A Japanese Weresheep in Mutsuba Town
Author's Note: Time for a new pairing! This chapter is titled after the eponymous character song from Tokyo Revengers. Chupataro's seiyuu voices the main character in that series. Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH! series.
Pairing: Developing Yuhi x Chupataro.
Summary:
There are some forms of alien activity even MIK turns a blind eye to. The truly alien activity between Chupataro and Ohdo Yuhi, for instance.
Chapter 18: Rusted Fist
The metal plates trembled, disturbing the layers of dust that had accumulated atop the maze of pipes.
The Duel had started. Yuhi and Yuamu were duelling the Queen of Badloon Castle, Kirishima Rovian, in a 2-on-1 Rush Duel above.
Because Goha Yuna was as big a simp for Rovian as Chupataro was for Meeeg-chan, she'd rallied the majority of the Rovian Bandits onto the roof to lavish Rovian with praise while she herself squealed like the lovestruck schoolgirl she was.
Yuhi and Yuamu were serving as perfect scapegoats for Chupataro and Mitsuko, who'd broken in during the ruckus (steel-hearted though that may be).
By no means did this mean the castle interior was unprotected. The random gang member still shuffled about, and would pulverize and cast out any daring to trespass on the Rovian Bandits' turf. But without their shoulder-to-shoulder number to hinder (not stop) the enemy's intrusion, the unlucky grunts who remained were in for a brutal lesson: "Macho" wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Not when one-half of the invading duo could crack just about anything with one punch!
Nobody was eager to risk a crippled neck in a head-to-head with a 3-metre Flatwoods Monster standing several heads above everybody else! Nobody not thickheaded, that is! The Minotaur alien Mino Hachiro didn't have the intelligence not to charge at them on sight, and the One-Punch Woman hammered home his error by KO-ing him with her armoured fist. Then, as a demonstration of excessive force, Mitsuko blasted at the bandits gaping over Mino Hachiro with red rays off her helmet, all while cackling her signature cackle.
They scrammed like robbers in a heist gone awry.
Who was the true queen? Bow down. Bow down. Rovian had competition!
Chupataro and Mitsuko – ostensibly the "Mutsuba Revengers" – got down to looking for what they came here for.
Get down. Get down. Don't look back! Chupataro stayed on track.
He's more determined than ever to see this through… Mitsuko observed.
"Chupa'll find it, chupa! Chupa'll take back what's Chupa's, chupa! Chupa'll WAKE HIM UP, chupa!"
Mitsuko deserved an ounce of blame for Chupataro's misfortune and present state. When Zuwijo enticed Chupataro with the promise he could bring Meeeg-chan to life by dunking his Duel Disk in the Earthdamar, he and Mitsuko regarded him a mere guinea pig. They had no scruples jeopardizing Chupataro's wellbeing or freedom if they achieved their agenda.
Chupataro losing to Yudias was presupposed. His subsequent capture by MIK all but guaranteed. Still, MIK's capacity for shadiness was disquieting. Mitsuko never envisaged they'd team up with the fugitives they were hunting to do what they did.
Aiding Chupataro to regain what he lost was her way of making amends. She wouldn't typically stand in solidarity with him, but their pseudo-family dynamic had provoked a pseudo-maternal tingle in her to fend for her "child."
Bearing that in mind, Mitsuko punched down the ultimate door dividing Chupataro from his prize.
Propped up at an angle in a bale of three – wired to the floor – was MIK and Rovian's collaborative project.
"At last, chupa!"
…
The allies Mitsuko alluded to with Yudias joined up with Mitsuko and Chupataro in the subway station. Manya and Bochi had concealed their identities beneath tattered cloaks and crept into the Rovian Bandits' ranks, escaping with a defeated Yuamu and Yuhi slung over Bochi's back while Mitsuko and Chupataro escaped Badloon Castle with Chupataro's precious cargo in only one of Mitsuko's arms.
"I misjudged you, Chupataro-kun! I thought you'd turned over a new leaf, but then you go and throw us under the train!" Yuamu transmitted him her disappointment.
"I knew he had it in him and I'm still surprised! Chupataro, ya used us as sacrificial lambs! And Kirishima Rovian, she –! She has Yudias as her prisoner!" Yuhi bemoaned Yudias' transformation into a shirt. "Also, Yuamu, what the heck's the Space Treasure?"
"I said not to worry about it, Yuhi."
"And why shouldn't I? My boyfriend fed me to the wolves! My sister's got a secret she won't spill the beans about! Yudias is the Rovian Bandits' captive! We were there to dig up details on London, and now we find out he and Rovian are related? Does anybody not have an ulterior motive? At least with Chupataro, I knew Rovian wasn't his goal!"
"Yuhi…" Yuamu felt remorse for how everyone had lied to her brother, herself included.
"This is what you ransacked Badloon Castle to retrieve, right?" Yuhi banged on the large metal drum in Mitsuko's arm. "Just WHAT IS IT?"
Chupataro nibbled on his lip until it bled, sucking his own blood.
Mitsuko lowered the drum onto the station platform and uncoupled herself from her armour in a blaze of light, her helmet sprouting legs and gliding independently. "It's an MIK cryostasis chamber."
"The kind Zuwijo would've been frozen in if MIK apprehended him?" Yuhi summed up Manabu's warning.
"And this is what Chupataro-kun was chasing? What was Rovian doing with it? Why was MIK housing it in Badloon Castle?" Yuamu did a finger gun across her chin.
Chupataro took out Ranran's security badge and scanned it on the access panel, the doors of the cold storage unit retracting, and freezing air venting out between the seams as they did.
"Eh?" Manya gasped.
"It's empty, woof!" Bochi barked.
Chupataro's anger tripled. The cryoprison's hollow cradle was frigid, biting injustice.
"I don't get it," Yuhi's voice fluttered. "Chupataro, who's cell is this? Who was inside?"
Mitsuko gazed at Chupataro with consternation. He'd chewed his lip raw and bloody.
His answer came out just as cold.
"Chupa was, chupa."