Reimu's Adventure

Chapter one : Patchouli

The rain has stopped.
You said you'd go when the rain stopped. Though you know how dangerous the world outside your little cave is, you haven't changed your mind. As you hop outisde, in the fresh air, you remember your past.
You remember the easy days higher up in the mountains, with Mwommy Reimu and Dwaddy Marisa, and your two liddle shish. They're all gone now. First, Dwaddy said "I'm going hunting easy no ze !", but never came back. Then, Mwommy tried to lead you and your sister to an easier place, where finding food would be less dangerous. Only you managed to hide from the Remilias who attacked your small group. Only you made it to what she called the Easy Forest.
It's only you now, only Reimu, but you're not the little ko you once were. You don't slur your name as "Weimyu" anymore, and you're almost as big as Mwommy once was.
The forest is indeed an easy place, but also a lonely one. Finding food is not hard, but your instinct push you to pursue the adventure after spending a few days in a safe little cave, in order to find other yukkuris.

As you hop and hop down a small path, you find a mister nut and some mister berries, and you make them your lunch. You look in the horizon. In front of you, the path leads down to a small river, and beyond the bridge built by mister human lies a deeper, darker, denser part of the forest. On your right, you can see the blackness of a dangerous place named mister road, where monsters called mister cars run very quick and very loud, scaring all yukkuris. It doesn't happen often though, as this road is in the middle of nowhere, in human terms. You go all the way down the path, and reach the slow river.
A sound attracts your attention : a painful, whimpering sound echoes in a small cave. Its entrance is right next to where you stand, right in front of the river bank. Curiosity overwhelms you : you hop towards it, and the sounds become clearer :
"Yu..."
"I-it's gonna be alright..."
"Little ones..."
You reach the entrance, and stare at the insides of the small cave. It's a vision of horror : panic strikes you, and you jump back, screaming :
"Yu !"
But the realization sinks into you and you don't move an inch more, staring at the contents of the place.
Inside are yukkuris, a dozen of them.
But something is not right with them.
They all look weak, famished, exhausted. Their eyes are empty. Their skin is dirty, covered in places by thick, dark green spots.
Mwommy told you about it : it's mister mold.
The moldy yukkuris barely react to your presence : most of them don't even look at you. In the back, one of them is obviously dead. Another, devoured by moss, small mushrooms growing from her skin, stares at the stalk that emerges from her forehead : from it hang three things that used to be babies, but are now nothing more than dead little balls of rotten, moldy filth.
"Weimu'j liddle onej... Weimu'j liddle onej..." she endlessly repeats, having long lost her sanity.
Another lies with an open mouth, her rotten tongue hanging out, small flied orbiting around it : you guess she tried to relieve her little ones by doing lick-lick, but ended up paying a steep price for it. The others are in a better shape, but barely : there's an Alice mother and her children, an empty-eyed Marisa, and finally, the only one staring at you, a Patchouli.
The Patchouli weakly waddles towards you. You see that mister mold has sealed her right eye, and proliferated through half of her once silky hair.

You don't kow how to react : you greet her the only way you know.
"Take it easy !"
But she doesn't respond, nor does anyone in the cave. Those yukkuris obviously can't take it easy anymore.
"Patchouli... is Patchouli." she introduces her with a tired voice : you introduce yourself in a similar manner, not knowing what she wants from you.
"Mister mold... hurts us. We can't take it easy like this. But Reimu... Reimu can help us..."

You stare into her single open eye, and find one last glimmer of hope among despair and suffering.

You know it's time to make a choice.


A. All yukkuris should be able to take it easy ! Reimu will help them !

B. Moldy yukkuris are monsters that can't take it easy ! Reimu will not help them !






Chapter two : Beyond Mister Bridge


"Reimu will help Patchouli easy !"
"Mukyu !"
Patchouli seems revigorated by your decision : the last embers of her energy, hope and will to live seem to have been fanned all of a sudden. She speaks :
"Mister mold is too strong for a yukkuri. We need a human, a human called Mister Doctor. He lives in a big, easy house, on the other side of the road."
You assess the distance : it will be long, but you're sure your cude liddle fweet can carry you there.
"But uneasy Mister Doctor will not listen to Reimu, or to Patchouli. Only one yukkuri can convince him. Go on the other side of Mister Bridge, take the left path, and find Dosu deep inside the Easy Forest. Dosu is the friend of all yukkuris and lets them all take it easy ! Dosu can convince Mister Doctor to make mister mold go away."
Patchouli coughs, exhautsed by this long exposition. You nod, having noted all the details in the soft bean paste that serves as your brain. You take a deep reath, and turn around.
"Going to find Dosu easy ! " you announce, and bounce towards Mister Bridge.
Behind you, you hear sighs of relief : some of the moldy yukkuris are condemned, but a good half of them can survive two or three days more. If you succeed in convincing Mister Doctor, they can be saved.

As minutes pass, the cave is now out of view. You are now halfway through the old wooden bridge. Curious, you dare to look down on the slowly streaming water, a whole meter below. The sight immediatly scares you, and you jump back, letting out a scared "Yuu !" and a stream of pee-pee. You take a deep breath, remembering how cute and brave you are, and go on.

You've now reached the other side of the bridge. It's a beaten path crossroads, with three different directions available. You recall Patchouli told you to go left, but this now seems strange to you. Dosu, she said, lives deep inside the forest. The left path goes along the river, while the middle path goes straight towards the darkest part of the woods. Could she have been wrong ?
The right path leads towards mister road, and beyond, to Mister Doctor's house.

Where do you go ?

A. Reimu will take the left path, as Patchouli said !

B. Reimu will take mister shortcut, the middle path !

C. Cute Reimu can convince Mister Doctor without Dosu ! Let's take the right path easy !




Chapter Three : Dosu


The moldy Patchouli was clear : take the left path.  You ignore the two others and begin going along the river stream. In the horizon, nothing but water and trees, and the air, only the song of birds and bugs echoes through the woods.
You keep advancing for what seems to be a long time. Your widdle fweet begin to feel weary as you reach another crossroads.
This time only two directions are available : you can keep following the river, or go deeper into the forest.
You decide to afford yourself a little pause to think about what to do next. You do a long stretch-stretch to sften the bean paste that constitute your bowels, and then flip to your backside, exposing your anyaru to mister sun. You then excrete a sizeable quantity of mister poo-poo on the ground, an act which fills you with an intense feeling of liberation and relaxation.
"Refreshed !" you exclaim as the last bits of expired bean paste leave your body.

As you get back up, you distance yourself from the stinking pile of excrements, and focus your attention on the road once more. The solution now seems obvious to you : you should go deep inside the forest, because that's where Patchouli said Dosu lives. Patchouli only told you to go left to avoid the dangers that surely lied in waiting along the more direct road.
"Let's continue easy !" you announce, and go back to waddling along the beaten path.

This part of the forest is darker than the rest, as the dense vegetation blocks much of the sunlight. This place seems pretty much abandonned by mister humans : aong the way, you see some sculptures they made, now green with moss.
You keep advancing and advancing, deeper and deeper into the forest. You can't tell how long you've been walking now, but your instincts make you continue at a steady pace, as this place has a powerful atmosphere, both protective and calming. This forest is indeed easy, filled with hiding places and food : a perfect place for yukkuris.
You now hear whispers and echoes through the woods. Not only bugs and birds, but also voices forming words. You recognize yukkuris voices : they're all around you, expressing joice and sadness, pain and pleasure, need and fulfillment. Dozens, hundreds maybe, of yukkuris inhabit this part of the woods, the deepest aprts of the Easy Forest.

