A/N: I'm here with a new chapter! One day early. I decided to make a epilogue for the Zombina arc instead of a preview of the Rachnera arc. Hope it turns out to be up to the quality of the last two chapters even if it is only about half the size of the last one. Mostly this just serves to put to paper a few floating scenes I had kicking around (and to flesh out the wedding a bit.)

Also I want to thank my two editors (neither of which are on ) Sammieo and The Ambiguous Briton. They have helped me turn this arc from a literary mess into something worth reading. As always, like the chapter, hate the chapter, see something that needs improving, or just want to leave your thoughts about this arc or potential future ones? Leave a review! (Also thanks to everyone who has left a review for the last two chapters, you're feedback is greatly appreciated!)

Disclaimer: Still don't own DLWMG. Also check the second A/N for notes about the polls.

Kimihito felt like a penguin, one that was fidgeting nervously on the spot. Standing at the altar would do that to a man; this was the ceremony where he'd be bound to the woman he loved.

It didn't calm him down to remind himself that this was only a ceremony. The official paperwork had been filed days before, and while the church they were in was set up like a catholic one on Zombina's insistance, the 'minister' was actually a man from M.O.N. they could get who most closely resembled the stereotypical priest. The major religions had a hard enough time doing a ceremony for a liminal and a human marriage as it was, and doing one for the undead was right out of the question. But Zombina had yearned for the real thing like her friends had when she was alive, and Kimihito wanted as close to the real deal as he could possibly get her.

That thought bearing down just made this even more nerve wracking. Kimihito, and his best man Keitaro, had to stand waiting in front of an audience comprised of both Kimihito's friends and his friends' friends, all the residents at Keitaro's dorm, and Zombina's friends. At least the ones that hadn't been given a chance to be involved in the ceremony like the M.O.N. girls had. Among them was Cici, who much to Kimihito's entertainment, was being talked up by an oblivious Kazuto. He wondered if they'd have to attend a wedding again in a short while, though that one might be a bit less cordial than his own.

Only one set of the parents of the two to be wed were there, and those were Zombina's. The rehearsal had been the first time Kimihito had actually met his two elderly in-laws. The two had gushed over how he was finally going to make a proper woman of their daughter and how adorable Yuuhi was. He felt the responsibility he had to them, but was relieved that they approved.

Kimihito's parents, on the other hand were not in attendance. Their boy hadn't sent them just the wedding invitations, he'd sent them texts, phone calls, answering machine messages and email upon email for them - he never got one reply. The thought brought a frown to Kimihito's face. He'd wanted this to be the day when the two of them would finally show a paternal bone in their bodies. He knew better; he'd expected them to do this. But still.

He didn't get a chance to stew on his parent's absence for long though, his train of thought stuttering as the wedding march started. Nervousness filled him again as he made a few last attempts to make his rented suit fit properly.

Then Kimihito's train of thought was completely thrown off the rails when the doors opened and Zombina soon walked in. His wife to be's dress was a truly hideous orange-yellow, the same colour of her M.O.N. armour, but to him it only made the shy smile on her face all the brighter. The look in her eyes, and those in the eyes of her bridesmaids, made it obvious that she knew how blinding the colour was but she couldn't care less.

The entire way down the aisle, Kimihito's eyes were wide and full of nothing but the vision of beauty coming toward him. By the time she ended up across from him before the 'minister,' Kimihito's brain was fully in autopilot. The actual brain was too busy getting lost in his zombie's lively eyes, eyes he had fallen in love with long ago.

It was only as the vows came to the end that his higher brain functions returned, just in time to hear.

"Do you, Kimihito Kurusu, take Zombina Shimizu as your wife? To live together in marriage, through sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for as long as you both shall remain?"

Kimihito was never more sure about two words. "I do."

"Do you, Zombina Shimizu, take Kimihito Kurusu as your husband? To live together in marriage, through sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for as long as you both shall remain?"

"I do." Zombina's eyes were damp, practically sparkling with joy.

