YuYuYui - Ishitsumugi no shou 50

C-Shadow unleashed - 1

[Hero Club room]

Chi: ......I see, here. Aah... but then I should rather...

Sek: Huh? Chikage is playing a computer video game. Wasn't she a console-only player?

Aki: Once you get into them, it's endless~. You got all kinds of games, free or not, bad or good.

Tak: Ah, no. She's not playing. At the moment, Gun-chan is...

Chi: Yes. This is C-Shadow.

Uta/Shi/Its: Eh!?

Anz: Let me explain, C-Shadow is Chikage-san's online name...

Chi: Kukuku... I expected you. But still too naive. After all, this is the kind of shallow thinking to be expected from a disorderly crowd...

Aka: I-Isn't her speech kinda weird?

Chi: But worry not. I am aware of 𝛼. You just need to wait and see... Kukukukuku.

Uta: But it looks like she's enjoying herself.

Meb: Enjoy... I'm not sure that's the word I would use.

Chi: I will be contacting you later.

Chi: Phew~... Mh?

Gin/Wak/Fuu: ...............

Chi: Ah, N-No! That was...!

Tak: Gun-chan was asked by the computer club to help with the release of an original game♪

Yuu/SON/Suz: Eh!? Amazing!

Hin: Although, what was it with your speech...?

Yos: Yes, please explain it to us, Koori-sama. I was in awe at how wonderful it was.

Kar: Yeah y-... Eh, wonderful!?

Chi: T-That was really nothing! Just that... I have this character on the internet...

Nat: Could it be called your work mode...?

Sum: So you're using a different personality depending on the context? Why would you do such a thing...?

Chi: I-It's hard to explain! I'll be more careful in the future, please... ignore it.

Wak: Ah, no... It's not like we were blaming you.

Tak: That's right, Gun-chan! Don't worry and do it just the way you want.

Tou: Indeed. You've been expressly requested by another club. There's no problem in using the full extent of your abilities.

Ren: Miroku agrees. Demonstrating 100% of your capabilities free from trifle concerns such as speech is what makes someone a Hero.

Chi: Eh... Really?

Fuu: Of course. People are counting on you, as a Hero Club member, you have to meet their expectations. We'll be there to cheer you on.

Yum: Chikage-san. I, Miroku Yumiko, hereby swear to provide you with unstinting support!

Tak: This is great! I'm looking forward to the game you'll make♪

Chi: Takashima-san... Yes, I understand. Everyone, thank you.


C-Shadow unleashed - 2

[Several days later]

[Hero Club room]

Chi: Ooh, Not bad... But it will take more than that for the forces of darkness to succumb to the heroes of light...

Yum: Chikage-sa-... C-Shadow-san. Have some tea. Ah... Gaming tea.

Its/Kar/Mit: Gaming tea!?

Chi: Mh, truly shining. Slurp... Delicious. Thank you, Miroku-san.

Yum: Fufu, such measly amount of support is the most ordinary of attentions for the Miroku family.

Suz: What's gaming tea!? What, where!? How's it shining!?

Chi: In the midgame, while the hero party is nearing annihilation, should the demon king focus on expanding its castle..?

Chi: Or maybe during the ambush on the hero's hometown, we could add an event where his childhood friend gets kidnapped... Kukuku.

Wak: T-This is outrageous! Chikage, what kind of game are you making...!?

SON: Waka-chan, that's no good~. You can't bother C-Shadow during her work~.

Tak: The protagonist of this game seems to not be a hero but an ally of the demon king. It's uncommon.

Yuu: That explains why Gun-chan is getting into the bad guy character. Amazing. Let's watch her quietly♪

Aki: Hyeh~. Looks like complex stuff. Can you still make it engaging if the protagonist is a villain?

Chi: Yes you can. The show of bloodshed of when he slices his opponent is flashy and engaging.

Wak: Wha-...!? Such an unsettling representation will be bad for the kids' education!

Ren: Hmph. You are very dense, Wakaba. Your head could give birth to a black hole.

Hin: Wakaba-chan, let's think about this in reverse. It is important to learn that blood flows out when you are cut.

Wak: B-But! Can we allow the Hero Club to be involved with a game promoting evil!?

