No sign of the herd could be seen in the alley. The bins and trash bags were bulging with garbage, as if they hadn't been touched. Cautiously moving through the alley, Mother Reimu found the remains of a wrecked wooden box. Old newspapers and wood chips were strewn all over, and within the pile of rubbish, there were a bunch of dried out yukkuri corpses. They seemed to have died some time ago. The strange thing was that their accessories were all missing.
She does seem to be a pretty intelligent yukkuri though. Understands that humans are to be feared and to run away quickly from rats without useless puff puff. She even understands that she shouldn't actively compete with forces that can kill her (the herd that lives in the alley) for food, which seems to be a concept that escapes alot of stupider yukkuris.
Not to discredit whhat appears to be a smart mother u, but the text never exactly states the MOTHER sees koyukkuri, it only states whats actually there
Skribulous said: I'm more curious of the fact that the momma deibu can recognize yukkuri without accessories.
Unless the story meant to have said yukkuri cannibalized, usually they can recognize the thing as an "uneasy" yukkuri, but can't identify further and feel uneasy.
Maybe the same as if we got approached by a human without hairs and eyes.
Salem said: Maybe the same as if we got approached by a human without hairs and eyes.
You have to remember that yukkuris in general are outright discriminative and cruel to accessoryless yu's, while humans would as much feel horrified but be sympathetic toward such "hairless and eyeless human". So I don't think the comparison is correct.
I think the discrimination of accessoryless yu's is more like a naturally exagerated version of the kind of discrimination you see in schoolyards, and I say naturally exagerated because of how accessories are supposedly the only way yukkuris can recognize each other and without them they are seen as "lowly uneasy yu's".
No sign of the herd could be seen in the alley. The bins and trash bags were bulging with garbage, as if they hadn't been touched. Cautiously moving through the alley, Mother Reimu found the remains of a wrecked wooden box. Old newspapers and wood chips were strewn all over, and within the pile of rubbish, there were a bunch of dried out yukkuri corpses. They seemed to have died some time ago. The strange thing was that their accessories were all missing.