Chapter 26

Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls (モンスター娘のいる日常, Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou) Chapter 26 is the twenty-sixth 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 July 31st, 2014, by the Japanese publishing company within the seinen manga and anime magazine,.

The chapter was later gathered as part of the series' tankōbon volume Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Volume 6.

Plot
The chapter begins with Rachnera dreaming about the time with her original host family and how she accidentally hurt the daughter of the family. Startled, Rachnera wakes up in her room in the attic of the Kurusu house and comments that it has been a while since she had a dream like that. Annoyed, she thinks to herself that she really hates this dream and goes back to sleep while it's already early morning outside.

Rachnee comes down to the kitchen and, still tired, greets everyone with a good morning, though Centorea surly corrects her that it is actually past 10. When Rachnee wondered where was the breakfast, Centorea tells her that Miia is attempting to make "something" and that it should be done presently. Meanwhile, while reading the receipt from a cooking magazine, Miia puts Worcestershire sauce in the cooking pot instead of oyster sauce since it "sounds the same anyway". Rachnera, well aware of Miia's terrible attempts at cooking, decides to wait for lunch.

Rachnera then wondered where Kimihito was and Centorea tells her that he is out, filling out paperwork so he can be reimbursed for all the past food expenses. Rachnera says that it must be hard to be the host family of seven people, although Centorea reminds her that she is one of them. Lala then suddenly appears behind the two and tells them that they got mail, surprising them.

As Rachnera says to Lala that she scared her, Centorea asked why she sneaks up on people, whereupon the Dullahan turns away in embarrassment. Centorea notes that it is rare that they (namely herself, Miia, Papi and Rachnera) receive mail when she receives the four letters from Lala. She asked for something sharp to open her envelope but when Lala offered her scythe Centorea declined; Rachnera watches and wonders what they are doing as she opens hers.

Rachnera then read her letter and freezes for a moment before she crumples it up. Centorea then asked Rachnera if something is wrong and notes that Miia's "something" is finished; Miia angrily asked why she called what she cooked that. Rachnera tells her to feed it to Suu and that something's come up and that she is going to her room. As she goes to her room she tosses her letter in the trash can. Meroune wonders what happened and Miia guesses that Rachnera wants to laze around her room until lunch.

Then suddenly Suu appears in her blob form out of the trash can, with Rachnera's letter on her antenna, surprising the two. As Miia asked Suu what she was doing in there, Meroune notices the letter. Suu urges her to read it which she does. Astonished, Mero reads the letter and says that it is a host family transfer notice and that it looks like there's someone who wants to be Rachnera's host family. While the other girls react to the news with shock and disbelief, Mero adds that it looks like this letter is from the people who hosted Rachnera before. Distraught, Papi asks Centorea if that means Rachnera will leave them, to which Centorea tries to reassure the Harpy, saying that it's undecided, although she's not entirely convinced herself.

However, while all the other girls are worried about this news, Miia has a dark moment thinking that there might actually be a great chance if Rachnera went somewhere else as it would decreased the number of her (Miia's) rivals to Kimihito. She also tries to dissuade herself from guilt with empty words, thinking to herself that there's reason to act sadder than she needs to, since it's not like Rachnera is getting deported to her home country. As Miia mischievously thinks that it's wonderful that she doesn't have to get her hands dirty to get Rachnera out of the way, she is watched by Centorea and Mero, who notices that she's thinking about something evil again and ponders this must be why snakes have a bad name.

When Centorea is also pondering that Rachnera might be going to leave, Mero asks her if she is against it. Embarrassed, Centorea quickly denies this, adding that there would merely be one less thing to be cautious around the Kurusu house. Mero says, she simply thought that because of Rachnera's usual habits but Centorea insists that Rachnera's original host family would be asking her to leave again shortly. The two discuss that it's not like that either, that Rachnera is going to leave immediately and that Rachnera's host family will have to talk it over with Rachnera first as well. As Mero and Centorea look at the date of the letter, however, they sees incredulous that the meeting is for today when suddenly the doorbell rings.

In front of the door stands a young human girl with a bag who introduces herself to Centorea and Mero as Ren Kunanzuki and explains that she is part of Rachnera's original host family. Surprised, Centorea asks Ren if she is alone as she expected Ren to come with her whole family. Deeply ashamed, Ren tells her that her family wanted her to come on behalf of them because she was the reason that Rachnera left. Unsure about this emotional outburst, Centorea tries to calm Ren down and tells her, while she explains to Ren that the master of the house (Kimihito) is not in, that she better come in first because that's not something they may quickly discuss on the porch.

