"Still, the miscalculation definitely wasn't my fault. It was because you, Boss, didn't rig it enough!" said Sogo Doma, who never spoke like a human being.
Stall owner: "I-I'm finished..."
Everyone came with their own predictions, and the stall owner was no exception. As Sogo Doma, who refused to act like a human, shot down prize after prize, the stall owner's heart went completely numb as he entered a true black-faced shutdown mode.
Sogo Doma: (￣︶￣)
The facts proved that the tell-your-parents strategy always worked. Of course, that was assuming you had parents who could cheat.
Claw machines.
This country's claw machine culture was incredibly rich. The prizes inside came in every imaginable variety; even ingredients sometimes appeared in them...
Of course, the more valuable the prizes inside a claw machine were, the harder it was to win them. Here, difficulty meant that the owner had manually altered the mechanical claw—for example, it might look like it had gripped something tightly, only to loosen the moment it lifted up, or there might be something attached to the claw...
Yet despite knowing those disadvantages existed, countless people still threw money into them one after another. Because this was a war between customers and store managers! The managers set up their defenses through every possible method—raising the difficulty—while the customers used everything they had learned, thought, and seen to overcome every unfavorable factor. Catching the prize meant victory in the war.
The CX-01 claw machine was filled with currently popular items and collectible classics. To certain collectors, its contents were worth a fortune. That was precisely why, despite being nicknamed things like "the impossible-to-win machine," "this thing is trash," and "the owner should die for setting it up like this," the CX-01 still had plenty of people feeding it coins in