- Maricha has just been born 10 (lots and lots of) days ago. Parents, and a Reimu elder sister. - They live in a dark alley. For stray, they have an average life, good enough house, and parents who can support their family. - Three days ago, Maricha woke up and found that her family and home is gone, and all the treasures in her house are scattered around. - Maricha survived by eating the brown sweets sweets scattered around her. The world she know is only what in the alley because the exit is blocked by boxes and crates she can't go through. - The only thing she hold dear in this uneasyness is a treasure given by her sister, a Popsicle stick with slight vanilla scent still sticking to it. - One day, human found her, picked up the stick, and stab her with it. Seeing the paste she vomitted out, Maricha realized that she's been eating paste of her family. - As Maricha is dying, even the easy scent from her treasure is drowned by the uneasy smell from her own dying paste.
I might missed it, but the story never mentioned that Maricha has been spared by human to be killed later. But it's also not logical that she survived while her family are all killed and their house is destroyed. It's not like she's living outside because she's still very young and her family aren't really treating her badly.
Takumi's koyukkuri look so damned adorable that you'd hate for anything to happen to them. Which only adds power to the punch in the gut you get when something does happen.
Takumi's koyukkuri look so damned adorable that you'd hate for anything to happen to them. Which only adds power to the punch in the gut you get when something does happen.
Except that's always the way Takumi stories play out, and thus drains the punch of any force.
I'd generally be more shocked if the humans were actually kinder to the little one.
So... a short story without anything special. I might missed it, but the story never mentioned that Maricha has been spared by human to be killed later. But it's also not logical that she survived while her family are all killed and their house is destroyed. It's not like she's living outside because she's still very young and her family aren't really treating her badly.