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Yukari shut her mouth as she saw what was in the covered container, a singular football-sized soup dumpling that barely contained a human-sized brain inside.
"It's something the Sumireko girl showed Youmu," Yuyuko explained, "The outside world sure has a lot of neat ideas."
Yukari stood frozen, looking at the massive human brain dumpling as some black flame swirled behind her eyes.
"My lady, perhaps it would be better if we returned to Mayohiga, I'm sure, Chen and I can prepare something for you three on short notice."
"No," Yukari protested, puncturing the dumpling with a spoon and taking a heap of brain matter into her mouth.
Yukari chewed deliberately, doing her best to show off to Yuyuko and Suika even as the sound of human brain matter in between her teeth made her stomach queasy. Finally, Yukari finished chewing and forced herself to swallow the brain matter, holding down her vomit all the while.
"See," she said, breathless and flushed, "I'm a real Youkai, over one thousand years old and everything, in fact I-"
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Yukari trashed back and forth on the operating table, foam coming from her mouth as the wards of the room buckled, desperately trying to hold her back. Above her stood the head doctor at the Hourai Pharmaceutical group, Erin Yagakoro.
Eirin deftly dodged as Yukari split the space where she stood, surging towards the bound patient in a single jump as she pressed a syringe into her.
"There you go, miss Yakumo," Eirin said in a sweet voice, "Just go to sleep, we can't have you hurting anybody else, now can we?"
Yukari's eyes fluttered as she fought against the urge to sleep, but she was far too unaware of herself to mount any substantial effort as her eyelids closed. The wards surrounding the room calmed down as Yukari stopped struggling, and Eirin finally relaxed, removing the syringe from Yukari.
"This certainly is a strange case," Eirin said, "It seems she's developed multiple types of prion diseases in a short matter of time. Has she eaten any human meat recently?"
Ran sat across from them booth bandaged, "Yes, but not a lot, it was only a single bite before she started foaming at the mouth."
"Yes, well, this isn't beyond my ability to treat, although she will be occupied here for quite some time."
Ran cried. "Oh, this is all my fault, if I had stopped her or, or-"
Eirin was at her side in an instant, holding the nine-tailed fox and petting her head. "Don't worry, Ran, this isn't your fault. Yukari isn't a child,"
Ran sniffled. "Yes, it's just hard to forget that sometimes, with how she acts, I'll... manage in her absence as I do every winter, I'll have to talk with Reimu."
"I'll see you later as well, Ran, if you ever need help with anything, just ask."
"I will," she said, nodding to Eirin and moving from her touch.
Ran left the room, giving Eirin an opportunity to slump down in her seat as she let out a sigh. "Well, let's get right to fixing you up. Tewi really should be more careful."
