Chapter 82

Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls (Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou) Chapter 82 is the eighty-two 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 September 8th, 2023, by the Japanese publishing company within the seinen manga and anime magazine,.

Plot
Rachnera comes out of her room asking for whoever is making that loud noise this early in the morning to keep it down. Kimihito tells her that the noise is coming from Miia and Centorea playing a card game called "Duel Monmusus," and they just got to the good part. Miia summons a "Snake Princess Anaconda" and equips a "Reverse Snake Mask" card to it to make it stronger, far stronger than Centorea's "Centaur Aya". However, Centorea uses a card called "Emergency Combination" to fuse Centaur Aya and "Dragon of Earth" to form "Dragoon Aya," which defeats Miia's monster and earns Centorea the victory.

At that point, Rachnera asks what is going on and Kimihito explains that he found some of his old cards while cleaning his room and the game had become popular again thanks to streaming, and since the girls wanted to know how to play, he offered to teach them. Lala then says that Miia and Centorea's skills pale in comparison to her own. She pulls out a card called "Dullahan Seeker of the Cards," which she claims is her soul in card form, only to be reminded that these cards are Kimihito's and they are just borrowing them, but an embarrassed Lala demands the duel between her and Miia can begin. Rachnera says that everyone is way too into the game, though folks like Papi and Suu are more interested in making a house of cards instead of actually playing.

Rachnera realizes that the game was on the news the other day but when Kimihito tries to remember what it was about, Meroune comes in and tells Kimihito that Mr President called for him. Kimihito, Miia, Centorea, and Lala go to the Black Lily Advanced Materials Laboratory and Kimihito says they have been meeting with him too much. Miia asks if he doesn't like him but Kimihito corrects that he doesn't trust him. Centorea says that Mr President brings less trouble than Mrs. Smith (though Kimihito comments that she is just as untrustworthy).

Miia asks what Mr President wants with Kimihito and his cards and Centorea wonders how he learned Kimihito played the game, but Kimihito says that whatever this is about, it isn't normal. Miia then asks what cards Kimihito brought, and he reveals that brought a bunch of pre-made decks because they were in a hurry. The girls start wondering what the cards are just as a woman bumps into Kimihito and makes him drop one of his cards. When he reaches out to grab it, he accidently lifts up the woman's bandages and exposes her breasts.

The woman gets mad at Kimihito for his actions and he nervously apologizes, but when he explains he was getting his card, the woman decides to settle the dispute with a duel, to everyone's shock. That is when Mr President walks in and introduces the woman as Sekmeti, a Mummy and by her own words, the head of the Letopolis Family. Mr President also reveals that he called Kimihito over to have a Duel Monmusus match with her.

Kimihito asks why and Mr President explains that the Mummy people created the game, with Sekmeti stating that they created the game to replace their previous blood sports with something more elegant. She even reveals with pride that she had a role in the game's creation, adding that was around 3000 years ago and thinks to herself how the time flies. Kimihito and Miia don't really know what to make of this statement.

Mr President explains that the Mummy people entrusted part of the rights to a different company to make it a card game, but the Interspecies Exchange program has ramped up business activities. As such, they came to sign a contract with the company, which is what the news that Rachnera and Kimihito were talking about earlier was about. Mr President then tells Kimihito that the reason he wants him to duel Sekmeti is because they decide everything with a duel, and that includes this contract. Miia and Centorea ask why Kimihito was picked specifically and how Mr President knew he could duel, and he reveals that he dug up some info showing Kimihito was a professional duelist who won a competition. Kimihito says that he never agreed to any of this, but Sekmeti uses their encounter to pressure him into playing.

With all of that said, Mr President leads the two to a space for them to duel, and Sekmeti explains that the rules for this duel is "Classic Style" which gives each player 4,000 Life Points and no card restrictions. Centorea and Lala are confused about what "Classic Style" means, although Kimihito seems to know exactly what that is and seems annoyed by it. Mr President cheers him on (while also revealing he bet a "few million" on him and asking him not to lose on purpose, to the girls' displeasure). Once the duel begins, Sekmeti starts off right away with an extremely powerful monster called "Brutal Eyes Jade Dragon."

Miia and Centorea are outraged that she would summon a monster like that on the first turn, but Sekmeti explains that this is part of the Classic Style; there is no cost for high-level monsters. This still annoys the two as Sekmeti reveals that her deck contains nothing but the most powerful monster cards, and she can summon as many as she wants every turn, which is why she is so confident she'll win. Fortunately she says she can't attack on the first turn so Kimihito can make his move.

Kimihito summons a "Haru Ranman" monster, which has no attack. Mr President starts freaking out that he'll lose his money in addition to his virtual lack of knowledge regarding the game. Centorea says that Kimihito has a plan, but all three are surprised when Kimihito sends his monster to attack. His monster self-destructs and everyone continues to despair, with Sekmeti calling Kimihito a "fool" and asking him if he was merely tormenting Mr President. Miia and Centorea are also surprised at Kimihito's actions, while Mr President thinks desperately that his company would have to cancel the card game, the illustrations and the fees they have in production, although his head is smoking so much from all the thinking, that Lala covers her mouth and nose.

However, in a surprising twist, Kimihito reveals that this was part of his plan: because Haru Ranman had no attack points, he took exactly 3,000 in damage from Sekmeti's monster, and this allows him to activate a spell card called "Inferno Storm." This card forces both sides to remove all monsters from their decks, and since Sekmeti's deck contains nothing BUT monsters, she loses all of her cards while Kimihito still has his non-monster cards. As such, Sekmeti automatically loses.

Both sides are left speechless by this turn of events with Centorea adding that powerful monster cards are no match for spell cards, but Sekmeti nervously claims that this duel was to settle the dispute from earlier, so she wants one more duel to decide the fate of the contract (which is not what was originally agreed upon). Surprisingly, Kimihito agrees. Eventually, the girls realize that both are now having fun with the game.

Sekmeti does eventually beat Kimihito, but only because he had a weak draw that match; and they switched to the modern rules, with Kimihito winning nine of their matches. Soon, Kimihito, Miia, Centorea, and Sekmeti start having a pleasant conversation about the nature of the game and thanks the group for liking her people's game so much. Mr President tries to get Sekmeti to sign the contract and send Kimihito and the girls home, but because Kimihito is still annoyed by Mr President's actions, he suggests that Sekmeti has a game with Mr President first before signing, much to his displeasure. Kimihito later has a study session with him to teach him the game's rules while the girls continue playing.

Later, Lala asks Kimihito a question Centorea asked earlier: why did Kimihito stop playing? His answer is that he couldn't keep up with the game's power creep.

Trivia

 * This is the first chapter in which a Dragon appears in the manga series, albeit only as a card in the deck.