You then actually see the first yukkuris you've come accross since the cave of the moldy yukkuris. Three little Alices forming a little line are crssing the path, going from one patch of bushes to the other. You decide to hail them :
"Hey, little ones !"
They stop and stare at you, the first one, probably the eldest, suddenly puffing, the two other looking scared.
"Take it easy ! " you exclaim.
They suddenly relax, seeing you're not a threat.
"Chake id eajy !" they loudly answer all at once.
Before you can even open your mouth, the eldest sister begins to talk.
"Aliche and her cude liddle shwishters are going hunting for a chity-shect Mishter Treajure !"
"Chitty-shect !" the second one repeats.
"Big shish ij a great hunter !" the third one affirms proudly.
You smile at such youthful enthusiasm. Those three remind you of you and your little sisters, back in the time when you formed a happy family. But now, the happiness of other yukkuris weighs on your shoulders.
"Little ones, do you know where Dosu is ?"
"Yu !"
"Yu !"
"Dosu is this way easy !"
The eldest Alice points down the road you're already taking. You feel proud about yourself for not getting lost.
You thank the young Alices, and watch them continue their way through the vegetation, in quest of a beautiful treasure. You go further down the path, and the echoes of voices become louder and louder.

Suddenly, you find yourself in open daylight : it's like a whole in the forest, a large, grassy clearing. On he ground, you see yukkuris of all ages and types : Reimus and Marisas, Patchoulis and Alices, Chens and Sakuyas. Yukkuris eating and singing, running and mating. Babies  being born, while older yukkuris close their eyes, taking it easy forever.
But your eyes can only see one thing in this scenery full of life.
They see Dosu.
Dosu stands in the middle of the clearing, overshdowing all other yukkuris. She is bigger than anything alive you've ever seen. Ten of you, on top one another, would barely reach her mouth. She is a Marisa type, and her huge mister hat makes her seem even more humongous than she really is. Her calm eyes rest upon the dozens of little yukkuris at her feet, her motherly gaze filled with peace. Around her, dozen of yukkuris quietly rub-rub with her, sharing her body heat : she doesn't move an inch, as to not crush them under her immense weight.

Impressed with this woderful sight, you scream at the top of your lungs :
"REIMU HAS COME TO SEE DOSU EASY ! "

The whole clearing falls silent : all the yukkuris run away from Dosu, towards the edges of the clearing, as to allow her some freedom of movement.
Dosu sets her eyes on you.
No sound is heard in the crowd, except for the "Nhoooo !" of an Alice loudly refreshing with a dumb-looking Reimu.
"What do you want ze ?" Dosu asks.

You now realize you've got a choice to make.

A. Patchouli and other yukkuris are moldy and not taking it easy ! Reimu needs to ask Dosu to go speak to mister Doctor !

B. This place seems so easy ! Reimu will forget about Patchouli and ask to live here and enjoy happiness !




Chapter 4 : Mister Doctor


"Patchouli and Alice and lots of yukkuris are in a cave on the other side of mister bridge ! Mister mold doesn't let them take it easy ! Dosu must come and tell Mister Doctor to save them easy !"
Dosu doesn't say anything. You remain silent, waiting for an answer. Whispers form in the crowd of yukkuris around you.
"Yu..."
"How awful ze..."
"Help them !"
"Dosu, go easy !"
"Dosu, help them easy !"
Slowly, you hear the voice go louder and louder : within seconds the whole clearing is cheering for Dosu to help the moldy yukkuris.
Dosu smiles.
"Fine. Dosu... Marisa will help you, ze." she says.
Dosu lowers her whole body towards you, until the tip of her hat touches the ground.
"Hop on, little one."
You're struck with surprise, but you comply, and jump on the black hat. You turn around, and feel the whole world become smaller as Dosu gets back up.
"Id'sh wike fwying in dhe shky !" You say, overrun by sheer happiness.
You've never seen things this way in your life : you far in front of you, and the other yukkuris seem no bigger than babies from where you stand.
"To Mister Doctor easy !" Dosu says.
The yukkuris make way, and Dosu begins to move under their cheers.
The ground shakes as she bounces, swallowing the path jump after jump : she is much, much for faster than you are, and the clearing is quickly out of view.
"Where do you come from, little one ?"
"From outside the forest : Reimu couldn't take it easy, so Reimu came here."
"Reimu's a brave little one to help other yukkuris. You can come here live with us easy once we come back !"
"Yu !"
You're filled with pride and joy, enjoying the ride and the prospect of an easy life in the forest. You're now back at the first crossroads : Dosu took the shortest path, as any danger lying in wait hid in fear when hearing her approach. Patchouli waits for help on the other side of the bridge. But you can't come back yet, not without Mister Doctor. Dosu turns to the right, and begins to bounce towards mister road.
On the other side of the old asphalt, you see a tiny house, with a small fence around it. No other building is in sight : Mister Doctor, unlike yukkuris, must love to be alone.
Dosu doesn't take long to cross the road, as no mister car is in sight. Soon, you're in front of the closed fence gate.
"Push mister button, ze !"
You don't  immediately understand, but on closer inspection, a small budding thing is present on the side of the gate. Dosu lowers her body until you're at the right level, and you press your soft cheek against the button, which then lets out a loud sound.
"Yu !" you scream in surprise, jumping back, letting a stream of pee-pee soak Dosu's hat, who doesn't seem to mind.
"It's mister doorbell." she explains. "It calls for Mister Doctor !"
You see one the windows of the house open. A male human head peers from the opening.
"What the fuck ?!" he shouts angrily.
He then closes the window.
"Was this Mister Doctor ?" you ask, carefully avoiding the pee-soaked areas on Dosu's hat.
"Yes. Mister Doctor is very uneasy. But Dosu's big, and strong, and is not afraid !"
The house's door is kicked open. Mister Doctor comes out and rushes to the front gate, which he quickly opens.
"What the fuck are you doing here, you shitty manjus ?!"
You stay silent, expecting Dosu to explain the situation. She doesn't. You're suddenly confused : wasn't it her role to convince Mister Doctor ? Finally, you decide to speak.
"We need mister's easy help ! Mister, save cute yukkuris from mister mold !"
He takes a deep sigh.
"You mean you're disturbing me in the middle of the afternoon to get me to come save some rotting shitballs in the forest ?"
"Yu !" you exclaim, shocked at his rudeness.
"And you've brought the big one to strongarm me, is that right ?"
You finally realize Patchouli didn't mean Dosu would be doing the talking. Dosu is as tall as mister human, and much wider. You easily imagine her mauling the uneasy mister human, or even tearing the whole fence down.
"Dosu is really strong and brave and..."
"Shut the fuck up ! Now fuck off or you're gonna taste this !"
You finally realize the presence of a long item in his hand, he shoulders one extremity, pointing the other at Dosu's forehead. You see two hollow tubes, side by side.
He's clearly threatening you. You think about something smart to retort, but you stop when you realize something.
Dosu is shaking.
You look back at the two tubes. What are those ? You've never seen something like this. But one thing sure is that Dosu knows what it is, and that Mister Doctor seems to be confident that with this, Dosu is not a danger to him. Your best guess is that he can make something very dangerous, very scary come out of the dark tubes.
What you don't know is that even among humans, Mister Doctor is especially uneasy. He's not a regular Doctor, who helps other humans take it easy. Mister Doctor is what humans call a Mister Yakuza. A doctor that heals wounds that are not supposed to be here, far from any curious eyes, next to a forgotten road, next to an old forest. A man like this makes enemies, and so he illegally owns this thing humans call a mister shotgun.

