Mankin belongs to Hiroyuki Takei and TV Tokyo… as well as Funimation and 4Kids who better be getting more uncut DVDs out there if they want my money.

Here's part 8!

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Three weeks and three months have passed.

Lyserg fished in his pockets for extra change. "I seem to be a little short…"

"Then you don't get milk," the woman running the hospital cafeteria register replied.

"Morphine, I'm dead meat if I don't come up with my milk shift for Ren. Seriously, he's scary, his boyfriend is scary, his 'sister-in-law' is scary beyond all reason…"

"You know the answer, Lyserg," the fairy spirit replied as she sat on his shoulder and calmly filed her tiny little nails.

"I'm scared… plus it kind of makes me sick…"

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"Eliza ist a mother! We have a girl!" Faust VIII beamed, gently placing the baby in Manta's arms. "Say guten tag to Johanna Manta Faust!"

Lyserg walked in, handing Ren a glass of milk.

"So how are you going to feed the baby?" Yoh wondered.

Anna poked him in the elbow. Tamao shuddered and fled. Nothing good could come of this.

Nothing.

"Ist good question. Eliza is still in oversoul mode until we leave the hospital. But mein experience from the foundation biology courses I've taken is that the mother has to get proper nutrition the whole time. Eliza can't do that as a skeleton because each time a new oversoul mode is made, we have to start from scratch."

Manta looked up nervously, "You mean… she still has to be in oversoul mode?"

"What're you so scared about? You've been in my training program for the past 3 months. You shouldn't end up in the hospital when you do it again," Anna mused.

Manta smiled jarringly and handed baby Johanna back to Faust.

"Why do I have to do it?" Manta cried.

Morphine poked Lyserg.

"Actually, that won't be necessary," Lyserg said quietly.

Everyone turned towards Lyserg.

"Um, you see… I have this condition where I lactate. It's terrible. I'm always having to buy undershirts so it doesn't seep through my coat."

Blank looks.

Manta pulled out his dictionary, "lac·tate. To secrete or produce milk."

Ren spit out his milk.

Ryu looked triumphant, "I knew it!"

Lyserg shot him an angry look, "It's not connected!"

Ryu shrugged, "Close enough."

"Wunderbar! Lyserg will breastfeed Johanna!" Faust beamed.

"Horokeu, from this day on, I will entrust you and you alone to get me milk," Ren smiled.

"Lian…" Horohoro purred.

"No time for romance and gratitous use of proper pronunction of eachother's names. Time for training," Pirika shouted.

Anna watched them go, a plan forming in her mind. "So if Pirika's got three possible ins with the Shaman King… I'm going to have to catch up! Yoh, let's go look for that brother of yours."

As Anna dragged Yoh off, he opened his big mouth. "If you actually get Hao to train under your rules, that still leaves you with two…"

Anna stopped dead in her tracks. "You know, that's right. We need to find him a fiancé as well."

"I'm not marriage material," Lyserg insisted as he sat down in a rocking chair with Faust's baby.

Anna nodded, then turned her sharp gaze to Ryu and Manta.

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Jun closed her eyes as the breeze ran through her silky green hair. Bailong couldn't help but look at her. Ok, it was another romantic sunset and her hair looked so lovely against the warm colors of the setting sun.

"Continuing the Tao line falls to me," she said softly with just a hint of sadness.

"What do you mean?"

"Lian is in love with a boy… I will be expected to have twice as many children."

"You know I would help you with that if I could…" Bailong began.

Jun smiled, "I know you would."

He turned bright red, "You don't suggest we do what the Fausts…"

Jun burst out laughing. "Oh no, not that. I'm going to ask the Shaman King to make you live again once the tournament is decided…"

Bailong took her hands in his, "And I will be honored to help you fulfill that duty."

THE END

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Ok, that's my story… and I left an opening for yet another series. "The courtship of Hao"? "Marrying off Hao", anyone? LOL