classic stories 126-133
126.
Legend of the Yukkuri Tyrant
Prologue: Birth of the Yukkuri Tyrant
A lone, tattered, and dirty infant Yukkuri is heard wailing in the middle of the woods.
Numerous cuts and bruises mark its soft body. What should have been a whitish healthy texture is now a soil colored brown mixed with a dirty reddish hue.
The child is unaware of its own heritage, having lost its accessories shortly after being born.
The child doesn't know where its parents are. The only remaining memory after being born was that of a Remirya trying to eat it. It doesn't remember how it survived the attack. It only knows that it is lonely, cold and hungry. It continues wailing.
".yuyuu..I can't twake ith eassy...."
"it's cooooowwwld"
The child continues its cries, unaware that something has changed within the forest.
In an instant, the wind came to a sudden stop, the insects were silenced, and the night sky turned to violet.
"Gensokyo, accepts everything..." A haunting but playful voice is heard from the darkness; and with it, a figure of woman. Had this yukkuri possess human reasoning, it could tell right away that this woman was a youkai.
"yuyuu...?"
The woman smirked.
"Of course, this is probably beyond your comprehension"
The yukkuri cowers in fear. It does not know what the woman is, but it knows one thing... Fear. Intense Fear. Every sense on its body is being overwhelmed by an unexplained sensation of fear.
"yyy..."
The yukkuri is too afraid to even talk now.
"Gensokyo accepts everything, and that's why.."
The woman makes direct eye contact with the yukkuri. The yukkuri completely freezes, but the woman continues her monologue.
"If you want to live here, you too must accept everything within Gensokyo"
The yukkuri doesn't know occurred, but it finds itself capable of understanding the woman's words now. It becomes slightly less afraid.
"Do you want to see your mother, yukkuri?"
The yukkuri paused as if trying to make sure that it didn't misheard the woman's words.
"Y.. yuyuu know where mwommy is?"
The woman smirked.
"You haven't answered my question, little one"
"y.. yuyuu! yuyuu!.. pwease let me see mwommy, easy!"
The yukkuri jumped with subdued excitement.
The woman giggled.
"Then you must first live. Do you want to live in Gensokyo?"
"Y..yuyuu! I want to live, easy!"
The woman paused again, this time her expression turned darker
"Will you accept it..? all of Gensokyo's blessings, and all of its punishments..."
"yuyuu?"
Once again the yukkuri was confused.
This time the woman's mouth curved into an unsettling smile. This was not ignored by the yukkuri and it backed away, instinctively.
"It appears this is still too hard for you to comprehend. So, let me rephrase this..."
"...there will be times where you must not take it easy"
"I.. can't twake it eeesy?"
The yukkuri's expression turned into a confused frown
"Not always, of course. In the end you can take it easy, as much as you want.."
"yuyuu!? take it easy as much a I want?"
"yuyuu!, I'll do it, yuyuu!!"
"let me see, mwommy, yuyuu!"
The woman turned her back on the yukkuri. There was now silence.
"yuyuu?"
The yukkuri starts to get anxious.
But shortly after, the woman broke her silence.
"It's a promise, then. Sleep well for now, little one"
With that, the yukkuri fell into a deep sleep.
"Y..u..u"
"..."
"Ran..., retrieve the yukkuri"
In an instant another figured emerged from the darkness.
"Yes, Mistress Yukari"
The woman named Ran took the yukkuri promptly. However, Ran was still curious.
"My Lady..If I may ask a question?"
Ran carefully spoke to her mistress.
"...What is it, Ran?"
"Why are you doing this?"
Once again, Yukari let out a smile. Even for a longtime servant as Ran, it was hard to decipher the feelings of her Mistress.
"...well, that thing reminds me of someone I know"
Yukari, Ran and the Yukkuri disappeared into a dark gap.
Shortly after, the night life of the forest returned to normal and the sky was once again midnight blue.
127.
Legend of the Yukkuri Tyrant
Chapter 1: A lesson in bad and good
The following day.
It was now noon in Mayohiga.
"yuyukkuri, come here! I have something to show you!"
"yuyukkuri"; The little yukkuri had grown accustomed to that name. She doesn't know why, but the name felt so fitting to her.
Yukari extended her hand and presented a white sphere to Yuyukkuri
"Yuyuu!, what is that, yuyuu?"
Yukari smiled.
"In order to live, all things must eat. You're hungry aren't you?"
"yuyuu! I'm hungry!" Instinctively, yuyukkuri took a bit at the white sphere in Yukari's hand.
"!!.. this is yummy! yuyuu! I can take it easy, yuyuu!"
Yuyuki smiled gently. "This is candy. This is food for humans, but alright for you to eat it"
Yukari extended another hand and presented another white sphere. By instinct, yuyukkuri jumped and bit the sphere.
"Yu..?"
"Yuyuu! Yuyuu!" "This is gooooood!
"but why does it taste different?"