Now, your mission is more in danger than ever before. Sure, you could quit, or wait for Dosu to turn tail and run, but you're not that kind of yukkuri.
You want to save them.
You have to make concessions.
But what can you offer ? Humans are too big to like yukkuri's mister food, and too dumb to be interested in their mister treasures.
You're only card left to play is yukkuri life itself.

"Mister Doctor, listen easy ! If you come and save them..."


A. "... Reimu will be mister's pet !"

B. "... Patchouli's will be mister's pet !"

C. "... Dosu will be mister's pet !"


Chapter 5 : Surgery


"A pet ? I don't want a pet." Mister Doctor says.
However, he slightly lowers his shotgun and looks at you.
"You're a brave one, aint'cha ?"
You look at him in the eyes, and see him hesitate. Maybe he's touched by your determination. You're not like the yukkuris that come to his door demanding mister sweets or slip inside his garden, eating his flowers and calling him an old geezer, telling him to drop dead easy.
But you, you're different : you're nice, courageous, your care for others before your own. He thinks back to his early days as a student, when he just wanted to save lives, before ending up linked to all the underground cartels in Tokyo, spending his lives patching up dumbass "anikis" getting slashed and shot for an honor no one cared about.
"Fine. I'll save your friends, but in return, you're mine, okay ?"
"Reimu agrees ! Now hurry up and save them easy !" you say.
Dosu lowers her body to let you come down on the ground.

The rest follows without incidents. Mister Doctor brings you inside his house once you've told good bye to Dosu, who heavily bounces back to the forest. You tell him where the moldy ones are, and he comes out with a white box. You're alone in the house, on a desk where lots of shiny and dangerous tools are aligned. In the other side of the round, you see a large green box with sounds coming from inside. They seem like unhappy, suffering, dying yukkuri voices. You try to ignore it, thinking it's your imagination. You don't know that inside, is an invading yukkuri family, reduced to making compost by eating their own feces and their own deads.
After an hour, Mister Doctor comes back with his box. He pushes you aside, places the box on the table and opens it : the stench of rotting paste bean fills up the house.  Voices emerge from the white box.
"Yu..."
"Mwommy..."
"Hurdsch..."
"Mu...kyuuu..."
"Let's get started" he says.
He puts his hands inside the box : you see he's wearing gloves.
"This one's dead... this one's... dead... This one... hmm."
He takes a knife, and plunges it in the box. You don't hear any scream : only weak and frightened voices, along with a disgusting wet sound. You quickly process what just happened.
Mister Doctor just killed a yukkuri.
"WHY DID YOU DO DHIS MISHTER ????" You scream with tears in your eyes.
He sighs and puts his hand int he box. He quickly pulls it out, holding the dead yukkuri, and quickly holds it an inch from your face.
"YUPIIII !" You scream in horror, pee-pee and poo-poo flowing out of your orifices from the close sight of a rotten Marisa's face, bean paste oozing from the wound that just ended her miserable life.
"It was fucking dying you shitty manju ! I'm simply ending her sufferings. And don't fucking shit on my desk again, or you're joining the compost box..."
"Sh-showwy..."
He turns his attention to the box again.
"Those ones... yeah, it might work. This one too... not this one... not this one either..."
He stabs the inside of the box several times, and pulls out several rotten corpses, dead by mold or by stabbing, and drops them in a dustbin. You recognize several of them from the cave.
"Can't even make compost out of those, they'd kill the others... Well, that leaves six for operation."
He cleans the knife, and then takes a strange item, something you've never seen before. It's a small, metal rectangle. He flips it open, and a bright light comes out of it. It's mister fire ! You know his warmth is the easiest of them all, but his bite is the most terrible. Mister Doctor heats the blade until it's red.
"It's gonna bite."

You hear a sizzling sound.
"YUGYAAAAAAH !"
"Little one !"
" Widdle...shish..."
"Mukyu !"
"The bad bits are cut off... now it should... Oh fuck, it's dead. Guess young ones aren't tough enough to endure the pain."
He shrugs.
"Well at least this one can make compost."
In his hand is a dead Alice ko, from the family you saw int he cave. He takes a few steps back and opens the green box. Voices emerge.
"Food..."
"Give food..."
"No more mister trash... no more mister trash..."
"Can't take it easy..."
Without a word, he drops the corpse inside and closes the lid : all you hear is the disgusting sound of munching.
Tears run down your cheeks, you're hiccuping : you don't know what to say or what to do.
Mister Doctor comes back to the table.

"Now, the other one..."
"Zdop... zdop hurding by children..."
"Shut the fuck up" he answers, annoyed.
"Mwommy... zabe be !" you hear as he picks up another yukkuri.
You hear the "pshhhh !" sound when the heated blade is applied to the moldy skin.
"YUPIIIIIIIIIII !"
The blade is then applied to another area.
"YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !"
It stops.
"Hmm."
"Yuu... yuu... hewp bwe..."
"Congratulation, you little shit. You survived."
You feel a ray of hope as he bandages her burn wounds. Other follows : her sister, then her mother. A Reimu dies in operation : her anyaru being infected, Mister Doctor turns to scratching instead of burning in order not to inflict definitive damage. Her bowels are ripped open in the process, and she ends up as compost too.
"Then, the last one. Hmm, it's also in your hair ? Gotta cut that. And your eye ? Might as well say good bye to it now. Ready ? Let's go."
"MUKYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !"
"You're a big girl."
"Mukyuuuu..."
Mister scissor is then used. The yukkuri is then taken out of the box, and placed with the other to be bandaged. It's the Patchouli you met, her dead eye forever closed, with only a half of her hair left.
"Reimu..." she says when she sees you.
"Thank you..."


Only four yukkuris out of a dozen survived the ordeal. Patchouli, the mother Alice, and two of her three children. Once fully bandaged, they're placed with you in an old, empty yukkurium. Outisde, mister night has come.
"Tomorrow, I'm bringing you back to the forest" Mister Doctor say.
The yukkuris feel relieved.
"We're going back easy !"
"To the chitty shect foresht, to take it eajy !"
"Patchouli will teach all the little ones how to avoid mister mold easy !"
You puff up with pride and joy.
"Reimu will take it easy too ! With Dosu and Patchouli and all the others too !"
The five of you are overwhelmed by joy and relief.
"TAKE IT EASY !" you all scream, happy to have made it through all this.

But then you hear Mister Doctor's voice.
"Reimu... they're going back. You're not. Did you forget ?"
He smiles.
"You're mine."

For the first time, you feel you have no choice.
But your story is not over...




Chapter 6 : Mister Pet Shop



The following day, the four survivors went back to the forest. You were allowed a last rub-rub with them, and you knew you probably would never see them again.
You cried as they left, but Mister Doctor didn't care. He silently washed the white box from the remains of corpses and mister mold, and he put you inside before closing the lid.
He didn't mind your calls or your cries. You felt the box was moved, first harshly, then mildly, for a long period of time. The box was strongly moved again. Finally, the lid was open. The light of day reached a box you had soiled with both piss and feces. You were in a poor emotional state yourself.
"Get be oud ! Blease Bister Dogdor ! Id shdinksh ! Gan'd dage id eajy lige dish !"
You heard sighs.
"She's a bit moved by the travel, but I assure you she's a good one."
"She looks like one. We'll give you 1400 yen for her. "
"1400 ? That's cheap as fuck. She's worth 2000 at least."
"We can go up to 1500. She looks healthy enough."
"That manju came up riding a big one just for the sake of some moldy shitballs. If she's not a top-rate... how do you call them already... "niceheads", is that it ? Well, I don't know what she is. Give me 1800 at least."
"1600 ?"
"Deal."

