Minamo Madoka Pays 20,000 Yen for a New Garden, Then Finds the Builder Closed

NIJISANJI — Minamo Madoka bought a new garden plot for 20,000 yen in the farming and village-life game Hono Gurashi no Niwa, only to find the builder’s shop closed when she tried to use the lumber it was meant to supply. She had gone looking for trees after running short of hard lumber, which she needs before she can build a stable, and after weighing the price against the 50,000 yen she had saved, she paid it.

The purchase followed a stream heavy on story. In a night scene, Madoka and the villagers failed to bring a dead chicken back to life with a magical melody. The tree ghost they met there, a lonely spirit, was offered a different kind of comfort: the chicken was buried beside it. Madoka suggested the name “Eyeball” for the ghost before it recalled its own name, Kodama.

“It’s not a fishing spot. The bridge is just broken. That’s the view I paid 20,000 for.” — Minamo Madoka, after buying the new garden

Later in the stream a villager she and chat joked about as a *zenigeba*, or money-grubber, summoned her to the same tree. The woman called it a land god and ordered it felled, and Madoka went along with it, apologizing to the tree as she chopped. The villager then returned a missing wallet, which Madoka handed back the next day. It was empty, and its owner said he had only wanted a small bell that had been inside it. Madoka said afterward that it felt as if she had done something terrible.

Between story scenes she tended crops, which she said bring in about 18,000 yen every four days, and she talked about running errands and exercise on busy days. At the end, the new plot turned out to hold only a broken bridge rather than the fishing spot she had hoped for. Chat answered the closed shop with jokes about it being put off until another day.

Madoka said she planned to stream again the next night at about 10 p.m., possibly twice, with the goal of collecting enough hard lumber to build the stable. The stream drew seven Super Chats.