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>>2366279
“We will be safe and waiting upon your return, aniki,” Akari informs you, her fingers flickering so quickly that anyone but a Water or Fire dragonette would find it impossible to follow. Security assured, no issues or problems, all is well and protected.

“Please be safe, and calm yourself while you are there. Perhaps if you are lucky there will be Mercy in your future.”

Er Yin's well wishing hints that 'mercy' isn't referring to the quality, but to a person. Or perhaps a deity. Kuan Yin, maybe? How strange.

”Do not aggravate your situation further while you are in Hell, aniki. I will personally make sure than you suffer far more when you return than whatever torments you may suffer there!” Kiku-chan's seething anger manifests in the glow of her eyes and cheeks, and Er yin smiles wryly before placing a hand on the dragonette's head and making her look shamefaced. “Be more careful, idiot dragon!” She adds.

Inau-kun and Yuuhi-chan are talking quietly, and finally they turn to the screen. “Um, Inau-kun says I should say something. So....hello, and I think this is a really weird and spooky thing Akari-sama is making happen.” Inau-kun covers her face and shakes her head. She merely waves at the screen, while Kiki-hime smiles and hugs Akari and Yui to her legs as she leans forward, threatening to spill her glorious breasts out of her kimono.

“We love you, Ryuu-chan, and we hope that you will be with us once again soon. We are saying our prayers, and Rie is getting extra servings of takoyaki with hot sauce every day.” There is a soft course of 'come back soon' and 'get better' in a couple of places.

The recording ends, all too short, though you're glad that everyone seems well and safe, if not entirely happy about the situation. Yui-niji-chan turns off the computer and you fill her teacup, then yours, finishing the last of the small pot.

[] Try and work a way around the no-return messages. You should be able to do that somehow....
[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
[] Ask Yui-chan if she recalls anything Yuuhi-chan might have said or mentioned in passing that could help you.
[] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.

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>Ryukusa's Treasures

Her name: Ryuu Yorihokura

Rie, the God's Eye Nekomata that protects your Family.

Matagama-no-Shitoki, a necklace kami in its own right that protects Ryukusa from inimical magic.

Ame-no-Omukade-no-Musume – Ryukusa's mukade possessed wakizashi; a kami. “Daughter of my Centipede of Rain.”

Gendai-no-Muteki-no-Buki - Invincible Weapon of the Present Age, a secret kami-blade given to Ryukusa by Wakaba that appears to be made of some alloy of titanium.

Seido-no-Shinpi-Tekina-Ken – a mysterious bronze sword given to Ryukusa by the mermaids of Japan; actually found to be the legendary blade Ame-no-Ohabari.

Go-Yurei-no-Rensa, the Five-Ghost-Chain, used to summon or send messages to your (actual) older sister Ryuu Nabiki.

Her Penthouse in the Secret Apartments of Tsathoggua in Shikoku prefecture, Tokyo.

Shikoku Naya, her fashion teacher and seamstress.

Hisaka Subaru, her weaver and dressmaking teacher.

Ryukusa's Family.

>Talismans:
Akari – Black Jade Centipede (Mukade)
Er Yin – Black Jade Scorpion (Sasori)
Kiki – Black Jade Toad (Hikigaeru)
Kiku – Black Jade Lizard (Tokage)
Yui – Black Jade Snake (Hebi)
Inau – Black Coral Ear Cuff (Amatsukami)

