Courageously protect! Everyone's smiles! 1-1N

Courageously protect! Everyone's smiles! 1-1N

[Shopping district]

Fuu: December's barely started, and the shopping district is in full Christmas mode already.

Yuu: Pretty illumination, isn't it?

SON: Yep, yep. Makes me want to start singing "Jingle Bells".

Kar: Calm down a little. You're not a child, stop getting so excited.

Fuu: Yeah, yeah. If you keep focusing on Christmas, you'll make the other December events sad.

Its: Other December events?

Fuu: I mean, there are some! Like... You know!

Its: Onee-chan, you're just saying things at random now.

Fuu: Ahaha... What events were there in December aside from Christmas, again?

SON: Oh, there's a huge pumpkin at the greengrocer's! It looks so tasty.

Fuu: Hey! You're already changing topics?

Tou: Pumpkin... Well spotted, Sonocchi. In december, there's Touji no Nanakusa - Winter Solstice Seven-ingredient stew.

Yuu: Nanakusa like the one you have in Spring and Autumn? With water celery, shepherd's purse and stuff?

Tou: It's water celery, shepherd's purse, cudweed, chickweed, nipplewort, turnip and radish, Yuuna-chan.

Tou: And for Touji no Nanakusa... You cook with things that have two "n" in the name.

Its: Huh? But we're talking about "kabocha" (pumpkin), right? That doesn't have any "n".

Yuu: Ah, the other word for it is "nankin"! That's two "n"s, Tougou-san!

Kar: I see. What about the rest? It's called nanakusa, so there should probably be seven ingredients, right?

Tou: Renkon (lotus root), ninjin (carrot), ginnan (ginkgo nut), kinkan (kumquat), kanten (agar-agar) and undon (udon) are what you make touji no nanakusa with.

Tou: They say that if you eat it on winter solstice you'll be lucky and won't catch colds!

Yuu: Huuh, then we'll have to eat nanakusa on winter solstice this year!

Tou: I'll make some food for the solstice, so let's eat it together, Yuuna-chan.

SON: It's unfair that only Yuuyu gets to!

Fuu: We demand the right to eat Tougou's cooking!

Tou: You don't have to be so loud, I'll make enough for everyone. Let's all eat touji no nanakusa on winter solstice.