Author's Note:
I am overwhelmed by exams and tests, instead of dedicating myself only to studies, I try to combat stress using writing ... it is not a method that I would suggest anyone to imitate.
But I'm stressed and had a little "emotional outburst" after failing the exam, so I need my outlet.
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ultima-owner: I agree with you, Mrs. Smith will bring more Monster Girls to Mash and Bruce. But by doing so she will end up involved in several supernatural or crazy incidents.
After all, Bruce as Master will invoke Servant making everything more complicated, especially in the basement there is a laboratory full of magical stuff and inventions straight out of a science fiction movie.
In my head, there's this idea of a Monster Girl who dedicates herself to the garden and decides to use super fertilizer made by Bruce, resulting in a tentacle plant monster. After all, Monster Musume is a bit Ecchi.
sophiamichelle69: Mash will be the sweet girl and the only sane one in the house, she will attract the Monster Girls with her kindness and appearance, like flowers with bees.
But there is also Mash's Senpai, Bruce who is a Tsundere and a Kūdere, who does not steal a woman's heart on the fly, but conquers them over time.
In short, Mash is Betty ("Betty" is the sweet, reliable, everyday Girl Next Door type), while Bruce is Veronica ("Veronica" is alluring, exotic, or edgy but has more of a mischievous or icy personality).
The Monster Girls will have to learn to live with a "Shoujo Heroine" and a "Shōnen Rival".
DungeonMaster: This is just the first chapter, basically an introduction to the craziness to come.
In this world Kurusu Kimihito is not the host of the Monster Girls, well, at least not these Monster Girls, so the canon has been mixed up from the very beginning.
Surely certain events will happen, but they won't be an exact pair from the main plot, then there will be events created purely by me.
Bruce can be considered a kuutsundere, a combination of a Kūdere and a Tsundere, so not one to express feelings or facial expressions. But his actions speak for themselves. He will make a lot of threats, but he will be a gracious guest.
This Mash is not the Mash that is at the beginning of FGO, she is a Mash that has gone through the entire plot of FGO, plus had time for adventures around the world with her Senpai. Therefore Mash is more emotional.
Thanks to you I learned a new word: edgelord.
Pss. Mentioning "Monster Musume - mobile game" in your review gave me some ideas.
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Story Arc: Monster Girls welcome to the Dragon House!
Episode 1: Senpai, can we keep the Lamia? (II)
Chapter 2: Mrs. Smith's Bad Day
Plot: Mrs. Smith ends up meeting Mash Kyrielight and Bruce Bel Bahamut Belmont, she quickly learns that they are eccentric people, and that she absolutely must not step on Bruce's tail, metaphorically speaking. Kuroko Smith, will have part of a not so easy day for her.
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POV Narrator
Kuroko Smith, as a woman in government service has seen many strange things, as a UFO-obsessed madman who was convinced that Mount Fuji was home to an alien spaceship and to save humanity wanted to blast the entire mountain into the air with a hundred homemade bombs...
Ms. Smith when she was transferred to the department that deals with the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill, she saw an even higher number of strange, perverse things and discovered that many men and women have strange fetishes that go well with Liminals.
But today Mrs. Smith received an unprecedented expression and a presentiment that she will see very unusual things in the near future.
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In the living room of the Dragon House, Smith sits on an L-shaped sofa, her shoes stained with lamb's blood.
Miia and Mash are sitting on the opposite side of the couch, both girls are wearing white slips that are stained with lamb's blood.
"Just to be sure, you two are not in danger. Are you girls helping your friend, Bruce, recreate a crime scene just for fun?" Ms. Smith asks, having never had such a discussion in her entire career.
"My Senpai gets bored easily, he's always looking for new stimuli or pastimes. It can be tiring some days, but being around him and helping him fight the boredom is quite fun. Something new every few days." Mash says with a happy expression, appreciating the Last Master of Chaldea's habits most of the time.
"I've met bored men, but no bored men who recreate crime scenes when there are two pretty girls in the house." Mrs. Smith comments, adjusting her glasses.
"My Senpai is one of a kind." Mash replies, using a true and harmless description.
"I barely know any human men, but I'm pretty sure Mash is right, Darling-boy is unique, like the hero who takes the sword from the stone." Miia said, with a smile of a girl in love who has her knight in armor.
