Genos arrived with Kamiko after the others showed up to ensure the security was set at Neutral Grounds before they left. Bane had arrived soon after Orotsu did to settle on a couch. Tsuruga sat down by the door with Masaki on the opposite side of it. Suiryu was even present and sat down to rest with relief by an opened window pane from running in.
"What's going on?" King asked from where he sat with Kianna.
"We are having a big family meeting to address some things. Then, after that business is done, we're having an outdoor cookout," Saitama nodded.
"Oh? Let me see what I have," Orotsu chuckled. "Tacki, can you build a spit to go over an open fire?"
"If I have the right stuff, yes!" she beamed.
"No heavy lifting!" Kamikaze grunted at her.
"I can help with that," Fubuki smiled when she walked in. Inichi was easily telling her what the conversation was about. "I'm sure Rendor can politely ask my sister to help, too. So that's fine."
"Help with what?" Tatsumaki frowned on coming in after her.
"I want to build something to help make food over a fire. It might be too heavy for me to lift right," Tacki said.
"That sounds awesome!" Rendor grinned. "I would love outdoor fire cooking! Man…reminds me of the days traveling outside with Lady Mitsumi."
"Oh! Yes!" Kianna gasped with her own form of delight. "Tatsumaki, I know you will enjoy this!"
"Huh. Okay," Tatsumaki nodded. "I can help."
"Try this," Orotsu said and handed over a small sliver of fire-roasted deer meat. "I can make this with Tacki's spit."
"Oh?" Tatsumaki blinked and tried it. "How big do you need this thing?!"
"I told you it's awesome!" Rendor grinned and got kissed by her.
"If we make it large enough, we could create a specialty menu once a month for fire-roasted meat," Orotsu said with a hint of eagerness. "It can easily promote business with various meats of all sorts."
"We can do that!" Mitsumi gasped.
"Yes. We'll do that," Saitama grinned at the idea. "Do we get to taste the dishes first? Maybe?"
"That we can," Orotsu chuckled.
"Inichi?" Fubuki asked when he hovered over him.
"Yes, Fubuki? Ah! I can see about collecting a few deer and other wild game…" Inichi mused. "Even some local beef and Wagyu…"
"You don't call her Miss Fubuki anymore?" King asked.
"Well…on claiming each other as life partners, she informed me it was no longer necessary," Inichi chuckled.
"I gotta be nosey. So, how many hours of sleep did you get when you changed human for your first night, Kianna?" Zenchu asked her.
"Ah…none…" Kianna blushed hard. King just grinned a bit and kept an arm around her. "No details!"
"None needed!" Tacki grinned. "At least you know how sex works unlike Iaian! That guy…he needs a coloring book."
"Tacki!" Kamikaze hissed before coughing out his laughter. Zenchu died laughing and Fumio's jaw dropped at it.
"Maybe the coloring book can have step-by-step instructions," she blinked at the thought. Mitsumi was dying with laughter with the others now. Saitama was just cringing at everything and hiding his face in her neck.
"Quiet!" Kamikaze warned and tickled her. Inichi was face-palming himself from the laughter now. Fumio was giggling like crazy at everything.
"You should go to your room," Inichi sighed at Fumio.
"Nope! I'm fine. Besides, I've been around Zenchu for two years. Tacki's got nothing on Zenchu's vocabulary!" Fumio grinned to get Inichi in an uproar of laughter at it all. "I know a lot more than others. So…don't worry about me getting offended anymore. Okay?"
"That's true!" Zenchu agreed in full.
"Are you still sore, Kamiko?" Tsuruga had to ask her.
"Shut up…!" she hissed out and blushed hard.
"It's getting better," Genos chuckled. Kamiko gave a mild smirk at him and got pulled into his lap. "You're the one that wants it like that. Remember?"
"I am aware that I do it to myself," she admitted.
"Are you both life partners, too?" Kianna asked.
"We agreed to it. If it comes to a point, we may take the same step as Master Saitama and get married," Genos nodded. At a knock on the door, Zenchu answered it to let in Zombieman and Himiko.
"Hey. I brought her. Anyone mind?" Zombieman asked.
"Oh! Hey!" Mitsumi smiled. "It's okay."
"If you're with her, then it's fine," Saitama nodded and drank down a soda.
