/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>46023691
it's very interesting, and the reasons can be boiled to main three that are really quite sad
>the female must be big to bear all the eggs and defend them
>the male must be small so it can prowl nature searching for a mate safely and faster
>and if necessary, the male will also serve as food for the female -- much more common within species with those size dynamics
a-at the very least Yams is normal-sized when compared to a human and you, as a human, can provide food by other means! Be glad, Anons!

"Really, Hime? You're going to teach him how to fish?" Kagerou got a smirk on her face. "What, are you the target? Does he have to entice you into taking the bait? Sing a song, maybe?" The princess smacked Kagerou on the arm with a pout. "Ouch - Alright, fine. I think it's a nice idea, but you might want to wait until the lake isn't, you know, half frozen over."

Oh. I'd forgotten about that part. Curious, I asked Wakasagihime what it was like in the water at this time of year. "Well...When you're used to it like this, it's not really cold, but it's a little bit awkward to find the parts that you can surface through when it's dark, since the ice blocks so much of the light from getting through. It's cold when you go really deep, but things get a little...Weird, down there. That's where the massive metal things are, and the strange, twisting shapes, and there's that light where there's - Sorry, sorry, I'm getting distracted. The deep lake is very interesting, though. I'd love to show it so someone." It would probably be amazing, but I didn't think that it was going to be on my agenda any time soon. "Well...If you come back with a fishing rod when the lake's unfrozen, I'll do my best!"

It sounded like a plan, I replied with a smile. As for now...I looked over at Yamame. She looked back at me, then blinked. "Tired?" She asked me quietly. Maybe a little, I said, but not enough that I'd struggle to make it home, or enough that I couldn't stay out a little longer. "Hmm...Though I would like to cuddle up in bed with you..." She hummed, a teasing smile on her face. "Do you want to try and come to these meetings more often?" Yamame asked me. I was very pleased by the question. It was the exact thing I'd been hoping to get her to start thinking. Nodding, I said that I was happy to come if she wanted to. "Okay, good...In that case, should we head back now?" It was fine by me. In truth, I was probably lying about how long I could stay out. I was pretty tired. "Um, Princess, Miss Kagerou? We're going to head off." Yamame announced, faster than I'd expected from her.

"Oh, is that right? Okay, well...Thank you for coming, and congratulations again." Wakasagihime said with a smile. "Hopefully we'll see you again soon!" I nodded. I hoped so too, really. the Princess was very nice.

"Yeah, it was good seeing you both. We'll definitely come to the wedding, too." Kagerou nodded. That was two - Maybe three, depending on Sekibanki - agreements, which seemed good to me. I got to my feet and pulled Yamame up, then turned so that we could bid farewell to Sekibanki and Miss Hina too. Funnily enough, it looked like they were having a conversation from a ways apart, so in the end, we settled for waving goodbye to both of them, before we moved away from the campfire, Yamame pulling her coat back over her other layers.

"Flying?" She asked me. I nodded, just as long as she didn't hit another tree. "It was just the one tree..." She muttered, but wrapped her arms around me and took off anyway. We shot past the Vampire's mansion, where I could still see movement between the windows, and off into the distance. "I wonder how many other people we're going to have to invite to this?" Probably a lot, I replied. Still, that would make it more lively. "Yeah...And Reimu would probably crack a few heads open before letting anyone spoil it, anyway." Lady Kasen and Raki too, I replied. Or rather, I thought to myself, Ibaraki-douji, if they had merged by then.

We came down into the cave, though Yamame continued to float through it, holding me steadily. "What's happening tomorrow?" She asked me. I thought for a moment, then blinked. It had been a week, so I would need to go to the Shrine and meet Shameimaru. "What's happening with that? You said that she wanted to, uh...Write your life story?" She seemed to, yeah...Though she had to come and ask Yamame for permission before she could actually use anything she'd written down. "Hmm...I'll try and miss her. For now, at least. Let her squirm a little bit. She's not doing anything weird, right?" She'd been mostly fine, actually. I mean, there had been that moment when I'd had to catch her when she'd fallen, and she'd been a little weird then, but other than that, she seemed fine. "Right...Well, I'm sure she knows what's in store if she does do anything strange."

Into Yamame's home we went, and straight to bed we went after that. "I'm really glad we started going to those meetings, you know." Yamame mumbled sleepily. I was already drifting off at that point. "They're really nice. Er...Thanks for making me go, I guess that's what I'm trying to say." I was just happy if she was happy, I mumbled back. "That's what I was going to say to you."

That seemed a little like our mantra of taking care of each other, but I supposed it was good enough. We both drifted off very quickly after that, my arms wrapped around her waist and my face buried in her hair.