Mister Doctor left, never to be seen again.
And that's how you met Mister Pet Shop.

Apparently, you were "sold". This means Mister Doctor obtained mister money, a friend that allows all mister humans to take it really easy. In exchange, you had to listen to Miss owner and Mister Salesman. All sorts of thing happened to you after this. First, they took your Mister Ribbon. You puffed and told them how mean they were. But then they introduced you to mister bath. You took it really easy, and got all clean and shiny, and got your ribbon back, with a wonderful mister badge on it. You truly felt like the pwettiest of all Reimus.
Then, they told you to sing, talked to you a bit, and fed you sweet-sweets. It was so delicious ! After this, they placed you in Mister Shelf. It's a strange place, divided between lots of boxes, each with a translucent plastic door, each hosting one or two yukkuris. Letters and numbers only the smartest Patchoulis can read are written on each door.
You didn't know it, but on yours was written the following text :

- Young adult, Reimu type.
- Born in wilderness.
- Very nice.
- Can sing.
- Life expectancy : long (3+ months !)
- Gold badge : guarantee of an easy yukkuri !
- 2500 yen


You were alone inside your box, but you were given mister ball to play with. Mister Salesman also introduced you to mister toilet, a square on which to let mister poo-poo come out easy. You had fun with mister ball for a while, but quickly grew bored and tired. You slept. You were woken up by Mister Salesman, who was very angry. You had let mister poo-poo come out just right next to mister toilet so it wouldn't be all dirty and stinky and could remain an easy place. He slapped your bottom with a ruler, and it hurt a lot. You couldn't take it easy, but decided to only defecate on mister toilet from now on to punish it, since it was so ungrateful and uneasy.
The line "potty trained" was added on your door.

Days passed, days of loneliness and boredom. You were told to expect Mister Owner, an easy human who would take you out of mister pet shop. Lots of Mister Owners came and went, but none of them bought you. You didn't really understand why. You were cute and pretty and smart, so why did they mostly buy 3-for-500-yen "Abyuse Pack" Deibus and Bawisas ?
You had no idea what "abyuse" meant, but since it had "yu" in it, like in "yukkuri", you thought it was something really easy, and felt proud about yourself for being that smart.

Here you were now, behind this glass door, waiting. Mister ball felt a little less easy with each passing day, and without another yukkuri to rub-rub with, you felt very lonely.
As you look beyond the door, you see the usual activity. One mister human comes in, and buys ten little ones in one go. A young girl comes next, and buys a Patchouli and her two babies. They ignore you.  You think today will be like evry other day, until you see a eprson pointing at you. They're talking to Mister Salesman.
What do you hear them say ?

A. "I'd like to buy this Reimu, she'd be a perfect companion for my Marisa !" says the young salaryman.

B. "I'd like to buy this Reimu. The little ones I picked up from the streets need a surrogate mother..." says the middle-aged man.

C. "I'd like to buy this Reimu ! She looks so cute ! I've never had a yukkuri before, but I'm sure we'll get along !" says the highschool student girl.




Chapter 7 : The little ones


 Another box. This one has a handle, and bars so you can yee outside. You're taking it really easy, knowing that your days of boredom are finally over. You're gonna be a mwommy !
You were bought by Mister, a small, balding man with an easy smile and a soft voice. Mister takes the box and leaves while Mister Salesman bows respectfully, happy to have finally sold such a promising yukkuri.
As Mister takes you home, you catch a glimpse of the city. You know this place : it's where you were born. In the streets, as a stray yukkuri. You only spent a few days here after being born, because your parents decided to try to reach the Easy Forest. Minutes pass, and Mister finally stops in front of a door, opens it with his keys, and says :
"I'm home !"
The interior is very clean, and comfy, although a tad cramped for a human. For a yukkuri, it looks simply huge. Mister takes off his shoes and takes your box further in, until you catch a glimpse of a large transparent box, thrice the size of your box at the pet shop. High-pitched voices are immediatly heard.
"Yu !"
"Yu !"
"It'sh  Dwaddy !"
"Dwaddy ij back eajy !"
"Doing woll-woll for Dwaddy ~"
Mister's smile brightens.
"Good afternoon, little ones. Are you taking it easy ?"
"Eajy !"
"Eajy !"
"Chake ich eajy !"
"Well, well... I have a surprise for you."
"Ij it shweet-shweetsh ?"
"A mishter tweajure ?"
Mister puts the box on the table, next to the yukkurium. You can now clearly see the insides of the box, just as clear as the little ones can now see you.
"I brought you a new Mommy."
There are four little yukkuris in the box, all of them little Reimus. From behind the bars, you welcome them.
"Take it easy !"
They do not respond. Instead, they quickly run to hide behind a pink, comfy pillow : a mister bed you could only have dreamt of in the wild. Two of them look scared and don't dare to look at you. The two other puff threateningly. One of them especially barely hides, and looks at you directly, with mean eyes. You immediatly guess this one is the bwig shish.
"Forgive them, they're still young." Mister says. He opens the door to your box, and softly takes you  between his hands. He raises you above the yukkurium, and while you feel like you're flying in the sky, you're too concerned with the little ones' behaviour to say anything. The box has a door, which is closed, but no ceiling. You're put on the yukkurium floor, and Mister lets go of you.
"Daddy has work to do... try to get along in my absence !"
You turn around, to see him exit the room. You're now alone with the four little ones.
The yukkurium is not only large, it's also well-furnished. You recognize a square, sanded mister toilet. There's a faint smell in the air, that makes you feel slightly nauseous. You look at the floor and realize countless little mounds of mister poo-poo are littered on the floor, less than half of them were laid on the designated space.

There's one mister bed, the one behind which the little ones are hiding. There's also a pair of small balls, and a bowl filled with processed yukkuri food.

You get closer to the little ones. Despite them being perfectly identical, your instinct instantly manage to differentiate between them, to create a nuance bewteen each idea of "Reimu". To you, they're as different as, to a human, are One, Two, Three and Four.
One, the elder, is the first to speak.
"Don't cwome near Weimyu and her cyude liddle shwish !"
"Shtay away eajy !" adds Three, a scaredy one suddenly enboldened by her bwig shish's presence.
"Fwake Mwommy !"
"Fwake Mwommy should gwo away eajy !"
Two puffs, while Four pisses itself.

You don't know how to react to such display of hostility and uneasiness. But you're hungry. You decide to ignore the four little one behind the bed, and to go visit mister bowl. While on your way, trying to avoid the small blots of mister poo-poo, you feel the eyes on your surrogate daughters focused on you. Your reach the bowl, and grab a bit of food. You munch on it, and swallow it : you're a bit disappointed. It's not exactly bad, but the food at the pet shop tasted sweeter.
Suddenly, you feel a shock on your back.
"Ugwy Monshders should dwop dwead eajy !"
It's Three, who bumped into your back with all of her body weight, intending to harm you. It didn't really understood the implications of it being five times smaller than you are. It's now staring at you with blank eyes, not understanding why you didn't die on the spot.
"Cwome bwack liddle shish ! It'sh dangewous !" One yells.
"Don't eat ouw mishter fwood !" Two threatens.
"Yu !" adds Four, still pissing itself.

