This is still Chapter 2 and still not finished. (Elfen Lied belongs to Lynn Okamoto and studio ARMS. Disgaea belongs to Takehito Harada and Nippon Ichi. Akiha and Kohaku of Tsukihime belong to Type-Moon and Takeuchi Takashi.) Dedicated to Lidaea and anyone elso who helped me to write this.
Author’s Notes will be abbreviated to AN.
“Well, I’m the Angel Trainee… Hm, no, that’s not right. Pleased to meet you, I’m the Fallen Angel Flonne, and this violent person is Laharl, the Demon King of his respective Netherworld.” Flonne was the first to introduce herself and Laharl to the two mortals, but the confusion had allowed her to temporarily forget that she was fallen. “Huh?” Kohta finally responded. “Well, I’m Kohta, and this girl here is Nyu. Sorry again that she attacked you so suddenly. And by Fallen Angel and Demon, you can’t actually mean…” Just as Kohta was about to finish his sentence, he noticed Laharl and Flonne’s pointed ears, which seemed and actually were real; Flonne’s tail swaying naturally, and Flonne’s wings, which were also natural. At this point of his life where he experienced his girlfriend (Author’s Note: Though obviously not said in the manga or anime, I’m just making my own inferences/assumptions/taking liberties) having horns and that same girlfriend killing his father and sister then later on sweeping down a small squad of soldiers, Kohta was ready to believe pretty much anything, so he reluctantly accepted the fact that the two standing in front of him were indeed a Fallen Angel and a Demon, but he still couldn’t shake the fact that someone so young-looking was a “King”. “… OK, given I believe what you told me, I still find it hard to believe that that kid is King of anything”, Kohta stated simply as a joke. Laharl however was very offended by this and was about to blast his demonic aura around, but Flonne stopped him and convinced him to explain the situation, AKA his and Flonne’s real ages. “Listen here, human”, Laharl exclaimed apparently ignoring Kohta’s previous introduction. “I’m 1313 years old, and mentally I’m much more mature than you, too. On a side note, Flonne here is 1509. So I should be the one calling you “kid”. Kohta was astonished, “That old? But you look like you’re…” Kohta was about to finish his sentence, when Laharl readied his Blazing Knuckle, and exclaimed, “How you continue your statement will determine how long you live…” Naturally, Lucy was ready to defend the only one who brought light to her darkened life. However, Kohta felt it best just to let the matter drop before anything irreversible happened. He calmed Lucy down, causing her to revert back to Nyu, and agreed to Laharl’s statement about his age. “So where do you live?” asked Kohta. Laharl pointed to the mansion located under the dark clouds. “There, that’s my vacation home,” explained Laharl. Kohta thought, “Given that these two are indeed a Fallen Angel and a Demon, it wouldn’t be too strange that dark clouds followed them, but…” Then Kohta exclaimed, “Wait, that huge mansion is your vacation home? Then where’s your normal home?” Laharl proclaimed proudly like a prince talking to a pauper, “Naturally my castle in the Netherworld.” Kohta then mentally stated, “I figured as much.” After a while, Kohta and Nyu introduced Laharl and company to Yuka, Nana, Mayu, and Wanta, and Laharl and Flonne introduced Nyu and her friends to Etna and the Prinny Squad. One of the Prinnies was especially happy about Nana’s safety… After showing each other where the other lived, both parties decided to call it a day and went to kill time till it was time to sleep and did.