"That one had a different filling. Appearances can be deceiving, yuyukkuri"
Yukari took out another white sphere from her pocket. Yuyukkuri greedily jumped and swallowed it whole.
"Yh..? ykh..."
"yughuugghhuu!!!!!!!! ghhh! ghh!! yukkh.. kh..!!"
Yuyukkuri rolled violently on the ground in anguish. Tears flowed from her eyes while her tongue was flailing wildly. In the process her tongue received several cuts from the ground, and thus, causing her to cry out even more. It was a cruel cycle.
Yukari observed the event and smiled gently, as before.
"That one.. was a moth ball"
"This is your first lesson on how to live, yuyukkuri. There are things that you can eat, and there are things that you can't... Do not trust your eyes"
Yukari made a gesture with her hands and a cup of transparent liquid appeared from a gap.
"Here, drink that and wash away that taste..."
Yuyukkuri dived into the cup. To her relief it was water.
Yukari continued to observe the event.
"Hmm.. she reacted too quickly. Her survival instincts still needs some work."
Finishing her drink, Yuyukkuri collapsed on the soil, panting heavily. Yukari continued to observe things.
"I guess we will have to take a break for now.."
Yukari continued feeding yuyukkuri several more times. Yuyukkuri would at times, confuse coal for chocolate, jabanero for tomatoes, and various other mistakes, but overall yuyukkuri was learning to be more careful with her food.
Yukari however, was losing interest.
"Well, this is getting tiresome..."
"Ran.."
"Yes, Mistress"
Ran appeared by Yukari's side, as always.
"Continue this for me. I'm going to sleep. A youkai should only be awake at night, after all." Yukari started yawning.
"Mistress, If I may...?"
Again, Ran was curious.
"What it is, Ran..?"
"Is this really necessary?"
"..."
Yukari gave Ran a blank look. Yukari did not intend to relay any kind of emotion, but upon seeing that Ran lowered her head instinctively.
"Ran, you of all people should know that I do things for a reason"
"Of course, my lady"
Ran knew this all to well. She had experienced similar thing before. Yukari was harsh, but always for a reason.
Yukari took a glance at yuyukkuri once more and the trademark smile returned to her face.
"Besides... despite these trial, the yukkuri continues to eat no matter what"
Indeed, yuyukkuri was eating voraciously as they speak.
"Is it perhaps the inherent insatiable hunger of her kind? Or is it her devotion to her mother? Either way this is an interesting creature.."
Yukari laughed softly.
"Ran, start swapping water with alcohol ever once in while.."
Ran raised her head. "Mistress, that might hurt her wounds..."
Yukari smiled cheerfully at Ran, as if agreeing with her. "Living things learn with their bodies, Ran"
128.
Legend of the Yukkuri Tyrant
Chapter 2: The strong and the weak
The day passed and Yukari has deemed yuyukkuri to be sufficiently prepared for her next lesson
"Well done, yuyukkuri. Here, have this" Yuyuko presents another white sphere.
Cautious, Yuyukkuri carefully nibbles on it.... "It's sweet!"
"Yuyuu! gwooood! yuyuu!"
Yukkurisa continues nibling on the candy until she realizes something different.
"..?! pweeh! pfft!" yuyukkuri spits out the candy
Yukari claps her hands.
"Well done, little yukkuri. The core of that candy was very spicy. If you swallowed it right away you wouldn't have noticed. Good job, you pass"
However, by now, the yukkuri is quite upset.
"let mwee take it easy! yuyuu!"
"I want to see mwommy, easy!"
"oh, but you will in time... just not right now"
Yuyukkuri wants to protest again, but a familiar unsettling fear grasps her senses once more.
"yugyuuwwwwwww~"
Yuyukkuri starts to cry.
Yukari laughs softly
"Fine then... I'll let you know where your mother is"
"Yh.. yuyuu?"
Yuyukkuri stops crying.
"but there's one more thing for you to eat.."
Yukari's hand reaches for the sky and into a black gap. She pulls out another yukkuri from the gap. It's a yukkurisa.
"missy, where's the food?"
Yukkurisa hops around happily.
"The food was all eaten by her!"
Yukari points to yuyukkuri
Yuyukkuri is shocked and speechless. Yukkurisa, however is furious.
"why you eat mwarissa's food! I can't take it easy now!"
Yukari leans her chin on her hand, smiling.
"Give back mwarisa's food!"
Yukkurisa bounces threateningly towards yuyukkuri
"That was MY fwood!"
Yuyukkuri retorts in anger.
"You're a liar!"
Yukkurisa starts to charge against yuyukkuri.
"yughugh!!"
yuyukkuri feels a painful blow. Her old wounds start to open once more and her filling drips out.
Yukari observes this and displays a mild frown.
"Listen, little yukuri. I have changed the border of sound around yukkurisa. Only you can hear this, now"
"Yuyuu..?"
Yuyukurri tries to regain her composure
"I have just one thing to say. You must eat yukkurisa before she kills you"
"but!.."
yuyukkuri didn't have much time to protest. Yukkurisa starts her next blow.
