Season 3 Episode 54: Bravo Academy!
"Big brother, finally waking up?" Lisa asked at Fukuyama's bedside, her own assistants Hayate and Kosame beside her.
"L-Lisa? Good morning" Fukuyama greeted sitting up in bed.
"Good morning too big brother" Lisa returns. "We need to talk."
"We do?"
"Yes, we do" Lisa said with a sigh.
"Hold on just a second" Fukuyama answers. At that instant, Lilica walks in carrying one of Fukuyama's morning favorites, freshly-squeezed orange juice.
"Master, I've gotten you your refreshment" Lilica announces before handing over the drink.
"...Thank you Lilica. You're a sweetheart!" Fukuyama thanked after a hearty drink.
"Yes master" Lilica acknowledged bowing before withdrawing.
"Big brother, I feel I should let you know that father is quite sore about what has happened with Mizuno High."
A moment of silence as Fukuyama stretched.
"...Wh-what? What has happened to Mizuno High?" Fukuyama asked.
"It collapsed" Lisa reveals playfully holding her skull staff behind her back.
"It... collapsed?" Fukuyama parrots. "What do you mean it collapsed? ...Things don't just collapse..."
"Master" Lilica voices reappearing holding up a newspaper, a finger on a front-page article.
"Mizuno High collapses under mysterious circumstances" Fukuyama began to read in a hushed murmur. "Mizuno was built in the year... According to witnesses, two female students may have played a part in the destruction... How two high school girls would be capable of such destruction bewilders authorities... No injuries or deaths were reported... Principal had no comment..." Kazuharu trailed off. "...Lisa, you aren't by chance one of the high school girls mentioned in this article are you?"
"...Not really..." Lisa answered sheepishly.
"Lisa!..." Fukuyama lets out in a commanding tone.
"So maybe I am" Lisa admits. "But that wench from Seiren bears just as much responsibility as I do!"
"Girl from Seiren?.." Fukuyama blinked. "..You mean Yukina? The girl with the long silver hair and marks on her body?" Fukuyama said recalling Yukina's visit the morning of the incident. Lisa maintaining her silence was enough to answer Fukuyama's question. "...She was cute. Those marks on her body were exotic too!" He began drooling. "Oh what I would give to get a hold of her slim little hips and long slender legs. That lengthy, silver hair waving in the air beckoning me to her silhouette just lights a blazing, lustful fire in my loins Mmmmnngg~! Oh what I would do to have her sit on my face. Ow!"
"Focus!" Lisa growled jabbing Fukuyama with her staff. "Mother and father are very angry with us!"
"Us!? What did that have to do with me!?" Fukuyama protested.
"You're the older sibling. You're supposed to look after me!" Lisa counters.
"You're old enough to look after yourself! You should take responsibility!" Fukuyama retorts. "Don't drag me into this!"
"Well they were mother and father's exact words" Lisa notifies. "You have to deal with it just as much as I do."
"Ridiculous! Mother and father would never resort to such flawed logic" Fukuyama retaliated.
"Am I going to have to drag you to father's study? Let him reprimand you the way he reprimanded me?" Lisa threatened. As she did so, Lilica, Hayate, and Kosame could only stand by and watch the two siblings squabble. "You know how father can get quite lengthy with his lectures."
"No, you're just trying to shove the responsibility on me" Fukuyama complained.
"Think about it big brother!" Lisa begins to tempt. "You could rebuild the school in your image! There's creative freedom to be had!" Fukuyama opens his mouth ready to protest but closes it just as quickly becoming lost in thought.
"...Hmmm... You may be onto something little sister" Fukuyama said. "Okay, fine! I'll take this task on and rebuild Mizuno High in my beautiful image!" he sings standing up atop his bed. Lisa meanwhile breathes easy knowing her big brother and his ego would be cleaning up her mess.
-TRANSITION-
"Wonder what school looks like now" Yukinari said holding a letter he had received. Accompanying him were Kirie and Miharu as the three made their way to school.
"I'm more surprised that they could rebuild it that fast" Kirie remarks scanning the letter over Yukinari's shoulder. The letter, in summary, notified all students at Mizuno High to report to school in the morning hours that day. After several minutes of walking, Mizuno High became visible in the distance. "Doesn't look too different" Kirie says squinting at the structure. "But at least it looks like they've fixed most of the damage." As they got closer, they could see much of the campus had been fenced off, the sound of construction work going on behind the construction fencing. Before they could enter the main building of the school, they were met with a tall woman in neat office dress at the front door.
"Good morning students. Please divide yourselves into groups of male and female" the woman instructed stoically. "Males please follow the arrows along this path" she instructs pointing towards a fenced path that lead around the left of the school's main building. "Females, please follow this path" the woman said indicating along another fenced path that lead around the right of the main building.
"Hey, what's the deal with this?" Kirie was quick to question. "For what reason would you split us up?"
"Processing purposes" the woman answered simply.
"Processing purposes?.." Kirie said with heavy skepticism. "Okay then. The sooner we start, the sooner we finish I suppose. See you in a bit Yukinari. Come on Miharu" Kirie commanded leading Miharu along the path to the right.
"Sure Kirie" Yukinari acknowledged and then he set off to the path on left. He walks along the path for about a minute before coming to a solid gate, a maid standing by it.
"Through here sir" the maid instructed opening the gate. Yukinari, mystified by the presence of a maid, steps through only to find himself outside of campus grounds and out on the sidewalk.
"H-hey! What's the meaning of this!?" Yukinari demands spinning around.
"Here you are" the maid said shoving a piece of paper into Yukinari's hands.
"Huh?" Yukinari emits reading the paper. "..Mizuno High is a girl's only school now!?" he exclaims grasping the paper in his hand. Right then, the gate is loudly closed shut.
-TRANSITION-
"Welcome to Mizuno High, ladies" a maid greeted Kirie and Miharu as they approached the main campus which was populated by most of the school's female alumni. "Kirie Kojima and Miharu Sena Kanaka I believe?"
"Yes. I'm Miharu and this is Kirie" Miharu introduced.
"...Hi..." Kirie greets coolly, the presence of a maid raising suspicion. "How'd you know our names?"
"Oh, how could I not? I'm told you two have been known to cause a number of mishaps at this school..." the maid said. "With all due respect, I've heard tales of your violent short temper Miss Kojima. Unfitting for such a buxom, young woman."
"Violent short temper!? I have no such thing!" Kirie insisted somewhat offended. "I mean, n-not anymore. Not as much as before" she then admitted turning a bit red.
"And Miharu, I've heard of your legendary appetite and some supernatural events surrounding your tutelage here" the maid commented. "Explosions and tales of cloning I must admit I can't bring myself to believe."
"I, I don't know what to say" Miharu replied.
"Whatever the case may be, please don't hesitate to think of Mizuno High as your second home. And please do care for it as though it were your only home" the maid said directing the girls to the main campus.
"Why is there a maid here on campus?" Kirie wondered to herself as she proceeded alongside Miharu.
"Wow! Look Kirie! A statue!" Miharu said pointing towards the center of the campus. "I don't remember the school having one of those!" Approaching the statue, Kirie was quick to realize why there was a maid on campus.
"Of course. It's starting to make sense now" Kirie said eyeing the statue in disgust. The statue was in the shape of Kazuharu Fukuyama holding a seemingly unconscious yet nearly naked woman in his arms. "Why is this here!?"
"It says something on the pedestal here" Miharu said indicating the stone plaque under the statue. "This statue is dedicated to the eternally handsome savior of womanhood" she started to read at which point Kirie, having already heard too much, steps away offended. "It is thanks to the generous philanthropist Kazuharu Fukuyama that this campus has been brought back to life from its tragic destruction. Thus, this monument has been constructed to commemorate the boundless charity and unconditional altruism of the Fukuyama Family's most beloved son, Kazuharu Fukuyama."
