Monster Girl Ranching in Another World

I was curious to know how Missy was doing now, and I still hadn't taken her one as one of my girls. I was sure that the girls were still eating, so I headed over to the doors but was unsure of which one to go see first.

I reached for Mary's door but then stopped and knocked instead of walking in.

Last time Mary had been a little witch to me even after I kissed her, and that kind of miffed me. I hoped that this time we might have a better talk, or even words, those would be nice too; not like I didn't love and miss her cute hissing.

*Knock, Knock!*

"Who'sss isss it?" I heard Mary hiss, but then I heard Missy speak up.

"Who is it?"

"I don't knowsss, I jussst asssked!" Mary hissed in a more muffled voice, and I assumed she turned to scold her sister.

"It's just me, Kazz. I came to check up on you two and see how you were both doing," I called, trying not to be too loud since I just left Lidy to let her rest.

"Yesss, K… you can comesss in," Mary said, deciding better of trying my name out again.

I grinned and opened the door and was surprised to find that what looked like two rooms from the outside was actually just one. I mean, half the room was a very deep-looking pool that I couldn't see the bottom of.

Mary was lying along the edge of the pool, and Missy was hanging by her head on the edge of the pool. Even the snakes were being lazy, and Mary looked like she was suntanning.

"Why didn't you say Kazz's name?" Missy asked in a cute and airy voice, and Mary growled at her.

"Because Isss can't saysss hisss name right," Mary hissed and turned away and back towards me.

"But why can't you say his name, right?" Missy asked before I could stop her, and that made Mary whip around to attack her, but completely missed.

Now, I'm not sure if it was the blindness, lazy snakes, or what, but there was no way Mary should have missed. It was like some freak roll of the dice things, but then that got me thinking too back in the ocean.

"What are you doing, Mary? I thought you said you did want to swim? Maybe you can say Kazz's name, but you don't want to?" Missy asked after she wiped the splashed water from her face.

"Mary looked furious and dove for Missy again but missed again and headed directly into the side of the pool. Then things started to get really weird as Mary was flung into Missy, not reaching her, then tossed into the pool with her mermaid tail flopping as she screamed through the air.

My head was starting to hurt with the mind-boggling display that I had just seen, like some poltergeist was flinging her around. Missy was splashed with water during all of this, and now she looked mad, but like a cute mad.

I decided that I would just sit this one out. There were forces at work here that I had no control over, and I did not want to get in the middle of.

Whatever force kept Mary from danger also seemed to surround her sister, and that made me more curious than ever.

I was about to ask Hero, but then girls started back at it, and I really didn't want to miss a moment of the action!

Missy dove for Mary, but a pocket of water opened up around her, and Missy fell about ten feet down before the water collapsed. Mary tried to dive into the water after her, but when she dove out, Mary slapped down onto the surface of the water.

As Mary flailed on the surface of the water, her body changed back to a snake from the fishtail. I could see Missy pounding and scratching at the water to get at Mary while she was doing the same, but whatever forces were protecting them seemed to have had enough.

I decided that this would be an excellent time to check in with the local expert of the world on my shelved matter of the mysterious force.

[There are old and ancient things in the depths of the ocean that were here since life crawled on the lands and before demons ever got here. I don't think that they are gods or anything like that, but I don't actually know what they are. Anything as old as the Nauticus has to have some kind of supernatural abilities or magic to keep them alive.]

So what do they have to do with the forces around the girls then? Are you telling me that there are worse things than demons on this planet?!

[If you look hard enough, you will always find something better and or worse, that is just the status quo of life, my boy! Now, this is just my assumption, but I think that they must have something to do with it. As far as I can tell, there is not happening right now that registers as magic or any kind of energy at all. This can only mean that it has something to do with them or the Skyra. They are flying islands that never landed and have been around just as long as the Nauticus. Still, the Skyra aren't likely to interfere with water or land-bound creatures, so the Nauticus have to be the answer.]

That was a very good point about a bunch of things that I had no clue about, so I had really gained nothing. Well, I did learn that there were more things that I didn't understand and that there were some things that Hero didn't even know, so not a complete loss.

I turned my focus back to the girls and sighed as the two were still scratching at each other. What was I going to do about these girls now?