'Miia has no idea how right she is with that sentence. Senpai as a descendant of Morgan Le Fay, faced the trials of the Lady of the Lake, obtaining the privilege and duty of wielding Excalibur.' Mash thinks, remembering certain stories regarding the Last Master of Chaldea before arriving in Chaldea.
The red-haired Lamia noticed Mash's blank look, believing she had said something thoughtless she decided to show affection towards Mash as well.
"My Darling-girl is unique too, the most beautiful human girl I've ever seen!" Miia exclaims, hugging Mash's left arm, so that her breasts are pressed against the Demi-Servant girl.
"Thank you for the compliment, Miia, you are a beautiful woman too. But don't exaggerate, I am a beautiful woman, but not only the most beautiful, I am not Aphrodite or Scáthach." Mash replies, with a small blush, not wanting to admit that she enjoys the sensation offered by Miia.
Hearing Mash complimenting her, Miia's heart starts beating faster and her tail swings with happiness, almost hitting the table in the middle of the living room.
'Since when does Miia like women? When I was dealing with her case, I saw Miia several times give discreet glances to attractive men.' Mrs. Smith thinks, raising an eyebrow, but doesn't say anything.
Mrs. Smith has no problem with a human and a Liminal getting together, regardless of the sex of both, in fact her professional and personal goal is to make a peaceful and loving coexistence between the two species possible.
At that moment, Bruce returned from the kitchen, taking off his butcher knife assassin costume, and putting on his classic suit and tie attire.
The Last Master of Chaldea is carrying a tray with two milkshakes, one strawberry and one vanilla, both topped with cream and other nice things.
On a minor note, under his armpit Bruce holds a roll of red-pink wool.
"Snake Girl, Mash, as we agreed, here are some homemade milkshakes made by me, your payment for you two playing your roles well." Bruce said, placing the tray of drinks on the table.
Bruce turns to Miia, picks up the roll of wool and waves it around, revealing it to be a very cute, red-pink wool poncho that looks like it came from a clothing store and not homemade.
"Snake Girl, I also brought you a poncho. You are cold blooded and need warmth especially when you drink something cold and are scantily dressed." Bruce said, handing the poncho to the red-haired Lamia.
With an ever-growing smile, Miia puts on her poncho over her white slip.
"How do I look, Mash?" Miia asks, posing as if she were a model.
"Very cute, the poncho matches your hair." Mash said, speaking highly of the dress and the girl wearing it.
"The result is not obvious, I don't do shoddy things." Bruce comments, passing the strawberry milkshake to Miia.
With a new outfit on, a tasty looking drink, and Bruce and Mash at her side, the red-haired Lamia is feeling on cloud nine.
"I love being in the Dragon House." Miia mutters with a heavenly expression.
"Snake Girl, you're a weird girl, but at least you're not annoying or useless." Bruce comments, standing behind the couch, where Miia and Mash are.
The red-haired Lamia giggles as she takes a small sip of her milkshake, accustomed to Bruce's way of speaking.
"Dragon House?" Mrs. Smith asks, not knowing how things work in this mansion.
"The name of the house." Mash replies, as she reaches for her vanilla milkshake.
"Reenacting crime scenes, making milkshakes, sewing ponchos and giving buildings imaginative names, I know what I mean girls you are one of a kind." Mrs. Smith comments, looking at the man with many talents.
"You have no idea, Mrs. Smith." Mash said, before taking a sip of her drink.
Seeing that Miia and Mash were enjoying some quality drinks, Mrs. Smith felt like having a drink.
"Darlin, why don't you make me a coffee?" Mrs. Smith asks Bruce lightly, having no idea who she's talking to.
Bruce's stoic expression has become much colder, with a look that can freeze someone's soul.
"I can tolerate Snake Girl calling me Darling-boy." Bruce said stoically, patting Miia's head.
"But I won't tolerate an incompetent dog calling me, Darling, and daring to ask me for coffee in my house as if I were a hostess." Bruce said in a cold tone, looking straight at Mrs. Smith.
The woman in sunglasses feels a shiver run down her spine.
"A thousand apologies, that was unprofessional of me, but it's such a beautiful and warm atmosphere here, I forgot why I'm here." Mrs. Smith said, apologizing, trying to act serious.
