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>>46572206

>>45301503
as >>45301585 said, not enough time and would fuck writeanons in the states, though a better cap is
>NO MORE CHARACTERS
we already have everyone that'll be needed. Adding more characters wouldn't add anything when the teams are properly balanced and storylines are closing.
>>45301585
>Anyways small update, Takeminata, the child of Daiko by Nunakawahime, one of his many consorts,.Also it's unclear if Tewi was already a Bodhisattava slash the lunar hare when her life was saved by Daiko.
>Takeminata is also directly said to have been also been sealed by the Lunarians, although he also seems to be Kanako, in the same sort of weird way Matarajin is also Okina and Daikokuten, also Daikokuten has absurd charisma, the guy can't go a week without finding a new goddess wife.
damn... thank god I write cat and fox fluff

complete storyline posted in chrnological order:
part 1
>>44783853 | 1-4-Yukari starts the HSE
>>44783859 |
>>44783865 |
>>44783869 |
>>44789500 | 1-2-Hana regrets everything
>>44797583 |
>>44801201 | 1-Marisa jobs
>>44808699 | 3-Hana
>>44813876 | 2-Marisa
>>44823600 | 4-Hana
>>44824137 | 1-Chen makes frens
>>44826502 | 5-7-Hana
>>44827141 |
>>44827779 |
>>44828232 | 2-Chen
>>44828303 | 8-Hana
>>44829240 | 1-2-Aya gets a scoop
>>44829742 |
>>44830460 | 1-Ran/Chen get and deliver emotional damage
>>44830530 | 3-Chen
>>44831787 | 3-5 Aya
>>44831959 |
>>44832166 |
>>44833004 | 2-Ran/Chen
>>44833632 | 6-8-Aya
>>44833913 |
>>44834188 |
>>44836175 | 3-Ran/Chen
>>44837584 | 1-Kasen (Forma del Hammer)
>>44838354 | 4-Ran/Chen
>>44838572 | 1-Hijiri finds an idol
>>44838849 | 1-Yuuka visits, turns out there's a reason for the rumors
>>44839020 | 5-Ran/Chen
>>44840553 | 1-2-Reisen performs medical procedures
>>44840644 |
>>44841739 | 9-Aya
>>44842051 | 2-Hijiri
>>44842176 | 1-Yukari jobs
>>44842793 | 10-Aya
>>44843053 | 3-Hijiri
>>44843501 | 11-12-Aya
>>44843706 |
>>44844619 | 6-Ran/Chen
>>44846129 | 4-Hijiri
>>44846904 | 1-Toutetsu does goat things
>>44847934 | 1-Alice, the femcel, left her [redacted] running
>>44848916 | 7-Ran/Chen
>>44849075 | 13-14-Aya
>>44849823 |
>>44851670 | 2-Toutetsu
>>44852394 | 15-Aya
>>44856869 | 2-Yukari
>>44857107 | 8-Ran/Chen
>>44857828 | 3-Yukari
>>44859128 | 9-Ran/Chen
>>44860148 | 16-17-Aya
>>44861513 |
>>44861980 | 3-Marisa
>>44862210 | 1-Okina jobs
>>44863801 | 1-Kanako jobs, but in a cute way
>>44865416 | 4-Yukari
>>44869347 | 1-Seiga is spreading Tao
>>44869783 | 3-Toutetsu
>>44871249 | 18-Aya
>>44871671 | 5-Yukari
>>44875949 | 9-10 Hana
>>44876544 |
>>44878300 | 1-Patchouli does some detective work
>>44878759 | 10-Ran/Chen
>>44879741 | 19-20-Aya
>>44881701 |
>>44881786 | 4-Toutetsu
>>44886059 | 6-7-Yukari
>>44886659 |
>>44887390 | 11-12-Ran/Chen
>>44889812 |
>>44890248 | 11-Hana
>>44890814 | 21-Aya
>>44891520 | 1-Youmu/Yuyuko save us from the moonies
>>44896317 | 13-Ran/Chen
>>44897089 | 2-Patchouli
>>44897477 | 12-Hana
>>44897833 | 2-Youmu/Yuyuko
>>44897919 | 1-2-Seija destroys the entire place
>>44898943 |
>>44899064 | 5-Toutetsu
>>44899119 | 3-Youmu/Yuyuko
>>44900150 | 8-9-Yukari
>>44900352 |
>>44900601 | 22-Aya
>>44903464 | 3-Reisen
>>44903607 | 14-Ran/Chen
>>44905197 | 23-Aya
>>44906051 | 1-Nazrin will friggin' die lol
>>44906510 | 1-2-Tewi spreads cunniculture
>>44906965 |

>>44889812 (3/4—2)
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"You... like Mr. Anon?" My already red face was now scalding, my body trembling with sudden cold. One part was horrified that Chen had heard so openly about my developing feelings; the other was cold with the implications of the other things she heard. Though her big, silly smile and red cheeks showed she was much more focused on the first thing.

