“Yuugo, I brought you some food. Open the door.”
“…Melt? Thanks.”
Yuugo responded to Melt’s voice after she knocked on the door, and opened it.
Melt entered the room while holding a tray with food, and after placing it on a table, spoke to Yuugo, who seemed down.
“…Eat. I know how you feel, but it won’t do you any good to not eat.”
“Sorry, I don’t have much of an appetite. The president treated me to her cooking before, so you don’t have to worry about that.”
“…”
Yuugo smiled weakly and cast his eyes down as Melt looked at him.
It was quiet for a bit, until she suddenly spoke.
“You’re still thinking about Shiroi…”
“I guess. If I did a better job protecting him…”
Yuugo expressed his regret with a deep sigh.
He kept looking down, but Melt quietly said something he could not believe.
“…How about I comfort you?”
“Eh…?”
After hearing that, Yuugo heard the sound of clothes rusting, and saw Melt completely naked when he raised his head.
He gulped with surprise as she approached him, and put his hand on his cheek while whispering sweetly.
“You’re hurt, aren’t you? Sad? I know how you feel… I’ll hold you and comfort you. Just for you, Yuugo…”
Yuugo was about to respond, but she stopped him by placing her finger on his lips, and continued to tempt him with an alluring smile.
“I’m fine with it if it’s you, Yuugo. Both my first kiss, and something even more important… I’ll give you everything here. So…? Forget about all that pain for today and give in to your feelings.”
Her usually animated face was full of feminine appeal, as she bared her exceptionally elegant body, and shook her large chest and butt while whispering to Yuugo with a sweet tone, and an alluring light in her eyes.
She reached to his face again, while letting out a warm and seductive sigh.
“Come Yuugo…! I’ll make you happy…!”
“Melt…”
Melt pressed Yuugo with her large chest, and he felt their softness… As she stood on tiptoe to approach his lips with hers.
She closed her eyes, seemingly getting more excited after hearing her name, and closed the distance even further with a slight smile on her face…
“…You’re not her. Who are you?”
“Eh? Gobobah!?”
She opened her eyes with surprise, as Yuugo’s voice carried not a bit of excitement or nervousness, and she was thrown back hard after Yuugo punched her in the stomach.
She was pushed through the wall of the room and smacked against the wall of the corridor, falling to the ground while gasping with pain and looking up at Yuugo with a glare.
“H-how…!?”
“Melt and I already kissed. She keeps teasing me about it too, so there’s no way she’d say something strange like wanting to give me her first kiss. But that’s not all.”
“Wha…!?”
Yuugo’s words served as a signal for people to rush to the corridor to block her escape.
Melt was surprised to see more than twenty people, but was even more surprised when she saw their faces.
“Hey! What’s the deal with copying me and running around naked!? Not to mention that my waist is thinner and my butt isn’t that big!!”
“You made a mistake picking a body that is developed but has no sex appeal. You were never going to entice Yuugo like that.”
“Marcos, you better remember that later. You’re gonna get beaten!”
“Well, it’s a fake, but it can’t feel good for the person it was modeled after to see it. I’d be pretty pissed if it was me.”
“Y-you people! And the villagers!? Why are you here!? You’re supposed to…!!”
“We were supposed to be taken to that hiding place of yours after eating those sleep inducing mushrooms? Too bad for you, we saw through your plans.”
Said Precia with a grave expression. Melt, Marcos, and An led the way, but with them were the members of the cooking club (along with a baffled Shian and Egos), and the ragged villagers were behind them, looking at the fake Melt with rage. They all surrounded the one behind all this, and Hao, who stood next to Precia, threw one of the mushrooms he found while washing dishes at the culprit, while speaking.
“We found this in the kitchen while cleaning up. We’ve looked into all the dangerous plants in this area, so we knew immediately people aren’t supposed to eat this. There’s no way the real innkeeper would leave this in the kitchen with all the other ingredients.”
“You figured we heard something bad from Shiroi, and were going to lock us up with the villagers, right? That’s why you wanted to feed those mushrooms to everyone in the dining hall. But since I didn’t go there, you prepared another trap, that consisted of seducing me. But too bad. If there’s a next time, hide dangerous stuff where it’s not so easily found.”
“Y-you ate those mushrooms! So why…!?”
“All of us in the cooking club have various antidotes, just in case we eat something poisonous by mistake when looking for ingredients. When we ate the mushroom soup, we snuck it into it, so we’re all fine.”
“When we mixed the antidote into the soup, we used Shian and Egos as bait to get attention away from us. That’s why we made such a big deal about them, and had you serve them.”
“I’m glad you were helpful in our plan, heroes. You were nice bait.”
“Gu, guh…!!”
Angel’s words did not sound like actual compliments, and Shian and Egos grunted with their faces turning red out of frustration.
Not only did they fall right into the trap of the enemy lurking in the village, but they were the only ones left out of the plan that was being set in motion in secret. Once they realized they were being used by the game characters, an uncontrollable sense of humiliation boiled inside them. And in the meantime, Hao continued speaking to the culprit.
“We pretended to fall asleep and let your underlings take us to where the real villagers were held captive. Once we knew where it was, the rest was easy. We just had to all go nuts in there.”
“They were all small fry without a leader, so it was pretty easy. And you were so focused on seducing Yuugo, that you didn’t even notice it.”
“Gugugugugugu…! You damn kids…! How dare you ruin my ideal world…!!”
“We now know what you did, and what you are. Give up, slime girl!”
“Yes…! What ideal world!? Do you have any idea how many people you troubled!? Stupid daughter!!”
After Yuugo yelled, someone who was even angrier emerged from among the villagers… The owner of the inn, Serel, who also yelled.
The fake Melt trembled, but it seemed her mother’s words made her give up, as her body began to ripple erratically, and she exposed her true form.
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Haha the entire cooking club used the (self-proclaimed) protagonists as bait. Take that!
Slime girl? I guess it does make sense slime can mimic and also split itself up for minions.