"dwop dead easy!!!"
SLAM
... yukkurisa barely misses and slams into the ground.
"yughuh!! yugh! yugh!" Yukkurisa receives some cuts from that. She is now more furious. She prepares her next charge.
Yukkurisa is a child, but she is still larger than the recently born yuyukkuri. Yuyukkuri's mind works hard to find a solution.
Yuyukkuri instincts awakens and she opens her mouth.
"Hyuuuuuuu!"
Yuyukkuri tries to suck yukkurisa in... however it's pointless to use this against an older yukkurisa.
SLAM
"yughugh!"
Yuyukkuri receives another blow. She is noticeably leaking now.
Yukari clearly upset right now.
"Listen yukkuri, there are parts of yukkurisa that you can eat and parts that you can't. Use this to your advantage"
Time seems to slow down for yuyukkuri as yukkurisa continues her charge. Yuyukkuri tries to suck Yukkurisa again, but it fails once more.
Suddenly, Yuyukkuri realizes something. Yukkurisa's hat is being swaying in her direction. Yuyukkuri focuses her suction on Yukkurisa's hat and inhales fiercely.
pop! the hat comes off
"Yu!?"
Yukurissa charges into her hat. It is now covering her eyes. Yuyukkuri uses this chance and tries to squash Yukkurisa.
pffth!
Yuyukkuri crashes down on Yukkurisa. Unfortunately it does more damage to herself than Yukkurisa.
"Yukh!?"
"Yugghuuwgh!! It huuuurdss!!! It HUUUUUUUURDS!!"
Yuyukkuri's old wounds have completely reopened now.
Yuyukkuri's trembles painfully on the ground.
The even more enraged Yukkurisa charges towards her. Yukkurisa is going for the kill.
However, Yuyukkuri isn't willing to die yet. She does the unthinkable and leaps towards the charging Yukkurisa...
...and she crashes into Yukkurisa's eye.
YUGYUUUUUUUU!!!!!
ghh!! khh!! ghuu!!
Yuyukkuri begins inhaling hard. Yukkurisa's eye is now on her mouth.
YUKHH!! KHUU!! YUUKKHH!
What are yuu dwooing! ZDOB IT EASY!!!
Yuyukkuri sucks harder and harder..
GYUUUUGGHHH! ZDOOOOB IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
POLSH.. with a wet sounding pop, Yukkurisa loses her eye to Yuyukkuri
NWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Yuyukkuri has swallowed Yukkurisa's eyeball.
"SO GWOOD! THAT WAS SWOOO GWOOOD!!"
Yuyukkuri's old wounds start closing right away.
"DROP DEAD EASY! DROP DEAD EASY!"
A berserk Yukkurisa charges against Yuyukkuri, but Yuyukkuri easily dodges it.
Without one eye and the her recent injury, Yukkurisa had trouble balancing herself.
SPLOTCH!!
Yukkurisa crashes into the ground. Bean paste starts gushing from her open eye socket.
YGHHH!!! GYUU!!! YUGHUU!!!
PWEASE ZDOB BLEEDING, EASY!
Yuu!!! Yuu!!!
Yu..!?
The blurry image of Yuyukkuri crashing down on her remaining eye is the last image Yukkurisa saw.
SPLAT!
Yughh! ghh.. ghuuUUUUUUUUUUU!!
Yukkurisa is now blind, but Yuyukkuri shows no mercy.
Forcibly placing her mouth on Yukkurisa's empty eye socket, Yuyukkuri starts to suck on Yukkurisa's innards.
Yughhghuuuggghh!!
NWOooooooooooooooo!!!
ZDOB ID EASY! ZDOB IIIIIIIiiiiiiid...
Yuyukkuri responds by sucking even harder, in a few moments, Yukkurisa is a shriveled shell of herself.
Yukh.. yughk.. eeeeshy...
"gwood... it's sooooo gwoood!!"
Yuyukkuri has learned the taste of another yukkuri. She has awakened to her nature as a predator yukkuri.
"th.. take... eeesshy.."
The shriveled yukkurisa pleaded for mercy, but Yuyukkuri was already in a feeding frenzy.
With nothing left to suck on, yuyukkuri begins nibbling on Yukkurisa
yhiiiii!!!
Yukkurisa let out a gibberish shriek. Yuyukkuri takes a bite after bite until all that remains is yukkurisa's face. At least, what passes as it.
ghii.. hii..
tears flow out of yukkurisa's eye sockets. But Yuyukkuri is unmoved. With one final gulp she swallowed Yukkurisa's remains whole.
Yukkurisa has finished eating her first victim. Just then, something happened to Yuyukkuri.
Images.. scents.. words... many things started flooding into Yuyukkuri's mind
Yugh!?
Yukkurisa's birth. Yukkurisa's family. Yukkurisa's unfortunate meeting with Yukari, Yukkurisa's violent death. All tried to force their way into Yuyukkuri's mind, but after a while, everything faded away.
Yu!?"
