Just our luck! Sheesh!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Grah, this is taking forever!
Quit acting so antsy!
Shuddup! You’re the one with ants in yer pants!
Excuse me?!
It’s here!
No!
Huh? What?! I’d like to cancel this cancellation!
What’s up, Nonoha?
Ana and Cube said they’d meet us there.
Hey, they for reals?
It’s all cool.
Why?
I am the Giver.
You are the Solver.
And the prize is...
Jin Makata.
Let’s solve it together!
We’ll solve this massive
puzzle Raetsel made that uses the world as its stage!
It was cancelled?
I see. Very well.
Mr. President.
Shall I change your plans?
Unanticipated events can also pose as opportunities.
Just Now, I Was Thinking of Someone
This is bigger than Kegon Falls!
This feels heavenly!
Ana!
Stop that! Don’t lean over the edge!
Do you realize what would happen if you fell?
I, Ana, think that waterfalls are wonderful!
The spray of water feels so good!
Geez!
I wanna get wet!
I hope Kaito and the others get here soon.
Splitter splatter! Splitter splatter! Splitter splatter!
Once I’ve joined the party, Raetsel’s challenge will be as good as solved.
Evading danger! Evading danger!
Evading danger!
Iwarin, you look hip in that raincoat!
The doctor bought it for me.
But it isn’t raining...
He’s been demanding ever since I increased
his autonomous learning capacity.
Must be wary of water from the falls.
May get wet!
He’s built to handle land and water!
Must be wary of water from the falls.
May get wet!
I just got a text from Nonoha.
They’re having such bad weather that the plane can’t takeoff.
Then let’s go sightseeing!
This feels great!
Whoa!
Jeez, Ana! That’s dangerous!
This feels great!
Danger! Danger!
Every minute, 3.6 billion liters of water gush over the waterfalls.
Calculating the daily amount of water
that splashes on a tourist boat built to hold twenty.
Calculating... Calculating...
Aw, jeez! Forget about the waterfalls!
There is plenty of work
we can do on our own before Kaito arrives!
Rainbows!
I think they’re rainbows!
You’re right. They’re rainbows...
Those are Naipi’s rainbows.
There is a legend behind those rainbows.
Naipi is the name of a beautiful lady
who was supposed to be offered to the god that resides in this river.
Yeah?
Are you here to see the sights?
Yup!
“Yup,” is the wrong answer!
We’re meeting up with our friends here.
In that case, what do you say
I give you a mini-tour until your friends arrive?
But we have our own agenda--
Yay! Splish-splash waterfall fun!
Ana!
Danger! Danger!
Waterfall splash! Super refreshing!
Rainbow! They can’t say a thing! O Rainbow!
Iwashimizu, forget about the waterfalls! Rainbow!
I’m Regina. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
I’m Ana! He’s Q-taro!
I’m Cubik!
And he’s Iwashimizu.
Danger! Danger!
Quit going on about the waterfalls already!
Long, long ago, the people who lived by the riverbank
feared the power of the serpent god, M’boi.
So every year, they offered him a sacrifice
in the form of a beautiful maiden.
Naipi was one of the ladies chosen to serve as a human sacrifice.
And she was also the first woman who dared to defy M’boi.
If you’re wondering why, it’s because she had a lover.
M’boi was furious when he learned that Naipi was
trying to flee with her beloved.
In his rage, he split the river apart.
It’s said that is how Iguazu Falls came to be.
M’boi’s rage would not subside
even as the canoe was being devoured by the waterfall.
He would not grant the lovers one last moment
of happiness by allowing them to die together.
M’boi transformed Naipi into the rock in the basin of the falls.
Her lover was turned into a palm tree.
And he kept a close eye on the two.
Poor Naipi...
Men green with jealousy sure can be scary!
But remember those rainbows?
A good god took pity on Naipi...
And on clear days,
he creates rainbows to connect the rock and the palm trees.
The rainbow is able to carry Naipi’s burning love
to her special someone.
Or so we assume...
I, Ana, think you’re like Naipi.
Just now, you were thinking of someone.
Boo-yah! I freed it!
This one’s next!
I’m on fire!
I swear, all you ever do is play puzzles!
I’m amazed you don’t get sick of them.
Yeah and you keep stuffing your face!
Can you blame me
when we’re gonna be stuck here for who knows how long?
Maybe I should conquer all of the restaurants on this floor!
I’ll stand my own via nam pla! Er, number games!
Say what?!
Aren’t the butterflies pretty?
Ana, we aren’t here to look at butterflies!
You two came to find someone, didn’t you?
That sounds about right.
We’re looking for these two.
Have you seen them?
I’m not sure...
May I borrow these photos?
I’ll ask my friends if they’ve seen them.
Thank you, Ms. Regina!
Hello?
Ana?
Oh, Regi-Regi!
One of my friends said she spotted them.
The people you’re searching for, I mean.
Rae-Rae and Jin-Jin?
Right. Those are the two.
Let’s go check it out tomorrow.
No, I don’t mind.
Well, sweet dreams!
President Enigma, I swear by my name, Regina,
that I will annihilate those vile puzzlers.
Divine! Divine! Divine! Divine!
I, Ana, think this is thrilling to the max!
I hate boats!
Ugh, I feel sick!
The place where she saw your friends is just up ahead!
Just up ahead?!
You can’t be serious!
Where are we?
I didn’t realize there was a cave behind the waterfalls.