Papi happily greets Ren in the hallway, but asks her what was her name again, which she immediately forgets. Ren introduces herself to Papi again, who then asks her her name again, while Centorea notices the bag Ren is carrying. Ren says she brought them some sweets as a gift and hands them the bag. Papi happily accepts the gift, but she then asks Ren what her name is for the third time, because she immediately forgets, much to Ren's confusion. Annoyed, Centorea reprimands Papi for not asking someone their name over and over again when she first meet them.

However, Ren then says, to everyone's confusion, this must be one of the problems with Liminal people. In a kind of passionate enthusiasm, Ren tells Papi to show all her "mentally impairedness" (to Papi's confusion) and assumes that Papi would try to test her if the can put up with her problem. The girl then holds a paper under Papi's nose with her name written on it, says her name again and adds she won't fail this "test".

Confused, Miia wonders what is wrong with Ren and is about to tell her that this isn't really a test, when Centorea suddenly covers her mouth and leads the Lamia away to talk to her privately. In a whisper, Centorea explains to Miia how she heard from Ms Smith that Rachnera's old host family sold her to another person, much to Miia's shock. Centorea admits that she can understand that living with Rachnera may be difficult with the way that she is, but that doesn't mean someone can sell her like that. The Centauride adds that therefore this is a good chance to test Ren to see of she's prepared to take Rachnera in.

Miia hesitates before a agreeing to Centorea, adding that while losing rivals is good for her, it wouldn't feel right if Rachnera had to experience the same drama again. She asks Centorea how they'll test Ren, to which Centorea says they're not going to do anything special and that Ren should just experience their everyday lifestyle with them. So something like cleaning, or laundry or eating, although the last point is met with scepticism.

The scepticism turns out to be justified because, as usual, Miia cooked "something" that looks anything but edible. With a queasy feeling, Centorea wonders how this food can even be called "normal", while Mero says that this is not a problem with Liminal people, but a problem with Miia herself. Deeply outraged and offended, Miia says to Mero that she don't call it a "problem". With a apologetic smile, Centorea tells Ren that they better don't partake in this, but turning to Ren, she gets a terrible shock when she sees the girl passed out at the table with a plate of Miia's "something".

Horrified, Centorea wonders if Ren ate it and poisoned herself, although Papi thinks that it look like the girl passed down from the smell. Depressed, Miia says that this is kind of getting her down a little. Suddenly, to everyone's shock, Ren suddenly start up, apologizes for her fainting and asks if that's an Extraspecies cultural dish.

Determined and believing that being able to eat something like this is important to her when going to be living together with a Liminal, Ren takes two more spoonfuls of the stew, but also faints briefly two more times in the process. Eventually, Ren puts the plate to her mouth and scoops it all up like a maniac, although Centorea tells the girl in dismay that she needn't have to eat it. Miia is now deeply depressed that everyone thinks her home-cooked food is so terrible.

More is coming soon

Key Events

 * The daughter of Rachnera's previous host family is introduced, and it's revealed exactly why they sold her.
 * Rachnera was sold because she accidentally slashed Ren with her claws when Ren startled her.
 * It's revealed that Arachnes, like regular spiders, get intoxicated from caffeine.
 * When Rachnera gets drunk from coffee she drank, she openly revealed her true feelings and affection for Kimihito.


 * Miia, Papi and Centorea get letters from their respective mothers, who plan to visit them.
 * Centorea's room apparently smells like a barn.
 * This is odd, because the odors of a horse barn are made up of horse waste, namely decomposing solids, ammonia from the liquids, bedding soiled by the previous two and potential bacteria growth. Cerea obviously uses a toilet, so this statement was probably made for comedic effect.
 * Miia's cooking smells like bug repellent.

Trivia

 * Kimihito is wearing ⑨ with nine T-shirt (Touhou) [Easter Egg].
 * The coffee brand "Stertbooks Coffee" is a parody of the famous real-life coffee brand "Starbucks Coffee."
 * Miia strikes Lelouch's close-up pose from the end of Code Geass' season 1 closing credits in this chapter.