Armed with a crowbar, Kirie reappears and proceeds to extract the plaque from its foundation. She bends the thin plaque a few times rendering it unusable. "Savior of womanhood my ass!" Kirie spat chucking the metal into a nearby trash can.
"Oh my!" Miharu said in surprise, several female students turning their heads toward the commotion.
"HHAaaaaa!" Kirie lets out swinging the crowbar and striking the statue's head clean off. This sends Fukuyama's head flying in pieces which shatter further upon impact with the ground. "This leaves no doubt" Kirie said, her eyebrows bent angrily. "Fukuyama's behind all this! C'mon Miharu! We're putting a stop to this!"
"But what about the processing?" Miharu objected passively. "We should wait with these other students."
"Don't worry, there'll be processing" Kirie assured. "I'm gonna process my foot up someone's ass!"
-TRANSITION-
"I've only dreamed of this moment!" Fukuyama declared with great hubris as he surveyed Mizuno High's alumni. "My woman-only paradise is within my grasp! It's only a matter of time before I'm literally swimming in pretty, young, playful ladies! Hihihihihihihihihi!" he laughed triumphantly.
"Yes Master Kazuharu" Lilica agreed beside him.
"Dearest little sister, how is your research coming along?" Fukuyama directs at Lisa Fukuyama who was seated at a nearby bench table poring over several of her text books on portals.
"No luck so far, big brother" Lisa reported flipping through a number of pages of a dark arts text.
"Is that so? Lisa, best you be honest with me! Be mindful of the fact that I've agreed to shoulder most of the responsibility in rebuilding this school" Fukuyama reminds the blonde witch.
"Yeah yeah" Lisa agreed with a pout.
"We both know who was responsible for the destruction after all."
"That's the seventh time you've reminded me!" Lisa protested snapping the book in her hands shut. "If you want me to open up a portal to Seiren, you're gonna have to knock that off!"
"As long as you know" Fukuyama quickly answered, a pleased grin on his face.
"Aaaauugh!" Lisa growled in frustration before getting back to the pile of books before her.
-TRANSITION-
Back at Kirie's house, Ebi was stirring, her eyes opening as she was just waking up. Raising her head, she rubs an eye and then looks around only to quickly find Kirie's mother watching her intently. Misuzu's elbows on the bed, her head resting on her hands, Kirie's mother smiles warmly. "Good morning you little cutie!" she whispered sweetly. Quickly seizing the little girl, she assaults her with an affectionate hug. "You're such an adorable little thing! I have to adopt you!"
"Nyah nyoh?" Ebi meowed tilting her head to one side.
"D'awwww! Ebi! If looks could kill!" Mrs. Kojima remarked. Grabbing the yellow ribbon atop Kirie's bedside table, Misuzu ties it onto Ebi's dark green hair. "That looks so cute on you! I still have Kirie's old clothes when she was about your age. I'd love to try them on you!" With her large green eyes, Ebi could only busy herself with taking in the entirety of Kirie's mother, fascinated with how much the woman resembled Kirie. "I guess you don't really care either way..." Misuzu said. "Are you hungry?"
"Nyaaah~" Ebi yawned.
"I'll take that as a yes" Misuzu said heading toward Koyomi and Tomoka who were still asleep. "I'll just leave this here for Kirie's friend" she said pulling out a letter from her back pocket and placing it visibly underneath Koyomi's pillow, something curiously observed by Ebi. "That's a letter of some sort the post office forgot to deliver. A woman in a maid's outfit delivered it herself strangely enough" Mrs. Kojima explained to Ebi. "It's not something you should worry about actually: you just get yourself out of bed and head for the kitchen when you're ready" Misuzu said exiting the room. Hopping out of bed, Ebi follows.
"Nyaah~" Ebi let out arriving at the kitchen.
"Oh Ebi~!" Misuzu sings, "you don't know how happy it makes me to have you in my kitchen!" Picking Ebi up, she directs the little girl's attention to a cabinet filled with different cereals and oatmeals. "What will Ebi be having this morning?" Ebi points to a box of semi-sweet cereal. "Good choice! Cinnamon is one of my favorite spices too!"
In no time, Misuzu had served Ebi up a hearty helping of cinnamon-flavored cereal.
"Eat up my adorable little thing!" Misuzu says having served herself up a cup of tea as Ebi ate cereal. Upstairs, Tomoka was waking up and found Koyomi reading a letter Koyomi had found upon waking up.
"What ya reading Koyo?" Tomoka asked before yawning.
"...It's an invitation... To the opening of an all-girls school..."
"All girl school?" Tomoka asked. "May Tomo see?"
"Sure."
"...Ooh! Free food and drink! And pool sports! Sounds like fun!" an enticed Tomoka read over Koyomi's shoulder. "Let's go!"
"Kirie and Miharu should be there so definitely could be fun" Koyomi said.
Moments later, Koyomi and Tomoka stood before the Kojima residence and Misuzu was busy showering Ebi with kisses.
"Oh, I'm going to miss you most of all!" Misuzu said embracing Ebi warmly.
"Not to worry, Tomo will bring her back later today!" Tomoka assured.
"If it's not too much trouble" Koyomi was quick to add.
"No trouble at all" Misuzu assured as she let Ebi go. "Guests are always a pleasure!"
"Thank you very much for having us" Koyomi said bowing.
"Tomo thanks you too" Tomoka adds bowing similarly.
"It was my pleasure. You girls hurry back now once you're done" Misuzu said as Koyomi, Tomoka, and Ebi departed.
-TRANSITION-
Back at the school, Lilica hung up her phone before approaching Fukuyama who was relaxing by the school pool as Lisa focused on her books nearby. "Master, I've just received confirmation that a Koyomi Hare Nanaka is en route to the school."
"So the invitation worked? Excellent news!" Fukuyama answered with delight. "And what of our little, insatiable, pink-haired beauty, Miharu?"
"Ah yes: I have also been notified that a Miharu Sena Kanaka has recently arrived on campus" Lilica reports.
"She wasn't accompanied by that brute of an older brother was she?" Fukuyama asked urgently.
"No Master Kazuharu" Lilica confirmed.
"This day just keeps getting better and better!" Fukuyama praised. "Shall we go see the campus then?"
"Only if it is what you desire, master" Lilica said.
"Wonderful" Fukuyama says as he began to make his way into the school, Lilica by his side. "Keep at it Lisa. Don't you let me down!" he reminded before disappearing into Mizuno High's main building. This only earned the blonde pervert a resentful glare from his younger sister though Fukuyama was too pleased with how things were progressing to care. "So Lilica, where is Miharu now?" Fukuyama questioned making his way to the principal's office which had been relocated.
"We'll find out once we get to your new office, master" Lilica answers as both turn a corner. After moments of walking, they finally arrive at and enter Fukuyama's base of operations, a large office with a wide view of the campus.
"Look at them all" Fukuyama started in admiration. Looking down at the crowds of female alumni, a small amount of drool began moistening the corner of his mouth. "All those cute girls! All just for me! Not another man in sight!" he breathed heavily. "..Gah! Who would dare to vandalize my monument!?" Fukuyama demanded after spotting his damaged statue in the middle of campus. "Let me guess: Kirie!" he was quick to answer his own demand.
"Shall I launch an investigation into the incident?" Lilica asked.
"No, I'm pretty sure it was Kirie. Just have security handle her and the statue can be fixed later" Fukuyama said as he began to undress revealing the speedo he was wearing underneath. "Pool class should be starting up soon so be sure to send in the first batch of ladies! They're about to get a lesson in the patented Kazuharu 'breasts'-stroke! Mhmhmhmh!" Fukuyama chuckled.
"Yes master" Lilica didn't forget to agree.
-TRANSITION-
"What the hell is going on!?" Kirie exclaims looking from one end of the hallway she was standing in to the other. "Just how much has this school changed!?"
"What are we looking for again?" Miharu asked feeling similarly confused.
"The principal's office. Figure that's where the perv's ego would take him" Kirie reasoned. "But they've completely changed the layout to this place!"
