Yukkuri Quest

>"Marisa wants to take it easy for now, ze."

Eh, who cares about that bowl you just saw. You call to Patchouli and ask

>"Does Patchy know any easy things we can do?"
>"Patchy once saw Mister Humans play this game on Mister Sand. What was it that they called it...oh! Tic-Tac-Toe!"

What is this mysterious Tic-Tac-Toe?

>"Draw Mister Lines with Mister Stick!"

You attempt to draw lines. It didn't look like a Tic-Tac-Toe board. It just looked like gashes in the ground.

>"Mukyuuuuu! Give me Mister Stick!"

You hand Patchouli Mister Stick as she draws two vertical lines and two horizontal lines forming the traditional 3x3 grid. She drew an X and an O off to the side.

>"Patchouli will draw O. Marisa can draw X! If you get three symbols in Mister Squares in a line you win easy!"

You...don't quite get it but you roll with it. After a few failed attempts you and Patchouli successfully play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

You lose. So you play another.

You lose again.

And again.

>"Eirin can't stand watching Marisa play Tic-Tac-Toe. Marisa keeps making the same mistakes easy!"
>"EHHHH? Marisa can do strategy, ze!"

You couldn't.

Well, it seems like it's night time. Call it a night or are you gonna get reckless.

Get some shut-eye

>>299112
>Marisa can't stand losing to Patchy so much. Marisa wants to sleep easy, ze!"
>"Mukyuuuuu. Easy, easy!"
>Eirin will sleep with Princess."

The three of you go to sleep. As you are dreaming easy dreams of adventure and sweet-sweets something breaks your sleep in two.

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>"It's Youmu again!"

Eirin hopped as fast as her half-awake body could towards you to tell you what just happened.

>"MUKYAAAAAH!"

Crap. Patchouli vomited a bit of her filling again. The faraway noisy Youmu must've scared the daylights out of her. It sure shocked you, though. Can't really blame her.

>"This is a bother...can't we deal with this tomorrow. Kaguya wants to sleep..."

Before she could finish her sentence she was sound asleep again. But you sure weren't.

It's still the dead of night but do you want to take your chances and find Youmu while you can? That's up to you, ze!

>>299504
Fuck that, take it easy

>>300637
>"Patchouli wants to look for Youmu!"
>"It's too dangerous, ze! I can't use Mister Stick well enough! Remiryas could be out there! Who knows what's out there."
>"I think Marisa may be right Patchouli. A really nasty Alice sometimes comes out these nights so you'd better be careful."

A NASTY ALICE?

>"Marisa is fine with not going outside easy then."
>"Mukyuuuu. You already understand."
>"Marisa's heard ugly stories about trash Alices before, ze. Maybe if we're lucky Youmu will make it drop dead easy!"
>"Everyone get back in Mister Clinic! Before anyone suspicious spots you!"

You hurry back in and rest for the night. As sunlight hits your small eyes next morning you find yourself next to Eirin and Kaguya. Apparently Kaguya wandered over to you a bit.

>"Kaguya wants to tell Marisa something important."
>"Whaaaat, ze?"
>",,,Take it easy."

A late response to that greeting yesterday. Oh well, at least you're on good terms. Eirin wonders how to find Youmu as she bumps into the remains of a yukkuri's body and a load of custard. Looks like Alice's braggable peni peni wasn't enough to stop Youmu last night.

>"Eirin thinks we should look for dead trash!"
>"Mukyuuu! Why? That makes Patchouli feel sick!"
>"Youmu seems to get rid of trash and make it drop dead easy fast!"

You wonder what kind of horrors may have lurked if you went outside that night. But now you know that Youmu is out there.

So what are you going to do today? Wait for something else to happen or try to find a trail of dead shitheads?

>>300685
Take it really easy

>>301585
>"Marisa wants to take it easy today!"
>"Mukyuuuuu! But we need to find Youmu!"
>"Eirin thinks it could work to wait easy."
>"Mukyuuuuuu?"
>"Maybe if Youmu fights more uneasy yukkuri we'll find more. We'd get lost in Mister Forest if we couldn't find a trail right now."

So you took it easy. Eirin got some munch-munch and you and Patchouli ate well.

>"Marisaaaaa..."
>"What is it, Kaguya?"
>"Kaguya keeps finding easy bowl hopping around me. What is it?"
>"Marisa isn't sure. Can Marisa see it?"

Kaguya directs you to a small black bowl with a peculiar pattern on it. You feel like instinctively you recognize it. The bowl seems to be shaking with a faint noise coming from it but it's inaudible.

So how do we figure out what this bowl is? Or do we not bother and go do something else?

>>301610
Let's investigate the bowl, easy like!

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>>301985
>Marisa will pick up bowl, ze!"

But as you pick it up you hear a small screaming voice.

>"Don't take it easy and give back Shinmyoumaru's bowl! Don't hurt Shinmyoumaru!

>"EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?"
>"Shinmyoumaru knows! Shinmyoumaru will PUFF!"

Shinmyoumaru started puffing at you defiantly thinking you were trying to hurt it. You gently put the bowl down on Shinmyoumaru's head again.

>"Kaguya, is this a little one?"
>"Kaguya thinks so, Marisa."
>"Mukyuuuun! It's grown up!"
>"Ehhhhhh!?"
>"Little ones talk wike chiz, not like this!"

The little Shinmyoumaru went back into it's bowl and now audible it started wailing.

>"Shinmyoumaru shouldn't have tried to make friends! Shinmyoumaru is scared! Shinmyoumaru doesn't wanna take it easy forever!"

It then popped out of its bowl and yelled

>"HELLLLLLLLP!"

Help? Who's gonna help this thing? It's so small that even it's parents would probably be squashed instantly. A Dosu of this thing would probably just be normal Yukkuri size. What could possibly-

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Uh-oh.

