A/N: Well, I told you all it would be a short epilogue, but in exchange you get it so soon after the main story! That and my editors were very on the ball so thanks to them once again. Looks like Ms. Smith's off to an early lead with Cathyl and Oct in second, so if you haven't voted and don't want a Ms. Smith Arc after Cera's, then go to my profile and vote! As always, like, hate, see something you want to comment on? Leave a review!

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Arc 2 Epilogue: Afterword for Arachnes

Life had been quite nice to Kimihito after he had made it through that tumultuous time that was Rachnera's pregnancy, and shortly thereafter followed by a second pregnancy almost immediately after, resulting in dear Kyveli Rachnera being born just six months after their equally beloved Katerina had hatched, leaving them a family of two daughters, a wife, and a practically live-in mother-in-law to come home to every day.

Yet despite having three dependents, he didn't worry about pretty much anything. Really, the only thing that could concern him drastically on any given day was how his daughters were doing in school. After all, it really wouldn't do for a daughter of one of the MBI's head researchers to do poorly in her grades.

Kimihito hadn't ever gotten his doctorate. As soon as he had gotten his bachelors a very odd man with snow white hair and large glasses had picked him out of the crowd and offered him a lucrative job working for his company. He had been suspicious at first, as most of the staff seemed to be devoted to some 'Sekirei' project, but it turned out to be right up his alley. He was in the department that was researching entomonliminals (bug monsterpeople) for the government. It was great, he got to spend all day examining the cutting edge of entomology. From how strong beetlepeople's carapaces were, to how wasppeople were able to fly on their wings, to the actual maximum strength of arachne silk. He got to bring Rachnera into work occasionally under the pretense of the aforementioned research and he made in more than enough money to support himself, his wife, his kids, and his practically live-in mother-in-law.

It did keep him out of the house a bit more often than he'd have liked, though. While both Rachnera and Nomiki insisted that arachne children needed to be given more independence than human children... well, any advice from Nomiki was suspect at best and he couldn't be sure Rachnera hadn't been tainted in that regard. Just because arachnids were accustomed to it didn't mean that humans were. All the time Rachnera was pregnant he thought of the days he'd spend walking them through the park and telling them about the world - not arriving home late at night to see them too sleepy to say a thing. He dreamt of hugging Katerina on her birthday and telling her to make a wish before blowing out the candles on her birthday cake - not telling Rachnera over the phone that he wouldn't be able to make it for the birthday party after all. Not to mention his daughters were adorable, and he was a father. How could he not want to spend time raising them?

So as it was, every day after he came home from work, he'd spend half the evening helping his daughters with their homework. The eleven year old Katerina and ten year old Kyveli were in the same school year despite their slight age difference, so he could teach them both in the one sitting, which was about the time he had to spare in the evenings anyway. These cram-sessions meant so much to Kimihito - it was the least he could do to show his children he cared. He always wanted to do more, but most days it was all he had time for.

Presently, Kimihito was helping Kyveli. The spider girl was a bit larger than her sister despite being a bit younger, and his genes had won out differently with her then they had with Katerina. Instead of his raven black hair like her sister, the youngest Kurusu had her father's solid brown eyes. She had inherited her mother's interesting mindset though, and was prone to tying Kimihito up at the most random times in the name of 'practice.'

Katerina on the other hand was much more like Kimihito, a smart mind that always wanted to learn more, though with a much more tinkering bent then her scientist father. The adorable black haired spider girl had already finished her homework, and had started disassembling every pen in the area while Kimihito continued to help her sister.

"Okay, so carry the five, then add these two together and you're done!" Kimihito said with a bit of flourish as he walked Kyveli through the last step. The lilac haired spidergirl tapping her fingers on the table as she wrote the last answer.

"Why do I have to do this again? I don't even want to go into math." Kyveli complained with a sigh, before pushing back from the table. "And don't start on that 'It'll be helpful later' nonsense. Grandma says that she's never needed math in her life."

"Yes well, Nomiki is not exactly an ideal role model." Kimihito said with a sigh. If only he could do more to counterset her influence.

Katerina nodded. "Yeah, Grandma doesn't even do anything, she just lounges about the house eating Mom and Dad's stuff."

"Exactly! She doesn't have to do anything and she gets free food and everything. Who wouldn't want that?" Kyveli grinned with an arrogance only a father could forgive before skittering off into the living room with her elder sister following behind.

"Kyveli!" Katerina's scolding and sensible voice echoed throughout the house. "You shouldn't think that way! You should try to become a productive member of society." Kimihito chuckled happily at his children's antics. He was just elated to see them grow.

"Mou, I do not just sit around and leech off you two without doing any work." Nomiki's voice came in and a moment later Kimihito felt some weights resting on his shoulders, and they definitely were too soft to be arms. "After all, I help Rachnera keep you in tip top physical shape."

"Yeah...I really don't know if that counts…" Kimihito said awkwardly. While Rachnera had picked up full time work, running her own small custom outfits shop, Nomiki really did just laze around the house most days. Occasionally she'd take the girls out somewhere but half the time that was worse then when she just didn't do anything, as she had a tendency to take the girls to wildly inappropriate places.

The last time had involved her trying to get the two into a coffee shop so she could teach them about her favourite drinks.

