The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 9.2

Soma and Pigmy

As Rin’ichirou was silently crying out in agony for Clara on the lowermost part of the cylinder, Clara was enjoying a friendly chat in the guest reception hall on the top floor. An abstract painting “Tableau” hung on the wall, and there was a potted plant in the corner with the most curiously large petalled flowers that thrilled her nose with their pleasant fragrance. A birdcage hung from one of the branches; a parrot with brightly patterned wings of purple and yellow titled its head and watched Clara with unmoving eyes. Exquisite instrumental music played from an electric gramophone set into the inner wall but Clara, despite being born in Germany and well-versed in music, did not recognise the beautiful symphony.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 9.1

Chapter Nine Separated

Skin Oven

Their feet hardly made any sound on the fleshy metal floors but Rin’ichirou, still cowering on the ground with his senses heightened, could tell that people were approaching.　

Had Clara returned?

Rin’ichirou was overjoyed until the door opened.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 8.3

Wrist Mike and Built In Cranial Earphone

“Alright, we have about an hour until we arrive. Let’s go up to the cabin,” said Doris once the introductions were finished with.

“I won’t leave Rin… I mean, I won’t leave this yapoo. It would be another story if he was healthy but I don’t feel right about it with him in this paralysed state…”

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 8.2

Appearance of the Three Aristocrats

While the ship was rising, the room had suddenly grown cool, perhaps due to some malfunction in the temperature regulation. The door opened from the outside and a beautiful woman jumped in. This was Doris. She was taller than her sister at over 180cm. Round blue eyes so deep in colour they almost looked black peeked out from under the brim of a polo helmet which did little to hide her luxuriant blonde hair. A sternness to her features and the masculinity of her countenance betrayed her perfect beauty but her red lips were lovely and sweet. She wore a striped polo shirt which hugged the curves of her chest. She was wearing the same thing she had been wearing when Clara had seen her on the television set an hour ago. She had forgone changing out of her polo practice outfit to more quickly board Glacier. Her legs had not been visible in the transmission earlier; they were clothed in riding trousers in the jodhpur style. She also wore boots and a whip had been put into the right one. Its handle was visible over the top of the boot. The whip was made of a pink leather with a deep lustre. Clara, who knew nothing of pegasus leather cleaned in the tears of shoe washers, felt that her own boots which had only recently been discarded to the side looked shabby like a beggar’s in comparison. To say nothing of the cloth her clothes were made of.

I’m so glad I changed like she advised me to. I would have been so embarrassed if they’d seen me dressed in those clothes and boots, thought Clara with a young woman’s relief and satisfaction.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 8.1

Chapter Eight The Earth Two Thousand Years Ago

Cylinder “Glacier”

Around one hour ago, while butterfly catching at the foot of the Taunus mountain range, two middle school students witnessed a disk-shaped object fall from the sky among the mountains and, spurred on by youthful curiosity, they began to climb the mountain path at once. They had stopped for no particular reason and were looking ahead at the sky when it happened.

Suddenly, as if appearing out of nowhere, a large tube-shaped object was suspended in the air. It was completely cylindrical, about thirty metres in diameter at its round base and with a height of one hundred metres. Its shape would remind a Japanese person of a tea caddy. It hung vertically to the earth, absolutely still with no windows, its orange body gleaming in the sun.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 7.4

First Use of a Setteen

Behind Pauline’s oshicko order lay this extensive cultural history. To Pauline the word was simply a command to stand but to the setteen it was a signal to drink. Rin’ichirou heard it as oshikko, the childish word for urine in his native Japanese, while to Clara it was as good as nonsense.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 7.3

The Story of a Certain Setteen

This setteen is already 38 years old. It has been deformed in its current way since its birth 38 years ago in the yapoonery on Aporto; after birth, it immediately underwent surgery for body remodelling. After it matured, its right lung was removed so that the empty space could be thoroughly utilised by the stomach. As all the other setteen with it were shaped the same, it had no awareness of being disabled or deformed. At 3 years old, when its infancy – the time when it could use its suction lips to play ended, but while it still had its individuality, a circulator having not yet been attached – ended, it was entered into school.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 7.2

The Word “Oshick”

The scolded setteen turned towards Clara and quickly approached her. As it did, though, she drew back in disgust. Pauline saw this and surmised the reason behind the action.

“Oh, I see. You’ve never used a setteen before, I suppose. There’s really nothing to it.” As she was speaking, she made up her mind. “I’ll even show you how to use it.”

She lowered her gaze, and in a strict tone, called, “come on in,” to the setteen. She spread her legs wide.

Lowly and pointedly, she ordered, “Oshicko.”

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 7.1

Chapter 7        The First Experience

A General Outline of Yapoon

The dwarf that appeared out of the wall was a standard setteen that came from the SC (Setteen’s Closet). If the flying saucer had been Pauline’s alone, it would have had a setteen dedicated to her; but as other members of the Jansen family also used this vehicle, a common use unit was installed. She could, of course, have it swapped out for her own personal model when she rode the flying saucer but Pauline wasn’t the sort to be hung up on such things and so used whatever was on board.

The Domestic Yapoo – Chapter 6.3

Standard Setteen

Factoring in the early days, customs associated with the use of setteen have a history of over 1500 years in EHS. No matter which planet or continent you go to within the current empire, individual rooms are all equipped with personal toilets; standard-size communal toilets are seen everywhere in guest rooms, space ships, gathering places, etc., but it took a long time for these to be popularised and for the convenient standard setteen to be created.