We finally started our grinding of the monsters today.
It seemed like Marabelle had purposely chosen what portal we had headed too, as, from my memories, I could tell that it was the one with the (D+) ranked monster in it, a mutated one at that.
If we were a regular team of portal closers, then it probably would have taken 30-50 (E) ranks to even have a chance at defeating a (D+) ranked boss monster, and that was with expected casualties.
Even the protagonist hadn't been able to defeat that boss monster. In the novel, it was blamed on the fact that he had spent all his time during the two weeks successfully hunting the other two boss monsters, which were both (D-) rank.
So, we wouldn't really be interfering with the protagonist and his luck as we were going after the one monster that he hadn't been able to defeat.
'Mmm, I can already imagine the loot that that boss will drop.'
Of course, all this thinking was happening on one side of my mind as I continuously grinded monsters with the other.
...
The sun was setting as I quickly wiped off the sweat on my forehead, before unsticking my long strands of hair from my face.
I sat down on a pile of monsters, my gaze was as if I trying to look at something in the distance through the forest trees.
'I really need to get something like a hairband if I'm going to be doing this kind of exercise every day.'
"Hey Akina! Do you want to shower with us under the waterfall?"
'No... no... no... no, no, I thought this was over, but it just keeps on getting worse!'
"Y-yeah, s-sure, I'll meet y'all there..."
"Sure! Join us in a little!"
I dropped down to the ground, I looked like all life had been taken out of me.
"What do I dooooooooooooo?" I groaned.
I knew that there were already two solutions to this problem, but one was absolutely not going to happen, lest I face the wrath of Marabelle, and the other, I didn't even want to think about.
I spent as much time as I could, racking my brain for any, and I mean any, even some extremely outlandish ideas popped up as I tried to think of any other way to solve my current predicament.
'Do I have no choice?'
Getting up, so that they wouldn't get suspicious of the long time I was taking, I pulled my tent out of my watch, before getting in and using the locking feature, to make sure nobody else was going to see what I was about to do.
Laying down, I started.
...
If one had been inside that tent, then they would have been treated to a whole minute of this most deafening screams that they had ever heard in their life.
After that minute, another two minutes of silence followed, before pitiful whimpering could be heard from within.
'I f-feel... I f-feel... so-o-o-o, v-violated... d-d-defiled...'
I continued whimpering in silence, under the darkness of my tent, before a voice coming from a little far away broke me out of my trance.
"Akina! Are you coming!"
'S-s-shit... w-what d-d-do I d-d-do?'
"I'm coming! I'm just trying to find my towel!"
I hurriedly got my towel out of my watch, before walking extremely slowly to the waterfall that we had found earlier during the day.
'God help me.'
Those were the last definitive thoughts that I were able to make out.
The rest of the day went by in a blur.
...
I laid inside my sleeping bag and shuddered, thinking about what I had to endure today.
You see, during those feel minutes inside the tent, I had undergone a complete transformation.
'I can't believe I actually did GRS on myself.'
I had watched, and, well, screamed in horror as my preciousness completely disappeared.
"Brrrrrrr!"
I shuddered, hard, once again, after replaying what had happened in my mind.
The second part wasn't as bad, I had just made my already defined boobs, well chest, bigger.
'Wait, why did I just think like a girl for a second?!!!!'
I hurriedly checked my reformed parts again, confirming for the hundredth time that they were there again.
'Calm down Akimitsu, calm down, it was all just a bad dream.'
That was the mindset I had as I gradually, but shakingly, fell asleep.
...
I woke up in the morning surrounded by two beautiful girls.
Unlike most people who had been in this position in the various novels that I had read, my reaction was slightly different.
"Shit! I actually did it! I'm fucking dead!"
I quickly packed up my stuff, put it in my watch, and left the tent quietly, making sure not to wake up the girls as I went.
Fixing my appearance, which was extremely easy do to my OCD, I quickly started preparing breakfast.
I made a better breakfast than yesterday, because I had a ton of fresh ingredients to choose from, after the slaughter we had created.
Walking out of her tent with her hair messy like yesterday, I couldn't help but sigh.
"Primrose, at least make yourself presentable before you show yourself to others."
"Who cares?" she said, before sitting down next to me and leaning her head on my shoulder. "We already know each other "deeply" after all, and we're friends!"
I was about to retort, but the way she rubbed her head into my shoulder was just too cute.
"You gonna enjoy her by yourself? So meeeaaaannn! Primrose, give me some of your cuteness too!" Said Marabelle, in a playful tone.
I had been too focused on Primrose to have noticed that Marabelle had walked out of the tent seconds after Primrose had, the biggest difference being that she was actually presentable.
"Well, breakfast is almost ready, y'all just have to wait a few more minutes."
I continued cooking in silence, whilst Primrose kept rubbing her head into my shoulder with content sighs coming out of her mouth every now and then.
Marabelle just sat on the other side of the fire and watched us, with an expression on her face that probably only god knew what it meant.
Finishing my cooking, I separated the fried rice full of mixed proteins and local greens into 3 extremely equal proportions.
I handed the first bowl to Marabelle, passing my hand through the fire, which didn't burn me due to my extremely high affinity towards fire.
Picking up the second bowl, I put it in front of Primrose's face.
The bowl stayed in front of her face for a while, before I finally decided to ask why she wasn't taking the bowl.
"Can't you feed me Akina?"
"You know you're not a child right? Have some dignity for god's sake!"
"Pweaseeeee, pwetty pweeeesssseee?" That expression... that damn expression on her face.
'♥╭╮♥'
That was my only thought for a few seconds. Strangely, this was the clearest my mind had ever been in its conviction.
'S-s-she's... the cutest person in the whole world!'
"Alright... I'll feed you."
Her dazzling grin completely melted my heart as I started feeding her.
"Akina, why don't you take a bite too?"
Taking the spoon from my hand, she scooped up the last bits of fried rice, before putting the spoon in front of my mouth.
"Thank you Primrose for your consideration, but I still have my own bowl of rice."
"I won't take "no" for an answer!" She stated, defiantly, whilst making the most adorable pouting face in the world.
'Sigh... I just can't win against this girl.'
I opened my mouth and she slowly and carefully put the spoon in.
Waiting for my mouth to take every single grain of rice, she eventually pulled out the spoon.
"Hmph! The way you eat isn't proper at all Akina!"
"What do you mean?"
"It's not cute!"
It was silent for a second, before I broke it.
I sighed.
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