"Good morning! Are you ladies in need of assistance?" a maid with short orange hair asked taking the two by surprise.
"Oh! Wonderful timing!" Miharu responds. "We're looking for-"
"The restroom" Kirie interrupted quickly. She was not ready to trust any of the maids now that she knew it was Fukuyama in the seat of power. "We're looking for the restroom. If you could just point us in the right direction."
"Right beside you" the maid said simply.
"Ah! Silly us! There it was all along!" Kirie confirmed. "Damn!" Kirie thought to herself. She enters the restroom, Miharu following in instinctively, and Kirie enters a stall, Miharu the one next to her. Neither she nor Miharu had to use the restroom but turning her back to one of Fukuyama's maids was the last thing Kirie wanted to do. "What. The. Hell?" Kirie spotted a poster of Fukuyama on the stall door looking very dignified in his pristine white uniform and gloves and striking a subtly sexy yet professional pose. 'Though you love me, keep it strictly business in here' the poster read.
"Oh look! It's Fukuyama!" Miharu lets out nonchalantly inside the next stall. "It says 'hang in there'! That's good!"
"...We can't let him get away with this..." Kirie thought quietly to herself. "You can go now. We'll see our way back to class" Kirie directed at the maid who was standing at the entrance of the restroom.
"Very well then" the maid agreed and stepped out to Kirie's relief. Moments later, Kirie exits her stall. Hoping to verify that the maid had indeed left, she exits the restroom alone and scans the adjacent hallways. "Coast looks clear." On her way back to the restroom however, she is intercepted at the doorway by the same maid from moments before. "H-hey! You again!? Get out of the way!" Kirie demanded.
"Sorry, don't take this personally" the maid said pulling out a jar and opening it up.
"Huh?.. Kyaaah!" Kirie screamed as several navis floated out of the container, some gravitating to the maid, others floating Kirie's way. "N-no! N-not again! Get away!" Kirie let out as she ran off in panic.
"..Hmm, it worked" the maid commented as the brunette disappeared around the hallway.
"Oh!.. Pretty!" Miharu remarked as she exited the bathroom and gazed at the navis with wonder.
"You like them?"
"Yes! They're pretty!" Miharu confirms brightly.
-TRANSITION-
"Can't believe we're up here" Yukinari expressed as he crawled slowly through the school's air ventilation system.
"Yeah, I'm surprised there's enough room to crawl through" remarked Masashi as he lead the way through the air ducts.
"Or that these ducts can support our weight... What are we looking for again?" Yukinari asked as they both turned a corner.
"The principal's office: I have a feeling that's where we can learn what's up with the all-female conversion of this school" he said peeking through an air vent and into a classroom full of girls before moving on. "The layout has changed" he observed.
"So then what?" Yukinari asked feeling disoriented by the maze of air ducts they were creeping through. "We're on the first floor. What if the principal's office is now on the second floor? Some of the air ducts we passed by ran vertically you know" Yukinari reminded.
"...Good point" Masashi said as they both arrived to what seemed to be the janitor's office. "So I guess we'll need to set off on foot then" Masashi said kicking out the air vent and hopping out into the office. Yukinari hops out similarly into the room in which sat a desk, brooms, mops, cleaning supplies, and maid and janitor uniforms hung on the walls. "Problem is we still don't know where the principal's office is. Also, this is an all-girls school; we're not supposed to be here!"
"This is the janitor's office: I'm sure we could find a map of the school around here somewhere" Yukinari said as he started sifting through the papers atop the desk.
"But how are we getting around?" Masashi pressed on. Yukinari gave it a bit of thought.
"We could pose as janitors" Yukinari suggested. "Might provide us some sort of cover" he reasoned pointing at the uniforms.
"...That's actually a good idea" Masashi agreed after giving it some quick thought.
"Found it" Yukinari declares pulling out a small map from the mess of paper atop the desk. Moments later, after donning the janitorial outfits, Yukinari and Masashi creep out. "..Alright, coast looks clear. Let's go" Yukinari said pushing the door out to the hall open and walking out. It was just as they both stepped out that a shriek of horror pierced the air around them.
"Kyaaahh!"
Before Yukinari could have turned his head toward the disturbance, he's tackled to the ground.
"Gaah!" Yukinari let out. "What the hell!?" he exclaims with the student collapsed atop of him.
"Kirie?" Masashi asked looking at the two on the floor.
"Kirie?" Yukinari mimicked.
"Yu-Yukinari!? Yukinari!" Kirie exclaims in relief, her arms wrapping around Yukinari. "I, I was so scared Yukinari!" she cried with misty eyes, her arms tightly wrapped around her boyfriend.
"Scared? Scared of what?"
"Th-those fireball things! They were coming after me!" Kirie answered with urgency.
"Fireball things? You mean navis?" Yukinari asked. Kirie frantically nodded her head. "But I don't see any navis around here" Yukinari said looking around and seeing nothing. Yukinari stands lifting Kirie up with him. "I'm sure they're long gone."
"A-are you sure?" Kirie asked with fright, her arms wrapped tightly around Yukinari's arm.
"Yep. Not a sign of them anywhere" Yukinari confirms looking around. Kirie looks around too and lets out a relieved sigh upon confirmation. "And besides, they're harmless!"
"They still creep the hell out of me" Kirie murmured weakly.
"Navis? Fireballs?" Masashi voiced in confusion.
"Remind me to tell you about 'em some other day" Yukinari responds. "Right now, we gotta figure out what's become of our school."
"Yukinari, Masashi, what do you guys have on?" Kirie then inquired after examining the janitorial uniforms the boys were wearing. To this, Yukinari and Masashi explain getting kicked out of school after being notified that Mizuno High was now an all-girls school. Rather than just accepting that however, the two decided to sneak in via the school's ventilation system and after entering the janitor's office, donning the uniforms with the hope of getting around school without arousing suspicion.
"That's about the gist of it" Masashi finished.
"I see..." Kirie understood. "A disguise?"
"This is a girl's school now" Masashi reminds. "We're not supposed to be here but maybe these uniforms will provide cover."
"And Kirie, there ARE maid uniforms in the office. You could help back our cover up" Yukinari suggested. Kirie, surprisingly, didn't give it much thought.
"Say no more" she said walking into the office only to poke her head out seconds later. "Yukinari, the uniform's got a corset you tie from the back. I'm gonna need your help putting it on" she requests seizing Yukinari by the hand and pulling him in.
"Here. Find the principal's office" Yukinari said handing the map of the school to Masashi before disappearing into the janitor's office. "We shouldn't take long."
"Yeah, gotcha" Masashi said accepting the map as he was left out alone in the hallway studying the new school layout. Moments later, Yukinari and Kirie exit the janitor's office, Kirie now sporting the same maid outfit as the other maids.
"We're looking good!" Masashi complimented. "Didn't think you'd go for the maid outfit idea."
"If it means putting a stop to Fukuyama's plans for this school, wearing this is nothing!" Kirie boasted.
"Fukuyama? So it's Fukuyama who's behind all this?" Yukinari said slightly surprised.
"Don't tell me you're surprised" Kirie said. "I mean look! The men's restrooms are boarded up!" she said pointing at the boys restroom which was indeed boarded up. "Who would do that but Fukuyama?"
"..You're right. I should've guessed that sooner" Yukinari surrendered.
"Alright. Where to Masashi?" Kirie commanded authoritatively.
"Oh, right" Masashi reacts giving the map another quick glance. "Principla's office is on the second floor, northeast from here. Follow me" he instructs leading the way.
"By the way Kirie, where's Miharu?" Yukinari asked as the three walked across a hall.
"I lost her" Kirie admitted guiltily, the three starting an ascent up the stairs.
"Did you get chased off by the navis?" Yukinari guessed.
"..Y-yeah" Kirie answered ashamed. "But I'm gonna rescue Miharu, no doubt about it!" Kirie boasted.
