A few days have passed since we'd started our mass training practices, and I'm sitting down watching Moka as she spares with Tsukune. They don't seem to notice anything other than each other while they're trading blows, or more trying to trade blows for the poor boy as he still can't seem to land a single hit. Tsukune goes for a punch, but it seems to me that he's still holding back or rather he's not giving it his all for some reason. Moka quickly ducks under the telegraphed attack before sending him flying into a rock with a single kick to the face.
"Tsukune, I'll give you my honest opinion.", Moka growls down at the boy as he lays in the crater the impact made. "This is no good at all. You have vampire blood, so you have the aptitude to become stronger. You were dutiful originally, so you are a fast learner. However, you keep holding back. You lack the will to fight and killing intent. Without those two things you can't beat anybody in a real fight. If you don't have the mind to do it then we might as well stop the training. I don't want to waste any more time doing it if it's just going to be a waste of my time.", Moka scolds the boy through her irritation before turning around and walking off.
Damn, she really laid into him today. He's improved so far, but it seems like he's hit a rough patch and can't get any stronger. Maybe he just needs a break. Summer break is coming up again and we should be able to do something fun as a group like we did last time. Honestly, he's stronger than all the other girls right now, but compared to Moka or myself, he's still got room to improve.
Later that evening I'm walking around the school campus when Ruby walks up to me and says, "Please get some appropriate clothes and get ready to head to the human world. The Newspaper Club is going to be going to the beach for Summer break."
"The beach, again? You all do know that almost half of our members can't swim, right?", I begrudgingly question the witch, beyond confused by this plan.
"It'll be fine. Just get ready, because we'll be leaving in an hour.", she cheerily replies, completely ignoring my question before walking off towards the bus stop.
I head back to my room, where I find Mizore already packing so I follow suit and pack a few pairs of clothes and swimming trunks in my suitcase before we leave for the bus stop. "Why are we going to the beach again? We went there last year and now we have more people that can't swim. Hopefully it's at least somewhat secluded from the humans so we don't have to deal with so many people.", I groan to myself as we head towards the bus stop, hanging my head in disappointment as I grumble to myself.
"It'll be fine. As long as everyone has fun then that's all that matters, right?", Mizore somewhat cheerfully replies before we make our way out of the building to go to the bus stop.
As we walk we talk about what we're going to do when we get there. She says that she's going to change into her new striped bathing suit and probably read under the shade of a nice umbrella. I say I'm probably just going to mess around in the sand if I don't play some games or something with Kokoa and Moka since they'd also be unable to go in the water.
We finally get to the bus and when everyone else gets here we head off for the human world. We finally arrive and see a large beach filled with humans and umbrellas. How am I supposed to enjoy myself if there are so many humans around? "Look at this view! It's amazing!", Kurumu exclaims in excitement as she leans over the railing to get a better look.
As Ruby gets off the bus, she turns our way and explains, "This will be the Newspaper Club's Summer Camp. The Headmaster asked us to go on this trip so we can relax ourselves after all of our training recently. Please do enjoy yourselves and try not to tire yourselves out too quickly."
"Yahoo! Let's play wrestling!", Kurumu shouts in turn as she wraps her arm around Tsukune, pulling his head into her chest with a wide grin on her face as she looks down at his baffled expression before letting him go as the blood jetting from his nose almost gets on her nice clothes.
"You might be fine being a Succubus, but Yuki-Onna like myself find the sea in the summer to be a little too hot for our liking.", the ice woman reluctantly explains as she protects herself from the sun with her umbrella.
"Yeah, but at least you can swim Mizore. Moka and I can't even swim.", Kokoa complains as she glares out to the open sea.
"I can't swim either so all three of us are in the same boat.", I add while patting her head.
The crimson-haired vampire looks up at me in confusion before asking, "Wait, you can't swim?"
"Yeah, my monster energy evaporates the water so swimming is literally impossible if I don't have one hundred percent control of it at all times.", I reluctantly explain to her as I rest my things over my shoulder.
"Since we're at the beach we should all relax! Let's all rub some oil on each other! I'll start with Moka!", Yukari lustfully notes as she pulls out a bottle of tanning oil and gropes at the air with her free hand.
