Seven Stories About MONSTERS

"Seven Stories About MONSTERS" is a chapter in *Hana Mo Naki*.

## Plot

### A Story about LAMIA

Miia Amamiya grew up in India and signed up for a cultural exchange program in college. She was placed with a family in Japan, but they had a family emergency and she had to stay with Kurusu Kimihito instead. When Miia was walking downtown, a couple ridiculed her for her scaly skin (which was caused by Severe Ichthyosis Vulgaris), chased her into an alley, and touched her inappropriately. After she told Kimihito what happened, he called the police and later beat the couple up when he and Miia saw them later. Miia developed a crush on him and became clingy towards him.

### A Story about HARPY

Papi has a learning disability and was taken away from her mother, who had the same thing. She ran away from several foster homes, and when she was to be sent to her father in Japan, she ran away again and was placed with Kimihito when he found her. Papi still wandered away often and came home late with bruises, never remembering anything, but later it was revealed someone raped her when she had a miscarriage. Afterwards, she figured that if Kimihito got her pregnant, then the baby wouldn't die since he's a good person, so she attempted to have sex with him.

### A Story about CENTAUR

Cerea Chevalier grew up practicing shomer negiah, meaning she cannot make physical contact with men, and her strict mother taught her not to give into her "base urges", which made her feel shameful about her body. When she was in Japan for a competition, someone stole her handbag, so Kimihito allowed her to use his bike to chase the thief and he even helped her take him down. Cerea developed a crush on him, but is ashamed for thinking this way because of how she was raised, her feelings becoming more complicated when she found out that her mother cheated on her husband.

### A Story about SLIME

Suu was kept in a woman's basement since she was young and was forced to submit to her captor in exchange for food and water. She eventually killed the woman, drank her blood, and escaped. When Suu tried to drink from a river, she was swept away and almost drowned, but Papi rescued her and took her to Kimihito's house. Kimihito and the girls taught her how to speak, but is having trouble learning that she doesn't need to do sex acts for sustenance anymore.

### A Story about MERMAID

Meroune Lorelei grew up seeing her parents cheat on each other and she eventually had to start using a wheelchair due to her peripheral neuropathy. One day when she was going to swim at the local pond, a man attacked her and tried to rape her, but she beat him to death with her wheelchair. Meroune's mother sent to Japan to get away and she stayed with Kimihito. However, she became extremely possessive of him and wanted him to herself.

### A Story about ARACHNE

Rachnera was placed with a foster family as a teen and terrorized them relentlessly. Eventually, the family sold her off to a director who made BDSM pornography. When the director tried to get personal info from the girls at Kimihito's house and was chased away for being a creep, Rachnera took his notes, assumed Kimihito was keeping the girls prisoner, and went there to kidnap him. When she brought him to the warehouse, she told him how she ended up there, but she realized Kimihito wasn't bad when the cops came to arrest her. Rachnera was put on probation and she is staying with Kimihito so she can unlearn her domineering behaviors.

### A Story about DULLAHAN

Labhaoise has Tourette's Syndrome and is obsessed with death. She came to Japan to learn about Japanese funerary rituals, but when she cut through a park at night, a man raped her and forced her to orgasm. Labhaoise's throat was slashed, but Kimihito saved her life and let her stay with him until the investigation was over. She is the only one not attracted to him and she realized how problematic the other girls' behavior towards him is, so she confronted them and they all submitted their stories to DOLLARS together.