You understand that you have to make a choice...


A. Punish them by hitting one of them.

B. Punish them by killing one of them.

C. Punish them by taking away one's accesory.

D. Don't punish them, instead, tell them stories about the Easy Forest.



Chapter Eight : Little ones, part two

"Little ones... tell me about your Mwommy."
"Mwommy ij..."
"Mwommy ij not wike you !"
"She'j pwetty !"
"And bwave !"
"And she shaved ush fwom Fwan !"
"And then she twold Mishter to let ush twake it eajy !"
"And then..."
"And then..."
Silence falls in the yukkurium. Four hiccups, then bursts into tears.
"Yuuuu... yuuuu... Yuuuuueeeeeeeeeen ! Mwoooommyyyyyy !!"

The dying wish of a brave mother... That's why they're here now, with you. You were nearly an adult when the Remilias ate your parents, but they were only a few days old. You can't help but feel bad for them. From your early days, you remember a song, one your own Mwommy used to sing.

"Yuyuyu ~Yuyu ~ Yuuu ~"
"Shwud up !"
"Fwake Mwommy !"
"Yuyuuu ~ Easy ~"
Two stays silent, Four listens, fascinated. She has stopped crying.
"Easy ~ Easy ~ Take it easy ~"
Four is hiccuping again.
"Mwommy..."
She bursts into tears a second time, rushing towards you.
"YUUUUUEEEEN ! Mwommy ! Mwommy ij a weal Mwommy wight ? She'll twake cware of Weimyu, wight ?"
She rubs her cheek against yours, she's all soft and warm. You slightly press against her, sharing the rub-rub.
"Hwappinesh !" she declares, letting out happy pee from her last reserves of hydratation.

The other three don't share her enthusiasm.
"Cwome bwack !"
"Liddle shish !"
"Id'sh a twap !"
Four stops and puffs up, this time looking at her sisters.
"Mwommy ij Mwommy ! Shtwop bullying hew eajy !"

You feel some more convincing is needed to get the other three to your side.
"Have you heard of the Easy Forest ?"
"Don't cware !"
"Gwo bwack eajy !"
"It's a big, easy place where all yukkuris can take it easy..."
"We dwon't nweed the Shwitty Foresht !"
"We only nweed Dwaddy and Mishter Home and... and..."
"And fow ugwy old hwag Weimyu to gwo away eajy !"

While Two and Four puff up at you, Three jumps forward.
"Mwommy ij Mwommy, wight ?"
Unlike Four, she isn't overcome with joy. Instead, she's smug and defiant.
She flips on her backside, stretching.
"Dwoing pwoo-pwoo eajy !" she announces.
"You're not on mister toilet !" you protest.
But it's already too late.
"Id'sh coming out ! Lotsh !"
Indeed, an impressive pile of shit exits her bottom, dropping on the floor with a wet sound.
"Id shtinksh !" the little ones complain, jumping back.
Three doesn't move, remaining on her back side. She raises her head a little, looking into your eyes.
"Id'sh a Mwommy'j jwob to keep her cyude liddle Weimyu's all cwean, wight ?"
She slowly wiggles her poop-stained butt in your direction.
"Sho Mwommy should huwwy up and wick Mishter Anyaru cwean, okay ? ~"



A. Do the clean-clean.

B. Hit Three.

D. Ignore Three.



Chapter Nine : Bullies and predators.

You jump forward, bumping into Three, who is sent flying from the shock.
"YUPIIII !" She screams when the lands on the ground.
The other koyukkuris look at the scene, dumbfounded.
"Weimyu's fache... hurdsh ?" Three babbles, deeply shocked.
"Mister poo-poo belongs on mister toilet !" you affirm.
"Dwon't buwwy Weimyu'j cude liddle shish !" One protests.
"Dwop dwead eajy !" Two yells, puffing up.

The tension is still palpable : only Four remains silent. Hours pass in tense silence, and finally mister night comes. One, Two and Three look outraged when you get on mister bed with Four. They all refuse to share the bed with you, but, probably being afraid of being hit, they don't complain, and  go pile up in a corner of the yukkurium. You watch them fall asleep on top of each other, making a drooling, smiling pile of warmth. Occasionally, they let out a stream of pee-pee, or a fart, in their sleep. Finally, you fall asleep too, thanks to the softness of mister bed.

You're woken up by a piercing sound : screams of pain, accompanied by the wet sound of manju skin hitting manju skin.
"Twaitow !"
"Fwake shishtew should dwop dead eajy !"
"Yupiiii ! Shdop id !"
"Twaitows dwon't dejerve a mishter wibbon !"
The sound of fabric being teared up echoes in the yukkurium. You open your eyes and discover a terrible scene.
Four is bruised and crying, desperately trying to save her mister ribbon from Two and Three, who are ganging up on her.
"Yu !" you exlaim in horror.
But it's too late : when you begin bouncing towards the three little ones, Four's mister ribbon cracks under the pressure, and is ripped in two.
"YUUUUUEEEEEN ! WEIMYU'S MISHDER WIBBOOOOOON !"
"Dhat'sh what you gwet for shiding with Fwake Mwommy !"
"Twaitows are pwunished eajy !"
As you close the distance, you yell, but two voices are heard at the same time.
"Stop this right now !"
"Shdop dhish wight now !"
It's One. She puffs at Two and Three, with tears in her eyes.
"Weimyu's cude liddle shwish should nwot buwwy each othew ! Shdop huwting Weimyu !"
One violently bumps into Two.
"Yugyaah !"
Three frowns. You approach Four and start licking her wounds, but she doesn't stop crying.
"Ij bwig shish shtupid ? Weimyu waj jusht pwunishing an uneajy yukkuwi."
One doesn't respond, and puffs up een more. Three becomes smug. Just like yesterday, she flips on her backside, wiggles her bottom in the face of her big sister, and defecates on the floor.
"Bwig shish shwould be fwiends with mishter poo-poo shinche they shmell the shame !" she declares.
Outside the yukkurium, you hear the door open. Mister comes in.
"What's all this noise ?" He asks. "What happened ?" he adds when he sets his eyes on the scene.
Five yukkuri voices explode in explanations and accusations at the same time. Mister doesn't seem to understand much of anything that is said. He sighs.
"Try to get along, at least a little... Reimu, show me your accessory."
"Mishder Wibbon ij... Mishter Wibbon ij..." Four hiccups.
"I'll show it to my daughter. Maybe she can fix it."
You're surprised humans have daughters too. You've never seen a human with a stalk, after all.
Following Mister's intervention, the crisis passes. Two and Three gather on the side, playing together. While you try to cheer up Four with songs, One approaches you.
"Weimyu (she means you)... Weimyu ij not Weimyu'j Mwommy. Bwut... if Weimyu can chake id eajy... Weimyu can shtay in Weimyu and her shistew's Mishter Hwome !"
She then turns around and go chase mister ball. You look at her, smiling. In the easiest place of all, her Mwommy must be proud.

