O-Ohayooooo! It's me again, your best friend in the whole world, Yoko-chan! Boy, am I glad to see you again! I have a new story I wanna talk about!

I can tell you're already curious. Are you really that worried for Yoko-chan? Wondering who these other people next to me are? Don't try to deny it! Hehe...

Well, to ease your worries, let me give you some good news! I found a doctor! Yep yep, you can't stop Yoko-chan once she's put her mind to something.

Eh? That's inconsistent? Name one time I didn't do something I wanted to!

Eh? But th-

Eh? No, I-

Eh??? Okay, okay! You don't have to name so many! You're going to make me sad, and story time is happy time!

Soooo... okay, this time you couldn't stop Yoko-chan! Because she did find a doctor! After finishing my dinner from last time, I crawled back over to where I fearlessly defeated Mr. Scary Tall Guy. I thought about it and I think that taking broken wood from a stand doesn't count as stealing? Nobody was using it, and it was just going to be thrown away, so it's not stealing, right? Right! Anyway, wood makes a much better cane than paper! I tried seeing if I could whittle the piece of wood I took down to be more like a real cane, but I just ended up getting some spiky pointy splinters in my fingers for that, so I used it as is. It was perfect anyway! I still wobbled a lot, but it was way way way way better than before.

What was I saying? Why was I talking about a cane? Eh... Doctor! Yes, Yoko-chan was in dire need of a doctor! For multiple reasons! But how did Yoko-chan find a doctor in the middle of this big strange city, hm? Hehe, Yoko-chan has figured out a truly foolproof way to do it! There's lots and lots and lots of people in this city, right? Well, doesn't that mean that at least one of them is a doctor? It only makes sense! So, what if Yoko-chan tried asking people if they were a doctor? Right? Right? Isn't that a good idea? Yoko-chan is full of good ideas.

Okay, so it's hard for me to get people's attention. But if I try hard enough, I can usually get someone to look at me for a little bit. I went over to the nearest person and... well, they were too fast. I was still getting used to my cane, so I went for the next person to come by! I poked them in the shoulder to get their attention, but they didn't notice it and walked by. Then for the next person, I grabbed onto their shoulder! This time... Eh, Yoko-chan couldn't keep her balance when they didn't notice her and kept trying to walk by. I ended up bumping into their side and leaning on them a bit. But that's when they did notice me!

They looked at me! Now... this may be surprising, but Yoko-chan isn't very good at talking to real people. I'm good at talking to you, but that's just because you're imaginary. So when I had to ask them if they were a doctor, I got really nervous and froze up and couldn't think of anything to say except "doctor". It wasn't what I wanted to say, but I thought maybe they'd understand anyway!

Eh... I think the weird monster people in this world speak some kind of different language? When they answered me, they made this kind of loud screechy noise before pushing me off. It hurt my ears and my butt! Because I fell on it! My butt! And this kept happening! I would get someone's attention, ask them if they were a doctor, and they'd just make that noise again!

If people there only spoke in screechy shriek noises, then I had to go somewhere else. I hobbled around away from the big streets until I found more people to ask. They were kind of scary looking guys, but I didn't have anyone else to ask, so it was time to once again put on my famous Yoko-chan brave face! Thankfully, the first guy I talked to spoke Japanese! He almost looked human, but his face was way too pale to be normal. When looking at a cute girl like Yoko-chan, your face should be red! Anyway... I asked him doctor doctor doctor again and he pointed me in the right direction! He stuttered a lot, but I got the gist of it.

This city is super weird, because they have their doctor's offices really hidden away for some reason. I had to go down some stairs in an alley to get to it. It was a really small place too. Are doctors not getting paid enough by the government here? I got over to the receptionist and of course she didn't see me at first so I rang the little bell she had. She looked up from her desk, but she didn't seem to notice me again so I rang the bell a bunch. Finally she saw me! Then... eh... she made a screechy noise too and fainted. Kind of funny, because I do that when I get really scared. But Yoko-chan isn't scary! I tried to find a mirror, but all that was in there was this picture of a really creepy raggedy blood lady with a big wooden staff thing. It scared me a lot! I almost fainted too! Instead, I just ran away. I tried to hurry up the stairs, but I couldn't keep my balance trying to go fast so I ended up falling backwards. Thankfully I didn't hit my head again, because there was a trash can to cushion my fall!

It took... a long time to get myself out of there. We're going to skip that part because it's embarrassing and it's not the point of the story! I ended up getting a bunch of trash on me! And that's when it hit me! "Yoko-chan, didn't you just eat out of the garbage earlier? You didn't wash up after! The receptionist probably fainted because you're stinky!" Oh, it was an embarrassing time. I was stinky... And even more so with all that trash on me! I needed a place with a bath or running water, but I had no idea where the river was anymore. It was long long long gone. But that's okay! I have new favorite little trick, remember? I could just ask people if they knew where water was! Hehe, Yoko-chan can be a real genius sometimes.

I tried to find that really pale guy again, but him and all his buddies were gone when I got there, so I had to go back to asking random people. And that's when I saw it. Even more weird than most of the other monster people here, there was this... big umbrella hopping down the road! Like... wow!

Wow wow!