"We agreed to try dating," Himiko said with a small blush, and he had her sit next to him on a couch. Orotsu had a plate of grilled eel served to them to share.
"Good! We're gonna do a fireside cookout after we handle some family affairs. If you have any insight, Himiko, please tell us," Mitsumi said. "Also, you'll love this. You know those stupid reporters that didn't want to say anything about Father's death? They are all finally being interrogated! Likely going to jail! They were with-holding all the evidence of confessions on being bribed. Even Uncle Kiyoshi wants in on it!"
"Really?!" Himiko blinked. "Wow. I remember how I said Mother served the tea that night. I…oh…I forgot about that. I noticed the tea…it smelled funny! Likely from the poison in it…"
"Oh…" Mitsumi grimaced and Saitama sat up with her.
"It's okay. I killed that thing with one punch. It's dead," Saitama said to get her to smile and nod.
"I still feel bad that I doubted you, Mitsumi. Everything. I was so blind," Himiko frowned. Zombieman ran a hand over her back to show he understood. "It's going to take time for me to know that things are going to be different."
"I know," Mitsumi nodded. "Well, misery loves company!"
"Really?" Himiko grimaced to get them all laughing and chuckling.
"Okay! Last fan set is done," Tacki said and let the fans flick out the blades to ensure the delicate stitching was set. Himiko had only seen the fans move in live streams, and she was shocked that they were all quite sentient.
"Okay. You all can go rest now. We should be fine. If anything happens, I know you'll come back out. And I know you'll come back out if Mitsumi plans to dance later," Saitama said to the fans to get them to swirl around him and quickly fly off into the bedroom to rest.
"When do we plan to discuss things?" Bane asked.
"We should do that now," Saitama said and rose up with Mitsumi against his side. "We can see about making the bonfire pit, too. And where to prep food."
"I need to make the roasting spit," Tacki said and found herself carried by Kamikaze. "I can walk."
"Eh. No," Kamikaze said bluntly. "I need to keep you under control."
"Really? Why? Oh! Am I not keeping you on your toes enough?" she grinned. He gave her a side-long glance and smirked.
"You do that plenty. I just don't need you bouncing around," he said and took her outside.
"Oh! Lady Mitsumi's sister! If you don't know how sex works, I can make you a coloring book!" Tacki called out over his shoulder. Kamikaze gaped and stared at her to get everyone dying with laughter. "What? I can test it out for Iaian!"
"You…absolutely…amaze me. And astound me. Now I need you to get to work on something that can help us cook dinner to keep you out of even more trouble," Kamikaze sighed and shook his head. Himiko was blushing a bright, beet red and shaking her head at it.
"Okay. Have you ever dated?" Zombieman had to ask her.
"No…" Himiko swallowed and sighed. "I was never interested. I was pursued, but I got bored of it after a while. I accepted the gifts, but then I learned it was all to gain trust with my parents. I disregarded those men quickly and decided I was done with it all."
"Same with me," Mitsumi nodded. "All political garbage!"
"No more of that," Saitama muttered and led them out to the main area where Mitsumi had danced before. Genos and Tsuruga were setting up the bonfire area with stones, bricks and salvaged wooden beams. Shenjou was able to help dissolve various pieces of metal down to free even more wooden beams to feed the future fire. Metal was carefully softened with his venom to make a circular containment area for coals.
"Do we know what to make?" Tatsumaki asked and began to break down various beams into shapes with her thoughts. She was even able to work with the metal when it was softened.
"That depends. Inichi, can you get a whole animal so I can judge size and weight?" Tacki asked.
"I can assist in breaking it down after she gets the information she needs," Orotsu said and went to the shed he was using from before. "I may need some specialty knives, though. The ones I had were good, but not really for skinning."
"Inichi, if you send me into town, I can get a good set," Kianna nodded.
"Very well. Oh! After Lady Mitsumi lost her age condition, we never really utilized those push carts, have we? We should find a use for them," Inichi mused and sent off Kianna when she was ready. He ensured to listen for her when she was ready to come back to them.
"Zenchu said he'd push Mitsumi and I around in one after we got married. Technically…we did…" Saitama grinned.
"We'll need to add a curtain," Zenchu nodded to show he remembered.
"I can make that!" Tacki said quickly.
"You got married?!" Himiko blinked.