Days pass without much happening. You and Four get along, while Two and Three stay separate, with One spending time with both groups, taking care of all her younger sisters. Only Four calls you Mwommy. One calls you Weimyu, and the two others call you whatever insulting name they can think of.
You spend more time with Mister, when he comes back from work. He tells you he's a Mister Teacher, and that he teaches Mister History. You ask what this is, but you don't understand a bit of the answer. No wonder humans can't take it easy, with all those complicated things ! You interrupt his explanation by asking for sweet-sweets. He laughs, and gives a strawberry-flavored piece of candy. You munch on it with excitement, and while you gently strokes your hair, you feel genuine happiness.
This place is an easy place, after all.

Four got her ribbon back after a few days. Despite the accessory bearing a visible sewing mark, she was ecstatic when she got it back.

Some times, Mister lets you all play outside the yukkurium, on mister flour. You all ran around the tables, went searching for mister treajures. One found a mister coin, and was really proud. One of those days, Mister went to Mister School without putting you back in the yukkurium first, simply telling you to behave in his absence.
All went well, until the screeching voice of Two startled you.
"ID'Z A WEMIWIAAA !" She screamed.
You then heard Three's voice.
"WUN AWAY ! ID'SH A WEMIWIAAA !"
With Four trembling besides you and One nowhere to be found, you began bouncing in direction of the screams. You quickly saw the two little ones running frantically. Behind them was a much larger yukkuri, just a bit smaller than yourself.
"Uu ~!"
Your bean paste freezes in terror at the sight of the beast. Pink fluffy hat, bat wings, blue hair, piercing fangs. It was indeed a Remilia. The images of your whole family being torn apart by half a dozen of those played in your mind.
But on closer inspection, this one looked a bit different.
It was dirty : filth covered her hat, hair and skin. Its hollow cheeks revealed how underfed it was. Its wings don't move, their last strength consumed by the flight that took her through one the house's open windows.
Maybe it isn't that dangerous...

You have to make a choice.

 A. "ID'S A REMILIAAAAAAA !" You scream, running away like your surrogate daughters.

B. You puff up, then try to fight it.

C. There's nothing to be scared about, this Remilia is probably harmless. Just go to the nearest mister pillow for some sleep-sleep.




Chapter 10 : Victory and lust


"Go away easy !" you tell the Remilia, puffing up as much as you can.
"Uu~" she goes, ignoring you while bouncing towards the fleeing little ones.
"What are you doing here ? This is Reimu's easy home, you know ?"
She stops and looks at you. With a big smile, she answers :
"I'm going to eat the little Reimus easy !"
You bounce towards her, bumping into her with all your strength.
"Uu !" she screams at the impact.
She gets back and look at you, now frowning.
"Going to eat you easy !"
She jumps back at you, and bites you, her fangs penetrating your soft skin, ripping apart a portion of  your right side.
"YUGYAAAAH !"
Remilia's lips press on the wound, and she begins sucking.
"Chuu-chuu ~"
She's sucking your bean paste, feeding after days of starvation. But the wound is small, and the amount sucked not large enough to prevent you from recovering. You bump into her again, getting her off you. This time, you follow by jumping on her, and smashing her repeatedly with all you body weight.
"Drop dead easy ! Drop dead easy !" you repeat, filled with pain, rage and hatred.
"Uu ! Uu !"
Bruises appear on her skin, her hat falls off. You keep on pounding her, and soon the skin begins to break, exposing the red bean paste.
"Uu ! Zaguya ! Zaguya ! Hewp bwe !"
An eyeball exits its socket, wounds tear up, breaking the whole yukkuri open.
"Zagu...ya..."
You stop, exhausted and covered in Remilia's bean paste. It's dead.
With the sudden drop in adrenaline, you remember your parents and feel you've avenged them, before being hit with the full pain of the wound on your side.
"ID HURDZ !" you scream, while bouncing aimlessly, tears in your eyes.
While you scream and cry from the pain, the little ones appear from where they hid : they're all here.
"Hope you suffew a lot ! Fwake Mwommy should dwop dwead eajy like the uneajy Wemiwia !" Three says.
But this time, she is alone.
"Mwommy !" Four exclaims.
"Mwommy, howd on !" Two adds.
"Weimyu will wick-wick Weimyu !" One announces.
The three little ones surround you, rubbing their cheeks against yours, licking you to ease the pain. This has no real effect, but you manage to forget the ache, and enjoy the warmth of your new family.

Mister came home, and immediatly healed you using an orange juice patch. He told you how proud he was of you, and threw the dead Remilia into the trash. Thenext day, he came home with a reward : a Mister Pyjamas, pink, with a big "R" on the front. It was so comfy and easy, you felt like a true princess. Being very smart, you learned how to take it off using your braids before doing poo-poo. The little ones also recieved clothes, but Mister soon took them away as they soiled them everytime they put them on.
Days passed in easiness after this event, until days became weeks, and weeks formed a whole month.
The little ones had grown, and were now only a tad smaller than yourself, and this only because you had grown a bit yourself, living the easy life of a pet yukkuri. "Mommy" had replaced "Mwommy", "Reimu" had replaced "Weimyu". Since the Remilia incident, Two had joined Four in considering you her mother. Three had changed the most, however. Alone, she kept on hating you and her sisters. With only One approaching her, she grew uneasier still. While the others look very much like you now, Three is noticeably uglier, with small eyes and a large jaw. She eats more, making her  fatter. Her voice has gone deeper, and in her mouth, her own name has gone from "Weimyu" to "Deibu". Deibu has been the source of most of your troubles lately, fighting with you and her sisters, stealing, with no punishment for you or Mister ever solving anything. Mister gave up, and when he bought a larger bed for you, One, Two and Four to share, he gave the old one to Deibu, who now sleeps alone.
One has grown up well, on the other hand. Seeing you as a friend and a protector more than a mother, and keeping on helping and caring for her little sisters, has helped her growing into a mature, reliable yukkuri. Sometimes, it even looks like you're a Dwaddy and a Mwommy looking after their children. Maybe this is why you've been having a strange feeling when looking at One, recently. Heat raises in your body and the bean paste in your lower half hardens, making your pyjamas feel tight as mister penipeni presses on the soft fabric. She's a young, fertile yukkuri, unrelated to you, and for the first time in your life, you feel consumed by the will to refresh.

One night, you find the perfect occasion. Two, Deibu and Four are fast asleep, One is eating a last bite from mister bowl before going to sleep.

It is time to make a choice.

A. Rape One.

B. Ask One to refresh.

C. Forget it, and talk with Mister about this feeling.






Chapter 11 : The Disappearance


You decided to take it easy this night, and not to refresh with One.
The enxt morning, as you woke up on the large and fluffy mister bed, you saw Mister who, as every morning, went to take care of his yukkuris before going to work. In the yukkurium, it was a concerto of joyfwul sounds.
"Waking up easy~"
"Yu !"
"Yu !"
"Daddy !"
"Take it easy !"
"Take it easy !" he responded.
"Bwing sweet-sweets for Deibu easy, okay ?"
"Yu !" you went as you went out of bed, to rub-rub with the hand that was filling mister bowl with enough food to munch-munch for the day.
"Munch-munch~" you said, playfully nibbling on the tip of his finger.
He smiled, and gently stroke your hair.
"Happiness !" you exclaimed, filled with easiness.
But you ha dsomething to say.
"Mister ! Reimu wants to refresh !"
His eyes widened.
"Refresh ? Oh, you mean that..."
Your eyes were shining with hope.
"Good grief... Guess that can't be helped. Just try not to make babies with your daughters, okay ? I'll have something for you when I get home."
"Yuu ! Thank you, Mister !"