Previous Thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2334298/

Interlude: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/37879167/

Kissing! http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/574453/

Threads in Chronological Order, including writeups by XS : http://pastebin.com/Z53TyK0N
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Ryuu Ryukusa is tall at 5' 8"; 6' in her true form. She is fully grown. Lesbian top.
Matagama Kiku is 4' 1” for ever and ever. Lesbian submissive.
Ryuu Akari is 5' 3" and has another few inches to grow. Sexuality is weird, switch, cosplayer.
Ryuu Yui is 6' 3” and will only grow due to circumstances beyond her control. Dyke, switch.
Ryuu Kiki is 5' 6" and is at full growth. Bisexual bottom.
Er Yin Long is the tall at 5' 10" and is fully grown. Lesbian dominant.
Ryuu Jinyuu is 5' 7" but persistently hovers an extra three inches. Straight.
Hinata-hakase is 6' 3". Sexuality is terrifying.
Hidesato is 5' 5". Straight.
Kushinada is 5' 8". Straighter.
Taisho Ryoga is 5' 9". Who knows.
Hyun Chisato is 5' 4” and is fully grown. Lolicon with plausible deniability.
Rie, just Rie, is 8” tall or 5' 5” and is fully cat. Her sexuality is cat.
Hagyu Genso is 12' 5” standing upright. He is by and large gay.
Mizumi Shoko is 7' 2” is fully grown. Bisexual top.
Yuuhi is 4'11” and is fully grown. Yuuhi a cute.
Tokei Isusangi, Inau-kun is 5' 3” and is much less confused.
Reiha is 5' 5 1/2” and is milfy.
Peta is 3' 2” Peta is \>.</ aka Her Most Imperial Highness Patanjali Piri Yokuhime Kuronogitsune Pa
Detective-san aka Mugon Chujo is fully grown at 5'11” and straight.
Kenji Soomi is 5' 4” and gothic lolita.
Musumi Kanako is 5' 6.5” and is pretty straight.
Hebiki Naoto is 5' 9” and belligerently omnivorous, sexually. You hope only sexually.
Kodachi Umetsume is 5' 4” and fully grown. Practicing asexual.
Melinda Blitzenberg is scattered to the winds and blessed in death.
Toshida Ginka is 5” 3” and fully grown. Turtles have a reputation.
Ryuu Wakaba is a head shorter and also deceased.
Margaret Steinhausen is gratefully dead.
Ryuu Sakumo is dead and spread far and wide.
Ryuu Nabiki is 5' 3” and fully transformed. Embarrassingly straight.
Ryuu Shinju is 4' 11” and fully grown. She is coy, maybe a dodomeki-child.
Ryuu Himeyuri is 5' 5” and is supposedly straight.
Ryuu Fuuta is 5' 6” and slightly less soft.
Kaga Kei is 5' 4” and fully grown. Might be experimental.
Kyubi-san is 6' 3” and fully grown. Hard to say.
Hisaka Subaru is 5' tall and 9' tall, and peculiar as all get out.
Shikoku Naya is 5' 4" (not including heels) and is fully grown. Entirely flexible.
Shinkai Yamada is 5' 7” and is straight.
Shinkai Mikurabe is 5' 2” (without heels) and is probably less straight than you thought.
"Shinkai" Hiei is a possible curse in the Theater.
"Shinkai" Serious Onii-san is 5' 6" and is asexual.
"Shinkai" Yoshihano is 6' 1" and may be a little gay.
Tachibana is 5” 7” and mostly asexual.
Natto is a wisp of black smoke in the wind.
Hebiki Rishi is 4' 10” and has a number of inches to grow. Questionable sexuality.
Hideyama Kenako is 6' 1” and is fully grown. Sexuality is probably cat.

>>2366284
>[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
>[] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
>[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.
Dragon time is best time

>>2366284
>[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
[] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.

>>2366284
>[x] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
>[x] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.
Ryukusa time!
Quite an effective guilt trip, despite the good intentions, haha.

>>2366284
>[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
>[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.
>[] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
I think these line up well. Also hi XS that was a very nice opening, though I hope we don't have to put our family in a position to make another message like this for quite a while.

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All the hugs for you, XS

>>2366284

>Kiss and thanks Yui
>[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.

>>2366284
>[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
>[] Ask Yui-chan if she recalls anything Yuuhi-chan might have said or mentioned in passing that could help you.

>>2366284
>[] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
>[] Ask Yui-chan if she recalls anything Yuuhi-chan might have said or mentioned in passing that could help you.
>[] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
>[] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talisman earring.

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[XXX] Set tea aside and just hug your Herald close....more for yourself, this time, than anyone else.
[XX] Make sure she has another piece of black jade to pay her way out of hell with; you don't want her giving up her talismanic earring.
[X] Try not to trouble your Yui-chan much; she's already performing above and beyond just being here!
[x] Ask Yui-chan if she recalls anything Yuuhi-chan might have said or mentioned in passing that could help you.

As she packs the laptop into Nowhere you move up behind her. She turns, only to look startled by your proximity, which means she's off guard when you pull her close and hold her tight. She slowly reaches up and places her arms around you, her strong, gentle fingers stroking your back as you try and crush her. Yui sighs happily into the hug, unconcerned by the amount of strength your exerting in the hug.

You pull back and brush her hair out of her eyes, smiling at her blush. “Hime-chan seems to be doing a lot of good for you, Yui-niji-chan. I am really happy that you're doing well in your new life, even as dangerous and strange as it is.”

She nods slowly. “I am happy with you, Ryukusa-sama. I'm happy to be a part of your family, to be close to people who care about me, who....who will protect me, and allow me to help them in ways that matter. I wish I could do more for you....” You shake your head, and she nods, accepting that right now there is a vast amount of not much either of you can do.