"Definitely" Yukinari agreed. Just then, a maid approaches the three from across the hall. All three tense up, the space between the maid and the three shrinking. The maid then passes them by with little more than a fleeting glance and continues on her way.
"...Phew" Yukinari breathed. "Disguises worked."
"And here we are" Masashi said coming to a door. "Principal's office."
"Lair of the perverted beast!" Kirie growled.
"Locked" Yukinari reported jiggling the door handle.
"You guys wait here just a second. I'm sure janitor's office has the keys" Masashi declares and he speeds off leaving Yukinari and Kirie by the locked door.
"Guess we wait then" Yukinari said as Kirie jiggled the door handle.
"..Unless.." Raising her leg high up in the air, she brings it down violently.
Crash!
Kirie's heel collides with the door handle breaking off violently. A look of satisfaction overtakes Kirie's face. "Cutting corners on construction are we Fukuyama? Such horrible disregard for the alumni here could land you in some real hot water" Kirie hisses picking up the handle and chuckling to herself, a dark grin on her face.
"G-good going Kirie" Yukinari said impressed and feeling a tiny amount of fear at her ferocity.
Stomp!
With a sense of urgency for Miharu's welfare, Kirie kicks the door open. "Fukuyama!" she shouted angrily charging into an empty room.
"...Is not here..." Yukinari finished for the angry brunette.
"Not here!?" Kirie repeated. "I was almost sure he'd be here!" she asked approaching the desk which, along with the room, was illuminated by natural light coming in through the windows.. "This place reeks of his ego" she said looking at the large portrait of Fukuyama hanging up behind the desk.
"And these magazines are definitely his" Yukinari said looking at the lascivious reading material atop the desk.
"Dammit! So if he's not here, then where?" Kirie inquired.
"More importantly, where could Miharu be?" Yukinari reminds.
"That especially" Kirie said. Suddenly, the lights in the room are flicked on taking the two by surprise.
"You two don't work here" a maid at the entrance, noticing Yukinari and Kirie's outfits, said aloud.
"Crap!" Yukinari condemned under his breath.
"S-sure we do! We're new here!" Kirie said in a doomed attempt to convince the maid. "And we got lost looking for the, uh-"
"Intruders must be dealt with" the maid said reaching for the light switch.
"I'm telling you! We work here!" Kirie insisted.
"We're here to clean the room" Yukinari added. The maid remains unconvinced. Pressing a hidden button under the light switch, she causes a trap door to give way under the intruders' feet.
"Aaaaaahhh!" Yukinari and Kirie scream as they both fall through the floor, pitch black greeting their senses as they slide down a long, dark tunnel. The descent was not for long, their fall ceasing as soon as they land upon a hard, cold steel surface. Though the fall was over, conditions were still pitch black.
"Yu-Yukinari!? Yukinari, where are you!?" Kirie let out through the dark in fear.
"I'm right here Kirie" Yukinari said, his arms finding her through the darkness and they embrace.
"Oh thank goodness! I thought we were goners!" Kirie said with relief.
"Me too Kirie but we're okay. Question now is where are we?" Both could feel nothing but the cold steel floor until they discover they were surrounded by vertical iron bars.
"Reveal the intruders" the unmistakable voice of Fukuyama pierced the dark. A thick veil is pulled from over the cage Yukinari and Kirie were sitting in. Now their sight restored, they find themselves locked in a cage by the school pool. The pool was populated with a large number of female students in bikini partaking in water sports like pool volleyball and high board diving. At the pool center was Fukuyama lounging atop a luxurious and wide pool float complete with hand rests and sun shade.
"Fukuyama, you bastard! What's the meaning of all this!?" Kirie spat fiercely. "Where do you get off doing this to our school!? Who do you think you are!? You've tried something like this before, running out of ideas are you!? And where's Miharu!? You better not have done anything weird to her! I swear I'll make you regret it!" she threatened.
"As if you're in any position to make threats Kirie" Fukuyama said too relaxed to be bothered by the brunette's angry protests. "I'll let you two out of your prison once today's school is done: you should think of it as punishment for your transgressions!" Fukuyama suggested. "And if you must know, I've been left in charge of rebuilding this school and I've taken the liberty to build it to my liking. I'm sure you mind Kirie but I don't care: if you'd like, I could just have you expelled. A fitting end for destroying my statue!"
"Destroying his statue?" Yukinari wondered quietly to himself.
"No need: I'll gladly transfer myself out of this school, thank you" Kirie remarked snidely. Examining Kirie's maid outfit, Fukuyama continues.
"Shame. I could have used a busty maid like you but... used goods are no good" Fukuyama insulted underhandedly.
"Why don't you say that to my face!" Kirie exploded, a vein pulsating in her temple, her hands grasping the iron bars of the cage. "Let me out of here! Let me out!"
"Kirie, relax" Yukinari whispers seizing the brunette's tensed shoulders. He hated seeing Kirie so upset. "Shouting at him isn't going to get us anywhere."
"But Yukinari, the bastard's gone too far!" Kirie said through clenched teeth.
"Let him spout nonsense, Kirie. Just don't let him get to you" Yukinari advised. "There are more important things to worry about than petty insults" he said succeeding at calming Kirie down. He then turned to Fukuyama. "Fukuyama, just answer one thing: what have you done with Miharu?"
"Jeez you two are dense" Fukuyama drawled. "She's right over there" he said indicating lazily toward the long end of the pool. There, they spot a long table stacked and overflowing with a colorful assortment of foods: various breads, meats, noodles, rice, salads, soups. Unsurprisingly, Miharu was seated before it and digging in, a fork and knife in hand. "Miharu, how's the food?"
"It's delicious Fukuyama!" Miharu answered with a giggle.
"Miharu! Get us out of here!" Kirie yelled upon confirming Miharu's presence.
"Huh? Oh! Hello Kirie! Hello Yukinari!" Miharu exclaims skipping over right after seizing handfuls of yakitori, a kebab-like food. "Wow Kirie! You look cute in that maid outfit!"
"Miharu, get us out of here!" Kirie asked urgently.
"Uhmm..." A puzzled look overcomes Miharu's face. She taps the vertical bars with a finger. "But I don't know how..."
"Use your star mark! Blow these bars up!" Kirie commanded. Miharu, staring down the bars, concentrates. She glares at them, her eyes focused, her face in a pout.
"Stand back" Kirie directed at Yukinari as she backed away. Despite this, a tense minute passes without anything happening.
"...I'm sorry Kirie. I think it only happens when I'm upset" Miharu said after a fruitless minute.
"Are you serious?" Kirie asked.
"She's not getting upset if she's getting fed" Yukinari comments.
"You guys want some?" Miharu said offering yakitori.
"Sure" Yukinari agreed accepting two through the bars.
"Miharu, dessert!" Fukuyama notifies.
"Dessert!?" Miharu repeats excitedly. "Hey! If you guys want some more, let me know!" she directs at the captives before returning to the table where dessert, large bowls of ice cream and chilled pudding, was being set up by Fukuyama's maids.
"She was our only hope..." Kirie muttered as Miharu departed. "Now what do we do?"
"Yakitori?" Yukinari offered one of the two in his hands. Kirie examines the offering for a moment.
"...Okay... Thanks" she accepted, a depressed tone to her voice.
"Cheer up Kirie" Yukinari said taking a seat at a corner of their small prison and beckoning Kirie to join him. "At least now we know Miharu's okay" he consoled. Kirie accepts the invitation and sits next to him.
"She's better than okay" Kirie adds looking Miharu's way who was nibbling at an ear of corn. "That's probably why Fukuyama's feeding her: to keep her from blowing up the place. And with that much food in front of her, you can't bring her down."
"..Yakitori's pretty good" Yukinari commented.
"..Yeah" Kirie agrees after tasting her own.
"For now Kirie, let's just get comfortable and relax" Yukinari said wrapping an arm around the brunette. "We can't do much in here except sit and observe so we'll do just that."