We’ll have to take a canoe the rest of the way.
The canoe goes swish swash!
This place gives me the creeps!
Is this a...
Could this be a...
puzzle?!
Regi-Regi!
I’m not simply Regina.
I am President Enigma’s Third Secretary,
the Master Brain, Regina Maria Vasco!
I have plans here today.
They are to defeat the two of you with this Puzzle of Fools.
That is all!
Regi-Regi, you aren’t Naipi anymore...
You thought I was Naipi?
You are quite the comedian!
You’re talking to the woman who
once abandoned her boyfriend
to work under President Enigma as his secretary.
In my eyes, the President is none other than
Iguazu’s serpent god, M’boi, in human skin!
I don’t care to be compared to Naipi,
who failed to see the value behind such a glorious god.
Now risk your lives as you face this Puzzle of Fools!
Then you will come to realize just how glorious the President is!
I’ve gotta try my hardest for Kaito...
Allow me to explain the rules.
You will travel on that canoe while indicating how much water
gets moved via a control panel.
If all of the pools contain equal
quantities of water by the time you reach the goal,
I will declare you victorious.
You have twenty minutes.
If you exceed that time limit...
Much like what you just witnessed,
the bottom of all of those pools will fall off.
You will share the same fate as the canoe
that gets flushed down with the water.
Thus President Enigma’s wish to see the
annihilation of you Phi-Brain children
will finally be realized!
Kaito mentioned “Raetsel’s puzzle.” Is this part of it?
Indeed, it is! Naturally, I have prepared a prize.
What should we do, Q-taro?
There are a total of 38 portions of water spread
across all of the pools.
If I divided that across the 16 pools...
there wouldn’t be enough water to use three portions.
So to disperse it uniformly, it’d take zero, one or two portions...
Now then, start the puzzle!
Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
Looking at this, the two pools by the goal are already three-fourths full.
In which case, they’ll both have
four portions of water when more floods in.
To equally distribute their four portions across the goal,
I must divide four by two, which equals two.
I’d like to fill all of the pools with two portions, but...
Q-taro! Q-taro!
If I did that, I’d have six portions leftover.
Q-taro! Q-taro!
Why don’t we spill some?
Splash!
That’s it!
We just need to spill out the excess water.
In which case, our path to the goal is...
Next we’re going to Pool F!
Sweet! Next up is Pool B!
Is she emptying all of the water out of Pool G?
Pool G already contained two portions,
so I didn’t include it in my course.
Now we have to start over!
In order to win, anything is fair game.
That is one of the rules we Master Brains abide by.
Searching for the doctor. Searching for the doctor.
If we have to go through Pool G,
we’ll have to pass through all of the pools.
In that case, we’re stuck passing through one of the pools twice.
We’ll have to backtrack through F or K...
And since Regina removed two portions of water from Pool G,
that will leave us with three portions of excess water.
In that case...!
Ana, watch it!
Row, row! Row, row! Row, row! Row, row! Row, row! Row, row!
Searching for the doctor. Searching for the doctor.
Power Search, commence!
Search, complete!
Doctor!
Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave!
Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
I wonder if Naipi and her boyfriend felt like this
when M’boi attacked them.
Are Ana and Q-taro lovers?!
That’s not what I meant!
Why don’t you join me?
I am the President of the Republic of Amgine, Johan Sigmund Enigma.
The President...?
You are overflowing with talent as a Giver.
I’m... overflowing with talent?
If I don’t give results...
I’ll never become President Enigma’s personal secretary!
Next up is the goal!
May President Enigma be victorious!
Waterfall splash?!
I’ll do whatever it takes to win.
Please watch me, President Enigma!
We’re short one portion!
Time is almost up.
Once the timer hits zero, the bottom of those pools will pop off!
The doctor’s in a pinch! The doctor’s in a pinch!
Calculating. Calculating.
Complete!
Doctor!
Iwashimizu!
Iwarin!
Doctor!
After this, it has a 100% chance of falling.
The stony icicle worked as a substitute for the water.
We owe you, Iwashimizu!
“In order to win, anything is fair game.”
Don’t you love that saying, Ma’am?
Th-the First Secretary?
Hello?
What?! I’m fired?!
Please give me just one more chance!
Miss, do you think you could hand over that prize you promised us?
Iwashimizu, answer the door!
Roger! Roger!
Who’s there? Who’s there?
Hey, Cube! Ana!
Sorry to have kept ya waitin’!
Together, you make the AnaQ-maki sushi roll!
Let’s go hit Raetsel’s next puzzle!
What’s wrong with you two?
Here.
What’s that?
This is--!
Mission complete! Mission complete!
What’s goin’ on here?
Beats me.
Hey, Cubik!
Ana! Wake up! C’mon!
Give us an explanation! I mean it!
Whoa! You shouldn’t shake them around like that!
Worthless.
Those Master Brains were truly worthless.
It would appear that my turn has come.
Greetings! I have not seen you in quite some time.
I am Herbert.
I shall invite the ultimate Solver, Kaito Daimon, over for our next episode.
We will have fun discussing current events and puzzles.
There will also be an alpaca.
I hope you look forward to the episode!
Next time, “Is That What You Thought I’d Say?”
Is That What You Thought I’d Say?
Of course that’s not what the episode is about!
Prepare yourself, Kaito Daimon!
You will pay for your heinous act of insulting me by suffering disgrace and despair!
Fin Art: Akeru Otsuki