It was a bright, sunny morning at the Mankanshoku residence. The sun was shining, birds were singing, and Jack was pointing a shotgun out of the broken window.

"Barazo, there's a giant Black guy out there. Do you want me to shoot him?"

"Jack, that's my daughter's ex-boyfriend."

"So...is that a yes or no?"

"...I'm thinking about it."

"DAD!"

"Okay, fine. Don't shoot him."

Mako opened the door and let in Ira. He was followed by Satsuki, Houka, Uzu, Nonon, Shiro, and Soroi.

"Jesus fuck, Mako, how many people do you know? Also, to everyone who just walked in: STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY BOOZE!"

Jack opened up his rib cage (which contained a very small pocket dimension, which was about the size of a bathtub, mostly filled with bottles of alcohol) and placed his shotgun inside.

"Jack, this is Ira Gamagoori, my ex-boyfriend, Satsuki Kiryuin, Ryuko's sister, Nonon Jakuzure, Satsuki's girlfriend, and Houka Inumuta, Uzu Sanageyama, and Shiro Iori, Satsuki's friends. Everyone, this is Jack. He lives with us."

"...Uh, Mako, was he going to shoot me?" asked Ira.

"You're goddamn right I was-" Jack started to say, before Mako interrupted him.

"Of course he wasn't gonna shoot you!"

"Where's his face, Underachiever?" asked Nonon.

"I keep my eyes, nose, and mouth closed. I don't have any ears. I see, smell, taste, talk, and hear through my skin."

"You look like a department store mannequin fucked Jack Skellington."

"Nonon, be nice," said Satsuki.

"And you sound like you got throat-fucked by the entire Wu-Tang Clan."

Houka and Uzu started laughing, and then stopped after Nonon glared at them.

"Jack, be nice!" said Mako.

"How does your biology work?" asked Shiro, "How do you digest your food? I don't see any orifices. Or are you covering those?"

"Well, no, I don't have an asshole, if that's what you're askin'. And my dick's retractable. I don't shit and I don't piss. I throw up sometimes. It's always black, and I'm pretty sure it's mostly blood. I think all of the waste in my body gets converted to sweat."

"What are you made of?"

"No idea. At first, I thought it was the booze that made me forget, but now, it feels more like part of my memory is just, like, not there anymore."

"Interesting," said Houka, "Iori, do you think we could do a DNA analysis?"

"You can try," said Jack, "but I don't have spit, hair, nails, or jizz. And you can't get a blood sample, 'cause nothing can break my skin."

"Hey, guys," said Ryuko, "you should join us for dinner."

Later, everyone (except for Mako, who had gone out to buy beer for Jack, who had given her a fake ID) was eating croquettes in the living room (they didn't have a dining room).

"So, Satsuki, what brings you guys here?" asked Ryuko.

"Inumuta, please show her the picture," said Satsuki.

Inumuta showed Ryuko a picture on his laptop. It was of a dark alleyway in Kanagawa. A homeless-looking woman was in the alleyway.

"An amateur photographer, working with one of Satsuki's new charities, took this photograph. Something about helping the homeless. Anyway, look closer at the woman."

Ryuko looked closer.

"Oh, my fucking God..."

"It appears to be Nui Harime, somehow back from the dead."

"How the Hell is she alive?"

"That's what we need to ask her. If she's still alive, then Ragyo might still be alive. We're dedicating all of our time to finding some answers. Gamagoori quit his job at his uncle's iron works, Satsuki has let Hououmaru take control of making the world a better place, Jakuzure has left control of Jakuzure Corporations to her assistant, I've taken a break from working on my IT degree, Iori has taken a break from working on his astrobiology degree, and Sanageyama has taken a break from whatever it was that he was doing."

"I was selling konjac, practicing kendo, and smoking weed," said Sanageyama.

"I've also brought a large amount of Life Fibers with us, in case we need new Goku Uniforms," said Shiro, "I hope you all appreciate just how rare Life Fibers are these days. You have no idea how much work it was convincing the school to give me them."

"How did you convince them, anyway?" asked Ryuko.

"I bribed them."

The door opened and Mako walked in. She was carrying a bag filled with bottles of beer in one hand, and was dragging a sleeping Nui behind her in her other hand.

"You guys will never guess who I found sleeping in an alley!"