“You have a coin for passage? Your earring is not something that I want you to lose.” She nods and pulls a small pouch from her pocket, soft leather. She opens it, revealing a dozen or more black jade coins. “Someone has been busy!”

She nods and takes one out. “Er yin-sensei made them, and we each have a few now.” The one she took out she gives to you. “You probably don't need it, aniki, but you might want it anyways. Er Yin has been burning Hell money for you too, but I don't know if that actually matters or not.”

>>2366352
>She opens it, revealing a dozen or more black jade coins. “Someone has been busy!”
>She nods and takes one out. “Er yin-sensei made them, and we each have a few now.”
Considering the world we live in, probably for the best.

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>>2366352
“Honestly, neither do I. This part of Enma-Oh's domain isn't like the others, as I understand it.” You sigh and give her her tea, which she finishes slowly. You finish yours, and rise. “Did Yuuhi-chan say anything unusual or strange to you while you were getting ready? Aside from the black magic of the flat glass that trapped her image within itself, of course.” Yuuhi isn't exactly a technophobe, except where explosives are concerned, but she's not very familiar with it either.

Yui giggles. “No, aniki, except that she hopes that your ghosts aren't as bad as some of hers. Is it important?”

Shaking your head you walk Yuuhi to the front door, and toe on your slippers before walking outside with her. The cavern's sides are more reminiscent of a spring evening, and while you could probably spot the slow chancing of the paintings or images, you don't have much of an interest right now. “Not really, I was mostly curious.” Sadly, your curiosity has been satisfied; you can probably expect visitors of a much less pleasant sort sooner or later.

Opening the gate you turn to Yui, who looks down at you with a sad smile. “I wish I could stay a little longer or being a message back....” she murmurs softly.

[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.
[] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!
[] I will be home soon. Then we can work on giving Akari what she wants, just as you gave her what she wanted.
[] Oh, I'll probably have enough Hell Money to bribe someone sooner or later.
[] Knowing everyone at home is safe and cared for is far more valuable to me than sending a message back to them, my love.

>>2366357
>[x] Oh, I'll probably have enough Hell Money to bribe someone sooner or later.
>[x] I will be home soon. Then we can work on giving Akari what she wants, just as you gave her what she wanted.
Tough out the pain of separation!

>>2366357
>[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.
>[] I will be home soon. Then we can work on giving Akari what she wants, just as you gave her what she wanted.

>>2366357
>[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.

>>2366357
>[] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!
>[] Knowing everyone at home is safe and cared for is far more valuable to me than sending a message back to them, my love.

>>2366357
>[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.
>[] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!
I do wonder how long we'll be sticking around down here

Also that loli Ryukusa is adorable

>>2366357
>[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.
>[] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!

>I'm flattered you wish to break the rules of Hell for me, my love, but we should abstain from disturbing my current hosts.

>Speaking of which, by curiosity, did you see anyone else on this level when you came here? Demons or immortals?

>>2366357

[] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you

>>2366357
[x] Kissu the heraldu!

>>2366357
>[X] Knowing everyone at home is safe and cared for is far more valuable to me than sending a message back to them, my love.

>>2366357
>[x] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!
>[x] Knowing everyone at home is safe and cared for is far more valuable to me than sending a message back to them, my love.

>>2366440
I kind of want to add "I am sorry about dying" I know its silly but we really cant keep dying.

>>2366498
It was just a mistake! You die ONE time...

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[XXX] You've done more than your share, Yui-niji-chan....I am perfectly happy with you.
[XX] The rules are the rules, and we can't break these. Don't worry over it!
[XX] Knowing everyone at home is safe and cared for is far more valuable to me than sending a message back to them, my love.
[X] I will be home soon. Then we can work on giving Akari what she wants, just as you gave her what she wanted.
[+] I'm flattered you want to break the rules, but please don't annoy my host.
[+] Did you see anyone else here?


You take Yui-chan's hand and kiss it softly, lips brushing her knuckles. She stares at you, shocked you'd do something so overt in such a public place – despite the fact there isn't anyone to see – and her cheeks turn a deep brick red, glowing from the heat of her blush. “there is nothing more than you could do, and you could have done a great deal less, Yui-niji-chan. You've also done something no one else could do, and you had the choice not to.”

“Aniki, Kiki-hime asked me to, of course I had to try!” she exclaims, still shocked by your kiss.

Looking into her eyes seriously you tell her the facts, calmly, but gently. “No, Yui-niji-chan, you didn't have to. You aren't bound to anyone but me, so you could have refused. You don't owe Kiki-hime anything. You've protected her, served her, loved her, saved her life, fought for her. She owes you a huge debt. You didn't have to do this. My power over you might force you to obey me, in a way, if I bothered trying, but you don't have to obey anyone else unless you choose to.”

