910 Escaping Leg

    Everyone regards Shirley as a normal girl, but Shirley insists that there exists something uncommon of herself. She believes her body cheats her, and she isn't the true boss of her body. Shirley's body needs Shirley to led it to survive, but it also manipulates Shirley very subtly and always avoids Shirley finding that. However, Shirley has a plan, she wants to force her body to emerge out of the curtain.

    Shirley notices that her hidden manipulator sometimes will bypass her to activate some of her body parts when she is in danger, and in such case, her body will "turn off" her to let things go through naturally so that Shirley always can't catch the mastermind.

    This time, Shirley decides to torture her lower half. She bends her left leg very hard and stretches her right leg out-- she wants give it a chance. Suddenly, Shirley feels asleep, she knows her body is going to turn off her again.

    However, an alarm activates a device to shock Shirley's body one minutes later. Shirley's body calls back her for coping with the crisis instantaneously. When Shirley opens her eyes, she sees her right leg standing alone in front of her.

    Her right leg can't come back immediately, so her body can't hide the truth this time. Shirley shows her hand to her body. She doesn't know what her body will do to her next...

704 Captured Flying-Head Monsters

About flying-head monsters(FHM), please read
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/903-flying-head-monsters-there-are-some.html
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/904-flying-head-monsters-b-not-all-of.html

    Flying-head monsters usually possess huge potential of magic power, so many bad guys try to capture and control them. Sabina is such a pitiful case. A wicked witch kidnapped Sabina many years ago. She envied Sabina's beauty and energetic young body, and she wanted to own that. For her purpose, the witch developed a method for controlling and manipulating FHMs.

    A FHM has the special surreal relation between her headless body and flying head such that she can keep herself in one. The wicked witch found the relation, and she created a spell for forcing that relation to emerge from non-realistic dimension as a visible connection in the reality. For FHMs, that's such an insulting skill that can be used to deny their unites of their existences. The witch's spell will downgrade each of them from one proud FHM to a combination of two separable and interchangeable modules with wire-like connections, like the turret and chassis of a tank.

    However, miserable Sabina can't resist that witch, she even doesn't know that she has been controlled--

    The wicked witch hates her own aged body parts, and she stores them in magical vessels. Usually she just lets her brain act-- her brain had been reformed and fused with useful tissues gotten from supernatural beings. When she wants to manipulate Sabina, she will cast the spell on Sabina, and flies to Sabina's connection. The witch's "hyphae" will touch Sabina's connection and pick transmitted data from it. She will absorb, convert, or fake up Sabina's data between her mind and heart.

    When the witch "enjoys" Sabina's data flow, she can pretend herself as Sabina. She shares Sabina's experience, emotion, affection, and feeling. The witch erases her appearance from Sabina's mind, so Sabina never senses her existence.

    Sabina also doesn't know herself as a flying-head monster, she just regard herself as a human girl that has some magical power. Though she doesn't know her own truth, Sabina often feels that there somehow exists a weird gap inside her. Her self-cognition is just pieced out from nonsense fragments. Sabina doesn't know why...

PS. The witch has another FHM as her servant. She "materialized" the poor FHM's head to be a device used to receive her instructions.

113c The Disappearance Of Black Cat (III)

Previous episode:
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2015/05/113b-disappearance-of-black-cat-ii.html

    As Mei-Xian's recapturing and reconstructing of herself went on (http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2015/01/112d-you-raise-myself-up-iv-episode-123.html), some mutations happened to Huang Ru-Jun. She became aware of her difference with normal people--

    Recently I have a strange feeling. I doubt that I am not just what I think I should be.

    For example, what is this?

    Yeah, it's my torso, I know. But that's not what I mean. I say, I don't really understand it. "My torso" implies it's not me, just a physical part of my body, like spare parts to a machine. However, ridiculously, I do know it's me, and I don't know why.

