Okay this is the third and final of the omakes for Second Verse. I've decided to discontinue trying to translate the 'lost verses' as it is simply too hard and quite restrictive creatively anyway. So if anyone else wants to read those four short stories at the end of the first few volumes of EL Manga, I recommend you start learning some Japanese grammar and buy yourself a Kanji Dictionary and copy of the Manga for yourself (and besides, you should do the right thing for Okamoto-sama and buy his entire EL Manga collection anyway like I did!).

But don't fret. Because this last omake should be much better anyway. I want to finish this long project of mine on a more uplifting note (quite literally) and bring out the final track as a sort of battle of the bands episode (inspired by one of my brother's fanfics and a couple of other Anime's as well). So rack up the volume of your J-pop and Visual-K tunes and enjoy the final omake for Elfen Lied: The Second Verse.

There is just one song I think you should consider during a certain part of this chapter which should become very obvious when it gets round to it...

Anyway this is the song, you should find it or a similar version on Youtube:

Elfen Lied – Lilium (metal version)

Now if I haven't already given the whole premise away, enjoy the final coda!

Final Bonus Track: Elf Metal (\m/ \m/)

"Look! Look! Look at this!" Nyu ran into the living room as fast as the enthusiastic pinkhead could as she waved around a small poster in her hands. "A Battle of the Bands is being held in the University this Friday night!"

Kouta rested his cup of tea on the table as he consulted with Yuka. "Sounds like it might be fun to watch some up and coming bands perform eh Yuka-chan?"

Yuka took another sip of tea and sighed. "Hmm, I don't know, those sort of things involve a lot of noise."

"Aww, come on Yuka! I wanna be up on stage in a band!" Nyu chirped with excitement.

"Wait, you want to perform?" Kouta said with surprise. "I thought you just wanted to go watch."

Mayu and Nana were also in the room and their ears (or in Nana's case – horns), perked up to the topic of conversation. "Playing on stage sounds like a lot of fun too." Mayu said with a little smile.

"Yeah, I can't play any instruments but I'm sure if I bash something loud enough it'll sound good." Nana added.

"That's the thing though..." Kouta interjected. "None of us know how to play any instruments. We would just be a laughing stock to the audience."

"Aww, but I really-really wanna play in the battle of the bands!" Nyu pouted with her fists raised. Even though she had mentally matured over the Autumn months, she still demonstrated the occasional traits of a person half her age.

"Okay! Okay, settle down we'll work something out." Kouta groaned as he got up onto his feet, playing the typical father role. "So it's this Friday right?"

"Yes." Nyu nodded sharply.

"And today is Wednesday right?"

"Yes."

"Don't tell me you already registered us in the competition."

"Yes."

"And so now we all have to pick up an instrument and learn how to use it, then come up with a song in less than 48 hours for the show."

"Yes."

"Oh okay, well I just had to clear that up then." The life in Kouta's face suddenly left him as he turned away with a sunken expression. Leaning his elbows against a nearby wall he bowed his head underneath his arms. "Yuka help!"

"Hang on how did you sign us all up as a band?" Yuka stood up quite shocked now herself.

"It was easy, I found this stall near the beach with these three guys with strange black and white make-up on handing out flyers." Nyu explained in her innocent carefree manner. "They must have thought I looked really cool because they held the sign up right in front of my face saying I should register." Nyu swung on her hips as she tilted her head in a smile. "I even gave our band a name: Vectorizer. Isn't that awesome?"

"So three strange looking men gave you a sheet of paper and convinced you to join up some competition?" Yuka pressed her hands on her hips.

"Yes! Why do you two ask pointless questions all the time?"

"Hey I just got an idea, Nozomi-chan can be our singer." Nana's eyes lit up in a light bulb moment.

"I think I remember a few notes from piano lessons at school." Mayu added. "So I could play the Keyboard."

"Oh! Oh! Then Nana wants to play the drums!" Nana hopped up and down as she raised her hand. "I heard somewhere that drums are those big noisy things you hit right?"

"I also picked up a Guitar and Bass manual from two cute high school girls in the alleyway on my way back too." Nyu suddenly produced two separate books titled. 'Gitā ga Dekimasu' and 'Bēsu ga Dekimasu' which judging by the bubbly font and colourful pages seemed to be designed for young children learning to play these instruments for the first time.