"Then I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." The 'minister' had a grin on his face as he gave the two the go ahead.

The newly christened Kurusus launched into a deep, loving kiss. Passionate enough that the 'minister', along just about everyone present, started to blush and shift awkwardly. The only person who didn't seem to feel embarrassed at the scene was Ms. Smith, a camera materializing in her hand to take a picture of the kissing couple. In the process she also managed to capture a rather hilarious scene of a furiously blushing Manako trying to cover Yuuhi's eyes.

Unfortunately for the government agent, Dopple stepped in before she could get another picture, pulling the newlyweds apart with ease. "Jeez, you two are in public you know!"

"Heh, you're just jealous." Zombina said teasingly to her dark skinned friend, and even managing to get a blush from the usually apathetic doppleganger. Pulling back from Kimihito she still held him by the hand as she pointed to the church's doors. "Now, to the reception!"

**ISoaN**

The reception was held at a nearby hotel, and no one who had been at the wedding missed it. Not just because the government workers were all happy to get the most they possibly could out of a government subsidised party, though that was certainly a factor. Mostly it was because if there was one thing Zombina could manage, it was throwing a party.

She probably shouldn't have left Cici in charge of the signage though, 'Chips from the powdered onion' was technically correct but it did not make for easy deciphering. Still the taiwanese girl had been desperate to have some part to play in the wedding and this was the place where she could do the least damage.

"Cici so happy for two you! Look much happy together!" The jiang shi practically jumped as she clung onto Kazuto's arm. "Cici bring gift! It marriageable aids!"

Luckily Cici had put the blush-inducing present somewhere in the pile so the two didn't have to deal with her handing them thinly veiled porn in the middle of a party, but it didn't stop the slow and creeping blush they shared as Cici elaborated.

Kazuto's congratulations was much more subdued compared to the hopping, illegal alien, instead merely clapping Kimihito on the shoulder. "I don't think they'll need it. If that show you put on at the wedding is anything to go by anyway, you two are pretty…" He gave a semi-perverted grin. "Compatible."

"Yeah, that's… Definitely not a problem." Kimihito actually managed to say back without breaking into an embarrassed stutter, though the red stayed.

The other guests had similarly coloured 'congratulations'. Manako was barely able to be in the two's presence without fainting from a blood rush, her memory vividly revisiting their makeout. Tio had pulled them both into a near bone-crushing hug, and Dopple had scoffed at the idea of marrying a human and flicked Kimihito's forehead. "You hurt our dear Zombina and I will make you suffer. Got it?"

The flick hurt a surprising lot for how light it had looked. "Even if I ever would, I can think of a certain sweetheart who'd beat you to the punch." Kimihito pulled Zombina into a one armed hug, and lightly teased her side through her dress.

Zombina kept herself to a frisky smile until the rest of the squad left to rejoin the party and they were alone, at which point she'd start to tease Kimihito back, pressing herself against him and rubbing her breasts against him when no one was paying attention.

The teasing war would escalate quickly, much to the interest of the few people who did notice. The two were about to try to slip out of the party for some private time, when a certain strawberry blonde zombie tiredly stumbled against Zombina's and asked with a large yawn. "Mommy can we please go home? I'm really tired."

The two adults looked at each other, then shrugged. It wasn't like what they wanted to do couldn't be done just as easily at home. Picking Yuuhi up by the armpits and holding her in a hug, Zombina patted her on the head. "I guess we can. Don't think anyone is really going to miss us here after all."

Driving with a child on a motorbike wasn't great, and driving one with three people on a single seater was the epitome of bad ideas, so shortly after they adopted Yuuhi, Kimihito had invested in a car so the three of them would be able to go for a ride and bring their daughter home when they had to go anywhere without having to worry about any accidents. Or at least, he wouldn't have to worry about it.

The small sedan would get them home quickly, but nowhere near quick enough for the two in the front seat.