"The next time you step on my toes with absurd demands, government agent or not, I will demonstrate my skills and black belt knowledge in a multitude of martial arts." Bruce insinuates that he will beat up Mrs. Smith the next time she does something stupid.
'Is this guy bipolar or what!? He cuddles and spoils Miia, but he gives me looks that can kill and I promise to use me as a training dummy.' Mrs. Smith thinks slightly worried about Bruce.
"If Senpai has no objections, I could make Mrs. Smith a drink." Mash suggests, wanting to be cordial with the sunglasses-wearing woman inside the house.
"Don't give anything, this woman has the aura of a beggar, give her something and she will come to you at every opportunity." Bruce comments, not wanting to give even a glass of water to Mrs. Smith.
Mash pretended not to hear her Senpai's words.
The Demi-Servant girl may have decided to dedicate her life to the Last Master of Chaldea, but that doesn't mean she'll do everything he tells her to do or that she'll always agree with him.
"You have to tell yourself that I can't make you a coffee, there's not a drop of caffeine in the whole house, but we do have over fifty different types of tea and everything you need to make milkshakes of all kinds." Mash explains what he can offer Mrs. Smith to drink.
"Do as you wish, Mash, but when your generosity and kindness comes back to bite you, don't come to me for help." Bruce comments, crossing his arms, sure that Mrs. Smith will come back to bother them in the future.
"Mash, why don't we have coffee in the house? I understand that there is no alcohol because Darling-boy is teetotal, but what about coffee?" Miia asks, curious about the lack of coffee in the house, an extremely popular drink all over the world.
"Coffee makes Senpai… hyperactive." Mash said, looking at the floor, treating the subject of coffee as if it were taboo.
"Mash is trying to downplay the problem. In fact, coffee drives me crazy. It runs in the family, it could be considered a weird food intolerance or sensitivity or allergy," Bruce said, having no problem talking about his coffee problem.
"Is there such a disease?" Miia asks, not knowing much about the world of medicine.
"Well, there are people who don't do well with coffee and caffeine. Others can't live without a cup of coffee in the morning or afternoon or evening," Ms. Smith said, speaking as one who drinks a lot of coffee, a necessity because of her demanding job.
"If we're done with the convenient, let's get down to business, Madam Constable." Bruce said in a serious voice, wanting to end this farce.
"Okay, so how did Miia go living with Mash and Bruce?" asks Mrs. Smith, curious about Miia's experience with this unusual couple.
"You have no right to use my name, Madam Constable, call me Detective." Bruce said, wanting to make it clear that he does not want to be friendly with Mrs. Smith.
"Rephrase my question. Miia, did you have fun living with Mash and the Detective?" Mrs. Smith asks, agreeing to play along with Bruce.
"The first day was… awkward or tense for me." Miia said with a slightly ashamed expression.
Mrs. Smith can't help but look at Bruce, quite sure why Miia felt tense on her first day at the Dragon House.
"But all the other days have been wonderful!" Miia exclaims, radiating pure happiness.
'I've seen Liminals settle in very well with their host families. But I've rarely seen a Lamia this happy after a couple of weeks. What did Mash and Bruce do to win her over?' Mrs. Smith thinks, staring intently at the couple hosting Miia.
'They are certainly attractive people, Bruce is an effeminate man prettier than most women and seems to have many talents. Mash is a beautiful woman in every way and seems very kind. It does not surprise me that Miia has gained a passion for her.' Mrs. Smith thinks, looking at Mash's body for too long.
A bad move.
Bruce is a person who hates having guests or surprises, he doesn't like being interrupted when he's working on his hobbies, he doesn't like people who take their jobs seriously, he doesn't like nosy government agents.
But most of all, he hates those who look at Mash as if he were a piece of meat or a limited edition action figurine.
Mrs. Smith doesn't know, but she has taken one wrong step after another.
Bruce Belmont pulled out a whip from his coat, not a toy, but an actual whip that is used to punish slaves, herd cattle or fight vampires/Nazis.
With a flick of his wrist, Bruce swung his whip, causing it to bind around Mrs. Smith's throat.
"What!?" Mrs. Smith exclaims, immediately placing her hands around the whip that is around her neck.
Bruce pulls the whip with some force, tracing Mrs. Smith from the couch to the floor.
