"Hehehe~ What a good man, so gentlemanly, it really makes me want to eat you."
From a corner of the villa, a woman's giggle was heard.
"Ah~ Miss Abyss, I love you!"
After her giggle, heavy breathing from a man and words of confession could be heard.
"Is that so? Then that's the best~"
"Ah~ Miss Abyss, ah~ ah!! Ah!!!!"
Soon the moans turned into screams, and then the screams disappeared without a trace.
After an indeterminate amount of time, the smell of cooked meat began to spread through the villa.
"Ah~ I'm full, full! I wonder what I should do for tomorrow's filming."
Walking down the street, Ichika, who had finished dinner, completely ignored Arima Kana's gaze and intimately linked arms with Nakano Yu.
"I think they'll probably be filming some bloopers or something, after all it's just a warm-up for the program, it won't last long. Three groups, each group will probably film around ten minutes."
Seeing how close Nakano Yu and Ichika were, Arima Kana felt it was a bit too intimate, but she didn't show it. She simply talked about tomorrow's filming.
"Just bloopers? I thought it would be like an official program."
Hearing that, Ichika looked at Arima Kana in surprise. If it's really as the girl says, then all her previous preparations were in vain, weren't they?
"How could it be? There's a difference between an official program and a warm-up. And Ichika, you saw it yourself, our filming equipment this time is quite simple, so it's impossible to achieve the quality of an official program. At most, it can only be some bloopers."
Arima Kana nodded. She had carefully observed when she first arrived, and with more than ten years of experience in the entertainment industry, she was sure of it.
"Is that so? Even if they're just bloopers, I'll still give it my all!"
After getting confirmation from Arima Kana, Ichika looked somewhat disappointed. She had thought this time she would truly be on a TV variety show, but it turned out to be just bloopers.
"Ichika, you have to work hard! That opportunity will surely belong to you!"
Seeing this, Arima Kana encouraged her, but as she spoke, her own expression looked somewhat lost.
She was also thinking about that opportunity. After all, for Arima Kana, who was alone in the entertainment industry, she could only seize all the publicity for herself. But now that Ichika was here, she probably had no chance at all.
"Not necessarily. Maybe the amateur couple from the other group will get it. Speaking of which, I still haven't seen the people from the other group. Didn't they arrive?"
Ichika shook her head. She didn't have much confidence. Even if Arima Kana said so, she didn't think she would get that spot. On the contrary, the fact that they hadn't seen the other group yet made them mysterious.
"The other group, I haven't seen them either. Earlier I went to their door to greet them, but it seemed like no one was there."
Hearing that, Arima Kana thought of the amateur group besides them.
"Don't mind them. Let's go back and rest. Tomorrow will be tiring."
At that moment, Nakano Yu suddenly interrupted them and hurried them back to the villa.
Ichika and Kana naturally did not refuse. The three of them quickly returned.
However, as soon as they entered through the villa gate, a strong smell of cooked meat filled their nostrils.
The rich aroma of meat, mixed with a faint sea breeze, was extremely enticing.
"It smells so good, is someone cooking?"
Sniffing, Arima Kana, who was already full, immediately felt like she could eat again. It wasn't because she had a big appetite; she normally carefully controlled her diet. But this smell was truly too enticing!
"Indeed, it smells wonderful."
Ichika nodded in agreement. The rich aroma was spreading from inside the villa. She thought perhaps the other amateur group was cooking dinner.
But... cooking dinner themselves? That made them even more like a real couple. Such a group would surely get that spot, right?
As Ichika was thinking, from the corner of her eye she noticed that the young man beside her did not look very well.
"What's wrong, Yu?"
Seeing that the usually gentle young man's face looked so bad, Ichika worriedly pulled his arm.
"I smell blood. Something is wrong inside."
Narrowing his eyes, Nakano Yu said. He did not smell meat at all. On the contrary, he only smelled an extremely strong, nauseating stench!
"Ah?! Yu, did you discover something? I only smell a very pleasant scent."
Ichika was surprised and inhaled again, confirming that she only smelled cooked meat, and said in confusion.
"Indeed, just the smell of cooked meat."
Arima Kana also nodded. Like Ichika, she only smelled the aroma of meat. But Nakano Yu surely had a reason for saying that.
"Hm, you two wait for me here. I'll go in and take a look."
Looking up at the full moon, Nakano Yu waved his hand and summoned a Tsukuyomi envoy from the materialized moonlight. Then he told Ichika and Kana to stay there and entered the villa alone.
Watching him leave, Ichika pressed her lips together. She knew Nakano Yu had his reasons. Arima Kana also nodded and stood behind the Tsukuyomi envoy.
