#and Yata proclaims his love while cradling his grumpy goose

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Somehow I imagine Fushimi as looking kinda like the goose from Untitled Goose Game XD So poor Yata is sent to visit the local wizard, which is a really bad idea because who can trust that guy. Say Yata's family is newly moved to this kingdom and they've heard that wizard Niki can be a fearsome foe if he's angered. Concerned about drawing his wrath Yata's mom thinks maybe it would be a good idea to give him some of their vegetables, just to make sure that he doesn't curse them out of spite or anything. Yata agrees, figuring that maybe a wizard's house will be filled with lots of cool stuff and he could even ask to learn some magic. As he's walking he runs into like this skinny nerdy kid sitting on a fence near the wizard's house, who warns him to turn back because the wizard is a dangerous person. Yata says he's just bringing some vegetables and how bad could it be, the kid shakes his head and says Yata's an idiot if he keeps going. Yata isn't going to be deterred though, continuing to walk forward even as the skinny kid shakes his head. Once Yata gets past the fence he turns around to yell that see he's still fine but the kid has disappeared and there's absolutely no sign of him even though there's no way he could've gotten out of Yata's sight so quickly.

Yata knocks on the door of this creepy-looking wizard house and Niki answers it, all pleased to have a fun new neighbor. He tells Yata to come inside, Yata finds himself hesitating for a moment as he remembers the kid on the fence warning him to turn back. Yata's not going to be a wimp though and he decides to go in, where Niki's got the whole place set up for some dark ritual. He says Yata's just in time, he needs a pure heart to complete this curse and Yata's just the person. Yata's definitely not down with this now, especially since the whole 'pure heart' thing sounds a lot like ripping his heart out of his chest. Niki laughs and says he's planning on cursing 'a monkey' but even that doesn't sound good and Yata decides it might be time to beat a retreat. He starts to back up as Niki tuts that it's rude to leave so quickly. Yata makes a run for it but as he reaches the door something hits him in the back and everything goes dark.

When Yata wakes up he's lying on the ground and there's no sign of Niki's shack anywhere. Yata sits up, feeling really weird and wondering what happened. He looks down and his hands are all weird, Yata runs to this nearby puddle of water and stares at his reflection. He's been turned into this weird dwarf (Yata's probably so pissed that now he's even shorter than he was before). Yata's kinda freaking out and he decides to run home, but as he's on his way there he keeps noticing that things have changed around the area. When he reaches his house it looks more ramshackle than he remembers and Yata hears voices he doesn't recognize. He climbs on some rocks in order to look in the window and there's his mom with a new husband and new kids, listening in for a while Yata manages to figure out that years have passed and his mom thinks he's dead. Yata feels like she won't recognize him even if he calls to her so he decides the only thing he can do is hunt down the asshole wizard who did this to him.

Yata heads into the nearest village and everything's changed, the townspeople are more subdued and they all look at him with suspicion. Yata overhears people talking about a missing prince and he wonders when that even happened, like King Munakata wasn't even married when Yata left home. He's turned away by every place he tries to go, none of the inns will take him and even the vendors won't sell him food because no one trusts supernatural creatures anymore. Desperate, Yata decides he's gonna have to steal something, though he isn't really feeling the idea of having to like kill and eat his own food. He spots this goose trapped in a cage behind one of the food stalls and decides to go for it, thinking well at least he can get some eggs out of this even if he doesn't want to kill the goose. Yata grabs the cage and runs as the merchant yells after him, even so Yata doesn't stop running until he's safely out of town.

When it's finally safe to relax Yata sighs and sets the cage down, like all right so how do I get eggs from this thing. The goose makes a sound a lot like a tongue click and calls him an idiot, like you can't get eggs from a male goose you absolute moron. Yata's torn between 'who are you calling a moron' and 'holy shit the goose just talked,' he's never met a talking goose before. The goose snorts that it's just his luck an idiot dwarf stole him, he was figuring out how to pick the lock of the cage when Yata ruined everything. Yata's like I'm not a dwarf okay this asshole wizard transformed me and the goose suddenly looks at him before cocking its head and being like 'Oh, it's you. I told you to turn back, idiot.'

Yata's like wait you know me and finds out that Fushimi is both the kid he met at Niki's and the goose. Fushimi is actually Niki's son, however one day after Yata was cursed he ran away and was found and adopted by King Munakata, which makes him also the missing prince. However Niki came after him and made him a goose and Fushimi has no idea how to turn back, he was going to try and hunt Niki down and kill him but that's kinda hard to do as a goose. Yata figures hey cool I can turn you in to the palace for a reward and Fushimi clicks his tongue again all I'm a goose you moron they aren't even going to let you in the door. Yata says he wants to find Niki too, in order to reverse the spell that's on him as well, admitting that he should've listened to Fushimi the first time and turned back. Fushimi's like that's the first smart thing you've said this whole time, Yata suggests a truce so they can find Niki together. Fushimi doesn't see what kind of help a dwarf will be and Yata's like 'I don't want to hear that from a goose, you know.' Fushimi reluctantly agrees and Yata lets him out of the cage, the two of them agreeing to be partners at least until they find Niki and get themselves turned back to normal.