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Chapter 83 - I Don't Want to Eat Bugs. No Means No.

◆ Super Evolution Soup Ingredient List ◆

①【"Eye of Obsession" from the Pursuit Beast Barugurumu】 GOT IT!
②【"Sclerite Nerve Core" from the Four-Legged Armored Insect Spardio】◀ (In Progress)
③【"Discharge Feather" from the Thunder-Devouring Bird Kurubaku】
④【"Reverse Scale" from the Red-Eyed Bear Rugan】
⑤【"Tremor Hoof" from the Earth-Rending Demon Ox Gorumāda】

"No, I have to say this. I can't do bugs. I seriously can't. Not even cooked, bwaaaaaah."

The one screaming was Koni-chan, the wild child of the Fire Trolls. He usually breathed fire and roasted monsters to a crisp, but today he was cowering behind a large rock.

"...Hey Koni, you're a Troll, aren't you? How have you managed to survive in the mountains all this time acting like that?" Mamoru sighed.

Before them was a giant insectoid monster. The Four-Legged Armored Insect Spardio. It was three meters long, with a dull, black, lustrous carapace covered in metallic-looking spines.

"Stay away, stay away from meeeeee!!" Koni-chan fought back with a stream of fire. The insect didn't even scream as it collapsed into a cloud of black smoke.

"Alright, roast complete!" Defray said, pointing at the charred insect corpse.

"So... who's gonna eat it?"

...Silence.

Everyone looked at each other. No, they didn't even do that. No one was willing to make eye contact.

"...Not happening," Mamoru stated flatly.

"It's a bug's brain, you know? The Sclerite Nerve Core? It's a brain, you know?"

"No matter what sauce you put on it, a brain is still a brain..."

◆ Except for two members.

"I can eat it. In fact, I'm looking forward to it," Tiris, the Dark Elf, murmured coolly.

"Me too. Grilled bugs are a daily affair for me," Amy, the Lizardman, said with a bright smile.

"...Huh?"

As the others stood frozen, the two "people of the forest" steadily began to cook. Tiris and Amy's bug gourmet girls' night had begun.

"Here, try this! Spardio leg grill!♪"

"And over here is the smoked nerve core!♪♪"

Tiris and Amy skillfully butchered the insect parts, transforming them one after another into perverted... no, delicious-looking dishes. There was whole-roasted, herb-grilled, smoked-style, and crispy-fried.

"Ah, the joint of this leg is so plump and juicy! ♡"

"This midbrain over here has a faint bitterness, I bet it would go well with red wine.♪"

It really felt like a girls' night out.

"As expected of an elf, a guardian of the forest..."

"Her taste buds are on the level of an entomologist..."

Mamoru and Defray groaned as they watched from a distance.

Meanwhile, Koni-chan was in a complete daze.

"I'm going to sleep... I'm gonna have bug dreams..." he mumbled, burying his face in a log.

Tiris carefully split open the insect's head and retrieved the "Sclerite Nerve Core."

"Alright, that's the second soup ingredient. We got it."

"See, the key with bugs is to use plenty of spice."

"As expected, Amy, you're the teppanyaki queen of the lizard world!♪"

The bug gourmet girls exchanged a high-five, pechin.

Watching the scene, Mamoru muttered just one thing.

"For the next monster... I hope it's at least a mammal."

It reminded him of cockroaches. Mamoru reaffirmed his belief that bugs were, indeed, disgusting.