The Digital Santa's Blunder

December 25th

Morning.

"Mommy~"
"Good morning~
Ma-chan"

"Morning.~
Mommy, can I ask you something?"
"What is it?"

"Where was Santa born?
""Santa?
Uh, let's see... Norway...

Hmm?
Finland?

That's right, Finland!
Some place called something-land there.

Something-land in Finland...
I can't remember the 'something' part though...

He's from a cold country,
way up north from Japan."

"Is he a foreigner?"
"That's right."

"Is he bad at Japanese?"
"I wonder~.
I wonder if he can speak Japanese.

But he comes to Japan every year,
so maybe he can do it a little?

You're welcome...he might be able to say something like that, right?"

"Can he write letters?"
"Letters?
I wonder about that?

Japanese is difficult, you know...

But he might be able to write as well as you can, Ma-chan.


But why are you so curious about whether Santa can speak Japanese, Ma-chan?
"

"Today, I got a present from Santa."
"Oh, really?
That's great!"

"And then,
there was a letter with the present"
"Oh, how lovely.
What did it say?"

"To Ma-chan,
You were a good girl,
so I brought you a present...it said."
"Santa was watching you work hard on so many things, Ma-chan."

"But you know.
This
To Ma-chan part, thee part,
e● instead ofhe●—we learned at school that you're supposed to write it with 'he'.""Is it that character

e●? Hmm...
Santa... I wonder if he was in a hurry.

Look.
There's that song about the hurried Santa, right?

I'm sure he was just in a hurry...
That's what Mommy thinks~~
Probably~~"

"Is Santa really a hurried person?

But you know...

this is wrong too.

I'm sure Santa, he just started studying
hiragana...
just like Ma-chan
"
"Is that so?
Let Mommy see it for a second."


【To Ma-chan

You were a good girl,
so I brought you a present






Chinta】 "See?
He still doesn't know

sa● andchi●

apart, Santa." ( Daddy, Gestalt breakdown!?)