Chapter 133: New Toy
“How can someone be this stupid!!!!!”
In the quiet dense forest, a girl in a combat suit was crouching and walking through the trees. As if remembering something infuriating, she couldn’t help but punch the big tree next to her.
The disturbed fallen leaves landed on the girl’s jet-black hair. Her small hands, clad in tactical gloves, brushed away the leaves from her head. Her usually cold face was adorned with a rare, pouting expression.
Kazumi never thought she would be this angry one day, and it was all because of a man, a man who was nominally her cheap boyfriend!
Who knew how utterly furious she was when she saw the dog-like figure appear before her and foolishly hand her a signal communicator!
Only a fool of his purity would say something like “we’re safer together” during such an important test!
Hadn’t he even looked at the exam strategy she stayed up all night to compile? And he paraded around in front of her wearing a sports uniform! He didn’t even seem to be carrying a weapon! Even if his family had arrangements and he wasn’t worried about graduation internships, such behavior was clearly not serious!
Kazumi admitted that her entire day’s good mood had been ruined by Sato Shinichi’s foolish behavior. Perhaps the young boy’s intentions were good, but such childish behavior that disregarded priorities truly made Kazumi, who valued rules and order, feel very distressed. After all, emotions were never a particularly likeable word.
“Sigh, he’s just a fifteen or sixteen-year-old kid, why am I arguing with him…”
Thinking this, Kazumi gave herself a reason to calm down. After all, the young man wasn’t by her side now. Getting angry alone would only affect the subsequent test and offer no help to her in the present.
Rubbing her slightly aching forehead, Kazumi couldn’t help but sigh in her heart.
She had originally thought that perhaps Sato Shinichi would be a bit more mature under the influence of his hero family. After all, apart from when he was interacting with her, the dog-boy, in other aspects, besides his overly enthusiastic attribute which was a bit hard to handle, he was also very proper in his interactions with people.
“Turns out he’s a complete and utter childish idiot when it comes to love!!”
A certain girl, who was also clearly in love, couldn’t help but complain about her own cheap boyfriend.
Of course, even now, Kazumi did not admit that she was worried that Sato Shinichi’s attitude would lead to a low test score. She just felt disappointed that he had come to her with such foolish words, even though she had tailored a test plan for him based on the information she had!
“Forget it, forget it, I won’t think about that idiot anymore. Even if he fails the test, his family will arrange an internship for him. I should be worried about myself now!”
Kazumi patted her cheeks with her hand, pulling her thoughts away from her worry about Sato Shinichi and beginning to focus on her current situation.
She looked up, her gaze passing through the leaves that blocked the dense forest, and Kazumi saw the towering black giant tower in the distance.
The objective of this survival test was to collect enough points before 10 PM and reach the black giant tower in the center of the dense forest.
“The distance… should be enough.”
Squinting her eyes, Kazumi silently estimated the distance to the central black tower.
Currently, her points were basically zero. Based on Kazumi’s own walking pace, there was ample time to leave now and reach the central black tower.
However, the test was certainly not that simple. Even with powder that could drive away wild beasts, Kazumi’s journey would not be easy. After all, the purpose of this survival test was to test each student’s ability. Therefore, Kazumi predicted that there would definitely be driven beasts or Mr. Kimura, the boss, in her path.
These were unavoidable matters and were within Kazumi’s calculations. The powder’s effect was only to help her avoid exposing her weaknesses as much as possible. It was impossible to completely sneak through.
If she performed excellently in other aspects, her weakness in combat skills could be offset. In fact, realizing her weakness and trying to avoid it could even become a plus point.
“Hoo— What I need to see now is how the scores are calculated.”
Having finished her thoughts, Kazumi took a deep breath, glanced at her wristband, and then looked at a medicinal herb next to the tree, which was clearly a test objective. She crouched down, recalled the optimal processing method from her memory, and extended her hands.