What do?

>>302032
Roll away, uneasy! This is no time to take it easy forever

>>302549
>"We need to run, ze! We already had a misunderstanding!"
>"MUKYUUUUUUU!"

You rolled and hopped as far as you could from Shinmyoumaru. You just wanted to take it easy with her but you're about to be smooshed bean paste if you stay close. You notice that despite your running that Eirin is still there adamantly puffing ahead.

>"Eirin will protect Princess as Princess and our friends are getting to safety!"
>"Eirin..."
>"PRINCESS! Don't take it easy and ROLL!"

As Eirin said this though a round figure hopped right above her.

And straight for you.

And you finally saw it in the pastry flesh. Gray hair, black ribbon, and the deadly sharp Mister Stick in her mouth. The Youmu you were looking for is staring you down intensely.

>"I won't let shitty yukkuri who hurt little Shinmyoumaru get away. DIIIII-"
>"MUKKKKKKKYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUACK!"

Patchouli screamed so hard she vomited again.

>"Patchy...needs to explain that...Marisa and...Kaguya didn't mean to scare little Shinmyo..."

Patchouli must've thrown up a bit too much as she collapsed.

>"We were looking for Youmu! Marisa wants to protect Patchouli! Like how you protect Shinmyoumaru, ze! I already had to go through this earlier! Calm down, ze!"

Youmu suddenly grew a smirk as she readied her Mister Stick.

>"Fight! Let's have easy fight then, Marisa! Youmu will see if you're ready to fight!"

So are you gonna step up and fight?

>>302618
Fight the shithead and eat her sweet corpse

>>303160
>Marisa will fight, ze!"

You had no idea what to do. Your best friend is collapsed. Your new friends are worried. But if you've gotta fight this Youmu to the death than so be it. You ready Mister Stick in your braid in what's going to be the biggest fight of your life so far.

>"Uneasy Youmu, DROP DEAD EASY!"
>"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!"

You charge in aggresively whacking each other with your sticks. Youmu swiftly managed to parry your brute attacks but you put up a strong defense. You've already had a close quarters fight to the death before so this is nothing new for you. Neither of you can weaken the other down for a while. Eventually you go for a bash but Youmu gets a swift slash on your soft flesh. Even with a slight bit of bean paste leaking you don't give up. You charge in with Mister Stick. It's now or never.

YUGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

As your Mister Stick flies straight out of your braid and into the distance behind you you've been unarmed by Youmu. You've got no choice. You get ready to flail at her with her braid, but Youmu stabs her Mister Stick through your braid and into the ground. While distracting thinking about what to do she pulls it out and whacks you with her body at full force.

The bean paste is starting to leak a little more. You're awfully hurt now. You begin to get ready to say it in advance since you don't want to be left out of all those good yukkuri who took the big easy.

>"Wanted to...take it easy...more..."

You close your eyes since you know it's all over.

And then open them. Though you expect a heaven of orange juice and sweet-sweets you are greeted with the familiar trees and the sight of Eirin's easy place in the distance.

>"Youmu doesn't want to kill Marisa. Marisa is easy. Angry, but easy. Youmu is sorry even if you'll hate Youmu forever."

Youmu looked a little proud, but sad at the same time. you look to your side to see Shinmyoumaru with leaves and she's stopping the leaking of your filling.

>"Shinmyoumaru caused all this. Youmu protects Shinmyoumaru. Shinmyoumaru doesn't want Marisa to take it easy forever."

You can see the small, sugary tears flow down her small eyes. You notice Youmu and Eirin bringing munch-munch to Patchouli while she was still unconscious. Youmu was scraping away the thrown up filling in an attempt to clean it. At this point even if you're not gonna die you're just about to lose consciousness.

You're asleep for a while after that horrific mess. You begin to enter a deep dream.

But what is this dream?

>>303259
You're at home and there's a bunch of sweet-sweets

>>308866
>"Ehhhhh? Marisa is in Marisa's easy place."

You seem to spot a big brown bar in your nest along with Patchouli happily eating it.

>"Why is Patchouli eating big munch-munch?"
>"Patchouli needs to eat so the little ones can be born easy!"

You look up and notice something you didn't before. Patchouli had a stalk with several easy little Marisa and Patchouli growing on it unconsciously yuing.

>"Munch, munch, happiness!"

You look to your sides and realize Eirin and Kaguya are beside you eating the big brown bar too.

>"It's a good thing we got you here after you beat Myon!"

Myon? Weren't you in a fight with Youmu? Who's Myon? Wait, Myon is Youmu! Youmu is Myon! But how did you know that? How did Eirin know that?

>"Be born easy little ones, ze!"
>"Yuuu~ Yuuu~"

You took it easy. You'll live happily with your friends and newborn little ones now.

Until you woke up.

>"Marisa were you preggers? Eirin could hear you whisper "Be born easy" in your sleep!"
>"EHHHHHHHHH? It was Mister Dream-YUNYAH!"

You try to hop in shock but just wince in pain from the wounds from Myo-err Youmu. You notice Kaguya slowly waddling up to you with Shinmyoumaru resting on her head inside the bowl. She's clearly scared beyond belief now that you, the fury filled yukkuri from before, woke up from your "nap". With her you notice Patchouli too.

>"Youmu helped Patchouli and Marisa stay safe! Youmu also told Patchouli some history of this forest. Patchouli thinks Marisa should know. Youmu is an easy yukkuri and she only wanted to see how you'd last in a dangerous fight."
>"But Patchouliiiiii..."
>"Mukyuuuuun! Just listen to Patchouli!"

So what're you gonna do. You surely can't do anything physical since you're still REALLY hurt, but how're you gonna respond to Patchouli?