What was that, yuyuu?"
Yuyukkuri was trembling now
"Memories..."
Yukari was once again displaying a kind gentle smile.
"The yukkuri-kind can pass on memories to another yukkuri this way. It is usually done between parent to a child when their time of death arrives"
Yuu.."
Yuyukkuri was stunned
"However, even among the yukkuri, your kind is especially gifted in it."
My kind?"
Yuyukkuri was not familiar with that concept
"You are what the humans call a yukkuri yuyuko. Your kind lives to consume other yukkuri and grow stronger by it. Don't you feel stronger already?"
"yuu.."
Yuyukkuri stared blankly into space.
"Yes, you can take it easy by eating other yukkuri. Of course, those who are eaten can't take it easy, obviously. As I said before, there is both blessing and punishment in Gensokyo."
"yuu.."
Yuyukkuri started to tremble again
"So, how do you feel about this, little yukkuri?"
Yuyukkuri started trembling even more
To take another yukkuri's life into herself..
It was an overwhelming feeling...
...
...
Yuyukkuri loved every moment of it!
"YUYUU! THAT WAS GREAT! YUYUU!!"
Yukari smirked.
"You certainly are a true blooded yukkuri yuyoko.."
129.
Legend of the Yukkuri Tyrant
Chapter 3: Defeat
"yughkh... uugh.. yuyuu.."
A half torn Yuyukkuri trembles weakly on the ground.
Just yesterday this yukkuri was at its prime, but now, she is just a dying piece of manjuu.
Besides her, Remirya stood triumphantly. Yuyukkuri's inner filling dripped all over her hands.
"Remirya knows where your mother is..."
Yuyukkuri remembers Yukari's words...
"If you eat her you can inherit her memories and learn where your mother is"
"I will eat her and dake it easy with mwommy, yuyuu!"
Those were naive words. The Remirya was far stronger than her. Far stronger that a lot of yukkuri. What stood before her wasn't just a mere Remirya. It was a 2nd generation Remirya, descended directly from the original Remirya residing in Scarlet Mansion.
But it's too late now. Her life will end soon at the hands of Remirya. How sad.
Yukari floated over scene, seemingly uncaring about what has happened.
"This happened because you were weak, yuyukkuri"
Yuyukkuri kept her bitter silence
"I knew you were not ready to fight Remirya, but alas, you were impatient"
"Yuu.."
yuyukkuri could do nothing but cry. She was foolish and this was her punishment.
Remirya slowly shambled closer to her.
"nwoooo... zdob.."
"nh.. nwoo..."
...
"Ah well, it's hopeless" yuyukkuri thought.
Yuyukkuri closed her eyes, accepting her fate. She was never meant to survive from the beginning.
Remirya lunged at Yuyukkuri
"It seems you have accepted your weakness..
Yukari continues to gaze the night sky
Remirya's readies her nails. It's feeding time now... And thus, Remirya strikes..
"Very well, then.."
Yukari made a gesture with her hand
Yuyukkuri waited and waited, but the finishing blow did not come. She braved herself and opened her eyes.
To her surprise she was once again in Mayohiga. Besides her, was the ever watchful Yukari.
"To live in Gensokyo, you must accept everything including your own weakness"
"Do you acknowledge your weakness? little yukkuri"
"Yh.."
Yuyukkuri wasn't sure how to answer that.
"Do you hate Remirya?"
"Ykh.. kh.. Yh.. YUUUUUGHKK!"
Yuyukkuri starts to ache at the mention of that name
She hates it
She truly hates not being to take it easy like this
KH! KHh!! khh!!
Yuyukkuri squirms on the ground
"Ran, tend to her.."
As usual, Ran appeared promptly.
Ran took out what appears to be a small bottle and poured its contents all over yuyukkuri
yhh..!?"
Somehow, strength was slowly returning to her body
"sugar water.. you will live through this, but tonight will still be painful"
Yukari glanced to yuyukkuri and gave out an inappropriately cheerful smile.
"In the mean time, please think about what I said~"
Even so, Yuyukkuri did just that
the pain, the anger, the fear
the face of Remirya...
Yuyukkuri made a decision that night.
She would become stronger and defeat Remirya
She will not let this go unpunished. Yuyukkuri could no longer take it easy this. Yuyukkuri... has become twisted. If she had to eat one hundred more yukkuri, she would do it.
That night, a yukkuri's heart died and a youkai was born
130.
Sequel to 81.
I was walking through the forest on my way home, carrying a bag filled with enough food to feed myself, a large yukkuri Grandmother, a single koyukkuri, and nothing more. It was feeding time, after all. I was interrupted on my walk as a large Yukkurisa began tackling my legs. I continued walking forward and asked it why it wasn't taking it easy on me.
"You have food! Marisa needs food!"
Feh, blasted thing. "Don't be so selfish, or I'll step on you easy." I threatened. I've learned from extensive playing with Yukkuris that they take everything you say if you take "easy" onto the end of it.
"But Marisa needs food for Marisa's babies!"
