Charles Patricius

The first of two tirades Miko had to offer was in regards to her mother, and any comparisons or lack thereof between them. Iino Risa had acquired body fat in all the right places, in all the right amounts. The daughter, however, was missing quite a bit on the top half. Was that something to be so upset about? Given her age, Yugi knew it to be a pointless endeavor. "I get the feeling it won't be an issue for very long," was all he said. Whether from pregnancy or some deviant magic that seemed to be present in this new reality for them, he was 78% sure there was a way to solve Miko's 'problem'. Before any of that, though... a would-be flirty exchange was interrupted by the slime's furthered growth, and the second tirade of Iino Miko.

What a time it was to be a witness. Not only did Miko begin her fit of rage due to losing a box of snacks; she delved further into a massive tantrum over being taken from by slime, being sexually assaulted by slime... and further being given unclear directives by the System. Yugi silently observed all the while, calmly thinking over the situation. He had his own things to deal with, though nothing too major. With their clothing and belongings dissolving, and a quest targeting Miko specifically... another notification appeared.

[Emergency Sub-Quest Generated]

Title: “Slime Assault — Assist Protocol”
Player: Aiba Yugi


Alert: Allied Player Iino Miko is under active mana absorption by Colony-Type Mana Parasite (Slime). Synchronization link established.


Primary Objective — Support Iino Miko’s survival and extraction.
Secondary Objective — Neutralize core nodes within the slime colony.


Failure Condition: Ally incapacitation or synchronization collapse.
Estimated Threat Level: Severe.


Reward (Conditional): Shared Resistance EXP · Mana Sync Upgrade · Slime Gene Sample.


Note: Cooperative parameters have been temporarily expanded by Administrator override.

With a quest in place for both parties, Yugi had his own job to do. Ensuring Miko wasn't rendered unconscious or fully drained of energy during her quest was no issue in his mind, but whatever the System meant by 'synchronization collapse' was troublesome. He made some assumptions about it, and thought it would be something to watch for. "Has to be player-to-player sync. But does that mean..." He began musing to himself, completely ignoring the traumas of Miko ─ who, despite her effort to 'ride' the slime, would only further the draining against herself and further the slime's power. Soon enough, it would be making its way into another orifice. "Status," Yugi said, revealing another screen to show his own loadout. While Miko dealt with her slime-rape situation, he decided to learn. "Hmm. Level one, no Class... 0/100 EXP, not bad for a first cap. No stat points, no skill points... 100 HP, 40/50 MP? 39/50? Dumb," he complained upon confirming a synchronization-based theory. "Stats are Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intelligence and Perception. Not bad, but it looks like synchronization involves a shared mana link... and we don't have much to start."

Miko's tirades were heard and followed by the masked boy. Though she had no problem listening to others vent nor following such conversations, she didn't expect anyone else to fall into doing such a thing. According tot he masked boy, she likely wouldn't have anything to worry about in the future. He seemed certain, but she was already used to disappointment in this particular case so... "I hope your feelings are right. If not I sense a major tantrum in my future..." Miko commented, still there was something comforting about his words. She wouldn't have been able to explain it if she tried, but maybe it was simply because the words made her feel a bit better about her future. Still her tantrum throwing wasn't quite over yet. There was the matter of her lost snacks, the unclear instructions, and everything else. She was throwing a fit, trying to fight back, but accomplishing nothing for it. "Ugh!" she exclaimed while sounding unhappy.

