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POV: A certain Yuki-onna

I found myself standing while a blizzard raged. I asked myself how long I had been here, then it hit me, I was “born” here not too long ago.

Even then though, for a person, or rather, a creature to be by themselves like this was simply too lonely. Perhaps, the fault is in me, a monster, having emotions at all. It just goes to show how we Yuki-onna were truly different from the other monsters. Not that I have met another Yuki-onna, of course. We were all waiting for the one destined for us, after all.

Yes, to wait for our destined partner was what our so-called instinct told us to do. To wait and wait until someone comes to be with us despite being monsters with cold, cold hearts. But when will that destined partner arrive for me? In a few minutes? In a few hours? Or…

I breathed out a sigh and it quickly turned into specks of ice.

What sense is there in any of this? No one will turn up here while this blizzard rages.

Being unnecessarily emotional, I started to leave. But then, at that moment…

“…!”

“Huh?”

I heard a voice come from somewhere.

When I turned toward the source, I noticed something red headed my way. That something was a man wearing western-style armor and holding a red umbrella.

“…one! I found one!”

Found one? Found who? …me?

I felt my heart skip a beat.

W-wait, that can’t be it, right? …yes, I should calm down. I should cool my head. It isn’t yet confirmed either way if this person will be the one to warm my heart. For all I know, this warrior is only here to slay me. Yes, that must be it. Monsters and humans just can’t exist in harmony. Just impossible.

I shook the sleeves of my white kimono and made the blizzard intensify. The fierce winds could fell even a large tree, yet that man pressed forward without slowing down.

Impossible…why isn’t he turning back and running away? Why are you still going forward with that umbrella? Is that…is that how much you want me? …! No! I can feel my face burning red! What am I, an innocent maiden who has never known love…I guess I actually am, but still! I shouldn’t let my heart go wild over something so simple! How shameless! Calm down, calm down. I can’t be jumping to conclusions here. First, yes, I have to confirm if he’s serious or not first! It all depends on that! So, here, take a Yuki-onna’s strongest sorcery!

“I’ll be there soon!”

“Kyun…♡”

The snow struck against the red umbrella and melted right away, allowing him to proceed undeterred. I felt some power from the umbrella, so it was likely a Magic Tool of some kind.

H-he’s using such a thing just to meet me…? How, how passionate! He wants to meet me that much!?

I was about to hit him with a gigantic icicle, but stopped. He was already a stone’s throw away from me. He still hasn’t drawn his weapon or used magic to attack. Instead, he removed his helmet and looked down at me.

He had a face that had no distinguishing characteristic. It was completely ordinary looking. And yet, I found it charming.

It finally arrived for me. My destined partner!

“Please! Become my familiar!”

“I will…husband…♡”

To all the other Yuki-onna, I apologize. I am going ahead of you and graduate out of the single life. No, truly, I apologize!

I took my husband’s hand, wrapped in iron gauntlets, and snuggled against it.

Kah! Is this the privilege a Yuki-onna gets when she finally gets a husband!? Kah!

The blizzard around us somehow grew stronger, but it wasn’t because of any sorcery of mine.

As I exited through the white gate, I also walked out of the hell known as bachelorhood along with my husband.

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POV: None

<<Hello, hello! Ladies and lords on the other side of the screen! I’m NOT the useless knight, I’m Low-tier Knight!! This time, instead of exploring a dungeon, I’m going to share information that’s going to be really helpful!>>

A girl clapped as she said so. Although her gauntlets only covered her fingers and not at all the most important places, her claps still made rattling sounds.

Next, she gestured with her hands to the one next to her.

<<Today, Chifuyu-chan and I will be explaining how to get your very own Yuki-onna familiar~!>>

<<Ye, hey>>

The camera showed an expressionless girl in white kimono doing a double peace sign pose.

<<Oops! I almost forgot! In charge of the camerawork is my Guardian Spirit Noel!>>

<<Dondondon, pafupafu!>>

<<Yup, as usual!>>

The camera turned around once to show a girl with drill-like, blonde hair and then another time to return to the Low-tier Knight.

