Journey Awakening: #1-#117 recap

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Characters in this story

  • Reimu Hakurei
  • Yukari Yakumo
  • Clownpiece — Clownpiece is a very popular character from the Touhou Project bullet hell (danmaku) game franchise, created by independent developer ZUN. She made her first appearance as the Stage 5 Boss in the 15th main game in the series, Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, released in 2015.
  • Hecatia Lapislazuli
  • Dominans — Created by illegal scientists, 20%Horse,50%Human,%50Cat equals Equisapien Felidae | Created deep under the sea inside a facility known as machine corp.
  • Byakuren hijiri
Story transcript

Narrator: Born from a clandestine lab experiment blending human, cat, and horse DNA — Dominans woke up, panicked, leveled the facility, and washed ashore in El Salvador... hungry and completely lost.

Narrator: Her first weeks of freedom were a crash course in restraint — tutored in self-control by Batman himself, then earning her keep herding 400 chickens for a shepherd named Rolf. The road always called her forward.

Narrator: Rolf's tip led her to no ordinary cave — but a fractured nexus of realities. One familiar-feeling shard called to her. She stepped through... and fell into the sky above a land called Gensokyo.

Narrator: She made her entrance the only way she knew how — by falling out of the sky onto the Hakurei shrine maiden, Reimu. Eleven cracked bones later, Dominans had her first real introduction to Gensokyo and its unspoken rules.

Narrator: A mysterious voice summoned her through a gap in reality — and on the other side sat Yukari Yakumo, the Sage of Gensokyo, curious about the outsider who had slipped past her barrier undetected.

Narrator: Yukari offered a deal: stay in Gensokyo, explore freely — and she would research the shattered realms to find Dominans's true origin. A contract was made. A binding watch sealed it.

Narrator: Gensokyo tested her at every turn. She clashed with moon rabbits, defeated an immortal in fire, sparred with a Buddhist priest, faced her own dark inner self, and somehow ended up enrolled in a horse-girl racing academy — all while Yukari waited at home.

Narrator: After breaking a racing track's speed record and accidentally tearing through dimensions, Dominans came home — and Yukari made it official. She was no longer a wanderer. She was a pet. Yukari's pet. And against every instinct she had, Dominans accepted.

Narrator: Hecatia Lapislazuli — goddess of Hell — ambushed and kidnapped Yukari, trapping her in an anti-gap cage deep in Gensokyo's Hell. Yukari's powers were sealed. Her gaps, useless. But she had one thing Hecatia hadn't accounted for.

Narrator: Dominans tore through Hell itself to reach her master. The kick that shattered Hecatia's lava-rock shield sent a clear message — 2,000 PSI of genetic force, aimed at a goddess, fueled by something far stronger than instinct.

Narrator: Hecatia was left unconscious. Yukari was freed. And Dominans — the tiny experiment who'd once been afraid of the ocean — came home clinging to her master's chest, fast asleep, dreaming of nothing but peace.

Narrator: 117 chapters later — she built her master a house, crossed galaxies, decapitated a plumber, and returned home to a bar night with Clownpiece. Dominans: lab specimen. Wanderer. Gensokyo resident. Yukari's beloved little calamity. The journey continues.