After all the previous chapters in the Land of Light, we now move to a more mundane setting: Ayaka City in Japan, Earth - or one of the Earths, anyway, there being so many in the multiverse watched over by the Ultras. Some of them, such as the Minato siblings, even lived there.

And it is in the Minato household where this tale begins; with the whole family gathered in the living room, where the tension was so thick it practically rivaled Lily's inability to recognize that she and Iris had been in love with each other for years, despite the fact that they went to Ultra Prom together and were voted 'Best Couple.'

Asahi Minato, all eyes on her, fidgeted anxiously under the angry looks from her siblings Katsumi and Isami, and the worried and confused stares of her parents Ushio and Mio. A blue hand was placed over her own, and she glanced up to see that there was still one person smiling at her; a lean, gorgeous blue ogress with silver eyes and hair in a spiky ponytail about as big as she was, with a white breastband over her sizable chest and a white skirt with lighting-shaped black stripes only barely covering her upper thighs, lots of scars and silver and white kaiju tattoos covering her body, and two horns growing from her forehead, one of which was broken. The ogress gave her a reassuring smile, and Asahi took a deep breath and looked at her family.

"Mom, Dad, Brothers, I'd like you to meet Bi'ceps. She's an Alien Tetsuoni from the Youkalien Star Hegemony, and she's going to be my mistress," she said.

"It's an honor to meet you all," Bi'ceps said, squeezing Asahi's hand and causing her to blush. "I love your daughter very much and promise I'll take good care of her."

"Absolutely not! I forbid it!" Katsumi shouted.

"Yeah, what he said!" Isami agreed.

Bi'ceps scowled at them. "I don't know how traditional your family is, but I'm not here to ask for permission or your blessing. I'm going to enslave your sister and make her happy beyond her wildest dreams, and while you might not be happy about it, it's going to happen, and Asahi hopes that you can accept it because she really wants you all to still be a part of her lives and would hate to lose you."

"You're not taking her from us!" Katsumi insisted.

"Yeah!" Isami added.

"Look you guys, why can't you accept that this is what I want?" Asahi asked angrily. "I love Bi'ceps, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her as her slave-"

"Wait, wait, back up," a bewildered Ushio said. "I'm sorry, what's this about being a slave? Is this some sort of space slang? Is it a space thing?"

"No!" Bi'ceps, Asahi, and Katsumi said angrily, while Isami said. "Well it is sort of a space thing."

"Could...you maybe start from the top, please?" Mio pleaded.

Bi'ceps started to open her mouth, only for Katsumi to cut in. "The Youkaliens are an evil alien empire who goes around conquering planets and enslaving its inhabitants!"

"Excuse you! We're a HEGEMONY, not an empire!" Bi'ceps said indignantly.

There was a pause. "...That's your only rebuttal?" Mio said after a moment.

"No. We also aren't evil!" Bi'ceps insisted, Asahi nodded in agreement.

"How is conquering and enslaving planets not evil?!" Katsumi demanded.

"Now, son, we can't necessarily judge another civilization by the standards of our own," Ushio pointed out.

"What part of 'conquer and enslave' is not clear?!" Katsumi demanded.

"If it's so bad, why's the Land of Light have a treaty with them, then?" Asahi retorted.

"Is this true, son?" Mio asked Katsumi in surprise.

"...Yeah," he admitted grudgingly.

"For some reason," Isami muttered.

"Well, if the Land of Light has a treaty with them they must not be so bad," Ushio said with a shrug.

"Conquer and enslave!" Katsumi shouted.

"Including our sister!" Isami added.

"Yes, including her!" Katsumi agreed.

"It's not like I'm the only Ultra who's becoming a Youkalien slave these days," Asahi huffed.

"If all the Ultras jumped off a bridge, would you?" Katsumi demanded.

"We can all fly!" Asahi retorted.

"Oh, right," he admitted.

"Could someone please explain what being a slave means in this context?" an exasperated Mio asked.

