Chapter 106: Chapter 106: The Last Supper
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"Help me open the collar."
Shinomiya Kaguya slightly turned her body and pulled up her hair, revealing her fair, slender neck.
"Leave it to me."
Fujiwara Chika took on the task, eagerly aiming for the keyhole. With a soft click, without any surprises, she easily opened the collar.
"Phew…"
Shinomiya Kaguya let out a soft sigh of relief.
The loyal boyfriend plan ends here!
As Confucius wisely said, do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Since she was unwilling to wear the collar, she naturally wouldn't force Amamiya Natsuki to wear it. No normal person would like to become someone else's pet, right?
"As expected, it's very simple."
Amamiya Natsuki muttered to himself while looking at Puppet Billy.
It turned out that the car key shape was not just a coincidence, but a silent hint.
Sometimes, one shouldn't overthink; the simplest and most straightforward solution is right in front of them.
At this time, the players had already started eating.
The second-to-last worst food was Dumbfounded Miss's wood sorrel and protein, and the last worst was the skinned frog.
The player who ate the skinned frog was another male besides Amamiya Natsuki. This boy's expression was distorted, and he gnawed at one of the frog's hind legs, chewing it twice before suddenly tilting his head back and swallowing it whole.
Facts proved that in the face of death threats, people truly could do anything.
Amamiya Natsuki looked at Shinomiya Kaguya, who stood with her arms crossed, completely unmoved, clearly determined not to eat anything. Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he turned to Puppet Billy and said:
"Mr. Butler, can the food be shared with others?"
"Of course," Puppet Billy's voice was neither humble nor arrogant. "Whether to eat dinner or not, and whether to let others eat it, is entirely up to the guest's decision."
"Then it's no problem!" Fujiwara Chika's eyes lit up, and she quickly pushed her plate over. "Kaguya-chan, let's swap and eat..."
Looking at the longhorn beetle larvae on the plate, the pink-haired girl quickly covered her mouth: "I-I misspoke, I meant to share half with you."
Eating bursting raw insects was something even a foodie girl couldn't bring herself to do.
Amamiya Natsuki reached out, picked up a blueberry, and put it into his mouth.
The surface of the blueberry was covered with a layer of frozen frost, making a 'crunch' sound when bitten, exceptionally cold, and almost tasteless.
Amamiya Natsuki observed his mission panel while eating.
He found that after swallowing the blueberry, the countdown indeed increased, but unfortunately, only for a few short minutes. Even if he ate the entire plate of blueberries, it would only extend the countdown by at most one hour.
"Here you go."
Amamiya Natsuki directly pushed the plate of blueberries towards the Ice princess, then casually took the wood sorrel and protein dish.
Seeing the Ice princess look over with a complex expression, Amamiya Natsuki casually said:
"My countdown still has a lot of time, so eating blueberries doesn't matter. On the contrary, you need to raise your countdown as soon as possible... Even if you don't eat, there should be enough time."
Shinomiya Kaguya slightly pursed her pink lips. Seeing Amamiya Natsuki's clear eyes and firm gaze, without any reluctance or hesitation, she gently nodded in agreement: "I understand."
"Foolish humans." Miss Werewolf was held by Amamiya Natsuki's wrist and couldn't move, but her speech was completely unaffected. She scoffed, "Knowing the importance of food, yet you hand it over to others. Your human emotions are completely incomprehensible."
"Having complex emotions is one of the signs of advanced animals," Amamiya Natsuki replied unhurriedly.
"In my opinion, it's foolish," Miss Werewolf snorted. "Living is everything; once you die, there's nothing left."
Amamiya Natsuki reached out and stroked Miss Werewolf's head. He felt the silky smooth fur, which felt excellent: "That's why you're just a werewolf."
"You dare to touch my head!" Miss Werewolf flew into a rage. "I'm going to eat you!"
"Sorry, I refuse," Amamiya Natsuki pointed to the plate in front of him. "The wood sorrel wrapped in protein looks pretty good. Do you want to try it?"
"Werewolves don't eat weeds and bugs!"
"..."
"Kaguya-chan, let's swap and eat." Fujiwara Chika handed over her dried fruit and casually took a blueberry. She quickly frowned her small face. "...It doesn't taste good, completely different from blueberry jam."
Of course it's different!
Blueberry jam has a ton of stuff added to it, so it barely has anything to do with blueberries anymore.
Shinomiya Kaguya ate a blueberry, her expression calm: "...I've never eaten blueberries before, so I don't know what they taste like."
"Eh, Kaguya-chan has never eaten blueberries?"
"No."
"I haven't either." Takanashi Rikka sat beside Fujiwara, tilting her head to look at the two, her cowlick gently swaying.
Shinomiya Kaguya handed over a blueberry: "You try one."
"Thank you, Kaguya-chan." Takanashi Rikka took it as if facing a great enemy, her expression serious. "It looks much prettier than a tomato."
After realizing that the maid and Wooden Puppet Butler wouldn't restrict her movements, Fujiwara Chika quickly couldn't sit still and got up to start swapping food with others.
"Hiyori-chan, shall we swap and eat?"
The girl named Hiyori showed an expression of pleasant surprise, as if flattered, and thanked her gratefully: "Thank you, Chika."
The food on her plate was an unknown tree bark. Whether it tasted good or not was a question that didn't even need consideration.
"Yukino-chan, let's swap too."
Fujiwara Chika tried her best to spread her radiance to everyone.
Thanks to the pink-haired girl's efforts, the atmosphere at the dining table clearly livened up, and some players began to find joy in their suffering, exchanging food with each other.
Fujiwara Mama, truly living up to her name.
The last supper was quickly finished. Aside from the truly inedible food, everyone's countdown had increased to some extent.
"It's so hot." A passerby player raised her right hand and wiped her forehead with the back of her hand: "Eating something, and I'm already sweating."
"How strange, it was freezing to death just now, and now it's suddenly hot."
"I have a strange feeling."
"..."
"We're done eating... what do we do now?"
A passerby asked softly.
Fujiwara Chika lowered her head and looked at Puppet Billy: "Mr. Butler, are there any other activities arranged?"
"Sorry, only the dinner party," Puppet Billy said meaningfully. "Next is free time."
"Eh, that's it?"
A player asked in surprise.
They thought it was the last supper, and after eating, they would be on their way, but nothing happened?
"Rather, things have just begun." Amamiya Natsuki glanced at the frost that had spread to the Restaurant at some point, then looked at Shinomiya Kaguya, and suddenly asked, "How do we prove that the world we are in is not real?"
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