"Two weeks, two weeks you brought us Snake Girl and walked away, like she was a misdelivered package." Bruce said in a cold voice, freeing Mrs. Smith's throat from the grip of the whip.
'Who the hell carries a whip in his pocket? What is he? The illegitimate son of Indiana Jones or Zorro?' thinks Mrs. Smith, worried about this absurd situation.
The woman in the sunglasses tries to get up, but Bruce moves the whip masterfully so that Mrs. Smith's legs and arms are tied.
"Anything horrible could happen to her. Snake Girl is cute, naive and a little stupid." Bruce said in a stern voice as he pulled the whip.
With this gesture Mrs. Smith fell face first onto the floor.
"She has no money, friends, connections, money or roots in this country. If she had been unlucky you would have found a dead body or a broken woman." Bruce declares, stepping on Mrs. Smith's back.
The woman in sunglasses lets out a groan of pain, feeling like her spine is suffering some damage.
"When you get here and find Snake Girl unharmed, you treat everything lightly, as if you haven't made a big mistake." Bruce said, pushing his foot harder into Mrs. Smith's back.
"You sit on the couch, demand a coffee, ask Snake Girl to tell her story as if she was supposed to be here all along. I don't like cover-ups to hide the mistakes of the incompetent." Bruce said with his visible eye seeming to glow and promise a lot of pain.
'Did I accidentally leave Miia at the house of the girlfriend of a former counterintelligence agent?' Mrs. Smith thinks, feeling small and helpless, as if she had returned to the beginning of her career.
"Finally, you don't even listen to Snake Girl's story, instead you stare at Mash's breasts, my Mash, my Kohai." Bruce said raising his voice, pulling the whip again.
This time, Mrs. Smith begins to feel as if a snake is squeezing her. She slowly begins to run out of air.
"I'm possessive, overprotective, and I'm not afraid to use good or bad ways to solve problems." Bruce states in a cold voice, listing his character flaws.
"Next time you make a mistake involving Snake Girl or look askance at Mash, I won't hold back or be nice." Bruce said, ceasing to keep Mrs. Smith under his boot... literally.
"Darling-Boy!" Miia exclaims, drawing attention to herself.
"I heard some things I didn't like." Miia said, referring to Bruce calling her naive and a little stupid.
"But I've heard and seen how much you care about me, no person has ever subdued a Government Agent for me!" Miia exclaims, quite moved by the whole situation.
"Senpai... how repressed are you?" Mash asks in a tired voice, as if he saw a guard dog that couldn't hold back and ended up biting the postman.
"Not as bad as you think. I'm completely lucid and in control of my actions. It's just that this Agent Lady has me mad to the core. I feel like stomping on her face." Bruce confesses, speaking freely about his anger management issues.
"Please don't, I have a lot of work to catch up on, I can't take medical leave without being swamped with work." Mrs. Smith said, having too much to do and too little time.
"Calm down Mrs. Smith, Senpai will never hit a person on the ground who is unable to react." Mash said, fully believing in her words.
"I have my own code of conduct, I don't seriously hurt a defenseless person." Bruce comments, starting to check Mrs. Smith's pockets.
The detective pulled out Mrs. Smith's gun clip, her badge, identification card, and wallet.
'If this person is just a civilian, I'm a clone of a Man In Black.' Mrs. Smith thinks, increasingly convinced that Bruce is an ex-agent or something similar.
"Senpai, maybe you should convince Mordred or Scáthach to visit us, having a partner to train with might help me burn off the extra energy and be more calm." Mash said, knowing that her Senpai is a man of action.
This means that Bruce won't be able to rest easy for too long if he doesn't have a way to vent his urges, and apparently the current method isn't enough for him.
"Can I do that?" Bruce asks, stopping his examination of Agent Smith's documents.
"I thought you wanted it to be just the two of us, three if you count Snake Girl, no one else." Bruce said, believing that Mash didn't want Servants and other magical entities around for the sake of their vacation.
"Honestly, I miss them too, I really like being alone with you, Senpai. But the house gets cold and empty when you go out to train. That's one of the reasons why I'm happy I got Miia." Mash said, smiling at the red-haired Lamia.
"You could bring one or two of our friends to visit us every now and then, I'm sure it would be good for Miia to meet other people besides the two of us. You can't have too many friends." Mash said, confident that the presence of a few Heroic Spirits would do everyone some good.