<<Alright, this episode’s title is!>>

<<Doki doki ☆ Surefire way for anyone to make a contract with a Yuki Onna! ~Get your own fairy-tale-like, easy heroine~>>

<<…Chifuyu-chan. Are you sure you’re fine doing today’s video? I mean, the title alone can be quite triggering.>>

<<It’s not a problem. No problem at all.>>

<<Really?>>

<<Yes, trust me. Onee-chan.>>

<<Ahh! I can’t ever say no when you call me that! Well then, if you please, Chifuyu-sensei!>>

<<Let’s begin with the conclusion: Yuki-onna are easy women.>>

<<Wait, should you really be saying that…?>>

<<Of course.>>

Chifuyu, sitting in a red chair as though she was in a talk show of some kind, harrumphed and puffed out her flat chest.

<<What comes to mind at the mention of legends about Yuki-onna?>>

<<Let’s see. I’d say it’s about someone being visited one day by a beautiful woman and marrying said woman.>>

<<Yes, most legends about Yuki-onna go like that. And most of these stories are based on actual monsters.>>

<<How about the Yuki-onna we have today?>>

<<They’re the same. To be more precise, it’s just our kind’s way of life. So many Yuki-onna throughout history have barged into into human homes to become a wife that stories of them remain to this day.>>

<<Ho-ho. So you’re saying, to a Yuki-onna, marrying a human is like an end goal?>>

<<Yes. To be frank, Yuki-onna find continuously receiving magic power from one human to be a more efficient means of survival than to attack humans. This…shall we say, behavior tend to make Yuki-onna yearn for others on an instinctual level.>>

Chifuyu then raised her thumb toward the screen.

<<So, if a human approaches us all by themselves and declare they want to be with us, we’ll follow that human and we’ll be unable to think of anybody else. It’s true love at first sight. Hence, the conclusion that Yuki-onna are easy women.>>

<<Woo! What’s more, Yuki-onna are all beautiful! Of all kinds too! From loli-type to bombastic beauties, you can have whatever you want!>>

<<However, Yuki-onna also have a bit of a problematic personality, so there are two important points to remember. First is that we will not accept any position but the legal wife. We might allow one or two lovers, but if you cheat on us by making another your favorite or something, we are very much willing to commit a double suicide.>>

<<C-Chifuyu-chan? Your eyes are scaring me, you know~.>>

Stared at by the Yuki-onna, the woman in bikini armor slowly backed away while still sitting on her chair.

<<…but I believe in you, Onee-chan>>

<<Yes, I’ll bear that in mind, all the time.>>

<<Now, onto the second thing people must consider. In the beginning, we will test how serious you are by letting loose a blizzard at you through high level magic. So, if you are going to confess to us, you must prepare means to protect yourself from that. Moreover, if you get scared midway and turn your back on us, we’re going to hit you with the largest icicle we can muster.>>

<<Wait, doesn’t that contradict the idea that anybody can make a contract with Yuki-onna? At the very least, they sure don’t seem to be easy to get if there’s a chance one might die.>>

<<It’s fine. As long as people prepare proper heating and cold-resisting Magic Tools, they’ll have no problem.>>

<<You sure~?>>

<<Yes. You see, I want more people to form contracts with Yuki-onna and fall in love with them. It is my gift as a married person to those of my kind that are still single.>>

<<Ahm, Chifuyu-chan, you’re kinda taunting single people, you know. It’s not that some people can’t get married; they just made the choice not to. You shouldn’t lump them all together.>>

<<Please calm down, Onee-chan. You have a young wife in me, after all. You’re one of the lucky ones.>>

<<You’re right~…but have I told you about that awful phone call I got from my mom? She’s asking why she still doesn’t have any grandchild. She’s saying that my classmates have made families of their own, so where was mine and stuff.>>

<<There, there.>>

<<Ahhh~~~to be held by a girl with flat chest is so soothing…you spoil me…uuuuuu>>

<<Alright, before the majesty of miss knight here gets fully destroyed, let’s call it a day here! This is Noel, signing off! See you next time!>>

<<Uuuuuu…Chifuyu-mama>>

<<There, there. Wanna go night-night?>>

<<…oh no, where’s the camera’s power button…is it this one?>>

Due to a flood of protests like “making familiars out of Yuki-onna who look so much like humans is a complete disregard for human rights” and “what if this video inspires our youth to do dangerous, terrible things?”, this video was taken down the next day.

