looking for the mube. Karin, I'll definitely find it before you do!

Kar: Not a chance! I'll be the first to find it!

Meb: Oh? Then it's a challenge!

Kar: Bring it on!


Suz: Oh, there they go again.
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Notes:

1 - Must be a script mistake, matsutake mushrooms were featured in the 2017 culture festival scenario, 3 years ago.
2 - Scientific name Stauntonia hexaphylla