^Yukkuri are shabby ripoffs of Touhou Project characters and weak monster fauna mobs in video games that are also iconic mascots (slimes in DQ, porings in RO, FOEs, rabites in Mana series, etc.).
So this story is rather appropriate. I'm actually expecting more fairie tale stories of a similar vein, if they haven't existed yet.
I might even write some up if I ever had the inspiration to...