    When I "observe" my torso, it always acts so robotically such that I think I can find wires and springs from it, but that's it's mask. I am there, not "here". I was generated from the deepest place inside my torso and projected to "here".

    Well, dear myself, if you want to disguise yourself as a biological machine, then I shall open your hatch and click your critical button; if you want to pretend to just be a normal girl Huang Ru-Jun, then I will dig you out of you! I will dismantle you, manipulate you, research you then alter you, till I find my true heart inside you.

    I, give me back to me! I, come out from Huang Ru-Jun! Right now!
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    ............

    What's happened?

    Wow, okay, I know, I already know. Surrounding me, I know there are two realities. Well, that's good.

    When I look at "this side", I will see those imperfect components of me as Huang Ru-Jun showing in front of my eyes, like my silly face, foolish wide head, short legs with bad shape and vulgar feet; however, when I turn back and look at "another side", I can find "another me" there.

    Another me is totally different with this me. That me is taller and slimmer and has a exquisite figure. She is smart, mighty and elegant; she is the one who I want myself to be and waits for me to be her.

    Oh, yes. How can I forget it? That me, her name is Black Cat. I am Black Cat, the mighty witch!

    Welcome back, I.
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    The property of Black Cat had transformed most of Huang Ru-Jun, only her legs remained on the original reality temporarily. Black Cat was watching those legs from another reality.

    I must say sorry to you, legs. I can't admit you as my legs easily; in fact, I even don't want to admit that I have legs.

    That's not your fault, it's mine. I used to view you as the symbol of Huang Ru-Jun, the real but not perfect me. Such that, I put all my unwanted properties into you, and pretend that you're just Ru-Jun's legs.

    However, that's not correct.

    Ru-Jun's legs bear me to exist in the real world, Ru-Jun's feet touch the Earth for connecting me to the rerality. I have to appreciate you, thank you very much.

    You, Ru-Jun's legs, carry Ru-Jun so well, I have seen. Now Ru-Jun is also Black Cat, so please let me take you two to be Black Cat's legs, all right?

    I love you, my legs, Alisa & Siren.
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    Black Cat had taken her entire self back to the reality she exists. She checked each of her own components, and she perceived that those components were all converted form Huang Ru-Jun's. How could she disdain Huang Ru-Jun since she was composed of Ru-Jun's parts? No Huang Ru-Jun, no Black Cat.

    Considered about that, Black Cat decided to "take off" the Black Cat's property from her components before she reformed herself, and then she reassembled those Ru-Jun's parts to be her. That was, Black Cat wanted herself to be Ru-Jun first while she came back to her original reality agin. She shrunk her Black Cat property into her core, the black cat (http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/black-cats-pseudo-family-black-cat.html).

    I am Black Cat, but I am just the normal girl Huang Ru-Jun now-- even not the "improved" Huang Ru-Jun in this original reality.

    Honestly, I really feel uneasy to be this Ru-Jun, especially when I already recall that I am Black Cat. Being Ru-Jun, I know it's my desire that drives me to become Black Cat to escape from this imperfect normal girl; but even I can be Black Cat, I'm still Huang Ru-Jun.

    I must make up with my real self. Sorry Black Cat, please embrace me even though you don't like how I am; sorry Ru-Jun, please forgive me since I despise you even though I come from you.

    I am so glad to meet you, my dear self, Black Cat/Huang Ru-Jun. Thank you for being me.

113b The Disappearance Of Black Cat (II)

Previous episode:
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2015/04/113a-disappearance-of-black-cat-i-about.html

    Hello, my name is Huang Ru-Jun, a normal 17 years old girl, as normal as you can find everywhere. Although I am a Chinese Taoyundaonian, my family inhabit the Japanese zone from many many years ago. I can speak both Cantonese-Chinese and Japanese, but I score higher in Japanese, and most of my best friends are also Japanese. Sometimes I have the feeling that I am actually a Japanese, though I am not, haha. After all, I'm a Huang, not a Suzuki or Tanaga. My name always shows the difference between I and my friends...