"Observe huh? Not sure I can stomach Fukuyama for too long though" Kirie whispers resentfully.
"Refreshment! I require another refreshment!" Fukuyama suddenly shouted out holding an empty soda bottle in hand.
"Right here Fukuyama!" a short-haired girl declared coming to the perverted blonde's rescue with a new bottle.
"Thank you sweetheart" Fukuyama thanked. "Bottle opener! Bottle opener!" he then demanded.
"Right here Fukuyama!" another girl in a purple bikini parroted giddily approaching Fukuyama's pool float.
"There you are" Fukuyama sings as the girl squeezed her boobs together. Jamming the bottle into the girl's cleavage, he pops the bottle cap right off with a twist. "Lovely talent you have there, thank you... honey" he says failing to recall the girl's name.
"Anytime Fukuyama!" the girl said departing as Fukuyama drank, a smug look on his face.
"How's the cage treating you two?" Fukuyama mocked looking especially comfy in his pool float before taking another swig of his drink. "Consider that punishment for intruding, Punynari! And for defiling my monument, Kirie!" Fukuyama chastised.
"Ignore it Kirie" Yukinari whispers.
"Don't worry, I'm ignoring it" Kirie whispers back, her head resting on Yukinari's shoulder, both their yakitoris finished.
-TRANSITION-
"Guys! Got the keys!" Masashi, key ring in hand, declared arriving back to the principal's office only to find it forced open and empty. "Guys?.. Where'd they go?" Masashi pondered to himself. "This is Fukuyama's office for sure" Masashi said not failing to notice the large portrait of Fukuyama hanging up on the wall behind the desk. Approaching, his attention is immediately drawn to the reading material sitting atop the desk. "Hmm.. Not bad! They look nice" he compliments flipping through the pages. "I'll have another look later" he thought as he rolled up the magazine and put it into his deep back pocket. He then searched the room for any clues to Yukinari and Kirie's whereabouts. Coming to the window overlooking the pool, he spots Fukuyama dismissing several attractive girls from the pool. "Well, they're not here. Perhaps Kazuharu might know" Masashi guessed beginning his way to the pool. There, he spots Fukuyama out of the pool, drying off with a towel, and welcoming another group of girls.
"Welcome to swim class, ladies!" Fukuyama directed at the girls some of which were swooning at the sight of Fukuyama in a speedo. "There are no rules in this classroom, just go in for a quick dip and have fun! Let the waters cleanse you of your worries and stresses in life!" Fukuyama said as the girls entered the pool.
"No rules Fukuyama?" one of the girls asked sweetly as she admired Fukuyama's physique.
"That's right my sweet! No rules" Fukuyama answers eyeing the girl similarly. As he did so, Masashi approached taking by surprise some of the female alumni.
"Ladies" Masashi greeted the attractive alumni.
"Who's he?", "I thought this was an all-girls school?", "He looks like the janitor" were among the whispers trailing Masashi.
"Hey there Fukuyama! Like what you've done with the place!" Masashi greets.
"Huh?" Fukuyama turned around. "Gaaah!" he exclaims at the sight of Masashi. "What the hell!? A man!?" Fukuyama gasped offended. "What the hell are you doing here!?" the wealthy blonde demands.
"Well, this used to be my school Kazuharu" Masashi reminded. "I liked going here to this school! And I can't help but notice you've got some of my friends locked up in a cage" he went on pointing in the direction of the imprisoned Yukinari and Kirie.
"H-hey, is that Masashi?" Yukinari directs at Kirie.
"It, it is!" Kirie said with a renewed sense of hope. "Masashi! Masashi! Get us out of here!" Kirie shouted from inside the cage.
"Don't worry! I'll get you guys out!" Masashi declares with a heroic tone to his voice. "As much as I don't mind the new male-to-female ratio, I can't stand idly by as you imprison Yukinari and Kirie!"
"Ha! And what do you pretend to do about it?" Fukuyama challenges, his arms folded smugly, an overconfident smirk on his face.
"This!" Masashi closes the gap between himself and the blonde and plants his hands upon Fukuyama's chest.
"Gaaaah!" Fukuyama screams in horror, his body assaulted by an outbreak of hives. "Aaah! D-don't touch me!"
"Whoa.. So it's true" Masashi said. "You're allergic to guys!"
"Yeah! Get him Masashi!" Kirie cheered on.
"Wh-who the hell told you!?" Fukuyama growled. "Kirie, was it you!?"
"Maybe I did!" Kirie mocked. "Masashi, kick his ass and get us out of here!" Kirie shouts.
"Your abuses end here!" Masashi threatens approaching once again.
"Kuh kuh kuh kuh kuh" Fukuyama chuckled. "Mwahahahaha! You think you've pulled a fast one on me do you?" With a snap of his fingers, a team of maids immediately assemble into a wall in Fukuyama's defense and surround Masashi from all sides.
"...He-hello ladies" Masashi greets the maids nervously.
"Not so high and mighty now, are you?" Fukuyama blurts out. "Bwahahahaha!"
"Damn!" Kirie curses.
"Got our hopes up too soon" Yukinari surrendered.
"Ladies, care to direct me to the janitor's office?" Masashi directs at the steely-eyed, intimidating maids. "I've got some cleaning to do. I 'am' the janitor after all... Hehe..."
"Crap" Kirie groaned moments after Masashi was shoved into the cage along with Yukinari and herself.
"Sorry guys" Masashi apologized. "They overpowered me and outnumbered me!" he explained.
"We know. We saw" Kirie sighed.
"And the maids were pretty cute! I just couldn't fight back!" Masashi adds.
"Eh..." Kirie lets out not knowing what to say to that.
"So now what?" Yukinari asks.
"Now" Fukuyama answers demeaningly, "you three sit there quietly! Think of this cage as your punishment for your transgressions! Not to worry though for Kazuharu Fukuyama is merciful and he shall let you out eventually" Fukuyama revealed departing. "Now if you'll excuse him, Kazuharu Fukuyama will be enjoying the rest of swim class without interruption! Hihihihihihihi!"
-TRANSITION-
"A pool with a buffet next to it!?" Tomoka gasped, her eyes wide with eager delight.
"That's right! And it's free!" confirms the maid, a tall one, guiding Koyomi, Tomoka, and Ebi around the school campus.
"Did you hear that Koyo!? Free buffet!" Tomoka, leading Ebi by the hand, exclaimed.
"That sounds great" Koyomi comments as the four pass by the headless and plaqueless campus statue.
"Don't mind the damage" the maid said referring to the monument. "One of our students lost her temper and took out her frustrations on the statue. It will be fixed soon enough."
"Who was the statue of?" Tomoka asked.
"The founder of the school" the maid answered before the four moved along though not without Koyomi worriedly glancing back at the damaged statue.
"This is an all-girls school now so no need to worry" Koyomi thought. Of particular note to her was the fact that the boys restrooms had been boarded up. Relaxing was easier knowing she wasn't going to run into any unknown males.
"Hope you girls brought swimsuits" the maid said as the four arrived at the school lockers.
"Of course!" Tomoka answered before Koyomi could.
"Excellent! Right this way" the maid said as Koyomi, Tomoka, and Ebi walked into the girls lockers. Koyomi got herself into a dark purple swimsuit and Tomoka into a dotted orange one-piece. Finally, with Tomoka's help, Ebi got into a baby blue, frilled two-piece.
"Big Sister Tomo's got you covered Ebi!" Tomoka said standing before a mirror. "Tomo thinks you look great by the way! Hope Ebi likes it!"
"Nyah nyah!" Ebi, a smile on her face, expressed looking herself over.
"Have fun ladies" the maid said moments later as Koyomi, Tomoka, and Ebi approached the pool.
"That's the plan!" Tomoka said leading the way and by the pool, spotting Miharu.
"You guys thirsty?" Miharu directed at Fukuyama's prisoners. "They've got green tea!"
