Oh come on, you know you love it. Weird tangents are where it’s at.
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I feel like unless some more plot developments insue, we’re going to go off on weird tangents for a while…
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That means we’re almost back on track!
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for a brief moment, then back to nothingness
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I think that’s the moment @a-regular-durtle will come around and threaten to burn us all again.
We’ll then immediately proceed in the wrong direction.
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“burn… BURN! The clue must be in a kanji relating to fire!”
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What else do we burn? A witch!
That exclamation is most famous because of a Monthy Python sketch. Pythons are snakes!
Let’s check kanji with the snake radical!
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But if the actual path keeps curving back and forth like that, we’ll keep crossing it even if we just go straight 
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Not necessarily. All we can do is hope
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I love how @a-regular-durtle said “catching you all on fire” instead of “setting you all on fire”.
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Maybe it has some kind of significance…
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He also mentions letting the clues “wash” over us. I’m not sure clues are well-known for washing…
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relax + wash = 
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Exactly! Waiting for a clue bath. Or maybe a clue onsen.
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On the bright side, if Koichi is unburnt by that time, we will get another obscure hint in 44 posts.
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Maybe we should use the onsen/bath water to quench the flames?
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The clue is in the tofugu swimming pool, which, at it’s deepest, is 60 feet in depth, specifically for this puzzle.
Who volunteers?
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not me!
Since you figured it out, why don’t you go ahead…
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