Yos: Nogi Wakaba-sama. Have no worries. Depiction of evil is what guides people towards virtue... I believe this is Koori-sama's philosophy.

Yus: Furthermore, since Koori-sama is supervising a game, her sense of justice will shine through, whatever form it may take.

Wak: Eeh!?

Tam: That's a game after all, it just has to be fun. People who aren't into that won't get it.

Shi: Yes... It's tiring when people who don't play games butt into those discussions...

Meb: I-Is that... so?

Kir: Yep~. Every man knows his own business best as they say.

Sek: If Chikage likes it, don't you think the other gamers would as well?

Wak: M-Makes sense... I understand. I won't complain...

Aka: Ah, I have just one thing to say. Don't you think it's weird for this character to wield a heavy axe? Their arms are tiny.

Suz: Eh. It's a video game, it doesn't have to be realistic. It's cute, I like it!

Anz: I do too! I love the concept of a character that looks like Aya-chan holding a giant hammer♪

Aya: Thank you, Anzu-chan♪

Nat: Should you... thank her?

Chi: There you've come... heroes. I will blow you up to dust.

[Jukai]

Yum: Hawawa! Chikage-san's handling of the scythe is of a never-seen before precision.

Chi: White beings. I will engulf you into the darkness of the death lord. Silent dark scythe...

Its: T-They're white enemies, that's true but... This line... It's pretty unsettling.

Kar: She's completely gotten into her role...

Fuu: Thinking back, she was into it that time with darkness Sonoko, I guess she likes those kinds of things.

Chi: Kukuku... I cannot win like this. But my evil eye has already seen through your weakness.

Chi: With love, from hell. Death scythe, hellsing...

Chi: It aches... the demon blood sweetly aches inside my heart! Kukukuku... Ha ha ha ha!

Tak: Ahaha. Gun-chan is so lively♪

Anz/Wak/Tam: Eeeh~...?


C-Shadow unleashed - 3

[Several more days later]

[Hero Club room]

Chi: Do not stand behind me. I can feel your presence... Fujimori.

Its: Ah... Sorry. It's Itsuki...

Chi: Stop! Quiet down, right hand of mine! Kuh... I require blood. I need to kill more!

Its: Eek~~! Onee-chan, Chikage-san, Chikage-san's~~!

Fuu: Hm~m... Is this actually needed for work?

Meb: What tremendous acting... Her soul is becoming one with her character...

Kar: There she is, the great actress Kusunoki Mebuki. But it's true that this is getting out of hand...

Yos: Koori-sama is working on an external activity with such earnestness... I should follow her example.

Aki: You really shouldn't...

Tou: If only she was just playing a role, but her face is looking rather pale...

SON: Quite perceptive of you, Tougou-kun. You're right... C-Shadow is already afflicted by an illness.

Wak/Yos/Tak: Illness!?

SON: Indeed... "Chuuni" is its name...

Its: Sonoko-san too has turned into a mysterious explaining character...

Gin: I've heard about it! Of this... Chuunibyou!(*1)

Son: The horrifying illness that if it strikes when you become an adult, brings about your social death, Chikage-senpai contracted it!?

Sek: No... She's not an adult, she's only in second year of middle school, it'll be fine.

Nat: Third year...

Sek: Eh?

Nat: Chikage is... a third year.

Sek/Kar/Tou: I-I forgot...

Tam: Oh right! C-Shadow is older than Tama.

Fuu: Stop talking about age! This is hurtful to C-Shadow and me!

Chi: ...Who is this C-Shadow? Aah, I see... Such is the name that was previously mine... Kukuku.

Sum: P-Previously...?

Aya: How should we call you now then?

Chi: I am the absolute king, born from darkness, and rules over death. Death Queen Chikage is my name!

Uta: Chi-Chikage-san, that's wrong! It's king! Queen is for women!(*2)

Mit: Utanon, this isn't the problem!

Chi: You must be ready to perish... I assume.

Uta/Mit: NNN-No thank you!

Suz: I-Isn't it getting crazy? Looks like there isn't much time left for her to come back before she's gone for good...

Hin: Is there a way to cure chuunibyou?

Anz: I-I'm not sure... Sonoko-sensei, do you know about a way?