"Mommy, Daddy, why is it so hot in here? The air conditioning is on…" Yuuhi asked from the back, unaware of the sexual tension that was near literally affecting the air around her adopted parents. "And both of you are so red! Oooh no did you both get sick?"

"No no, dear." Kimihito used all his willpower to keep his voice steady and keep his eyes on the road and not gazing at the voluptuous woman in the seat beside him. "Well maybe a bit. We'll be heading right to bed after we get you all tucked in."

"Yeah, don't worry about us." Zombina turned back and gave her toothy grin to Yuuhi. "We'll be fine by the morning, though you might want to cover yourself with your pillows. I heard it's going to get windy tonight."

"Okay! If it gets really windy, can I come in with you?" Yuuhi's voice was innocent.

Zombina's smile turned to a neutral line. As much as she wanted to say no to hopefully increase their odds of getting through the night undisturbed, her newly awakened maternal instincts kicked in. "But then you might get sick, but yes, if it really does get too loud you can come in with us, just please knock first okay?"

Yuuhi nodded and leaned back in her seat, though they were pretty much at the house as it was. Pulling into the garage and letting Zombina handle getting Yuuhi all ready for bed, Kimihito instead went to go take a little concoction he had come across, which let him keep up with his amorous wife.

Good thing too he found out about it too, because he really needed it that night. The bed ended up having to get replaced after the frame broke, but he managed to avoid a hospital stay this time!

**ISoaN**

"Okay, so you add the two to the nine, then you add the five to the six, then you add the two to the two, and you should get 411." Kimihito said as he tried to direct his daughter through her make up school work.

Yuuhi flipped a few pages deeper into the book. "Uhh, it says it should be 521 daddy."

Kimihito groaned and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "What did I screw up…"

"Daddy I think we were supposed to carry the ones over."

Kimihito palmed his head. "Right...Okay then it's 521. What's the next question."

"Kimi, I really think you should leave getting Yuuhi caught up to Manako, she should be getting here any minute now." Zombina said as she passed the table, stopping to look at the atrocity that was Kimihito's attempts at helping. "We don't need you catching on fire trying to overthink, you know?"

"Hey! I'm not that bad." Kimihito tried to defend himself. "I'm just out of practice."

Zombina leaned down and kissed his cheek. "Don't worry about it you lug, we love you all the same even if you can hardly handle grade six math."

"Yeah! Don't worry daddy, we still love you!" Yuuhi glomped onto Kimihito's arm and nodded.

Kimihito was saved from having to further admit his idiocy when the doorbell rang. "Well that'll be Manako, I'll go get it since I'm obviously not much use around here." Even if he sounded put out, the smile on his face showed he very much didn't mind the teasing.

Since they had adopted Yuuhi, they had been trying to get her back up to speed on the years of schooling she had missed due to her illness, and it had quickly proved a task well beyond Kimihito's ability, and Zombina's available time off of work.

The solution had been to call in help, which was in the form of the diminutive monoeye that was currently standing on his doorstep. "Come on in, Manako, I was just trying to help her with the homework you assigned."

"I thought I asked you to stop doing that." Manako said without even a blush or flinch, if there was one thing about giving her the job, she had grown much more comfortable in the Kurusu household, at least when it came to talking about anything related to teaching. Going off topic or teasing her put her right back to normal in no time.

Kimihito scratched the back of his head. "Aw come on, am I really that bad?"

"Yes, yes you are." Came the monotone from the monoeye as she stepped past Kimihito and into the house. "Hopefully you will have not ended up turning back what progress we've made."

"Come on Manako, don't be so harsh on him!" Zombina chimed in as Manako stepped into the living room. "That's my job."

"Hiya Ms. Manako! I got almost everything you assigned done!" Yuuhi held up a bunch of sheets of paper. "Though daddy kept trying to help."

"Good work. That will make today's lesson easier."

When the two started to discuss the day's lesson plan, Zombina latched onto Kimihito. "Well there hubby, I guess we should head out, we have a few more schools to hit this week."

