Chapter 424: Help! Servant Is Lusting After My Body, Return Quickly!
Third-floor audio-visual room—
The huge aquarium provided by Pekola stood against the wall.
Ten Phantom Jellyfish were slowly rising and falling in the aquarium.
They had translucent, pale yellow-green umbrella-shaped bodies, emitting a soft fluorescent light. A few slender white tentacles hung from the edge of the umbrella, intermingled with bright yellow long tentacles.
Overall, they looked transparent and lustrous, with a slightly soft and bouncy meaty texture.
"Mmm—!"
Lucoa crossed one arm over her chest, rested the other hand on top, her fingertips tapping lightly on her fair and tender cheek, and scrutinized them for a few glances. She turned her head to look at Ryohei, asking curiously:
"Ryohei-kun, are you cultivating these jellyfish to eat or for ornamental purposes?"
She could feel that these jellyfish possessed tenacious vitality; she wasn't too sure about the rest.
"Take a guess? There's a prize if you guess right."
Ryohei tilted his head, initiating a guess-the-use challenge.
"For eating, right?"
Pekola interjected from the other side, paused, and asked again: "Are these jellyfish very delicious?"
"Wrong, you guessed wrong."
Ryohei looked at Pekola, shaking his finger in denial.
"Eh? Then they are for ornamental use."
Lucoa immediately took over the conversation, her tone carrying a bit of certainty.
After speaking, she gazed at Ryohei with a smile, seemingly waiting for the promised prize.
"Also wrong."
Ryohei met her gaze, the corners of his lips curling up slightly. Then he turned his sight to the Phantom Jellyfish in the aquarium, not keeping them in suspense, and said directly:
"These are to be used as feed."
"Feed?"
Lucoa and Pekola were both startled, obviously somewhat surprised.
After all, Ryohei came looking for them excitedly early in the morning, going through all this trouble, just to get some feed?
Also—
What exactly are you going to raise that you need to use jellyfish?
"Mn."
Ryohei nodded gently, looking eagerly at the Phantom Jellyfish in the aquarium, explaining:
"These are Phantom Jellyfish. Animals that eat them will become more delicious, and their life forms may also change miraculously accordingly."
"It's no exaggeration to say—"
Like a fanatical missionary, he opened his arms and raised his voice: "They can change the world; it just needs time!"
"...Real or fake?"
Lucoa and Pekola spontaneously revealed doubtful expressions. Are these jellyfish that amazing?
"Isn't changing the world too exaggerated?"
The two stared closely at Ryohei's face, seeming to want to see if he was teasing them.
After all, changing the world by relying on a jellyfish or something is too absurd!
They didn't believe it!
"Not exaggerated at all."
Ryohei smiled candidly.
"Of course, the changing the world I'm talking about might be a bit different from what you imagine. It can only slowly turn this world into a world full of gourmet food."
"But this requires a long time..."
Setting out to change the world, it was quite interesting to think about.
Just thinking that the world in Toriko was the product of gourmet cells developing and influencing over billions of years, Ryohei couldn't help but generate a desire for immortality.
Not witnessing such a world, not going on a vigorous, blood-boiling grand gourmet adventure would be too regrettable!
"Alright, let's go eat first; Jashin-chan is already urging."
Ryohei restrained his emotions, called out, and turned to walk outside, saying while walking: "Later, go out and buy some brine shrimp and an automatic feeder."
Food needed to be arranged properly; otherwise, let alone breeding, it's possible these ten would be lost.
Jellyfish are carnivorous marine organisms; they can't survive just by drinking water.
"Okay."
Lucoa responded, following with her small hands behind her back.
She opened the eyelids of both eyes, her magnificent heterochromia eyes gazing at Ryohei's back, a trace of fluctuation flashing in her eyes.
Just now, she smelled the scent of regret—
Is it because of time?
Pekola also noticed something.
...
First-floor dining room—
"Hey—! Can you three pay some attention? 'Hehe-ing' upstairs early in the morning, right? The food is getting cold!"
Jashin-chan, Minos, and Second, who returned from the welfare home yesterday afternoon, had already started eating.
As soon as she saw Ryohei and the others, Jashin-chan started clamoring dissatisfiedly, her mouth full of audacious words.
Minos, holding a rice bowl printed with the character "Cow," looked at Ryohei resentfully. That look seemed to say—You three secretly having fun without taking me to play!
Second observed her nose, her nose observed her heart (stayed focused and aloof), pretended not to hear, and ate her breakfast gently.
Only, the tips of the young girl's ears were a tiny bit red—she had elf ears; that already explained everything!
"Pay attention to what? You don't know anything, so don't spout nonsense. Otherwise, I'll report you to Officer Tachibana for slander and have you arrested."
Ryohei went to serve rice, threatening casually.
Lucoa came to the stove, lifted the pot lid, and took out the side dishes kept warm inside.
Pekola served soup.
—The three divided the work and cooperated tacitly!
"Too atrocious, actually blaming the victim!"
Jashin-chan was not one to suffer a loss and immediately counterattacked verbally.
Ryohei carried his rice bowl, came to the dining table to sit down, and changed the subject:
"I raised some Phantom Jellyfish in the audio-visual room; if you're interested, you can go take a look and appreciate them. But don't mess around; I have great use for those jellyfish."
"Mn? Jellyfish?"
Hearing this, Jashin-chan, Minos, and Second couldn't help looking at Ryohei.
"Why suddenly raise jellyfish? What use do those jellyfish have?" Minos asked curiously.
"They can make ingredients evolve—"
Ryohei ate a bite of fragrant grilled salmon and explained in detail:
"Phantom Jellyfish have the ability to make organisms that have eaten them become more delicious, and their life forms may also undergo miraculous changes accordingly... I plan to use them to cultivate a batch of ingredients."
"Eh—! What magical jellyfish!" Second's eyes were shining, looking at Ryohei with an expression of amazement.
"I think so too."
Ryohei looked at the little loli Second.
"Oh ho—! Hard to imagine what kind of deliciousness the evolved ingredients, paired with Ryohei-kun's culinary skills, will collide into..."
Minos said with some excitement: "I'm already starting to look forward to it!"
"Look forward to it properly."
Ryohei smiled at her, lowered his head to take a sip of miso soup, suddenly looked at Jashin-chan, and asked: "By the way, Jashin-chan, do you want to have a taste?"
"...Wait, Servant, what do you mean by that?"
Jashin-chan was stunned for a moment, immediately reacted, her face darkened, and she looked at Ryohei unhappily.
"Just kidding; I'm not lusting after your body."
"You better really mean it!"
"Committing a sin!"
Jashin-chan felt Ryohei was still lusting and suddenly felt a bit lacking in security. She took out her phone and sent a message to Yurine—
[Jashin-chan]: "Help! Servant is lusting after my body; return quickly!"
Feed me peanuts!
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