    I am a high school girl, and I study in the Catholic Hanahara girls' high school of home economics-- the school that can be considered as a school for disciplining brides. Well, I'm not smart enough to go to the college. Besides, I have a Catholic family, so it's so natural for my parents to send me into a Catholic school. Of course, I am a sincere Catholic Christian, too. My parents teach me that I shall make myself to be faithful and pure from my childhood, and they help me carefully to keep the Spirit in me.

    However, as a Christian, I still have some surreal imaginations and illusions which aren't that Christian. For example, I have the feeling that there does exist witches and wizards, I don't know why. The weirdest illusional feeling of mine is that sometimes I can "leave" myself, I can observe myself outside me. The scene is so realistic such that I can't judge whether it is true or not.

    In such case, I can see my entire body, and I'm not sure that it is mine. I know that it is Huang Ru-Jun, but what is the Huang Ru-Jun to me? The Huang Ru-Jun consists of short limbs, thick shanks, chubby torso and broad hip, and other things like that. To me, I feel those components of Huang Ru-Jun don't just have their physical meanings, they also form the existence of Huang Ru-Jun.

    I can see this Huang Ru-Jun while she is walking, eating, talking, and even looking at herself. Humph? You say go to the toilet? Oh, don't mention that, please. Can you image the feeling of seeing some ugly thing coming out of your own body? That's very uncomfortable! The most incongruous feeling happens in the time when I go to church. I can see myself when I knee down and pray to the God. I am so religious and joyful when I enjoy the grace of God, and I do know it. But... maybe it's somehow unrespectful to say that, but when I see my heart is given away to others, even it's given to the Father, I still can't feel reconciled about it. I have the subtle emotion of wanting to grab my heart and bring it back to me. That's an incorrect emotion I know, but I can't stop it. Every time when I meet such case, I always cry hard. Dear Father, please forgive me...

    Okay! Stop talking about sad things. Had I said anything about my virtual friend? Sometimes I feel I do see a pair of disembodied legs around me. Those legs are blessed and empowered, they belong to a faithful holy lady, though I don't know who she is. I feel that she should be my best friend, if she really exists.

    Those legs can be the weapon for breaking the evil, can be the crucifix for protecting the good. Their owner is a kind and determinded, she devote herself to expel the demon, and she take care of me very gently. Perhaps she is an imaginary friend of mine, but I cherish our relation very much. If one day I can meet her, I will say thank you very much to her.

    Moreover, I even can see my parts while I still "stick on" myself-- I think those are my parts, don't ask me why. Those parts aren't in the same form of existed ones. For exmple, my virtual legs become long and slim, they are much more beautiful than my real legs.

    It seems that those virtual parts of me can act somehow autonomously. Very strange, isn't it? I will view those virtual parts as parteners of forming me if they are true. They support me in every aspect. It will be my honor of being the one who consists of them. Hey! Parteners! I am so pround of you all, can you come true one day?

113a The Disappearance Of Black Cat (I)

About the witch Black Cat and her real identity Huang Ru-Jun (黃 如君), please read:
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/the-wonderful-island-where-tales-began.html
http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/the-filthiest-holy-lady-and-her.html

    While Black Cat's legendary mother, Li Mei-Xian, was experiencing her most weird and torturous event if her life (http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2015/01/112a-you-raise-myself-up-i-about-li-mei.html), something was also happening to Black Cat suddenly. She anxiously found her complicated but intergraded properties was suffering deformation and dissolving gradually, and she couldn't do anything about that.

    "What's... what's happening to me? Oh, I feel I am being denied by... MYSELF?" Black Cat groaned. She also felt that bad thing happened to her mother, though she didn't know it completely. The connection from the surreal conceptual property of great graceful Taoist Li Mei-Xian to the surreal conceptual property of elegant mighty witch Black Cat was cut because Li Mei-Xian had been changed.