I growl, fuming, "Chen, why did you follow me?!"

"You like him!" She exclaimed, and, somehow, I'm even redder. How's that possible?!

"Yes, I do! Now why have you followed me, Chen?" My tone was loaded with the threat—meaning no fish snacks for a month. Even that didn't erase the sunshine from her face, and, laughing, she hugged me, her tails bobbing like crazy. My chest tightened, and as much as I tried to cling to this volcanic rage, I huffed, hugging her back and trying to contain my smile.

"I knew it! I knew it! Chen noticed it WAY back—oh, it's gonna be so nice! We'll have so much fun as a family! Yaay!!" She cheered to the moon, although embarrassment soon took over her face. "And, I... uh... I heard you and the goat lady speaking earlier, and it looked different from all the other customers—you looked happy... So I decided to investigate and, well, heheh... Sorry."

"Seriously, Chen?!" I hide how her words affected me, mainly the family part and—geez, Chen... A gap opens, and I sigh—this bakeneko knows how to get me with my guard down. “About the things you heard me and Tetsu talking—"

"You're going against Yukari, right?" She asked, and we exchanged looks for a moment, my shoulders dropping, the conversation we had recently and all her tears flooding my mind. I can't bring myself to lie to her face, so I quietly nodded. Chen's tails dropped, and it pained me to see how much untold hurt was reflected in her eyes. "She's breaking laws... I love her, Ran, I do, I miss when we were happy... but—" Her eyebrows creased, teary-eyed, but no tear fell, as iron came in the form of resolute words. "But... if she's being a baddie, she must be punished and corrected!" Resolve wavered, a nasty feeling locking words in her throat.

Gently, I caressed her cheeks, cleaning the accumulated tears from her eyes. "She's been a bad person, yes, and we cannot spare her from punishment just because we love her—but, Chen... deep in there, I know she still loves us too. She has been doing terrible things, and she'll be punished, yet the only way of making something good out of that punishment is to show that we are still here, willing to help and love her as long as she herself is willing to change, okay?" Frantically, Chen nodded, a reassured love in her eyes burning with hope.

I silently prayed to any God that might listen, softly kissing Chen's cheek, that Yukari—the person I love so much, despite everything she has done—can and would try to change, make amends, and return to being the person I admire with all my being...

Carrying Chen in my arms, I passed through the gap, going back home.

"Also, you're grounded." Doesn't mean she's off the hook. I felt satisfied with her look of shock.
—
It's a Sunday, and Chen and Anon were foraging mushrooms on the fake shrine premises for tonight's stew. I watch from the kitchen, preparing tea and hearty snacks for the three of us, not an ounce of desire to hide the warm smile on my face, and, as Anon and Chen crawl inside a hollow tree trunk to 'get those sweet shrooms'—their words, not mine—my mind wanders to possible futures. Futures away from this cursed place, futures where those laughs as they struggle to get off from the trunk are the norm, not the exception.

I've been doing that an awful lot recently...

Excited, Chen goes to Anon—he pulled a big spider from his hair and tossed it away—and shows him the shrooms she got. Anon promptly brushes a particularly nasty insect from her clothes before hyping the mushrooms Chen got like they're made out of gold. I wonder if that giant smile on her face aches, if it makes her head dizzy to have so much fun...

... I wonder if Chen would like to have siblings.

I stopped all my movements with the intrusive thought, frowning. There's still three months before THOSE urges cloud my mind for six whole weeks, and am I already imaging? Sheesh…

As Tetsu said, I'm toast.

Though...

Heh, with a slight smile and red, l leave these thoughts behind. When things get better—when the sun shines above and not through a magic permeable cage roof—and he says: 'I am so happy'. Only then.

But now?

"Chen, Anon!" I call them, leaving the shrine with a food tray full to the brim with seasonal wonders—and a big bowl of fried tofu for myself. They get one glance at the tray, and it's like two bolts of lighting are darting towards me, and I have to be quick to get the tray away from their grubby hands. "Wash your hands first!"

They moan and protest, but go do just that, almost stumbling over each other, and I sit on the veranda, the wind blowing on my hair, smiling.

Only then…