"So Tsukune, how is it being back in the human world?", Moka asks as he looks off at the sea while Moka wipes the excess blood from his upper lip with her finger only to put it in her mouth and suck on it.
"Well, recently all sorts of things have happened, so it feels a bit weird being this peaceful, but anyway it'll be good if we manage to return from this safely.", he replies with a slight smile as he rubs the back of his neck.
I help Mizore, Kurumu and Kokoa begin unpacking some of the beach stuff when Tsukune begins rambling about something. He says something about not being able to do it, which I'm guessing he was talking about his training, but I'm not really paying that much attention as I'm trying not to drop all of everyone else's luggage since I got appointed to be the team pack-mule. Suddenly all these people start taking pictures of them and they ran off.
"Where are you going Tsukune!? We're already together!", Kurumu shouts as she tries to go after them, but gets stopped by the giant crowd of people in the way.
Not seeming to like the looks of the two running off together so suddenly, Kokoa sends her bat off as she furiously orders, "Ko, tail those two and try your hardest to be a nuisance!"
After a while, the crowd dies down and we go after them. We eventually find Tsukune knocked unconscious by some stairs. I shake him until he wakes up and shouts, "Moka! Where'd they go with Moka!?"
"Slow down Tsukune. Who are you talking about? Who took Moka?", I calmly ask as I let go of his shirt, giving him some room to breath.
"Some guys. They were in suits and had guns. There was this other girl too that said she needed our help and that she was being chased. We have to go after them!", he sorrowfully explains as he grabs at his head.
"Moka was kidnapped!?", Kurumu shouts complete disbelief as she desperately looks around for any sign of the girl.
"Sorry, even though I was there this still happened. I guess I really am useless.", Tsukune disheartenedly apologizes as he looks to us all for forgiveness.
We hear the sound of Kokoa's bat and she says, "Ah, you came back Ko. Where did you go off to in such an emergency situation!?" The bat begins to relentlessly attack her, furiously divebombing her as she says, "You were tailing the guys who took Moka and the other girl? I'm sorry. I'm sorry!"
"So that means he knows where they went, right?", I ask in disbelief as I raise an eyebrow at the winged creature.
The bat nods in response to what I said and Kokoa happily growls, "Well then this will be easy! Now we just have to go save her! Tell us where Ko! With all of us we can easily take down these thugs!"
"Let's go!", Kurumu shouts as she goes to take off, but we hear the sound of a lighter behind us.
We turn around to see it's the bus driver who ominously warns us, "It's hopeless then. When you are in the human world, monsters aren't allowed to inflict serous harm upon humans, no matter what reason you have for doing it. If you do then not only will you all be expelled, but you'll also all be sent to jail."
"No way! Even after we finally found out where she is we can't do anything!?", Yukari furiously shouts at the strange man, but he doesn't seem interested in answering any questions.
Tsukune just hold his head down in shame and I slap him in the back of the head before shouting, "You idiot! Are you just going to stand there and let Moka die!?"
He looks up to me and says, "But I can't do anything Reiji. We all heard what the bus driver said."
"He said 'monsters' can't harm humans, you idiot! He didn't say anything about humans harming other humans! Stop giving up so easily!", I continue to push him, puling my fist back to throw another punch at him.
This time he blocks it with his forearm without even looking and says, "How can I do that? I'm not strong enough to save anyone."
"Yes you are Tsukune. The only thing you lack is a reason to fight, but now you have that! You have to save Moka on your own! Nobody else is going to be able to save her but you! If you don't do it, she dies! End of the story! Do you want to let your friend die, Tsukune!?", I furiously question him, to which he finally begins to crack.
"No, but Moka said...", he begins to say before I say, "Fuck what she said! You have the potential to be stronger Tsukune. The only thing stopping you now is you. Now you're going to go to where ever they are keeping Moka and this other girl. You're going to kill everyone in that damn building if you have to. And you're going to show her that you can become stronger, understood?" He nods his head and I pull him off the ground and say, "Now show us where these thugs are Ko. We might not be able to fight, but at least we can be there to watch the blood bath."