Ignoring the slight creepiness and weirdness of how she obtained the books Kouta took the Bass one off Nyu. "Well if we're all set to play I may as well take up the Bass. It's easier and less pressuring than Guitar anyway."

"And I can learn guitar myself." Nyu beamed as she held the Guitar book to her chin. Then she frowned when she looked at Yuka. "Oh wait what will Yuka-chan play?"

Yuka grit her teeth as she forced an angry looking smile. "Hehe...Since I have no other choice now...How about the tambourine?"

"Okay~! Then let's just find Nozomi-chan and tell her about our plans!" The eccentric pinkhead raised her fist in the air as they marched upstairs where Nozomi was studying for her Musical exams.

\m/ \m/

MEANWHILE:

Kakuzawa summoned four of his trusted henchmen into his office, with his back facing them he read out a document which had been faxed to him just the other day. "There will be a 'battle of the bands' event at the University this Friday. Apparently these sort of events attract many of the younger generation."

"So you're saying Lucy might appear at this event?" One of the Men in the group lifted his shades with a plotting smile.

"There is a high possibility that she may be there." The ageing chief answered with a slight nod. "In order to infiltrate the event however, I will require all of you to enter as performers for this competition."

An almost perfectly synchronised "EEEEEEH?" Came from the four lackeys behind the Chief.

"So first you guys make me work here against my will and now you want me to enter some stupid kid's band thing?" The brown haired woman made her protests clear.

"Hey, we could always have you do a strip tease." The forest Man chuckled to himself as the woman growled back at him.

"I wasn't hired to perform dog tricks." The third man – rather effeminate looking actually – sighed as he tucked his hands in his dark jacket.

"Me neither? I'm a scientist, not some sort of circus act." The fourth man who was was also quite effeminate in his own way added.

"ENOUGH!" Kakuzawa hushed his detractors with the glare of one eye. "You four will enter the battle of the bands and you four will perform." He turned his back away from the quartet again as he finished his briefing, "...and you four will bring back Lucy."

\m/ \m/

THE NEXT DAY

"~La-la-la-la-laaah~" After learning about the competition from Nyu, Nozomi was now exercising her voice box for the upcoming performance. Although Nyu was supposed to be focusing on her brand new guitar, she kept distracting herself by listening to Nozomi's beautiful singing voice. As she quietly strummed a few chords to herself she kept humming a tune in her head, visualising their hit song on stage.

"Gah! Crap I've cut my fingers." Kouta sucked his index finger and thumb after just a short practise session on his bass guitar. "Apart from Nozomi-chan, I'm highly sceptical that any of us will be able to play anything in tomorrow night.

"I dunno, I seem to have mastered the tambourine already." Yuka grinned sheepishly as she gave the instrument a single shake.

DO-DO-DO-DO-DU-DU-DON! The flurry of bangs came from the other corner of the room as Nana broke out a high tempo drum beat. "Woohoo! This is really easy when I use my extra-"

"Nana shhhh!" Mayu quickly hushed the horned girl before she could accidentally reveal her secret to the other members of Vectorizer.

"So anyway, Nyu." Kouta called out as he stuck a band-aid on his finger. "Have you any idea what song you want us to play on the night?"

The rocker Diclonius lifted a finger to her chin, her eyes rolling to and fro as she worked out a small melody in her head. "Yes, I think I just came up with something."

\m/ \m/

Arakawa shuddered as she stared at the dress hanging in her locker, well at least what ever little material it was made up of that could constitute is as a 'dress'. She made an odd grimace as she held up the tiny two piece in front of her, referring to the mirror as she held it over her labcoat. "I am not wearing this..."

"But if you don't the Chief will get angry."

"KYAH!" Flying backwards and crashing her head into her desk, she stared as the Unknown Man virtually grew out from behind the locker. "H-How long have you been in here?"

"Oh I never left." The Man answered quite unashamedly. "I must say you're very lyrical in your sleep. Mostly, 'ooh' and 'aahs' but a performance in progress nonetheless."

