While we were wandering around the town we saw a lot of posters that mentioned a festival that was going to be held soon, it was a yearly thing for the town and it seemed to be an important thing too. We had stopped in front of an weapon store to read about the festival, unfortunately this weapon store wasn't the one handing out free ammo. The festival had a lot of competitions, such as shooting, powerlifting and even drinking, as I was reading them Sheriff Joy was hinting me to participate in all of them.

"You could participate in them too, you got a gun and you also drink so I don't see a problem."

I said and ripped a poster off from the wall and pushed it to Sheriff Joy, he took it and began reading through it, at first he was just smiling but then the smile disappeared after he read what he would get if he won.

"Did you even read this? You could win up to 2500 dollars if you win all of the competitions! Do you understand how much that is?"

Sheriff Joy yelled and pushed the poster back to me, after I took it he pointed at the text that mentioned about the winnings, you actually could win 2500 dollars by winning a few competitions. I rolled the poster and stuffed it into my pocket, then sat down.

"Welp, we have to wait till they even start that we could win them."

I said and took a better position, then Sheriff Joy sat next to me.

"How can you be so sure that you will win?"

Sheriff Joy asked me, I looked at him and pulled my hat over my eyes and tried to rest for some time, he didn't approve to that so he smacked the hat off and stared at me, I think he took this really serious.

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"I probably won't even win them all, I might not even win one of them... If you ain't happy about that you could participate in them too to try and win. Now let me rest for a moment."

I said and reached to pick up the hat from the ground. After I got the hat Sheriff Joy was looking around and then got up and went inside the gun store. Then I pulled the hat over my eyes once again.

Some time later I hear Sheriff Joy sit next to me, he then slammed something between me and him, then I heard him opening his coat. I slowly put my hat back on and saw what he was doing, he was reloading his gun with brand new ammo he just bought. He managed to reload the gun faster than I could reload my own, then he rolled the cylinder and put it back to its holster, he also seemed a little mad.

"I will handle the shooting, you handle the other competitions, okay?"

Sheriff Joy said and got up and began walking towards the way where the inn was in, I stretched a little and then slowly got up. I had no idea what time it is but the owner of the store was closing it down for the day, after seeing that I quickly checked what time it was from my pocket watch, it was also getting dark. I got up quickly and ran after Sheriff Joy to the inn, he could get into trouble with the gangsters since he is an sheriff so I have to keep an eye on him.

I got in front of the inn and went in, there was nothing going on. I went to knock on Joy's door and he answered, I said good night and went to my room and sat down on the bed. I sat there thinking about the festivals and the competitions, they seemed somewhat easy and hard at the same time, of course I don't know the people who will participate so they might be real strong or weak, I wouldn't know.

I laid down on the bed trying to get some rest but couldn't, then I began wondering how long did I sleep on the bench outside the weapon store, minutes? Hours? I don't exactly know. I was rolling around the bed trying to find a better position to sleep in but couldn't, it was going to be a restless night.