MonMusu Geass
And here's the arrival of another chapter of this wonderfully odd brainfart of mine, and with it a new character. Who is it? Well if you're familiar with the manga/anime, it should be very obvious.
If not, you're just here for Lulu suffering, aren't you? Not that I blame you for the idea.
And speaking of which, let's take a look at the reviews since last we met.
Ewertondragon – Oh, he will. I'm not planning on him just being the phallic blocker for the whole thing. I got two sure hits and at least one I'm on the fence about. Probably should ask everyone's opinion when that particular chapter pops up eventually.
edboy4926 - Unfortunately, that'll be a "no" for that one. Then again, it's not like Kimihito needs any kind of geass since *redacted due to manga spoilers* so it's not really necessary.
The SENDER and the TRAVELER – Yeah, as if he wasn't bothered enough by his fangirls in his old life, now he has to contend with the fandom of this new life that's quite familiar with the anime. And yes, unfortunately he is quite familiar with the fandom's own works on the internet.
Oh well, at least he has a ring video of a certain speedycake AMV on his smart phone to help relax him at times.
Bookcoda – Yeah, even I have no idea where it came from. Still, it'll be an interesting journey for all of us.
Paxloria – While there are in-character plausibilities for both Smith and Miia to not notice Lelouch as much as Kurusu, you do have a point and shall intergrate more interaction, starting with this chapter.
You see people? If you don't insult an author or treat them as if they were a mindless toddler, criticism can be easily accepted rather than rage-quit worthy.
And speaking of rage worthy, here's some more legal mumbo jumbo to cover my derriere. It's not like any of us are getting paid.
Disclaimer: The basic intellectual properties that inspired this story are not own by the author. Instead, the franchise that is Code Geass is owned by Gorō Taniguchi, Sunrise, Bandai Entertainment and Funimation. Likewise, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou is owned by Okayado, Tokuma Shoten publishing, Tatsuya Yoshihara, and studios Lerche and Seva. Please support the respective official release of each property however possible.
Everyday Life with a Co-Protagonist and a Harpy
The next day, Lelouch carried a load of laundry up the stairs towards the second floor patio to air dry. Miia and Kimihito were already up there with a previous load and he simply had to get the second load ready for the same. Still, he could not help but use this brief period of peace and calm to mentally reflect on a few topics. One such topic being the issue of the spray bottle being unavailable at the most inopportune times.
True, Miia can be unpredictable at times and there were frantic moments when they have been caught unawares, but it was too frequent an occurrence to be mere negligence. He had made sure each time he was in the kitchen that the spray bottle was full of water and at the proper temperature, even when he knew that Miia and Kirihito were alone in a room he made sure that the spray bottle was ready, and yet each time it was simply not an option for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps he should invest in a squirt gun the next time Kirihito and himself were at the supermarket-
"DARLING!" The lamia's panicked shriek echoed from above in abject horror. Lelouch simply sighed.
"It's as if I can't leave the two of them alone for five minutes…" Lelouch bemoaned before he climbed the steps.
Only to be knocked down by a one-lamia stampede that sent the laundry load, the laundry basket, and he sprawled against the floor and the front door. The house still spinned as Miia pulled him from the ground by the collar of his shirt.
"Darling'sbeenkidnappedbyagiantbluebird!Weneedtosavehim!" Miia spoke in a blur which barely brought the house level before she began to drag Lelouch with her.
"Miia, wait! Wait! Wait! WAIT!" Lelouch cried out as he held firm the door frame. Granted, his ligaments and sinew in his joints protested painfully.
"Why?!" Miia exclaimed in a panic. "We have to rescue Darling now!"
"We need to get our certification cards." Lelouch answered.
"But why do we even need them?"
"Because a few short moments in getting them is far more preferable to a few hours due to our being about without Kurusu and those cards." Lelouch logically explained. "If we can explain the situation to any law enforcement, they may even help us as well."
With great reluctance and sense of urgency, Miia went to get her own certification card while Lelouch located his own. Soon enough, they were ready to find Kirihito when Lelouch inevitably asked. "So, how will we find him?"
Miia pointed "That bird thing went that way!"
"General direction, eh?" Lelouch mused with heavy shoulders. "Well I guess we should just head towards any commotion involving birds-" It was then did he notice that Miia wrapped her tail around his midsection. "…Eden Vita-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AH-H-H-H-H!" Lelouch was dragged as Miia slithered at improbably high speeds in her search for Kirihito.
The entire "trip" to find Kimihito was little more than an incomprehensible blur as Miia rushed towards her impromptu goal. When he will reflect upon this time in the near future, Lelouch would note in amazement how he had not crashed into anything as the lamia took such sharp turns at each intersection.
