Chapter 72

Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls (モンスター娘のいる日常, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou) Chapter 72 is the seventy-second chapter of the Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls manga series.

Written and drawn by mangaka Okayado (Inui Takemaru), this chapter was released in Japan on March 31st, 2021, by the Japanese publishing company within the seinen manga and anime magazine,.

Plot
The chapter starts with Kimihito sitting with Centorea and Nico in the ANM48 Cafe and Store. The Unicorn girl orders a lot of desserts and meals on the menu one after the other, while Centorea, silently drinks a drink. However, Centorea's attention is briefly diverted by Kimihito, who is making a phone call in the background and then joins Centorea at the table. After the waitress has brought the many dishes, the Unicorn girl explains that she asked Centorea for advice as she has issues with how to spend her money, which Centorea mockingly comments given the many desserts and meals that the Unicorn girl ordered. As the waitress delivers a collection of coasters with the motifs of the members of ANM48, Centorea introduces the girl to Kimihito as Nico and thinks he can pretty obviously tell from her horn and that that she is a Unicorn, a subspecies of Centaurs.

Kimihito agrees with Centorea that he's heard of Unicorn horns being extremely medicinal, but hesitantly adds, that he's also heard that Unicorns like pure maidens, with Centorea hesitantly supposing that's true. Kimihito asks Centorea again why she brought him with her this time and asks if it had anything to do with what happened the last time. Centorea remembers the rather uncomfortable situation with Meamill from the last chapter with embarrassment and evasively says that it would be prudent to ask him for advice, since Kimihito is very knowledgeable about money matters. However, when Centorea notices that Nico is still looking admiringly at the coasters with the ANM48 girls, she asks the Unicorn girl about the advice she wanted from them, whereupon Nico awakes from her trance and explains the situation. Nico loves idols like ANM48 and whenever there is new merchandise or events, she cannot hold back with her money and therefore wants to learn to control her spending. When Centorea inquires about the exact amounts of these "spendings", Nico explains embarrassed that she supports all 48 members of ANM48, much to the astonishment of Kimihito and Centorea.

Deeply ashamed, Nico adds that she is so happy about new songs and concerts that she simply ignores how broke she is afterwards, although Kimihito and Centorea don't really know what to think of them. Kimihito quietly asks Centorea whether the reason why Nico likes idols so much could be because she is a Unicorn and therefore likes virgins and purity, where Centorea embarrassingly suspects the same. When Nico hears this, however, she gets angry and clarifies that this is not the reason for her love of idols, although she admits that purity is important for an idol and purity also has a high value in the practice and tradition of Unicorn Culture. The real reason is that Nico sees idols as the physical embodiment of goodness and that she therefore wants to help them as a fan to reach their dreams.

After this lecture, Centorea asks if Nico is just as serious about controlling her spending and when the Unicorn girl confirms this, Centorea asks Kimihito if he has a suggestion about Nico's problem. Kimihito then suggests that Nico could make a pie graph, so that it is easier to see where she can reduce her spending. However, when Nico showed her graph to Kimihito and Centorea, the two were amazed to see that Nico's income was about 1,500,000 Yen. Centorea hesitantly asks if the income is a calculation for a year, but both are stunned when Nico explains to them, embarrassed, that this is her monthly income. The two begin to imagine Nico's job, with Kimihito considering that she is a Yakuza boss or a pro gambler, which Centorea suspects something even more nefarious. Nico explains, however, that she sells the powder scraped off while caring for her horn bit by bit to a private research laboratory, with Kimihito and Centorea looking at each other when they suspect that they may know the research laboratory in question.

In the evening the suspicion of the two that it is the Black Lily Advanced Materials Laboratory is confirmed when Mr President receives them in his office. Mr President, quite unmoved, confirms that they occasionally buy something from Nico's horn and adds that the Unicorn horn can cure a variety of diseases to the point where it can be considered a panacea. He goes on to explain that it would be the find of the century if his laboratories were able to recreate the specific molecular structure of those horns. Centorea then angrily clarifies that his payment for Nico is exorbitant and that it is his fault that Nico's spending is so out of control. However, Mr. President says that he is of the opinion that his company is not paying Nico enough and adds that she is still selling her horn of her own free will. Centorea reluctantly agrees with his reasoning, but before she can add anything else, Mr. President continues that he buys products as long they are not stolen and that he will not deny anyone who wants to sell.

However, Mr President then also says, that Kimihito and Centorea are not the only ones, who believe that something must be done about continued sale of Nico's horn. Much to Nico's dismay, he pulls a photo out of his desk drawer that shows a picture of Nico's physical examination, but with the clear difference that her horn in the picture is more than twice as long and larger as it is now. Mr President explains that this is a picture of Nico when she first come to his company and if she were to file her horn even further, these would be a danger that she would be permanently damaged. He says it would be best to direct Nico's passion of idols from such wasteful practices so that she can make money without selling her horn. Mr President goes on to say that his company happens to be in the middle of a little project that could help, but when Kimihito heard this, he says aloud to Centorea's astonishment that Mr President does not mean what he suspects, which Mr President smiks st so that Kimihito has already heard of it.

Mr President eyplains that it is an extra-species idol projekt to surpass ANM48 and that this project not only affects the lightweight animal-eared girls they have now, but also hardcore extra-species like Lamias, Harpies and Mermaids. Mr President scouts were ablr to get in contact with Mero and Papi, as both have some experience on the stage, but Mero had to turn drown because of some family ssues on the part of her Mother and with Papi the attempt turned out to be pointless because she always forget what was happening no matter how often the scouts talked to her. For this reason Mr President Kimihito had called earlier, but since he was the opinion, that this is Nico's opinion, Mr President turns to the Unicorn girl and openly asks her if she would like to be part of his new idol group, the "Black Lilies".

Nico is totally shocked by this sudden offer and makes it clear that she cannot become an idol overnight and that it would be ridiculous for the idea of becoming an idol to fix something as banal as a little overspending. However, Mr President says that Nico is making a earnest effort to fix her spending problem and if she deny now, she would also deny the same effort that she sees in her favorite idols, after which Nico, after a short pause, is right gives. However, when Mr President Nico want to give the contract, she points out that it is not possible for a Centaur basal to sing or dance on a stage, since her large body is a hindrance for the other members. To Nico's astonishment, however, Mr President says that this is not a problem, as his group is not this kind of idol group.

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Key Events

 * The Unicorn Centaur subspecies and Nico make their debuts in the manga series.

Trivia

 * The ANM48 Cafe and Store is a parody of the AKB48 Cafe and Store that operated in Akihabara next to the JR Akihabara Station from September 29th, 2011, until its closure on December 31st, 2019 due to "renovations to the commercial area".
 * The image that Centorea conjures of Meroune and Papi as singing idols shows the pair in the same outfits they wore while working as idols in Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Hello Work!.
 * Yakuza is the generic term of japanese criminal organizations.