"I could use a drink" Masashi said biting at a yakitori of his own. "And a curry bread please."
"Me too. Tea and a curry bread too please" Yukinari joined in as he finished up a chicken katsu.
"What about you Kirie? Would you like some tea?"
"..Sure" Kirie said resenting her imprisoned state. "Thanks Miharu."
"Three green teas coming up!" Miharu sung as she skipped back to the table. With refreshments in hand, she made her way back.
"Miharu?" Koyomi suddenly spoke up.
"Koyomi! Tomoka and Ebi too! You guys came!" Miharu greeted embracing Koyomi warmly while mindful of the drinks.
"Yes! Here for the food more than anything!" Tomoka said having skipped breakfast that morning. "Tomo's starving!"
"Right over there" Miharu directed pointing at the table.
"Alright! Let's go Ebi!" Tomoka said heading for the table, Ebi not far behind.
"So Miharu, what are you up to?" Koyomi asked following Miharu toward Fukuyama's captives.
"Just grabbing tea for Yukinari, Kirie, and Masashi" Miharu said arriving at the cage. "Here you are!"
"Thanks!" Masashi said accepting the drink.
"Koyomi? What are you doing here?" Yukinari asked with concern.
"K-Koyomi!? Wh-why are you here!?" Kirie almost blurts out upon realizing the Seirenian's presence. "You've got to get out of here!" she urged.
"Why!? What's wrong!?"
"You've got to get out of here before-"
"Before what Kirie?" a relaxed, suave voice intercepted just from behind Koyomi.
"Eeep!" Koyomi releases, her skin crawling at Fukuyama's voice assaulting her ears and at a hand hooking around her waist.
"But Koyomi is in very, very good hands here at Mizuno High!" Fukuyama says smoothly, Koyomi stiff with fear, her expression frozen with horror. "Why would she want to go?"
"Fukuyama, knock it off!" Yukinari demanded.
"Can't you see you're scaring her!? Let her go!" Kirie growls.
"Knock it off! Let her go?" Fukuyama parroted. "Koyomi came of her own free will! She accepted my invitation after all!" Fukuyama said pulling in the petrified Koyomi close.
"Fukuyama! We're ready for our oil massages!" came a voice from a row of bodacious girls lounging face-down by the pool, their backs bare.
"In a second ladies" Fukuyama responds. "Just securing another to my harem! Mhmhmhmhmhmhmm!" he chuckles, his grip on Koyomi tightening.
"Get your sicko hands off of her Fukuyama!" Kirie exclaims, her demands adamant. Fukuyama ignores her.
"Koyomi" Fukuyama began, "care to join the girls in a sensual oil massage administered by yours truly? I promise, I'll be extra gent-"
SLAP!
Like the crack of a whip, the sound reverberates sharply through the open air, bouncing off walls and gliding over the surface of the pool. Heads reflexively turn to the source of the sound catching sight of Fukuyama staggering back, Koyomi's arm stiff and a collective gasp from around the pool responds.
"Oh my!" Miharu said, her palm over her mouth.
"Whoa" Yukinari said wide-eyed.
"Yeah Koyomi! Show that perv who's boss!" Kirie celebrates.
"Wait, what just happened? I missed it!" Masashi gasped distracted by some curry bread and the girls in bikini.
"Wh-what's it going to take to get it through your thick skull!?" Koyomi exclaimed. "I-I want nothing to do with you! I want you to stay away from me! Stay away from me forever!" she shouted upset but with complete conviction and force in her voice.
"You tell him Koyomi!" Yukinari cheered.
"Fukuyama, are you okay?" Miharu asked worried, Koyomi's red palm violently imprinted on his cheek.
"I'm perfectly fine Miharu honey" he said regaining his boastful composure and perfect complexion save for the palm-shaped imprint. "Don't you worry about me. As a matter of fact, I'm more than better now!" he said refocusing his eyes upon his prey.
"Stay away from me, y-you perv! I swear, I, I'm not afraid of you" Koyomi said trying not to lose nerve. Fukuyama's mouth adopts a vile smirk upon detecting a hint of fear.
"Koyomi, you only delay the inevitable" Fukuyama said. "You'll be mine, one way or another."
"N-no!" Koyomi breathed trying to mask her fright, Fukuyama's fingers wiggling ready to assault her.
"Fukuyama, once I'm out of here, I swear I'll make you regret all of this!" Kirie exclaims.
"I-I'm not afraid of you" Koyomi challenged feeling emboldened somehow. She takes a shaky step forward in defiance.
"Oh~" Fukuyama let out looming over Koyomi, his hands ready to grope away. "Such bravery. That's really hot, I like that!" he said, steam shooting out his nostrils. Fukuyama's depraved behavior now was making Koyomi feel angry. Slapping him felt like a release of sorts: the fact that she had done it made her want to do it again and more. Whether through kicking, biting, scratching, she wanted to wipe that perverse smirk off of Fukuyama's face.
"I, I-I'm not running away!" Koyomi said standing her ground as Fukuyama approached.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Tomoka interrupted eating from a plateful of food. "What's with all the commotion?" It was not long however before she noticed the red coloring to Fukuyama's face. "Whoa! Hey Koyo, is the big stupid perv giving you trouble or someting?" Tomoka squeaked.
"Tomoka, go play elsewhere. The grown-ups are talking" Fukuyama said shooing Tomoka away.
"Hey, what are you trying to say!?" Tomoka blurted out offended. "Tomo will have you know that she is a respected Space Travel Agency employee. And an accomplished one too! And she's a big sister. You hear that? That means Tomo's the older sister" Tomoka boasted. "Hey, are you listening?"
"..An angel..." Fukuyama, spellbound, muttered. "A blessing from the heavens!"
"What?" Following the perv's eyes, Tomoka spots Ebi sitting plainly by the long table drinking apple juice from a sippy cup and then letting out the tiniest of burps.
"B-beauty given shape! Love encapsulated by smooth, tender flesh!" Fukuyama acclaimed as he lost all interest in Koyomi. "She's innocent femininity solidified! She's the peak of perfection! An ode dedicated to the female anatomy! A miracle of the universe!" he voiced in jubilation and began walking slowly towards the little Ebi.
"Oh no you don't you big stupid pervert! You keep your hands off of Little Sister Ebi!" Tomoka protests angrily. Not a single word reached Fukuyama's perked up ears, ears solely focused on picking up on Ebi's gentle breathing. "Tomo said no!" Tomoka squeaks and she wraps herself around Fukuyama's ankle in hopes of slowing him down. Fukuyama continues his walk carrying Tomoka as though she were weightless. "Grrrr!" Tomoka growls wrestling with Fukuyama's leg in vain.
"Fukuyama! When are you giving us the sensual massages you promised?" a girl, holding her loosened bikini top to her chest, asked impatiently as she intercepted the spellbound blonde. "The rest of the girls and I are tired of waiting!" she said indicating several other attractive girls lounging by the pool.
"Do not tempt me from the righteous path!" Fukuyama barked not diverting his eyes a nanometer from Ebi's direction. Placing his palm directly over the insolent girl's face, he shoves her aside and into the pool. "I have no need for any of you hussies!" he condemned loudly. "I have found purity. Unsullied. Free from the blemishes of this corrupt, imperfect, filthy world!" Fukuyama sung to the heavens. Funnily enough, with Fukuyama now completely uninterested, Koyomi felt disappointed: she had never felt so brave and ready to confront the rich deviant only to be let down by having the affair end so flatly.
"That, that's it?" Koyomi exhaled feeling deflated that Fukuyama no longer harbored even a minute interest in her. Demoralized, she collapses with a sort of exhaustion.
"Koyomi, you okay?.." Kirie asked noting Koyomi's collapse. "..Where's Fukuyama head- What's Ebi doing here!?" Kirie exclaims. "Why is Ebi here!?"
"Ebi?" Yukinari noted.
"Ebi? The little girl?" Masashi accompanied.
