Monster Mansion

Kazuma was a little weirded out when Vanir stormed right by him, not even returning the greeting he threw at the masked demon. It looked like he'd come from the mansion direction. But with a shrug, Kazuma just continued on his way home. He had an important package to deliver, and was starting to get anxious about his Darkness date as well.

As he opened his front door he called out, "Guys! I'm ho-WOAH!"

The world span around him as Kazuma's body was lifted up to the ceiling. He'd barely made it through the front door before he was wrapped tightly in green frilly cleavage.

"G-gah! Oulan!" Kazuma choked as he scrambled to breathe. Sure, being choked to **** by a sexy ogre dressed as a maid wasn't the worst way to go, but he'd rather avoid the outcome if possible. "OULAN!"

The shy ogre just hugged him tight. "Y-you're home!" She quietly exclaimed, then turning to shout, "G-guys! Kazuma's back!" Her voice barely even echoed on the walls of the mansion it was so quiet. The shy girl pouting sadly when clearly no one heard her welcoming message and sighing slightly.

With one arm finally free from the **** hold, Kazuma took the opportunity to pat the ogress' red tufty hair. "I appreciate the thought. You doing good?"

Oulan nodded, "Mm... missed you..." She mumbled, coiling around Kazuma even more like he was a childhood teddy she'd not seen for years. His free hand changed from patting her hair to lightly smacking her forehead, making her realise how blue he'd gotten.

"M-me t-too! BUT GACK L-LET ME GO!"

With his spine in a new configuration, Kazuma was finally free with a side order of multiple apologies from the cute ogre girl. Getting to appreciate her in the full maid outfit was enough of a healing experience for the perverted boy. It was clear she went to a more conservative tailor than some of the other girls around town, with a traditional long black dress and white apron combo, full sleeves, and timid posture. The open green cleavage looked more like it was a part of the outfit due to the overwhelming amount of breast that couldn't be contained rather than a style choice. Even with the sexy maid heal, Kazuma still walked funny as he headed towards the main galley.

As he'd come to expect in this mansion, the living room was chaos. Though this time wasn't without reason.

The monster girls from the village had come to visit and were clearly enjoying the size of his home. Sylvia was sitting at the table, chatting away with Darkness, Sena, and Chiana the purple lamia. Katarina the harpy was flying in from outside, clearly having picked off some of the roof with her talons. Lily the frog girl and Svobena the mind flayer were sitting on opposite ends of the kotatsu, their legs underneath and enjoying the warmth while sharing in mutual naps. Lily had her tongue out, peacefully spread out on the table next to a pink stain of what Kazuma could clearly see was Esu the slime, also napping in her liquid form. By the fire was Bova the minotaur, cuddling with Aqua who looked more like a cat than a Goddess, and Kerebryl the zombie who was 'airing out' her body parts by removing her head and keeping it near the warm fire. Sitting by herself in a freshly made stylish flower chair was Saffron the dryad, clearly having brought Kazuma's mirror in from his room to just stare at herself happily while trying on various flowers on her maid outfit. Lastly, on the couch was a sprawled out Luminara the red lamia, her coils wrapping around the legs and back while she herself looked like she was in bliss.

A room filled with hot monster girls was one thing, but a room filled with hot monster girl MAIDS?! Kazuma felt so happy. Looking around the room to the bevy of sexy outfits, black lace, snake tails in pantyhose, frilly white tufts in all the right places, so much. If Darkness ever made him masturbate again he knew where his mind would wander.

Before he could give himself an introduction, another girl came in from the kitchen with a huge tray of drinks. "Hot beverages for everyone!" Called out Fafy the faun, a motherly woman who clearly wanted the best for everyone and looked surprised when she saw Kazuma. "Oh! Kazuma's home!"

The room suddenly turned. Surprise and happiness washed over him as they all cheered from their spots, "KAZUMAAA~!" though no one really moved to greet him.

"Don't everyone be my maid at once." He slightly pouted, needing to tell Oulan that he didn't need another hug from her.

