"Finally."
Sanae smiled as it glanced at the running river, the waves splashing small droplets of water onto the river bank. Spring was at its end, and with the heavy rain in the last few days, the water in this river was running at full speed.
Normally, rain would be a big problem for any wild yukkuris, as their skins and fillings dissolved quickly in large amount of water. However, over half of Sanae's body was already transformed into metals by now, including its feet.
With such resilient and water-proof material as body parts, it was no surprise that Sanae managed to travel for two months until it finally found the river in its vision. It still avoided other yukkuris, as it understood that its new appearance would scare them.
But they simply knew nothing about the Broken One's blessing.
Natural yukkuri clans were weak. A week of heavy thunderstorm, a squabble over petty matters, or even food being overly-consumed in the area could lead to their declines.
Sanae did not know what its future clan would be like, but it was sure that the blessing would make every Believers strong and powerful, like the Sacred Metal.
It felt hunger only two weeks after its departure, and it was so surprised that with such a small portions of food, it would already feel full. When Sanae decided to travel at night, its machinery eyes could even see things clearly in the darkness! Compared to those yukkuris who were nearly blind in the darkness, and truly helpless in front of flying predators, it was at a great advantage.
Sanae was sure that once the yukkuris in the chosen clan were aware of such advantages, they would appreciate the Blessing. However, their fear and instincts brought by their Filth would still be a big problem...
"Yu? Yu?! Wat is dis uneajy shiddy thing, ze!"
Sanae turned back, interrupted from its thought. It saw a family of yukkuris, led by a obese mother Reimu and four ko-yukkuris.
"What a shitty weird yukkuri! Reimu's cute little ones look much better than weird yukkuri! Reimu is such a great mother, yu~"
The gears and clockworks in Sanae's body hummed gravely at their languages and the ugly expression on that Reimu's faces, disgusted by their Filth of fillings and flours. How troublesome, running into this family of Wicked Yukkuris just when it found the river.
However, it remembered the words from that machine in its vision. Those blind, idiotic yukkuris who sank deeply into their inferior desires, despising and hating the perfect metal instead of appreciating it. They did not deserve the Blessing, but maybe those little ones...
"How miserable. But Sanae wants to be kind, and want to cleanse the Filth from the wicked yukkuris. Will Reimu and Marisa throw those lowly desires away, and see the great truth?"
"Weird yukkuri stop shaying things that Bawiza can't anderstand!"
"Dishgusting, disgusting! Shiddy yukkuri has weird things on the face, and don't even haz a mister ribbon! The beautiful Weimu ish much cuter than weird yukkuri~"
Sanae sighed after hearing the response from the two ko-yukkuri. They had inherited Filth from their mother, and thus also talked like a Wicked Yukkuri.
"It looks like Reimu and Marisa don't want to cleanse away your sins, like the filthy yukkuris you are."
"How dare weird Sanae call Reimu and Reimu's little ones bad names? Weird Sanae is the uneasy mister monster here! Reimu is going to punish weird yukkuri if weird yukkuri say such things again!"
The fat mother Reimu seemed to be the only one who understood Sanae's word, and it puffed up, waving its braids left and right to try and threaten its opponent.
How silly. Why were they still so ignorant and proud, even thinking that their frail bodies could battle with the Sacred Metal? Those Wicked Yukkuris should be punished and cleansed with power of the Broken One.
Sanae grinned, and held onto the brass gear tightly with its braid, staring straight into mother Reimu's eyes.
"W-what is shitty Sanae doing? Is Sanae idiot? Do Sanae want to die? Reimu will give Sanae mister pain if Sanae wants to fight!"
"Reimu is the ignorant one here. Reimu knows nothing. Reimu and Reimu's little ones are all Wicked Yukkuri that only think of your own easiness, and thus you shall all be punished."
That seemed to anger the deibuistic mother. With one grunt, it jumped towards Sanae, wriggling its fat body back and forth. Its offspring cheered it on.
"Mowmmie ish the strongest! Punish ze weird yukkuri!"
"If weird yukkuri surrender to Weimu's Mowmmie, Weimu will let weird yukkuri be Weimu's mishter slave!"
Even though the metals in its body were still heavy, with improved reflex and its camera eye capturing its opponent's movement, Sanae dodged the attack with ease, and lashed out with the gear in its braid as the fat Reimu landed from a jump.
The brass gear's sharp edge sliced open its cheek, leaving a small wound.
"YUWAAAH! How dare shitty Sanae hurt Reimu's beautiful mister face—OUCH! IT HURDSSS! IT REALLY HURDSSS!"
Sanae now saw the true power of the Broken One's body. Almost seconds after the gear had touched Reimu's fillings, it started to transform them into metals, and small metal strips were starting to poke out of the wound. At the same times, silver gears and springs were growing inward, pushing the surrounding skins up.
"IT HURDDDDS! WHAT HAS SHIDDY SANAE DONE! STOOOPPPPP! DON'T TOUCH DEIBU'S MISHTER FILLINGS YUGAAAHHHH—!"
Yukkuri Reimu struggled and rolled around on the ground, while its offspring watched in horror. It was grinding its body against the hard ground, trying to remove the mechanical parts, but they were already parts of its fillings and skin. Such actions only managed to tear apart some skins that remained untouched yet, exposing more clockworks and springs underneath.
It looked like the cleansing process was working quite well. Sanae listened with pleasure as the yukkuri shrieked in agony, its glass eyes swirling around the metal sockets with the frantic tickings of machineries.
Finally, the source of its Filth, the paste core that supported its life, would be cleansed of all wickedness. How beautiful.
"Just...want...to take id eajy..."
Clang. Tick tick tick.
In three minutes'time, this yukkuri Reimu was successfully converted to a metal statue made up of clockworks, still ticking and humming as the machineries continued to run.
"This is what happened when yukkuris seek after the bad easiness. If Reimu and Marisa decided to receive the Blessing and abandon your filthy bodies—"
Though Sanae was talking in its ever gentle voice, after witnessing their mother's death and the strange power of that gear, those ko-yukkuris freaked out as if they had seen a living nightmare.
"YUWAAHHH! Monster! D-don't come near Weimu! Weimu ish going to escape eajy!"
The two ko-Reimu were peeing all over themselves, and tried to writhe away in an extremely slow speed while the other two kos puffed up in a futile attempt to intimidate the yukkuri in front of them.
"B-Bawiza ish not afraid of shiddy Sanae, d-da ze!"
"DIE EAJY! The Great Mawiza ish going to punish weird yukkuri for killing mowmmie!"
It looked like none of those ko-yukkuris was suitable to receive the Blessing. Like their parents, they had drowned in their own Filth, being trapped in flours and fillings for too long to understand the truths. Thus, they could only be cleansed.
Sanae sighed again, and held the brass gear up high as one of the kos charged towards it.
-Five minutes later-
The last ko-yukkuri's body, or just a lump of growing clockworks and metals, was picked up and put down lightly beside the rest of its family members who had already be transformed into metal statues.
It was still a bit too young. With all the sharp gears and mechanical parts formed during the cleansing process, they had ripped apart its skin and turned the pieces into nails and metal foils—and it did not look like anything resembling a yukkuri now.
Those yukkuris who were blind to the Broken One had all gotten their punishment.
Sanae muttered a prayer to the sky, thanking the deity it believed in for cleansing the wickedness of those sinned yukkuris, and continued its journey among the river, towards the chosen clan in the North.
T.B.C