The Last Master of Chaldea drops Mrs. Smith's items, except the pistol magazine which is placed in his pockets.
Bruce takes a few steps and stands in front of Mash.
"I'm not a tactile person, but I think it's time for a hug." Bruce said, trying to be more warm and direct with his Kohai.
"Mash can I hug you?" Bruce asks, opening his arms, wanting confirmation.
The Demi-Servant girl knows it's just a hug, but she can't help but blush. Lately, even before their vacation, Mash has become particularly sensitive to her Senpai's touch.
"Senpai, you don't even have to ask me." Mash replies, feeling her heart pounding.
The Last Master of Chaldea embraces the Demi-Servant.
The red-haired Lamia, seeing this little moment between her man and her favorite woman, decides to join in.
"I want to join too." The Lamia said, wrapping her tail around the Master-Servant pair.
Mash's chest is pressed against Bruce's chest, and their faces are very close.
'Too close.' Mash thinks, feeling how he almost touches the tip of Bruce's nose.
Miia positioned herself so that her head rested against Mash's shoulder, and her arms reached up to touch Bruce's shoulders.
"If you have to touch me, do it properly, Snake Girl. Increase the grip of your hug." Bruce comments, having some preferences.
Hearing this request, Miia decides to comply with Bruce and increases her grip.
Mash ends up sitting even closer to her Senpai, due to the height difference, she ends up with her head pressed against Bruce's neck/collarbone.
"Senpai, I find this... uncomfortable, no offense Miia." Mash said, obviously trying to keep calm and... not sniff.
"I like the feeling of being squeezed or tied up, although Miia's grip lacks strength." Bruce said, satisfied with his current experience, although there is much room for improvement.
If anyone is wondering why the Last Master of Chaldea developed a taste for being hugged/crushed by a snake's tail.
The answer is simple, Servant Berserker, Kiyohime, is a Yandere girl who can easily become a Lamia or a Dragon-like creature from Asian Myths.
'I must never invoke Kiyohime with Snake Girl around. Kiyohime would lose her mind seeing another snake girl wrapping her tail around me.' Bruce thinks, very sure that Miia will not survive a hypothetical encounter with Kiyohime.
"If you like, I can hug you like this whenever you want!" Miia exclaims, very happy that Bruce, the "ice prince", appreciates her hugs.
"Senpai, you have weird tastes." Mash comments, not at all surprised by Bruce's words.
"Personally, I don't think my tastes are weird. I like what I like, for example, I like the way you smell, whether it's your natural smell or the smell of your hair." Bruce said with a straight face, proving that he is an eccentric person to the core.
Mash's face turned completely red.
'Senpai likes my smell! Why do you have to say something like that! And why does it make me so nervous!' Mash thinks, close to having a small short circuit in her head.
Miia, becoming curious, puts her nose close to Mash's hair and sniffs it.
"Darling-Boy is right, your hair smells delicious, you have to tell me what shampoo you use!" Miia exclaims, probably discovering a new fetish.
'Why are you joining too, Miia. Senpai, how can you corrupt every girl around you in one way or another!' Mash thinks, feeling a great deal of embarrassment and 'anger'.
"I'm glad you're working out your relationship issues and thinking about Miia's well-being. But I'm tied up!" Mrs. Smith exclaims, saving Mash from dying of embarrassment.
"Do I release her or do I put her in the trunk of Megas and take her on a long drive?" Bruce asks in a stoic voice, making it hard to tell if he's serious or joking.
"Senpai, be good, I'll untie her, but first, can Miia let go?" Mash asks, wanting to be able to move and not be glued to Bruce.
Reluctantly, Miia "freed" the Master-Servant pair.
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After five minutes.
Bruce is sitting cross-legged in his personal chair with his whip in his lap, Miia and Mash are sitting on the right side of the couch, while Mrs. Smith is sitting on the left side of the couch.
"First of all, Miia, I'm so sorry for bringing you to the wrong house." Mrs. Smith said, bowing her head.
"No problem, Mrs. Smith, thanks to you I was able to meet Darling-boy and Darling-girl!" Miia exclaims, loving being in the same house with the Master-Servant couple.
"I must apologize to you two as well, Miss Mash and Mr. Detective." Mrs. Smith said, bowing her head toward the Demi-Servant girl.
