Sleeping with the Girls: Volume II, Chapter Twenty Three

After a long delay, the chapter is out!

After delivering a fight-ending shot to Kunzite, it seems like the battle is over. But it just seemed all too easy. It's been the SI's experience that it's never quite that simple. And once again, being right is a bad thing. Lo and behold, the final Shadow appears.
Can the Senshi fend off the Superbeast with the SI's help?

Sleeping with the Girls: Volume II, chapter 22

You've seen it on the label of many a hair spray can.
Warning: Contents Under Pressure
There isn't much to say, except that a battle is not as simple as one might think.

Sleeping with the Girls: Volume II, Chapter Twenty-One

Man this one's out late. But I've been busy trying to juggle this, school, minecraft, and my new Kitteh 'Citrus'. (My Dog passed away. The next day, someone had abandoned a box of kittens at work. I call that 'uncanny' timing. So I kept one of the kittens.)

Mind you, when a writer says they've been 'busy'. It's probably 'not so busy they have no time for writing. But more of a 'so busy that the long periods needed to just sit and think' aren't available, so ideas don't really form clearly... Slowing everything down.

Anyway.

'After the hijinks with the Senshi in the previous chapter, it's time to get serious as the SI adopts Luna's plan. A plan that is so good, it's doomed to failure from the start. All that can be hoped for is to get everything set up so when the enemy shows up, all they have to do is Kill the Middle.

Will they succede?

Sleeping With the Girls: Vol II, Chapter Twenty

The SI has an 'Enigmagnetic' Personality of sorts. You don't know quite how it works, but you know it works well. The ability to be agreeable even around people who can be downright caustic has its advantages. Even when meeting some of the other Senshi for the first time, you wonder how sometimes rough first impressions can be ignored. Perhaps its the no-nonsense attitude? But then, the way he can be so laid back. Maybe he just knows how to behave from experience.

Who knows, but the Senshi need to be brought up to speed, and being up to speed is all about information. And lots of it. Sometimes that information may prove to be a little crazy. But the SI hasn't gotten this far on sanity alone.

Sleeping with the Girls: Vol II, Chapter Nineteen

With Kunzite run off for the time being, it's time to take care of some rather mundane business. (With Luna's help of course.) A little gold makes for a lot of money, and a lot of money makes for excelent shopping. And shopping with a pragmatic catgirl can be an... Interesting experience. But in the midst of the SI's shopping spree, he realizes that when you pull something off by the skin of your teeth, you may just put your foot in your mouth. With all the stuff he knows, it only adds to the stress. Don't be surprised if he turns into a Basket Case.

Author's Note: The sheer amount of Google Earth, Google Maps, Wikipedia, and private corporate website research that went into this chapter should make the names and locations discussed her as accurate as physically possible without some kind of Wayback machine to do time travel. If ever you were a Geography geek, consider this a snapshot of a real city, as close as this author can get to going there.

Sleeping with the Girls: Vol II, Chapter Eighteen.

In World War II, there was a counter intelligence operation thrown at the Axis powers that involved the most absurd stunt pulled by a legitimate power since the historical use of the Trojan Horse. A lot of people reading it might think the move was insane. But it should be noted that the operation was a complete success.

Thus 'Operation Mincemeat' went down in history.

Back in the world of the story, the SI suspects that Hino knows a little more than he lets on about. But how much Hino really knows may just blow your mind. A constant reminder to the SI that even most idiotic seeming people can be rather smart when left to their own devices.

Perhaps these lessons could be applied liberally.

Sleeping With the Girls: Vol II, Chapter Seventeen

Finally out of Those Who Hunt Elves, and their Crazy World, the SI is awoken by the last thing you could have expected, himself. Trying to maintain 100% when you're running on sketchy amounts of sleep at best, while crossing worlds can not be the easiest task ever thought up. The usual day to day problems don't just go away. It just comes back at the least oportune moment. Like when you're trying to negotiate not being eviscerated by an old man because he found you with his Granddaughter...

So I ask you: How do you deal with Kitsamut's Revenge?