Koyukkuri? Those things are always so cute when you squish them. A little detour wouldn't hurt. "Oh, they're for Marisa's babies!" I said with a false enthusiasm. "That's different. I'll feed them easy, I will!"
It jumped up and down happily. "I'll take you to them easy!" It shouted with glee.
And so I followed it through the forest, checking the landmarks to prevent getting lost. Soon, I found we were coming up to a Yukkureimu. It had a single tendril sprouting out of it.
"Take it easy!" It shouted in greeting to me.
"Take it easy" I casually reply.
"Mister Brought food! Our babies can eat easy!" The Marisa shouted. The Reimu jumps for joy with various sounding yays.
I picked up the Reimu and tucked it Gently under my arm. "Come with me, and I'll take you somewhere where I can get you food." I cooed to it. "You come along, too" I added to the Marisa. She happily bounced along behind me as I took them both back to my house. "Now, wait out here easy while I go get everything set up!" I said putting the Reimu down on a chair that I had set up in my patio.
"Okay, Mister!" It shouted
"Take it easy!" The Marisa shouted after it.
I head inside be began to grab a few things. A set of Matches, some spare charcoal, and four pieces of twine that would serve to hold down the Yukkuri. I walk back outside, and start up a flame in the grill.
"Ooh, pretty!" The Marisa shouted jumping onto one of the ledges of the grill on the side. I smiled down to it.
"Take it easy right here, I need to do something." I told it.
"Ohh, what are you going to do, mister?" it asked
"You'll see."
I lifted the Marisa's hat for a little bit, and tucked a peice of twine under it. I wrapped it around the ledge, and tied it securely. I did the same with another peice of twine, effectively pinning the Marisa to the ledge.
"Ooh, ooh!" It shouted "What's this for?"
"It's to keep you in place so you can watch the food cook!" I said with a bit too much glee in my voice. "I'll tell you what, Reimu can watch too, how does that sound?"
"Ooh! Reimu wants to watch! Reimu wants to watch!" it jumped up and down happily. I was just as happy to oblige it. I grabbed the Reimu in both hands, and set it on the opposing ledge. "Now what? Where's the food?" It asked impatiently.
"I've already hung it over the grill. Haven't you noticed?" I said with a hint of malice in my voice.
"What? I don't see the food! Show me the food easy!" Reimu said growing more impaitient.
suddenly, one of the Koyukkuri on the vine started to speak. "Mwommie... ids hawt" it began to whine.
“Yu?”
“Ids doo hawt!”
“Yu…? Yu … YU! YUYUYUYUYU!”
The parents were frantic now. Their children were crying. The parents could feel the heat on their faces as well.
“I can’t move! I can’d moob! Helb me eajy, mizter!” The Reimu’s words were slurring into a desperate speech. I stepped behind the Marisa, and slowly untied it. The Marisa struggled against the twine, and came free. It didn’t realize that I let it free.
“Marisa got out easy! Reimu can too!”
“Reibu caaaaan’d!” It cried tearfully. The babies continued to cry, and the Marisa got frusterated. I picked it up in my hands gently, and carried it over to the Reimu.
“Reimu can move easy! Reimu has to move easy! Why won’t Reimu Move easy!?”
“Reibu caaaan’d! Reibu iz dryiing~!” it sobbed.
The Marisa was furious. “Reimu can move! Reimu can too move! Why would Reimu move! Marisa’s Babies can’t take it easy! Move it Easy! If Reimu doesn’t move it easy, I’ll smash her so she can’t hurt marisa’s babies anymore!”
“Looks like Reimu doesn’t plan on moving…” I commented from the back. This set the Marisa off like a roman candle. It shouted loudly from the top of its lungs (?) to drop dead easy, and leapt onto the Reimu, smashing her bean paste filling out of her body. The Reimu’s sobbing quickly turned into deathscreams.
In the process of killing her own lover and the mother of her yet to be birthed children, the stem that the children were on were brought touching the grill, cooking them faster. On top of that, the middle Yukkuri dropped off the twig and into the char below. Looks like I can’t retrieve it. What a pain. I decided to let the Marisa deal with the babies now.
“Reimu can’t hurt your babies now, Marisa, but look!” I shouted with false enthusiasm. “Your babies are now burning up! Hurry up and save them.”
The Marisa twisted over the Reimu’s corpse to watch them crying in pain. “Mommie will save you!” it shouted. Then it reached out with it’s mouth to the nearest baby. It successfully snatched it from the heat- and death. The then twisted towards me, and dropped the Yukkuri off at it’s side. It twisted back around, ignoring the resulting squish. I had to hold my mouth to keep from laughing. It just threw it over the side! Did it realize what it was doing?
The Yukkurisa continued to stretch out it’s body over the grill, but had no hope of reaching the other Yukkuri. Tried as it might, it couldn’t. It’s only hope was to jump back and forth on the grill and off, snatching the yukkuri quickly. It jumped forward, and felt the hot metal under her dough. A sharp scream convinced me that the baby was doomed. The Marisa leapt backwards in surprise to the heat. It looked down at the burning flames of the grill. It tried again to jump forward, but the heat forced it back again. She tried and tried again to save her last baby. The heat was too much for her, but then I saw something remarkable happened.