"You can just call me Mash. You made a mistake, but nothing bad happened, no harm, no foul." Mash said, being the kindest and most understanding person in the entire Dragon House.
'Why couldn't Miia be alone with Mash, without Bruce in the equation, I would have avoided a lot of pain.' Mrs. Smith thinks, looking out of the corner of her eye at the only man in the Dragon House.
"A thousand apologies, Mr. Detective, I promise I will try to provide compensation for watching Miia for two weeks." Mrs. Smith said, apologizing in the best way possible to the scariest individual she has encountered in years.
"Madam Officer, it was so difficult to start the conversation in this way, professional, serious and in the position of a guilty party who wants forgiveness." Bruce said, speaking as if he were a king who had before him a subject seeking forgiveness.
"Darling-Boy is scary sometimes." Miia whispers softly, seeing the scene between Mrs. Smith and Bruce.
"Senpai, like everyone, has a good side and a bad side, we are lucky girls and almost always see his best side. The less fortunate ones end up like Mrs. Smith and see his bad side." Mash answers in a low voice, knowing the best and worst of her Senpai.
"But his bad side has its own charm." Miia comments in a low voice, smiling mischievously.
"Senpai is a charismatic man with a lot of charm." Mash replies in a low voice and with a strong blush, having seen several women and some men fall victim to the Last Master of Chaldea's charisma/charm.
"Girls, you can whisper your girl secrets later, for now, you'll have to be careful with this conversation." Bruce said, interrupting the conversation between the Lamia and the Demi-Servant Girl.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I should take Miia to her originally designated host family." Mrs. Smith said, standing up.
This statement ruined Miia and Mash's good mood.
"Smith-san, you can't take me away! I want to be with Darling-boy and Darling-girl, I have the two of them or no one else!" Miia shouts, grabbing Mash in a tight hug, as if she's afraid of being taken away.
Seeing this scene, Mrs. Smith's feeling of oppression disappears, her playful side awakens.
"Someone did a great job of winning Miia's affections." Mrs. Smith comments, with a playful smile.
Bruce touched the hilt of his whip.
Mrs. Smith's body shivers with pure instinct.
"I didn't mean to tease, Mr. Detective, I was just complimenting you, you've certainly been a great host family for Miia. Just look at her, she really doesn't want to leave." Mrs. Smith replies, changing tone and expression.
"75% of the credit goes to Mash." Bruce said, releasing his grip on the whip.
Mrs. Smith holds back a sigh of relief.
"Yes! Mash made me feel like I was at home, only better. Bruce also helped make things awesome. Mrs. Smith, please let me live with Darling-boy and Darling-girl!" Miia exclaims, begging to stay at the Dragon House.
"It's fine by me, less paperwork for me and more happiness for Miia." Mrs. Smith said, sure that it would be a mistake to take Miia away from the Dragon House.
"There's one small problem, I never said Snake Girl could stay here until the end of the program. There's a difference between hosting a Snake Girl for a few weeks and hosting her for a whole year or more." Bruce said, crossing his arms.
"Darling-Boy, don't you want me around anymore?" Miia asks, looking like a puppy who's been kicked in the ribs.
"Senpai, can we keep the Lamia?" Mash asks, showing that she has grown fond of Miia.
Bruce sighed and looked up at the ceiling.
"Well, Snake Girl can stay, but Mash will be responsible for her and will have to sign all the papers. All the current rules still apply and new ones will appear over time." Bruce said stoically, making this choice for Mash's sake.
"Thank you so much Senpai/Darling-boy!" Mash and Miia exclaim, going to hug Bruce in happiness.
'Lucky bipolar bastard.' Mrs. Smith thinks, watching as Bruce receives the sincere affection of two beautiful women, one human (Demi-Servant) and one Lamia.
"Before I leave you three alone, I'll need to discuss things and explain some administrative needs." Mrs. Smith said, drawing attention to herself.
Mash and Miia stop hugging Bruce and turn to the woman with sunglasses.
"What do I have to sign?" Mash asks, ready to face the bureaucracy.
"Before we do something boring, Miia, could you tell me about your first day with Mash and Mr. Detective?" Mrs. Smith asks, partly out of duty and partly out of curiosity.
Miia began to tell her first day at the Dragon House.
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