…
In the Student Council President’s office, it was as if the previous scenes were just a fantasy. Faint sunlight shone in from outside the window, casting a faint halo in the coffee cup beside the young man’s left hand.
“President Kurokawa!”
A cheerful, soft voice came from outside the door, interrupting the young man’s thoughts. Pulling his gaze away from the girl on the computer screen in front of him, Kurokawa Iori slightly turned his chair and looked towards the door.
The tightly shut wooden door was pushed open from the outside. A short girl holding a thick stack of files entered the office. Her cherry-colored hair and the twin-ball hairstyle further enhanced the girl’s cute aura.
“President Kurokawa, this is the information Teacher Yoshino asked me to give you.”
The girl took small, cute steps and quickly approached Kurokawa Iori, timidly placing the files in her hand on the table in front of him.
“Okay, I got it.”
The bespectacled young man nodded, picked up his coffee, took a sip, and then put it down. He gave the petite girl in front of him a scrutinizing look, nodded, and suddenly put his hand into his mouth.
The next moment, the world flipped, and a hellish scene reappeared. The gentle and amiable young man once again transformed into a terrifying existence with only a mouth on his face.
The tongue, with eyes on it, flipped through the files on the table for a while. The eyeballs on the tongue turned twice and looked at the tall, fat man in front of him, who was looking nervous. A hoarse voice, like a rough brush, came out of the mouth.
“How are the preparations going?”
“President Kuro… Lord [Shell], several targets have been completely confirmed to have fallen into darkness. The next step can be carried out at any time, except… except for one target, whose subsequent work cannot be initiated due to the intervention of heroes. It is temporarily on hold, that’s what Lord [Spike] said!”
The man trembled all over and spoke the message he had rehearsed countless times in his heart at lightning speed, for fear of displeasing the lord in front of him.
“Oh, it’s fine, one escaped fish won’t affect the overall plan.”
The humanoid creature called [Shell] nodded, accepting the man’s information. But the next moment, the tongue in his mouth suddenly elongated like a python, binding the obese man in front of him and pulling him closer.
The tongue covered in fleshy thorns coiled around the man several times, nervously approaching him and speaking.
“How is control over the new skin’s ability?”
“I… I have completely mastered it! Lord [Shell]!! I can use my abilities at any time!”
As if sensing danger, the man’s flesh trembled uncontrollably, but he still clung to it like a last straw, not daring to struggle or shout.
“Oh… what a shame…”
It was unclear what he was regretting. [Shell] retracted the tongue wrapped around the fat man and couldn’t help but linger on the man’s face for a while, as if regretting his missed dinner.
“Lord [Shell], Lord [Spike] also has a message for you, asking if you want to find a new target, as the escaped target was one you favored…”
The man who had narrowly escaped couldn’t help but tremble, but as if burdened by an unavoidable task, he still said the message with a pale face.
“No need.”
The young man’s gentle voice suddenly appeared, which was extremely out of place in this room filled with flesh and mucus. The bespectacled tongue picked up the coffee beside him and drank it all, even sending the coffee cup into the giant mouth filled with sharp teeth.
“Hic—”
Letting out a satisfied burp, a joyful, sharp cry came from his mouth. [Shell] looked with interest at the computer screen covered in flesh and tentacles in front of him. The screen was playing the image of a black-haired girl in a combat suit, intently collecting a certain medicinal herb.
“Because I’ve found a new toy…”
(ps: Guys, the cover had to be changed by the editor because it wasn’t perverted enough. Actually, the editor’s exact words were that it wasn’t beautiful enough. I think my current Fubuki is already beautiful enough, of course, Yugan is a good, obedient child, so I found a picture of a slightly more girly Tatsumaki to use as the cover.)
(ps again: The cover has to be changed again, sob. Guys, if you subscribe to Yugan, maybe he’ll work hard to get on the bestseller list and won’t have to worry about the cover. Then the website will be able to customize it!!) [Dreaming]
(ps again again again: Someone wake me up?)
