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Altered East 03: Recap, So Many Recaps
Editor: the guy (from Questionable Questing)
-Afternoon, Deep inside the Mountain Forest-
-My POV-
Hello there. Caught you off guard didn't I?" I waved at it with a smile.
"Kieeek! Kieeeek" it screeches loudly, and looks quite angry too. But no matter what it does, it can't move its large body that has been bound by my magic chain.
[Lv.28 Blood Monkey]
The thing that I just bound is a monkey monster, or to be more specific, a monkey that's turned into a monster. Aside from turning a fox into a humanoid form, this mysterious phenomenon can also cause a normal animal to turn into a monster that goes rampaging around its vicinity, but this kind of case only happens in far away locations from human settlements. The people that are investigating this phenomenon already made a hypothesis that there is a correlation with human interaction to their evolution.
I look around its nest, many skeletal remains are scattered on the ground, there's also some 'left over' of its food on the ground but, thankfully, all the remains are from animals and none from humans.
"…Hm, it's completely on the wild side. This guy's only thought is feed and grow." I said coming to my conclusion.
"Kyaaaccckk!" It screeched again.
"Well, time to end you buddy, tell the Yama on this side that I said hello, …Is the Yama even real in this world? Well, whatever." I said.
Pale Lance.
A Whitish lance appeared in the air. It flies and pierces the monkey. And then there's silence.
With the target dead, the spiritual lance starts disappearing, leaving no mark on the monkey body.
I bring up my Radio and push the talk button.
"This is Magician. Mission accomplished. Target has been located and neutralized, over." I said as I start to burn all the skeletal remain and the 'left overs' to ashes with my Pyrokinesis.
"Fox here, good job Magician, bring the body back to the research building, And to all other Personnel, release all barrier of entry to the forest." A woman voice resounded from my earpiece.
"Roger.""Roger."" Roger."" Roger." I replied as several other rogers followed up after that.
"Don't forget about lunch, I'll be waiting in our home." I hear another woman voice from my earpiece.
"Yuyuko! Where did you get into our equipment?!" Once again I hear another woman's voice from my earpiece.
"That's a secret~, hurry up coming home, okay?, I'm out~." said the first woman voice, announcing her exit.
Soon after I hear a sigh. "…Well, whatever, …I'll also be waiting you know."
"U-um, Leader, you shouldn't use radio for this, everyone could hear this con-"
"What? Did I hear someone said she didn't want any lunch?"
"Nothing! I didn't say anything ma'am! I look forward to it myself!"
"Good."
And then silence.
"…" I didn't say anything after hearing all that because I know what'll happen next.
…any second now.
"KKKKZZZZZZTTTTTTTTT",a loud static noise immediately came out from the radio before I turn it off. 'Those guys probably shouting their envy to the Radio, I feel pity to other people who didn't see this coming and got their ear blasted with loud static noises.' I put the radio back on my waist.
"…Also it would be nice if all of them really were my wife, and also, aren't the position kinda strange and reversed? The woman is waiting at home but the man is the one who's cooking the food." I complained to myself.
I store the monkey corpse in my Space Storage, and I use Clairvoyance.
That ability granted me a vision of a rooftop of a building, a research building. In that vision, there's no one on it right now, that means I could go there safely.
Since I knew where it is, I start calculating the distance between my current location and my target.
Teleport.
The scenery changes and I land on the rooftop.
I look at my surrounding, since this building is built on a higher ground, none of the other buildings have the height to actually see this rooftop, and that means no one saw my sudden arrival.
"Gotta go fast, hand the body to the Researcher and go back to the inn."
I open up the rooftop door and go down the stairwell, I follow the corridor path and took several turns to get to the Researcher's Lab, just like usual.
It has been a week since I killed the source of Yuyuko's sad life.
After that event, Yuyuko's life was suddenly filled with lots of 'luck', she won a lottery, many people applied to work in her Inn, many tourists started staying in her Inn, many people send marriage proposals to Yuyuko (she refused all of them), etc, all of those happened in one single day. Pretty much her building is back in business now. Guess the Grudge Spirit drained her family's luck ever since it was born long ago.
Soon after, she asked what I want from her so she could repay me for what I did to her, to tell you guys the truth, the idea of jokingly said 'become my lover' did comes into mind for a moment, but then I'll become a scumbag in everyone if I said those words, and if she did agree, I'll feel guilty for the rest of my life.
Since I'm a fan of Touhou, I idolized some of its character, so I just feel happy that I could hold a conversation with them all, I also feel very happy that I could help them from their troubles. So in the end, I answered her with this word.