Luminara stretched out, "The couch is too comfy~"

"And maid day officially ended 20 minutes ago." Kerebryl's head pointed out as her body pointed to their clock.

With a shrug, Kazuma placed the bags he brought home onto the table as Fafy brought the drinks over to do the same. The ones sat down all moved up, both to give them some room while also greeting Kazuma.

"Hey," Darkness casually greeted him with the biggest grin on her face, wrapping her arms around his neck to bring him deep into a kiss.

"Hey you," he shot back. Bringing her away from the bustling crowd trying to get their drinks to have a quiet moment to the side with her and her lovely lips, "Excited?"

"Yes." She admitted with a swallow, "A bit nervous, but definitely excited. Yes." She rambled, earning a slight chuckle from him as she embarrassedly put her forehead on his. "Sush you. Did you bring it?"

"Luna had it all prepared. Other than maybe losing it to Melissa, no complications." Before his date could ask, he added, "Trust me, I took care of it."

As the two canoodled, the rest of the women around the table began divvying up the hot drink treats that Fafy had made for them. Some needed special cups, like Saffron needing a cup of chlorophyll or Sylvia wanting five sugars in her coffee. They all began chatting away about this and that, some saying how funny their mug was or how good the drink was. Everything seemed pleasant. The only one not happy was a certain blue haired girl, pouting away with her cocoa while keeping eyes on the smooching couple. Svobena, both being pretty observant as a mind reader and the closest to Aqua at the time, followed her gaze before looking at her concerned. "You okay there?"

Rather than complain loudly about her problems for attention, Aqua shook herself out of it quietly. "I'm fine. None of your concern, purple one."

"...you're gonna have to learn our names at some point, you know?"

"There's far too many of you for that." She brushed off, walking away from her problems and walking over to once more sit in the buff minotaur's firm but comfy lap.

Kazuma finally disconnected from his noble to get regrabbed by his fellow Chieftain. "H-hey Sylvia!" He squeaked out while brown tentacles brought his body upwards to her face. She never liked bending over, and he wasn't that against that floating feeling he got from being lifted somewhere comfortably, so kissing like this benefitted both of them.

"You have a lovely home, Kazuma." She purred while letting him return to the ground after their kiss. "Perhaps if I'd attacked this place rather than that other village I would have switched sides much sooner."

Kazuma shook his head at her lack of tact, "Yeah, I guess. I'm sure the Demon Lord would have loved me fucking his general to the side of light." He quipped back to her own playful smile. After giving one final smooch to a waiting Sena, Kazuma grabbed the bag he'd been lugging around all day. "You guys ready for this?"

"Ah yes, your 'mystery gift' you summoned us for." Sylvia nodded, leaning her chin against the backside of her hand as she studied the bag, "Darkness has been hyping this event up as soon as we got here. And here I thought it was your crude attempt at a seduction."

"Nah... I wouldn't be so subtle." Kazuma winked at the tall woman, making her sigh ragged with hormones.

POV SHIFT: Darkness

My hand reached over to his shoulder, "If it's okay, Kazuma. I would like to take lead with this."

"I'm still a little confused as to what 'this' is." Said a worried looking Chiana as Kazuma handed the bag over to me. "You still refuse to tell us your surprise, Lady Darkness."

"Don't worry, Chiana. I'm sure you'll like it." I reassured while thinking about who should go first. My eyes landed on the couch and the red lamia currently inhabiting the whole thing. I moved over to her and after a little prodding, got her to make enough room for me and my bag. Me on the left and her on the right with this mystery object in the middle, and just to add to some level of showmanship I kept the bag over the top of it. Currently there was a metallic rectangular stand visible under whatever the item was but that was all, "Lumi? Want to be the first?"

She looked at me with worry, "F-first for what? Are you about to trap me in some kind of tiny ball?!"

I had no idea where she got that idea, but slowly I reached over and grabbed her hand. It always amazed me how scaly her skin felt with how human she looked, but she kept her warmth well. Our eyes met as she stared wide eyed.

"Just trust me."

