JusticeItEasy said: Now i'm starting to think that the "egg" method will become the third official reproduction method of yukkuris, heh, like the little buggers didn't have enough ways to multiply their already enormous numbers. . .I swear, taking aside yukkuris and magic, is biologically possible for a creature to have many ways of reproduction?
Egg-laying has been around as long as yukkuri were. I think it was even older than the pregnancy method, with variants either growing out of the stalk or pooped out.
These yukkuri are the mice equivalent, while urban strays would correspond to rats (I've seen sewer rats bigger than small dogs, and full grown mice still smaller than my thumb).
And with that note, I think I now have an idea what the Chen's role is in this story, if it ever appears.
There's also the commonly held view that yukkuri are not imaginative creatures--that is, since everything they say and do is literal, they don't have the capacity to be creative. "Playing" even among koyukkuri is not something for fun or to pass the time but is even a form of training or practice that they can apply for real as adults.
Even though it has been shown otherwise, they're mainly explained away as yukkuri imitating other creatures (including humans) as a form of preservation and propagation of the "species".