Just the same the ride back didn't seem to be accomplishing anything positive either. She could hear the masked boy speaking though and as such she was keeping track of his words. Just the same she was able to keep track of that and continue thinking about this impromptu emergency quest. "This is an annoying way to stick two people together brain-face!" she uttered to the system administrator, whom she'd decided was responsible at least in part for unclear directions. "Level 1. No discernable skills, loosing mana... Status!" she wanted to see her own, "100 HP Fine. Level 1. Fine. MP 30/50?! WAAAH!?" she looked shocked. Well, slimes did often absorb things and she was told to survive still it wouldn't stop her next tirade. "Fucking shit slime, stealing my mana, eating my snacks, yes Omen-kun included. Give it back! You fucking jerk!" she uttered only to make an excited utterance of a different type. "NOOOOOOOOOO♪!~ Butts are for pooping. Out on...ah♪!" Oh well, as something slightly slick and flexible slipped into her rear hole Miko was apparently deciding she may actually be interested in butt related activity. "Disrupt it. How to disrupt? My teachers call me a disruptive influence but that is just because I get distracted by my own line of thoug-ahts♪" she muttered moaning at the end. "And I don't have weapons, or classes or magic... unless hearing counts as magic or I guess my voice. I could try my voice. That sounds right," Miko decided a course of action. "La♪ laa♪ la♪ LA♪ La♪ La♪ laaaah♫!~" her voice rang true as it always did, with the same kind of force that it always had, maybe a tiny bit more due to the mana...

"Another one?" Yugi questioned rhetorically. It seemed his focus was split overall, leaning more toward learning the finer details of the System during their unorthodox first quest... if it could truly be called a quest. Hearing Miko all the while, he did pick up a specific form of address for their current overseer/administrator. He'd make a mental note and put it to use immediately. "She's right, Brainface. Besides, I already figured out you can't actually let us die until we do... whatever the fuck you need us for. This would probably be more effective as a power fantasy where we just suddenly become ultimate beings and have to learn how to control our phenomenal powers. But... whatever," he ranted lightly.

One thing that could easily distract Yugi from his line of thought, was something delectably sexual. The line 'butts are for pooping' was not among his favorites from hentai, but fit the bill nonetheless. Besides that, hearing it let him know exactly what the slime was doing on Miko's end, thus drawing his attention. "Damn. Would have been hotter to go with the 'no, not there' approach. That one's conflicting," he said, watching nonetheless. The slime had reached a more viable thickness now, and would have aimed to manipulate Miko's body... but the girl herself had other plans. The use of her voice as a magical apparatus seemed to destabilize the slime around them, slowing its aggressive approach and making it more free-flowing. Yugi had been watching his own MP meter for a few moments. When Miko did that maneuver, he noted a quicker shift of it in the negative direction. 'That costed me five?!' he complained mentally. Aloud, he also had something to say. "Oi, I'm down to 31 now! Warning before you make up random magic stuff when the goal is not to hit zero! Just take the freaky slime dick!" Regardless of his words, Yugi was floating closer to the shore due to the slime's displacement. Soon enough, he'd be extending an arm to touch land properly.

"You haven't seen a tantrum yet. Not really," Miko asserted. She knew that when she truly flew off the handle about something it was way more intense than even her most recent tirades about her small body or the unclear directions. No, one could call those outbursts, mild compared to the types she had when she got really worked up. Whatever the case, her name of choice for their system administrator was adopted, Brainface, he would be for all time. Miko gave thought to what he had to say, this kind of act as a power fantasy was technically a bit easier to process. "A power fantasy, "I agree, the rags to riches story is only really fun when the riches are clearly attainable..." she expressed.

Beyond this, Miko was apparently being observed. At the very least she was being heard as she reacted to an assault by the slime in question. Apparently her word choice was conflicting. "Not time for you pervert stuff!" she chimed in, that being said she would keep it in mind. She wasn't being performative she was simply reacting to the prodding at her holes being done by something rather ridiculous. Still, her little test seemed to destablize the slime around her quite a bit. She huffed but still hadn't gotten much closer to the shore, probably because the slime was still assaulting her. Ah, but what was the masked boy saying, a faster drop in mana than before based on the use of her voice. And a claim that she should just take the freaky slime dick because this was a matter of attrition. "You take the freaky slime dick," she snapped back. This wasn't the sort of activity she wanted to do, especially not with someone casually watching. "That was just an arpeggio," she said of the rather basic vocal exercise. But if such a thing was taking mana from her, she was still in trouble. Because it was absorbing mana directly from her body and she was expelling it every time she hit certain notes. This would mean there was only a matter of time before this slime made the kind of progress that would indeed have her emptying both of their mana reserves. As such her resistance was necessary. "I didn't volunteer to get slime raped and not be able to get to the happy ending because it will probably drain both of us. I'll remember this when there's a freaky she-orc amazon giving you the business!" she aimed directly at the lad in question.

