It's because it's a game for kids, right? It's like... childhood puppy love stuff.
[ Minato hums a little to himself, and then reaches for a pen so he can scribble some things on his cootie catcher. When he's done, he holds it up so Juzo can see. It's a classic set of things--the outside is a set of four numbers: 1, 5, 2, 6. ]
So it'd go something like this... Pick a number, Juzo-san.
[ he holds the cootie catcher open at that position, and then nods. ]
Now you can pick one of the flaps to fold up. That'll tell your fortune.
[ spoilers: they are all sappy fortunes about Juzo and his future happiness, as fortune cookie-esque as he could come up with, because this is Minato. ]
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I'm havin' a hard time figurin' out how this little thing fits in with the greater theme of this whole task.
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[ Minato hums a little to himself, and then reaches for a pen so he can scribble some things on his cootie catcher. When he's done, he holds it up so Juzo can see. It's a classic set of things--the outside is a set of four numbers: 1, 5, 2, 6. ]
So it'd go something like this... Pick a number, Juzo-san.
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[ It’s clear he still doesn’t get it, but he’s trying anyway! ]
Five?
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One, two, three, four, five.
[ Now his choices are colors: blue, yellow, green, red. ]
Next... pick one.
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Red?
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[ he holds the cootie catcher open at that position, and then nods. ]
Now you can pick one of the flaps to fold up. That'll tell your fortune.
[ spoilers: they are all sappy fortunes about Juzo and his future happiness, as fortune cookie-esque as he could come up with, because this is Minato. ]
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He just randomly points to a corner. ]
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And holds it up so that Juzo can read what it says.
Juzo-san will definitely have a good day and if he has any crushes they'll all work out great and if not he'll find lots of people who appreciate him.
WOW WHO COULD'VE WRITTEN THAT. ]
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Really, kid?
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That's your fortune. I don't know why you're looking at me.
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It's your fortune. That's all there is to it.
Anyway, that's how a cootie catcher works. Did you catch how to fold it?
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But ugh, clearly this isn't an argument worth having. ]
Think so. Guess I gotta make my own for it to count, huh?
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Unless you want the people you use it on to read the rest of your fortunes.
[ that minato wrote ]
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[ He's embarrassed enough!
So he's going to sit down and concentrate VERY HARD on folding a cootie catcher of his own. ]
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Sometimes your hard-boiled detective friend with a gun for a head is folding colorful paper into cootie catchers and it's just a good atmosphere. ]
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At last... he has a surprisingly neatly-folded cootie catcher, which he lifts to show Minato. ]
Not too bad for a rookie, huh?
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... You're really good at this. That one looks pretty much perfect.
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[ He also does the cootie catcher thing!! You know, in out in out. Just for show. ]
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Thanks for the help, kid. And the encouragement.
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I'm glad I could help. It was kind of fun to try to remember how to fold one anyway.
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Oh, while I have you here... d'you mind helping me out with a square too?
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And then he puts it away, and solemnly: ]
Juzo-san, I just need you to know that...
... you're my baby daddy.
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