She opens her mouth to refute your claims, but confusion suddenly clouds her expression and she shuts her mouth. Standing up straight you look at her, your fingers barely twined with hers. Looking down at your hand and hers, she considers that for a long moment. “But she's your princess, aniki. I want to help her. I want to help Akari, and Kiku, and Er Yin. They're my family. You need me to take care of them.”

You step into her and lift her hand in yours, your jade ring – the white one that you took form Kiki-hime's hand when you gave her the kami that resides on her finger – ringing delicately against her red and white one. “But that's you're choice, Yui-chan....and I am perfectly happy that you have made that choice. That you remain with us, and help us all. Knowing my family is safe, knowing they love me, knowing they await my return and are okay with what has happened....that's more valuable to me than even black jade coins or a white jade ruyi could be.”

>>2366505
Its kind of almost maybe sort of not the 2nd time.

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>>2366517
Yui's blush increases in brightness as she looks down, practically squirming with the discomfort of your love and affection overwhelming her in the open air, where anyone could see. With a smile you slide your arms around her, still holding her other hand, your breasts pressed against hers. “Your willingness to break the rules of Hell is flattering, but I'd rather not upset the King of Hell, Yui-chan. I'll be home soon, and I'll be with you all. And then, you and I will give you what Akari would love to give you....maybe with Akari and Kiki-hime watching.” She practically melts into your arms, and when you whisper softly, “Maybe more than watching?” there is a flash inside her head and large puffs of smoke rise from her horns and ears.

Grinning you support her weight with relative ease, being more used to keeping up people heavier than yourself. When she recovers, you brush soot from the curl of her ear. “Did you see anyone else, Yui-chan? On your way here?”

Still flushed and with very firm nipples pressed into your breast, she shakes her head. “Just some gozu and mezu oni, aniki. I don't think I can actually see inside the other places here. I mean, in this section of hell. There were lots of demons in other places, but they left me alone.”

“They'd better,” you mutter grimly, and she giggles softly.

“Aniki!” You smile and stop her protest with an actual kiss, a deeply involved and slow kiss that leaves her breathing hard and her knees shaking. You look into her eyes, showing her the love and warmth for her – for all your family – in you. “I will see you soon, Yuuhi-chan. Remember whom you serve....and whom you choose to serve.”

The incredibly flustered oni-girl kneels before you, slipping form your grasp...but her hand is still in yours, your fingers linked lightly. “Yes, Ryukuza-dono.” Rising, she conjures a cloud and you step back, watching her soar quickly away with a pang of loss in your heart. Still, it is only for a while.

A while.

The remainder of the day slips into darkness, and the cavern walls are glittering darkness, with a moon made rough by the texture of the walls rising high. You are sitting in your living room, on a tatami mat with your legs under the kotatsu that serves as your front table, practicing your calligraphy. Someone slips into the bedroom though a window, though they're revealed more by the change of the breeze than any sound or noise.

[] Wait patiently – Enma-Oh said no one could attack you here.
[] Turn to greet them as they sneak up on you.
[] Ignore them until they try to do something to you.
[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.
[] Slip away and hunt them instead, even if you can't hurt them.

>>2366518
>>2366505
Ryukusa is pretty sure she died at least one other time.

>>2366524
>[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.
Yui is very cute

>>2366524
>[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

Yui too cute

>>2366524
>[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

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>>2366524
>[X] Turn to greet them as they sneak up on you.
>[X] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

>>2366524
>[x] Ignore them until they try to do something to you.

>>2366524
>[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

>>2366524
>[x] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

>>2366524
>[] Wait patiently – Enma-Oh said no one could attack you here.
>[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

>>2366524
[] Turn to greet them as they sneak up on you.
[] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.

>>2366535
>dragon areola
This is very lewd for our innocent quest, anon!

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>>2366586

>>2366591
I-it's not even filled in!

>>2366591
best x axis for any graph ever. the real questions mathematics ought to be answering.

>>2366598
I only just found it.

>>2366591
Now you just got me thinking about where the wives would fall on the loudness axis. I can see arguments either side for most really, from modesty for some of them at least.

Ryukusa herself might score kinda high? Or, low I guess? The left and right sides seem a bit swapped.

>>2366591
>>2366601
I don't know about everything else but a switch is a sine curve

>>2366601
>>2366606
Who knew mathematics could be so dirty

Oh I do hope it's a demon, haven't had much chance to do proper demon training.

>>2366631
Are we training against the demon, or just training the demon?

