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“So, um, I'm guessing I'm wrong about the whole 'mother' thing, aren't I?” you ask.
“Probably~!” the girl says, the cheerful lilt in her voice doing nothing to dispel the whole 'ready and willing to shove you into the lake' vibe you seem to be getting from her, right now.
The way she was slowly pushing you over the side of the raft wasn't really helping much, either.
The front of your robe tightly gripped in her hand, the girl was now basically holding the upper half of your body over the blood-red lake. Completely at her mercy, you can do little else but attempt to reason with the girl.
“Please don't drop me in the lake.”
“No~!”
Clearly, reasoning was not going to work with her.
Somehow, you doubt bullshit would fare any better.
With the complete lack of rocks or rock-like objects in the general vicinity, you realize your options for conflict-resolution have been almost completely exhausted.
Almost.
With nothing left to lose, you steel yourself and unleash your ultimate move!
“Look, clearly we've gotten off on the wrong foot.” you begin, doing your best to remain calm and confident in the face of impending doom. Or, at least, impending moistness. “I'm sure if we could just talk things over, we would resolve a lot of things, though! Perhaps over some food and drink, maybe? I guess what I'm asking is, would you like to have dinERBLARGLH-”
Suddenly, your vision goes red, thick liquid flows into your open mouth, and you feel your entire body being enveloped by something cold and sticky.
The girl on the raft is now nothing more than a dark silhouette, slowly rising up and away from you.
Or are you sinking?
It's quite hard to tell, really.
Aside from the shadow of the raft above you, now little more than a formless blob, you can see nothing else around you that might serve as a point of reference.
Just red.
Lots and lots of red.
Red here.
Red there.
Red everywhere.
Red red red red red red red red red red red
red red red red red red red red red red red red
red red red red red red red red red red red red
red red red red red red bubble red red red red red red
bubble red red red red red red huge dark thing red red re-
...wait a minute.
'What's that?' you wonder to yourself, gazing down at the large, dark mass below you.
The large, dark, vaguely building-shaped mass.
The longer you stare at it, the more you realize that you actually are seeing what you think you're seeing.
A house. A very, very, very big house.
A mansion, really.
...also, you're not breathing.
You realize that, too.
You wonder if one might be related to the other, somehow.
Is it normal for someone to see buildings in places there should not be buildings when their brain is being deprived of oxygen?
Is it normal to stop breathing while seeing buildings in places there should not be buildings, for that matter?
You don't know how that would work, but you also don't know how to know that your head feel dizzy funny world go dark dark time like the last time the last time to sleep to sleepy sleep sleep sl e e e p
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“Owww!” you groan, awakening to the alarmingly-familiar sensation of your head striking something hard.
Or, in this case, something hard striking your head.
“Su-san? I think that one's gonna be too big to...huh?” you hear Medicine speaking from somewhere above you.
Opening your eyes, you see your little friend standing over you, looking around in confusion as alarmed-sounding voices call out from somewhere nearby. The reason for their alarm becomes apparent mere seconds later, as a giant, profanity-screaming bird swoops across the sky with blinding speed.
Jumping slightly, Medicine lets out a surprised yelp at the sight of the massive creature, while Su-san drops the rather large rock she had been trying to carry over.
“What was that?!” Rikako's voice asks.
“Heh! Never thought I'd see...” Yuugi begins to say, trailing off as you begin to hear heavy footsteps approaching. “Ha! There ya are!” Sunflower stalks flattening under her every step, the oni stomps into view, sporting her usual grin.
“Hey, Yuugi!” you say, smiling back at the horned woman.
“Hey, kiddo!” she replies. “Who's the kid?”
“Kid?” you ask, following Yuugi's gaze to the spot just beside you.
Sure enough, sleeping peacefully beside you, there was a young girl clad in pink.
“Oh, her.” you say, as your memories of the past few minutes come rushing back to you. “Yeah, we kinda found her out here like this, so I thought we should take her with us, and then...um...”
“You fell down, Human!” Medicine says, looking somewhat worried. “You stopped moving and fell down and you wouldn't say anything!“
“Yeah, I guess I fell asleep or something. Sorry.”
“Well, yer awake now, and that's what matters. Now, c'mon! Let's get up, huh?”
With a simple nod of agreement, you pick yourself up off the ground, brush some of the dirt from your robe, and once again carefully scoop the sleeping little girl up into your arms, trying your best not to disturb her.
“Hmm. You are a bold one, aren't you~?”
...or so you thought.
Her eyes now wide open, the girl in your arms looks up at you with a curious and mildly-unsettling expression.
“Oh, did I wake you?” you ask, uncertain if you should be relieved or worried by the girl's apparent lack of concern for the fact that she just woke to find some stranger holding her in his arms. “Uh, sorry about that!”
“Oh my, no~!” the girl says, smiling. “Not yet, you're not~!”
Smiling at you the way she was at that moment, red eyes twinkling with a dangerous glint, you find yourself somehow reminded of that woman from the flower field.
In fact, looking at this girl, you would almost think she was a miniature version of that woman.
That woman who Tenshi had tried to pick a fight with, and then crushed with a giant rock.
That woman who tracked you all the way to the clinic in the bamboo forest.
That woman you had asked Rikako to help you deal with by making something that would make her smaller or something like that.
That woman you had used said device on, thus setting off the chain of events that led you to spending the previous night underground.
Yes, indeed, if that device had actually worked as intended, you might almost expect the result to look very much like the girl you now held in your very arms, save for the change in attire.
Yes, it was almost as if this girl was...
OH.
[ ] Scream.
[ ] Faint.
[ ] Panic.
[ ] Deny.
[ ] Deflect.
[ ] Accept.
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