Otherside Picnic: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 3] by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, mystery, sci-fi, available in print, anime, adventure, survival, yuri, creepypasta
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

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“Ito...sha...nou.” A voice, neither human nor animal, emerged from both Todate’s and Hana’s mouths.

“Itossha...nou...”

It had a sad, almost pitying tone. It was peaceful and kind...

Their two bodies, dog and human, had melted together. The human’s hand scratched and petted the fur. The canine’s nose touched and pressed against the skin, and its tongue licked it. Four eyes exchanged glances filled with trust, love, and peaceful contentment.

Toriko and I both stared with our jaws hanging open.

Or rather, we were enthralled.

It was beautiful—a beautiful creature, with a form that could not have existed in the human world. Woman and dog had melded together, but not completely, remaining distinct. Each accepted the other as part of themselves, but at the same time still an entity that they could never be fully compatible with—and loved them.

I could understand.

I—we—were the same way.

Their four eyes suddenly turned to us.

The human eyes narrowed. The dog’s tongue came out. There was no hostility; they were welcoming. Perhaps they understood. They perceived us. It was a warmer reception than when we had visited the Mayoiga before. Back then, Todate and Hana had been friendly, but uninterested in us. The two of them had been closed off to anyone but each other.

Now, they were satisfied. With the completion of their world, their eyes had finally opened to the world around them. With those four dark, glistening eyes on me, I felt like I was being seen by Todate and Hana for the first time.

“Nue...” Toriko said the word. I nodded.

“That’s what this is, yeah.”

We clearly understood what was going on here.

“They” had imitated the nue. They’d seen us become the nue and were trying to do the same, similar to all the other ways they’d imitated humans...

Well, no, not “similar to” but “exactly the same as.”

If “they” didn’t understand humans, then they couldn’t possibly understand nue. They were simply imitating it; the status that Toriko and I had achieved.

I should have been offended. Normally, I would have been.

It was a state Toriko and I had achieved by throwing ourselves at one another, driving ourselves mad, and they’d gone and imitated it by integrating Todate and Hana. It was horrifying, of course. I should have been creeped out.

But that wasn’t how I felt. It was just too beautiful, because I could understand the two of them. To loathe this woman-dog chimera was the logic of the daytime world of human beings, but we were creatures of the night who had become the nue, and this was the world of night.

We had stepped into a place where human reasoning did not apply.

The front line of first contact. That’s where we were right now.

“You laid down your gun,” I said.

“Yeah.”

“This thing, it’s us.”

“You’re right. It’s the same as us,” Toriko replied.

“Are they watching our reaction?”

“Probably, don’t you think?”

“What do we do?”

When I asked, Toriko held the glove on her left hand with her mouth. She pulled it off, revealing her translucent hand, then reached out, bringing her hand closer to the chimera.

The dog face sniffed her left hand, licked it.

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