"Fine, fine. I'll open your last appearance." groaned Ye Shengtao, his voice dripping with annoyance. He wanted to find his own appearances first, but Zhao Dong just wouldn't let him do it in peace.
"Landlady's son, one mention only. Chapter 3427. Oh, it's a flashback…" laughed the annoying and strangely robotic voice of a middle aged woman. It was the MILF system.
She was dressed in a little cow patterned suit with a bell around her neck and a ribbon around her tail. She bent forward to flip the pages of the book and Zhao Dong couldn't help but ogle her chest.
Ye Shengtao had no interest in his useless system or the pervert in front of her. He poked his head toward the book and looked at the paragraph in front of him. He then proceeded to read it out loud in his tranquil but droning voice.
While this would seem like useless information to someone else, Ye Shengtao knew exactly what was coming. Today was the day the calf was born.
He was that calf.
"So it looks like you die over here... just about-" just as Ye Shengtao spoke calculating the time that had passed since he'd been born, the roof came crashing down, crushing Zhao Dong and covering him in rubble, "Now."
Ye Shengtao took a glance at the pile of rocks in front of his hooves and bent down to take a closer look at them. After a mere second, he sat down relaxedly with not the slightest change of expression on his face.
"Well that was rather unfortunate." he said lackadaisically.
Without any further words he stuffed his head back into the book. His cow head was rather inconvenient for turning pages, as demonstrated by the slobbery mess left on the first page. Thus he relegated this task to the system.
"Oi system, flip the page to my appearances."
"An extra with three appearances. Chapter 3427, chapter 3429 and the finale, chapter 3430."
"The finale eh- I wonder what my role is in that…" the bell around his neck jiggled and flies swarmed around his backside. Ye Shengtao had yet to master the art of brushing away flies with his tail, and until then he had no choice but to struggle.
Ye Shengtao headbutted the system, nudging her to turn the page.
She turned the page carefully and then did a little spin around Ye Shengtao to peek at the book with him. The system leaned on him, swatting him with her own tail in the process.
Ye Shengtao was annoyed but he continued reading where he had left off, when Zhao Dong was tragically killed. Ye Shengtao didn't think much of his untimely death. Zhao Dong had been extremely annoying either way.
"Hero, consume this delicate wagyu steak filled with light energy and brace yourself for battle. The villain will not be easy, but if anyone can defeat it, it is you. We have trust in you."> "Hahaha!" laughed the system hysterically, "Ye Shengtao your destiny is to become a wagyu steak the hero eats before battle!" Ye Shengtao groaned. While he hadn't expected himself to be an important character, he definitely didn't expect to be a side dish. Quite literally. "Turn to the next appearance," he said calmly. He knew that he had no hope at this point unless he were to miraculously become a zombie cow in the last few chapters. The system obliged, her delicate fingers accurately flipping to the next page. She lifted her fingers to lick them to turn the page, but she was stopped by Ye Shengtao. "That's disgusting. Don't." The system giggled and turned the page. Her giggles were so unnatural that Ye Shengtao felt shivers run down his spine each time he heard them. This time was no different. He tried to shift his attention back to the book with a frown on his cow face. "Next appearance, chapter 3429." "Oh... skip this please." Ye Shengtao said, feeling the bile rising in his throat. He couldn't decide whether he was nauseated from being referred to as steak or cow organs were just like that. The system let out her automated giggle and turned the page two more times. The book was visibly reaching its end with a maximum of two or three pages left in it. "Last appearance, chapter 3430, the finale." <"For the people of this kingdom, who have loved me, cared for me, and nourished me. And so that I can eat delicious steak again! I banish you to hell, villain!"> Ye Shengtao sighed and slammed the book shut with his nose. All his hopes had been dashed. He was not the kind to get angry easily but he couldn't help but feel the rage rise to his head. The throbbing in his neck felt like the ticking of a bomb, as if he was just about to explode. Back in school he had been called the 'sleeping buddha', no reaction to anything said to him, ever. But somehow this system of his could drag out every emotion he hadn't felt in years, and none of them were pleasant ones. "So you guys drag me to this stinky world, saying I'm a side character and that I'll live a good life." he said, deathly calm, "And this is my 'good life'? A wagyu steak? Seriously?" He kicked the broken wall with his back leg out of anger and felt his udders wiggle. "A cow? That was bad enough. And now you tell me my only appearance in the book is to get eaten? I swear to god I will-" The system giggled again and the room, or more precisely the wrecked shed, fell silent. "Say moo~" Ye Shengtao felt like stabbing her. Abandoning his mysophobic nature, he wondered, if he were to eat the corpse of another cow lying in the rubble and contract mad cow disease, would he be able to bite this useless system and pass it to her? As he contemplated, he heard the small thuds of footsteps. He knew this was not the time to sit down and enjoy a meal of raw dead cow. The landlady was coming. If he stayed here he was most definitely going to end up as a premium steak. Ye Shengtao calmly walked out, making sure not to move any of the rubble. Sneaking out from behind the collapsed shed, he moved behind the trees and disappeared into the forest, the system following behind him. Future Wagyu steak or not, he was a free cow. At least for now.