Ko begins to fly off and we follow him until we reach a steel door. It's going to be locked so I say, "Now, focus all of your energy into this one kick. Even if it takes a few tries it'll give. Once you do that you go in there and give them hell."
Tsukune simply nods before following my instructions and kicking down the door with a single kick. We stand in the doorway as Tsukune walks further into the room and Moka shouts, "Tsukune!"
"Don't worry Moka. I'll save you soon.", he confidently replies before one of the thugs pulls out a gun, pointing the barrel straight at the boy.
"You're that guy from before. What are ya, her boyfriend? You must've came to have another go. Is she really worth it man?", the thug chuckles before putting the gun to Tsukune's head, pressing the end of the barrel against his forehead with a wild grin. Before he can pull the trigger however, Tsukune punches the man so hard that he gets sent flying into a wall.
Two more thugs rush toward him with swords drawn at the ready, but he dodges past them as they try to slash down at him and knocks both of them out with a quick series of punches to their back that cause the air to jet straight out of their lungs before they fall to the ground unconscious.
"It's no good boss! He's strong! He's too fucking strong!", the last thug shouts as he draws his gun to shoot at Tsukune. He punches his lights out before he can get a shot off, landing a straight punch to his nose that sends him flying into the first thug's body plastered in the nearby wall.
"In the end, all he needed was a reason to fight.", Ruby notes in her surprise with a slight smile on her face.
Moka seems to finally notices us in the doorway and as she turns gaze to the gang, she gasps, "Everyone, you're all here too?"
"Tsukune's training wasn't useless. Going at it with the Inner Moka each day can have its advantages.", I chuckle to myself as the boy walks up to the boss without a hint of fear.
"He's almost too strong.", Kokoa worriedly notes as she watches on in complete disbelief, only being able to see a small bit of the fight as she tries to fit her fat head between the doorway and Kurumu's monstrous breasts.
"This Tsukune is completely different from during training. This time he's fighting to protect Moka and that is his reason to fight.", Ruby happily notes as she sees the courageous expression on his face.
He goes to punch the chubby boss guy right in his face, but stops. "Hey, come on. Didn't I say to kill everyone? These guys are just some back alley thugs, who cares if they die?", I sadistically ask him before the ring leader passes out from fear, slamming to the ground like a dead log much to my disappointment. As I see the man's chest raise with his next breath, I let out a heavy sigh before begrudgingly admitting, "Well, I guess killing them while they're down would be unfair.", as I make my way over to Tsukune.
"Well, at least this means he's still human.", Mizore adds with a slight smile as we free Moka from her bindings.
The vampire gleefully wraps her arms around his neck and as she engulfs him in her warm embrace, she says, "Thank you, Tsukune."
"That reminds me, how many times have you been interrupted today while trying to tell me something? What exactly was it that you wanted to tell me?", she curiously asks the boy as she lets go of his neck, looking him straight in the eyes with a wonder stuck gaze.
"I...I just wanted to thank you for always helping to train me.", he says to her with a smile.
We all turn our attentions to the random girl with the black hair and poka-dot dress as she holds up a notepad that says, "Thank you very much"
"Oh, this is San. These guys wanted her for her strange power so they kidnapped her.", Moka explains to us as she introduces us to her new friend.
"She's probably around my age based on her height.", Yukari suggests while she compares her height to the this unfamiliar girl's.
"Hey, can you show us just a tiny bit of that secret power you have?", Kurumu asks her as she quickly takes San's hands into her own like they'd known each other since they were children.
She quickly pulls her hands free before writing on her notepad, "Sorry. I can't."
"Why not? It'll be our little secret! Just a little bit, okay?", Kurumu begs as she desperately grabs at the girl's shirt, seeming unable to handle not knowing what the girl is hiding.
"If you say no, then I'll only want to see it more. Please", Mizore eerily warns her as she tries to pry the information out of San herself.
Before either of them can get an answer however, we hear Gin shout, "Cut it out you two! Who do you think that person is, being so rude to her like that?" We turn to see Gin and Nekonome getting out of a car.
