full translation summary of saburo's card 未来へ挑む絆 from hypdori !
the story starts with saburo coming to talk to ichiro about his schedule for the day after, because he'll have to leave early. ichiro tells him it's fine because he doesn't have work he needs saburo's help with. jiro then teases him about going out from the morning even though he's such a homebody lol.
saburo tells him to shut up, he can do what he wants. but jiro keeps teasing like, is he going bug-hunting?? running for a change since he never gets enough exercise?? jiro could even train him if he wants!! saburo ignores the teasing because it's annoying and explains he's going to a real mystery-solving game.
while jiro doesnt know what that is, ichiro thinks an escape room situation would be interesting. saburo's especially excited because it's a title that has a reputation for being difficult. jiro thinks that's the type of thing you enjoy with friends, so will saburo even have fun by himself??
who said saburo's going alone though!! he has gamer friends he formed a team with, much to jiro's surprise. there's plenty of people with the same interest on the internet to talk with, not that an idiot like jiro would know that.
jiro's about to get mad about saburo calling him an idiot but ichiro tells them not to fight. ichiro confirms if saburo's meeting these internet friends for the first time. it's people saburo's played boardgames with a lot so they're not suspicious people, so there's no worry, saburo should be fine.
now jiro's more worried about them hating saburo when they realize he's frigging cheeky. but then again saburo doesn't really care, saburo's not eager to curry favor with people and theyre the ones who invited him so even if they don't get along...
well ichiro thinks he shouldn't talk like that and just have fun with those people anyway, since they finally get a chance to meet up. jiro makes sure to tell saburo to be honest and rely on them if he doesn't know the answer to something. then saburo tells him not to order him around lol
the next day saburo is waiting at the meetup spot and thinking about how he'd be lying if he said he wasnt nervous to meet them in person for the first time, remembering jiro's words about them coming to hate him when they find out how cheeky he is.
but it should be fine! he could talk with them like normal on chat and there'll be no trouble finding something to talk about as long as they focus on the game. it's his first time playing a real mystery-solving game like this so it'd be a waste if he cant have fun because he's so nervous!
his gamer friends meet up with saburokun and say their greetings because it's the first time theyre meeting offline!! they compliment him for always being good at the games they play. they've played with their webcams on before too but seeing him in person, they think he looks cooler. saburo says thanks :)
they head to the reception and there's a lot of people which makes sense because this series has been really popular recently. theyre doing this event as a celebration for the series getting 50,000 players in total so! even then the success rate is only 3% so the difficulty is set really high. it has the highest difficulty for the games in this series apparently. so they thought they definitely wanted to do this one with saburokun <3
saburo says he's looking forward to it and is relieved the conversation's going well just like when they chat online, so it should be fine!! they head to the 5th floor and the game mc welcomes them, theatrics and all, saying they're reckless for challenging the master of this house; once they enter they can't leave until they solve the puzzles the master put in place.
each exit for each floor is locked so as a team they need to solve shit, write their answers on the provided sheet, then show it to the gatekeepers. if it's right then they get to move on. but there's time limits etc then they start right with the first question.
as soon as they open the envelope for the first problem, saburo instantly understands it while his friends are just starting to figure out what to do. there's blanks that need numbers but the question's a bunch of shapes that probably follow some rule...
they're surprised when saburo says he'll write the answer because that was fast?? saburo says it's just applying formulas for finding the areas of the shapes, plus the code is super easy etc. theyre like さすが……
then there's a little montage of saburo solving shit for the next floors. for the 4th floor, there's three answers that lead to shit that spells the words "blue box" so the answer they need to show the gatekeeper is in a blue box. for the 3rd floor, there's probably some riddle about how a cat got rid of mice without hunting them, because saburo says the master's cat was able to reduce the mice's population to zero without catching a single one since there was never any mice to begin with? lol.
for the 2nd floor, the answer to something is 3948 which can be read as sa-ku-shi-ya so he figures out the perpetrator for that problem is the author (sakusha) so the final answer is the name written on the covers of the books on the bookshelf etc etc. [it's not that important but it's fun to see the variety of types of riddles saburo can solve hehe :)]
just like that they make it down to the first floor and saburo's gamer friends say theyre gonna be the top team at this rate, though they've just been following saburo's lead... saburo realizes he's been zooming through the problems by himself just 'cause they were easier than he thought so it's not fun for the others...
he says he ended up focusing too much- but then his friends say he doesn't have to worry about it, just watching from beside him is fun too! it's exciting like they're watching a game playthrough in real time! that makes saburo giggle UUUUU uuu .. . .. baby. he thinks they're such nice people...
