Happiness! The looks on the parents faces in the fifth panel is delicious. The burning and spike isn't a unique or new idea, but it's certain to be extremely satisfying and well executed.
And actually, I've never really thought about what the spike/pointy things are. I've just assumed they're screwdrivers or something like that.
I think it's one of those artistic small stakes for sculpture, you know for clay sculptures and similar small stuff, at least in this case, since we know there is the soldering iron as well, but since this one doesn't look as "work tool" like the soldering iron.
Let's not go about accusing artits of lack of creativity and stuff. Each one does what they like, period, i don't know, what people expected of kiriraitaa here, i did expect something, a clash of ideas about what the anon and what the reimu consider happiness and i got it. Which fits the whole idea behind the title.
So seriously, no complains about creativity, it's not like yukkuris are creative creations to begin with, only a deformed touhou head bouncing around.
"Asshole anon" tag revoked. If you don't like these stories MezzoDragon, please don't look at them. You can filter them out using existing tags if you're that allergic.
Just look at those lovely gradients, quite realistic I'm sure you'll agree. On a serious note, back when I was still editing, I found gradients to be pretty hard to handle well...