"DON'T LISTEN TO ME WHEN I'M ASLEEP YOU MAJOR CREEP!" Arakawa threw a pile of random papers in the perverted Man's face as she displayed a fanged snarl. "And is this what you expect me to where tomorrow night?" She waved the ridiculously revealing top over her desk.

"I think it's quite nice. They always say less is more...And the more less we go the far more praise we will receive from the gawking masses hehe!" The Unknown Man rubbed his hands together showing his messed up vision.

"We're supposed to be finding Lucy! Not start up a strip joint!" Arakawa barked back.

"How are you two going with the preparations?" The two blondes tapped on the doorway. "We've already set something up with the clones so you two are on your own."

And as they left earshot, the female scientist sighed a small cloud of steam. "I hope they at least have shower facilities at the venue."

\m/ \m/

THE DAY FOR BATTLE (GRAH!)!

\m/\m/

The auditorium was packed to the very last row. Wherever there was floor space, it was soon filled by two feet until the carpet was painted in a complete mass of punked out undergrad students (and a few keen oldies as well). This was not the place for the faint hearted or those with body odours volatile enough to take down anyone within a seven metre radius.

Arakawa kept herself quarantined backstage whilst the other acts made their last minute preparations.

"Terrible news!" Yuka almost collapsed through the door as she burst into Vectorizer's change room. "Nozomi's gotten Laringitis and can't sing tonight!"

The Maple Inn gang all shared anxious glares at each other. "Why does Murphy's Law always apply during the worst possible time?" Kouta said, not realising the joke he had just made there.

"We'll have to find a new singer now." Mayu piped up worrisomely.

"But none of us know how to sing," Yuka cried out. "We might just have to-"

"I'll do it." Nyu raised an enthusiastic arm in the air. "I'll sing in Nozomi-chan's absence."

Kouta and Yuka both shook their heads. "Can you really pull it off Nyu-chan?"

"Un~!" She beamed. "I've practised with Nozomi-chan in the past haven't I?"

"I thought you were just practising your chest massage technique on her instead." Kouta grumbled before Yuka added a mochi sized lump on his crown.

"Hey guys!" Kindly making her precense known was Mayu's classmate Mio. "Good luck with your performance tonight. I can't wait for it! I'm sorry I can't stay but the first act's about to start."

"'Kay bye Mio." Kouta and the others saw the little headband wearer off with a wave. "Hey maybe we should check out some of the other acts too – you know to lighten the tension perhaps."

"Un! Let's go!" And with that Vectorizer departed the change rooms to enact the first stage in the battle: reconnaissance.

\m/ \m/

"They were alright." "Hmm, bunch of amateurs I guess." "They stuffed up on the vocals." Soon enough, Kouta felt like he was a fully fledged Music critic, judging all the backyard bands that formulated the first few acts of the night. Vecotizer's morale was slowly bolstering...

Then it was time for the next act...

"Everyone give a warm welcome to the next band who came all the way from Sakuragaoka Girl's High School: Hokago Tea Time!"

Judging from the large applause then Maple Inn mob began to waver their doubts. "They must be well known around campus."

"Oh I saw them near the beach the other day!" Nyu hopped up and down like an overstimulated fangirl when she recognised the five faces on stage.

"Hey guys, we're going to play just one of our many hits for you tonight. You can buy our Album in the foyer when you leave." The band's MC talked with quite an airy voice. "Our faces are on the cover of the CD, hehe, I came up with the idea for the picture the other day when we were sitting down and Ritsu said-"

"Yui, 'opstay' on the whole 'antray'" The black haired Bass player hissed over from the left side of the stage.

"Oh sorry Mio-chan." Yui giggled at herself. "Okay, let me introduce ourselves, playing on the drums is Ricchan, well actually her name is Ritsu but we like to call her Ricchan because it sounds kinda cute. Mugi-chan is on the Keyboard, well sorry her name is Tsumugi but we like to call her Mugi-chan coz it sounds kinda cute too. On rhythm guitar is Azu-nyan who is really Azusa but we like to call her Azu-nyan because it's cute and because this one time we had her wear cat ears and she really suited them so we decided to call her-"

"AHEHEHEHEM!" Ritsu and Mio cleared their throats very, very loudly in order to get their airhead Lead to get to the bloody point!