Still, she was about as possible to get rid of as it was possible to completely cure the common cold,so Kimihito had grown used to her presence.

That acceptance had absolutely nothing to do with her growing occasions of staying overnight. Nothing at all.

Nomiki wrapped her arms around Kimihito and pulled him back into her bosom. "Well, maybe I should prove it to you, hm?"

"Not with the kids awake, Nomiki." Kimihito sighed and extracted himself from the amourous spider's grip. Looking over at the clock he saw that Rachnera should have closed shop ome time ago, a thought that was confirmed when he heard the door opening a moment later.

"Honey, I'm home." His wife shouted in from the hall, and Kimihito couldn't help but chuckle a bit at the line that was normally reserved for male sitcom protagonists.

His chuckle turned into full blown laughter when Katerina and Kyveli came rocketing into the hall and glomped onto Rachnera without a moment's pause. While Rachnera and Nomiki both believed that the girls should be more independent, the two younger Kurusus liked to fight back against that by gluing themselves to Rachnera whenever they could get away with it. Back when they were younger they used to ride along on Rachnera's back everywhere, until they grew too large to be carried very far.

"Mom! How was work?" Katerina said as she latched onto Rachnera.

A moment behind her was Kyveli, who opened with. "Mo~om, tell Katerina and Dad that I don't need math when I grow up."

"It was good, sweetie, and you will need math when you grow up Kyveli." Rachnera answered them both as she walked without even being slowed by the two spidergirls clinging to her and wrapped Kimihito in a half hug as she carried all three into the living room.

"How was MBI today, Honey?" Rachnera asked as she sat down, letting her daughters let go but keeping her husband wrapped up by her predilaps.

Kimihito wiggled a bit, before settling into the grip. "Bit of a pain. Minaka is still as difficult to deal with as ever."

"If they weren't paying so well I'd say you should just go back to Smith." She sighed, there was something off about that man, but even though Smith had been elevated to the rank of a director, her department just didn't have the funds to pay Kimihito anywhere near as well as the private sector.

"Ms. Smith's another girl that doesn't need math!" Kyveli cut into the conversation from the ceiling of all places. "She spends half the day here too talking about how to tease people with Nomiki and drinking all the coffee."

"Kyveli! Ms. Smith's not a good role model either! She's just as lazy as Grandma is." Katerina said to her sister, and was about to try to pull her off the ceiling when the black haired spidergirl was wrapped up in webs courtesy of said grandma.

"Mmm, little spiders should watch what they say around their elders, don't you know? Otherwise they might end up being preyed on." Nomiki chuckled as she started to drag Katerina out of the living room, reeling her in like a fisherman with their catch. Just before Nomiki could get the girl out of the room, Kimihito of all people reached out from where he was being hoarded by his wife and cut the silk with a knife, surprising the two elder arachne and bringing a grin to his face.

"Heh, so it did work, now if only I could take proper notes." Kimihito grinned and stowed the knife with an obviously practiced twirl. "One of the toys Minaka's got me working on, said I could take it home to test if I wanted to."

Before either Rachnera or Nomiki could ask just what let it cut their silk, Katerina glomped onto to Kimihito from the front. "Yay! Dad saved me from evil, lazy grandma."

"Your grandma isn't evil. Can't deny the lazy bit though." Kimihito chuckled as he rubbed the girl's hair and looked over at Nomiki, who was grinning at getting teased.

"Mmmm, maybe I'll just have to wrap you up too Kimi." Nomiki's grin grew.

Rachnera laughed a bit awkwardly to herself, she still hadn't gotten quite past getting uncomfortable at Nomiki's occasional 'sleepovers.' "Mmmm, we'll see Nomiki. Now how 'bout we get started on dinner Honey."

"Let me help!" The black haired girl said from where she was still hugging onto Kimihito, before letting go and rushing out of the room.

A moment later Kyveli added. "Kyveli too! Grandma says the best way to a man is through his stomach."

With the two girls out of the room, Kimihito let himself lean back into Rachnera's grip, and pulled the spidergirl down into a bit of an awkwardly positioned kiss. When he pulled back he grinned at his wife and said. "Hm, have I told you how much I love you recently?"

Rachnera laughed a little, "Yes, yes you have, many times." The spidergirl leaned in and gave Kimihito a short kiss in return. "But I get the oddest feeling you have something to ask behind this one."

"Got me." Kimihito grinned, he never could slip anything past his wife. It just made him love her all the more when she could figure out his problems half the time before he even knew what they were. "I was thinking about trying to retire early. If we save up, and I take some more overtime at work. We could probably have enough that I could just come and help you with the store. I want to be here to see the girls through highschool at least."

Racherna's smile became almost beatific. While she thought the girls should be given a fair bit of independence, she couldn't help but find Kimihito's paternal instincts to be one of his best traits. "Well, I don't see why not. My clientele base is picking up too so soon the store should start bringing in a more too. I'll try to whip Nomiki into shape so you don't have to worry about her polluting the girls while you are working overtime."

"Thanks Rachnee." Kimihito joked, before giving the spiderwoman another kiss and wiggling out of her grip, grabbing one of her carapace covered hands and saying. "Now, let's go get started on dinner before we get dragged there."

With that the two would head off to the kitchen, plans for the future filling the air.