How Do You QA Test a Tsundere Android!?

Test 36: Weekend

I return home shortly after leaving the mall.

"So? What did you buy?"

Mother catches me on the way to my room. Great, another interrogation is on the way...

"I didn't find Lego which was cheap enough, so I bought this thing called Jenga instead."

"How much did it cost?"

"20$, after a sale."

"That's all you bought?"

"Y-yeah."

There's no way I'm telling her about the necklace for my sweet daughter. It'd prompt way too many questions for me to deal with.

"Where's Amy?"

She asks after scanning around.

"Probably still in the mall with her friends."

"You didn't return together?"

"No, I just bought what I needed and left."

I shrug in disinterest. She's not a kid anymore; I don't need to babysit her.

"You could hang out with your own sister from time to time, you know."

"Why? She has friends of her age."

"But you're family."

"I think she prefers her friends."

And I prefer to spend my time at home as much as possible.

"Fine."

Mother shrugs and returns to watching TV. I treat this as a sign of being freed from the interrogation, so I return to my room.

I hardly played any video games this week thanks to my time-consuming job. But instead of spending a whole weekend on that, I first unpack the Jenga; it's imperative that I test the game for myself before teaching it to Lily.

The box contains 54 wooden blocks, which are meant to be grouped in trios. I build roughly half of the tower, to see how it stands.

I complete the creation up to 18 levels. The tower has become rather tall, but it properly maintains balance.

I begin pulling out blocks at random, to test the flow of the game. Dexterity has never been my forte, therefore I cause the tower to collapse fairly early on my first attempts.

I keep building and destroying the tower over and over, trying to figure out the game's strategies. I must have spent hours repeating this routine; it's a pretty fun challenge.

"So, like, that's what you bought?"

Amy enters my room and examines the Jenga tower.

The tower is currently in a dangerous situation; I have been playing with this one for a while. It's so shaky that any small shake would make it collapse.

"Why didn't you stick around a little longer? We went to Mcdonalds and stuff."

"Not interested."

I circle around the endangered tower, trying to find a safe block to pull out.

"It's called Jenga or something, right? Like, I played that before at school."

She approaches me and sits down on the green carpet.

She played Jenga before? This game which I play today for the first time? Guess that's the difference between those who had a social childhood and those who didn't.

I press three fingers against my forehead and try to calculate the winning move. There must be a move that can-

"Phooo!"