However, because a lot of people found the content to be interesting, they reposted the video here and there. Other countries’ magic research departments also archived the video as a valuable reference regarding monster behavior.

It should be noted that comments from overseas people on the video were mostly like this: “How are they easy to get”, “that’s just suicidal”, “don’t base it on Japanese standards of Awakened Ones”, and “this is just useless information”, to name a few.

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POV: Okawa Kyotaro

As it turns out, having a familiar came with a few rules.

Firstly, the familiar had to be registered in a municipal hall or in municipal hall counters in dungeons stores. It would seem that if they deemed the monster to be unsuitable to be a familiar, it would be refused registration. For those that have superpowers like [Familiar Contract], they were given the perk to skip some steps.

After that, one had to attend a 2-hour seminar in a dungeon store. There, legal repercussions and precautions regarding crimes that make use of familiars were taught, along with other matters.

…and yet, even with all of these, there still many who found it not enough. In the face of all the protests saying familiars were too dangerous, Minister Arikawa apparently pushed through all the way back when he was the prime minister. He was always arguing that “firepower was important in increasing an adventurer’s survival rate”.

I heard that he would for some reason argue while wearing his signature smile with just about everyone, even with members of his own party, when it came to dungeon-related matters. I didn’t really understand why he was going so far, but I was thankful nonetheless.

“So this is your room…”

“Sorry it’s so cramped”

I had finished the 2-hour seminar in the dungeon store and went home. When I got to my room, I asked Yukine, the Yuki-onna I formed a contract with, to materialize. Because monsters were composed basically of magic power, they could reside temporarily within their contractor’s body…or so I was told by Uoyama-kun. Don’t ask me how exactly.

“Not at all! It’s just that…I’m a bit embarrassed. Being alone like this…a-also, you don’t have to be so formal with me. We are husband and wife, after all…♡”

So cute.

Yukine had jet-black hair that was style in a hime-cut: it almost reached her waist and she had frontal fringe. She had blue, almond-shaped eyes. And despite wearing a white kimono typical of a Yuki-onna, it was easy to tell she had large breasts and a thicc butt.

I still felt guilty toward Layla, don’t get me wrong, but I was glad I formed the contract…!

In Japan, there were 12 dungeons where Yuki-onna were known to appear. One of those 12 was in the Iwate prefecture: the Powder-white dungeon.

While Rashasa—gigantic, red ogre monsters—also showed up in this dungeon, this dungeon was more known for the fact that if an Awakened One were to enter the place by themselves, one Yuki-onna and nothing else would show up.

I decided to go as soon as I learned of it, but…well, it was so far. Since I only had the weekends to make the contract, I did my first ever day trip. I even rode a bullet train for the first time.

The said dungeon was bizarrely bustling and even had a long line in its dungeon store. Which I suppose goes to show just how popular Yuki-onna were. Ever since that video, many adventurers have apparently come here to make the Yuki-onna here their familiars.

“What should we do next? Should I greet your parents? O-or are we going to use the bed right away!? It’s still so bright out for that though! But if that’s what you wish…♡”

“Ah..about that, I’m, I’m sorry”

“Sorry?”

“I realize it’s cowardly of me to tell you this only after we made the contract, but regardless, I need to tell you something.”

I broke into an intense cold sweat. A great deal of anxiety, nervousness, and guilt were assaulting me.

If no else was going to say it, I would: I was disgusting, the scum of the earth.

“Dear?”

When Yukine tilted her head with a blank expression on her face, I gulped down hard and began to speak.

“There’s actually someone else that I love.”

“……I see”

I felt like the temperature in the room dropped by 20 degrees all at once. It was the beginning of June and yet it felt completely like it was December already. While hiding her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono, Yukine closed her ice-blue eyes.

