Explanation (which will be added to the notes on the comic when I can get to do it): "Abakamu", chanted by Dosu in panel 1, is the Dragon Quest spell called "click", whose purpose was to open closed doors at the time when inventory space in games was limited and it wasn't always possible to bring a key. In the case of yukkuri, abakam (original name because astron isn't the westrn name either) can also be used to "open" yukkuri bodies.
Explanation (which will be added to the notes on the comic when I can get to do it): "Abakamu", chanted by Dosu in panel 1, is the Dragon Quest spell called "click", whose purpose was to open closed doors at the time when inventory space in games was limited and it wasn't always possible to bring a key. In the case of yukkuri, abakam (original name because astron isn't the westrn name either) can also be used to "open" yukkuri bodies.
Welp if ONI-sans heard this one, astron would lose all forms of advantages, it already had situations the ONI-sans could counter it via heat, dumping the yu in a deep water body and similar things, but you needed very specific things to counter it.
This pretty much makes it easy to get rid of astron yu's quickly, more so if you never were interested on abyuse to begin with and only wanted to get rid of pests bothering you.
It's probably something that applies only to yukkuri, not humans (unless the setting is explicitly the Dragon Quest workd.)
Err I was talking about humans using the spell to trigger the effect not humans being affected by the spell.
It doesn't look like one needs to have the power since it's all Yukkuris own magical nature that leads to this kind of things, so I wouldn't be surprised if Humans could just use the words to trigger those effects, at least the ones meant to be used to other, obviously a Human saying "astron" won't automatically make a Yu turn into metal.
She will die eventually, as Astron seems to have a duration in this story. And maybe she won't dispel it and therefore keep being tormented as long as she can, cuz she cannot determine to die by her will.
Takumi like to do Dragon Quest crossovers. There's a lot of Takumi Yukkuri + DQ crossovers, like Aston and other things.
It is also reusing an old idea since Astron being a Yu spell is something that was used a back in the day, though more so in FF for shit and giggles, but a few Abyuse uses were there before the more common usage of now a days.
The art style reminds me of Takumi. Can someone check and then tag this appropriately?
ABAKAM
A Dragon Quest spell, like Astron. In the American English localization, it was called "Click". Its purpose was to open closed doors at the time when inventory space was limited, and bringing a key wasn't always feasible.Taste it easy until your Astron expires to die noze.NO NO NOO!
Don't want either of having pain-pain nor being dead!
EASY! WANNA TAKE IT EASIEEEE!!Your pain-pain will last until your Astron expires noze.How ze?
This is very the way to break Astron nanoze.(No way of Astron can be broken!)YUARRRGHHHHHHH!!(Ow-ow-ow-ouch!
Ouch! Ouchie!
Oooooowwwwwwww!)(Yu?)But you don't die thank to Astron noze.You must be having pain-pain now noze.The agony of the yukkuris you have killed,This shall be really pain-pain as your body is now in half nanoze.(Ouchieee!
Ouchieeeeeee!!
This can't take it easyyy!)OUCHIE!
OOWWCH!
OUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOUCHOOOOOOWWCHIEEEEE!!(O-Ouchie?!
Wh-What this? What?
Oooww!)(Ouchie?)(What's it? You think you can break Reimu's Astron by such thing? Are you fool?)