Demon City Tokyo

Chapter Seventeen

Lilith lay in her bed chambers under NERV, casually eating a whole chicken. And raw chicken, at that.

"We could cook it for you," Yui winced as Lilith popped a bleeding bit into her mouth.

"You humans are SO squeamish," Lilith laughed.

"Lorenz Keel was scouting around Japan before he died," Yui said with an artificial sort of calm, "visiting shrines. Do you know what he was looking for?"

Lilith looked amused as she pointed out, "Looking for me, probably. He was unaware you had already found me, dear."

Yui paused as she digested that fact. Annoyingly, she should have thought of that... "Are there other entities like you out there?" she asked.

"No," Lilith grinned savagely, "I ate them."

Yui decided she wasn't going to follow up on THAT fact.

"How did the youkai I made based on Ritsuko turn out?" Lilith asked curiously.

"She's a good lab tech, but she lacks the... viciousness needed in a field agent," Yui admitted with a sigh.

"I did warn you," Lilith noted. She casually finished off the chicken then burped.

"I need more Rei youkai," Yui sighed.

Lilith stretched out her arms, "I'll need your blood, mistress..."

Yui made a face but crawled up onto the bed with her. "Easy on the blood," she added, "Ritsuko is already unhappy I'm so anemic."

"We all must make sacrifices," Lilith looked amused as she bit.

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Mari was laughing, loudly, as she read something. She was sitting in the rec room, one of several places the Hunters had to rest and relax between missions.

"What's so funny?" Asuka asked, having come in from sparing with Rei. Fighting a youkai like Rei was the closest she could get to fighting a youma.

"The latest dojin from comiket," Mari waved the manga towards Asuka.

"What have they done THIS time?" Asuka demanded, then made a choking noise as she saw the front cover.

Mari, Asuka and Mayumi, in their combat suits, in bed.

"GIVE ME THAT," Asuka snatched it from her hands.

"Pushy pushy," Mari smirked.

It was about as bad as she expected, a 'plot? What plot?' sex-capade where, for no good reason, they tore each other's clothes off and had sex. And apparently they ALL got boob jobs, because other than Mayumi none of them were stacked like that.

"Hot, huh?" Mari teased.

"Are kidding me?" Asuka glared at her.

Mari just laughed, again. "Do you think Mayumi's seen it yet?" she asked.

There was a mostly inarticulate scream of rage from another part of the building.

"I'd say yes..," Asuka sighed.

Yui looked up as Mayumi barged into her office. Her secretary Yuki Nagato looked apologetic, "I couldn't stop her, ma'am..."

"It's okay," Yui waved a bit tiredly.

"DID YOU SEE THIS?" Mayumi yelped, slapping the dojin down on her desk. It flopped open to one of the more graphic pages.

"Do you want me to rate this on content or style?" Yui quipped. She looked at the picture again, "Actually, I'm not sure you can bend like that."

Mayumi snorted in amusement. "I can't believe this," she sighed, deflating a bit.

"Sorry," Yui apologized. "I think Asuka mentioned this had happened to her too?" she added.

"She did," Mayumi admitted. She looked at the slightly lurid book as she added, "I assume there's not much we can do?"

"We could take them to court over this," Yui admitted, "but it would be massively time consuming, especially considering that many of the authors publish under pen-names. I'm not sure it's really worth the effort."

Mayumi smiled faintly, "Would it sway you knowing you're in this too?"

"What." Yui blinked.

"There's a second story with you, Ritsuko and Misato," Mayumi flipped to the back.

Yui blinked. "I don't know if I should be complimented or disturbed...," she noted. "Can I keep this?" she asked.

"Sure, why not," Mayumi sighed. She paused, an odd look on her face.

"What?" Yui asked.

"What am I going to do when my family finds out about this?" Mayumi groaned.

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"BWA HA HA HA!"

"Stop LAUGHING, Misato," Yui ordered.

Ritsuko was also flipping through the dojin, looking amused. "Is that position even POSSIBLE?" she mused, tilting the book sideways.

"Wanna try it out?" Misato teased.

"You're not that limber," Ritsuko noted.

Misato just laughed, again.

Yui rolled her eyes. "We all know Mari has gotten a hold of this. Knowing her she'll take the best pictures, blow them up and post them around the base," she sighed.

"I'd take that as a compliment," Ritsuko shrugged.

"I'm assuming we can't do anything about it?" Misato asked curiously.

"Mayumi also asked that," Yui admitted. "not really. With how the law is written in Japan, and dojin's have usually been allowed so..." She shrugged eloquently.

"Huh," Misato sighed.

"We're still in discussions with gthe AMP on how we'll be cooperating," Yui changed the subject, "Misato, what was your impression of them?"

"They're more competant than they want us to think," Misato noted. She added, "They set that whole scenario up, including being ready to put the youma down."

"So why use a gun, then?" Ritsuko asked.

"They probably have a gun that they think will work, and plan to surprise us with it," Misato said seriously.

Ritsuko looked at Yui, "Is that possible?"

Yui decided to be honest. "In our tests, the weapons that could do any damage to a youma were completely impractical for field use," she admitted. "Basically, anti-tank weapons."

"Huh." Misato digested that.

"So we could use vehicle mounted weapons to kill them?" Ritsuko asked dangerously.

"Considering how often we have to chase them through buildings and other indoors...," Misato observed mildly.

"Point," Ritsuko conceded, but she still looked unhappy.

Yui nodded as she said, "It appears we have to assume they have something new that they think will do the job."

"Looks like it. I guess we'll have to wait and see," Misato agreed.

Changing the subject Ritsuko said, "I looked at your latest blood tests, Yui. You're still dangerously anemic."

"I...," Yui started.

Misato ignored her, "So Rits and I are taking you out."

"What." Yui blinked.

"We're gtaking you to lone od the few open restjurants and feeding you an iron rich meal," Ritsuko said firmly. Yui tried to argue and she continued, "Doctor's orders."

Yui looked at her and Misato, realizing both women looked very determined. And it wasn't like she could tell them that Lilith was draining her blood (and sometimes flesh) to create new youkai.

"Come on," Misato offered her hand.

Yui took it and got up, following the two out of her office. "It better not be a noodle stand," she added, looking at Misato.

"I only did that once!" Misato pouted.

To be continued...

Notes: I'm not totally sure how legal it would be to include 'real' people in a manga. I understand Trump's son got a manga, as an example... and I suspect it might be considered Fair Use as a parody.