Then again, Miia did use part of her body to grasp hold onto him so it would be little more than innate self-preservation to not impact her tail on anything else injuries would result.
"Stop! You're gonna drown me!" It was a miracle Lelouch even heard Kimihito's voice as well as Miia when they cut through the neighborhood park. He turned to look at the lamia and found a look upon her face soured with angered annoyance as she recognized the kidnapper; a blue haired and feathered bird-girl. Lelouch could only assume that she was a Harpy, though how she was in the water fountain in the nude, he'd rather not ponder too deeply.
"There you are!" Miia exclaimed.
"Miia?" Kimihito inquired. "How did you-" He then saw the lamia's face and aura and wisely clammed shut.
"You bird brat!" Miia half-roared. "First you stole my Darling, and now this… That's so unfair!"
"What are you saying?!"
"Somehow, I'm not surprised- ACK!" Lelouch then found himself the recipient of Miia's subconscious frustrations. "M-Miia! Too tight!"
"I want to run away with my Darling too, you damned bird!" Miia then challenged the harpy. "It's so unfair! Just go die!"
"Wait, what are you two-" Kimihito, ever the diplomat, attempted to resolve the conflict peacefully. An expert strategist, he was not as he placed himself between the riled up lamia and harpy. Too late he realized the mistake he made as was broadsided by Miia's tail which entangled itself around the harpy's lower torso.
"You skinny little bird bitch! I'll boil your booby ass and make chicken soup out of it!" Miia growled as Lelouch, now freed from the lamia's aggressive and frustrated tail, picked himself up from the ground and recovered.
"Who're you calling 'booby' with these things?!" The harpy exclaimed as she used her talons to rip Miia's shirt open, all the while poor Kimihito's face was scratched up from said talons. "I dare you to say that again!"
"Say what now?!"
"Okay, I think that's enough now-" Lelouch spoke as he placed an arm in between the lamia and the harpy. On retrospect, he was glad that he was immortal because as he placed his primary arm out, both the unknown harpy and Miia performed an attack against the other; attacks that Lelouch's arm simultaneously intercepted.
"L-Lulu!" Miia exclaimed in horror as the harpy was speechless at the terrible wound Lelouch suffered. He hissed in agonized pain as his right forearm barely hung onto his elbow from his sinews, blood oozed from exposed veins and arteries.
"Eden Vital, this hurts so much!"
"You see! You two really need to cut it out!" Kimihito exclaimed to the two liminal girls. "You can't just have a catfight here in the middle of-" It was then that the host noticed that the crowd no longer paid any attention to the two battling liminals. "…Wait, what?"
"Th-that's what I was trying to tell you guys," Lelouch spoke out in less strain as the code repaired much of the mangled joint. "Something else popped up." He gestured towards the little girl that was stuck in a nearby tree in an attempt to reclaim a trapped balloon. Naturally, the crowd was more concerned with the plight of the girls than the public indecency of two liminal females.
"Don't move!"
"Someone call the police!"
"No, the fire department!"
"She doesn't want to take off?" The still nude harpy inquired.
"This could be bad…!" Miia noted, still oblivious to the holes in her shirt that exposed her chest to the entire world.
"What's bad is your lack of clothes!" Kimihito exclaimed to the two liminal girls with an armful of clothes. "Put these on!" Miia immediately covered her chest as Kirihito placed a jacket upon her shoulders. The unknown harpy girl was already donned in her clothes in record time.
"But man," Kirihito noted as he looked up at the fear-stricken child. "This is dangerous… What should we do?"
"Alright! Leave it to Papi!" The harpy, Papi, volunteered. "I can just fly up there and peck at her until she takes off!"
"Wait, stop!" Kimihito called out, but was too late as Papi leaped into the air.
Only to fall flat on her face. "Ah, I can't fly…" Papi noted as she lifted her wings from the ground and looked at them. "Is it because my feathers are too wet!? Was I in the bath for too long..?!"
"Perfect YouTube moment and I didn't get my cellphone ready in time." Lelouch noted with a sigh.
Kimihito then approached Papi. "Listen up, Papi. Humans aren't harpies! We can't just 'take off' and fly like you!" He scolded. "Falling from heights can be really dangerous or even deadly for us! I hurt my foot pretty badly when I fell earlier, too…" Papi could barely look Kirihito in the eyes.
"Don't worry Darling! I can take care of this!" Miia declared as she tied the front of the shirt closed. "Tree climbing is a lamia specialty!" She then wrapped her tail around the trunk of the tree and began to slither around and upwards towards the branches.
"Miia…" Kimihito noted as he gazed upon Miia climbing the tree.
