Full House

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"Videl-chan, can you check if Chayote-san arrived already? She's got a baby with her and a pretty mean attitude so the last thing we want is to keep her waiting outside with those carnivores stalking us and making a ruckus!" Mark Satan yelled out from across the room, running around his oversized mansion and correcting various objects he thought to be out of place.

A girl in her early to mid-teens walked out from the corner and into her father's field of vision. She had blown out her cheeks and was flushing with red while her lips wavered like the surface of an unruly ocean. The twitching in her eyes made it often look like they weren't on the same level. That was the level of discomfort that this action-oriented girl felt wearing an elegant dress for the greeting of her father's ex-boss.

"Is this get-up really necessary?" Videl moaned. She looked at her father and his monkey suit, wondering how come he was okay with this. Her father had been a quite capable martial artist during his young days before entering the field of private security and earning a fortune as a high-ranking officer of Chayote Security. Often he led the charge straight into active battle zones and pulled out civilians while the others fought the grueling battles.

"Oh... I wish your mother could've seen you like this!" Mark Satan rushed to his daughter and wrapped his arms around her, pressing her to himself and cuddling her for a few swings and spins. Videl struggled against it but, despite her intense training sessions, her father was still stronger than her when he got his hands on her. Therefore, the teen only regained movement in her entire body when his arms let go of her while her feet still weren't fully touching the ground. Videl wobbled with a petrified look on her face, finding it difficult to maintain balance after landing on heels.

"I just don't get why all this hassle is necessary. This lady used to be your boss, right? Isn't she just as rich as you? Why does she have to live with us?" Videl rolled her eyes. The teen returned to capricious pouting, ignoring her father's request to check the conditions outside for some more piece of her mind.

"Chayote-san's house was utterly wrecked during the Android conflict. She's been living in the God's Temple this whole time. We owe her our entire fortune, so it's only fair that we offer her our home. We've got five floors and over forty rooms in this mansion. I'm sure somehow we'll find some place for a mother and her baby to live until her house is rebuilt," Mark Satan waggled his finger in front of him posturing at his daughter. Not having received any input about the situation outside, he rushed to the oversized wooden door and pushed it open to take a peek outside.

Like rabid wild cats, the press jumped up with roars and echoing howls from the other side of the yard where they could park and wait. Each journalist tried yelling their piece from across the yard, hoping that the humanity's greatest hero, the Salvager of the Innocent, Mark Satan would walk out and talk to the press for just a few more interviews. Heck, they'd have settled for the hero to yell his answers from his doorway. Despite his exploits working for Chayote Security being most of what the press wrote about, even after entire months of this, people still couldn't get enough of it.

"It's your name on the company logo, technically, she works for you now so you don't owe this Chayote lady anything..." Videl grumped, crossing her arms in disgruntled submission after realizing that the only way she could have made this dress feel looser and more comfortable would be if she ripped it apart. The white collar constantly got in her face, the frills were itchy and the cute, decorative, pink hat constantly threatened to slip off of Videl's head and roll off onto the deluxe carpets if she didn't move gently and with elegance, always having the hat in mind.

"I won't have any of that objectivist talk in my house, young lady!" Mark Satan scolded his teenage daughter with a point of his finger, signaling to her she stepped over the line with this complaint. "It was our mutual decision, started by Chayote-san herself, to sign the company over to me. My name has been all over the news so it was what was best for the business, also, Chayote-san said she wanted to step away from the limelight and spend more time training and taking care of her son. We owe Chayote-san everything around you, so if she moves here forever, I won't as much as blink twice before nodding."

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