All the other girls were circling around the couch now. All trying to figure out what we had planned. I'll admit, it was a sudden thought we'd had on our way back from the village yesterday. Thankfully Luna was so amazing she had everything ready for us in the morning from just a silly request like this. I had no doubt this would work because of her, but it was still a little nerve wracking while I brought Luminara's hand over to under the bag.

She flinched when it began. A white light shone out through the bag with whirs and clicks sounding out from inside the brown cloth. The snake girl looked like she wanted to pull away instinctively, but I just calmly stroked her hair and kept my hand on hers. Trying to make sure my hand didn't get hit by the light currently coating her hand.

The machine didn't take very long, but I'm sure for Lumi it felt far too long. The others were there too though, joining me in reassuring her even as they were scared by the device. Eventually it whirled to a close and the lights/sounds stopped all together.

"All done!" I beamed, letting the snake girl retreat her hand. She studied it for a brief second before looking at me with scepticism.

“W-what did it do?!”

I simply smiled, grabbing the bag and finally lifting it away from the machine. “I wanted to make it a surprise, so I covered this part.” I explained, showing off the device in full. It was one that was very familiar to a few of us already, though others had no clue what it was. I reached down and picked up a small rectangle that had materialised underneath the device. “Here you are, your adventurer card.”

Her eyes went wide, “M-my…” she stammered. Looking like she was barely even believing that I was handing the item to her. Slowly taking it from me and looking at the card with absolute awe. There it was, a picture of her with 'Luminara' at the top. Her exp score, the spells she knew and could learn, her current class, everything to identify her as herself. She barely blinked as she drank the whole thing in, “...s-seriously?”

“Seriously.” I smiled, placing my hand on her tail. “You’re now a fully recognised adventurer, Luminara. Luna pulled some strings, then Sena pulled some more strings, and here we are! We have a machine that’ll give you all identification cards!” I beamed while looking around at the stunned faces, “You’ll be under the banner of our harem but it should let you choose whatever paths you want from there. Merchants, shopkeepers, or actual adventurers if you wanted to go on quests-”

“Darkness.” Kazuma suddenly said, cutting me off. I looked at him as he nodded over to the girl behind me. “Read the room.”

I turned back to Luminara. She was just staring at her card… and fully weeping at it. Thick snake tears pouring down her face as she choked and sniffled a full on ugly cry. I stammered in surprise, not expecting such a guttural reaction before she launched herself at me. I could feel tears against my neck as the snake girl pulled me into one of the tightest hugs of my life.

“Guh.. Snff, th-thank y-you!! Thankyouthankyouthankyooouu!!” She gasped out from my neck. Kissing and pecking my face as she tried to quantify her emotions, “I-I-I’m a c-citizen! I can be n-normal! I'm s-so g-grateful!”

While it was an initial shock, I could only smile warmly at her passion. My hands stroked her long red hair, whispering “It’s okay,” supportively into her ear as she let more and more tears flow down my neck.

Though her crew’s excitement was not easily held back by tears, “Hey! Is that just for Lumi or are we all getting one?!” Katarina’s head asked as she popped up from behind the couch along with Lily.

Sena adjusted her glasses and brought out a piece of paper to read from, “You’re all getting identity cards. Fully recognized by the government as decreed by Princess Stylish Sword Iris herself. And backed by the noble house Dustiness Ford. These will put you all under standard citizen rights: You may use the guild to accept quests, apply for loans, use any nurse or apothecary, and any attempts on your life will be dealt with in a court of law. This isn’t the full list, but simply some of the benefits you now have as citizens.”

The whole room exploded with happiness.

“Citizenship?!” “Holy shit!” “Our new Mistress really pulled it out of the bag.” “I can actually start that bakery?!” “I wonder what stats I have?!” “Probably lower than mine!” “I wanna be an adventurer like Darkness!” “My picture must look positively stylish!”

It was hard to control yet a beautiful sight all the same. The lot of them were already forming a line to get their chance at a card. Currently Esu was marvelling as her pink goo was covered in white light. Though a few questions arose that I had to deal with:

“I’m a little confused. So, the cute girls are in the harem, I get that.” said Aqua, currently eating some snacks she'd gotten at some point, “but what about the rest of the guy monsters from the village? The ones who just wanted to fiddle with their monster junk the whole time?”

