After we are finished with the reading of our Fortune Lots, I along with my little sister and sweet niece decided to go around the temple that still has some of the stands from last night's New Year's Eve Temple Fair still opens.
I and my little sister and sweet niece decided to buy an emma (a wooden talisman that is usually drawn or written with the wishes and hope that is to be realized on the new year ahead).
I decided to draw a picture of me and my whole family plus my sweet niece, the six of us are smiling together with my wish written on below "I hope for this family to get along well forever".
My little sister and niece are smiling brilliantly when they see the picture and words on the emma I hung on a hanging place at the temple.
But when I want to see what kind of wishes they have drawn or written on their emmas, they hide it behind their back while making a cute pose while saying something like "it's a girl's secret" or "a gentleman should not pry on a woman's secret too much".
So be it, I will just left it on my own imagination, then.
After we finished with our First Temple Visit of the Year, I go together to play some traditional New Year's games with my little sister and niece.
Hanetsuki, Takoage and Karuta.
Those three traditional Japanese games are a must play for every otaku's New Year Celebration (except of course, if you are a loner otaku who only live by your ownself, for your own self and only have your own self to celebrate a New Year, then good luck playing them by yourself or making some imaginary friends to play with them) XD
Okay, enough jabbing on those loners.
Anyway, I have more than enough fun playing with my lovely little sister and niece.
Hanetsuki is a badminton like game where you play using a feathery light shuttle and hitting them using hagoita (a small decorative wooden paddles that acts as good luck charms for the New Year).
Takoage is flying the kite, the three of us spend an hour flying a kite together, I hold the string roll in my hand while both my little sister and my niece held the kite, after we got it to fly so high up above the winds, we tied its string to a peg on the ground and left it to play some other games.
Karuta is, just like the name suggests (Karuta = Card), is a traditional Japanese card game.
Aside from those three classics, must play games, the three of us are also playing koma, fukuwarai and even sugoroku.
Koma is a Japanese spinning top, which I excel very much on it, with the record of being undefeatable both in my former life on Earth and even to this new life in this world.
Fukuwarai is a game where you are being blindfolded and are asked to arrange the paper parts of a face, such as the eyes, eyebrows, a nose and a mouth.
Sugoroku is a Japanese board game, similar to the board game of life in the west.
The three of us spend the whole afternoon until evening enjoying new year and playing around.
Only when the sun is about to set is my niece going back to her own home, escorted by the gentlemanly uncle of hers that is me.
After New Year celebration is ended, we prepared our selves for the new school years in our school.
Oh right, different from the Earth where usually the school years begins in the middle of the year and ended on the next year's mids, the schools in this world began their new year of study in tandem with the new year.
So starting from tomorrow, I along with my little sister and niece are in our Sixth Year in Elementary School.
And as a bonus, the three of us are all in the same Class now.
The Class arrangement in the School on this world is pretty much like how the Class arrangement in my campus back on Earth do.
Each students can apply online for their desired class so long as there are still a slot available on that class on the school's official website.
I together with my little sister and niece have gone online together and simultaneously applied for the same Class at the same time right on the moment that the class arrangement system is online on the school's official website.
The three of us got into Year Six Class One.
Hue hue hue hue~
I totally look forward for our school time together on this whole year.
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And so, a month has been passed from Mutsuki [1] to the month of Kisaragi [2].
And speaking of the second month of the year, there is a very very special day that happens in the middle of that month.
Yes, that's right!
It's Lupercalia!!!!!!! Also known as Lupercalio!!!! Or Dies Februatus!
Howlllll~!!!!!!! *sounds of wild wolves howling passionately and echoing everywhere in middle of wilderness on the night of full moon*
It's Time to Unleashed our Wild Side on this Festival of Fertility held on the 15th day which is also the Full Moon Night on the Second Month of this Year!!!!
What? Valentine's Day, you say?
What's that?
A day on the 14th of the second month in the year where all the Flower and Sweets Industries (and very very especially, the Chocolatiers) has been conspirating and succesfully brainwashed the hot blooded, full of passion, yet so innocent young people to buy their flowers and chocolates as something like for showing their love to their friends, family and lovers?
That's not important!
Only a pair of pathetic, brainwashed bakappuru (ba-couple, also means stupid couple if there is anyone reading this still don't get what it means) celebrated something like that!
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[1] Mutsuki: The first month in classic Japanese calendar, the equivalent of January. Mutsuki is written in the Japanese Kanji which has the meaning of "Month of Love", or alternatively, the "Month of Affection".
[2] Kisaragi: The second month in the classic Japanese calendar, the equivalent of February. In Japanese Kanji, it can also be written as Kinusaragi which has the same meaning of "Changing Clothes".