The next day while the Demons were relaxing on their vacation, Kohta, Yuka, Nyu (Author’s Note: I forgot to mention it in the previous chapter, but within that half-year, Nyu has learned enough to talk normally, so she can hold her own in a public building), and Mayu went to school, while Nana and Wanta stayed home. While at the college (Author’s Note: Not sure which one, if you know, please feel free to tell me), Kohta, Nyu, and Yuka met Arakawa, who seemed to be waiting there for them. (Author’s Note: Manga chapter 74 is a good complement for this part.) When Arakawa encountered her targets, she stopped them by stating, “Wait a minute! Hey, hey, long time no see! How unexpected, oh my!” Kohta knew that talking with Arakawa, especially when he was in the company of Nyu, wouldn’t exactly be beneficial. Kohta told Yuka and Nyu to run, and responded to Arakawa with the following rhyme, “Big sis, big sis, you’ve got pretty, big tits!” Of course, Arakawa was surprised by this random response, as true as it was. Kohta and friends tried to take this opportunity to escape but was impeded when Arakawa ran with the speed of someone in danger of being a sex slave, which was true, and grabbed Nyu. Arakawa then continued to speak, “What’s up with running away? I want to ask you something. Maybe… Just possibly… Do you know where the girl who has horns sticking out of her head is? I’d like you to tell me where she lives. That’s all. I might be mistaken, but there’s no way I’d let a horned girl get near me! I don’t want to die yet. Anyway, I’d like to talk to you, so will you join me down in the lab?” Kohta quickly responded, “I don’t think there’s anything for us to discuss because I don’t know any horned girls nor anything concerning them.” To this statement, Arakawa glared and responded; “Now listen, you won’t get away by concealing stuff. We’re easily able to crush your peaceful life in an instant. In any case, horned girls aren’t something you could possibly deal with. They’re definitely too much for the likes of you. Horned people and human beings can never coexist.” Kohta hesitantly asked, “Why is that?” Arakawa responded seriously, “Because horned people are born killers, and anyone who gets near is killed without exception.” To that, Kohta simply retorted, “If that were true, you would have died long ago.” Then Arakawa looked down at Nyu whom she had grabbed and finally realized that Nyu had horns. Of course, this made Arakawa let go and run for it. While Arakawa was begging for her life to resultantly no one, Kohta and friends took this opportunity to escape. After school, Nyu and friends started back home, but of course Mayu came back earlier than Kohta, Yuka, and Nyu because she’s a middle school student, while the other three are college students. (Author’s Note: This next part is taken from Chapter 74 of the manga with edits given that Kurama died in the anime.) When she came home, Mayu found Nana moping in the corner. Mayu concernedly asked, “Nana, what’s the matter?” With tears flowing from her eyes, Nana replied, “Mayu, what do I do? Nana is nothing but a freeloader like this.” Mayu responded kindly, “Do you think so? But you’re in charge of feeding Wanta, and your cooking gets better every day.” (Author’s Note: Yeah, this is the place. In the manga, Mayu was talking about finding Kurama, but since Kurama died in the anime, I had to change the quote.) Nana hesitantly spoke, “Mayu… Mayu, I love you!” Nana exclaimed as she jumped and hugged Mayu. Mayu responded simply with a “Woah!” Nana continued, “As I thought, Mayu, you’re my best friend. Plus, you’re always calm and collected!! Mayu… You know, I… I’m happy that I met Mayu and everyone here. Until now, things were harsh for me.” Mayu looked upon her own situation and said, “I know how you feel. Until I met Kohta and Yuka, I was alone with only Wanta by my side.” Nana then concluded, “Really, we should care the most about the place that we belong to.” At that moment, Nana felt a sudden shock and saw nothing but darkness, then she heard a voice, “It hurts… It hurts so much… Run… Now…” Concerned and frightened, Nana responded, “Who is it? Where are you!?” She turned around and saw a deformed crawling figure with lower half missing (Author’s Note: Description was never my strong suit, especially, describing intensities like this. Look on the 22nd page of Chapter 74 of the Elfen Lied manga). The figure moaned, “It hurts! Run… Run… It hurts! Hurts… Kill me… Kill me… Now… Kill me, now…” Nana was paralyzed with fear until Mayu shook Nana to bring her back. When Nana looked around, she was back in the Kaede House. Mayu concernedly asked, “Nana, what’s the matter? You went silent all of sudden.” Just then the doorbell rang, and Mayu naturally thought it was Kohta and friends coming back from school, so she opened the door…
