Kettle

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K - Kettle is a letter in Rolypolys no Nanakorobi Yaoki.

Plot

The Del Montas, Yellow, Green, and Red, each crawl up their string and raise a flag. Each flag is progressively bigger. The Yellow Del Montas, whom has the smallest flag, is jealous of the others, and cuts them off the tree with scissors. Banaten comes by, acknowledges the Yellow Del Montas, leaves, then comes back and shoots him down with a machine gun.

Moral

"The pot calls the kettle black."

Explanation

"Literally: Eye dirt sneers at nose dirt.

We are often unable to see our own shortcomings, and accuse those around us of being at fault. The pot, unable to see its own bottom, criticizes the kettle for being scorched underneath. Have you ever done the same? The Del Montas are all exactly alike-like peas in a pod, in fact. Unable to recognize this, they try so hard to undercut each other to elevate their own positions. They finally end up in exactly the same situation, don't they?"

Roly Polys Letters
Letters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