"What's he doing here? Be careful San, that guy will take any opening he gets to peek at your breasts, he's a real sexual harassment dickhead.", Kurumu warns her as San writes 'Long time no see, Gin' on her notepad.
"Long time no see San. It's been a while.", Gin happily greets the fairly short mute while bowing his head to her.
"You two already know each other?", Mizore questions the two with a confused glance at the perverted wolf.
"Yeah, when Gin was in his first year at Yokai, San thought he was very cute.", Nekonome explains to everyone in her usual cheerful tone as she greets her former student with a wave of the hand and a smile.
"Wait, so that means..", I begin to say as I put it all together, but before I can say it, Gin tells us, "She is a graduate from Yokai Academy, San Otonashi. From today she will be taking care of everyone for the next few days, as the oldest Senpai."
With formal introductions out of the way, San holds up a note that says, "Nice to meet you all."
"She's so cute!", Ruby gleefully notes as she looks to the newly introduced former student with a sparkle in her eyes.
"She looks so much younger than she is!", Kurumu gasps in disbelief, seemingly both impressed and jealous at the same time.
"She's also a loli!", Yukari adds as San makes the loli duo into a trio.
"Um, why can't she speak?", Kokoa curiously asks as she points to the heavily used notepad.
Gin just rubs the back of his neck, not seeming too comfortable with the question before he finally tells us, "Well, she's a very shy person so she doesn't speak except by writing it out. So good luck with her."
The mute then writes out on her pad, "Sorry for the trouble."
As I get a small hunch, I try to sense her monster energy, but I can't sense it even a trace of it. Just as I thought, she has to be really good at hiding her monster energy since I couldn't sense it when we first broke in.
"San is living in this town and works at an inn near the seaside. We'll be staying there tonight, so could everyone please not make any trouble for her.", Nekonome asks with her usual smile as she puts her hands together, seeming to pray that we do as she asks this time.
San shows us a note saying, "I'll escort you to the inn. So please come with me.", before beginning to lead us somewhere.
We walk through the town for a while before San stops at the end of an alleyway and signals for us to wait there. We watch as she walks over to a human in a T-shirt and shorts. The human turns to her with a furious glare before shouting straight in her face, "San!? Whadda ya doin' back 'ere?! Ya disappeared four days ago wid'out any warnin. I though' ya might a been plannin' to skip town or somethin'." Please tell me not all the humans around here talk like they're completely illiterate. She holds up a note to him, but we can't see what it says. The human glare only burns brighter as he goes on saying, "Too late, yer already fired San. That's what happens when you don't show up for work wid'out as much as a phone-call."
Unable to stand this idiot's dribble anymore, I finally show myself as I walk out and say, "You're quite the dick, aren't ya? Not even asking if she's okay or anything, what kind of man are you?"
"Who the hell are you?", he asks as he tilts his head in confusion.
"Oh, just a guy that had to help fight off gun wielding idiots to rescue San, but hey she should've at least called in and said, 'I'm sorry. Can't see to make it to work today, got kidnapped by a bunch of fucking idiots.' right?", I mock the idiot, only meeting his confusion with a smug grin.
"You better get lost too, kid. I fired her and that's that.", he growls back at me as he backs up towards the door.
Before he can run off, he's cut off by the sound of a woman as she says, "Oy, Takahashi. Whatever privileges I said you had, well, the privileged to fire absent employees stops with me alone." We all see a tired looking woman with short hair, a pearl like necklace, a tank top, and a pair of skinny jeans.
He turns to her and says, "B-but Okami, she was-", but before he can finish, she interrupts him by asking, "What about it? If San quits then won't it cause a bother for us?" He can only hang his head in shame after her scolding before walking away in defeat.
After he leaves the unfamiliar woman walks up to San before patting her on her head while gently telling her, "Glad you came back, San. I was worried."
San begins to burst into tears in the woman's arms while holding up a note saying, "Okami!"
The Okami looks over to us with a slightly surprised gaze and says, "And over there are the honorable guests from Yokai Academy? I'm surprised they're from your former school. It's a run down hotel, but please make yourselves at home." She begins to show us around the place starting with the balcony.
