Liar, Liar, the Mage's Desire Vol. 1 (A New Oumeno)

The Monster of Casa V3 (End)

       "Himiko, wake up," Kokichi whispered softly, nudging Himiko awake. Himiko slowly opened her eyes. Dawn had arrived, and the ground below them was bathed in a beautiful gold from the early morning sunrise. 

   "Kokichi...?" Himiko mumbled. 

   "Nee-heehee...morning, sleepyhead!" Kokichi teased. 

   "Are we still up in the sky?" Himiko asked, rubbing her eyes.

   "Yeah...I haven't seen Miu, yet," said Kokichi. "But she should be coming home, soon." 

   "Hmm...okay," Himiko mumbled sleepily and nestled her head back into Kokichi's chest again. "Um...Kokichi?"

   "Hmm?"

   "I may have drooled on your scarf a little," Himiko said, rubbing her face against his chest to get more comfortable. 

   "Guurl, you're lucky you're my Supreme Lady," Kokichi muttered. "Otherwise, I would have forced you to wash it off yourself."

   "Yaaaay..." Himiko replied sleepily. Suddenly, she felt Kokichi lurch forward.

   "Himiko, look! There she is!" He pointed down at a large, lumbering black speck far below them heading towards Casa V3. They watched as Miu quickly climbed up the wall and hung on the edge of the window with one of her paws. With her other paw, she opened the window and skulked inside, without shutting it behind her. Kokichi and Himiko looked at each other in astonishment. "Okay, Himiko. Let's go up to her window and see if she turned back into her normal self already." Himiko looked at him with a horrified expression. "Cautiously, Himiko, duh!" Kokichi snickered. 

   "Nyeh...okay," Himiko flew her broom towards the house, slowing down as she neared Miu and Kaede's window. As they got closer, Himiko began to panic. "Wh-What if she's still awake?" she whispered fearfully. 

   "We'll find out soon enough. Just get closer," Kokichi whispered back. Himiko took a deep breath and slowly flew right up to the opened window. They looked over to Miu's side of the room and were relieved to see her asleep as her normal self. "Okay, she's back to normal," Kokichi sighed. "We can go get the others." Himiko flew her broom back down to the ground. She put it back in her secret room, and went to rejoin Kokichi at the back door. Holding her hand, Kokichi opened the door and led her inside. The dining room was still a mess from their last encounter with Miu as the monster.

   "Do you want me to fix this, too?" Himiko asked.

   "Nah," Kokichi said. "They're going to question how the door got fixed, if you were to fix the dining room with your magic, then they'd get reeeaally suspicious, so let's just leave it for now. If they ask about the door, just leave the lying to me, 'kay?"

   "Nyeh...you got it, Pants-On-Fire," Himiko replied. They made a quick stop at Kokichi and Gonta's room, where Kokichi put his cape back, then proceeded towards Katio and Shuichi's room, where everybody had spent the night. Without knocking, Kokichi just opened the door silently, but swiftly. Everyone looked up at them.