It was done.
The Baby yukkuri was grilled to perfection!
Using a pair of tongs I kept handy, I picked up the twig holding the Yukkuri. The Marisa looked up at me. “Mister? Are you saving Marisa’s baby easy?”
“Nope” I said plainly. “It’s dead already. I hope it tastes good.”
I closed my eyes and bit the manjuu off of the branch. It was rather sweet. It must have realized its mother was trying to rescue it and wondered why it couldn’t.
The Marisa however started sobbing uncontrollably. “MAWIZAZ BAEBIIIEES~!” it cried. I opened one eye to glance towards it.
“Relax, didn’t you save one of them?” I ask, preparing for it’s next attempt at crying more water than it could possibly hold. “Where did it go?”
“Yu? Ma-marisa has a baby? Dat’s wight! Where’s Marisa’s baby?” it began looking around. I place the burnt twig on the other side of the grill.
“Well,” I began to recollect the scene. “I believe you were sitting here.” I placed my hands over the Marisa and keep it in place. “You grabbed the Baby, and turned towards this way to drop it off.” I turned the Marisa to the side she was facing. “So then…” I bent down. The Marisa turning it’s head (Body?) down towards the ground. I pointed to the bean paste splatter on the ground. “Is this it?”
The Marisa bawled like never before.
“w-why? Why did mizter doo dis? Why!?”
“Because!” I said sharply. “I am currently training you to become a vengeful and demonic Yukkuri. One that will enjoy murdering your own kind, and will help me to slaughter your own friends and family for the sake of my entertainment! I’ve been training you for this for months now!”
“…Monds? Bud mawizas only med you doday…”
I blink once.
I Blink twice.
“Oh, that’s right.” I remembered that I had just met the family on my way home. This Marisa is completely unrelated to the one I holed up inside. I guess demonic rampages do that to you. “I’m sorry, I forgot.”
“You killed mawiza’s babies!”
“Umm … sorry you couldn’t save them.” Another idea formed in my head. “Oh, but I hope you don’t go and save the Marisa that I am keeping hold of!”
“yu?” it dawns on it that I had to have been keeping another yukkuri if I would confuse it with another one.
“Please don’t follow me inside!” I say with a goofy smile. I then walk in, leaving the door open. Making certain that it was indeed following me (It was, indeed), I unlocked my Yukkuri play room. It followed me inside. I closed the door behind it.
“I’ve come to save you!” It shouted loudly. It grabbed the Attention of four Marisas, who gently bounced towards it. Back in the corner where a few koyukkuris that were shambling in the back. On top of the Desk in the center of the room was a Glass Box containing a rather large Marisa, and a rather small Patchouli.
“Yu?” One of the four Marisa’s asked. It bounced towards the new Marisa.
“I’ll help you! Mister is a bad person!”
“You will help us?” The Marisa that stepped forward asked.
“That’s right.” I cut in before it could say anything. “This Marisa here will help keep the four of you going during this drought.”
“Yu?”
“Yu!”
That last Yu belonged to the Marisa inside of the glass box. This was the Marisa that I was training to become a devious monster. She knew what I was talking about. This drought. Every once in a while, to prevent the Four Marisas from growing, I stop giving them food, and only bring enough for the Patchouli and Marisa that are in the box. This goes on until I want to release the Patchouli from the box for the other Marisas to rape. This means of course that the four Marisas end up eating all of their Koyukkuri. They were very hungry.
They wasted no time in jumping to foreign Yukkuri. “Ztob it! Why are you doing dis?”
“They’re hungry.” I explain. “You’ll save them by becoming food for them, and letting them live until I can bring enough food for them to live on.” I lied.
It knew I was lying, too. It saw the food that I had brought with me. “Mizter has lots of food! Ztob eadding mee!”
It’s cries were ignored by the ravenous yukkuri. Soon there was nothing left of it.
“I hope you all can take it easy.” I said after they had finished their meal.
“Thank you mister!” They cheerfully bid me.
“Oh, and I almost forgot. Here’s your meal Patchouli and Mother Marisa!” I set down the food they need through the hole on top of the glass box. The Patchouli begins digging in right away with happy “Mukyus” while the Marisa sighs looking at her four children.
I head for the door. Open it, and look back. “I’ll see you are later. Take it easy.” I close the door behind me and lock it again.
“Take it Easy” They say before I leave.
131.
Anon the storeclerk had just finished his rounds and he was heading home. With him was a bag filled with sweets and a toy or two for his Chen yukkuri. At one point he didn't like yukkuris, but his Chen was different. It understood him. It could 'get it.'
Whistling his favorite battle tune, Anon reached his home near the outer reaches of the village. It was a quiet section where he could live with the only yukkuri he had in peace. Anon knew these days with his little dark chocolate blob could last forever.