Suddenly the older looking kobold appeared from nowhere to shout, “We go where Sylvia-sama goes!” Making Aqua jump at the sudden appearance of the hairy old monster dog.

“They’re sweet little minions, aren’t they?” Sylvia smiled, petting him lightly.

After his tail wagged, the kobold mimicked Sena and brought out some paper to read from. “We will not be requiring identification cards. As per the minion/helper agreements laid out by the monster union guide, the one backed by the guild, we are to be called upon whenever Sylvia-sama needs us. She gives us protection from threats and helps support our lifestyle, while we lose the rights of regular people or monsters. Such is the life of a minion. If she’s a good guy, we’re good guys. If she wants to turn tail and murderize you all, we’ll be right there with her weapons in your face.”

"Duly noted." Kazuma said, grabbing the paper from the shouting kobold to look through the guide on 'Having a Minion'. He technically owned them too now, after all. "Man, this is wild. So many things qualify for minion status. Having more than 20 rabbits, 15 crows, or 30 actors in your employ all classify as 'equal strength' and should be classified as such." He explained, before handing the paper back to the kobold and thinking. "How sweet would it be to have an army of killer robots on our side?"

While Kazuma chatted about minions with the kobold, his latest wife was a little worried about something else. The brown woman approaching Sena and I as Bova took her turn getting a card. “I fear the answer, but... what about me?” Sylvia asked with a strained smile.

Taking her large hand in mine, I tried to reassure her worried look a bit. “As an ex-Demon Lord general, you are a special case,” Sena stated while looking through her paperwork, Sylvia gulped but was very surprised by the secretary’s answer, “I'd usually say you're a lost cause, but thanks to many many strings being pulled by the people in this room, and as recognition of your strength as well as the army you command, Iris has stated you can be granted conditional citizenship as well.”

Sylvia looked shocked, like she'd genuinely thought she wasn't getting a card. “W-wait, really? That's...wow! What are the conditions?”

The ex-prosecutor-now-maid brought out another piece of paper from her pile. “First, you must swear your loyalty to the Dustiness Harem. Under as many oaths and demon oaths as it takes. Secondly, you are to hand over any and all information on the Demon Lord and his army.”

She sat down on a nearby chair, looking quite genuinely worried about those conditions, all while Sena continued listing a few conditions like having to 'pay back bounties' or something. I was more focused on Sylvia's feelings, “Scared about the Demon Lord?” I asked.

“No, surprisingly I'm more worried about that demon oath,” Sylvia admitted with a shaky smile, “Very nasty business if you break one of those. Basically can mean being dragged down to hell forever if the punishment’s severe enough.”

I blinked in surprise, not realising that there was such a code of honour for the demons. Is that why Vanir was so hellbent on helping me? Had I inadvertently created a demon oath with him? No, you haven't. Said a voice in my head. Okay, great. Thanks for being creepy Vanir. You're welcome.

Whatever.

"Well, I'm glad you all enjoy your present," I said, moving my way away from the crowd and towards the exit while their eyes and various thanks/gratitude followed me. "But right now? I'm going to need to go get ready for... something." I smiled over to Kazuma who nervously chuckled back at me. "Aqua? Would you like to help me?"

With a beleaguered sigh, the goddess started following me. "I suppose. I am the only one who knows how you like your hair. You'd be lost without me, wouldn't you Darkness?" She cockily shrugged while following me towards my room.

"If it's style needed, then I insist I help too!" declared Saffron. Just having gotten her card and rushing towards us, as fast as her plant feet could take her. "A humanic canvas is exactly the challenge I need if I want to start on my dream as a fashion designer!"

I couldn't turn that kind of passion down, and so we three headed off down the hall. Leaving Kazuma and the girls still getting their cards to do their own preparations for the future.

Monster girl list again why not: https://imgur.com/a/qUHcXlt

Shorter chapter than usual, but then next chapter is finally the fabled date arc. Hopefully people are enjoying!