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gutter-trash yukkuris invaded anon's house. that red koreimu is a pet yukkuri specially modified to eat spicy food. trash yukkuris thought those are 'sweet-sweets' and orange juice.
Well, I think that the general selfishness of home-invading Yukkuri and the prospect of getting food and sweets would most likely override any sense of danger that they have... they're invading a home, firstly. Most Yukkuri haven't tasted things like chilli, so they wouldn't know what it is. Sweets and berries also commonly have very bright colours, and given Yukkuri's general stupidity, I wouldn't say it's beyond them to take the chilli as sweets, especially in a more processed form here...
"Red peppers and chili stuff are very distinctive as is (bright red), I'd figure most yukkuris would've figured out not to eat them by now.
Or maybe yukkuris are color blind so everything's a shade of gray? :P"
By the same logic they should also think that apple and strawberry is spicy... How about if we reserve the logic, they think red pepper and chilly should be tasty because they have the same kind of color as apple and strawberry
I think there's enough out there to say that to yukkuri, the default assumption is that anything that they can chew is edible, unless specifically taught otherwise (post #4124) or they see other yukkuri eat something and subsequently die/suffer...
The brightly colored argument might not work, because one of the evolutions in nature is that brightly colored berries (particularly bright red) tend to be toxic, and animals have evolved not to eat bright red berries. (And in turn, non-toxic berries also evolve to be bright red because then the animals think they are toxic, and so on ad infinitum)
Years too late for such a great story. A reminder that even in this world of the stupid manjuu, dominated by selfishness, abuse and death, there still exists heroism and a will of selfless sacrifice. They have my salute.