Grieve-Tan: Origins

You are Anon-kun. In the spring, you decide to take Grieve-tan out for a day in the park. The two of you enjoy a fun time, flying kites and having a little picnic. Deciding to walk a little far ahead of her, you start to appreciate Mother Nature in its beauty. What catches your eye is a cute little brown Mantis, standing in your path. Depending on the choices of either leaving it alone, killing it yourself for XP, you take the third option and bring it to Grieve-tan.

When she sees the little insect, she shrieks in terror running away and hides behind a tree, shivering. Puzzled, you take the mantis over her again. Disgusted and horrified, she becomes furious at the insect and pulverizes the poor thing with all her fists and strength. You notice after the mantis is turned into pulp, Grieve-tan is crying on the ground. She demands to be taken home immediately, but wants you to drive her monocycle.

With some effort, you manage to bring the both of you to her house. Taking off your now tear stained Republic High uniform jacket, you ask why she's sobbing. Grieve-tan can't tell you why, because she doesn't know either. Storming her way inside her house, she angrily tells you to go away. Still, you follow Grieve-tan upstairs to her bedroom. You can hear her muffled crying outside the door she just slammed in you face. The eldest, most observant Magna-Guard sister asks why she's crying. You tell her what happened that day. Solemn, she takes a cigarette out, and tells you why not only why Grieve-tan has a fear of Mantis insects, but also why she's been acting like this for several years now. She also tells you to sit down, since its going to be a long story. You have a bad feeling about this.

The Magna-Guard sister proceeds to regale. A long time ago, in a rural village far, far away, Grieve-tan was known by her legal name. But since its so long and intricate to pronounce, she names her: “Grieve-chan.” The youngest of many sisters, and daughter of two hard-working parents, their family lived together as the village woodsmen. Legend had it that Grieve-tan’s four arms were a recessive gene stemming from her mother side, coming from a curse placed on their line centuries ago. One day, Grieve-chan gets a dream about hunting a boar down in the forest, coming back home to an impressed father. Wanting to prove herself, she heads out into the swarm of green trees at the back of her house early in the morning. Instead of finding a boar, she finds a young boy around her age, playing near the skeletal remains of a giant boar by the creek. He formally introduces himself as Ronderu-chan. Having just moved into the area, he tells Grieve-chan that he too had a dream about finding a boar, but decided to go out and play instead.

Soon, they were the best of friends anyone in the area ever knew. They played pretend alien Samurai warlords, watched Kamen rider, and held hands along the way to school. It was kind of awkward for Grieve-chan, since she had four of them.The town mystic came up to both parents, and told them about why they seemed so inseparable. In a vision, it was revealed to the mystic said that both of their souls belonged to reincarnated spirits of a star cross’d couple, lost during the feudal era wars of Japan, coming back again and again to find love somehow. Should ever one of them die before truly falling in love, it could mean bad luck for both. Magna-guard pauses her story, to deeply inhale her cigarette before crushing the butt under her heel. This next part, she tells you, she deeply regrets.

In her own High School years, Grieve-tan’s sister was deeply in love with a troublemaker named HK-47 sama. Since their parents were disapproving of him, she planned something that would prove to be her greatest error. Willing to go where he would go, she brought Grieve-chan and Ronderu-chan to Jenuwaa beach, where he and his cronies “The Meatbag Killers” were hanging out underneath some pier. Magna-Guard-tan leaves her sister and her friend over by the sandy beach where they go play.

Having a wonderful time, Ronderu-chan goes out to get more water for their sand-castle’s moat. “But, you have to stay here Ronderu-chan. I don’t want to be all alone out here.” Grieve chan said. Ronderu-chan however, insisted that he will be back, kissing her on the cheek that he will. What she didn’t see, was Ronderu being swallowed by a giant wave coming inland, pulling him underwater. So Grieve-Chan kept waiting, and waiting that day as the tide rises. When Magna-Guard-tan came back, Grieve-chan told her that Ronderu went missing.

A search party commences for Ronderu, leaving a very worried Grieve-chan at home. Days pass, but Grieve-chan believes she will see him again, despite the low chance. Finally impatient, Grieve-chan goes out into the forest one day to find him. At the behest of infuriated parents, they command Magna-Guard-tan to find Grieve-chan, if she has any hope of being called their daughter again. That afternoon, she finds Grieve-chan by the creek, and both are horrified to see Ronderu’s dead naked body. Apparently, the currents brought Ronderu to the creek where he washed up on shore days earlier. Futilely trying to wake up his rotting corpse, Grieve-chan tries to wake him up by kissing him like in Sleeping Beauty, but a Mantis flies into her mouth. Suddenly, dozens of praying mantes come out of every orifice in his body, crawling everywhere as the insects used his body as a nest for their young. This horrific moment changed young Grieve-chan forever.

A funeral was set in place for Ronderu, and goodbyes were had. Coming home from the funeral, the bad luck began its terrible course. Their parents car crashed, killing both of their parents but sparing little Grieve-chan. This left the sisters all by themselves, and with Magna-Guard-Tan being the oldest, the best choice was to leave the village, their heritage, and live in the city. To put all their bad memories away.

Ending her tale, Magna-Guard-tan finally tells you that they were the only days that Grieve-tan truly seemed happy, but she never liked to talk about them. In fact, it became evident that Grieve-tan grew up to repress these memories, forgetting Ronderu-chan ever died, just only remembering he left her that day and never returned.

You look upstairs, and you want to go up there and be for her. As soon as you hear the first step, you see the other twin come down.

"I'm afraid I can't let you go up there." She says to you.

"She gets pretty violent when she's like this. So unless you want keep your head, I suggest you go home. Come back when she feels better, alright?"

As you exit out the door, the eldest sister stops you for a second.

“Before you go Anon-kun, I must tell you that’s only half the story,” Magna-Guard-tan said. “If you want the other half, you’re going to have to ask the man who I have come to both respect, and despise.”

“Who might that be?” You ask.

“Dooku-Sensei. Goodbye, Anon-kun."