"Yeah I'll go warm up the bike, though I still think we can stop this little search, I think Tokiwadai Middle School would be perfect."

Zombina just shooed Kimihito into the garage. "I know but I still think there is something off about that place. If we can't find anything today though we'll stick with it."

A few minutes later, the two were off for a very unsuccessful day of school hunting. It was surprisingly hard to find a school in Japan that was willing to take in a child that had missed so much time, not to mention a zombie. Half the schools took one look at Zombina, a quick glance at Yuuhi's transcript, and immediately booted them out the door.

But hey, at least they got to turn it into a short date after, leaving a poor Manako to deal with a hungry Yuuhi after their lessons came to an end.

**ISoaN**

It wasn't even a year later when Kimihito took the final step in his relation with Zombina, the step even past their marriage. Indeed it was the same day that Yuuhi finally rejoined the school system.

"Okay, uniform, backpack, you have your notebook and everything right?" Kimihito said as he and Zombina fussed over the younger zombie.

"I've got everything daddy!" Yuuhi said with a slight huff, her arms crossed and her cheeks puffed out. "At this rate I'll be late for the bus!"

Zombina gave a half grin and pulled her husband away from their adopted daughter. "Right right, we just want to make sure it's going to go well for you you know?"

"Yes mom, but we really need to get going!" Yuuhi insisted, and grabbed both her parents by the hands and started to drag them. A relatively easy task all considering given that Zombina didn't put up any resistance and Kimihito wasn't strong enough to keep his feet firmly grounded, let alone slow her down.

The neighbours just watched as two parents were dragged like waving flags behind their daughter toward the end of the street. The ride only stopped when they made it to the bus stop, the school bus still a block or two away.

Kimihito was still recovering from the impromptu half flight, so it was on Zombina to send Yuuhi off. She bent down a little and rubbed her head. "Now you be good ya hear? Don't do anything that'll get us called down there and remember not to share drinks or anything with anyone."

Yuuhi nodded, and the bus pulled up. Darting over to the opening gate the strawberry blond waved at her parents. "Seeya after school! Love you!"

"Have fun!" The two older Kurusus responded, and with that the bus doors closed, though the young zombie still waved at them through the window till the bus turned the corner and went out of sight.

Kimihito sighed, "I hope she'll be okay."

"She's a zombie." Zombina waved it off. "Half the kids on the bus are probably already trying to be her friend just 'cause of how cool being a zombie is."

Kimihito chuckled at his wife's words. At the very least Yuuhi wouldn't be the only liminal going to the school, as Tokiwadai proudly boasted that it was taking in a whole slew of young liminals this year, one of the first schools in the city to do so. So their girl would have some people to get to know right off the bat.

The two couldn't just stand at the bus stop till their daughter came back though, even if they almost wanted to. With a bit of reluctance the pair turned away and headed back to their house, taking it at a much more leisurely pace as the warm day and quiet sounds of passing cars helped them relax.

That was until they got in sight of their own house again, and noticed a car parked beside their sedan that was only familiar to Kimihito.

"You're fucking kidding me, now they show up?" Kimihito growled, his expression immediately turning sour. "Really?!"

Zombina looked at the drastic change in attitude of her husband, and then back to the car, managing to put two and two together surprisingly quick. "Wait, your parents showed up now?"

"Yes." Kimihito's voice was tinged with genuine anger. "Come on, I have some words for them."

Zombina nodded and followed along beside her human. She had never actually seen a picture of Kimihito's parents, so she had filled the gap with her own ideas. Those ideas more or less came out to 'the biggest douches in the world.'

Opening the front door, Kimihito said with a voice schooled back into neutral. "Hello?"

"Kimi!" Came an oddly excited voice from the living room, and a surprisingly normal woman stepped out into the hallway. Long smooth black hair, almost as tall as Kimihito, and a very obviously western dress sense going by the t shirt and knee length shorts combo. "We're sorry for missing your wedding! We didn't see the emails till it had already happened."