On Nakano Yu's side, after entering the villa, the sharp smell of blood became even stronger, and it seemed to come from the room where the staff rested.
Slightly frowning, he walked toward that room, while his ears twitched at the noisy praises coming from inside:
"Mmm! Delicious! Miss Abyss, your cooking is simply incredible!"
"This is definitely the most fragrant stew I've ever eaten. The meat just slides off when you bite it!"
"Exactly, and these chicken drumsticks are so fragrant, it's just that the claws are a bit... they're getting stuck in my teeth!"
Listening to the continuous praise, a bad premonition arose in Nakano Yu's heart.
He had only smelled such a sharp scent of blood on one kind of corpse. Could it be that the people inside...
At that thought, even Nakano Yu felt uncomfortable. He could accept killing, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people, and he wouldn't even blink. But talking about eating...
He simply could not accept that. He still had a part of his humanity. Cannibalism was something he could not tolerate.
Thinking this, he could no longer endure it. Raising his hand, he summoned a powerful wind that blasted open the door in front of him.
Inside, Director Kudo and a group of staff members were gathered around a large pot in which stew was boiling. They held chopsticks and small bowls, filled with greasy broth and pieces of meat the size of ribs.
Everyone, including Director Kudo, was eating with mouths smeared, and some were even gnawing on bones to suck out the marrow.
And beside the staff sat a terrifying woman, two meters tall, thin as a skeleton. That woman was precisely the "Miss Abyss" Nakano Yu had just heard about.
"Mr. Nakano? You're back! Come quickly and eat some meat, Miss Abyss's cooking is excellent!"
Director Kudo, seeing Nakano Yu arrive, first wanted to get angry, but immediately softened. He stood up with a smile and invited him to dinner.
But how could Nakano Yu eat such filth? In his eyes, the boiling stew and grease were nothing but pieces of pale human flesh and coagulated black blood!
Moreover, above the broth floated a skull, with skin and flesh not yet completely separated!
"Don't eat."
He said coldly, raising his hand and summoning a gust of wind that overturned the pot from the table along with the bowls from everyone's hands.
"What's going on?! Who are you?! Why are you ruining our dinner?!"
The staff, who had been engrossed in gnawing bones, seeing the delicious stew overturned, immediately stood up with red eyes, angrily staring at Nakano Yu, this "uninvited guest."
And the monstrous "Miss Abyss" sat elegantly, with her legs crossed to the side, her small, deeply sunken eyes smiling as she observed the young man who had suddenly appeared.
Clap.
Nakano Yu said nothing, he simply snapped his fingers. The next moment, a strong wind slapped everyone across the face, instantly sobering them up.
"W-what happened to me?"
"My stew... Wait?! These are... f-fingernails?!!"
"No, what did I just eat?! I, I... Ugh!!!"
The awakened staff rubbed their burning faces, but when they looked down, they saw that what lay before them were not pork or chicken bones, but human bones yellowed from cooking!
Looking at the scattered bones and bloody stains on themselves, none of those who had eaten that stew could stop themselves from shoving their fingers down their throats, trying to vomit what they had just eaten.
"You, Miss Abyss you... m-monster!!!"
"You ghoul, what have you done Miss Abyss, supermodel?!"
"Quick, Nakano-sama! Kill this monster! Save us!"
After calming down a bit, the staff began questioning "Miss Abyss," who had cooked that stew and was an international supermodel. But when they raised their heads, where had the beautiful model gone? Before them stood only a tall, thin woman with an oversized head and a shriveled body!
"Heh heh, what a rude little brat."
Seeing that she had been exposed, Abyss laughed and looked at Nakano Yu, without a trace of panic.
But Nakano Yu had no intention of talking to such a creature. He did not understand why this ghostly thing had appeared when today's system task had already been completed.
"Really, you ruined such a delicious stew, but... it seems two tender lambs are waiting for me outside, so I won't linger."
Abyss slowly stood up, glanced at the skull by her feet, and muttered dissatisfiedly. After that, her figure flickered and she was ready to disappear.
But how could Nakano Yu allow that? Abyss had just reached the front yard of the villa and had not even had time to look for her "lambs," when she was suddenly grabbed by a huge hand.
In the next instant, an irresistible force seized her distorted head and squeezed hard, and her head exploded like a watermelon.
Thud.
After her head was crushed, her body lost control and fell to the ground.
Soon it turned into thick black smoke and dispersed.
This monster that ate people, who knows where it came from, was so easily crushed by the young man, simply as if he had stepped on a small ant by the roadside.