"FUKUYAMMAAAAA!" Kirie bellowed. "Lay a single finger on her head and I swear I'LL KILL YOU!" Not a single word registered with the blonde rich boy.
"Nyah?" Ebi meowed as she noticed the tall figure approaching her. "Nyaaa!" she screamed in panic upon noticing it was a predator from long ago.
"Ebi~" Fukuyama said smoothly with arms spread wide and ready to pounce. "Come to papaa~!" he yelled lunging for the little girl. With surprising agility, Ebi evaded the attack and, to everyone's surprise, she leapt into the pool.
"AAAaaaaahh!" Kirie screamed in horror. "Someone, get her out! She'll DROWN!" Looking around frantically, she fails to find a lifeguard or even anyone resembling such a person. "Fukuyama! You have NO lifeguards!?"
"Nonsense!" Fukuyama dismissed readily. "You're looking at one" he gloated, fists at his sides. "Don't you worry. Ebi's in very, veerry good hands. And relax" he assured wearing a lewd grin. "I know mouth-to-mouth!"
Kirie didn't know whether to feel more angry at Fukuyama or more fearful for Ebi's safety and a mixture of both overtook her as she began kicking desperately at the vertical bars of the cage. "Let me OUT!" she cried.
"Fukuyama! You MONSTER!" Yukinari shouted only for this to go ignored.
"Ladies, out of the pool. A rescue is in progress" Fukuyama commanded and the pool vacates. "Here I come Ebi! To your rescue!~" Fukuyama said and gracefully dove into the pool, his pursuit of the little girl resuming. Kirie could only watch helplessly, tears welling up in her eyes afraid Ebi might either drown or fall into Fukuyama's vile hands.
"No! N-no! Please no!" Kirie cried falling into Yukinari's arms. "Yukinari, we have to do something!" she pleaded.
"Koyomi, Miharu, you'll have to go in there!" Yukinari told the two Seirenians.
"R-right!" Koyomi said readying a dive into the pool. Before Miharu and Koyomi could dive in, Masashi speaks up.
"Wait guys, look!" Masashi gasped in disbelief.
"Incredible!" Koyomi said astonished.
"Whoa! Look at her go!" Tomoka cheered at the sight. To everyone's complete surprise, Ebi was not only capable of swimming, she swam with the skill rivaling that of a professional contender. With arms rotating and legs kicking, Ebi shot through the water and in seconds she got from the shallow end of the pool to the deeper end before her head surfaced.
"Wow, did you see that!?" Yukinari asked aloud.
"Ebi's got skill!" Masashi praised. "Well what do ya know?"
"I, I'm just glad she's not drowning" Kirie, with moistened eyes, said with deep relief.
"Hm! You're indeed quite the swimmer" Fukuyama complimented. "Oh Ebi~! Come to Fukuyama!" he called out invitingly as he swam in close. "I'm here to rescue you~!" Fukuyama pounces, his arms lunging forward and Ebi dodges, her head going under and like a torpedo, she blasts through the water nimbly evading Fukuyama's aimless but devious clutches. "Slow down!" Fukuyama growls as water splashed violently around him. Ebi swims and surfaces a safe distance away from the perv.
"Nyah nyaah!" Ebi mocked, her tongue out.
"Haha! She's got a bit of spunk in her" Masashi laughed. "Good for her!"
"Why you little" Fukuyama grumbled through clenched teeth. Being outmaneuvered by a little girl was anything but flattering but even with his ego, there was no way he could stay angry at such a cute little girl like Ebi. "Ebi, no need to be afraid of me. Come with me and I can get you a lot of candy!" Fukuyama tempted.
"Humph!" Ebi huffed turning her face away in rejection.
"D-don't let him have his way Ebi!" Koyomi cheers.
"Oh! Be that way then! It's only a matter of time until I catch you though" Fukuyama said swimming in pursuit. "Here I come!" Ebi dives deep underwater almost beyond Fukuyama's reach, Fukuyama closes in and plunges his arms into the water narrowly catching Ebi's leg. Ebi outswims him once again, gets on Fukuyama's six and seizing the top of his speedo, pulls up as hard as her little hands would allow. Fukuyama surfaces immediately. "Aaaaah!" he screams in pain grasping his swimwear.
"What happened?" Yukinari asks.
"Looks to me like Ebi wedgied Fukuyama" Masashi reasoned.
"She can do that!?" Yukinari questioned surprised.
"Ha! Serves him right the perv!" Kirie said.
"That really hurt! How could you people cheer on my suffering!?" Fukuyama shouted aghast. "Urgh!" Fukuyama grunts just before a metal serving platter hits him flat on the face.
"Alright Koyo!" Tomoka cheered.
"That's what you get for preying on us!" Koyomi snapped. The platter slides off of the pervert's reddened face revealing clenched teeth, an eye twitching in annoyance, and his ears as though they were about to shoot out steam from anger. He had run out of patience at this point.
"Maids! Seize them!" the perv shouts and at once, his legion of maids again burst onto the scene and quickly move to apprehend Fukuyama's adversaries. "Careful with the pink one, she can blow the place up!"
"Hey! Let Big Sister Tomo go!" Tomoka protested. The maids grab hold of Koyomi, Tomoka, and, to keep Miharu happy, a maid hands Miharu a long, fat gourmet sub.
"Oh! Thank you!" Miharu said as she began nibbling away at the sandwich. "Delicious!"
"What shall we do with them master?" one of the maids then asked.
"Just keep them put! If they get too noisy, tape their mouths shut!" Fukuyama commanded heavily. "I'm about to bag me an angel!" Fukuyama said turning his lecherous eyes back to Ebi. "Now Ebi, I understand we've had our differences but that's no reason we can't get along! I'm a nice guy!" The grin on Fukuyama's face did not fool Ebi. She shakes her head adamantly. "I'll tell you what: if you come with me, I'll let the prisoners go!" Fukuyama said indicating the cage where Yukinari, Kirie, and Masashi were jailed in, and Miharu, Koyomi, and Tomoka held firmly in place by Fukuyama's henchwomen. "What do you say?" Ebi gazed sympathetically at Fukuyama's prisoners as though mulling over the deal.
"Don't do it! Stay away from the pervert!" Kirie warned. "He's lying to you!"
"You can let them go Ebi!" Fukuyama said. "All you have to do is join me and I will raise you to be the greatest of maids the Fukuyama household has ever known!" To everyone's surprise, Ebi begins swimming slowly towards Fukuyama.
"No! Don't do it! Save yourself Ebi!" Yukinari called out and soon, everyone else was urging her not to give into Fukuyama's will.
"Stop! You listen to your Big Sister Tomo and stop!" Tomoka commanded loudly.
"No Ebi! Don't!" Koyomi alerted. "He's a crazed pervert!"
"That's a good girl" Fukuyama said with Ebi just inches away from Fukuyama's hands. "Gotcha!" Ebi was now securely in Fukuyama's clutches, his hands gripping Ebi's arms firmly. There was no turning back now, Fukuyama's hands not the kind to easily let go once they found themselves wrapped around such tender flesh.
"Fukuyama, please let her go" Miharu, sensing Ebi's discomfort, pleaded politely. Kirie's request was not as courteous.
"Fukuyama, you piece of SHIT! I swear I'm going to BREAK each and EVERY ONE of your FINGERS!" Kirie shouted. Fukuyama only grinned.
"Fukuyama, we had a deal!" Yukinari reminded.
"Oh I didn't forget!" Fukuyama said with a smirk. "I just need to secure my prize!" he said caressing Ebi's hair. "As I do, all of you will be escorted off of school premises! Mhmhmhm! Mwahahahahahaha! Hahahaha! Hihihihihihi! Hahahaha!" Fukuyama laughed savoring his victory as he began tossing Ebi up and catching her in celebration. "I've won, Ebi! I've won Ebi! Oh what joy!" Fukuyama was right to celebrate. There was nothing anyone could do to stop him at that point. Ebi was securely in his claws and anyone who could stop him was either caged or detained by his maids.