"Oh and Mio-chan plays Bass and my name's Yui and I do Lead. Okay hehe, I got a little carried away in time there, normally I try to cut down my intro speech because I tend to get sidetracked and start talking to the audience when we're supposed to be pl-"

"AHEHEHEHEHEKUGHKUGHHEEURGH!" The Drummer and Bassist spluttered out another sick throat clear as Yui finally sorted herself out and finished her rant.

"Hehe sorry, I guess we've used up half our time already, so here's the short version of Light and Fluffy Time!"

\m/\m/

TWO MINUTES LATER:

"We're..."

"Screwed..."

The audience erupted in standing ovation for the five high-schoolers as they left the stage. Their performance generated the most applause so far. Mio's Bass plucking, Ritsu's swift drum fills and Tsumigi's melody combined with Azusa and Yui's riffs and the cherry on top of the icing came from Yui's spectacular vocals which resonated an air of true bliss with the crowd who'd otherwise go for the more Heavy and Rougher sounds than their genre.

"Well maybe we can still come second." Yuka suggested with a very forced smile just as the next few acts came along. Soon that smile was gonna need to be stapled in place as the next several acts proved anything but confidence boosters.

Wearing nothing but a tape thin outfit around her chest and waist, the stinky woman and her Unknown companion performed a touching duet.

"~You've got a friend in me~"

"~You've got a friend in me!~"

"~No you've got a friend in me!~"

"Just remember what your Master said, sex slave you've got a freiiiind in meeeee!"

"Funny I don't remember the lyrics going like that..." Kouta mused from the bipolar audience; half attracted to to science lady's exhibition but half repelling from her swampy fragrance.

\m/ \m/

After Dr. Nousou conducted his choir of clones to perform the Ride of the Valkyries with the Agent reluctantly beating a drum, Vectorizer's hopes and dreams were being torn to meaty shreds by the second.

"MWAHAHA, Now my pretties! Forthwith the climax!" Like a crazed maniac, Nousou's arm swayed in spasmodic rhythms as he raised the noise in the room to near glass shattering levels.

"Anyone else notice how all those choir girls have horns and pink hair like Nyu." Kouta whispered out an obvious point but found no confirmation for himself.

"WOW!" The audience trebled their applause for the Mariko Clone Choir as invisible shoulder slaps were going all around for the pink haired troupe.

"Well done my children, you each get one pocky stick for desert tonight." Nousou said as he gathered the swarming clones around.

"Yay! Yay! Can we have a spoon of ice cream and a pinch of sugar too" Some of the clones hopped with delight.

"Alright, but no half a French Frie from McDonalds on the way home!"

"AWW!"

\m/\m/

"BOOO!" Well maybe Kouta and the gang's spirits received a slight defib boost from the next act.

"~Because you're the only gal for me- HEY PAL YOU THROW THAT RUBBISH UP HERE AGAIN I'LL CRUCH YOU INTO A TINY CUBE!" Needless to say, Bandou's solo act might have been better served to an audience of dolphins; at least they might not have been able to hear his vocals then.

"Aww...Bandou-san!" Mayu seemed to like it though. Division was already running within the Kaede House camp.

Then the second last act of the night...

The lights dimmed and red smoke filled the stage as three demons rose from the curtains. All three of them clad in various armour and corpse paint; one of them was a fat bloke with tall blonde hair on the drums; wielding the Bass in his armoury of doom was a tall slim man with a blonde wig. But the leader of the demonic clan radiated the most terrifying aura of them all. Draped in a long purple cape and with the Kanji for 'KILL' painted on his forehead, the trio of brutality was finally here on stage.

"OH MY GOD IT'S THEM! IT'S DMC! IT'S DMC!" Now the audience chanted for their true Lord and Master of the stage as the act they had all been waiting for finally arose from the Phoenix's ashes backstage or something like that...

"Hey you dogs! Did you all come here just to hear us play?" The leader growled down at his minions.

"YEAH GO KRAUSER!" A few metalheads shouted their support from the back.

"You worthless piles of sh[bleep], are you ready to get [bleeped] in the [bleeper] with my [bleep] of [bleep]!-?-!-?"

