"Disappear from this world forever?!"
Mizuno, who had watched countless horror movies as well as Hannibal videos about cooking people, instantly understood what Hishi Amazon meant.
Her goal was to make him disappear forever, and the place they were in was a kitchen. No matter how he thought about it, the only possibility was that they were going to eat him!
So Fuji Kiseki was sharpening that knife because she really planned to butcher me?!
Mizuno had seen "man-eating mares" before, but he had never seen an actual man-eating mare! Eating human flesh was way too terrifying!
"Gwah!"
Mizuno's face instantly turned deathly pale, and he struggled like mad.
"Haha! Now you know fear!" Hishi Amazon had no idea what Mizuno was thinking. She only assumed he had been scared witless by her aura, so she laughed even more happily.
"Kiseki, everything ready? I can't hold back anymore." Hishi Amazon pressed Mizuno down firmly and turned to ask Fuji Kiseki.
"Mm." Fuji Kiseki nodded, dried the wet kitchen knife with a rag, then carried the blade and walked toward Mizuno step by step with a gloomy expression.
"He—mmph!!!"
Mizuno had just tried to shout for help when Hishi Amazon, who was straddling his stomach, reacted quickly and covered his mouth.
"Don't make noise. It won't hurt. It'll be over in an instant."
Fuji Kiseki crouched down, took Mizuno's hand, removed his glove, then raised the kitchen knife and lightly cut his index finger.
A cold sting ran through him. Blood immediately welled from the wound and dripped onto the floor.
"Mmph!!!"
Mizuno's scalp went numb, and his heart instantly went half cold.
Crap! They're even bleeding me! They really are going to cook me like a dish and eat me!
'Fortune! Did you send the distress signal or not?!' Mizuno struggled desperately while urging her in his heart.
'I'm sending it, I'm sending it!' In the mental space, Fortune was also drenched in sweat, frantically pressing the button in her hand, making the sachet hanging in front of Rice Shower's chest flash with a dangerous red light like Ultraman's Color Timer.
'It's too late!' Mizuno felt the pain from the wound on his finger growing more and more obvious, and it seemed to him that his life was constantly draining away.
By the time reinforcements arrived, he would probably have already been bled into a dried corpse!
"Mmmph, mmph, mmph!"
"I told you, stop making noise!" Hishi Amazon thrust her hips forward in annoyance against the crying, struggling Mizuno. She curled her hand into a claw and put on a fierce expression, signaling for him to stop shouting.
Hishi Amazon did not know why she was doing this either. In any case, this guy's pleasant voice made her lower abdomen unbearably hot. If she let him keep making noise, she could not guarantee she would not take off her clothes and do something inappropriate to him.
"Kiseki, are you done yet?"
"Almost."
Fuji Kiseki gripped Mizuno's bleeding hand with one hand, while holding a test tube in the other to catch the blood flowing from the wound.
After collecting about twenty milliliters, Fuji Kiseki let go of Mizuno, sealed the test tube with a cork, then carefully placed it in her pocket.
The blood had been collected, but his wound was still dripping.
Fuji Kiseki stared fixedly at the blood giving off a sweet carrot scent and swallowed. Then she took Mizuno's hand again, slowly lowered her head, relaxed, closed her eyes, and gently took Mizuno's finger into her mouth.
"?!"
Feeling the strange wetness around his finger, Mizuno's eyes widened in surprise. He had no idea what Fuji Kiseki was doing.
Before Mizuno could react, Hishi Amazon, who was responsible for holding him down, lost her composure first.
"Hey! Kiseki, why are you sneaking a bite?!" Amazon condemned her angrily.
"Mmh. I'm stopping the bleeding." Fuji Kiseki's cheeks were faintly red as she reluctantly pulled his finger from her mouth, leaving behind a sticky layer of saliva.
"You think I'm an idiot?" Hishi Amazon did not believe Fuji Kiseki's excuse at all, so she shoved her aside and brought the finger that had stopped bleeding to her own mouth.
However, Hishi Amazon did not dare to be as brazen as Fuji Kiseki. She secretly glanced at Mizuno, who still had no idea what was going on, and a blush tinged her wheat-colored face. As if she had spent a long time mentally preparing herself, she finally closed her eyes nervously, lightly stuck out her tongue, and lapped at the remaining blood like a kitten drinking water.
"Reoreoreo…"
At first, Hishi Amazon licked very cautiously, but as that addictive taste danced across the taste buds on her tongue, her movements gradually became much bolder.
"Amazon, stop licking. If you keep going, the wound's going to open again."
Fuji Kiseki pulled Hishi Amazon, who still had not had enough, away. Then she held Mizuno's hand, took a carrot-shaped bandage from her pocket, and carefully wrapped it around the wound on his finger.
"?!"
After watching the whole process, Mizuno was completely stunned. He had no idea what these two Umamusume were trying to do.
Weren't they going to eat him? How had they started licking his finger halfway through bleeding him, and then even bandaged him afterward?
"What are you looking at? What's there to look at?" Amazon snapped back to herself and noticed Mizuno staring at them. Though the redness on her face had not faded, she still put one hand on her hip, clenched the other into a fist, raised her face confidently, and put on that condescending attitude toward Mizuno again.
"Keep looking, and I'll gouge your eyes out!"
"I won't look, I won't look."
Mizuno shook his head frantically and hurriedly covered his eyes.
"Hmph~" Hishi Amazon snorted, seeming very satisfied with Mizuno's tactful attitude.
The scene fell silent for a while.
"Um… are you two… not going to eat me?" Mizuno suddenly asked carefully.
"Hah? Eat you?" Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon exchanged a look after hearing Mizuno's question, both showing strange expressions.
"We're not ogres. Why would we eat you?"
"Then what is this…" Mizuno shakily pointed at the kitchen knife Fuji Kiseki had set on the floor.
"Oh, that was for bleeding you." Fuji Kiseki answered honestly, picking up the kitchen knife. The gleaming blade reflected Mizuno's panicked face.
"That still means you were going to kill me!" Mizuno turned pale with shock, his entire body shifting into the art style of The Scream.
"It's different, okay!" Hishi Amazon retorted excitedly. "We only wanted a little of your blood. We never had any intention of killing you!"
"Really?" Mizuno raised an eyebrow, not quite believing Hishi Amazon's explanation.
After all, if they wanted his blood, could they not have just drawn it with a syringe? What was this cutting-his-finger-with-a-knife business? Some mafia-style blood donation method for testing a lackey's loyalty?!
"Of course it's true." Hishi Amazon nodded and folded her arms. "What, you don't believe us?"
"…"
Mizuno fell silent for a moment, then asked another question.
"Then when you said you were going to make me disappear from this world forever…"
"That's true too."
"?"
"What's the problem?" Hishi Amazon bent down and stared at Mizuno with a dangerous look in her eyes.
"It's all because of you that Kiseki and I became like this! How could we let a dangerous guy like you go out and harm even more Umamusume?"
"To prevent other Umamusume from repeating our mistakes, we can't let you appear in public again! So from now on, your place will be in the secret cage we built for you forever. In that isolated place, you'll provide us with essence every day…"
"Wait!"
Before Hishi Amazon could finish speaking, Fuji Kiseki's Umamusume ears suddenly perked up, as if she had heard something outside the kitchen that should not have been there.
"Someone else is here!"
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T/N: RTICE SHOWER SAVE ONII-SAMA