"Thank you for the offer, but you didn't need to do it, seeing you safe and sound are a reward in itself."
"Ara, what an answer." she smiles.
I don't care if this conversation results were already predicted by her, as long as she's happy, as long as the girls are (safe/saved) I'll do anything for them.
After that she asked what's my plan after this, I told her that I wanted to fix some trouble that's scattered around the island, I saw them all when I used my Guiding Staff, so all I need is for her to offer me a stay in her Inn
"Does that mean you planned to help Yukari now?"
"Yeah, pretty much, I don't think she and her fox pet have the manpower to handle all the trouble safely. According to my vision, there are other tragedies that will happen, but I don't know when it'll happen. Two birds with one stone you know, I fixed all the trouble in the ,island while I wait for the tragedy when it's about to hit."
"…I see, then that mean it's a mistake if I didn't give you any proper reward."
"…Hm?"
She kissed my cheek.
"…" It took me a full second to process what just happened.
"You should demand something for the people you save or they will feel guilty about it," She smiles playfully. "Or maybe making them feeling guilty is your original goal after all, what a dishonest man."
"I-O-Of course not! I don't want to make them feel guilty in the first place! …But thank you for the advice …also thank you for the reward."
"Ara, did you really think that'll be your only reward?"
"T-there's more?!" Le Gasp! Le Shock Face! A smile starts to form on my face.
"Yuyuko!" Yukari suddenly barged in, stopping everything that's about to happen.
And then hilarity ensued.
After much discussion, they let me stay in the Inn, "for better communication and keeping an eye on me at the same time" they said. …I got a feeling that I've become the new target of Yuyuko's teasing. But I don't care. I'm a simple man, I got a kiss(on the cheek) from Yuyuko, I'm happy.
Back to the present, I've joined in with Yukari's Special Group that handled all of the abnormality that happens on the island. With the locals, they keep the abnormality laying low from the media and public eye. Now with my help, their jobs are much easier to do and less dangerous too since I'm the one that's doing it job instead.
The Abnormality is ranging from Plant Mutations to Creature Mutations.
For Plant Mutations, the only mutation that's happening until now is just Quality Increase in the Crops of some Farmer on the island, it's either that this is the only mutation in this category or we just haven't discovered the other mutation yet.
As for the Creature Mutation, it has two evolution paths, the first path is the Human Path, the creature turning into a humanoid form from long interaction with a human, which results in changing into a humanoid form, the immediate effect of this mutation is an intelligence increase in the mutated subject, but for the other path, the Feral Path, with no direct human influence, the creature goes further to its wild side, increasing in power and aggressiveness, the mutated subject starts rampaging around, it kills and eats every living being to become more stronger. The "Blood Ape" is the perfect example of a creature from the Feral Path. It ate many wild animals that its size was already overtaking a medium size car and it's only a matter of time before its would go into the human settlement after it ate everything in the forest.
That's why I've been busy for the past few day, I'm taking these creatures out before they do any damage to anyone. Also, surprise, surprise~, guess who I met when I gave the body to the researcher.
[Lv.5 the 9th Victim, Akyuu]
I WILL DESTROY THIS FUCKING WORLD!!
WHO IS IT?! WHY HER TITLE HAS THE NAME "VICTIM" IN IT?! WHO'S THE CULPRIT?! I'LL RIP HIS HEART OUT AND BREAK HIS SOUL INTO THOUSAND PIECES!! …was what my inner thoughts where when I first met her.
After I gave the body to the Researcher, I went to a specific room.
"Akyuu-san, I'm coming in." I said as I enter the room.
A girl in a lab coat stopped what she's doing to look at me.
It's Akyuu.
A 15 years old Akyuu with bags under her eyes.
"…You still haven't slept yet?" I asked worriedly.
"…Mind your own business." Akyuu replied coldly before going back what she's doing before, which is looking at something with a microscope.
I sigh.
"You know, I could fix your-"
"Arah-san, I've said it many times before, magic is unscientific, and unscientific things can't fix my body."
"…"
Akyuu in this side is really superstitious with anything unscientific, when I first met her, I offered to fix her weak body condition with magic ritual, but surprisingly she refused my offer, and then she called me a sham.
I'm completely blank out/flabbergasted/shocked/disbelieve/everything at once after hearing what she just said.
Those hours of trying to show that I have a real magic was dreadful, thankfully Yukari come to stop me before I forcefully landed a Meteor next to the Research Building, she also helped me with convincing Akyuu to at least work together with me since we'll be seeing each other often because I'll keep hunting more Mutated Beast in the future (The real reason why she's saying that was because Yukari guessed that I'll be trying to save Akyuu now, which is true).
