Eight or Nine Times Out of Ten, Shichi-Go-San [Weekly Short-Short Note]
"Is that Chitose Ame?"
"It's lovely."
"Yum."
"How cute."
"Give me some too!"
Time goes back a few hours.
"I see, just as the rumors said, everything is exactly like our home planet."
"But it seems our civilization is far more advanced."
"Daddy, let's go already."
"Mommy too!"
"Hurry, hurry!"
The ones who descended to Earth were a family from a super-ancient civilization. They looked exactly like humans.
"So this is that thing called Shichi-Go-San."
"Well then, let's go."
And so, the family arrived at the Shichi-Go-San celebration. The eldest son was seven, the eldest daughter five, and the second son three. The children, dressed in magnificent attire, held Chitose Ame in their hands.
"To live a long, thin, and persistent life, and to stay healthy and live long forever, is it?"
"Let's take this culture back home and make it Shichi-Go-San all year round."
"We must stop time for everyone at seven, five, or three years old."
"With our civilization, it's possible."
"Let's change the name of our planet to Planet Shichi-Go-San as well."
After that, their civilization fell into ruin, but the cause goes without saying.