>>2366634
>why_not_both.webm

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[XXX] Ask them if they'd prefer tea or sake.
[X] Turn to greet them as they sneak up on you.

You set your painting aside, the poem still drying, and turn, brush in hand as the person sneaks up on you. “Sake or....tea? The hesitance isn't intentional, and it was short enough most wouldn't notice, but she would notice of course. Her eyes gaze at you with unmitigated hatred, soft pale grey with deep pupils, a faint gleam of red within the depths of her eyes. Her long grey hair is shimmery, almost as though sprinkled with powdered schist or granite. She has a tanto drawn, and her gloves only cover the two fingers that work properly and her thumb, as well as most of her palm instead of all of it. She's dressed in shades of grey, much as she used to.

The two things which are surprising are the face that she has apparently aged some, and that she is here, as opposed to Yomi.

“I bet you don't lose a moment of sleep, do you,” she says, her expression of rage quickly schooled into a bland, even gentle smile. You're not fooled for an instant; you never were fooled by her expression. Idly you wonder if she can actually use the knife on you.

“I've never slept well, Nezumi. What brings you here?” She crouches on the floor and you rest the brush in your right hand, the soft bristles still damp with ink. She's no more fooled than you were: in your hands a piece of paper or the brush you paint it with is as deadly as a sword or spear. In some ways, more so.

“I thought that would be obvious,” she says, her sweet, charming voice begging you to relax your guard and let her be your friend. “What are you doing here Ryukusa?”

“My girlfriend made me immortal. Mermaid flesh. Wouldn't recommend biting, apparently my flesh is pretty toxic now.” The corner of her mouth twitch, but she doesn't take the bait.

“You always did have an unhealthy attraction to that little Stone dragonette. She still your sycophantic playmate?” Nezumi places the tip of the knife against the floor and rolls the weapon with her wrist, worrying a divot into the soft wood.

“Second in command of my clan. She's got her own girlfriend.” No reason to suggest that she's also your lover. You're not entirely sure where this is going, but there is one thing that is very clear: Nezumi, the rat-youkai child you killed when you were little, is not a ghost. She's not alive, but definitely not a ghost. “I've been busy.”

“So I've been told. And now you're here, among the demons and the monsters. Very....not ironic....”

[] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
[] Monster is a relative term.
[] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?
[] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.
[] Interesting. Interesting is the word you want.

>>2366644
>[x] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
>[x] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?
Tempting to tell our story since then as a way to pass the time, but I'm certain she doesn't deserve to hear much of it.

>>2366644
>[x] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?
>[x] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.
Well, this could get ugly.

>>2366644
>[] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
>[] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?

>>2366644
>[] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
>[] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?
>[] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.

>>2366644
>[] Interesting. Interesting is the word you want.
>[] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.

>>2366644
>[] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
>[] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.
I'm afraid we won't be able to train this demon

>>2366682
Demon taming requires the demon want to be tamed. If it tries to pretend to be tamed, the results are often spectacularly fatal - for the demon.

>>2366644
[x] not the time, nor the place, for this. Goodbye.

We've had our wives tell us So Many Times recently to stop taking stupid risks. This reaks of high risk/low reward, lets just throw her ass out and go back to chilling out. She may not be able to hurt us here, but Emma-Oh never said anything about fucking with time and making us take forever to come back to life. We do enough good as is, lets not dwell on the past, mistake or no.

>>2366693
That definitely disqualifies our guest!

>>2366695
That's easier said then done. Like I don't think we can physically push her outside and stop her from just coming back in, and ignoring her won't make her go away because I'm pretty sure she's not an illusion or hallucination, but actually wound up in Chinese Hell.

>>2366709
True, but we have full access to our powers here. It would be easy for us to call up a hurricane outside and have it drag her ass out and keep her out. I do see what you mean out keeping her out but we could also just call on Emma-Oh or one of his demons to help out. Emma-Oh has been welcoming and cordial (mostly) at our meetings, he'd probably take care of her for us.

>>2366714
Eh, I don't know I'm pretty sure we need to face her as part of the process of coming back to life.

>>2366695
You're not wrong, but it feels wrong to play a rude Ryukusa without provocation.

>>2366719
In any case she probably has legitimate grievance here, it's not like we ever need much reason to kill people in the past.

>>2366719
>>2366714
Also since she's here, and certainly not an immortal, that means that she has almost certainly become a demon, and that almost certainly means that she serves Enma-Oh, and considering she doesn't yet seem to be an especially powerrful demon, it doesn't really seem like she could sneak away from whatever her duties are, which means that her presence here is also the will of Enma-Oh.