"F[bleep] YEAH!" His minions shouted back.

"Who's DMC?" Yuka consulted with her cousin who had not even half a clue more knowledge of this band than the poor brunette had.

"Hey, this guy's stealing all my bold text." Behind the fourth wall, The Unknown Man frowned.

"Um...Shouldn't we have found Lucy by now?" The Agent added whilst Nousou took care of all the rowdy Mariko's in the background.

"Phew, I can't wait to get this horrible outfit-WHAUGHAGH!" Before Arakawa could vent her relief, a pale hand grabbed one of her tight straps from behind the stage. "OHMYGODWHEREAREYOUTAKINGME!-?"

Holding the poor scientist in one hand, Krauser growled to his followers again. "What do you say, should we sacrifice this [bleep] to our demon Lord?"

"NO please don't!" Arakawa squeaked up at him. "I'm a scientist! I'm too smart to be a virgin sacrifice!"

"SHUT UP SLAVE TO THE CAPITALIST PIGS OF THE WORLD!" Krauser spat his venom down onto the helpless science lady's face (well at least she got a bit of that shower she was yearning for right?) "Alright guys are you ready to raise some hell!-?-?"

"YEAH!"

"NOOO" Arakawa seemed to be the only 'nay' at that moment, but alas majority rules even in the demon world..

As DMC tore into their song, Nyu suddenly felt inspired by their very touching lyrics.

"KILL! KILL! RAPE! RAPE! KILL! KILL! RAPE! RAPE! RAAAAAAPE!"

"Nyu are you okay?" Suddenly Nyu lowered her head as her eyes became hidden in shadow. Her arms slumped to their sides loosely as Kouta tapped her shoulder. "Are you alright? Is this all getting to you too much?"

Suddenly Kouta straightened up as he felt a touch as cold as ice rub down the back of his neck. Nyu lifted her head as her eyes focused on the stage.

"We're ready now..." She uttered in a low voice.

"You mean right now? But those guys are still-"

"Right now!" Kouta reeled back when he saw into those blood red eyes of Nyu's. Something had suddenly caused Nyu to change. "Come on let's go." As she grabbed Kouta's wrist the others followed in their confusion as they weaved through the crowd of DMC minions.

"Kyah! I don't want to get married to the son of Satan!" Arakawa protested as a bunch of minions tried to slip a nice wedding garment on her, complete with blood stains and burn marks.

"Hehe, soon you will be my demon bride and we will make thirty little hellspawns together MWAHAHA!"

"NOOOO!"

"Hey you move over. It's our turn now," Lucy stated as she climbed onto the stage; her highly nervous bandmates nervously following suit.

"Oh and who are you pink haired maiden?" The Metal God inquired in his evil tone.

"I will be your death if you don't take yourself off this stage in about five seconds."

Oh my God that's Lucy! Arakawa expressed in her thoughts as she looked up at the terrifying pink haired presence.

"BOOOOO! PISS OFF WOMAN!" Heavy jeers had now been summoned form the crowd as the chaos and confusion persisted. "WE WANT DMC! WE WANT DMC! WE WANT DMC!"

Oh buttersticks, I hadn't planned for an audience member to interrupt our show...What if she really does plan to kill me! Meanwhile, Lord Krauser, Prince of Darkness, was having a battle within his own consciousness.

"Hey there she is!" The Agent discovered Lucy from behind the curtains after he went and checked what all the commotion was about. "Tell Kakuzawa we have found Lucy."

"Hang on just a few minutes." But Nousou raised a hand over the blonde Agent's mouth. "I'd like to see how this plays out."

"Ok Miss. If you think you can raise some hell with this crowd then I'll grant you my own axe to perform the ritual." As Krauser handed over his axe he furled his cape once more. "But be warned, if you fail to engorge the masses, they will burn you at the stake!"

"Gee Nyu-chan can we just buy their CD and be out of here." Kouta shook on stage nervously as he was passed a Bass from DMC's Bassist.

"Cool drums!" Nana would have jumped straight on the fat DMC drummer's lap if he hadn't moved of the pink haired missile's way just before she impacted with the throne.

And so with Mayu finding HTT's discarded keyboard nearby and Yuka with her trustee tambourine, Vectorizer was finally ready to get everyone raising those Diclonius horns.