Kimihito and Zombina's eyes twitched almost simultaneously. Kimihito's voice was a very dangerous monotone. "But we sent them a month ahead of time."

"Ahh, yes, we have taken to using our email only sparingly. It makes things more interesting." A more masculine voice said and stepped in behind Kimihito's mom. The man looked like the ultimate hipster - tall, skinny, and wearing a terrible sweater vest along with a goatee. It caused Zombina to wonder if Kimihito had taken to being a grunt work mechanic just to spite his father somewhere. "Though this must be your wife."

Both parents looked at Zombina, and while the zombie girl's mental buildup expected them to be liminal haters, they actually didn't seem to thrown off by her appearance. Kimihito's mom actually looked like she was positively enamoured with the zombie woman already.

"Oh, so nice to meet you!" Kimi's mother said as she hugged onto the board stiff girl for a moment then pulled back. "We were so happy to hear that Kimi finally managed to get himself a wife, we thought he was never even going to get a girlfriend."

"I sent you messages telling you when we started dating, and a bunch after that…" Kimihito looked like he was equally conflicted between the attitude his parents had, having painted his own demonic image of them after years of absence, and how even if they were acting like this, they still had ignored literally every message he sent their way for the last few years.

Kimihito's father nodded. "Yes, we saw when we checked our email last week. We got so into our travels that we just forgot entirely about it."

"You wouldn't believe Europe and those places. Their cities are so spread out compared to here. Their are so many farms and vineyards. They have these little villages that are just adorable and they have castles and things everywhere."

Kimihito's eye twitched again as he was told about all the things he missed thanks to his parents leaving him behind.

"And America is an...interesting place." Kimihito's father took over the explanation. "It covers so much area that it feels like an entirely different country if you travel far enough along it. From busy New York to quiet middle of nowhere North Dakota. Though I must admit I figured out why they call a number of those places the 'fly over' states. There is only so many fields of wheat you can see before it all starts blending together."

He shook his head and offered a hand to Zombina. "Though where are my manners. Welcome to the family, Zombina. I hope Kimihito hasn't been too much of a blockhead for you."

Zombina shook the man's hand, but noticed something, even at home Kimi's parents were more focused on her then seeing their son again for the first time in years. By the way they worded it it seemed that the only reason they had come home in the first place was to see her.

The zombie woman decided to test out her theory. "He's been fine, more than fine. You have a really amazing son." Leaning onto her husband's shoulder she continued. "We had barely been dating for a month before I knew I had to have him forever."

"Kimihito's so lucky to have such a devoted wife!" Kimihito's father exclaimed, his attention still firmly on Zombina and it was almost like his parents had already forgotten Kimihito was there given the way they referred to him like he wasn't in the room.

The thought made Zombina's face take a neutral line, and she squeezed her human's shoulder in her grip. She hoped that it would calm him down a bit as she could practically feel an explosive outburst coming from him. She didn't really want to stop him, but letting him take his parents to pieces would not do anything to help.

It seemed she succeeded enough that Kimihito didn't punch his father's lights out. "Yes, I am very lucky to have Zombina, and could you please stop talking about me like I'm not in the room?"

"Sorry Kimi." Kimihito's mom said almost dismissively. "We are just so excited, after all we never expected to come back to having a daughter in law."

"You never expected to come back at all!" Kimihito's dam finally broke, his words coming out as a shout. "You came home just because you noticed that I got married! If I hadn't sent those messages you'd never have come back."

"Well." Kimihito's father seemed unrepentant. "We have been very busy. Indeed we are only going to be staying here for a day or two before we have to return to Europe, our review columns aren't going to research themselves."

"And what, you'll just ignore anything I send your way again?!" Kimihito wasn't about to let this go. "Like holy hell, I haven't even heard from either of you in five goddamned years! Then you just show up like everything's fine? You left me to fucking raise myself!"