"By the fans and Wind Crane," Mitsumi blushed. "Not legal or public, but just to satisfy Wind Crane Clan traditions. We still need the public one for legal stuff for Father's estate needs."
"Yep! Within two weeks of meeting her, I got married. Not complaining," Saitama nodded and squeezed Mitsumi to him. "We plan to get married after I get her pregnant. It didn't happen this month, so we'll keep trying to see if it happens in a week or so. We told you before. Didn't we?"
"Oh," Himiko frowned and blinked. "Ah. You did. I just…forgot."
"Happens to the best of us," Saitama shrugged and squeezed Mitsumi to him.
"I gotta admit, though, it's nice knowing that I'm your first boyfriend," Zombieman said to her with a small smile. "I've had plenty of girlfriends, but none that I was ever really interested in. I think you're gonna change that."
"What do you mean?" Himiko asked and got seated next to him in the stadium chairs. Saitama and Mitsumi sat next to them and watched the others work around them.
"Usually, when I'm interested in someone, it's based on looks. I never met you, but I learned about you first. The other girls never really told me about themselves. Nothing impressive. Basic stuff. But you? You almost died. You survived hanging by ropes and ready to get cut into pieces. You realized that you were living in hell and tried to get out of it. That is admirable to me.
"As I told you before, I regenerate very quickly. To what I know, I can't die. I can smoke a box of cigarettes and never worry about lung cancer. Anyone else? Heh," he grinned.
"I was never one for smoking. It makes me nauseous to be around the smell," Himiko frowned. Zombieman looked at her curiously. "Of course, I wouldn't want you to stop doing what you enjoy. It's just…if you smoke, you can't smell like it around me."
"That'll be rough. Maybe I can cut back to a few a day. Like when I scope a place out. Or long travels. I don't need the cigarettes. They're just nice to have. Of course, it wouldn't be like me to not smoke them. I'll figure it out," he nodded. "I'll keep a few sticks of mint gum around, too, in case I do smoke before seeing you. I can do that easily."
"That's fine," Himiko smiled and nodded. On looking over at her sister, she blushed on seeing she was locked in a kiss with Saitama.
"Want to do what they're doing?" Zombieman asked with a small smile.
"Ah…no…" Himiko said softly. "I promised myself not to kiss on a first date. I have yet to be kissed, so…I want to stick to it."
"To be fair, we didn't do anything until the third night," Mitsumi said to them after the kiss ended. "He waited until my aging from the venom was done to kiss me. When it came to being together…I wanted to wait until my tenth date…"
"I asked if she really wanted wait that long. I didn't!" Saitama grinned and kissed her lovingly again.
"How many times that first night? Six?" Zenchu mused. Saitama gave him a blank stare in response.
"Was it more than you ever did in a single night?" Zombieman asked him.
"That's…not fair…" Zenchu muttered.
"I still need Genos to help me out," Saitama said.
"How?" Zombieman asked.
"He's a cyborg. His dick vibrates," Zenchu said. Zombieman's face went completely blank at the thought.
"Shut up!" Mitsumi scowled at Zenchu. Wind Crane was quick to stride over and clap her beak at him.
"What?! It's a truth!" Zenchu said to the massive bird monster. She cocked her head to the side and seemed to grumble. "Are you suggesting that we should try something?"
Now she seemed to jump backwards with a touch of surprise. Mitsumi died laughing at this reaction. Saitama now had to ask, "Can monsters even have kids?"
"That would be a question to ask, eh?" Zombieman mused.
"Okay. I got nothing on that," Zenchu admitted.
"I mean…Wind Crane did hatch from an egg…so…?" Mitsumi asked. Wind Crane tilted her head and looked at Zenchu.
"I don't know. But…I will not say no to experimenting," Zenchu said. Mitsumi's jaw dropped and Saitama squeezed her to him. Zenchu looked at them and said, "If I'm not there in the morning, you'll know I probably hurt myself somehow and regenerating."
"I know there were those monster cells that turned people into monsters. I'm sure that's what the Secret Skins are based on, but they kept their human skin. The monster cells I know of completely transformed a human. When the main guy was killed, the cells lost power, if I recall," Zombieman thought. "Some did remain as monsters that wanted to stay as monsters."