SON: Our only solution is to wait for the delusions to run out... If you must, it will ease your worries to see this as its peak.

Ren: Indeed. Once she completes the video game she was requested. This character will lose purpose as a result.

Tak: .........

Yuu: Takashima-chan, what's wrong? Don't worry, she'll get back to normal if we wait.

Tak: But... the game she was asked to supervise is already done. So...

Yum: Eh, only the dark character still remains within Chikage-san!?

Chi: Enrage! Curse! Howl!! Haaaaa ha ha ha ha!

Tak: Gun-chan...

Note 1: Chuunibyou, literally middle school 2nd year syndrome, used to describe kids around that age with delusions about having special power.

Note 2: Death queen is in English but she used the word king in Japanese just before.


C-Shadow unleashed - 4

[Hero Club room]

DQC: Hahahahahaha! Thunder clouds! Teach those worms crawling on the ground a lesson!

Kir: That's bad, if she's creatin' a game that's fine, but it's manifestin' into everyday speech. Even though it's funny.

Kar: H-Hey, Fuu! You're the president! Do something about it!

Fuu: You're asking too much! Uh~, but... I can't just leave her like this. All right... It'll be you!

Aya: Eh? Me!?

Fuu: Demons are weak to angels. Aya's holy beam should purify the darkness within Death Queen Chikage!

Aya: Eh? Holy... Eh?

Sek: The way you said it is confusing, but I understand. You don't take Aya-chan's purifying properties lightly.

Shi: Kokudo... Do your best.

Meb: Wait! Don't send Aya-chan alone to deal with this crisis!

Yum: Indeed. Kokudo-san, fear not! As a sentinel representative, I shall...!

Suz: Shut up, gaming lady.

Yum: Suzume-san! What part of me is shining with multicolored lights!?

Aya: U-Uhm, I'm fine... If I can be helpful... I-I'll give it a try.

Aki: Eh, ha? Give what a try?

Aya: Chikage-senpai, may you return to your kind self. Ho-Ho~~ly~~.

DQC: Guh... What is this agonizing light!? Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Wak: D-Did it work!?

DQC: Ku... Kukukukuku, hahahahahahaha! Don't make light of the power of darkness, fools!

DQC: Kneel before me! A holy beam is meaningless to the death queen!

Aya: Uuh... I'm sorry.

Nat: No... It's amazing you did anything.

Tam: Eeh!? Why did she transform!?

Ren: Hmph, she has gone fully insane. As Miroku sees it, the situation is... dire.

Tou: Chikage-san! Something has gone wrong with you, you have lost your mind!

Sek/Fuu/Kar: Like you're one to talk!

SON: Then, I will do it!

Mit: Hawawa!? Sonoko-san transformed too!

SON: Fu fu fu. I was awaiting you, Death Queen Chikage. I have been newly reborn...

DSN: Darkness Sonoko Nitro-Boost will set you free from your curse!

Gin: Makes sense! Darkness Sonoko is Death Queen Chikage's superior!

Sum: Now that a higher-up is here, Chikage-san will have no choice but to listen to her!

DSN: Precisely! Chii-chan. House house♪

DQC: Pitiful! There can only be one monarch of darkness. I will defeat you, and take the world for myself!

SON: Kyaaaah! It didn't work~!

Uta: No way! Are we out of cards!? Is humanity doomed!?

Tak: Gun-chan! You promised... That when you finished your job, we would go eat pancakes together...

Tak: It's... over now. So... should we go? Right now... come eat delicious pancakes with me.

DQC: Sure, let's go. Takashima-san♪

Tak: Aaah, that's a relief. Welcome back, Gun-chan!

Chi: Fufu, I'm back. Takashima-san.

Anz/Wak/Tam: Eeeh~~...?

Kar/Fuu/Its: Woaah~~. That was easy~.

Suz: I don't want those club activities! My lifespan is reduced each time, I can see myself dying any moment!

Yos: Koori-sama and Takashima-sama. Their affection is truly sacred. Watching them is cleansing my heart...

Aki: Eh, Hanamoto-chan... You're gonna make it sound like it's a happy end? Seriously? They lived happily ever after? You're joking~~!?