The day was long and uneventful. You played ball with One and Two, sung with Four and told her stories of the Easy Forest. A mister fly came into the yukkurium, but you were brave and chased it away. In your cute pyjamas, you really took it easy.
When Mister came back home this night, he had something with him, something from mister pet shop. It was a box, and when he opened it, he pulled out a spherical item from it. It was about your size, with blonde hair and a big black hat.
"It's a Marisa !" you said, overjoyed.
"Yes. You can refresh with marisa as much as you wish, but only with her." Mister said.
Mister put Marisa into the yukkurium.
"Take it easy !" you said, your daughters imitating you.
But Marisa didn't say a word, her face frozen in a proud smile.
"Yu ?"
On closer inspection, it was not a yukkuri, simply something that looked like one. The ressemblance, however, was striking. Marisa had the look of a strong, healthy yukkuri, and the thought of having this body for yourself filled you with lust.
"Nhoooo ! Reimu wants to refresh with cute Marisa !" you went, slipping out of your clothes, your arguably braggable penipeni fully erect.
"Reimu will make you pregnant !"
Sweating and drooling, you rushed for Marisa's behind. You easily found an opening in which to jam your penipeni, and went ecstatic at the touch of such a tight mamumamu.
Mister was visibly embarassed at your shamelessness, which contrasted with your usual cuteness, but you didn't mind, and began furiously humping Marisa.
"Nhooooo !"
It didn't take long for you to climax, adding even more fluids to the puddle of sweat and piss forming around you.
"Refreshed !"  you yelled at the zenith of pleasure.
No stalk appeared on marisa's forehead, and you felt relieved. That meant that you could do it as much as you wanted.

Marisa became the yukkurium's favorite toy. The little ones had no desire for you or for each other, but they all discovered sexuality with Marisa. The "nhooooo !" of a climaxing yukkuri became as common as the songs and the munch-munching in your daily life. Mister sometimes complained about how often he had to wash Marisa, but to him it was better than seeing the little ones multiplying. Even Deibu became a bit easier, too busy humping the toy to annoy your or her sisters.

All went well, and another month of easiness followed. Over the course of the weeks, you had lots of mister sweet-sweets to eat, took many mister baths with Mister and all the other yukkuris, and you took it easy, far from harm. You thought this was going to last forever, but everything has to end eventually.

Because one morning, Mister went to mister school and didn't come home. It was well into the night before you noticed anything strange. You began feeling nervous, as it never happened before.
"Yuu... Mommy, where is Daddy ?" Four asked.
You stroke her cheek with one of your soft, fluffy braids.
"Don't worry, he'll come home easy ! He just went to buy lots of mister sweet-sweets for Reimu !"
You went to sleep, and the calming warmth of One, Two and Four quickly let you forget your concerns, and you took a long sleep-sleep.
It was not Mister that woke you up, but the rays of mister sun.
"Waking up easy..."
"Yu ?"
Your daughters were asleep around you.
"Yuyu ?"
The room around you was as empty as the day before.
"Mister ? Where are you Mister ?"
He was nowhere to be found, and noone answered your calls : all you did was waking up your daughters.
Hours passed in anxiety. How many sweet-sweets was he buying, if it took that much time ? Even you didn't believe this story anymore. Something was wrong.
"Mommy, Reimu is hungry..." Two said at the end of the day.
"Give Reimu sweet-sweets !" Four begged you, rolling on the floor.
One endured the hunger stoically, and Three rolled on the ground crying, accusing you of eating all her food. Mister bowl was now empty, and mister toilet, not cleaned for two days, for now so covered in feces that doing poo-poo on it or besides it made no difference.

The situation was critical, something had to be done.

A. Mister will surely come tonight... or next morning... The world ouside is dangerous, let's stay in the yukkurium easy !

B. You could try to exit the yukkurium from its open top. But even by stacking mister bowl, the two mister beds, and Marisa, one of you would have to stay inside to let the others climb. As the yukkurium is on a small table not much wider than itself, the yukkuris that go off the top will fall on the ground, and won't be able to help the yukkuri left behind.

C. You could all go to one mister wall, and all run in front of you, bumping in the opposite mister wall at the same time. It will make the yukkurium fall from the table, but the yukkurium is made out of glass, and will break from the impact.





Chapter Twelve : Mister Ladder


As you're as smart as you are cute, you quickly piece together an easy escape plan.
"Let's build a mister ladder !" you say.
The others look at you dumbfounded.
You demonstrate your thought by biting on mister bed and pulling it on the edge of the yukkurium. You then do the same to the smaller bed, the one belonging to Deibu.
"Don't touch Deibu's easy bed !" she growls.
"Take it easy, little sis ! Reimu has a plan !" One tells her, which makes Deibu reluctantly keep quiet.
"We'll pile stuff easy, and then go over mister wall !" you explain.
"But... our easy home..." Four complains.
"It's not easy anymore ! It stinks ! And there's no mister food !" Two responds.
"Help Mommy bring mister bowl !" you order them. You, Two and Four add the upside-down empty bowl to the pile of beds.
"Then Marisa !" One announces, bumping into the eternally smiling sex doll, putting her on top of the pyramid.
It almosts reaches the top of the wall. But even standing on top of Marisa, a yukkuri of your size can't hope to make it over the top in one jump. The pile needs to rise higher.
"Yu... maybe we can use mister ball ?" Two suggests.
You know it wouldn't be stable.
But you have a very smart plan, befitting of a cute yukkuri like yourself.
You approach Deibu while One, Two and Four make a vain attempt at making the ball fit on Marisa's head.
"Stay away from cyude Deibu ! Uneasy Fwake Mwommy !"
Not minding her hostility, you bow.
"Mommy has come to apologize easy !"
"Yu ?"
"Mommy has been very uneasy with Reimu ! In return, she'll give her lots of sweet-sweets if Reimu  helps the others climb mister ladder !"
"Some mister chocolate too ?" she asks, drooling.
"Of course ! We'll come back easy for cute Reimu !"
Deibu is smiling at the idea of all those sweet-sweets and chocolate.
"Deibu will help, but hurry up easy !"
Without a moment of hesitation, Deibu jumps on top of Marisa.
"Climb up easy !" she says.
Four is the first to attempt climbing mister ladder, but when she touches Deibu, Deibu kicks back violently. She turns towards you, her face red with anger.
"AND HOW WILL YOU GWED BAG ? FAKE MOMMY CAN FLY MAYBE ?!"
You knew Deibu to be dumb, but overestimated her dumbness. Indeed, there's no way you can get back into the yukkurium once you've gone out, the table on which it stands being far too high to climb back.
"Reimu will... make a big mister ladder to get back to Reimu !" you try.
"Liar ! Fwake Mwommy is an uneasy liar !"
One stares at you in disbelief.
"Reimu... lied to Reimu's little sis ?"
On her face, shock turns into anger, and she puffs up at you, tears in her eyes. Two follows up, by she's puffing at Deibu. Amidst all this tension, Four hiccups and wets herself.
The whole mister plan has been jeopardized, at least in its original form. But in your mind, you've already given up on the alternatives. Mister Ladder will be finished, whatever the cost.
You have to make a choice :