"I wouldn't know," Saitama shrugged. They looked over to see Orotsu dispatching a newly arrived stag to skin it and harvest the horns. A specialty knife set for doing just this was delivered, too, including a better skinning rack. Kianna was seen unpacking more items on being brought back by Inichi to show her shopping trip was very successful.
"Okay, I need my welder," Tacki said. Then she looked at Kamikaze's grimace. "What? You want to do this for me?"
"Just…be careful…" he sighed.
"I've done this like…hundreds of times," she said. "I just put on my welding mask, get on my gloves and get to work. I'll be fine."
"Let her do what she needs to do," Bane said with a small chuckle.
"Yeah, yeah…" Kamikaze sighed.
"Oh, Bane! This is for you," Tsuruga said and handed him a large crystal shard. "It came from the shell you gave us."
"Did it really?!" Bane asked with surprise and took it with delight.
"Hold it in the sun," Kianna said. Bane did just that and gasped with awe at the prismatic colors that displayed all around them.
"It didn't take long for them to grow at all," Genos nodded. "I do wonder, though…"
"What?" Kamiko asked. He let his palm flash the light out onto the crystal for the same effect to happen. "Oh!"
"We could use this for security, too. If anyone uses a flashlight at night where the sun doesn't hit them, we will know someone is there," Genos grinned. "We just need to make some reflective areas that are easy to see at a distance."
"That is genius!" Inichi agreed.
"I want to talk to the two new monsters we have now," Saitama said. "Let's find out what they want to do."
"Of course, Mr. Saitama," Inichi agreed and brought over Grigos first.
"Hey," the purple monster said.
"Are you a guy?" Zenchu asked.
"I am," Grigos nodded and looked at Saitama.
"Hello. So, what do you want to do? Stay here and help?" Saitama asked.
"Well…how strong are you?" Grigos asked.
"Allow me to help," Shenjou said and was able to melt down a beam of steel with his venom. Saitama grinned and got up to take a small glob of the same venom to show he wasn't even hurt by it.
"Ah…wow…" Grigos gaped with shock.
"Yeah. I can't get hurt anymore. And you may have seen a lot of destroyed buildings. I did that," Saitama said.
"I can vouch," Zenchu nodded.
"Same!" Suiryu nodded from where he sat. Saitama removed the rest of the venom from his hand thoroughly before moving back over to Mitsumi to hug her close to him.
"Well, my hand is a cage. I don't mind helping to scout and hold intruders for questioning," Grigos chuckled. "I can safely hold up to four humans."
"Do you recall how you changed?" Mitsumi asked.
"Hmm. I…recall being…a jailer, actually," Grigos narrowed his eyes in thought. "A bit of a security guard. I was given a soda. It put me to sleep…"
"So you already know a bit of security detail. That's something we need," Kamikaze nodded. "I'd say welcome to the family."
"Agreed. We need our place watched over at all times, though," Saitama sighed and frowned in thought.
"If it helps, I don't need to sleep," Grigos seemed to grin. "I sort of have two brains from how my eyes are. One can sleep while the other stays awake. It can be done in small shifts."
"How long have you been a monster?" Tsuruga asked.
"Three months, I think," Grigos blinked his red eyes in thought.
"Three months and you just decided to try and kidnap people?" Kamikaze frowned. "What was the holdup?"
"I'm not good at planning…" Grigos admitted to get small chuckles.
"We'll give you a layout of the area. This way you'll know where to patrol. We do have cameras set up, so you can also watch the screens," Genos said. "Lightning Max was assisting with that. He's been quite busy setting up the equipment, too."
"Is he still around?" Mitsumi asked.
"He is. Ah. He is coming up from the basement section now," Inichi nodded. "Child Emperor is also asking to come by."
"Fine by me," Saitama nodded.
"Hey!" Lightning Max said and found a place to sit. "Sorry I've been hiding from all of you. The security system is almost done."
"Good! This is Grigos. He wants to help with it, and he can hold intruders easily," Saitama said and gestured to the monster.
"Nice! I'll show you what all I have when we're done here. Ah…what are we all doing?" Max asked.
"We have one more monster to interview and then we start an outdoor cookout!" Mitsumi chuckled. Max nodded and watched Grigos walk over to sit next to him. Inichi nodded and brought the monster over after collapsing the cage. The gargoyle-like creature wasn't invisible now. It was able to remove the residue flour and showed it had dark red-black skin and glowing green eyes. It almost appeared to have an over-bite, but it was how the lower fangs came up out of the mouth. It was much like that of a bulldog.