"Just do what we practised. " Nyu grumbled far more aggressive sounding than her normal self. And so as the lights went down and DMC stood just to the side of the stage; and with Kakuzawa's henchmen on standby, the arena was set for the grand finale.

Lucy grabbed the mike stand. "#Okay everyone, we're Vectorizer and we're going to perform Lilium by Yukio Kondo...#"

After a short piano intro by Mayu, Lucy quickly brought the song in with some heavy chugging supported by Kouta's smooth Bassline. Nana quickly broke into her drum fills with some rapid smashing on those skins thanks to her invisible arms. Yuka also looked quite mental on that tambourine. But it was the front member who was truly possessed by the music at that point, her hair virtually standing up as her eyes flared with Hade's inferno. She uttered a tremendous growl before she tore into the lyrics

"~GRAAAAAAAOOOWWW! The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom~

"~And his language shall be spoken in judgment~"

"~Blessed is he who suffers temptation~"

"~Since he, with approval, shall receive the crown of life~

"~Lord, fire divine, have mercy~"

"...Crap, she wins. She can keep the guitar too." Scurrying away from the stage was the supposed Demon Lord Krauser, wiping away the corpse paint and sweat trailing down his brow.

"~Oh how holy~"

"~How serene~"

"~How kind~"

"~How pleasant~"

"Shit, that horned bitch can really hold down a tune." Bando noted from behind the stage, his trusty 50. calibre hanging loosely by his arms.

"~Oh, lily of chastity!~"

"~Lord, fire by divine, have mercy~"

"~Oh how sacred~"

"This sound...It's so primal, yet peaceful..." The Unknown Man tried to act poetic as he even he began to feel moved by something beyond mere vectors. "I should have her perform for my wedding with the sex slave..."

"~Oh, How serene~"

"~How benevolent~"

The solo came in as the song reached it's close. Lucy using her vectors to accomplish some of the more complex and brutal power chords. She grinded that axe like a true metalsmith, pinching and hammering-on with great poise and skill. She was literally playing like a demon from hell and the crowd was certainly on fire at that moment.

"~How lovely~"

"~Lily of chastity~"

…

…

"YEAAAAHH! VECTORIZER! VECTORIZER! VECTORIZER!"

\m/\m/

Nyu and her band Vectorizer's performance went down as the biggest hit of the night. The guys from DMC humbly admitted their defeat at the many invisible hands of the pink haired demon goddess and their manager even offered her a place in their band, but strangely enough Nyu declined the offer claiming she wasn't really sure what she was doing up on stage at the time and it was more of a fluke that they played so well.

Kouta nearly died of a myocardial infarction (douchebag's way of saying a heart attack) after forcing himself to keep his Bassline in pace with Nyu's Lead. But after he scraped out of the performance alive, he felt like he could further his studies of the underrated instrument. From now on, Kouta would earn some dough as a Bass for hire, performing at various venues and striving to follow the legend and become the slobbiest laziest Bass player of all time.

Nana had also taken a huge fascination with the drums after the event, as soon as they left she was eager to take the nearest private chopper back to the facility and show her 'papa' how talented she was. Then she remembered this was the Anime's adaptation and that her 'papa' had already died quite a few months ago actually. Washed up after the band's split up, she ended up working the streets...As a busker of course!

Mayu's excellent keyboard melodies were heard by the Hokago Tea Time girls and they were eager to get the young blackhead to join their school's light music club. Departing the Maple Inn and transferring to Sakuragaoka Girl's High School, Mayu quickly made herself a hot topic amongst the schoolyard, gaining many new friends along the way. Her friend Mio would later join her in a pop idol band with most of their hits used as opening themes for Anime. Wanta would become their band manager; Bando would end up as their cleaner.

'A house can never be too clean,' was the motto Yuka lived by as she remained in the fort atop Kamakura's heights. Her tambourine skills were unfortunately overshadowed by most of the other band members and so never received the recognition and admiration she truly deserved. However she had caught the attention of a marketing agent who visited her one day offering a her a role in Television. She now has her own show on Japan's number one 24 hour infomercial network.