"Jeez, this tree has a ton of leaves!" Miia complained in between prickling yelps of pain. "Huh? Where'd she go? Ouch! They're sticking to me!"
With a sight, Lelouch approached the tree. "Lelouch? What are you doing?" Kimihito called out, which drew the attention of the crowd onto the anime character whom they had just recognized.
"I have a feeling that I should be Miia's Plan 'b'." Lelouch answered back as he stood beneath the branch the little girl clung to tightly. He then opened his arms wide enough to catch the little girl should she fall.
"Will your arm be okay? It just healed from earlier."
"It should be well enough."
"A ghost!" The little girl squealed in fright, enough for her to lose her balance and fall from the tree branch. Miia attempted to leap towards the girl as her tail wrapped around the tree branch as an anchor point, but she narrowly missed the girl's hand.
Lelouch knew something like this would happen, so he widened his stance and readied himself to catch the falling girl safely. Just as Papi flew just above him and intercepted the little girl. "My wings are still too heavy!"
"…Son of a- GURK!" Lelouch was crushed by Papi's fall, even though it softened the impact for both the harpy and the little girl.
Papi, after she winced in anticipation to a hard impact on the ground, opened her eyes to see that she landed right on top of Lelouch whose right heel touched his left ear. She sat up and looked at the immortal. "You saved me?"
Poor Lelouch, Papi had quickly forgotten that he had gone to catch the little girl earlier, the same little girl now in her lap.
Kimihito then approached the harpy. "Good job, Papi." He congratulated. "Granted, the ending could have been done better, but you did it." Papi smiled from the encouragement.
"Can I get up now?" Lelouch asked in pain.
Later on, the mother of the little girl thanked Papi. "Grh… And I tried so hard…" Miia groaned with her hair covered in leaves.
"Don't worry, I know you did." Kimihito comforted the lamia as he brushed away the leaves from her head. The squeaks of a bicycle break then caught their attention.
"Oh?" The police officer noted in confusion. "I heard there was a kid stuck in a tree around here…"
"He's late!" Miia noted.
"Not exactly first responder material, this one." Lelouch quipped.
"No worries, we already got her down safely- thanks to this girl here." Kirihito patted Papi's head, much to Miia's chagrin.
"Liver and onions, yet again." Lelouch quipped once more as Miia gave him a sympathetic pat on his shoulder.
"Really? Good work!" The police officer saluted.
"Thank you!" Papi saluted back, though more likely in mimicry.
"By the way…" The police officer recalled. "You two are liminal exchange students, right?"
"With one technicality." Lelouch added with a raised finger.
"An anime character? Cool- Wait!" The police officer shook his head as he recovered his train of thought. "I mean, where are your host families?"
"My darling is my host." Miia answered.
"And we have our certification cards." Lelouch flashed said identification material.
"Oh right, they said that they were going to deflower me." Papi recalled.
"Come again?" Lelouch and Miia snapped their attention back upon Papi.
"No! It's 'deport'!" Kimihito corrected. "And it means they're kicking you out of the country!"
"Wha-a-a-a-a-a-a-at!?" Papi exclaimed.
"So does that mean….?" The police officer awaited the answer as Papi drew closer to Kirihito.
With a single glance upon the Harpy, Kimihito did not spare a second thought as he declared. "I-I'm her host! All three are living with me!"
"Darling…" Miia could not help but be smitten by Kirihito's actions.
"Okay then, can you just show me her certification." And in that instance, Kimihito realized that he had just dug his own grave.
"A competent police officer…" Lelouch noted. "Now that's an interesting surprise."
"Why thank you!" The police officer humbly took the compliment with an embarrassed look upon his face and a hand rubbing the back of his neck.
"What are you doing?!" Miia nearly hissed.
"What? It's a genuine surprise." Lelouch answered. "Other than his timing, he's actually doing his job diligently." Unsurprising, the police officer took the praise in stride. "I mean all the 'law enforcement' I had encountered in my past life were either incompetent or corrupt. This is actually a nice change of pace for once. I mean he actually asked if we had our certification cards instead of just taking our word at face value."
"No problem," Smith announced as she flashed Papi's certification card, much to everyone's shock. "I got that right here!"
"Speak of the devil." Lelouch noted.
"Wow… that was crazy." Kimihito recalled back at the house later that day. "How did you get her certification card so quickly?"
"Yeah…." Lelouch noted in a suspicious tone as he stared down Smith. "It seems a little TOO convenient."
"Why shouldn't it be?" Smith turned towards Lelouch. "I've already had it with me."
"Huh? Why?" Kimihito asked from the coffee machine.
"I'm not liking where this is going…" Lelouch noted.
