Hessien makes various disgusted and confused expressions when he fully processes what she has just done.

With a finger on my chin, I say, “You think she will take a dump there too? But, in the form of energy?”

Hessien's disgusted expression gets worse, and he falls to the ground in a coughing fit. I think he is even trying to… pull her out by forcing his hand into his throat.

Of course, he is failing and instead seems like he is killing himself.

What is wrong with this man?

“Get… out!” he cries out.

“Get out of my damn body! Why do you need to sleep there?!”

She indeed does not get off.

Vacinay looks at him tiredly, “Worry about that tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow?! Do you know how far that is?! What if she… does some disgusting stuff in my body during that time?”

I pretend to have a sword in my hand. “We shall protect your chastity.”

“I don’t mean that kind of disgusting stuff. I am still on the topic of taking dumps in me! What if when I use a skill, it stinks like dookie?”

“Hahaha… That would be funny,” Ghomas says.

I agree with him too.

“Dude, I want to sleep. Get on the freaking bed,” Vacinay throws a pillow at him in anger.

“How can you expect me to sleep in this condition?!”

“Good question. No idea. Like, I want to help, but if she isn’t listening to you… then just hope that Lumine was messing with you,” she says.

I am indeed just messing around. BUT! It is something worth worrying about! Hessien isn’t convinced at all.

I get off the bed, thinking of ways to comfort him.

“Okay, cozo, rest assured, your super strong cousin shall beat the evil manifestation senseless if she takes a piss in you. That sounds so weird to say. Damn, your luck sucks. Like imagine instead of having your skills smelling, it’s everything that comes from your body. Hahhahaah! Your breath is constantly going to stink!”

Hessien's face turns red as he looks at me with anger.

“That’s it, I am getting her out anyhow possible!”

Eh?

He runs out of the room. I don’t want to go after him, but… I don’t know what that crazy bastard is going to do to himself. I lazily follow his trail, noticing it leads to the kitchen.

He gets a knife and is about to stab his shoulder. Normally, I would freak out and run to stop him, but…

Time freezes.

The blade stops right near his shoulder.

I also learned recently that it takes around a full hour for my energy points to completely recover.

Anyway, I make it to Hessien, and grab the knife. When I do, the time freeze breaks. He is a bit confused when he sees me suddenly appear at his side, grabbing the knife.

When he finally realizes, I use time to freeze again. Hah… this shit is so broken. I throw the knife and then… okay. I have no idea how accurate neck chops are, but I saw this a lot when Dad watched boxing. As soon as the time freeze ends, I sucker-punch him right in the jaw, knocking him out.

Wow… it reall— I catch him!

“Sorry about that.” But it is the only way I know to put him to sleep. After carrying him back to the room, I throw him on the bed.

Vacinay asks, “You killed him?”

“Yep. I wanted the level up.”

“Niceeeee.”

I dive on the bed like a dolphin, once again feeling the love of the bed.

Ghomas, who is nearly asleep, mutters, “You know… I almost thought you two were serious.”

None of us bother answering. I just want to sleep.

***

I wake up because of stomach pains. I forgot. Since I came to this world, I didn’t eat any damn thing. With resistance, I push myself off the bed. I don’t want to get off it, but the pains…

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To my surprise, I am the only one on the bed. I hope nothing weird happened. I get off the bed and approach the door. I cautiously examine the hallway. There is no one there, instead, all the sounds are coming from a room near the kitchen; the dining room.

Hm. I guess they are starving even more than me. I make my way to the dining room. When I enter, I see Ghomas, Vacinay, and Hessien analyzing a plate of food. The plate has a huge green fish on it, with white grease all over it.

Vaincay mutters, “What’s the chance of it not being poisonous?”

Ghomas replies, “0.1%”

Hessien notices me and glares. He clearly remembers what I did to him last night or puts two and two together to figure it out.

I awkwardly greet him, “Sup. Big cozo.”(cozo = cousin)

“You punched me square in the jaw,” he instantly says.

I look around anxiously. “I mean, did you really see me do it?” Normally I would be arrogant about it. But, knocking out someone was kinda messed up when you thought about it unless that person was Vacinay, of course.

Hessien shrugs. “To be honest, I am just acting like I am angry at you.”

He smiles. “Nice punch. I thought you would have never learned how to throw a proper one.”

I look at him. Hah… Sometimes I feel so shitty because of how I treated him. No matter what, he is always there for me, happy for me, or proud of me. He is basically like an older brother. But I guess he views himself as that the moment we are kids.

“Yeah… Though, I think just punched really hard at your jaw. It’s supposed to make your brain hit your skull or something, right?”

“Yup. I am also glad because you being that strong means—“

Ah, here comes the praise.

He continues, “I can punch you with all my force and not worry about really hurting you. We can box for real!”

Eh. I rub my chin, thinking about it. I guess so. Yeah yeah!