Kimihito's parents looked guilty, and his mother said. "Kimi, you know we only left because we had to make money to put you through everything..."

"Bullshit! You're telling me you couldn't have found something here? You've been spending the last few years gallivanting around the western world and just forgot about me! If you really cared you'd have at least sent a fucking message or something!"

Kimihito's anger seemed to burn down to something a bit less shouty though it hadn't left at all. Pointing at the door he said in a deathly quiet voice. "Out, now."

"We still own this house." Kimihito's father said sternly, even as he wasn't able to meet his son's eye

It was Zombina though that dispelled the notion. "Actually, when we adopted our kid, and got married, we had one of my friends look into that. Legally Kimihito and myself own this place now. If you want we can start repaying you for it, but for now, leave, before Kimi here throws you out."

Both the parents seemed like they were about to contest that, Kimihito's father looking defiant while his mother looked absolutely devastated at both herself and at getting kicked out of the house by her son. The look on Kimihito's eyes though made them back down, and his father said. "We'll go."

Kimihito's mom pulled her son into a hug. "We're really sorry dear! We'll go but please, please! Don't just cut us out entirely…"

"Like you did to me?" Kimihito said dully, but finally sighed and gave his mother a half hug. "If you both stop ignoring every message sent your way, I'll try to keep contact. Now please, leave. I need to calm down right now."

His mother gave him one more hug, and then let go, the two parents leaving the boy and his zombie wife behind. A minute or two after the car pulled away, Kimihito sighed. "Well...I could have handled that better."

"You also could have handled it much worse." Zombina said as she hugged her husband again. "Honestly I thought you were going to cold clock your dad there at the start."

"I was thinking about it." Kimihito said as he hugged Zombina back, sighing heavily and dropping onto the couch as he gave his wife a half surprised look. "Though uhh, you really meant that want me for forever part right?"

"Of course, our wedding vows were for 'as long as we shall remain' last I remember." Zombina said with an odd grin and chuckle, as if she was both happy and worried. "Why, finally decided to join the land of the unliving?" She half-asked, and half joked, probing as the last of the anger left her husband.

"Yeah… I think it's time,"He paused as Zombina opened her mouth, about to say something. He cut her off. "And before you ask it's not because I want to rub my parent's face in this whole thing." Kimihito smiled again as he looked to his wife. "It's just, when you said that, I realized just how much I felt the same." He raised his head, and gave her another squeeze as they embraced. "Anyways, not like this wasn't going to happen eventually. Might as well do it sooner rather than later, while I still look good."

Kimihito's attempt at a joke drained some of the concern from Zombina's smile, and she gave a little nod.. "You sure? Like, really really sure Kimi. I won't love you any less if you don't-"

Her further words were cut off by Kimihito pulling Zombina into a deep kiss. The redhead knew that her husband hadn't taken his pill for the day, and they hadn't had any reason to take one yesterday because they were so busy trying to make sure Yuuhi was already for school.

"Of course I'm sure." Kimihito said with a huge grin on his face. "I love you after all, and I want to be with you and Yuuhi forever too."

A/N 2: The second arc poll is now closed, with Rachnera taking the lead by a large margin. In second place was a tie between Mero and Papi's Mom. These two will be carried over to the Arc 3 poll (which should be up by the time you finish reading this chapter, or at least shortly after that.) For the next chapter there is going to be a few more character tags. For girls like Cathyl, there are two options, one for Kimihito and one for the boy they are actually shown with in the manga. I will only be doing each girl once, so if the farmer wins, then that will be the only Cathyl arc that will be written. Just letting you all know. Also any character tagged with (Yamada) is based off my other story Spokes of Life and anything tagged with (DLWBC) is based off the Bicycle Cop fanart thing that was kicking around involving the echidna and pirate mermaid and the like.

The Rachnera arc will likely be starting sometime in Mid May(I want to get a chapter or two out for Spokes before then), though given how I am it might come out earlier. Either way hope to see you all here when it comes out!