>>2366725
I mean, she and her friends were gonna assassinate Akari just because they figured out how.

>>2366735
Oh *her*, yeah that seems like a fair earned death.

>>2366723
Probably the strongest point against. I would love to avoid some stupid shit for once but that's not really who we are.

>>2366730
Also a good point. I guess we're destined for headaches and heartbreaks even in Hell.

>>2366752
I mean. It IS Hell.

>>2366644

>[] Monster is a relative term.

>You didn't answer my question. Would you prefer sake, or tea?

>It is not my first trip in Hell. Though not in the same ways.

>>2366778
I'd enjoy explaining to her that we just casually waltzed into hell by following a cat.

>>2366782
>explain
On second thought, explaining it as little as possible sounds more fun.

>>2366782
But Anon, don't you know almost everyone in Hell gets there by chasing pussy? :3

>>2366788
I wonder if there is such wordplay in Japanese

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[X] Cliché, is probably the word you want.
[X] Well, among one demon, at least – do you have flesh and blood, or are you not high enough ranked?
[X] Just you made it here? I didn't know you were Buddhist.

“I think the word you are looking for is 'cliché'.” You flip the brush around in your hand, the ink remaining in place despite the swift movement. She looks confused. “Trapped in Hell, unable to escape, a person I murdered shows up to verbally torment me because she can't hurt me in any other way. Cliché.” Her eyes flash angrily – literally, the pupils glow a brighter red for an instant – as you verify she cannot in fact attack you. It might have been interestign to find out what she could have managed if you had attacked her first, of course, which was probably the idea.

“At least you admit it,” she hisses, less than angrily.

“Well of course it was murder. Unsanctioned killing without any real provocation? Even among us that's considered murder. I do find it curious that you're here, instead of Yomi, though. Were you Buddhist?” She worries another divot in the floor, absently, even as she stares at you. “Though, as I understand it, this is actually a little bit beyond just Buddhism, even Japanese Buddhism. More like Chinese animism.”

“Ah yes, that Water dragonette arrogance, how I missed it.” It's less arrogance than an eidetic memory, but you don't bother explaining the difference. You're pretty sure she wouldn't care. “I was taught The Way by the shamankha of our clan, and it was just enough to end me up here, rather than Yomi.” Somehow you have little doubt that it was Oba-san's influence that ended up getting Nezumi taught that.

“So, do you bleed, or are you just bean paste inside?” She darts forward, her knife flashing at your eyes. The arch ands not even millimeters away from your eyes, but she doesn't connect; nor does she move any closer, even though she's vibrating inches away from an embrace.

If you had blinked you would have lost eyelashes.

“Touched a nerve, did I?” you ask softly, tickling her chin with the soft bristles of your sumi-i brush. She rears back and stands up, clutching the knife in her usable fingers and thumb grip, the other two fingers curled around the handle but not gripping it. “I've made my peace with your deaths, you know. The people around me see it as I saw it, and most would have done the same, to be honest. Even Akari approved. Did you know she watched it happen?”

Her eyes widen and her jaw muscles work hard. “Sorry, I know you wanted to spring that on me, but she already told me.” You stand up and tap the brush on your shoulder, the paint not spattering your pretty kimono. “I think we're done here, Nezumi. You can see yourself out.”

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>>2366815
She stands up, and looks up at you – being a mere four foot eight. “I will see you again, Ryukusa.”

“But not soon, I think,” you tell her as she stalks out the front door, completely unaware of the kanji for 'poor guest' on the underside of her chin.

You look down at the painting of Akari, a portrait of her leaning down, looking peaceful and gentle, her eyes half closed, her hair and skin expressing a softness that is rarely seen in the stoic dragonette. The poem needs work still, it's incomplete, but still. You set the brush down, cleaning ink from stone and brush alike with a thought and dropping the dark water into the sink.

There is a heavy pounding on the door frame, and you tighten your obi about your waist and tug your kimono into perfection. Then you walk out to the front door and slide it open to look up into the face of the massive horse-headed oni that stands there, flanked by a bull-headed oni. “You're going to pay for those repairs, you know,” you tell him mildly, and he glances at the warped door frame and splintered wood, then back down to you with a snort.

“COME WITH ME, LITTLE DRAGON,” the gozu oni instructs you loudly.

“Hey, sorry about that man, he's a little gung ho and all,” drawls the mezu oni in an Osaka accent.

[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
[] Where, exactly, am I going to?
[] Say 'please'.
[] Don't think so, mezunini-kun.

>>2366822

>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
>[] Where, exactly, am I going to?

>Who is asking for me?