"…But, at least take a break for a while. Do you even remember the last time you slept?"
"4 days and 17 hours since the last time I slept, this amount is nothing with medicinal aid."
"But that doesn't mean its became less healthy than it already is."
"I'll worry about my body after my body is cured. I know the Mutated Beasts have the answer for my condition, all I need is to find it. Now if you don't have anything important to talk about, please leave the room."
"…Just…rest properly soon, okay? I don't want you to suddenly collapse. "
".."
"I'll see you soon." I said before heading toward the exit door.
I reach the door and opened the door, but before I exit the room, I look at Akyuu's figure for a moment.
She's fully focusing on using the Microscope.
'She's desperate, sooner or later she'll involved in an accident, and let's pray that I'm near her when it's happened.' I thought as I turn away from her and exited the room.
After I'm out, I start to use Clairvoyance again to look at my next destination, the Inn kitchen. I confirmed that it's empty so I immediately Teleport to there, after I arrived, I start cooking.
The 9th Victim, I asked Yukari about Akyuu, it turned out that she has been infected with a very special virus. This virus will slowly weakened the host body, thus causing the host to die when they reach 30 years old, and Akyuu is the 9th victim of the virus. So basically it's the same setting just like in Gensokyo, and I hate myself saying the word 'setting' to describing her situation.
Apparently from Yukari's data about Akyuu, she's grew up in an orphanage, there's no clue of the whereabouts of her parent. As she grows up, she learned that she has a very special virus. I imagine that when the news broke she got bullied a lot in the orphanage. It's a miracle that she didn't choose to suicide at that time, moreover, instead of getting swallowed up in despair, she improved rapidly. Akyuu won many science awards at a young age, she started her own research to cure her body instead of waiting for another scientist to restart the research for a cure of Akyuu's virus, apparently the Scientist stopped the research after the 8th victim died. Talk about bad luck, I WONDER WHY???????? …I'm used to killing my impulse to destroy this world now.
With starting her own research, she also needed money, and this is where Yukari offered a job to be a teacher in Gensokyo Academy. "A great academy needs a great teacher too", directly quoted from Yukari herself. And then the things happen and now she also works as a researcher while also teaches the student in here.
She's …incredible, if it happened to me, I probably just wouldn't even try anything and wait for my death silently. She works her way up, her will to live still strong, just like the other her, that's why I'll cure her with my hand, but there's a big problem before I could do it. If we're talking about the preparation for it, I have all of the ingredient and skill to do it, I already have the experience doing it because I already cured Akyuu that's in my world, I only need to repeat the process again, but beside all of that fact, I actually need one more important thing for this to succeed, and that one important thing is Trust.
It's the hardest thing to acquire based on the situation I'm currently in, if she doesn't trust me when I start fixing her, she'll definitely die in the middle of the process. That's why I'm troubled with the situation, trust is a hard thing to build, it can't be rushed and it can't be built over a couple of days, unless something special happened, as special as a near tragedy event, as much as I don't like it to happen, this is the only thing that I could do to fix her as fast as possible.
"I guess this is enough." I said satisfyingly before carrying them all with Telekinesis.
I arrived at the house's dining room. In there I saw several figures sitting in the dining table.
"Finally~, the food has arrived~." said Yuyuko.
"…Seriously, I can't get used to suddenly hearing noise from the kitchen even though we haven't seen anyone passing by to there, after all, there's only one way to get there." said Yukari.
"We thought it's a thief or a ghost before Yuyuko-san said it was actually you." said Ran.
Youmu nods rapidly while slightly tearing up.
I smile wryly.
'Although Youmu reaction to ghost is cute as ever, I need to respond properly.' I thought. "Then, do I need to walk normally from the front then?" I asked.
"You start cooking faster this way so no~" said Yuyuko.
"…If Yuyuko says so." said Yukari.
"All right then." I said as I place everyone's portion and start our lunch.
After we finish eating, Yukari gave me the file that I asked for.
I read each of them carefully.
"I think you need to prepare another paper for her." I suggest while showing a girls file to Yukari.
"And why would I need to prepare it for her?" Yukari asked with suspicion.
"Of course, it's for her sister. Today is a full moon after all." I smile while telling her this.
Author note:
NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH!
Touhou 17 has been announced! Youmu is the guest character in that game!!
WOOOOOEEEEEEEE!!
Also, ZUN drawing is evolving. The character looks good and normal now, or maybe ZUN drawing growing on me.
About the April Fools Special, please tell me what your thought about it. I'm saying this because only one person responds to it, I need to know what you guys think about it for my satisfaction.