A. "Deibu should drop dead easy !"

B. "Reimu (One) should stay."

C. "Reimu (Two) should stay."

D. "Reimu (Four) should stay."

E. "Reimu (you) will stay."





Chapter 13 : Staying behind



"Reimu... Mommy will stay."
"Yu..."
"Mwommy..." Four says, still crying.
One stops puffing, and looks at you with gravity. She understands what your choice means : you'll be the only one left behind, far from any help.
"Mwommy ! Cwome with ush !" Four begs you. "Shdupid Deibu can dwie eajy !" she insists, slurring like a baby from the emotion.
But you shake your head and smile.
"Reimu will stay. All of you, climb up easy !"
Deibu smiles, Two seems to understand, but looks sad nonetheless.
In the depths of your bean paste, a part of you doesn't want to do this. It wants to kill Deibu and climb on its carcass, lead the little ones into the world outside, a world they don't know about. Most of all, it wants to take it easy.
You jump on Marisa's head, face pressed against the glass.
"Come, little sis... follow Reimu easy !" says One, as she begins the ascent.
She now stands on your head.
"Reimu... thank you."
She jumps, trying to smile in the face of danger, tears in her eyes.
"It's like flying in the- yuuuu !"
The fall is harsh, but an adult yukkuri can survive it.
Two comes next.
"Good bye, Mommy..."
She jumps too.
Three is next, heavily jumping on you without a bit of care.
"Getting all the sweet-sweets easy !" she yells as she escapes the yukkurium.
You're now alone with Four, who doesn't come. You turn back, to see her shaking, crying incontrollably.
"Mwommy... mwommy... Pwease cwome with ush... Weimyu... Weimyu will shtay hewe if it needj..."
But you've made your choice.
"Mommy will stay here, so take it easy !"
You get close to her, and rub your cheek against hers.
"Rub-rub !"
"Mwommy... YUEEEEEEEEEN ! Mwommy !" she cries as she rubs against you, for the last time.
You separate from her, and take back your place atop Marisa.
"Weimyu... Weimyu will never fowget Mwommy !"
She climbs mister ladder, first the beds, then the bowl, then Marisa, and you. She jumps, makes a pained cry when landing.
You're now alone in the yukkurium.
Below, through the glass, you see them, and hear them. Four cries, One and Two thank you, Three rushes for the kitchen.
"Let's find mister food easy !" One says, organizing her sisters around her. They leave through a door let half open.
But you soon hear cries of frustration. There's no mister food in the kitchen, only, maybe, some in mister fridge, but yukkuris can't open it.
Mister was a simple man, living alone with his yukkuris : he barely made any reserves, buying food from the convenience every evening on his way home.
From the kitchen, they reach the bedroom, and further, the bathroom.
The voices get fainter and fainter.
They never come back.

You had to make this choice. It's how you've always acted. With the moldy yukkuris, with Dosu, with Mister Doctor. You've never killed or let down anyone, always designated yourself as sacrifice even if this meant jumping into the unknown.
Why ?
So others could take it easy.

The night will be long, the days after even more. You don't want to eat yet, not until starvation forces you to. You press your cheek against Marisa's plastic skin and close your eyes.
In the depths of your soul, you know you made the right choice.




Chapter 14 : The empty house

Two people stand next to each other in front of the house's door. A man, and a woman. They're in their late twenties, well-dressed, wearing glasses.
"It's a nice house. In a good neighbourhood like this, it will fetch a fine price." He says with a smile.
He looks at the woman, but her grim expression reminds him that happily talking about money is not the right thing to do for now.
"Sorry about your father, by the way... rolled over by a drunk driver, wasn't he ?"
She nods.
"It's a shame."
He really thinks it. Apparently, the deceased was a weel-loved man, an humble and gentle high school teacher. A widower, who lived alone in this tiny house.
"Shall we get in ?" he asks.
She opens the door with the keys.
A faint smell reaches their nostril.
"Rotten food ?" he thinks. That's not uncommon for a house left abandonned for a week.
They enter, taking off their shoes and closing the door behind them.
The man, a real estates employee with a keen eye for quality, immediatly sees the cleanliness of the place. It's a good house.
The woman goes further inside the house, and lets out a scream. The man rushes towards her.

She's standing in a tidy living room, both hands on top of her mouth. She's staring at a large open-topped glass box. There's something inside.
"A yukkuri !" she exclaims. "Father was keeping yukkuris !"
It now all makes sense. That ribbon he had her fix. Those friends he mentioned on the phone. She hadn't visited his house in months, how could she know ?
The man gets close to the box and looks inside. Clearly, it's where the smell come from.

Inside, are two yukkuris. One is in a pristine state, smiling, its empty eyes set on the horizon : clearly a fake. The other one is dirty. Its hair greasy, its skin greenish, its eyes closed : it stands inside a pool of its own piss. Brown traces around its mouth seems to indicate it spent days feeding from what seems to be a toilet space.
"Is it dead ?" the man asks.
With disgust, he pokes the yukkuri's cheek.
It makes a sound.
"Yu..."
"It's still alive..."
The yukkuri doesn't open its eyes. It murmurs.
"Little... ones..."
The man looks at the woman. Little ones ? There are others ? She rushes to the closest door, opens it. The man hears her open door after door : rooms, closets. She comes back.
"There are no others... but the window in the bathroom was open. They've must have gone through it."
The dirty yukkuri smiles.
The man, covering his hand with a tissue from his pocket, seizes the yukkuri. Something doesn't feel right. Its underside is mushy, sticky from diarrhea, covered in rashes. Days of feeding on its own feces have ravaged its insides.
And yet it smiles.


You smile at the news, at the touch of a human hand, the warmth of a body after days of cold loneliness.
"So... the little ones... could..."
You eyes stay closed, darkness surrounds you, softer, warmer than Mister's hand. You don't know what's around you. The dirty yukkurium, or a deep forest ? Humans, or round silhouettes ? One with a ribbon, one with a hat. Other, smaller ones, around them. Silence, or calls ?
"Reimu !"
"Reimu !"
"Bwig shish !"
All those voices combine.
"Welcome home easy !"
You finish your sentence.
"... take it... easy..."
The darkness is soft and warm. It's an easy place.
You don't mind staying here a little longer.

Your eyes stay closed, forever.








Epilogue

Today is a good, easy day.
Dosu smiles, looking down on the joyful little ones, bathing in the light of the clearing.
"Yu !"
"Cwimbing up eajy !" a little Reimu announces.
"Be careful, ze !" her Marisa father warns.
It's climbing mister white stone. It's strong and agile for its age, and gets on top without problems.
"Weimyu cwimbed up easjy !"
Dosu smiles with kindness.
"Doju !" the little one calls. "Why ij mishter white shtone sho important ?"
"Oh, that..."

While looking through her father's things, the woman found a will. Unsurprisingly, it left everything to her. However, there was this paragraph.

"I'm keeping four yukkuris, that I found as strays in the streets. If I die before they do, Kaori, could you take care of them ?"
The text was typed and printed, but had an extra, handwritten line.
"They're five now. I've bought them a mother. Please take care of this one too. This one is a special one, with a long story she told me about. In the forest, north of the city, you'll find a river, with a bridge leading to a clearing. This is where you should burry her when her time comes."

Dosu remembers how she puffed when she saw this strange miss human come into her territory. But when she saw what she was carrying, she understood.
A voice makes itself heard above Dosu, clearing its throat. Dosu smiles and lowers her hat, so that the yukkuri standing on top of her hat can look at the little one on the stone.
It's a scarred, one-eyed Patchouli, with half of her hair gone. She answers the little one's question.
"Because it's a dear friend's easy home..."