/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Anon remembers his boss's request and grabs two bronze-badge Marisas to take to the breeding area. He also tells his boss about the no-badge Da-je Maricha he found. Anon gives the sleeping baby Marisa a flick on the forehead, and she cries, "It hwurtsh, je!! What are you dwoing, je!?" The manager is delighted and promises to treat Anon to dinner sometime.

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Anon opens up the store. The first customer is a middle-aged man sent by his daughter to buy yukkuri food, but he barely knows anything about her yukkuri beyond the color of its hair. The shop carries all different kinds of food--wet, dry, hard, liquid, for babies, for koyukkuris--and there are rules for the type of food that a certain pet should be given, so Anon lets the customer to try to figure out what he was supposed to get. Anon doesn't want to get in trouble for picking the wrong thing.

The next person is a regular customer, an attractive orange-haired Miss. She greets the golds and rare-types, then heads straight for the bronzes. She picks out a Marisa and an Alice and has Anon pack them in the case she brought. Excited at becoming pet yukkuris, the Marisa and Alice look smugly at the other yukkuris, but the long-timers--the golds, the rares, and the nearly-expired silvers--just look at them sadly.