>>2366822
>[x] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>Are you actually going to try to convince me that this is something I would want to do, or do you imagine that you have alternatives?

>>2366822
>[x] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[x] Where, exactly, am I going to?
One rude guest after another!

>>2366822
>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
>[] Where, exactly, am I going to?

>>2366822
>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
>[] Where, exactly, am I going to?
>[] Say 'please'.

>>2366822
>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?

>>2366822
>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
>[] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
>[] Where, exactly, am I going to?

>>2366822
>[] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.

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[XX] That's fine, he's allowed. He's still paying for it.
[X] Do I have time to get dressed properly?
[X] Where, exactly, am I going to?
[+] Who, precisely is asking for me?
[+] And you're going to convince me to come with you in what manner? Or did you have an alternate plan for if I say 'no'?

You shrug mildly. “He's allowed to be enthusiastic. He's still paying for it. It's not my house, after all, it's on loan from your boss.” The horse headed oni looks alarmed, and his more squat, meaty companion snorts, steam coming from his huge nostrils. “WHERE, exactly, am I going to? WHO, exactly, am I requested by? WHAT, is your favorite – no wait, I mean, do I have time to get dressed properly?”

The gozu oni opens his bovine mouth to bellow some more but his horse headed companion shakes his head and waves a hand in opposite direction, something you've seen marijuana smokers and over-caffeinated gang members do when they're trying to be cool and deflect attention. “Look man, we're just here to convey you to Lord Zhuanlun Xue, that's ll. What he wants is not our business, man.”

You tilt your head, looking at the horse headed oni. His friend is starting to turn an alarming shade of red, which is kind of unusual for a blue oni. “You do realize I am a woman, right?” He turns his head sideways and blinks at you with one eye. You wave mildly. “I don't think it's especially appropriate to present myself in my sleeping robes to the King of the Tenth Hell, do you?”

It's guesswork on your part, but the horse headed oni looks a little more worried. The gozu oni bellows quite loudly. “PREPARE YOURSELF TO LEAVE AT ONCE FOR THE ROYAL PALACE OF LORD ZHUANLUN, LEST YOU BE DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREETS KICKING AND SCREAMIGN LIKE A GUTTED FISH USED FOR BAIT!”

You step lightly out from under the horse headed oni, who reaches for you, thinks better of it, and then steps sideways, away from you and his huffing, puffing, reddening companion. “I hope that you have an alternate method of convincing me to go along with you. You're being very obnoxious about it all. Almost boorish, even.” The bull headed oni inhales deeply and exhales fast, literal smoke starting to stream from his nostrils and ears with each inhale. He's also getting larger – well, more rotund at least. “It's like it was that bad of a yoke, after all.”

The bellow he lets loose is so hot it looks more like wavering heat than steam that erupts from his mouth, and it kills several patches of grass and peels the paint along the outside walls, and makes the paper in the paper walls tear and sag.

He reaches for you with a hand the size of a shovel.

[] Lightly step away.
[] Bend like a reed in the wind.
[] It makes for a good place to sit.
[] Must be time for judo.
[] Just stand there – though, if he's an emissary of a Judge he might be able to grab you.

>>2366965
>[x] It makes for a good place to sit.
Ryukusa has to take it easy

>>2366965
>It makes for a good place to sit.

>>2366965
>[] It makes for a good place to sit.

>>2366965
>[] It makes for a good place to sit.

>>2366965
>[] It makes for a good place to sit.

>>2366965
>[] It makes for a good place to sit.

An awfully divisive vote, here. I think we might need a recount.

>>2367047
Well it's hard to know how to deal with these rough oni!

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[X] It makes for a good place to sit.

You swing yourself up as he reaches for you, and you land lightly on his arm, half moving, half flying. Coming to a stop, he blinks at you, then draws back – turning at the waist as he does so, and tries to grab at you with his other hand. You lightly step onto that hand and he blinks, drawing back the hand he just tried to grab you with. You crouch, looking down at the ox headed demon, while his companion stares at you and him like you've gone insane. He slowly swings his head back and forth, snorting, and turning yet more red.

He's grown so large now he can't lower his arms completely, and you watch him turn around, looking for you. His companion tugs nervously on his own ear, his lips pulled far back from his teeth (no fangs, interestingly enough) in a horse-like....uh, actual horse grimace.

You pat the gozu oni on the side of his head a few times, near his horn. “Hey.” He freezes, and his eye rolls wildly in its socket until he fixes it on you. “I hate to interrupt, but are you taking me to see Lord Zhuanlun or not?”