Although she never had the chance to perform with the other's Vecotrizer's original vocalist, Nozomi did in fact manage to pursue her musical career a lot further than her friends, passing the entrance exam with flying colours into Japan's prestige Musical College. At her peak, she was selling out every theatre with crowds in the tens of thousands. But when tragedy struck and she lost her singing voice, she took on the role of a sign-language interpretor for Federal Government Press releases.

Kakuzawa's henchmen had failed in their best opportunity to snag Lucy. Too ashamed and embarrassed to remain in the facility, Dr. Nousou gathered his things and his thousand or so Mariko clones and opened an orphanage just out of town. Finding parents for the many children proved quite problematic since nearly all fostered children ended up killing their parents and neighbouring residents. Dr. Nousou eventually called upon The Agent for help taking care of the ranch and – upon finding out that The Agent was in fact a woman – made the ultimate proposal to her a few years later. They are now a happily married couple with a child of their own: affectionately named Mariko #1134.

After a very unsuccessful stint in the Childcare sector, the Unknown Man (after serving his sentence at home) became a professional Cosplayer at some of the biggest Anime conventions around the world. There was one particular character which he would find himself posing as, in fact he would often boast at the conventions that he was 'the real deal'. Five years later, the Unknown Man would disappear mysteriously without a trace. Rumours said that he may have been sighted at London, but they were mostly dismissed as someone else.

Ms. Arakawa – as the dirty pig of capitalism that she clearly was, took the opportunity to work alongside DMC as their stage prop. Though she would humiliate and defile herself on stage with every gig, it wasn't all that bad. She did get her shower in the end just for the record though.

And as everyone moved on with their lives...The Chief of the research facility seemed to remain the only constant in this world. Even as the staff numbers dwindled and the Silpelits abandoned him, that persistent old tiger remained true to his family name, remaining in his Lebensborn den, with a pick held in his teeth as he tuned an old Mason Acoustic.

"Now, let's see if I can get Smoke on the Water on the nine-thousand-and-eighty-ninth attempt." He declared as he pulled a knee up on a small boulder. "Dr-Dr-Drrrr-Dr-Dr-Duh-Drrr-Dr-Dr-Drrr-Duh-Dee-oh no good contraption you are!"

"~Papa, can Anna play?~" Calling out from the pond nearby the giant brain blob monster called out in keen interest.

"No! But if you want, you can provide me ambient background noise by blowing some bubbles underwater."

Needless to say, Kakuzawa never really accomplished Smoke on the Water...

Lucy never returned to his side either.

\m/ THE ^\/^ END \m/

And that folk brings us to the official close of Second Verse, a project which I embarked on more than six months ago. With this, I can finally sign off on what has been a truly successful fanfic, with many reviewers, favourites and subscribers (and it even got its own endorsement on TV tropes and the Elfen Lied wiki).

A quick thanks to Gojirob who has recently taken a following to this series. If you don't know who Gojirob is then you clearly don't read much EL fanfiction or have seen the Wikis as he pretty much owns the fandom of this series in my opinion. His knowledge and passion for anything with pink hair and horns surpasses my own. So to have this story given the tick of approval by him is a truly great honour indeed!

A brief thanks to the following authors: wolman6696, Dr. Psyche, Nswisher1572, Fros7Fir3, Bunny153539 and everyone else who reviewed, favourited or subscribed to this story. This story would be nothing without its followers and fans and I applaud you for taking the time to read this fanfic.

Lastly, but definitely NOT least, how could I possibly finish this note without lending a huge thanks to none other than The Layman, my partner in crime for this 13ep adaptation. He was more than just a beta reader for this story, he has significantly influenced my writing and given me plenty of ideas and inspiration along the way – not to forget the constant reviews and critiques too.

Though this story must now end, our partnership shall hopefully continue as we switch roles for one of his latest projects Elfen MENT. I urge everyone to go and check out and support The Layman's own Elfen Lied project and I hope it offers you as many laughs as mine did in offering you cries or head scratching.

Okamoto-sama, I hope I have kept your brilliant creation alive for another generation. Now could you possibly consider a Second Anime Season?

This is Themulchmeister, signing off on another Elfen Lied adventure...

'_' Sayonara for now!