And in walked the black-coated mercenary. Mayu first asked who he was but was responded with a kick to the stomach. Nana managed to catch Mayu and yelled to the rude mercenary, “Hey you!! What do you think you’re doing!?” The mercenary, whose name is never revealed, ever, responded angrily, “Spare me your bullshit. What would I do if those others were to find Lucy before me, huh?” Nana, however, was paying more attention to the backpack that black-clad thug was wearing, or rather what was inside it. She hesitantly spoke, “What… What’s inside your backpack is… It can’t be…” Knowing what Nana was talking about, the mercenary put down and open his backpack while responding, “Cheh… What? Am I too close at this distance? Well, since we’ve gone this far, I’ll have a farewell introduction for you while you’re still alive.” Mayu and Nana screamed in horror as the contents of the backpacks were revealed to be a Diclonius girl, or rather the head and upper torso of one. To prevent the use of her vectors, a machine in her spinal cord caused her constant pain. Angry about not being able to find Lucy, the mercenary cruelly destroyed the life-support machine and the Diclonius girl, #28, died “not knowing a single good thing this world has to offer, not knowing anything but harshness”. Angered by this atrocity, Nana readied herself for battle and revenge but was shot down by the mercenary’s crossbow’s heavy spike ball. The neurotoxin with the ball caused Nana extreme pain causing her vectors to be of no use. Mayu rushed to Nana’s aid but was deterred by the mercenary’s words, “Here she is, the young lass to my liking! Just in time; I got tired of playing with Diclonii. Let’s try playing with a human girl for a change.” (Author’s Note: Manga chapter 75) As the mercenary approached, Wanta jumped and bit the thug on the arm. Of course, this only angered the goon, who kicked Wanta to the wall. Mayu ran to Wanta’s side yelling, “Wanta!! Don’t die, Wanta!! No, Wanta!! Open your eyes!!” While Mayu was busy trying to help Wanta, the mercenary peeked at Mayu’s panties and commented, “White… Not a single trace of color… You, I suppose you know that this is hardly the time for you to be worried about a dog? Hey, don’t you get that you’ll be next?” The mercenary ordered Mayu to get undressed via threats. This made Mayu flashback on the actions of her stepfather and the resulting trauma. Upon remembering this, Mayu cried out, “EEEEEEEEEEK!! FATHER, NO MORE!! NO MORE!! OH NOOOOOOOO!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!” Hearing Mayu’s distress, Nana managed to get a second wind and rose to face her perverted mercenary enemy but was then hit with another neurotoxin spike ball, which knocked her unconscious. Mayu took this opportunity to run to the telephone and relay her location to Bandou for help. She managed that much, but the rest of the call was cut short by the mercenary breaking off the telephone cord. The mercenary tore open Mayu’s button-down shirt, and, laughing, he said something that would seal his doomed fate, “Crap, you’re one flat chick, yet you still wear a bra!! What can you possibly achieve with your tiny body?” Meanwhile in Misaki Town, the hair of Akiha, the lady of the Tohno family, flashed red, as opposed to her usual black. “What is it, Akiha-sama?”, asked the maid Kohaku. Akiha replied, “I just felt like someone, somewhere, said something to disrespect f… No, cozy chests.” “I see,” Kohaku responded while pouring Akiha’s tea. Now back to the main story, as soon as the mercenary said that most forbidden line, a slightly perturbed voice, belying an extremely perturbed and murderous intent, replied, “And what’s wrong with flatness?” This voice, which was Etna’s, was quickly followed by an “infamous kick” in the crotch that wracked the mercenary with more pain than that would have resulted from the neurotoxin. As a result, he fell down supposedly conscious. Mayu recognized Etna from the other day. (Author’s Note: Of course she would, I mean meeting a girl with devil wings and tail is more rare than meeting a girl with horns.) Etna looked around and saw the wounded Nana, the about-to-be-raped Mayu, and the dead #28. “What happened here?”, Etna asked with morbid curiosity. After