TANUKI BETTER ENDS

ENDING 1

>"So, choose! Me, who went through all this for you? Or the others, who sold you up the river for money. I won't bear a grudge. Promise."

>No.

>"What?" she stutters. She seems like she can't understand what you just said.
>"I said no. You're a sadistic, obsessive, materialistic bitch. This is just another way of buying someone. You've made my life miserable. I can neither eat nor sleep because of you. You want me not because of who I am, but because I am a prize to you. A breathing trophy. If I was replaceable with a statue, you'd do it. Now leave me. I will NEVER give you my time."

>She looks at you with the most exquisite face. It's a mixture of anger, pitty, defeat, all sorts of emotions. All of which you want her to experience.
>"God dammit..." she chokes. She looks about to cry. "I'll get yo-" she stops her words as you spit in her face.
>she bursts into tears and runs out of the alley, saliva dripping down her face.
>"I'll get you for this damn it!" She yells while sobbing. "I'll break you! I'll be back in a month! You'll be ready then!"
>but she won't; she can't. What else has she got to take?
>She returns the next day.
>and the day after.
>and the day after that.
>You've really got her now, you can tell. She's got the thousand yard stare; it's like the seven stages of grief.
>you see it all- Disbelief when you spat at her face.
>Denial when she kept coming back, incessantly asking.
>Anger when she screamed and slapped you for not listening. She got so mad that her face turned beet red.
>Bargaining when she continued to try to buy you. She brought water and food, coke products, bedding, everything you could name and left it for you to use. you used none of it.
>Guilt when she realized what she had truly done. She hadn't formulated a plan to find the perfect husband; she had been physically and mentally torturing an innocent man.
>Depression mixed with guilt when she saw you in the markets. She would poke her head around the corner to look at you before bursting into tears and running away. Sometimes you thought her saying sorry.
>any other person would move on eventually. It had been a full year and a half since she started; she would have accepted the loss by now and left you alone if she was a normal person. But she wasn't normal. She was a monster.
>Oh, you really, REALLY had her in a tight spot. She had engineered a perfect revenge scenario without realizing; money can buy anything, but it also buys hatred.


>She was a monster; monsters were the clingiest things in the world. She was literally unable to move on because of her genetic programming. She literally had to have you, or her mind would break.
>and it was breaking. It was a beautiful sight to you; to watch someone once so proud and aloof slump into dispensary and anguish.
>It was setting off fireworks. The destruction was beautiful.
>She came to you after a year and seven months, on her monthly checkup.
>You greeted her with a smile, and offered her a fish skeleton. That really got a reaction; she fell to her knees and practically exploded into sobs. It was beautiful; she looked brown or black in emotion but the scene was a beautiful gold to you. A work of art in the finest degree. Her suffering was your greatest creation; your mona lisa, your greatest life's achievement. You had gotten your revenge.
>"P-pleese" she mumbled through sobs. There was a burning in her that was rotting her at the core. "I'm sorry.... I was wrong... I understand now... I was being selfish... You were a currency to me, a prize, a trophy... But... *sniff* I do love you, I really do, and I do value your will and refusal to be bought. In a way... *sniff* you are an idol to me... Please let me correct apon my mistakes...I will not fail you again..."
Would you accept her apology? I might, if I was able to punish her.

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ENDING 2

The bestest ending is the one where he collapses in the forest and is rescued by a shirohebi who cares for him in the temple while he regains his strength. Eventually they fall in love and decide to live on the temple grounds tending to the statues and the gardens.

Years later he's found by the tanuki who has spent her entire fortune tracking him down after he disappeared and is literally reduced to pile of rotten fur and desperation begging him to return before realizing she's been beaten.

She tries to buy off the shirohebi so that she'll drop you and throw you out but instead is refused entirely as your wife reveals that she owns the entire mountain and that the tanuki is trespassing before asking her to kindly leave.

You hear her sobbing and screaming all the way down the mountain until her voice is reduced to a whisper, and then you hug your waifu and apologize for the trouble.

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ENDING 3

You run out of the tanuki's city after being bankrupted, and are found by a Jinko tribe. Said Jinko tribe isn't entirely pleased with random stranger showing up, asking to be housed and fed but you manage to convince the tribe to shelter you because of one reason...

Your education far outclasses that of any of the tribe members, even the queen.

The queen is a wise one, and quickly identifies that you have no other allies, and the tribe could make use of your knowledge.

The other tribesmen are still uneasy about having a hobo in their colony, but after a few years they accept you.

Bring improved steel working, new weapons and armor based on Roman designs, better town organization, math knowledge and barter knowledge.

Gain the tribe's loyalty and trust, and bring them great wealth and respect.

Eventually the tanuki comes back. Because of course she fucking did.

She's still got her fancy clothes, but she looks... Tired. Like something's been on her mind.

Turns out it's you.

She still wants you. Well, more than wants possibly. She needs you.

She gets her bodyguards to drag you into city hall, where she demands that the queen sell you to her, price be dammed.

She has her guards yank out two sacks full of gold. However much is in there, it's definitely at least a year's worth of expenses for everyone in the tribe. Probably more.

You feel your heart drop. There's no way in hell that the queen would turn that offer down. That's just too much gold. Hell, even you might take that offer had you been in her position.

You consider running to ... Well anywhere. If you can make it past the tanuki's guards. And the tribesmen. And the village gates. Which you designed, by the way.

Maybe designing new weapons for the tribesmen wasn't such a good idea.

While you sweat yourself silly and run over the design of the tribe gates in your head, trying to think of any weaknesses that might be there, the queen says something unexpected

"Well" says the queen, with a sneer across her face, "your offer is tempting. But our mutual friend has made us at least three times that in the time you have been absent."

she directs some tribe soldiers to the tanuki

"Besides, you are forgetting one important thing. It is a crime to double-cross a member of the tribe."

With that, she orders the soldiers to beat the tanuki and her friends out of the village. After keeping the gold of course.

"Besides," the queen says, shutting the doors before turning to you and giving you bedroom eyes.

"I have first dibs"
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