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It was a sunny and peaceful day for Kobayashi as she left her home and strolled down the street. The usual stress of work would not rest on her shoulders today because she had been given some time off. It had come as a favour for monitoring Lucoa and Shouta’s relationship and making sure it stayed…professional, and even though she should be resting, Kobayashi had decided to take a trip into the city. Having needed some fresh air after a particularly gruelling and time consuming project.
Although it wouldn't be a normal day off for her, nothing had ever been normal in her household since her draconic houseguests had taken up residence. Ever since Tohru had shown up it had been one magical chaotic mishap after another. Though Kobayashi had slowly become fond of her new roommates, considering them as a found family of sorts.
And today that very same found family had given Kobayashi quite the extensive shopping list. Kanna had wanted a new school hat after losing her old one, although they both knew Riko had taken it, Illiu begged for some better fitting clothing after being scolded by Tohru, and Thoru herself had requested for some recipe books of the human world, wanting to create some more appetizing dishes for her one true love.
Tohru had joined Kobayashi in this trip, refusing to miss an opportunity to get closer to her and also keep her safe. Even if she could be a little over-protective at times, she was still learning how to restrain herself.
Roughly half way into their scheduled shopping trip they had noticed a young man following them, rather poorly at that too, he had tripped over a bin and almost been hit by a car twice trying to tail the pair, turning around they found him staring again. Having had enough, Kobayashi decided to apprehensively confront him.
“Hey dude can I help you?” Kobayashi asked the scruffy stranger, a little concerned with the weird way the young man was gawking at her.
“Oh err no sorry, you kind of look like someone I used to know” the blond guy answers revealing his oddly sharp teeth, scratching the back of his neck “your boobs are much smaller”.
“Hmmrr back off human, she's spoken for!” Tohru shouts proudly, suddenly smacking the guy with a clawed hand, sending him flying, having unleashed her half draconic form.
“Tohru I think that was a little overkill” Kobayashi notes, pointing to the man-shaped hole in a nearby building.
“I'm sorry Kobayashi my love but thinking of him imagining your breasts GRRRR THATS MY JOB!” Thoru screeches immaturely.
“Completely missing the point once again I see,” Kobayashi says, rolling her hazel eyes.
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It had been three months since Denji had tricked Makima and successfully dealt with her, Public safety had given him leave as an apology to the treatment he received under the Control Devil. Denji however had mixed feelings over the entire situation, on one hand he had loved Makima or at least the closest understanding of that messy emotion he had. He also knew she had to go to protect everyone, to protect him.
So she was finally gone, her plan foiled and the other countries had even stopped sending their own hybrids after him. Denji had finally gotten what he wanted, a happy, peaceful life. Albeit Aki, Power, Beam, Reze, Makima and practically everyone else he had cared about (even if they had tried to kill him at times) were all dead now.
Though it wasn't all bad, he had been told that the really powerful devils such as the Control Devil would reappear again one day, though he had no idea when. for now all he could was enjoy his boring new peaceful life, at least that was what he thought until he saw her.
“So you have another devil protecting you now, maybe you really are her” Denji slumps out of the hole, the slash he received from Tohru’s injury healing slowly.
Pulling the cord on his chest, he transforms into his hybrid self, chainsaws shredding and forming through his arms and head, with a guttural roar from his throat as he lunges toward Kobayashi.
“You dare threaten my bride!” Tohru shouts back, blocking the chainsaws with her clawed hands, sparks flying between her scaled arms and the spinning rotors “grrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaah”.
“Huh I'm her bride now?” Kobayashi laments, backing away from the ensuing fight between Tohru and the weird looking chainsaw guy.
“Now those are way closer to Makima’s boobs” Denji omits aloud, staring at Tohru’s bouncing breasts as they clash. Their fight resulting in her clothes being torn in several places, leaving not much to be left to the imagination.
“You perv, only lady Kobayashi may lay her eyes on my sublime figure!” Thoru yells furiously, sigil's appearing around her fist before she gut punches Denji with magically boosted might.
Whilst Denji is sent flying into the air, Tohru finishes her barrage of attacks with a blast of draconic flames.
“Er Tohru maybe we should just try talking to him, he’s obviously a little confused, mistaking me for someone else” Kobayashi requests sincerely “when i got a good look at him I couldn't help but feel sorry for him, looked like he hadn't slept for a month”.
Tohru breathes heavily, burning orange irises glowing. The chaos dragon's entire body was on the defensive, waiting for the slightest hint of danger.
“But he, he… I can smell blood on him, he’s soaked in the stuff, he’s bad news” Torhu replies impatiently, glancing at the floor, an expression Kobayashi had never seen before forms on the dragon's face, fear.
Kobayashi moves to her maid, placing a comforting hand on her head, staring into her eyes.
“Tohru” Kobayashi sighs, moving to her maid. She places a comforting hand on her head, staring into her eyes. “I gave you a chance, didn't I?”.
The dragon knew this was not the same, she may have been a chaos dragon, but she understood the values of a human's life, well she tried her best to at least, this chainsaw wielding guy on the other hand reeked of death.
Nevertheless Kobayashi’s words seemed to distil the rage in Thoru, her appearance gradually taking on a more human form, except her tail of course.
“Uurgh that really hurt you bitch” Denji spits having healed from his most recent wound, the attack having forced him to retract his chainsaws “I didn't even know there was a dragon devil”.
“I'M NOT A STINKING DEVIL!” Thoru belts angrily leaping at Denji again, but Before either party could restart their bout, they were both stopped by a respective force, Denji by large octopus tentacles and Thoru by Elma.
“Time for a nap Denji” a gruff voice murmurs from behind the restrained Hybrid.