a quick explanation by Mayu, Etna yelled out to a Medical Prinny within the following Prinny Squad while pointing to Nana and Wanta, “Prinny! Do what you can to heal that girl and dog there!” While the Medical Prinny was taking the spike balls out of Nana, a green Prinny with bold and dashing eyes (AN: He would have bold and dashing facial features, but, you know, he’s a Prinny) took the liberty to check on #28’s corpse and said, “Though this girl’s bodily fluids have stopped flowing, her brain appears to be undamaged. The chance is low, but I may be able to turn her into a cyborg.” Etna replied, “Go for it, Kurtis. I don’t really care.” Kurtis led a small part of the Prinny Squad and carried #28’s mostly dead body quickly to the Mansion’s lab (AN: After all, every dark-aura-ed mansion needs a mad-scientist-type lab). Now Etna turned toward the Prinnies in charge of garbage pickup, and pointing to the defeated mercenary, she exclaimed, “Prinnies, clean up this tr… Huh?” The mercenary, who was supposed to be unconscious, had vanished. Hearing a sound outside, and thinking it was that villainous bounty hunter, Etna, Mayu, a recovering Nana and Wanta, and the Prinny Squad ran outside. What they saw was Bandou, who had finally arrived, standing in front of Nyu and friends, who had returned from school. (AN: For reference, read Elfen Lied manga chapter 76) Bandou had pulled out his gun on Nyu, and Nyu instinctively awakened her Lucy side. Bandou was saying, “I’ve been single-mindedly pursuing your demise. Rain or snow, I kept on roaming in search of revenge. Now I’ll settle this.” Lucy responded with, “Hmf, I honestly didn’t want to finish you, but if you found where I live, I guess there’s no choice.” Bandou continued, “Well, then I’m going to relocate our meeting place.” Kohta yelled out, “Hey!! Don’t screw with us!! Nyu isn’t going anywh…” But Kohta was cut off, when Lucy interrupted by saying, “Enough, I’ll be right back. Don’t worry.” “All right, I’m going with you,” Laharl exclaimed while just arriving with Flonne completely destroying the mood. “Hm? Laharl? To be so concerned about a new friend’s safety, you’ve really become ki…”, Flonne was saying before she was interpreted. Lucy was also saying, “I appreciate your concern, but this battle is something I have to…”, Lucy was also saying before Laharl interrupted her as well. Laharl continued, “It’s not like I’m worried about you, but because I’m on vacation, watching humans…” Lucy stopped and corrected Laharl, “The humans don’t seem to label me as one of them, nor do I want to be.” Laharl retorted, “To me, you’re human enough, no matter what you say.” This was the first time in Lucy’s life when she, rather than having a non-human label put on her, was forced to carry the label of human. Both anger and relief came over her, anger of being labeled something she hated, and relief that with this label her life with Kohta might continue undeterred. Laharl continued, “Yeah, since this is a vacation for me, some dramatic entertainment, like watching an epic vengeful showdown, might be fun (AN: This is based on the anime where Laharl and friends were watching Gordon and a controlled Jennifer fight. Laharl and friends were acting as if they were watching cherry blossoms bloom because of their picnic setup.)” Bandou, however, was not exactly happy that his revenge, which he had been simmering over all this time, was being used as a means of entertainment for some, what appeared like a, kid. Bandou pointed his gun, now, at Laharl and yelled, “Don’t f*ck with me, kid! You think this is a…” He was cut off when Laharl responded, “Is it really a good idea to make another enemy when you already have one that you have that much trouble over? How about this? If you win against her, any strength you have left, use it on me, or are you afraid of fighting a kid like me?” Bandou was deeply insulted by this but held his anger, “All right, when I’m done with this horned b***h, you’re next., so enjoy your last show.” “Hm. We’ll see.”, proclaimed Laharl. With this, Laharl and friends became the “audience” of this “show”. However, Kohta and the rest of the mortals were more seriously concerned, and so Kohta yelled out, “Nonsense!! Nyu isn’t going…” But he was quickly cut off when Bandou punched him in the face and yelled, “You fool! Your clamor isn’t going to change anything! Dumb-a**!” This punch left Kohta unconscious leaving Yuka to bring him back to the Kaede House to tend to him.
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