Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse-Chapter 157: Meat!

"Okay... With that taken care of. Let's move on to the next matter" Since Audrey also didn't know why Layla was so weird, and there was no way Layla would tell them, Muku decided to move on. No one disagreed. The best part was about to come after all.

"Meat!" Before Layla could even start casting her Shadow Pocket spell to take out the meat. Jade was already excitedly shouting. The girl really loved meat.

Her excitement at the moment was indescribable. She was thinking of how good R2 meat tasted. So, following the trend, R3 meat would be even better, right? That thought alone was enough to excite her to the max.

"Don't you dare snatch some of it when it's taken out. If you do so, you won't have any of the rest," Seeing Jade, who was barely controlling herself even before seeing the meat. Muku immediately warned her.

"Tsk, do you think I'm such a shallow person? I'd never do such a thing. I'm offended that you'd even suspect me of such" Jade immediately defended herself looking very offended. At the back of her mind, however, she was glad that Layla hadn't gotten the meat out yet when Muku spoke. That's because she was definitely planning to snatch some.

"Right... Anyway, Layla" Muku and probably everyone else didn't buy Jade's claim of innocence. They knew her well enough not to buy such a thing. Even Freya, the newbie, wouldn't buy it.

Layla then proceeded to take out a little bit of the meat. It had some brown fur on it, making it easy to identify which beast it was. It was from the Buffalo-like beast. Most of the meat they took was from it for obvious reasons. After all, it somewhat looked like a cow while the rest were a fox, tiger and an eagle.

While their bodies could definitely handle the meat from all the beasts, and the beasts would likely be equally tasty. They had gotten used to eating certain kinds of meat as humans, so they had some bias.

"Firstly... Elsa and Freya, sorry but you won't be getting a chance to try this. As for the rest, while you'll get a chance. We'll first eat just a small bite just in case we can't handle the energy. Does anyone disagree?" Before they even got to cooking any of the meat, Muku first addressed the girls on how it was going to go.

Again, none disagreed. Elsa and Freya were also completely fine with it. They were definitely disappointed that they couldn't have any of the meat. However, they were disappointed in themselves because they knew it was because of their weakness. If they were as strong as the others or at least close to them, maybe they would have had a chance to taste it as well.

"Well, some no one disagrees. Let's get on with it. Emily, you're our MVP for the next part," Muku spoke while looking at Emily, who nodded with a serious expression on her face as if she was getting ordered to go to war or something.

"I promise I won't let you all down!" Emily replied dramatically as she got up and walked to the kitchen.

"I'm sure you won't ma'am!" Muku decided to play along as he also replied dramatically then followed her with the meat floating behind him.

The others just looked on and quietly followed behind them. It was one of those "we listen and we don't judge" moments, just that they were looking instead. Other than Audrey, their whole group was crazy anyway. So, they were quite accommodating of the quirks their teammates had.

Even Freya, who hadn't behaved in any crazy way yet, didn't judge. She actually thought that it was quite cute how they were so open with each other, free of embarrassment.

Being with them made it easy to forget that they were in the apocalypse and could get attacked at any moment. However, she knew that they were vigilant despite how they behaved. It was like they found the perfect balance between surviving and living. Which was definitely a requirement if one wanted to stay sane in such trying times.

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Around two hours later...

"Emily... Are you sure you're trying your hardest?" Jade spoke with some obvious suspicion and disbelief in her voice.

Emily had been cooking the meat for two hours straight with her flames and yet it wasn't properly done. So, Jade's question was somewhat understandable. However, Emily wasn't in the mood to hear such a thing at that moment...

"Why don't you do it then?" Emily immediately snapped, some annoyance obvious in her voice. She didn't know that cooking the meat would be so hard. Maybe because the beast was an Earth-type that specialised in defence. Its meat was very resistant to Emily's flames even after its death.

Emily had been trying her best without outputting too much power that would ruin it. It was quite strenuous since it required a high level of concentration. So hearing Jade ask her such a thing with obvious suspicion in her tone made her unable to control herself.

She couldn't help but feel like Jade was purposefully trying to ruin her reputation in front of Muku. Which only made her even more angry. What she didn't know, however, was that Muku didn't mind the moments she was like that at all. To him, all humans had flaws. So when a person exposes their flaws, the more comfortable he is with them.

It might sound crazy but he dislikes people who seem perfect. People who always have it together. So, in a way, Emily, who was getting more relaxed around him and making more mistakes, was actually improving her chances with him for the future. If she had stayed as she was before when she measured every action she took around him. She likely wouldn't have had a chance.

"Sorry. I wasn't thinking clearly" Jade immediately backed off noticing that Emily really was annoyed.

Not because she didn't want to annoy Emily. Rather, she didn't want Emily to stop cooking the meat. Otherwise, on a normal day, annoying Emily was one of her most favourite things to do.

"Hhm!" Emily didn't say anything more. She then continued to do her thing, the others watched on in silence.

It was only thirty minutes later that Emily managed to properly cook the meat. Immediately after she made it clear that she won't be involved in cooking it ever again until she reaches R3 first.

Seeing how spent she looked. The others didn't try to persuade her. After all, cooking wasn't supposed to be so troublesome. Not to mention that they probably couldn't properly eat the R3 meat anyway.

"So, how are we doing this? Is one person going to eat first while the others look on? Then, based on what happens to that person, the others will decide their next step or all at once?" Layla, who wasn't too keen on experimenting with her body, spoke.

While she definitely wanted to have some of the meat. She just didn't want to eat it without knowing what was going to happen after.

"I'll volunteer to go first. My body is probably the strongest here anyway. However, I want a bit more meat for my troubles" Of course, the carnivorous Jade immediately jumped at the chance to get more meat.

So what if there could be dangers involved? Everything could be discussed as long as there was tasty food.

"Sounds good to me. Sure, go ahead" Muku immediately agreed. While he wouldn't have suggested such a thing or nominated anyone for it. He wasn't against it. After all, the mage-type girls really weren't anywhere close to Jade when it came to their bodies.

Jade might look as delicate as the rest of them without any obvious muscle showing on her body. But he knew that she was a beast inside.

"Great!" Jade expressed her happiness with one word. Then she immediately tossed the little piece of meat into her mouth. There was zero hesitation in her actions.

"If you want to kill Jade, just add poison to her food. Even if she smells it, she'll still eat it happily then die" Emily spoke sarcastically as she made fun of how Jade liked food too much.

"Hmm... Actually, you might have a pint there" Jade replied after swallowing the meat. She didn't even try to defend herself since she felt that there was a real possibility she would do such a thing.

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"Whatever... So, how is it? How do you feel?" Emily wasn't moved by how Jade wasn't triggered. All she cared about at the moment was how Jade felt. So she immediately asked, putting all the pretence aside.

"I'm not sure... I was so excited I swallowed it without chewing. I don't feel anything yet tho... Oh!" Jade was replying to Emily when she suddenly felt a chaotic energy explode in her stomach. Without waiting, she ran outside.

"Roooooar!"

As soon as she got outside, she looked up at the sky and then released her breath attack. The attack seemed just as strong as her usual ones despite her not having gathered up her energy before the attack.

The long-range attack even cleared up some clouds above head. If she had fired it off in the mansion, there would definitely have been nothing left of whatever she hit.

"Woah!" Jade exclaimed while looking at the sky she cleared up...