At least that's what he thought.
The bag spilled from his hands as he opened his front.
"CHWEN DUDCH GEDR IDDDD!!!"
It was a single Alice. Dried up branches sticky with dark chocolate lay around his squirming Chen yukkuri as the Alice rubbed vigarosly against her.
"M-MAWISA'S NOT HERE, BUT CHEN WILL DO!! YOU'LL LIKE THIS! I'M FROM THE CITY-SECT!!!"
"Yugh!?"
Anon quickly strided over and picked up the Alice. It weakly struggled against his grip while still struggling.
"Pud me down misder! Chen likes it, what a tsundere!!"
The Alice yelped as Anon's grip grew tighter. He picked up his Chen which was weakly trying to get it, and made it some sugar water to drink while he...took care of things.
Putting his hand against the Alice yukkuri's mouth, Anon walked over to his freezer. Opening the door, he pulled out his latest catch. It was a Yukkureimu which had caused havoc at his workplace by a quarter of the pastries. Luckily, this had made it distend and it could not bounce properly so it was easy to catch. Anon had brought it home and frozen it to snack on later.
Anon didn't give a rat's ass about other yukkuris. The only yukkuri for him was his Chen yukkuri, which was why he was completely brutal with other yukkuris.
Anon had recently heard of an experiment known as "Yukkuring" and wished to test it out. He pulled out a blow torch (from hammerspace) and began to that the side of his frozen Yukkureimu. The Alice noticed that it had been let go and began hopping excitedly.
"Ha! Misder iz stubid!! Alice can run away eas-AGWAAAA" STOMP. Anon made sure it would stay as a leaking custard pile for a bit.
With a sufficient amount of ice melted but the Yukkureimu still being encased in ice, Anon tore off part of its moist dough cheek. He said it aside for a snack for later, and reached over to the struggling Alice yukkuri.
Putting them together, Anon realized at that point he had no flour and water.
"Oh well, let's use the blow torch."
A few cries of pain later and the yukkuris were attached. Anon waited. Alice continued struggling against its 'partner', and then suddenly its eyes bulged.
"HELP! HELP! ALICE IS FROZEN!!!" It started foaming at the mouth, but Anon quickly shoved the filth back into its mouth and taped it shut.
A few seizures later and Anon was already bored with the twitching yukkuri. He decided he was hungry for custard and went to get a large bowl and spoon.
It was rather easy to scoop out the custand from the catatonic yukkuri, and Anon began whistling again. When he finished and all that was dough, something else got his interest. Wanting to test something out, he began to scoop some of the bean paste from the Yukkureimu into the Alice.
"...bu...den...lp..." The Alice started quivering and gurgling nonsense. He scooped more.
"Re...fwo...heg..." Anon scooped more until he had about an even amount.
"...Reibu...fwoden...hewlp..." The Alice bubbled out.
Anon, realizing that he had made a Yukkuri make another yukkuri its puppet, decided then to sell it to the Factory. After all, who wouldn't want "a rare pair of yukkuris where one uses its parasitic twin to speak"?
Indeed, they would never know how Anon did this, and he would continue to make more to sell. After all, he knew he would never take it easy. But with his Chen, yes...he could get it.
LAME END
132.
Mister Nice has a job at the factory. He doesn't enjoy his job a whole lot, but every day he continues to work with yukkuris in breeding and training. He doesn't like having to comfort yukkuris that have lost their children to packaging and shipping, but he works anyway to support himself.
Slowly, he gains many friends in the factory, and becomes a popular and hard-working person. Quite suddenly(to him, anyway) he found himself with an employee of the year award. The other workers showered him with praise, and he felt weighed down with guilt even more.
Most importantly the quacks in the R&D department give him a special gift in a rare, unknown yukkuri species. It was completely silent and stoic to them, so after testing(it's contents are strangely normal bean paste, like that of a Reimu or Marisa) and breeding(it's children were not so stand-offish) they decide to give it away as "stress relief".
So Mister Nice carried it home in a ventilated box, unsure of what to do with it.
He sets the box on the table and stares at it. He really doesn't want to hurt it or abandon it, much less return it to the factory.
"Are you okay in there? Will you talk to me?"
No answer.
"I won't hurt you. I promise."
The box rattles slightly. A familiar voice comes from inside.
"Let Marisa out! It's dark!"
A Marisa? What's so bloody special about a Marisa? No less, he takes the lid off of the box and peers in.
What he sees is no yukkurisa.
That is perhaps a stretch. It's larger than a normal Marisa or Reimu, but not by much. It has red hair, red eyes, and a purple hat that is otherwise just like a Marisa's. Maybe it's a mutant yukkurisa?
It takes a leap out of the box, showing some physical strength and coordination, and lands on the table with a curious slam rather than a splat. No yukkurisa is this strong or that heavy.
"Where's Mima!" Mister Nice would have thought it was a slur of speech if it wasn't an adult. "Where's some food?! I'm hungry! Mima must be hungrier!"