    In fact, Black Cat is not the true nature of her existence. It(the property of Black Cat) was created by will and bsed on those concepts delivered from the existence of "this" Li Mei-Xian. Now, the concept of the normal girl Huang Ru-Jun was taking herself back from Black Cat.

    Black Cat's components was split up and being transformed. Her symbol, the Gothic black dress, was "smeared" by the reality. Some transformed pieces of her started to be projected into the new reality.

    "So... Well, I know, I am rejected by my true self, right?" Black Cat murmured. All her components were transformed in to Huang's and reassembled into the normal girl in the new real world. Black Cat was going to be gone with her internal word (http://taoyundao.blogspot.tw/2014/05/black-cat-alone-part-witch-black-cat-is.html).

    "Understand. I always consider Huang Ru-Jun as my unnecessary property. However, I, Black Cat, is truly the unwanted one, right?" Black Cat smiled sorrowfully. The girl Huang Ru-Jun is way too ordinary. Her figure is a bit short and chubby, , her mind is not modest enough, her head didn't keep a lot of meaningful knowledge, her dress sense is somehow tacky, and her limbs are thick and rough. The girl didn't like those characteristics of herself at all, so she made herself to be the elegant witch Black Cat, but finally the witch Black Cat didn't like the girl Huang Ru-Jun in-itself. When Huang Ru-Jun was covered with Black Cat, she considered herself as Black Cat and denied the Huang Ru-Jun. Today, Huang Ru-Jun would come back, and Black Cat would disappear.

    "??? What... This is... me?" Huang awoke in the new reality. To her, the reality is continuous, and Black Cat never exists. She looked at her body parts coriously, just like she had never seen them...

501 Magical Android: Creating Myself

    Kuo Su-Fen(郭 淑芬) is a magical android, but her best friend Peng Hao-Dong didn't believe it. One day, Su-Fen  invited Hao-Dong to her home.

    "Hello, Su-Feng. I'm coming... Wow! What the hell? You... you're..."
 
    "Hi, Hao-Dong, don't be afraid, I'm fine."

    "But!... You... Oh my god! What happened to you!?"

    "I am improving myself. As I told you, I am a magical android."

    "Magical android! Okay! I know it's true now! But who built you? You live alone!"

    "No other one who built me, I was created by myself."

    "Hey! Come on, not again! How could you create yourself before your birth? that's totally nonsensical!"

    "Hao-Dong, you don't believe me again. You see, my function had been ceased, and I was dismantled for modifying. But I am still talking to you, and that's me who is modifying my own self. So, why couldn't I build me?"

    "Oh~ Su-Feng, you confuse me totally! My head aches!"

    "Well, let me explain. When I decided to build myself as a human girl, I came back by a transience before my birth, and I had my existence so that I could start to build me. As I made new portion of me, I was also being changed. The process was very exciting and comfortable. For example, during the forming of my head, my mind had been enhanced step by step as I constructed my brain more completely, and it would feed back to make me more capable to build myself. I especially enjoyed making of my heart! The progress made me feel subtle emotions and warm affections gradually, and finally I have such a delicate wonderful heart!"

    "That sounds reasonable... Wait, before your birth, what were you?"

    "I was nothing before my birth."

    "NOTHING?"

    "Yeah."

    "Err.. All right, I got it, though not completely. So, why do you let me to know your secret and show me your truth?"

    "Hao-Dong, that's not a secret for you XD. I want to let you know what I really am. You are a special one to me. Besides, haven't I told you that I am improving myself? I will like you to join, let's improve me together!"

    "Let me join you for improving you? What do you expect for that?"

    "I...I... Well, I expect you for making me as the girl that you will like >_<! You can assist me with reshaping my face, my legs, my arms, my torso; or my head, my heart, everything that you want my parts to be. Then please reassemble those parts you like to be a new me by your hands. This time, I want to be the wanted girl created by you, your lover that you make XD!"