“I am not so narrow-minded of woman that I would make an issue with each and every mistress you have. Naturally though, I expect there to be a hierarchy, and that I as your legal wife am ranked higher than a concubine.”

“…Before anything else, I’d like you to meet her.”

Layla had repeatedly told me to let her talk to the Yuki-onna before anything else so that she could clear misunderstandings without fail. I knew it was rather pathetic that I couldn’t do the explaining myself, but I had faith in Layla. I mean, I couldn’t even guess where the misunderstanding might come from.

“Yes, I see. I have to make my position clear right at the start. Then, depending on how that goes, that woman…”

“Layla”

“Here!”

“……mm??”

When Layla appeared beside me, Yukine knitted her brows and the room’s temperature returned ever so slightly to normal.

“Ahm…dear?”

“Yeah?”

“Ahh, no, I didn’t mean the one over there…”

“So, me?”

“Y-yes, you, dear. What’s going on…?”

“Your guess is probably the right answer.”

Layla was smiling awkwardly while Yukine had her mouth agape.

…wait, did Yukine just called Layla dear?

“…hmmm, yes. So, the other woman my dear husband loves, is it you?”

“Yes…”

“Yes, hmm…”

There was an awkward silence in the room.

Ghh, I’m just the worst! Nothing but a womanizing piece of shit! …I knew it, I really should apologize and somehow get them to get along. At this rate, I’m going to be escorting Yukine back to the dungeon!

The moment I tried to say something though, the two of them nodded at one another and then smiled.

“Well, that’s how it is.”

“Understood. I am an open-minded wife, so I accept my husband’s special proclivities!”

“I’m glad to hear that.”

Huh? Don’t they seem so friendly?

“It’s done, master.”

“Huh!? Already!?”

I’m so confused!

I heard in that Low-tier Knight video that Guardian Spirits and Yuki-onna would never be hostile against one another. And even the witch-like Awakened One instructor in the dungeon store seminar assured me by saying “Guardian spirits? …ah, sure, it’ll be fine. Now then, please head back”.

…that said, that person did look like she was disgusted at me. She had a face that blatantly said “woah, what a pervert. I don’t want anything to do with this guy”. Well, that was only natural upon learning that I was a two-timer, I suppose.

“Husband. Layla-sama. May our relationship endure forever.”

“Ahh, yeah, I hope it does…?”

Yukine said so while bowing respectfully on the floor. In response, I hurried to kneel down myself and bow my head.

She seemed to have accepted the situation. So, all’s well that ends well, I suppose?

I had consulted beforehand with Layla and my friends. Kumai-kun expressed worry, but the other two only said things like “it’ll be fine so don’t worry” and “what you should be worried about, master, is your fetish”.

…by my fetish, was she referring to me being a boob enjoyer? I mean, that’s nothing special, isn’t it?

I also remember Layla muttering “Descendants…register at a sperm bank?”

I had no clue what she was on about. At any rate, we succeeded in increasing our party’s strength. Not that I view Yukine as nothing more than fighting strength, of course.

And as a man, I must take responsibility for her…! Part of that was giving her her own personal space. She could take on a spiritual form and reside in my body, sure, but still, having her own space was necessary. And of course, there’s that…I hadn’t found the right timing lately for that, so I had no reservation in asking Layla to make a certain Magic Tool that made use of the Minotaur’s horn. The Magic Tool would solve other issues too. The cost of materials for it was rather high, but I saw it as a necessary expense. I decided to explain the Magic Tool to Yukine later and introduce her to my parents first.

To be honest, I was reluctant in telling my parents about my misdeeds. There was a chance I might even get hit for it. And when my mom started crying, I was so wracked with guilt that my chest hurt.

“I’m sorry, mom…I know you didn’t raise me to be a two-timer…”

“No, it’s not that”

“???”

My mom was weeping while my dad was simply shaking his head.

Huh? What do you mean it’s not that?

“My son’s a narcissist and has a fetish for non-humans…!”

“Mom???”

What the heck is that supposed to mean?