anyway he moves on to the final problem. the premise is that if someone goes out, they have to say the correct thing they're opening the door and going out for, or else they'll get electric-shocked by the gatekeeper and it's instant death. but there's a man who wants to go out by saying "i'm opening the door to get electric-shocked and die", so they have to figure out whether this guy will be able to go out like that or not, or if he's able to, why? [idk. it's a logical reasoning problem]
saburo and his friends are turning it over, wondering if there's a hint somewhere in the room, but saburo's convinced the hint itself would be in the statement... but then there's a weird noise and the lights go out and they wonder if this is the electric shock from the gatekeeper? but saburo thinks it's too sudden for the direction of the game...?
the staff playing the gatekeeper says to wait for a second and saburo points out the noise sounded like a door locking. his friends also note that the staff sounded frantic, maybe there's some big trouble? like them actually getting locked in?? but this is just a game there's no reason they'd actually be locking in customers though right???
the friends start to kind of argue over one of them even saying that possibility and saburo tells them to calm down. even if something happened to the main door there should be an emergency exit in case of disasters. they should just wait for the staff to contact them again because if they panic in a dark room it'll be dangerous.
his friends take some deep breaths and ask him how he can be so calm. well, his family runs a yorozuya so it's not unusual to run into trouble. stuff that's difficult to solve by himself he always figures out with his brothers with the three of them together!! plus he's not alone now, he's with his friends, so he can stay calm!!
after his friends have calmed down they're still pretty anxious which is understandable since they don't really know what's going on. so, saburo goes off to find a staff and confirm the situation. he overhears staff talking about how the management system for the building's been cyber-hacked [because of course it would be lol] and the locks are being operated remotely.
saburo gives ichiro a call to explain the situation that he's locked in the game venue because of a cyber attack on the building's management system. ichiro asks if saburo and the people in the building are safe, which they are, and saburo doesn't think there'll be injuries or anything.
ichiro asks what else he knows and while everything's still jumbled, saburo used his little notebook computer that he always brings around to look stuff up and it seems someone's owned up to it on sns. so ichiro and jiro will go gather info about that guy, but first things first, the people in the building need help. saburo has an idea...
saburo offers his help to the staff and explains he's knowledgeable about IT-related stuff. the staff's reluctant but one of them recogizes him as bb's yamada saburokun and convinces the staff leader that saburo's got enough knowledge to put adults to shame so he can help!! lol.
but there's nothing they can do, the system's power is out and isn't just sending out transmissions or whatever dangerous?? but that's no problem because saburo has his computer with a security that he strengthened by himself so they leave that to them while they go talk to other customers to calm them down.
saburo goes to tell his friends the situation too and not to worry because he'll do something about it. they're like do something...?? but well if it's saburokun he probably Can do something. saburo gets to work and figures out what methods the hacker used to infiltrate the system. when he tries to restore the system he gets redirected to suspicious places with traps and stuff. he finds where the real stuff is hidden and parses some codes
but... the last bit which is needed to restore the system is blocked by a password and it might take a while to figure it out...his friends ask if there would be any hint. saburo thinks people who do this type of hacking are usually aggressive and hungry for attention, if only he had any information about the guy...
he gets a call from jiro who's in the car with ichiro and heading over. jiro tells him what they found out. apparently the guy sent a letter to the game's operating company demanding 1 billion yen to release the people trapped in the building, which both saburo and jiro think is fake. the guy probably isn't after money, he just wants to mess with the operating company because he was a fan of the series but it got way too difficult when it got popular, dumb shit like that according to jiro.
but this shit was so easy for saburo so if it's someone resenting the game for That difficulty then it's probably a simple-minded guy jiro's level. so the password would be... well it wasnt the name of the master of the game...
jiro reminds him of what he said earlier- if he doesnt know the answer, he should ask his friends!! right, so saburo asks his friends who were listening to his conversation with his oniisan. if the culprit is a fan of the game, then... maybe it's the name of the master's beloved cat... and it is!!! lmao
saburo cheers once the system's back on and his friends clap while calling him amazing. saburo says it's all thanks to them. as for the fool of a hacker who hacked into a place where He's around, he hacked him back and reported him to the police and his friends are impressed again lol <3
they make it out and saburo goes to his brothers. they're glad hes safe but to think they'd have to actually do an escape even though they were just there for a game... saburo's glad he was able to experience the like realism of it that he wouldn't have experienced in a regular game lol but he's sad he wasn't able to solve that last problem they were in the middle of doing...
his friends gather to tell him about that problem. while saburo was chasing after the hacker, they solved the problem: that guy who said he was going out to get electrocuted and die, didn't die. that's because he just had to say the (logically) right thing that was going to happen to him when he went out, but there was no need to actually go through with that after the door is opened. as a result even if the guy didn't actually get electrocuted, he said that he would be if he opened the door (which technically followed the conditions)
so with that, they've cleared the whole game!! after that saburo's friends leave saying they'll see each other next time online!!! anyway jiro's like ?? dying by electric shock?? sounds like a crazy story... to ichiro it just sounds like saburo had a lot of fun with his friends hehe :)
