Satori gets pranked

Kogasa chuckled sinisterly (or, as sinisterly as someone like her could chuckle). She had devised an extremely new, advanced, complicated, extravagant, and elaborate surprise method, that she was more than excited to try out. She held no doubt that whatever unfortunate soul crossed this path would have the fright of their life! "Fufufu, the great Kogasa hopes she doesn't scare them to death with this!" Oh, whoever the poor soul was unfortunate enough to experience this technique was sure to go back and tell others, and spread the great fearsome legend of Kogasa. Today she would become a legendary youkai!

Kogasa lowered herself in the bushes. Here came two victims now. Two people in fact, a twin-braided girl, accompanied by a girl with short pink hair, and some... strange floating badge or something? Oh well, Kogasa didn't need to get today's fashion. "Now then, prepare to be shocked eternally!" She thought, and braced herself...!

The two girls continued on their path, before, the pink one stopped her companion. "Careful Orin. There's someone in the bushes."

E-eh! Kogasa was surprised herself. How was her infallible disguise foiled? Her hiding place was perfect! Well, there was still-

"Also watch out, there are decoys intended to frighten us set to a trap over there."

Ah? Ah? Ahhh! How did they know of her decoys!? They were going to deliver the second scare! Well, there was still hope for-

"Look out for the pitfall trap in front of us too Orin."

No! No! That's not fair! Her perfect plan was crumbling, but how? She had put so much effort into it! It was going to be her grand master youkai scare tactic plan! She even rated it a 5 scare plan herself! Maybe she could still salvage this by-

"Listen, I can read your mind and predict anything you'll do next. There's no hope in surprising me, so you might as well just come out now, alright?"

"...BEROBEROBA" Kogasa made a hail-mary attempt, and jumped out as quick as she could, licking the mean pink-haired girl with her umbrella.

"La-Lady Satori!!!" The feline girl cried.

"ACK-Really? I tell you you won't surprise me and you try to anyways? That defeats the whole point!"

Kogasa pouted to her. "It's not fair, I put so much effort in this scare plan and you cheated! How am I supposed to surprise you if you read minds miss?!"

"For your information," Satori wiped her face of the umbrella's saliva with a cloth her assistant thankfully had on her. "Your attempt to surprise us wasn't foiled by my mind-reading. First of all, that 'bush' your hiding behind is just a cheap wooden sign with green paint. And your purple umbrella still sticks out from behind it. Why even make a fake bush when there are plenty of bushes further down the road?"

"I had already dug the pitfall trap, and I realized I dug it too far away." Kogasa admitted. In her defense, she thought she did a good job painting a bush.

"Yes, and the pitfall trap." Satori walked up to it. "You do realize a pitfall trap needs to be covered right? Otherwise, it's little more than a hole. No one would run over one."

"W-well when the decoys frightened them after I frightened them, they would be so panicked they would!" Kogasa defended.

"Are these supposed to be the decoys?" The cat girl asked, pointing to three watermelons hanging from trees, with white napkins stapled to them. "How is fruit a decoy?"

"Th-They're supposed to be floating ghost heads! Realistic blood and all!" Kogasa had asked Seiga if she could borrow real ones but was turned, so she had to make due. She thought these looked realistic and bloody enough. Tears formed in her eyes as she looked down to her feet. "I-I worked really hard on this surprise, it was supposed to be petrifyingly scary! You're telling me it wasn't scary in the slightest?"

Satori looked down at the umbrella girl and began to feel a bit bad. Satori youkai already had a poor reputation up here, and this probably wasn't helping. She was supposed to be up here working on a case anyways, not making young girls cry. "Nope, not sca-" Her cat assistant began, before Satori interrupted her.

"Alright, I'll admit it; your trick didn't work because I cheated." Kogasa looked up. "If I wasn't a mind reader, you would've scared us really bad." Kogasa perked up, and wiped her eyes with her sleeve.

"O-Of course, I knew it! This plan was too scary to not work, only a cheater would be able to see through it!" Satori wasn't keen on being called a cheater, but it was better than most of the alternatives. And she supposed it was a bit true.

"Just, make sure to cover up your pitfall trap properly for the next person. That really won't work if it isn't covered."

"Alright, you got it miss..."

"Komeiji Satori!"

"Miss Komeiji Satori! As thanks for your constructive criticism, the great Kogasa will spare scaring you in the future."

"That would be appreciated, my heart is too weak to handle being scared." Satori waved goodbye as she continued down the path, the umbrella girl having rapidly changed her emotion from verge of crying to beaming with pride. "Come along now Orin, we've still got places to investigate."

"O-Of course Lady Satori!" Orin gave a small introduction to Kogasa before rushing over to join her master. "... These surface youkai are a bit strange aren't they?"

Satori smiled as she continued down the path. "Yes, but we need to try and be considerate. I've been told I'm a bit too cold anyways, so hopefully we can build some good karma with this good de-GAAAH"

Orin and Satori stumbled as they fell down into a deep hole. "Wh-What!?"

"Aaah, sorry!" A voice shouted from above. "That was my practice pitfall trap, I forgot I made that! I'll get you out!"

"WHY WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR PRACTICE ONE COVERED BUT NOT YOUR MAIN ONE?!"

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Pub: 17 Dec 2021 14:56 UTC
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