ParticleMan said: Doesn't it just say "Domesticated/Pet Yukkuri Reimu"?
harouki said: Indeed it does
fixed
Switched back, since the story isn't about a pet yukkuri from the get-go, but how anon took in a stray yukkuri reimu and proceeded to tame the reimu and the offspring over the course of two years.
dexter said: or at least a one or two sentence summary if you don't mind.
The narrator, who owned a traditional farmhouse, lived alone. One day, anon came across a family of yukkuri in the field. Instead of the usual response to a home invasion, anon decided he will take reimu and her family in.
Anon's intention was to use the yukkuri as a waste processor by feeding reimu garbage, and use the yukkuri's excrement (including the yukkuri, should it expire), as fertilizer. Surprisingly, reimu and the koyukkuri were a nice, amiable yukkuri family, content with eating the humans' munch-munch while taking it easy all day. Later on, anon got them badges. Anon's friends who visit the farm would be amazed at the ingenious system (it seems that not all yukkuri would not submit to this degradation).
One night, a remilia entered the farm, and attacked the reimu family. The reimu tried to drive the predator off with a stick held by her braid, but it was useless. The remilia managed to snag one of the koyukkuri before in turn got caught by anon's net.
Incidentally, remilia's meat filling is delicious. There were too many to eat, and so the rest ended up in the compost heap.
Some time passed, the koyukkuri grew up to be an adult, and the mother has passed away. Anon decided that to have more yukkuri, so he procured a marisa to be reimu's partner. The marisa turned out to be such an arrogant paste-for-brains, so it was discarded right after getting reimu pregnant (didn't even kill it for fertilizer, but took away its hat before throwing it out the gates, leaving its fate to the wilds).
The reimu had marisa koyukkuri as well as reimu koyukkuri. They turned out to be fussy eaters at first (must have inherited that from the marisa), though their attitude got better as they turned older. Since winter was coming, anon fixed up the compost heap they lived in into a livable shelter so they can survive the cold months (letting them in his house is out of the question).
Reimu recalled in a dream her mother, and how she is happy that they have finally found the sought-after Easy Place (the garbage heap) after so much hardship.
In the end of the story, two years have passed, and reimu had passed away. Her koyukkuri had grown up, paired up with each other, and had koyukkuri of their own. All of them still living in the narrator's farm, taking it easy.
Caveat: Not an accurate summary, just me skimming what little I could understand for the interesting parts. What got me interested in this was post #14732, but nothing was really made of it (not that I could find, anyway).
thank you skribulous for the summary it sounds like a really nice story, minus the koyukkuri death.
There is no koyukkuri death--it was the mother who was attacked by the Remilia, and Anon saves the mother's life. A cute detail: When the Remilia first attacked, the yukkuris managed to flee to the safety of their "house", but they were worried that Remilia would hurt Anon, so momReimu went back out to try to fight Remilia.
It's not totally a "yukkuri-lover" story; Anon is mostly pretty detached from his yukkuris, only using them for his own benefit, but the yukkuris perceive his treatment of them as kindness/affection and are happy, so the overall tone is sweet.
platina said: There is no koyukkuri death--it was the mother who was attacked by the Remilia, and Anon saves the mother's life. A cute detail: When the Remilia first attacked, the yukkuris managed to flee to the safety of their "house", but they were worried that Remilia would hurt Anon, so momReimu went back out to try to fight Remilia.
Yeah, my bad, I should've made it clear that the yukkuri family only consisted on the mother and daughter reimu, so it couldn't have died before the mother later on. The sole "action scene" in the anko confused me, though I was pretty sure the Remilia was aiming for the koyukkuri.