"Let Tomo go! And Ebi too!" Tomoka protested as the maids were leading her, Miharu, and Koyomi away.
"What you're doing is wrong!" Koyomi accused. "Ebi is a part of our family! You can't take her from us!" As the maids prepared to trasport the cage away, Kirie said nothing. She was plotting: the instant she was released, the moment her feet touched the ground, she was gonna charge back to the school as fast as she could, knock down as many maids as she would have to to get Ebi back from Fukuyama and then send the perv's ass straight to hell. Yukinari and Masashi felt similarly but for now, they'd have to tolerate the sting of defeat.
"Ebi? Are you alright?" Fukuyama asked aloud noting the queasy look on Ebi's face which was twisted in a pout and looking slightly pink in the cheeks. "Hey! You dare mock me!? Your new master!? Don't look at me like that!" Fukuyama chastised. "I'm your master now! I deserve utmost respect, admiration, and worship!" Ebi only continues her pouting seemingly annoyed and disgusted by the fact that Fukuyama was even touching her.
"Mnng!" Ebi groaned, the sound as though she were summoning something up from the pit of her stomach.
"I order you to stop that!" Fukuyama demanded losing patience. "Don't think that a temper tantrum is going to work on me Ebi! I assure you, it will not work!"
"Mmnnngggrrrr!"
"Are you listening!? I said stop! I swear, you may be cute but you have a rotten attitude! That Kirie is a terrible influence on you!" Fukuyama criticized. "Not to worry: I will rid of you of your petulance! You shall be re-educated!" Ebi continued. "Stop it! I said sto-" they were to be Fukuyama's last words that day.
"Ggrrrnnyyaaaaahhhh!" Ebi screamed as a bright white light exploded out of her mouth. This bright light engulfed Fukuyama's entire head and shoulders, collided with the roof of the cage forcing the prisoners to duck, and crashed into the face of the school building overlooking the pool shattering windows and shaking the entire building.
"What the hell is that!?" a maid shouted.
"E-beam!" Tomoka answered loud and ecstatically. The powerful beam attack subsides after greatly weakening the cage roof and leaving the face of the school building visibly cracked, its concrete structure perilously compromised as small chunks of rubble began falling off.
"Master!" the maids shouted after finding Fukuyama painfully charred from the shoulders up. With a kick, Ebi frees herself from the pervert's claws and dives back into the safety of the depths of the water. Fukuyama collapses leaving his body floating unconscious in the pool and his maids immediately rushing to his aid. "Girls! We need to evacuate the school immediately!" a taller of the several maids, noting the damage, quickly ordered.
"But what of the prisoners?" another maid holding Koyomi questioned.
"Forget about them! We'll be in deep trouble if any alumni get seriously hurt!" the tall maid answered. "You three, get master to the infirmary! Everyone else, we need to get the students out!" she commands as she pulled out a handheld transceiver. "Head maid Lilica! Come in!" the maid urgently spoke into the device as she and the rest of the maids disappeared into the school. Now left unattended, Kirie knocks the damaged cage down onto its side and with a powerful kick knocks the top of the damaged cage off. Kirie rushes to the pool and Ebi swims right up to her. Kirie lifts her right up from the water and into a warm embrace.
"Oh Ebi! I was so worried!" Kirie said emotionally pressing Ebi to herself tightly. "I was afraid we might have lost you!"
"Nyah nya nya" Ebi, her hair dripping, answered dismissively.
"Cool! Little Sister Ebi saved the day today!" Tomoka cheered as everyone huddled around the little green-haired girl.
"Who would have guessed she was such a great swimmer!" Yukinari acclaimed with surprise.
"And the way she got the big, stupid pervert!" Tomoka said proudly. "Ebi's secret weapon!"
"I forgot she could do that" Kirie said recalling Ebi using it during Miharu's rescue.
"Yep! Big Sister Tomo calls it the e-beam!" Tomoka boasted.
"Ebi, when did you learn to swim?" Kirie asked.
"Nya nya" Ebi answered.
"We shouldn't forget that Ebi is no stranger to water, actually" Koyomi responds referring to Ebi's seal form.
"That's a good point" Kirie says as she glances at Fukuyama's unconcious body and then back at Ebi.
"Good for you Ebi! You taught him a lesson!" Kirie praised.
"She saved us too!" Koyomi praised further. "She's our hero!"
"Nyah nya~!" Ebi meowed scratching the back of her head modestly.
"You weren't too bad yourself there Koyomi" Kirie recognized, "you stood your ground against the perv."
"Th-thank you" Koyomi thanked, her cheeks pink.
"Is he going to be okay?" Masashi, working his way through other concerned admirers of Fukuyama's, asked gazing down at the charred remains of Fukuyama's smoking, sizzling head.
"Stay back you!" one of the three maids tending to Fukuyama warned.
"Back off or we hurt you!" another maid growled stepping forward aggressively.
"Rude! Forgive me for worrying!" Masashi quipped backing off and joining Yukinari and the others.
"You don't need to worry, he'll recover from this" Kirie assured. "No matter what happens, no matter what you do to him, he always comes back."
"Can we go home now?" Koyomi asked feeling worn out mentally.
"Yes, let's" Kirie agreed and with Ebi in arms, she leads the other four away. "I wanna get out of this bothersome maid outfit and I feel a terrible sore throat coming on. I think I might have yelled too much today."
"I have a tea recipe that helps with sore throats" Koyomi offered.
"That would be very nice, thank you" Kirie agreed readily.
"Well, I can't say today was boring" Yukinari directed at Masashi.
"I had fun. There were cute bikini girls running around and Fukuyama has a decent taste in women, I must say" Masashi said after fishing out the magazine from his back pocket and skimming it wearing an expression comparable to Fukuyama's. "..Hey don't look at me like that! You're a guy too! Surely you can forgive a fellow man for admiring the female figure!" Masashi defended, a gleam in his eye.
"No no, didn't mean anything by it. Whatever look I was giving you, I mean..." Yukinari said. "Just wasn't expecting you to have that with you."
"C'mon Miharu! We gotta go!" Tomoka urged the pink-haired Seirenian.
"Coming!" Miharu answered carrying a small cooler full of food she had picked out from the table. With the party gone, all that was left was Fukuyama, three maids tending to him, and several of the alumni huddled around him.
"Is he going to be okay?", "Someone call a doctor! Please!", "I'll nurse him back to health", "Oh poor Fukuyama!", "His face is going to be okay right? Right!?" was among the chatter floating around the flock of girls.
"Stand back! He's breathing! Just give him room!" one of the maids ordered. As Fukuyama was being tended to, from behind a large pile of books a moderate distance away from the pool, Lisa strolls out, book in hand, and heads straight to the gaggle of Fukuyama's admirers.
"Excuse me! Excuse me!" Lisa raised her voice over the girls. "I seek a word with big brother!" She gets through to find the incapacitated body of her older brother. "Oh my! Big brother, what has happened to you!?" Lisa exclaimed with worry.
"Mistress Lisa, an adolescent girl going by the name of 'Ebi' is responsible for the condition master finds himself in currently" reported a maid kneeling by Fukuyama's side as another, to her own horror, accidentally breaks off Fukuyama's charred nose.
"Ebi? Ebi was here?" Lisa voiced as she spotted the cage knocked down to its side, its roof violently kicked off, and the school building with shattered windows and worrying deep fractures webbing throughout its side. "Oh wow. So that's what all the noise was..." Lisa said surveying the damage to the building. Just then, another piece falls off of the building and crashes to the ground. Thankfully, it lands harmlessly. "Father is not going to like any of this. At all" Lisa whispered to herself. "..I had nothing to do with this!" the witch was quick to claim. "Fault lies solely with big brother!" she said rushing back to gather her books. "So much research wasted. Big brother just can't keep out of trouble" she concluded.
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