This Thing Don't Look So Tough

[PepsiYuuka]

Darkshire, for everyone's reference, was in fact really fucking dark.

It was in stark contrast from her trip through the Nexus- dreary, kind of smelly, cloudy, and most of all goddamn boring. Yep, just like she remembered it was the first time. Idly she groaned, stretching her back. Sure, it wasn't too far from the gate to Camelot, and the trip hadn't taken too long, but still. She felt like she was going to go snow blind the whole time walking through the presumed center of the Omniverse, even with a distinct lack of snow to be found there.

And the Moors weren't a whole lot better, even if they were the inverse. She was sure there may have been some place deeper in the verse that would be more to her liking, but near the gate, she felt more inclined to groan about needing "full sun" to be her fittest. So, as she strolled through the streets, she had to remind herself she had come to this city for a reason. She may have been a bitch, but not enough of a bitch to turn back when texted.

Okay, well, maybe she hadn't been texted HERSELF, but what was she gonna do? Sit back and let Reimu have all the fun? Last time she did that was always. And what could possibly go wrong, her death? Did she even care about herself dying?

She thought not.

And so, this splash of gaudy colors and self-centeredness given life, henceforth dubbed "Yuuka Kazami," stalked the streets of Darkshire, hunting down her target.

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"C'est une... how do you say...?"

"You mean the Tarrasque?"

The fairy and the frenchwoman both turned to Renko in surprise, only to see her still flicking through her phone as if it was nothing. Noticing their surprise after a moment, she turned her phone- similar to a smartphone of today, though in a case with a grainy shot of the Loch Ness Monster printed on it, and with a phone charm of the Tsuchinoko attached- around to let them see the screen. On it, in big, red letters was a notice on some forum. "ENORMOUS MONSTER MENACING THE PALE MOORS ONCE AGAIN," it read, under a picture of some enormous, pointy... thing.

"They really need to work on their web design," commented the secondary, almost off-handedly. "It's, like, totally 1990s... And they didn't even link the damn thing on the first page of Omnislist." Again, at this, she sounded disappointed. Maybe if they had just linked this to her first, she wouldn't have had to make that stupid thread which was constantly attracting spambots(? she hoped nonsense name was a spambot) and elderly women with dementia.

The hell fairy, for her part, zipped up close to get a better look at the monster, with a huge grin on her face. "Awesome! That's PERFECT!" If she had ever had an indoor voice, which Renko had a feeling she didn't, Clownpiece had forgotten all about it. "You know which way it is?"

"Eh... Should we not be waiting for ze other two?" Interjected Myst, taking a step forward herself. Thankfully they had at least one voice of reason here, even if she wasn't the loudest one. "Zey will be looking for us here, no?"

Renko nodded, clicked off her phone, and pocketed it. "I guess you're right... Before finding this thing, it would be best to find-"

"Found you."

The words were somehow terrifying in their quiet intonation. They were doubly so when combined with the hand slapping into the nape of Renko's neck. All this, probably combined with the stress of having to deal with the Dataverse at its worst, startled Renko terribly. Losing her footing, she stumbled forward- which she could have recovered from, had Clownpiece not simply moved out of the way. Instead, this eventually sent Renko crashing to the ground, landing on her butt as she tried to turn to look at the Christmas-colored newcomer.

"Yuukaaaaaa! ...That was quick." The fairy zipped to the flower youkai's side, as said youkai took a moment to snicker about knocking over some average college student without even trying.

"Was it? I mean, I was certainly hurrying, so of course." Smiling brightly with all of her composure still completely intact despite her bold faced lie, the Youkai took her time investigating the other two girls. "I see you found some friends. Or snacks?" Horrifyingly to the poor secondary, Yuuka didn't hesitate at all before the second part. She legitimately couldn't tell if that was meant to be a joke or not.

"...But... I thought I texted Reimu."

"Oh, did you? Well, forget about that. She's no fun anyway."

Renko had the strangest feeling that this woman was about to prove to be far more trouble than she was worth.