“Oh it's you” Denji replies surprised, turning his head to meet Kishebe’s line of sigh. The thought to be retired public safety officer was accompanied by a younger man with a strange black fringe, Kishibe leant down stabbing the restrained Denji with a needle “ow what di you do jat fuuur”.
“I assume you have questions,” Kishibe states, throwing the needle away, he takes a deep swing from a hip flask “ tea?”.
“Sure” Kobayashi replies a little more than confused.
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The group visited a local maid café, walls adorned with framed photos of various patrons posing with the maids of the establishment encircled them.
They garnered a slew of strange looks from the other customers as they were escorted to their table by one of the very same pigtailed maids shown in those photos.
Thoru had earned a reputation and even a moniker in the maid café industry “The Dragon of Nihonbashi” of course this was one part due to her supposed cosplay and the other, her mythical level of dedication to her work. If only the humans here knew how close they really were with that title.
So the noticeable anxiety that the staff showed to these new guests was completely understandable, one brunette twintailed girl had the unfortunate role of asking them what they wanted to order, a frail shaky smile plastered across her petite face as she approached the table.
“Hello m..m..master what would you…what would you like to drink on this wonderful day?” the brunette employee squeaks towards them, before anyone could answer Kishibe raises his hand.
“Order anything you want and I'll pay” Kishibe announces with a thin smile “take as my apology for Denji’s actions”.
“Your paying for mine too, how nice” Fringe guy replies “in that case il have-
“No Yoshida you pay for yourself” Kishibe cuts him off.
“ I'll take some water then,” Yoshida says rapidly, before he returns to sizing up the semi conscious Denji.
“Il just have the tea Kobayashi mutters, not wanting to owe anything to a stranger, she passes Tohru her menu hoping she will do the same.
“And I will have one of everything” Tohru demands with a dubious grin, closing the menu and placing it down, Kobayashi could only give her a look of disappointment “What, he said we could order anything we wanted, so I am”.
“She’l just have a tea” Kobayashi tells the twintail maid taking the order, who nods quickly with fear and respect.
“And what about y..you m..master?” the Brunette awkwardly asks Denji, who had been looking intently at the menu for a good minute and a half after coming to, his expression glazing over.
“Ohh err, I cant read this, you have toast with jam and honey il have that if you got it ooh and a coffee with 6 sugars” Denji requests with a growl from his stomach.
“Ok th..thankyou we will be right back with your order” the employee bowed then slowly crept away before sprinting to the kitchen almost tripping on the way.
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After a small wait their order is brought to them, Denji tucks into his food like an animal, gulping down his toast in one to two bites.
“I should give you a proper introduction, my name is Kishibe, this is Yoshida and you already met Denji there. We work for the public safety division, you might have heard of them” Kishibe explains, taking a sip of black coffee and sliding over a file to her.
“No, not really,” Kobayashi responds, taking the file and reading it slowly. It explained the purpose of the safety division.
“Have you not seen the news recently?” Yoshida prompts, handing her a national paper, with detailed pictures of the fight between Denji and the other Hybrids.
“I usually just have educational shows on for kanna,” Kobayashi shrugs, taking a large sip of her tea and setting both pieces down.
Kishibe and Yoshida simultaneously put down their respective drinks and share a look of concern.
“So you don't know anything about the recent attack between the chainsaw devil and the control devil?” Kishebe probes further.
“Until today I had no idea devils were even a thing,” Kobayashi admits honestly, placing her cup down and folding her arms.
“I wonder if that's due to the present company” Kishibe muses scratching his scarred cheek.
“You mean Tohru?” Kobayashi wonders, a very obvious look of confusion on her face.
“I mean dragons in general, my theory is their existence around you is protecting you from the general influence of devils” Kishibe summarizes, slides a photo of a familiar woman across to Kobayashi.
The woman in the picture looked exactly like Kobayashi, down to her eye colour but a few things were askew, the woman was taller, thinner, did not wear glasses, had no bags under her eyes.
“She does look like me a little I guess," Kobayashi murmurs, her eyes darting over every aspect of the woman.
“But hotter right” Denji mentions, licking the butter off his fingers, comparing the photo to the woman in front of him.
“I could just murder you for comparing Kobayashi’s beauty to your wench” Thoru shouts, slamming her hands on the table dramatically, scowling intensely at the Chainsaw Devil.
Kobayashi nudges Tohru, who sits back down after she notices the terrified patrons and staff around her.
“Well this woman used to be the head of our department, and she has…retired” Kishibe says looking down at the table.
“And you're telling me this because,” Kobayashi replies, finishing her tea.
“We have a proposition for you, why don't you work for us”. Kishibe requests, taking out his wallet before writing a figure and handing it to her “Your role would be Denji's new handler. basically keep him out of trouble, this would be your salary”.
“But I already have a job and-” Kobayashi pauses reading over the ones and zero’s. It was in no way a life changing sum but it would definitely pay for a much needed future holiday or any future repairs “but wait am I even qualified for what you're asking of me”.
Kishibe takes out several pictures of Elmear Fafnir and Tohru in their dragon forms, placing them in front of Kobayashi, causing Tohru to try shrinking into herself.
“You might have not known about us but we knew about you for a while, we also knew about your friends, who definitely don't hide themselves as well as they think they do” Kishibe notes, taking back the pictures “you have experience handling several dangerous monsters”.
“Dragons are not monsters, pathetic humans !” Tohru snarls, causing Denji to burst out laughing, catching everyone off guard “what's so funny hmmm”.
“Nothing you just reminded me of someone” Denji replies with a melancholic tone, remembering how Power used to act.
Kobayashi mulls it over in her head, the experience could benefit everyone, Tohru could use an extra hand and Denji could have a more peaceful life.
“Sure I accept your offer” Kobayashi agrees to their terms.
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!” Tohru exclaims falling backwards off her chair.