Although the chapters are rewritten, Evan's lab has been removed from the plot because honestly, that was idiotic.
Chapter 2
Evan's Home, 1 week timeskip from the previous chapter.
Evan wakes up, feeling an excitement for today. Why is he feeling excited? It's because his new homestay is coming over, a new episode for Re:Zero season 2 is being released, the previous one ended on a cliffhanger, he barely tolerates cliffhangers, and he gets paid, today.
"I guess today's my day." He chuckles to himself as he gets up from his bed to begin his day as usual and head to work.
Evan's Workplace.
Evan parks his car and walks over to the building, expecting to start his shift as usual, though he's taken by surprise when his boss calls him over to his office. Knowing he hasn't done anything wrong, he steps into his boss' office.
"Mr. Garcia, I'm going to inform you that you've done excellent work these past months, so I have decided you deserve an $7 raise to your paycheck." He informs Evan of his new pay. Evan is taken aback by this, $34 per hour is something awesome, he might even get rich someday if he saves up.
"Oh wow, thanks!" Evan thanks his boss for the pay raise.
"No problem, now, back to work."
Evan nods and steps out of his boss' office, humming to himself at how well this day is going for him. He then clocks in, finds his company-issued computer, sits down in front of it, and begins his shift.
Evan's Break Time.
Knowing it's break time, Evan locks his computer and takes his leave to head over to the cafeteria to see what they're serving for lunch today. To his delight, they're serving cheese burritos, one of his favorite foods. He picks up a tray and gets in line to wait to get served. At this company, they serve free food to their employees, so Evan takes advantage of that opportunity. Eventually it's his turn, he gets a cheese burrito on his tray, thanks the lunch lady, and goes to find a table.
He finds a table and sits down on a chair. He makes small talk with his co-workers, and finishes his lunch. He steps out of the table, puts his tray with the rest, and walks back to his computer to finish the rest of his shift. Evan then remembers he hasn't backed up his files in over a month. Being safe than sorry, he gets his backup drive, plugs it to his computer, turns on his PC, and begins backing up his files, which will take a bit.
Evan spots something green on the floor, he gets up and walks over to it.
"Ah, a $20 bill." He looks around and everyone seemed to be busy with their work. Evan then whistles as he picks up the bill and puts it in his wallet. He walks over to his computer and sees the backup is complete. He ejects his backup drive, puts it near his monitor, and resumes working.
Meanwhile with Ms. Smith.
A car with two figures inside is driving to Evan's home, one being Ms. Smith, and the other Evan's new homestay. Smith looks over at the dullahan, she's been real quiet the entire ride, which is no big surprise because mostly all dullahans keep to themselves. They reach Evan's home, park the car, and step out. Smith and the dullahan walk over to his front door and Smith rings the doorbell.
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15 seconds later and no one answers the door.
"Hm, looks like he isn't home yet." Smith tells the dullahan.
"He has the honor of an agent of death like I to stay with him and he's not there to receive me? Where on Earth could he be at?" ViVi speaks in a disappointed voice.
"Don't be that way, ViVi, he's still at work and should be here when his shift ends at 2:40PM" Smith tries consoling the dullahan.
"Very well, then I shall forgive and wait for him." ViVi sighs and a small smile forms on her face, to which Ms. Smith is surprised at, because dullahans rarely show any emotion. Smith nods and menacingly puts on her sunglasses while thinking it's rude for Evan to keep two women waiting.
Evan's Workplace: End of Evan's Shift.
Our protagonist is getting ready to clock out and leave for the day. He walks over to his car, gets in the driver's seat, and drives home, wondering what new homestay is waiting for him at home.
Evan's Home.
Smith and ViVi see a car pull up on the driveway, and a figure steps out. ViVi and Ms. Smith give a greeting wave to Evan as he gets out of his car.
"My bad for keeping y'all waiting. Slightly bad traffic." Evan apologizes for making them wait so long.
"Oh, no need to apologize, it's our fault for getting here too early." Smith shrugs off his apology.
"Anyway, meet your new homestay, ViVi!" Smith presents the dullahan to Evan, to which he looks at for a few seconds. Evan thinks about how he managed to request a dullahan on the online registration form for the I.E.P while being drunk. Smith mentally chuckles as she thinks about dumping a couple more girls on him if he proves he can resist "temptations".
"Anyway, just take care of her, show her how to be part of society, and do please keep your pants on, or else you'll be in biiig trouble~" Smith expects Evan to understand the rules.
"Yea, I got it, no worries, Ms. Smith." Evan says
"Good, then, enjoy your new friend!"
Smith then gets in her car and drives back to MON's base, thinking about giving Kimihito and his homestays a visit sometime.
Evan looks at Smith's car speeding off and looks back at the dullahan looking at him with a loving look in her eyes.
"Well then, let's go in." Evan starts unlocking his front door.
"Sure." ViVi waits for him to unlock the door.