"What wonderful furniture. They look a bit old but well taken care of.", Kurumu gleefully notes as she looks at the chairs, gliding her hands along the arm of the.
Okami seems to get a slight smile on her face at the complement before adding, "The second floor is the hotel while the first floor is a snack bar."
Moka runs over to the railing and as she leans over it to look at the beach below, she gleefully tells us, "Wow, the sea is right in front of us here. This view is the best."
"We could have lunch here tomorrow. The view would be nice and there wouldn't be too many people.", I suggest as I follow the vampire over to the railing, finally seeing the light glistening off of the open ocean.
"Yeah, we can even wear our bathing suits out here too.", Kurumu happily adds as she rushes over to see it for herself.
"We can eat lunch while looking at the ocean. What a luxury.", Yukari says as she looks off at the ocean too, barely being able to reach the top of the railing with her elbows.
Moka lets out a heavy sigh before saying, "I admire San. She's able to support herself working at this wonderful place."
Gin ruins the moment however by saying, "Nah, actually there's a lot of new stuff that wasn't here when we here last time." "You know how San doesn't speak? That made it impossible for her to find a place to work at after graduating. Just as she was about to give up though, the Okami of this hotel took her in. On that day San looked so happy she could've cried. Since then, Okami has been like a mother to her.", Gin quickly explains as he looks out to the open ocean, this being the only time I've seen him look at something without a heartbeat as he usually does when he looks at any girl with a cup size bigger than B.
"What a great story!", Yukari cries out with tears in her eyes.
"Now that you mention it, they do look like mother and daughter in a way.", Kurumu says with tears in her eyes as well.
"So this hotel is...exactly like a home to San.", Tsukune mutters to himself as we go back inside and continue to look at the interior.
When we go back inside the Okami goes up stairs, telling us as she makes her way up to the next floor, "San, be a dear and get our guests some quick snacks from the kitchen. I'll get them a few drinks from upstairs."
When she leaves, we hear something slam to the floor in the other room and that idiot from before shouts, "Oy, you piece of shit trash, can't you control a piece of tableware?!" Hearing the commotion, we all head towards the kitchen as we hear his persistent shouting continue, "Ya can't greet guests if ya can't talk! If it wasn't for that damn Okami you wouldn't be able to walk around here flauntin' yerself! We don't need bitches like you! An' another thin', ya shouldna came back! I almos had dem gamblin' debts payed off! What'cha gonna do bout that San!"
As I pull open the curtain to the kitchen, we see he's holding her by her hair and as he turns I stomp my way into the kitchen. "Reiji! Don't!", Moka begs as she reaches out to stop me, but it's pointless...I'm not gonna hurt the guy, nah, I just want to look. Seeing his pure gold necklace, I grab him by his chain and pull him to his feet, causing him to look at me with widened eyes of terror. "This is a very expensive looking necklace you got here! I think I'll take a closer look at it!", I growls in his face as I pull on it even harder.
"Reiji, please stop.", Kurumu calmly asks as I feel her glaring at me with those dagger eyes of hers.
"You know what. The lighting isn't quite right in here. I think the moon light will let me get a better look! Let's go outside together, chum! So I can get a REAL good look at this necklace of yours!", I suggest in somewhat crazed tone as I start dragging him outside by his golden collar. When we get outside I toss him to the ground and as he desperately gasp for air, I tell him, "Now get lost. If I catch you around here again, I'll take a closer look at your spine.", before I go back inside and lock the door. As I glance back out the door's window, he walks off with a smug look on his face as if he won somehow.
"You got him out of here without hurting him. That's interesting.", Gin curiously notes as he walks into the room.
"I could've just killed him and been done with it. The Headmaster wouldn't care if Cerbero explained it to him and the Devil knows that none of his prisons could hold me, so I would've been fine either way.", I explain to him as I rest my head in my palm before making my way past the perverted wolf to return to the others.
We return to the kitchen and I ask, "San, are you alright? He didn't hurt you too bad, did he?"
