Otherworldly Escapade

When The Dragon's Statue's Eyes Turns Red

Echoing Voices — Project and Celebration — Part 1

"The shrine's donation today is quite many, Isn't it?"

"Yes it is. So are you here pester me again? You old hag?"

"Goodness, I'm still young as I can ever be. To give you an exact I'm still seventeen. You can hear the teen word right? You keep calling me that but you're at the age of milennium and counting."

"Tch... I so want to exterminate you right now."

"Heh~, we've been doing that for a long time but it always ends in draw, am I holding back or is it you?"

"Just zip it. You know it's a hassle to turn on and off the warding protection from the yokai. I always do this everytime you and those ruckus-making onis stop by. What if the villagers saw you guys?"

"Well we do come by at night so the humans are fast asleep while we come out and play."

"Then why come here? Play with each other not with me. You yokai are such a pain in the ass. Especially since I have to take care of a kid."

"Oh? I completely forgot about that. Last time I saw her was she's but a little baby."

"Feeding her milk at that time was very hard. I hate to admit it but with your help. I was able to come around it."

"No problem, although I would have preferred if you let me used my powers to let you breast feed her yourself."

"Ain't no damn way I'm doing that. Why don't you did so yourself? Actually, nevermind. She may turn into a yokai if she does."

"Rude...so? What years old is our little baby?"

"MY baby not ours but mine. You're making it sound like you're the father or something. She's no longer a baby if she's able to talk and walk on her own. I think she's turning six this year."

"I see, but wouldn't it be exciting if they know that a human and yokai are raising a baby together?"

"Gaah, there you go again with your fantasies, pervert."

"How awful~, that reminds me. What's the situation of that half-yokai boy?"

"Him? Oh, he's fine. He's growing but mentally and also slowly on the outside, guess that's the yokai part kicking in. He is after all the first one to be in that position. That I know of. No one wants him, not the humans or even the yokai. Y'all are a bunch of jerks for doing that."

"That is why we have you, the mediator for both sides. You didn't end him, knowing that both humans and yokai saw him as a abomination. I know you're cooking up a plan on how to intergrate him back to the human village. The yokai on the other hand won't come after him as he is after all, a half one."

"Hmph, don't use that word. The boy has the right to live. Even if he is like that. His parents are gone but that doesn't mean he should be too just because he is a half one. You know me, I couldn't care less whether what or who you are. I've been talking to a good family that will help us out. The Kirisame family."