"Nice to meet you again. Do you have a name?" Saitama asked.
"I don't think I ever did," the monster admitted and stood up tall for three and a half feet in height. It stretched out its bat-like wings and sighed. "If I was human before, I don't remember. Inichi was trying to help me, but…"
"The memories may return in time," Shenjou nodded. "I'm still fuzzy, myself, on a few things."
"Good to know. Ah…Lady Mitsumi…I apologize for my prior actions. Hunger was…driving me to act differently," it sighed.
"I understand. Are you good now?" Mitsumi asked with concern.
"Ah…yes…" it said with surprise at the emotion it got from her.
"Now you see why she is who she is," Rendor said.
"She freed us. And helped cure us!" Tacki beamed.
"Child Emperor helped make cures," Fumio nodded. "Is he still coming over? He said he wanted to, right?"
"He is finishing homework," Inichi chuckled. "He says…ten minutes."
"Okay!" Fumio smiled. Then he looked at the monster. "Yeah, if you don't want to be cured, then you don't have to be cured. Inichi and Zenchu are like that. Orotsu, too! So it's all good."
"It is true. I could work on a cure for myself, but I am far more able to assist in various ways like this," Inichi nodded. Then he hovered over Fubuki to rest a hand on her shoulder. "It also let me realize that having a life partner was possible, too. As confounding as it may sound."
"Oh! That's…interesting…" the monster blinked.
"Well, if you don't have a name, can we name you?" Mitsumi smiled.
"Huh. I guess you can," the monster smiled lightly.
"We can't choose just any name," Zenchu said. "How long have you been a monster for? Do you know?"
"Roughly five years," it said. "I usually work with invisibility and mental shielding to keep from being found. It's also a bit easy for me to imitate the stone gargoyles around me. Especially around dusk where my silhouette is mistaken."
"Are you a boy? Or a girl?" Kianna asked.
"You can't really tell can you?" the monster chuckled. "I'm actually female. But I look and sound male."
"Wind Crane is female, too, and sounds a bit like a man in your head. I'm not saying you're a male!" Zenchu said when Wind Crane clapped her beak at him.
"Female, eh?" Tsuruga chuckled and snorted.
"I thought you liked Puri-Puri Prisoner?" Kamikaze asked.
"Until he knows where his priorities are, I just see him as a friend," Tsuruga said and snorted again. "It's as I told him before. It was nice to make his acquaintance. There is nothing more past that."
"Some monsters can change their shape. When I become my monster form again, I can grow out my body for better hunting in speed and attack. Have you tried that?" Rendor asked.
"Ah! I don't think I have! Let me…see something…" the monster mused and focused inwards. Her wings folded around her and seemed to get larger now. On pulling them back, her body had definitely changed to be far more feminine with a set of small horns on her head and pointed ears. She even gained a foot in height. "Oh! I think this can work for me!"
"Your voice changed…" Lightning Max blinked.
"It has, huh?" she chuckled out a gravelly female tone. "I think I'll keep this form! Five years and I never tried!"
"It likely became unlocked on being freed by Lady Mitsumi. I think I found the perfect name for you, too," Inichi said. "Siren."
"Oh! Oh! Yes! Siren is my name now!" she gasped with a form of delight. She still had the slight overbite, but the fangs looked daintier in form. She lacked a tail, but that was how she always was. Now she flew over to Mitsumi and Saitama to bow with respect to them. "Thank you for freeing me! I'll help you in any way that I can! I vow!"
"Of course, Siren," Mitsumi chuckled and gently clasped hands with her lightly clawed ones. "We need to go over security measures for our home here. Shenjou can help fill you in on the borders of the land I own to protect us. Unknown people keep coming in and endangering the ones I am protecting with Saitama. We desperately need to do something about this."
"I don't need to sleep for days at a time. I don't mind doing night watches," Siren nodded. "I can get sleep during the day when nothing is planned."
"Good to know. We'll build out our rotation," Grigos agreed. Inichi paused and focused to bring over Child Emperor. He was now introduced to the new monsters to show they were allies.
"Cool! Um…did either of you want to try and get cured?" Child Emperor asked. "Or did you want to wait?"
"I can wait," Siren said. "I'm a bit like Inichi, but I can go invisible."