She writes, "No, I'm fine. Thank you for the help."
"No problem. He shouldn't be a problem as long as we're here.", I calmly reply as everyone gives me a weird look. "What? I didn't kill the guy if that's what you're thinking. I just told him that if I see him again I'd maybe kill him. Death threats are only emotionally scaring not physically.", I growl back at them, seeming to kill the gazes instantly as they all seem to overt their sights.
The next morning we hear police sirens from outside. Mizore and I leave our room to look and there is in fact a police cruiser sitting outside and an officer walking door to door with San. We meet up with the rest of the group and San shows us a note saying, "Please co-operate with the investigation."
"Someone stole all of the takings from the hotel earlier today and I'm going to find out who.", the officer says with a tip of his hat.
"All of the hotel's takings were stolen!? Was it that sleazeball Takahashi?!", Kurumu furiously gasps as she reels back in disbelief.
"Probably, where's Gin? I need to talk to him.", I grumble as I get up to find the perverted wolf.
"He should be in his room, why?", Mizore quickly answers as she points over her shoulder to the door with her thumb.
"Because Gin and I should be able to track this guy down and get the money back. You guys do whatever you can to keep this place up and running in the meantime, alright?", I calmly reply before heading off to Gin's room.
I knock on the door and hear him call out, "It's open."
As I walk into the room, I see he's putting his belt on while seeming to admiring his own reflection in the mirror so I ask him, "Hey Gin, you hear about the missing money?" Surprisingly enough he replies with a silent nod while straightening his tie, not even making the slightest hint of a joke about the situation. "Well we're not just going to stand around and let him get away with it, are we?", I continue to question him as I stare him down with a cold glare.
"No. I was planning on going after him by myself. You've already battered the guy a bit, let me handle the rest.", he sternly replies as he turns to me, giving me an empty-minded glance before walking past me and leaving the room alone.
Hopefully he can get the money back at least. I don't care what happens to that asshole as long as Gin gets the money off of him and brings it back to Okami. With Gin heading out on his own, I head back down to the others and I see Yukari is missing for whatever reason. "Gin's gone already. He probably went after Takahashi on his own.", I tell them as I walk into the room, not wanting to give them all the details to keep them from having to worry about him too much.
"So what should we do?", Tsukune worriedly asks himself as he sits down on the nearby chair, seeming to lose himself in his own thoughts.
"We can't do much of anything I think.", Moka regretfully replies as she hangs her head in shame and disappointment.
"I could call Cerbero and see if he'd give them some money to get back on their feet.", I suggest as I pull out my phone, my finger ready to dial Cerbero's contact with a single press of a button.
"No, we need to figure something else out.", Kurumu bluntly suggests as she shakes her head no, refusing my quick and easy out to the problem.
Yukari suddenly rushes into the room and as she throws her tiny body through the doorway, she quickly tells us, "I'm back with some juicy details!"
"Well, spill it then Yukari!", Kurumu pleads as she turns to the small witch for the story.
"Well, according to the other employees, Okami started this hotel with her now dead husband. Okami working by herself means that there are continuing management deficits. There's no point in continuing if there aren't any profits coming in."
After hearing this, Kurumu, Mizore, Ruby and Kokoa all look at their bathing suits. Kurumu's is a plain white bathing suit, Mizore's is a striped bathing suit, Kokoa's is a frilly looking thing, and Ruby's looks like a literal fucking string.
"We came at such a bad time.", Kurumu grunts in dismay as she puts the top of her bathing suit over her chest.
"Yeah, I wanted to play in the sand so badly too.", Mizore groans out as she does the same with her own top.
Ruby does the same with her one piece string and seems to be having some regrets as her face turns a dark crimson from either shame or lewdness. Kokoa looks over at Ruby and as her face turns a bright red, it's clearly due to some strange thoughts as she suddenly has a nosebleed.
"But if the hotel goes then what will San do? After she finally found such a nice Okami, she'll be forced to leave her.", Yukari worriedly asks the question nobody wants to think about. We look around the corner to see San, she's silently cleaning a window with a damp rag as tears run down her face.