It's confused, he thinks. Who knows what the quacks in R&D did to it. Even more, he almost sees it as annoying, something he rarely sees anything as(being mister nice and all).
Mister Nice and his new yukkuri have gotten along well enough, but he doesn't know what to call it. It was amusing itself with a green tennis ball it found under the couch, seeming to worship it's green fuzzy properties.
He had called the R&D department and asked where they found this strange red-haired purple-hatted Marisa. Encased in ice near the top of Youkai Mountain, they said, presumably an ancient yukkuri from long ago.
133.
Anon, although a bit eccentric, is widely known in his
hometown as an excellent craftsman and model ship builder.
One evening, he is nearing the completion of his latest endeavor, an elaborate, $250 balsa wood replica. In his excitement, Anon puts in a great effort at his workshop, so they allow him to leave an hour early. Anon heads home, running all the way.
His sense of well-being is disturbed, however, when he arrives at his house and discovers that his front window has been smashed in. Anon doesn't think there's been a burglary, since it's a safe neighborhood, but he nontheless flattens himself against the house and slowly opens the front door with one hand.
With the door fully open, Anon listens intently. At first
there's nothing, but then he can pick up a faint sound of conversation coming from within. Straightening himself up, he pauses to retrieve a 2x4 from a nearby lumber pile before slipping inside.
It's a fairly small house (with only Anon living there),
so it takes him little time to make his way into the
interior of the building, whereupon a horrendous sight
greets his vision.
His living room is in shambles. His TV, once delicately perched on the entertainment center, lies facing up on the floor with a large crack running across the screen. One of the lamps he had purchased with last week's salary lies broken on the carpet, trailing a fine porcelain dust from where it originally stood. The drapes are tattered and torn. His eyes wide open in shock, Anon slowly stumbles
towards the kitchen/dining room area, wondering just how far the destruction has spread.
The kitchen is in a similar predicament. Thankfully, the refrigerator/freezer and its contents have been spared, but the rest of the room is a mess. What originally was stored in the cabinets sits in a jumbled mess on the counters, and several jars have been smashed and their contents smeared on the linoleum. Bracing himself for the worst, Anon passes the threshold into the dining room.
Anon finally happens upon the culprits of the break-in. Scattered throughout the dining room are perhaps two dozen yukkuri. The group seems to be made up of a Reimu/Marisa couple, and the rest are Koyukkureimu and Koyukkumarisa. Anon is about to announce his presence when he realizes what has happened to his treasured wooden ship model. It lies, completely broken in two, on the floor near the table. The Yukkureimu and Yukkurisa now occupy the space where it once sat. Just now, the parent yukkuri notice the intruder. "This is Reimu's house! Leave here easy!" says the Reimu, followed by a "Get out easy, ze!" from the Marisa. This is accompanied by several "Yu!"s and "Dwop dead eajy!"s from the koyukkuri throughout the room. Anon controls his anger, his knuckles white where he grips the 2x4, and says in the most placating voice he can, "Please allow me to take it easy here." This is met by several
approving "Yu!"s as the assembled yukkuri generally return to bouncing around the room, playing with each other.
Anon's enraged blow takes the Yukkurisa completely by surprise, crushing it completely in one swing. He
wrenches out the wood and drops it, dripping bean paste. The Reimu gives a shocked "NOOOOOOOO", hops off the table, and cowers underneath, accompanied by many "MWOMMIEE"s from the koyukkuri throughout the room. Anon takes the
opportunity to gather up half a dozen of the slower ones, opens up his sliding patio door, and proceeds to punt them, one by one, out against the neighbor's fence across the yard.
Shutting the door, Anon turns and picks up the 2x4 again. The Yukkureimu cowers further underneath the table, along with a few of its children. "Why are you doing this, mister? Reimu's kids are dying!" Largely ignoring it, Anon continues his advance. "Run away easy!" pleads the Reimu to its children, who, with the exception of those near her, begin to try and hop out of the room, seeking escape. Anon places himself at the doorway and swings about with his improvised weapon, hitting the would-be escapees into a corner of the room. The Yukkureimu sobs a "Stob id, mister!" with several wavering "Yu~"s coming from it's remaining children, but again to no effect.
Anon, ever resourceful, grabs a small square cardboard box and places the struggling Yukkureimu inside it. "Stob id! Reimu's babies can't tage it easy like this!" says the Reimu. "Don't worry," says Anon, "I'll make it so you can all take it easy together." He then picks up the Koyukkuri and gently places them in the box, one by one. He also goes over to the corner where the rest of them lie injured, picks out the ones that are still alive (some are leaking bean paste) and puts them in the box, as well. He then closes it up, and places several books on top of it to prevent escape. Faintly, "Id's dark in here!" and "Let us out easy!" can be heard. Anon places the box on his dining room table, looks sadly at the remains of his ship replica, and proceeds to clean up the mess in his house as best he can.
The night passes.
TO BE CONTINUED