The next breath he takes makes him swell another six inches or so, and smoke pours out of his nose, ears, and tear ducts. And, appallingly, his belly button. And his pants, from front and back. And draws his hand back and naturally you with it, which prompts him to turn in a circle. You give him a blasé look as he tries to reach form you with his other arm again, but he's too big to manage that.

You can feel the heat radiating off his body, and you suspect something very, very bad is going to happen to him shortly. Hoping off his arm you lad a few feet away from the spinning demon, watching him. He finally manages to grab his other wrist with his free hand, and snorts in triumph.

“Can we go now?” you ask in the most mild tone imaginable.

The bull headed oni slowly turns around, his eyes glassy and bulging, his cheeks puffed out, and fully twice the size he was when he arrived, bloated and huge in every dimension. He sees you standing there, and inhales slowly....then ROARS.

The mezu oni ducks, and covers his head. You step back on the wind, and lightly float out of reach as his body warps, wobbles, and jets superheated smoke from every orifice, igniting his clothing and oh Kami you did not need to see that at all. The resulting explosion sends roasted ox everywhere, and smells like gyutan yakitori you had at a festival once. You lightly dodge out of the way, while the poor mezu oni stands up, pieces of his roasted companion falling off of him.

Landing lightly next to the gate, you look at him and smiles sweetly. “I'm ready to go now.”

>To Be Continued....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nG8zhcLW64

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Thank you for reading and playing.

And blowing up the oni.__Well done. You get a special.

>>2367105
Well that's a new one to me. Good show, XS.

>>2367114
Thanks for running XS

That's one way to solve things

Thanks for running

>>2367125
It's something Ryukusa learned when she asked how best to fight a true oni from Shoko's 'uncle'. If you can make one mad enough, they will explode.

>>2367105
Haha, I wasn't expecting that. I certainly approve though. Just hope his boss won't get too mad over it.

Thanks for writing, it was definitely worth the extra wait! Filled-out graph when?

>>2367134
Thank you for running, XS.

>>2367175
....I'll think about it. Maybe.

>>2367190
Thinking about it is obvious, the question is whether you'll fill anons in on it or not!

Jokes aside, I hope we didn't handle the unbidden guests this thread too badly. It's always extra tough to be sure in spiritually charged places like this!

>>2367114
So do we get a generic boost, or does a loli show up in the mail one day?

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>>2367175
>>2367190
>>2367201
>>2367204

Red is Yui green is Akari

>>2367204
There will be good stuff which has been earned , spent, which nets a tangible and real benefit on Ryukusa's behalf, with the QM taking into account various player wishes and desires.

>>2367201
You did as well as you can expect.

>>2367210
....So they're off the charts in all four direction.

>>2367225
>....So they're off the charts in all four direction.
and that's before Ryukusa gets involved

>>2367210
Hahaha, I think they're supposed to be represented by points anon. Points! Also I struggle to think of Yui as a top to be honest.

>>2367233
I can see her leading, but not commanding, if that makes any sense.

>>2367266
That's the usual accepted difference between a top and a dominant. A submissive can top in bed, but they can't dominant. A desperate submissive will definitely top in bed if you tease them too long. Or they'll have a breakdown and cry a lot.

>>2367284
I suppose that is somewhat more in line with Yui's personality. She definitely has the strength to play a convincing role. I'm no sure she'll have any breakdowns though!
Is Kiku well trained enough to avoid those? Or does she simply have a bigger tolerance for teasing than most?

>>2367105
Thanks for running, trolling an oni to death seems like a good way to release some tension from that encounter with Nezumi. Well, good for Ryukusa that is, very much not good for the oni.
I'm guessing it's very much improper, or at least unhygienic/gross to have some fresh roasted ox on the way to Zhuanlun.

>>2367105
I see ryukuza can now add frustration to the number of ways she's killed a person.

>>2367284
Reminder that pretty early on Yui and Akari, when everyone was talking about sexuality, said in unison "We Switch!"

Just because they have a certain "normal" personality doesn't mean it translates to personality in bed.

>>2367298
I'm pretty sure Er Yin knows just how much to tease her for proper effect. Teasing her too much would be very bad for everyone involved, as well as any local architecture.

>>2367298
>>2368024
Kiku is a special case, in that she requires special attention. Whether it's senility, brain issues, or simply training is impossible to tell.

Her having a breakdown would be bad. Teasing too much definitely has resulted in near catastrophic furniture damage though.

This oni was plenty rude, but going straight for the kill seems extreme considering we gave others second chances despite them being far worse.

Am I missing some context?

>>2368057
It's a caretaker of hell, not merely an oni. It's literally a demon, and if Enma-Oh wills it, it will reform since it died in his Hell. If you were in the physical world, it might be different.