"Well, we couldn't find a host family willing to put up with such a frequent runaway. So I was actually on my way to for-" Smith cleared her throat. "I mean, ASK you to take care of Papi, Darling-kun, but she then flew off."
"You were the coordinator she ran away from?!" Kimihito then recalled Smith's wording. "Wait, does that mean that…"
"Yes, Kimihito." Lelouch answered for Smith. "We have a new housemate."
"WHAT?!" Miia exclaimed as she now realized what just happened.
"On that note, Papi-chan," Smith turned towards the harpy. "Welcome to your new home!"
"Really?" Papi nearly squealed in delight from the revelation.
"He's the boss of the house, so make sure to do what he says." Smith advised the harpy.
"Okay!"
"Just wait a minute! Do you really think it's a good idea to have three liminals under the same roof?!" Kimihito exclaimed.
"Unfortunately, you just set a precedent, Kimihito." Lelouch answered once again for Smith. "With Miia and myself under the same roof, it was inevitable that there'll be more. It was just a matter of time."
"So more renovations to the house then?"
"Probably, if not very likely."
"Why not? It'll just be fine!" Smith answered before she barely mumbled. "Right?"
The was a pause before Kimihito inquired. "You really have no idea how to do your job, do you?!"
"What was your first clue?" Lelouch added.
Smith diplomatically chose not to respond to the two men's quips as she turned back to the harpy. "Alright then! Don't go flying away again, Papi-chan!"
"Don't worry!" Papi reassured Smith as she hugged Kimihito's arm. "I may not be able to understand complicated things, but that's something I can remember! 'Cause that means that I'll be able to be with Boss! All the time!"
Papi then started to half-drag Kimihito towards the bathroom. "Let's take a bath, Boss! We can continue from where we left off earlier!"
"Hey! Don't pull!" Kimihito protested. "My foot still hurts! Stop! Stop…" It was then he turned towards Miia.
"I'd better get the spray bottle." Lelouch knew that Miia wasn't going to react to Papi's actions peacefully. Rather it'll be rather violent as he went to the kitchen and received the spray bottle from the refrigerator.
"Why not?" Lelouch nearly snapped his own neck as he looked back at the Lamia. "Darling, keep Papi company."
"Wh-Okay…" Kimihito fell into a stupor as Papi dragged him to the bathroom.
"Don't take too long in there!" Miia cautioned as the bathroom door closed.
"You didn't hit your head in that tree earlier, did you?" Lelouch asked in stark confusion.
"I have to agree with Lelouch here," Smith added. "You are taking this surprisingly well, Miia-chan. I thought you'd be angry."
"Wh-why would I be?" The lamia answered. "Sure, having someone barge into our house like this is annoying. But she's just a child! Yes, Papi's a child! Just a child!" Miia's voice was heavily laced with obvious denial. "Wereas I'm an adult and can control myself!"
"Really?" Lelouch quipped. "Since when?"
Miia turned sharply and faced Lelouch, her tail shook as if she were a rattlesnake. "Lulu…." She half-growled.
"Though aren't harpy's build to be small?" Lelouch recalled.
"Yes, she's actually Miia-chan's age." Smith answered, much to Miia's wide-eyed shock. "Harpies evolved to have smaller, lighter bodies for flight so she's a lot older than she looks-"
Unsurprisingly, Miia quickly slithered and rammed the bathroom door down with her tail. "Never mind, Darling! I'll go with her!"
To Kimihito's chagrin, he was behind said door that was now atop of him.
Lelouch then sighed before he noted. "I'll be back with the first aid kit."
Granted, there were new developments. But that didn't mean that he wouldn't have a moment of peace. Those would surely come back eventually, right?
Y-y-y-y-y-yeah, I have my doubts for that one.
To be honest, with how I planned this chapter, I thought it was going to be a short entry but it ended up being of average length. Also, props on Paxloria for pointing out the whole thing with the spray bottle. It was supposed to be a running gag and an excuse for why Lelouch isn't able to stop Miia's advances quickly enough, but I think this would make it a bit more plausible and arguably more hilarious.
Next up, for those familiar with the manga/anime, will have a slight twist compared to the canon. What kind of twist? Well speculate and wait until it's time.
Speaking of which, for the last three chapters I had addressed Kimihito by his surname, Kurusu. But in this chapter, I instead addressed him by his given name. I'm just curious if anyone has a particular preference for our eyeless protagonist/self-insertion character. Surname or Given?
Anyway, let's not get into flame and brutally honest territory. I already have a strict, honor-obsessed centaur and I do not need her to have any more excuses to- YEOW! Watch where you're swinging that thing! And seriously, how can that thing be even THAT sharp?! It's a fake- EEP! Shutting up now.