"My species - and all the others who are members of the Hegemony - have evolved so that we draw sustenance from the positive emotions of others, but for complicated reasons it can only be those we've subjugated, and they can't be other Youkaliens," Bi'ceps explained. "To that end, we do conquer planets, yes, and then make them wonderful near-utopias where those we enslave can live in luxury along their new Youkalien masters to draw as much happiness from them as possible - with no ill side effects, of course."

"You brainwash them!" Katsumi accused.

"We do no such thing! That would ruin the flavor," Bi'ceps insisted.

"Many planets voluntarily submit to the Youkaliens or even invite them to conquer them to improve their worlds, fix the environment, better their living conditions, rebuild their infrastructure and install better governance, and guarantee protection from other aliens or kaiju," Asahi continued.

"That's what WE do!" Katsumi said angrily.

"The universe is a big place, and it's not like there's nearly enough Ultras to protect it all!" Asahi argued.

"...Say, I don't suppose any of your kind might want to invade Earth?" Mio asked.

"Oh we'd love to, but the Land of Light has an interest in your planet and we don't want to break the treaty with them," Bi'ceps said apologetically.

"Oh well," Mio muttered in disappointment.

"So...Asahi, when you say you're going to become Bi'cep's slave...you mean you're marrying her?" Ushio asked, struggling to adapt this to a framework he could understand.

Asahi and Bi'ceps nodded. "Basically."

"Except there'll be more chains, and collars, and sooo much sex," Asahi giggled, squirming against an amused Bi'ceps.

"And probably no divorce," Bi'ceps added.

"Oh, so it's THAT sort of relationship," Mio murmured in understanding. "That takes me back. Hey honey, do we still have...?"

"We do," Ushio assured her. "I kept EVERYTHING when you vanished into another dimension for 15 years."

"Wonderful!" Mio said eagerly.

Her children, understandably, turned green.

"I did not need to know that," Katsumi muttered.

"So, this sounds rather strange, but then again all of my children can turn into giants who fight monsters in space, so..." Mio shrugged. "I'm not sure it's my place to object."

"Yes!" Asahi cheered.

"No!" Katsumi protested.

"Really? Even after you hear that Asahi will just be one of MANY slaves Bi'ceps has in her harem?" Isami interjected. "And that she already has a couple of ACTUAL wives!"

"Shut up!" Asahi snarled.

"Wait, what?" Mio asked, startled.

"My daughter deserves better than to be someone's sidepiece!" Ushio said angrily.

"Dad!" Asahi protested.

"Mr. Minato, I promise you I love and honor ALL my lovers as the precious, unique, wonderful women they are, because every single one of them has a special place in my heart," Bi'ceps assured her. "Also we're all pretty polyamorous in the Hegemony so it'd be weird if I DIDN'T have a harem, actually."

"Oh, well, if it's cultural, I guess I can't argue," Ushio accepted immediately.

"Enough of this!" Katsumi yelled, pounding a fist on the table. "I refuse to let you take Asahi from us!"

"Katsumi, I can still visit and do my Ultra duties, I'm just going to be living in her space palace from now on-" Asahi protested.

"If you want her, you'll have to fight me for it!" Katsumi declared. "Let's take this outside!"

"Oh my gosh..." Asahi groaned, facepalming.

Bi'ceps shrugged. "All right, if that's the only way to settle this."

One transformation sequence later, Katsumi had transformed into Ultraman Rosso, towering over the city. "All right, you grow too or send out a kaiju or giant robot so we can settle this!" he challenged.

Bi'ceps cracked her neck and produced a massive high-tech kanabo. "Nah, don't need any of that. This'll just take a minute."

"What do you-"

Five humiliating moments later, Rosso was lying in a crater in the Yamcha pose.

As a smitten Asahi hugged her and peppered her with kisses, Bi'ceps smiled at Isami. "You want to go too?"

He shook his head rapidly. "Nope, I'm good. Have fun enslaving my sister!"

She smirked. "I thought so."

"Well, I'm sold," Ushio announced. "They seem like a good match. And she's so strong, too!"

Mio nodded. "Plus, she's loaded, so we won't have to pay for the wedding."

"Always a good thing," her husband agreed.