They walk into Evan's house. Meanwhile ViVi is feeling giddy inside at how she managed to be put with an attractive host, maybe she could make him fall in love with her and ensure his soul is eternally hers when his time comes. She looks around Evan's home, then remembers he hasn't told her his name yet.
"Sir, would you kindly tell me what your name is?"
"It's Evan Garcia."
"Ah, that's a cute name, Evan."
"Oh, thank you, ViVi."
ViVi smiles at him and asks about what they'll do for today.
"Hm, I don't know, you could watch what's on TV, there might be a few movies on. I'll be up in my room coding some programs."
ViVi looks confused at this, so she asks him what "coding some programs" means. Evan tries to simply explain to her about the concept of a computer and what things you can do with it, like taking humanity to the moon.
"Can you please show me how this "computer" works, master?" ViVi asks.
"Sure thing, just follow me to my room." Evan says before realizing his mistake. That sounded so goddamn wrong, I'm only gonna show her how a computer works.
They walk over to Evan's room and Evan opens his drawer and pulls out his laptop, connects it to its charger, and turns it on.
"This is the computer I was talking about."
"That black box thing? Interesting."
ViVi looks at the laptop and wonders how such a thick device is capable of helping do marvelous things like leaving the planet and exploring outer space. Evan looks at ViVi and thinks this must be her first time she ever saw a laptop, even if it's not as powerful as their desktop brothers, or the NASA supercomputers. He then signs into his laptop, with ViVi watching from the side, and opens a small project he's been working on for fun: A snake game.
"Master, what's that?" ViVi points to the screen.
"Oh, that's an example of the computer programs I told you about. It's a simple game where you control a snake, have it get as many apples as it can, without touching itself as it grows bigger and bigger." Evan explains what it is.
He clicks on the "Run" button and the game works as intended, ViVi looks at it with interest.
"Would you like me to teach you how to play this game?" Evan asks her.
"Yes please, master."
"You can call me Evan if you want, but master's fine, I guess."
"Okay, master." ViVi closes her eyes and smiles at him, then open her eyes again.
"Okay then. To play the game, you use the keyboard's W, A, S, and D keys." Evan points to said keys on the laptop's keyboard.
"W makes the snake go up, A makes it go left, S makes it go down, and D makes it go right. Like I said, the point of this game is to make the snake eat as many apples as it can and avoid it hitting itself as it and your score get bigger and bigger. If it hits itself, you lose the game. It's fun if you wanna challenge yourself."
"I see, I'd like to try it out, master."
"Go ahead, I'm gonna make us lunch real quick."
"Thank you, take your time."
Evan lets ViVi play around on his game and he takes his leave to make lunch. Meanwhile, ViVi is amazed at how smart Evan is if he can understand all these random letters and numbers and how they work to make the game run. She plays around on Evan's snake game for a bit, and reaches a decent score for a beginner.
ViVi then wonders if Evan's done making lunch, so she gets up, leaves Evan's laptop as is, and walks over to where she assumes the kitchen is at. Evan meanwhile is looking through his freezer for those chicken pot pie boxes.
"Ah, ViVi, lunch's not ready yet. It will be in like..." Evan reads the instructions on the box. "One hour or so, in the meantime feel free to watch whatever's on TV, if you want. Or if you're tired you can take a nap if one of the rooms."
"Okay, thank you, Evan. I'll take you up on your offer."
"It's no big deal, do whatever you want until lunch's ready. Now, I'll show you to your room."
Evan takes ViVi to one of the guest rooms, now ViVi's room, and opens the door.
"Well, this is your new room, it ain't much but it's got a bed, and a TV in front of it."
"I really like it, thank you so much." ViVi hugs Evan, to which he's surprised but hugs back nonetheless
"I'm glad you like it. Well, take a nap, watch what's on TV, or do whatever you like, I'm going to make some lunch" Evan hands the TV remote to ViVi.
"Okay, I'll be here when the time comes, master."
Evan takes his leave and he walks back to the kitchen to begin preparing lunch for them. Meanwhile ViVi is on the bed, figuring out how to turn on the TV and scroll through the channel guides. Eventually she finds something interesting to watch, and thinks about how she wants her master to be laying next to her and cuddling her.
Back with Evan, he's questioning himself about whether he heard ViVi whisper that he's cute, to which he denies, knowing she couldn't have fallen for him that quickly on the first day. He opens the chicken pot pie boxes and reads the instructions. The instructions say to put the pie in the oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 425F, and let it cool for 5-10 minutes. Evan then puts the pies in the oven and sets the timer to 90 minutes at 425F. With that done, he goes to check on ViVi, and finds her asleep on her bed. Evan wishes her a good nap and goes back to his room, readying himself for an anime marathon.
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Whew! This chapter was fun to work on. I tried doing my best writing how a dullahan would act. ViVi seems like a good, girl dullahan's name. Now, the next chapter will be wholesome. Until next time!