"Wow!" the boy blinked and looked at Grigos.
"I'm good for now. But I'll likely think about it," the large monster nodded.
"Okay. Did anyone else want to try and be cured?" Child Emperor asked.
"I wanted to know what changed me. We still need to see if that canteen was where I left it," Tsuruga said. "As for getting cured, well…I'm not sure yet."
"That's fine. Get me the canteen and I'll examine it," the boy nodded.
"I did want to know what bit me, too. But I cook better like this," Orotsu said and prepared platters of meat for the spit.
"You said you wanted an emergency cure, too. I can look into it when I get a blood sample from you," Child Emperor agreed.
"Tsuruga! If you can stand on these and they hold, then they'll be ready for use," Tacki said and had various racks set up on long poles.
"What are you making?" Child Emperor asked.
"Something to hold meat for the fire," Tacki nodded.
"Want to automate it with rotation?" Child Emperor grinned.
"Oh! Can we?!" Tacki grinned back.
"I can help, too," Genos nodded. "We should make a true spit for a whole animal roast. I can measure dimensions and weight needs. With the three of us, we just need five more minutes."
"Good," Tsuruga nodded.
"Not sure what all I can do," Masaki said and sat down.
"You being here is enough," Mitsumi smiled at him.
"I do have to confess something, Mitsumi," Himiko smiled.
"Oh?" she asked and Saitama squeezed her in his lap.
"I know that…there were a lot of times you'd just stay in your room. Away from the rest of us from how we treated you," Himiko frowned. Zombieman gently rested his hand on her back again to have her keep going. "There were times that you'd sing in your room. Sometimes I'd sneak over and just listen. No one else believed me that you really do have a good voice. I mean…you had plenty of time to practice…so…"
"You…listened to me…?" Mitsumi asked with surprise.
"I did…" Himiko nodded. "I mainly stayed out of the conversations about you, too. You did no wrong to me at all. I just…didn't know why we had to do so much to you. I even…threw out the plates of pet food when I was told to give them to you. Sometimes I'd take them to places I knew animals were to not waste it. Daiki also had mixed feelings. Fumihiro just did what he was told. I think he even spit in one of the dishes, too! And Atsuko? Hah! Mother was her idol!"
"I know it," Mitsumi sighed. Saitama grumbled at what Fumihiro did, but he also knew that he was dead now.
"What I want to know is, well…" Himiko smiled softly. "Can you sing like you did back then? It's one of the things I missed terribly about you being gone."
"We did try to have you sing with your fans," Saitama chuckled at Mitsumi. "So…can you sing again?"
"I know I heard you sing once in the flower field," Zenchu said. "However, you were only humming. Can you sing for us, Lady Mitsumi?"
"I suppose…" Mitsumi said with a soft blush. "Inichi, can you play a familiar tune? I'll give you a song."
"Of course!" Inichi agreed and brought out a guitar. A popular song was given, and he started to play the chords. When Mitsumi started to sing out the lyrics, Saitama could only stare at her with shock. She was able to hold out her long notes with perfect pitch and tone. After she was done she was applauded.
"Why didn't you tell me you could do that?" Saitama asked.
"Oh…well…" Mitsumi blushed and got pulled close to get kissed intensely.
"I want you to dance and sing with the fans. With me helping you," he said.
"I am impressed," Zombieman nodded.
"Glad I'm here to witness this!" Lightning Max grinned.
"Why can't I find a girl like that?" Suiryu frowned and sighed hard. Now Siren looked over at him and sat down next to him to surprise him.
"What do you hope to find in a girl?" Siren asked casually. Suiryu looked away, but he found himself talking to her casually.
"Hmm…" Tsuruga mused and went to help Tacki with the spit setup.
"Disappointed?" Shenjou asked.
"Not a bit," Tsuruga chuckled. "Suiryu has been worrying me over what he was thinking on Lady Mitsumi for some time. I was getting ready to charge into him during one of his workouts. So, if Siren can curb a lot of that by being with him, then I'll be fine."
"Should charge him, anyways, and say it's part of the training as a surprise spar," Zenchu snorted to get Tsuruga grinning wickedly. "Even I was asked to do such a thing if he started to get comfy in his routine."
"If Saitama agrees, I'll do it," Tsuruga nodded. Then he saw Saitama look over at him and give a thumbs up. "Good!"
