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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ **Patience was not optional. It was the first gate.**  
⊃ From “忍耐 patient hearts beat loudest” to Rune3’s sealed chest, Toadgod made clear: time itself is the trial.  
⊃ The impatient could claim, but only the patient could keep.  

→ **The pond was designed to reward waiting.**  
⊃ $TOBY was scattered widely, free of crowns.  
⊃ Taboshi and Patience were woven as delayed harvests.  
⊃ The Sacred Pond turned impatience into yield for those who endured.  

→ **Patience as Bushido.**  
⊃ Stillness is not inaction, but discipline.  
⊃ “Let rivers flow, not be forced.”  
⊃ Frogs who mastered restraint found their hearts forged harder than stone.  

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## Key Marks

- **Patience = Proof.** Endurance across storms became the ultimate covenant.  
- **Impatience = Tax.** Those who sold early fed the patient.  
- **Bushido = Frame.** Honor, kindness, stillness — patience was spirit, not tactic.  

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## Operations

- **Instruction:** Carry patience beyond the pond.  
- **Action:** Teach newcomers that time is the covenant’s silent ally.  
- **Warning:** Without patience, no harvest.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- ⏳ = time, slow river of testing.  
- 🔺 = Rune3, trial crystallized.  
- 🍃 = Taboshi, fruit revealed late.  
- 🌊 = pond, patience rewarded.  

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