"I'm sure it's harder than we imagine for monsters living here in the human world. Tsukune's a human so it's natural that he'll return here after graduating, but what about what we should do? Will we be able to find something that we're all good at doing? Or will the day come, when all of us have to be split up as well?", Moka depressingly notes, seeming to ignite something in the busty Succubus as a fire suddenly erupts in her eyes.
With her newly found flame, Kurumu marches over to San's side and grabs a damp rag. With a vice-like grip, the unrelenting woman rings the cloth out while gently telling the girl, "I'll help you San."
"Kurumu, what are you doing?", Yukari nervously asks as she walks up to her, a bit confused by this sudden bout of charity from the usually less than helpful girl.
"I won't let us be split up. I don't want to be separated from Tsukune, whether it's in the human world or wherever else... San, as you are the hope that we carry, but first thing first is to get you happy again.", Kurumu cheerfully replies as she begins to clean the window with San.
Mizore suddenly joins the cleaning detail as well, wiping the window with a rag of her own as she bluntly adds, "Although, what will you do? If the hotel closes then you can't do anything."
Ruby and Yukari both join in as well as they both start scrubbing the floors on their hands and knees while Yukari tactically suggests, "The main problem is a lack of funds. If we are able to earn enough management funds then it looks like an emergency situation can be avoided."
The older witch quickly counters her however as she asks, "If that were so easy then the Okami wouldn't be in such trouble though, right?"
After snagging a few ladders from the nearby supplies closet, Tsukune and I begin cleaning up the higher walls and ceilings while the others start cleaning the empty rooms, all while we try to brainstorm ideas for saving this place. "But more importantly, I'm hungry. Shouldn't we eat lunch on the terrace while looking at the ocean first?", Kokoa tiredly cries out as she lazily dusts off the mirrors in the hallway with her Ko Duster.
As soon as the word 'ocean' leaves that tiny vampire's mouth, I can see a light suddenly turn on in Moka's head as she turns to her little sister and gleefully says, "Of course! Good thinking Kokoa, why didn't I think of that earlier!? We should use the weapons we know best!"
"What the hell are you talking about Moka?", I ask the seemingly deranged vampire with a raised eyebrow before suddenly realizing what she meant by weapons.
Moka turns to us all with a crazed grin as she tells us, "Everyone, get in your bathing suits. We'll meet out on the terrace in a few minutes."
The girls all rush off and Tsukune and I walk over to our rooms and change. I change into my red swimming trunks while Tsukune changes into his black ones. We meet out in the hallway and head out to the terrace and as we get to the doorway leading outside, we see all the girls in their bathing suits with a sign that says, "Lunch Snack Bar", in large letters.
"Now what?", I ask the plotting vampire as I shield my eyes from the unyielding sunshine trying to burn out my retinas.
"Now we just get people to come to the inn and buy stuff from the snack bar. That should work, right?", Moka confidently suggest as she hands the sign over to Tsukune, who seems a bit confused by the idea.
"So you want me to hold this sign up while you convince people to come and buy stuff? I can do that.", Tsukune nervously replies as he lifts up the sign.
So we're trying to get the humans' attention? Half naked girls along with a giant sign should be a good start, but we need something else... After a moment, it hits me. I get a wild idea, but I'm gonna need a few things to make it work, or at least to get it to work without getting caught and revealing monsters to the human world. I turn to San and as I hold my hand out to her for help, I ask her, "Do you guys have like tiki torches or something like that?" She surprisingly enough nods and takes me to a back room where she grabs some off of the bottom shelf. "I can use these to do cool fire tricks without getting figured out.", I tell her as I light them with my pyrokinesis.
She seems to reel back a bit in response, and with my torches burning bright, I walk out to the terrace as I call out, "I'm back with fire tricks. People like fire tricks, right?"
"That'll certainly grab a few eyes from this high up. Can you blow a large flame into the air to get their attention?", Moka happily requests, to which I nod.
"Yeah, no problem. I just have to make it look the part.", I swiftly answer her as I aim the torch up and blow into it launching a large flame into the air.
