Out of Control
Chapter 12: Bonding
by Sereg
"Look, I know you've experienced a loss, but this relationship just can't work. You're a cat, I'm black, and I'm not gonna be hurt again."
Detective Del Spooner
Meanwhile, in a place where the fourth wall was less damaged ("Oh, come on!" yelled Purin.) but the other walls were not, Eva was yelling at Chachamaru.
"Can't you occupy her for a while, so my house doesn't get destroyed!-?" she asked.
"Yes, Master." Chachamaru agreed. She guided Amalthea away and considered her options. While she had other sisters, she had never acted in an older sister capacity before and her own older sister wasn't a good example. With her newly repaired relationship, she needed to do more research. After checking the internet for appropriate behavior between sisters, she was a little confused, but decided to try the activities anyway. "So, Amalthea-chan," she asked, "have you met any boys that you like?"
"Gweeeee!" replied Amalthea.
"I suppose that the only boys that you would have met so far would be Negi-sensei and Kotaro-san." continued Chachamaru. "Naturally, you won't be pursuing Negi-sensei, so I guess that leaves Kotaro-san. You'll still have some competition, but it shouldn't be so bad, except possibly from Naba-san. She's scary." This wasn't getting anywhere, so she decided to try the next item on the list.
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"We would like to buy these fourteen tins of cat food, please." Chachamaru informed the teller as she handed them over and Amalthea darted her head around in wide eyed astonishment. Shopping, check. Next, was to give each other makeovers. Master would probably be able to help with that, but her orders indicated that she didn't want to be disturbed.
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"What is it?" sighed Chisame at the knock on her door. Maybe Hakase was bringing more things in from the lab. It was still annoying that they were going to have to share space again.
"It's me and Amalthea-chan." came the voice of Chachamaru. "We require your expertise." Chisame raised an eyebrow and opened the door to find out what she was talking about.
"What happened to you!" she gasped. They were covered in blotches of makeup and lipstick and curlers were hanging from their hair.
"We were trying to give each other makeovers." Chachamaru explained. "It seems that we require the assistance of an expert."
"Okay." sighed Chisame. "Come inside."
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"Yes! Once again, I have created a masterpiece!" Chisame yelled as she made a fist and admired her work. Chachamaru and Amalthea were now in frilly dresses and far more professionally applied makeup. They were wearing high heels and their hair had been tied up.
"Thank you, Chisame-san." Chachamaru said as she looked in the mirror. Amalthea tried to get up, but then fell over.
"Don't worry, Amalthea-chan." Chachamaru reassured her. "For our next task, we'll need to wear our pajamas."
"You need to wear your pajamas?" Chisame asked.
"Yes." replied Chachamaru as she carried Amalthea out.
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After changing herself and Amalthea, Chachamaru took her into the resort. She understand this task even less than any of the previous ones. "Apparently, we're supposed to fight." Chachamaru informed Amalthea. "The experts suggest using pillows, but I suppose that that's because most people don't have better weaponry available." Her arm shifted into a sword. "But we don't have that problem."
"Weeeee!" Amalthea squealed as her plasma kukri deployed.
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"Yes!" yelled Purin as she finished tightening the restraints on Fumika. "We did it! We captured the loli ninja twins!"
"Unfortunately, Sereg-kun decided to make the battle take place off-screen." Ameko sighed. "Seriously, what a copout."
Suramui looked around the dungeon, solely to inform the audience that that was where they were. "But now what?" she asked. "Having a pair of loli ninja twins is fun, but there are three of us! Will they really be enough?"
"Not a problem!" grinned Purin with a raised finger. "By succeeding in capturing the twins, we are beginning to establish ourselves as a credible threat! With some more successful battles and kidnappings, we will level up enough to stand a chance against the big, badass ninja! Then we'll each have one! Though, of course, I assume that we'll trade every now and then for variety."
"Plus, if we kidnap more people, then we may as well keep them too." added Ameko.
"Ah, like Makie!" Suramui suggested. "My hairstyle suggests that we may be meant to be rivals or something."
"Don't get ahead of yourself!" Ameko scolded her. "We need to start at the bottom, with the less plot-important characters. Then, we can work our way up, until we take over the story and become the new main characters! Then, we can convince Shadow Crystal Mage-sama to rename this fic: "Tales of The Slime Girls' Harem". It wouldn't be the first time that he renamed a fic."
"I like the way you think!" Purin smiled as she pulled her sister in for a hug. "But who do we start off with? The new OC?"
"Are you crazy!" Suramui cried. "She's the whole reason for this fic! Definitely a main character! Plus she has that whole infant immortality thing going for her. We'll have to save her for much later."
"Well, what about Anya?" suggested Ameko.
"Have you forgotten who's writing this chapter?" Purin asked as she pointed at the line below the chapter title.
"Yeah, but this is canon Anya who is barely useful." Suramui shrugged. "She never had to fight Eva-sama or go on the trip to Kyoto. We'll have to wait until Sereg-kun writes further before we have to fight the one who is an adaptational badass. It should be fine. Besides, he's not going to get to describe a battle in the few words that he has left."
"Well, maybe in a future chapter written by someone I trust more." Purin said, scratching her chin. "So who else could we target in our reverse sorting algorithm of evil?"
"Well, besides Negi-kun's class, there are a few other characters that people tend to forget exist, so they shouldn't be hard to handle. Like Eiko and Yuki and some teachers. …There are enough easy targets for us to level grind."