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Name: Yukine

Race: Yuki-onna||Familiar(Contractor: Okawa Kyotaro)

Stats:

• Physical Strength: D

• Endurance: E

• Agility: B

• Magic Power: A

• Resistance: C

  
  

Superpowers:

• Ice and Snow Sorcery: at the cost of magic power, this allows the creation and control things like snow and ice

  
  

Notes:

• Okawa Kyotaro’s familiar. A beauty that has long black hair with straight bangs as well as ice-blue eyes. Despite having an appearance of someone who could be in the middle of her teens, she has an hourglass figure. Wears a white kimono.

• In truth, when Yuki-onna come into existence, they instinctively tend to materialize themselves to be within the preference of the human approaching them.

• When Yukine heard that Kyotaro, her contractor, was going to introduce another woman, she was on the verge of flying into a rage. However, when she found out that the other woman was his Guardian Spirit, she immediately became like the space cat meme. (宇宙猫)

• Being a monster, her method of distinguishing humans from one another is based more on their souls rather than their physical appearance. Hence her confusion when she met Layla. It was like Kyotaro came out to her with an absurd fetish.

  
  

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From this point on will be Chifuyu the Yuki-onna’s consultation corner. It’s not related to the main story and it’s rather long, so feel free to skip.

Q: Can you really call someone who opens with a high-rank magic attack to be an easy woman? Won’t I die?

Chifuyu: As long as you prepare enough Magic Tools and potions, you should be fine. In fact, no Japanese person has ever died using this method

Q: Does this mean I can make my own Yuki-onna harem!?

Chifuyu: Upon making a contract with one Yuki-onna, the others will conclude that you aren’t the one for them and will not bother appearing before you. For those that have a [Familiar Contract] superpower though, maybe there’s a chance for you?

Q: There are so many legends about Yuki-onna. Are they true?

Chifuyu: I would say the folklore about the Yuki-onna of old are a little off, but for the most part, yes, they’re accurate enough.

Q: Don’t most if not all of those folklores end with the Yuki-onna disappearing?

Chifuyu: In an age where magic power in individuals is weak, Yuki-onna had to make contracts with weak Awakened Ones or even non-Awakened Ones or their magic power would run out. However, because of love, they could not bring themselves to drain so much magic power that it would kill their partner. Most couldn’t bring themselves to find another partner either.

Q: Can Yuki-onna give birth to children? Some folklore say they sometimes do.

Chifuyu: That’s the part about the folklore that I said is off. We Yuki-onna cannot make new life…unless you factor in heretical arts and whatnot.

Q: What’s the difference between sorcery and magic?

Chifuyu: the process differ for each, but the results they bring about are basically the same. When sending an object, say a ball, to a faraway location, you can either throw or kick it, right? It’s like that. Frankly, the only ones who could notice the difference would be the mages themselves.

Q: Making your familiar your wife is creepy though!!

Chifuyu: You sure seem to have promise for something

Q: Kyotaro’s such a cheater! He’s the worst!

Chifuyu: Ahm, who is this Kyotaro? …breaking the fourth wall for a moment, but he’s a high school boy who is given the green light to cheat by his official lady and the other woman being who she is, it’s socially acceptable. Moreover, his libido and desire to survive have trumped reason and ethics. It’s mainly his desire to survive though. The more magical knowledge he gains, the more he understands how dangerous the world is.

Q: I’m also a Yuki-onna. My dear husband has introduced his Guardian Spirit to me as his other woman. I honestly don’t understand what he means…

Chifuyu: Among humans, there is a race called Hentai. As his wife, you must have a big heart and accept him for what he is. My own partner has a similar fetish, so I understand well your bewilderment.

Q:What kind of opinions might mages and monsters have about Kyotaro?

A: A dude who seriously calls his right hand his lover. Just a creepy guy.

Uoyama: Can he be even more of a deviant than I?

The witch-like Awakened One at the seminar: Woah…guys like this really do exist. That’s not what “having your right hand as your lover” is supposed to mean…there should be a limit to how much of a narcissist you can be.

The truth is, Kyotaro’s parents think more like the mages than he does. This was because they researched as much as they could when they found out their son was an Awakened One. As a result, they came to the conclusion that the said son was a “narcissist with fetish for non-humans”

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