/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>46184372
They aren't restraints. It's her outfit from the second Touhouvania game. Everyone's outfits were chunni as fuck. I am of the headcanon that this was her early outfit as a shiki in the interim between animal mafia to well adjusted housewife.

Of course, even when it seemed like the big event was just around the corner, something found the time to get in my way. This distraction came in the shape of Ran Yakumo. Since Yukari was here, I wasn't all that surprised to see the fox, but I'd not seen her yet and now was about the most inconvenient time for it to happen. Of course, with my luck, that meant that it had to happen right now. She had been walking across the grounds in Miss Yuuka's direction when our paths intercepted, and she stopped, turning to look at me. Her outfit was...Curious.

I'd expected the suit, perhaps. The one that she had worn on occasions in the Outside World, but she'd gone for something far stranger. Black belts and straps covered a large amount of her outfit, passing both above and below the tabard, which itself was darker in colour and far more intricate. On her sleeves, hanging down and looking like they looked like they would strap her arms together, clasped under her chest. She had foregone her hat entirely, and her fox ears flicked slightly under my gaze. The belts and restrains went up to her neck, and where they connected at the end of her sleeves, fur lined them. When the tabard shifted slightly with her movement, I could see that her dress underneath was a lot less complex than it seemed, with three more straps across her chest and collarbone, but nothing more below. Her tails were splayed out behind her, cutting an even more imposing figure than she normally did. She looked...Well, a little like she'd been unceremoniously bound in a way that even Reimu wouldn't be able to manage.

"Ah." She said quietly. "Greetings. A wedding is an auspicious event indeed. My odds on your proposal hovered at seventy-two percent on the first day of the year. As for hosting it here...I didn't predict that, and neither did Lady...." She paused, looking down at me with a tilted head. "...Yukari." She finally said, and I couldn't help smiling slightly. "I believe my congratulations are in order." Thanking her, I asked what she was doing. "Reimu has informed Lady Yukari and I of a potential threat. Given my master's love of the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, she has decided to do everything she can to put a halt to this threat. I am on my way to inform Yuuka Kazami." Well, that was definitely a promising development. Surely, whoever it was wouldn't be able to escape under this many sets of eyes?

Or maybe I was just asking for trouble by thinking that.

Ran inclined her head again. "Congratulations. I wish you and your wife all the best." Smiling wider, I thanked her with a bow. Ran Yakumo was a very different kind of person to Yukari Yakumo. She was kinder, in my opinion, though it was hidden under a layer of severity and a sharp, steely gaze that made it feel as if she was judging you for anything you happened to be doing. I looked over to the gazebo, where nothing seemed to have changed, and then to Mugenkan. It seemed that I still had a few minutes, though I was certain that I saw something slink around the corner of the building, like a passing shadow. Unsure if I'd seen anything at all, I decided to put it to one side and instead asked Ran where Chen was. "Ah, my Chen has chosen to wait by the entrance to Yuuka Kazami's mansion. I believe this is because she wishes to catch a glimpse of Yamame Kurodani before the ceremony gets truly underway." Ah, I could definitely see that being the case. Chen had seemed to latch onto Yamame fairly quickly when they'd met at the Shrine, after all.

I was just about to leave, when, yet again, something happened.

This time, it was the rusty laughter that I heard from behind me. The 'Ke-he-he' that I'd only heard from one person before. I looked over my shoulder, and squatting with her massive spork over her shoulders, was Yuuma Toutetsu. Now, she was a figure that I had not expected to show up. Nor had I expected her to show up at this particular moment. She was alone, though the grin on her face said that she was fine with that. And most of all, I didn't expect that when I looked back at Ran, she would have gone completely stiff. Her protruding fox ears have even straightened up. Her gaze, already steely enough, had somehow become even colder. Looking back at Yuuma, she hopped up to her feet and wandered closer, her grin displaying plenty of sharp teeth. "I heard something fun was happening here today. How could I have known that it would involve you of all people." I shrugged awkwardly and said that I'd not realised that the wedding was prolific enough to reach as far as the Hell of Blood Pools in Former Hell. "Well, perhaps it could have, but - No, that's not where I heard about it from."

Behind me, Ran cleared her throat. "Explain yourself, Toutetsu." Even her voice was colder. Sharp like a knife. "Are you here to cause trouble?" She stepped around my side to regard the white-haired mob leader severely. "Have you come alone?"

>>33677778
Ran?

>>22129401
Washing an old person!

Edgy foxes.

Let's be honest for a moment.

Ran was always a mediocre nine-tailed fox. And her entire abuse thing was always a shitty piece of lore.