The humans on the beach seem entranced by the flames, kinda like moths, before quickly coming over to see what's going on. They see all of the girls in their bathing suits (and Tsukune, but most came for the girls) and their slow shuffling shifts into full on running. Some of the girls and some guys come up to me and watch me do cool fire tricks with the torches, like fire breathing and juggling. Most, however, go inside and order some food from the snack bar like the sign suggests and eat out here while looking out to the ocean. More and more people keep coming. I know sex sells, but I never expected people would be this desperate to get a closer look at good looking people.
After a few long hours we finally sold out of food and had to close up shop for the day. We take this time to relax and enjoy some juice on the terrace. As we finish our juice Kurumu leans back, stretching her arms out to the sky as she moans, "Thank goodness. Our snackbar plan was a real hit~"
"Who could've guessed that we would use up all the food in the neighboring supermarkets and all in just a few hours?", Mizore tiredly notes as she sits on one of the nearby tables.
"It's because we all made the effort to call people over in our bathing suits! Which reminds me, shouldn't we change clothes now!? The shop is closed isn't it!", Moka begins to say before worriedly suggesting a costume change as Kurumu and Yukari start tugging on Tsukune's arms.
"Tsukune? Whose bathing suit do you like the most? Mine, right?", Kurumu desperately asks his opinion with a lustful smile.
"No, he obviously likes mine more!", Yukari shouts at the Succubus as she tugs on the boy's left arm, trying to both physically and mentally pull him to her side.
Hearing this, Mizore turns to me with a slight smile as she asks, "What do you think of my bathing suit?"
"I-I think it looks great!", I nervously scramble to answer her with a slight smile on my face as I sit down next to her on her table.
As their argument continues to go nowhere, Moka forcefully pulls Yukari and Kurumu from Tsukune as she shouts, "Don't hold Tsukune in your bathing suits!"
"Who do I like most? I think everyone looks good.", Tsukune finally answers the girl, earning a slight glare from the arguing duo. Must've had to think really hard to find that loop hole. "Moka's leather fabric feels good. Kurumu's lace is nice. Yukari and Kokoa's folds are perfect too. And Ruby's is... well.. unique?", he nervously explains while trying not offend anyone.
"Smooth Tsukune, smooth.", I cheekily chuckle as I rest my hand down on the table, only for Mizore to rest her's on top of it, entangling her fingers between mine.
"Everyone, thanks for today. You were able to call lots of customers thanks to those bathing suits. Thanks to that we'll be able to stop having to close our store for a little while longer.", Okami thanks us as San holds a sign saying, "Thanks everyone."
"Please don't say 'just for a little while longer.'", Kurumu disheartenedly begs the woman as she turns to the Okami with a slight smile.
"Yeah, if you get into trouble again then everyone will come back to help you again.", Moka happily adds with her usual smile aimed the owner's way.
"Everyone? That's right. I have to try my hardest for both San and my dead husband.", the Okami replies as she seems to fight off her depressing energy with a light smile. Suddenly the door rings and Marin goes to answer it.
"So San, how exactly did her husband die exactly? She seems young.", I curiously ask the girl, earning a widened stare from the girl before she shuts her eyes and takes a deep breath. San opens her eyes oncemore as she looks down at her notepad and begins to tell us about how the Okami's husband was killed by a monster.
"He was killed by a monster?! Then she knows about the existence of monsters then!?", Tsukune nervously asks as he quickly sits up as he hears the tale.
San simply nods in response to his questioning, only earning herself more questions as Moka questions her by quickly asking, "No way! Then us monsters are basically her number one enemy!?"
"That's right. If I am found out as a monster then I'll also be forced to leave Marin. So please don't let her know about my identity please.", San frantically writes, her clean penmanship seeming to suffer from her trembling hands.
"Oh, I just heard something interesting!", we hear an ominous voice say from out of nowhere. We turn to see a well dressed man dressed in a full white suit with long blonde hair and sharp blue eyes carrying a harp in one hand and holding the Okami captive in the other. "Which means that in order to get you to discard the human world all I have to do is get rid of this woman?", he gleefully asks San with a wicked smile across his face as he tightens his hold on the Okami.