[Yusuke looks and sounds surprised. Well. That's kinda strange. Then again, he is talking to a dog right now (albeit a pretty smart one), so maybe he shouldn't expect her to understand everything he's talking about. It probably doesn't help that nobody seems to die around here in the first place.]
Okay, basically, the Grim Reaper's kinda like the personification of death. When you die, the Grim Reaper comes to collect your soul and take you to the afterlife. He's usually depicted as this skeleton in black robes who carries a bigass scythe around, so, y'know, it's pretty understandable that the guy was surprised to find out that the Reaper's actually a girl with an annoying voice and a huge rack.
[Yusuke didn't expect Steve to get so fired up, but he waits until she's gotten it out of her system before he goes on. It would've been nice to have someone tell him something like that, he thinks. Back then, that is, before he ended up on the wrong end of somebody's bumper. Would've saved him a lot of grief.]
Like I said, the Spirit World's where you go after you die. And Enma's the one in charge of running the place, as well as the guy responsible for deciding whether you go to Hell or Heaven. He's kinda like the Grim Reaper in that you see him all the time in paintings and movies and video games and stuff, so when the Reaper took the guy to Spirit World to talk to him about the resurrection trial, he was expecting to meet this big, ugly, corrupt rat bastard with long pointy teeth and huge beady eyes who thinks just because he's got a lot of power that means he can screw over whoever he wants!
[Yusuke's tone of voice becomes progressively louder and more vehement the more he describes King Enma. By the time he's done, he looks irritated as hell. Does he have some, uh... strong feelings about Enma? You better believe he does. That guy has earned himself a permanent slot on Yusuke's shit list, which is a more difficult feat than one might expect.
That said, it does occur to him a second or two later than it really ought to've that he probably shouldn't be letting it get to him right now, and so he forces himself to calm down, proceeding a bit sheepishly afterwards.]
... but uh, that's not how it worked out. Instead, when the Reaper took him into King Enma's palace, he met this little kid. Like, this really, really little kid. Couldn't've been more than two years old, or so the guy thought, which was why he totally laughed his ass off when he found out that that was the person he was supposed to be meeting. I mean, c'mon, how the hell could the Spirit World be run by a toddler? The kid hadn't even stopped teething. 'Course, when he said that, the Reaper slapped the hell out of him, and then the kid said...
[Yusuke pinches his nose and pitches his voice up high again. Looks like the Reaper's not the only one getting a goofy voice. This one's just more nasal and annoying. You're welcome, Koenma.]
"Actually, I'm the son of King Enma, and I'm about a gajillion years old, so WEEEH."
[Yusuke lowers his hand and gives the camera a dry look.]
Now, why in the hell it takes a gajillion years for somebody to graduate to a booster seat, I've got no frickin' clue, and neither did the guy, but before he could ask, the, uh...
[... what does he call Koenma. He can't keep saying "kid", because that was the little boy. "The Prince", maybe? It feels weird as hell to call him that, but for the sake of the story, he'll roll with it. It's not like Koenma's here to find this and give him shit for it.]
The Prince of the Spirit World said, "So you're here to ask about your trial, right? Well, here--"
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[Yusuke looks and sounds surprised. Well. That's kinda strange. Then again, he is talking to a dog right now (albeit a pretty smart one), so maybe he shouldn't expect her to understand everything he's talking about. It probably doesn't help that nobody seems to die around here in the first place.]
Okay, basically, the Grim Reaper's kinda like the personification of death. When you die, the Grim Reaper comes to collect your soul and take you to the afterlife. He's usually depicted as this skeleton in black robes who carries a bigass scythe around, so, y'know, it's pretty understandable that the guy was surprised to find out that the Reaper's actually a girl with an annoying voice and a huge rack.
[Yusuke didn't expect Steve to get so fired up, but he waits until she's gotten it out of her system before he goes on. It would've been nice to have someone tell him something like that, he thinks. Back then, that is, before he ended up on the wrong end of somebody's bumper. Would've saved him a lot of grief.]
Like I said, the Spirit World's where you go after you die. And Enma's the one in charge of running the place, as well as the guy responsible for deciding whether you go to Hell or Heaven. He's kinda like the Grim Reaper in that you see him all the time in paintings and movies and video games and stuff, so when the Reaper took the guy to Spirit World to talk to him about the resurrection trial, he was expecting to meet this big, ugly, corrupt rat bastard with long pointy teeth and huge beady eyes who thinks just because he's got a lot of power that means he can screw over whoever he wants!
[Yusuke's tone of voice becomes progressively louder and more vehement the more he describes King Enma. By the time he's done, he looks irritated as hell. Does he have some, uh... strong feelings about Enma? You better believe he does. That guy has earned himself a permanent slot on Yusuke's shit list, which is a more difficult feat than one might expect.
That said, it does occur to him a second or two later than it really ought to've that he probably shouldn't be letting it get to him right now, and so he forces himself to calm down, proceeding a bit sheepishly afterwards.]
... but uh, that's not how it worked out. Instead, when the Reaper took him into King Enma's palace, he met this little kid. Like, this really, really little kid. Couldn't've been more than two years old, or so the guy thought, which was why he totally laughed his ass off when he found out that that was the person he was supposed to be meeting. I mean, c'mon, how the hell could the Spirit World be run by a toddler? The kid hadn't even stopped teething. 'Course, when he said that, the Reaper slapped the hell out of him, and then the kid said...
[Yusuke pinches his nose and pitches his voice up high again. Looks like the Reaper's not the only one getting a goofy voice. This one's just more nasal and annoying.
You're welcome, Koenma.]"Actually, I'm the son of King Enma, and I'm about a gajillion years old, so WEEEH."
[Yusuke lowers his hand and gives the camera a dry look.]
Now, why in the hell it takes a gajillion years for somebody to graduate to a booster seat, I've got no frickin' clue, and neither did the guy, but before he could ask, the, uh...
[... what does he call Koenma. He can't keep saying "kid", because that was the little boy. "The Prince", maybe? It feels weird as hell to call him that, but for the sake of the story, he'll roll with it. It's not like Koenma's here to find this and give him shit for it.]
The Prince of the Spirit World said, "So you're here to ask about your trial, right? Well, here--"