909 Fake Angel, Hat Monster

Story contributed by Al Naga

    On the Island of Taoyundao, there are magical items available for sale, but one should be careful. Some items are cursed, cruel practical jokes by the spellcasters on that island that sometimes fall in the hands of the unwary. Sometimes the items are not just cursed, but malevolent...

    A-Ya was a young girl fresh off the boat from Taiwan who was recruited for a her new job at a local bird sanctuary. A-Ya loved birds, and often fantasized about flying like them. As she headed for her new job, she noticed all the women on the island either wore hats or covered themselves with parasols from the hot sun that beat down on the tropical island. The island of Taoyundao had appealed to her, as she heard it was much like her native Taiwan as it did not lack for any tech available in her own home country, except in a much more tropical climate. But A-Ya wasn't prepared for this hot rays from the sun, even though she had taken precautions to protect her sensitive skin with sun screen.

    There a booth on the street that was covered with parasols, which showed A-Ya an convenient solution to her problem. The spoke to the store keeper at the booth and quickly bargained for a pretty parasol with flowers and vines painted along the boarders, then something caught her eye, a strange colored hat that seemed to be both purple and blue at once. "How much for that hat?", A-Ya asked. The store keeper looked at A-Ya, unsure what to do as he was an amateur magic researcher, and discovered the hat in the street and suspected it was magical in nature. However he recognized the opportunity to make a good sale, when he saw it, "50 Taoyundao Dollars." he replied. "FIFTY TD!" A-Ya cried, but she quickly counter offered, "Thirty!" The store keeper mused on it and then replied, "Thirty Five and it's yours!" A-Ya quickly paid up and put the hat on her head as she went off to her new job.

    A-Ya goes home, gets the shock of her life when while holding the hat over her right hand, her hand disappears leaving a stump. A-Ya screams, and drops the hat on the ground. A-Ya picks up the hat as her house keys had Bao-Yun in her right hand, only to be horrified as her right hand is now attached to the side walk. A-Ya falls down, but suddenly realizes she can still feel her right hand, and even uses it to make the keys its holding jiggle.

    A-Ya walks up to her hand that is attached to the sidewalk, curiously places her strange hat on it. Then she picks up the hat and the hand disappears. She places the hat on her head in disbelief, then she feels her hand again. She takes off her hat and the hand is now on top of her head! She then gets and idea, and place the hat on her head again, which makes her hand vanish from the top of her head. She then places the hat on the stump of her right wrist, and the removes the hat, showing her hand is now restored to it's proper place on her arm. 

    A-Ya sits down after getting into her apartment, tired from her ordeal. She gets ideas to try the hat out, transposes her body parts on different surfaces. Finally puts herself back together. Gets an idea of taking the hat to her work.

    In the morning, A-Ya greets Bao-Yu, but restrains herself from telling her about the hat. A-Ya goes to Larry's cage and uses the hat to borrows his wings, which she attaches to her shoulder blades. A-Ya is so excited that she remade herself into an angel, and to her surprise she can fly with Larry's wings. A-Ya is concerned that she's not as beautiful as she sees as angel should be. So she calls in her beautiful assistant Bao-Yu, setting up a situation that will show the hat is obviously magical: by placing her legs and her head in flower pots. Bao-Yu comes into the lab and she sees the disassembled A-Ya and spots the hat. Bao-Yu warns A-Ya to put herself back together right away! The hat is an evil hat that corrupts spirits and steals bodies. A-Ya denies that's what happening, but the hat begins to laugh with evil laughter.

    A-Ya tries to remove the hat, but she loses control of her torso, and the hat flies away with that part of A-Ya's body. A-Ya cries that she deserved this to happen, as she lost Larry's wings and desired to steal parts from Bao-Yu's body. But Bao-Yu offers to care for the disassemble A-Ya, which helps A-Ya comes to accept her new situation.