Kii's Forest is a dryad and (since Chapter 88) a Alraune forest located on the outskirts of Tokyo.
After escaping from people traffickers, the Dryad Kii was taken to this forest for safety by Papi during one of her wanderings. As Papi promptly forgot about her, the pollution within the forest caused Kii to mutate into a colossus until she was unwittingly encountered and subdued by Papi, Kimihito, Suu and Zombina.[1]
After Kii was allowed to stay within the forest, Coordinator Smith had the area cleaned of pollution as Kii's nature as a dryad lead to the forest's exemplary growth; resulting in the forest possessing numerous exotic plants not found anywhere else in the area.[2]
Following the accidental discovery/creation of a natural hotspring following an effort by Polt, Kimihito and Tionishia to clear the forest of some debris[3], Polt was allowed to build a sauna to compliment the hotspring. The sauna proved instrumental in subduing Killa during her attack on Kimihito.[4]
Months later, after fishing out a pair of Alraunes behind one of the Extraspecies Exchange Online Websites, Kimihito brought them to the forest under Smith's orders, as it would provide much needed protection from other species considering how plant-like liminals are viewed. Kii doesn't really care about that and she allows the Alraunes to stay.[5]
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- After being kidnapped with the intention of being sold as merchandise and then mutated by refuse, Kii has a deep-seated dislike for humans, and as such prefers to live within the forest than take on a host family despite Smith's attempts to convince her otherwise.
- As stated in "Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job!", Ms Smith's attempt to find a host family for Kii would be made very difficult by another factor; although Kii was kidnapped against her will, she is still considered an illegal immigrant under Japanese law. This is another reason why Kii leads a secret life in the mountains, hidden from human society, since interacting with humanity only ever made her situation worse.
- It is also stated in the light novel that even after the cleanup by the government, there are still humans who illegally dump their garbage in the forest and that Polt therefore visits Kii from time to time to clean the forest, as she did it already before in Chapter 41.
- In Episode 10, during the fight between Kii and Suu, the Mount Fuji can be seen in the background, which would mean that Kii's forest is the forest Aokigahara. However, since the Mount Fuji was only added in the anime, it is not confirmed if this can be considered canon for the manga series, although Kimihito mentions at the beginning of Chapter 20 that Kii's forest is in the mountains.
- After the discovery of the natural hot spring in Chapter 41, Polt suggested to Kii to build a Hot Spring Resort for Liminals in the forest, and although Kii was initially against it, she eventually agreed to the idea, at least in part, when she allowed Polt to build the sauna in Chapter 44. Later in Chapter 88 it is revealed that Polt completed the project even though she built a gym instead of a resort.
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