"Hmm?" Mitsumi asked.
"Suiryu is acting like a jerk. So, I'm gonna let monsters do training tests against him to…show him that he needs to be alert at all times," Saitama grinned lightly at her. She laughed softly and snuggled into him.
"The roasting spit is ready!" Tacki said and set aside her welding equipment. Tatsumaki was able to lift the finished spit to set over the area the wood was for the fire. Orotsu handed over platters to be laid out on, and, to everyone's surprise, another whole deer was brought over by Inichi to get prepped for a whole animal roast. This was quickly done and Genos set the wood on fire with his flamethrowers. Child Emperor showed how to work the machine to turn the different racks around and rotate the whole animal spit. Genos was able to record and imprint everything.
"It smells awesome!" Saitama grinned. Fubuki was sighing with delight at the aroma, too, and was soon handed an appetizer plate. Twenty minutes later, Orotsu was able to check the meat before carefully pulling various parts off. Tatsumaki easily helped him here to let him focus on cutting up the meat into some rather creative dishes.
"I think we have a specialty menu!" Mitsumi said with sheer delight at what she was eating. Saitama was too busy eating to comment.
"Now that I have better seasonings and a way to cook it, I'd say we do," Orotsu chuckled and sampled each dish for himself to judge if something had to be changed up or left alone.
"This is amazing!" Child Emperor said.
"Grilled eel will still be my favorite dish, but this is pretty high up there, too," Kamikaze agreed. Tacki was thoroughly enjoying her meal, and he was making sure she had enough to eat. On looking at him, he said, "You're eating for three right now. Don't judge me."
"You're gonna make me fat," she frowned and giggled at the kiss he gave her. "Okay, okay. I get it."
"Good," he nodded and grinned at the side plate of grilled eel delivered to him. Bane was incredibly impressed with the flavors he was experiencing.
"So glad I didn't miss dinner!" Max chuckled.
"It's nice to eat a full meal," Siren smiled.
"You haven't?" Suiryu asked.
"I'm a monster. Who would willingly feed me?" she asked. Suiryu frowned and put half of his plate on hers. Now she started laughing like crazy.
"No need to do that," Inichi chuckled and refilled Suiryu's plate. "There is plenty for everyone and more to come."
Wind Crane was able to devour the bones with Shenjou to clean up what was left. Masaki was using his tail to carefully pierce and lift the food to his mouth. Child Emperor now got up and suggested different ways for appendages to help him. Masaki was all for it.
"Is it time for me to dance?" Mitsumi asked.
"Oh! Yes," Saitama nodded. The fans were quick to come out the open corner window and let her grab the controlling fans. Inichi started up a tune on a violin, and she let the fans levitate her to dance with amazing patterns now. With ten fan sets that loved to split up and show off, it was clear the effect was amazing. Saitama was soon dancing with her to enhance the effect before pulling her close to kiss her at the end.
"I really want to learn that," Himiko sighed.
"And you can! I'm sure Tacki can make a lot of practice fans," Mitsumi said when she was set back on the ground when the dance was over.
"Good. You all can work on it. I'm going to bed with Mitsumi," Saitama said. He knew he was going to want more of the specialty meal in the morning, and Inichi was going to ensure there was a lot from the next deer he brought in to let Orotsu prep up for the roasting spit.
"Really? What if I'm not tired?" Mitsumi asked.
"I never said I was tired," Saitama grinned at her to make her blush hard. "I have been having nothing but thoughts of our bedroom for the past hour."
"I shall have this delivered to Sonic," Inichi said and sent a plate over to where he was hiding. "He needs a good meal for keeping to the contract."
"That's fine. We'll see you all in the morning. For those of you that stick around," Saitama said and carried Mitsumi back into the apartment complex. He moved her straight into the bedroom and kicked the door closed before setting her down to undress. The fans were quick to settle back on their shelf to rest again.
"We should bathe first," she said and squeaked when he pulled her close.
"First thing in the morning," he promised and planted a hungry kiss on her mouth. Then he muttered, "Too many clothes…"
"Saitama!" she gasped and let him undress her before reclining back in the treasure bed. On gazing at each other, he pressed a long, loving kiss on her mouth to start off the night. She could only muse that he really did need a nap. She doubted she'd get any rest as it was.