I grin. “When you get stronger, of course! I will dirty my presence by giving you the right to fight with me.”

He rolls his eyes. “Okay, you didn’t have to make it so damn corny.”

“I will make it as corny as much as I want! Because there is nothing you can do about it!”

“Whenever, come here. Some maids brought us plates of this fish.”

Ah. I walk over to them and look at the fish. Seeing it up close makes me much more aware of how big and… ugly and smelly it is. It smells like it was taken straight from the damn sea!

I hold my nose in disgust. “Why does it smell so much—“

Before I finish, Hessien stabs a spoonful of the fish meat in my mouth.

With a sorry expression, he says, “We have to make a sacrifice.”

What?!

I spit it out, the horrible taste stings my tongue, causing me scrub it with my fingernails like a wild animal.

While doing that, I scream swears at him. “You tricked me!”

He examines me. “So it’s not poisonous, good to know.”

Vacinay says, “Not sure yet. Give it thirty more seconds.”

I shout at them. “Poisonous?! What the hell?! You two tried to kill me?”

Hessien shakes his head. “Technically no.”

“What the hell does that mean?!”

Ghomas snaps his finger. “You rewind time. If you died from poison, you would react with something like, ‘you assholes poisoned me!’ and then we would go, ‘ah, so it’s poison!’”

… “So you all did try to kill me!” I shout, now far angrier.

Hessien responds, “A worthy sacrifice.”

“Worthy sacrifice my ass…”

I am about to trigger time freeze, but one maid who is looking with awkward expressions suddenly speaks, “You should remove the skin of the fish to eat it.”

Eh?

Ghomas is the first to do it with a knife. When he does, I am shocked to see that it is a cake of some sort.

Why do they cover the cake with fish skin?

Weird.

Ghomas smells it and then looks at me. I drag my finger across my neck to make it clear I am not going to deliberately intake poison.

He looks at the other two, they pretend to not see him.

“Fine! I will do it!” he shouts before taking a gram of the cake and tasting it.

He licks his lips multiple times while making various expressions.

Vacinay and Hessien salute to him, “We will remember your noble sacrifice.”

If he does die from it, I am going to force them to eat it.

Ghomas furrows his eyebrow and takes a bigger piece. His eyes widen, and he swings both his hands down on the table like a king gone mad.

His mouth shivers as he says, “This thing… it’s poison.”

Oh shit.

The maids are shocked. “No way! T-that’s impossible!”

I point at them. “You all got orders from the damn president, didn’t you!”

“N-no! We will take the food away.”

They try to take the plate from Ghomas, who… pushes them away.

“No.” He shakes his head. “I shall endure this great poison.”

I know he is stupid and all, but I am confused here.

He takes the plate and eats everything on it, then robotically moves to the two others, eating them too.

Finally, he reaches the last one.

Everyone in the room, me included, stares at him.

This bastard…

I grumble, “You… are just a greedy whore, aren’t you?”

Vacinay points at him as she asks Hessien, “Did he just do what I think he just did?”

“Yes, yes he just did.”

Ghomas shakes his head as if he is ashamed of our reaction. “I just made the biggest sacrifice and that’s y’all thank you?”

He takes the last plate and is about to remove the fish skin from it, however Vacinay launches forks and dining knives at him.

“I am going to kill you!” She dashes at him.

Immediately he runs out of the dining room with the plate of food.

Time freeze.

The moment the time freeze is over, I have the plate in my hand.

With a cocky smile, I say, “Maybe don’t try to outrun the time freeze—“

His foot smashes into my crutch.

No way he just did that…

I fall to my knees and scream hell at him, “I am going to kill you! Seriously! I will kill you for that!”

With absolute determination, he grabs the plate before it falls to the ground.

He looks at me. “It seems you don't know, but my sharingan allowed me to copy your technique.”

This bastard thinks he can make jokes in such a moment?!

You don’t steal food from me and think you can get away with it!

Time freeeeeeeee—“

My internal chant is broken because I am hit in the head with the skull of a naked Ghomas clone, similar a soldier wielding a war hammer.

Why do they all have to be naked?!

I stand up but he is so far away… Damn it.

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With time freeze, I catch up to him.

He is running away from Vaciany and Hessien, and they are refusing to give up.

Hessien leaps at him and catches his leg, causing him to trip.

I shout in a panic, “The plate!”

Because of some kind of miracle, Ghomas stretches his neck and catches it with his teeth.

Oh, thank god.

I move quickly to take it from him since I am out of energy points for time freeze.

Hessien has his legs pinned down and Vacinay has his arms in a lock, meaning I have to be the hero. I can’t afford to mess up.

I leap forward and hit the floor with all my force— I thought I had hit the ground.

The bastard made a damn clone. Because he is on the floor, the clone also manifested on the floor.

So I accidentally stepped on it, slide, tumbled, and fell headfirst into the plate...