I've never seen anything like that! A living umbrella! But it gave me my second big brain moment of the day! A talking umbrella... has to know where water is, right? Blocking water is their whole job! It was too perfect to let go, so I bravely stood in the umbrella's way! It... It almost jumped on me. Almost. It landed right in front of me, which is way better luck than I usually get. I grabbed onto it before it could hop away and... Didn't know what to say. I think I ended up with "help"? Whatever it was, it got its attention! Unfortunately, Weird Umbrella Thing also spoke in screamy demon-ese, because it made a loud noise and hopped away backwards. But- But I couldn't let it get away! Who else would know where water was? If it didn't speak Japanese, I could just do charades!

I tried to catch up to Weird Umbrella Thing, but it was really fast for only having one leg! Yoko-chan... couldn't help but feel a little jealous of that. Anyway, I think it would have gotten away from me, but for some reason it made a big jump and landed on top of a bunch of demon ladies? It must have not been looking where it was going. Yoko-chan understands because she does that a lot. So I almost caught up with it and yelled out to Weird Umbrella Thing, and I heard it say "blood spirit" really loud and started hopping away again, which made me hurry up too. A blood spirit!? Like the one in that picture in the doctor's office! What if it climbed out of the picture and was right behind me!? Also, Weird Umbrella Thing did speak Japanese!?

So I hurried and hurried and hurried, and I even ran on my broken foot even though it made me cry from pain again because I really really really didn't want to get eaten by a scary blood spirit. It must have been really slow, though, because I kept crashing into things and Weird Umbrella Thing kept crashing into things and I don't think we made it super far. I finally caught up with Weird Umbrella Thing, but I tripped and fell just short of it. I had managed to grab onto its arm right when it was crouching down and suddenly I was in the sky!

The sky!

Like a bird!

Yoko-chan was flying!

Except not really. I think Weird Umbrella Thing jumped up really high that time to get away from the scary blood spirit and I accidentally hitched on for a ride. My main proof was how much my arms hurt. It was a lot. I think my shoulder got dislocated. And then I started screaming, and the Weird Umbrella Thing was screaming, and we started falling and falling and... well, Yoko-chan fainted again.

Can you blame me? I thought I was going to die! Squished on the ground like a big buggy! But... as you can see, Yoko-chan is alive! When I woke up again, I was floating on my back in water! My body hurt a lot a lot a lot, but I was alive, and there was water there. It was a bath house! I think we landed in the water from up above because I could see a hole in the skylight and there was some glass stuck to me. It must have been a weird demon bath too because all the water had this red tint to it. But water is water! Yoko-chan was finally able to get clean again!

I didn't get to thank Weird Umbrella Thing for helping me, but I feel like I could faintly hear his shrieky voice in the distance... and some angry women voices too I think? It might have been the wind from the broken skylight.

Anyway... eh... why was... There was a point to this story, right? I can't remember. Hm... I talked about the bath... and Weird Umbrella Thing... and the blood spirit... in the- the doctor! Right, the story is about the doctor's office!

After I got all clean, I managed to find my cane again and went back to the doctor! I almost got lost again, but there was this trail of blood on the ground from the blood spirit leading me right back there! Thankfully, there wasn't another trail going back or else I would have had to find another one and this whole story would have been pointless.

So I got back and rang the bell a bunch again and got an appointment right then! Poor doctors... They really must not have any patients if I was able to get in right away like that... Eh, I had to wave him down when he came to get me. Even the receptionist lost sight of me again, and I hadn't even moved! I got taken to the back and I told him about all my bad pains and my foot and my shoulder and my hands and my tummy and... I ended up crying some, but he was nice enough to not laugh at me for it!

He was really good! He said he was going to put me unconscious with a needle, but when he showed it to me, I... fainted again. I really don't like needles...

But when I woke up, I was feeling so much better! My foot felt good again! My hands looked normal! The doctor said I was a medical miracle or something, but I kind of missed the explanation when I was rubbing my hands together. Then he asked me something and I had to ask him to repeat it, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention so I had to ask again, and then it happened again... Well, he got a little mad at me and asked again in a loud voice how I was going to pay for the treatment.

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And that's when I remembered that I didn't have any money... I felt super bad... Their office clearly needed money and I didn't have a single yen to my name. I tried to explain it to him, and wanted to see how I could pay him back and... he pulled out that needle again and I fainted... again...

Eh...

And then I woke up here... i-in this big cage... with this collar... and these chains... with all these other people... and we're in a cart and they're taking us somewhere I don't know...

...I think they took my magic paper too, because I can't find it...

B-But... it'll be okay! Giving up is easy, but fighting on is always worth it in the end! Yoko-chan has always gotten through the bad times, and this will be just like that!

Thank you for listening to my story again! Now, eh, the others keep looking at me funny because I'm talking to you, so I'll see you next time!

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Oh! Wait! Yoko-chan's super power! I completely forgot! I could have used it on the blood spirit! Wait, can't Yoko-chan just blow up her collar? Eh... wait, no. That would blow up Yoko-chan too. Eh... then maybe the cage? No... That might hurt the other people in here. I don't want to hurt anyone...

Eh...

Is...

Is Yoko-chan's power to blow stuff up... really inconvenient?

Eh? The others scooted away from me...