Welcome to HAMA Ward 4

(Liguang-san put in a lot of work to renew Chinatown! He was able to leave in all of its previous cultural elements while making it look so gorgeous and colorful!)

Hm, I was planning on having lunch here, but after eating the shumai, I’m quite full.

Would you like to get a piece of flower word art then? It makes for a great souvenir!

Flower word art…?

It’s a form of Chinese traditional art. It’s been in practice for over 2000 years. You can tell them any word you like, and they’ll write it using colorful flowers and animals. It’s used as a lucky charm.

Hohh… I’ve never seen that.

It’s very beautiful, so I’d love to join you! Right this way!

Wow… They painted my name so beautifully! I didn’t even know this was a thing.

I asked them to write my mom’s name. I’m going to give it to her when I get home!

(It’s more crowded than I expected. I assume this was integrated as a cultural experience.)

(Liguang-san said that he doesn’t really like to rely on selling lucky charms and stuff to attract guests, but…)

(He can put aside his own tastes for the sake of business. He’s such a good manager.)

Oh, you work at my brother’s company, right? Welcoooome! I can paint your word art for you!

You’re Liguang-san’s little sister, right? Um… Linxing-san, was it?

(She stopped by the office asking how she could help out with the tour. I didn’t know she’d be writing flower word art!)

Liguang’s out making the rounds. He’ll be back real soon, so I hope you enjoy my word art in the meantime!

What do you want me to write, mister? If you have no ideas, I recommend you use your own name or your fave’s name!

“Fave”…? Hmm… W-Well, then I would like to request “Ward Eight,” if that is quite alright.

“Ward Eight”? That’s a weird one. But okay, I got it!

O-Oooh… Is that a bird? I see flowers and koi fish as well. Y-You paint so quickly, young lady!

(It’s gorgeous when it’s finished, but being able to watch it be painted is even better!)

Hm? What’s going on?

Ah, Chief. Are you on observation duty?

Oh, Nayuki-kun. Something seems to be going on…

Yes, more guests came here than we expected. I came to ask about increasing the number of flower word artists.

What’s wrong, Kitakata? I thought you were in charge of watching the numbers for the guests.

Oh, welcome back, Liguang!

You’re back, Lu-san. That’s good.

Some guests who have already received their art pieces wanted to come back for another one. We weren’t able to keep up…

……

If we try to keep up with them now, our quality of service will suffer. Give the guests who want a second piece a ticket to come back tomorrow to pick it up.

If that angers the crowd, I’ll explain the situation to them.

I see. That’s a good idea. We can check who’s already gotten a piece from the app, so let’s go with that.

(That was so fast…! They’re both so capable that they cleared up the issue in no time at all.)

Kitakata, who is that holding onto you?

…Your hair’s so pretty…

She’s lost. We’ve sent out an alert to everyone in the area, so her parents should be coming to get her soon.

I see. You can handle the tickets for the word art. Leave the girl to me.

Sounds good, thank you. I’ll work with Sojun-san outside.

Mister Pretty Hair, I want a sparkly drawing too…!

It’s called flower word art! I really wanna make you one, but there are lots of people here…

I can’t have one…?

(Ah, sh-she’s about to cry!)

*sigh…*

I’ll write one for you. What’s your name?

Thank you, Mister Pretty Hair! I love my sparkly drawing!

Thank you so, so much! You’re a life-saver.

No problem. Come again soon.

(Wow…! I didn’t know Liguang-san could do flower word art!)

When’d you learn how to do word art? I’ve never seen you do it!

…I did it before you were born.

Huh…? That’s not really an answer.

You have customers waiting for you.

Crap! See you later, Chief! And you too, mister!

Hm. Looking at this art makes me feel like Ward 8 will improve more and more…

(Everything seems to be in order here. Even if something comes up, we can rely on Liguang-san to handle it with ease.)