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"What a pain, all I wanted to do was see if the humans brewed up anything good since we had our last parade." The lone, 10-foot tall oni complained to no one in particular, "Can't see anything through this fog. DOES NO ONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND THE DAMN LIQUOR STORE?!"
A raspy chorus of voices in the distance groaned, "The army of the dead shall claim yooouuuuu!" A small troupe of zombies having various element-themed properties shambled toward the female oni.
Reaching toward the head of the nearest one, which had flames erupting out of its mouth, she hissed, "NOT WHAT I ASKED, CORPSES!" as she crushed its skull in the palm of her hand. "YOUR ROTTEN MEAT ISN'T EVEN GOOD FOR EATING!" Maybe their bone-marrow was still edible, she hoped as she ripped out its spine and started gnawing on it.
"Is someone out there?! Hurry and get inside, it's dangerous!" A man's voice called out from the fog.
"Oho, this could prove amusing." The oni muttered to herself as she changed the tenor of her voice to a higher pitch and put on an act of being a scared civilian, "Kyaa! Zombies are everywhere! Someone save meeeeeeee!"
After a momentary pause, the man's voice yelled again, "Keep calling out, Veggie-Man is on the way!"
What a weird name, she thought, maybe he's one of those "heroes" that she'd heard had become a fad with the humans in the past couple years. "Hurrryyyyy! They'll catch me sooooooon!" She screamed again as she dismembered a couple more of the zombies with minimal effort, making sure to leave a few for the hero.
As the hero engaged the zombies, the oni made sure to keep enough distance from him that the fog would obscure her appearance. From what she could hear, the zombies were giving him a harder time than they'd given her, so she made sure to cheer periodically and pretend that she couldn't escape until there was only one zombie remaining. As the hero had been tired out a little, she decided to speed things along and just rip out the last zombie's spine like she did to the first one, revealing her appearance to the hero for the first time.
"What the-!" Veggie-Man panted as he caught sight of the towering oni.
"Finally, someone who can give me directions to the liquor store! You're my hero!" She cheers in a cutesy voice, contrasted by the gore splattered on her sweater and the disembodied spine she's holding in her hand. She wasn't expecting the hero to be an old man, but it makes little difference since he'll just be her tour-guide until the fog clears.
"Another monster?! That's a dirty trick you pulled just now!" He replied, irritated at how he'd been manipulated.
"Ah, don't be like that! I really do need your help, it's been ages since I've dropped by town and the layout's different now." She argued innocently.
"It's not my job to give monsters directions to places for them to pillage." The hero flatly answered, but the oni's instantaneous mood-shift gave him chills.