According to Miko, now wasn't the time for perverted stuff. She'd be at the receiving end of a mighty argument if that was her real belief. What Yugi offered, however, was logic and logic alone. "We're both naked, there's a slime inside you, and we both discovered you have a thing for anal. There is literally no more accurate time for perverted stuff," he argued. Miko also countered that he should be the one taking the freaky slime dick. "Take anything resembling a dick AND trust somebody not me to do the thinking? Pass," he said simply while floating toward the shore.

Once he was in position to seat himself and think properly, Yugi watched Miko be shifted in the same direction, as if rejected by the greater slime body. She mentioned how that series of notes was just an arpeggio as if it properly defended against his complaints, but he'd already moved on to a different train of thought while watching the slime. As it seemed Miko would be landing very close to him, Yugi scooted away. "Don't touch me," he said. "About one person's starting MP available between us, so it's crunch time. You can do a freaky voice thing, but it costs... I'm guessing ten mana on your end and five on mine? It doesn't seem like I'm taking a third; it seems like I'm losing half of whatever you use or have drained. Dumb system. If..." Yugi paused there, registering Miko's claim of some freaky she-orc giving him the proverbial business. He scoffed. "If it's a hot orc, I'll take it. If not, I am incredibly proficient at the ultimate gaming maneuver that insta-fixes every problem," he said. Still in possession of his mask due to it never having contact with the waking slime, Yugi decided here and now to remove it and throw it onto dry land. All the while, the slime was coalescing in a way that looked quite similar to... boiling water ─ at least visually.

Miko's words were heard and misinterpreted slightly. What she received back from the masked boy was... a logical interpretation of their current situation. "I didn't say it wasn't the time for perverted stuff in general. I said it wasn't the time for your perverted stuff... you aren't involved Mr. Voyeur and I'm not taking requests currently," Miko said a defiant pout on her face. She wasn't here to entertain, while she was being tormented for not her own pleasurable experience. Apparently beyond this point, he wasn't going to take something resembling a dick and trust someone else to do the thinking... "Pass he says," she said sounding particularly snarky about it. She understood that this was at least partly this fault, and her own for not being able to calm herself before she freaked out, that didn't mean she was going to simply let it go.

Moreover as Miko's body began moving towards the shore he claimed she shouldn't touch him. She had more snark to reply, "No one is trying to touch you right now. I'm being touched enough for the next week at least... thanks," she replied. Though whatever way her body was moved by the slime wasn't necessarily within her control. She wanted to reach the shore and was angling her own upper body to do such, but she didn't exactly have much arms reach regardless of her aim. As he was the person with the most freedom of moment, getting out the way was his personal responsibility, of this she was certain. Miko looked at her status screen upon hearing the lad's words and agreed. "Hai about 10, but that wouldn't be too bad with more than starter stats. I'll try to avoid using too much until the moment is right..." she stated. "Share information!" she demanded wanting to know about this instant fix, whatever it happened to be. He could at least be trusted as a problem solver if nothing else.

"No, you didn't," Yugi snapped back quite flippantly. Moving forward, he'd take a very 'matter of fact' approach to dealing with Miko's outburst ─ even raising a finger to emphasize his point. "You said: 'Not time for you pervert stuff!' Bad grammar; too many openings. Under the circumstances, I have every reason to assume you forgot how language works under a state of duress. And yes, you are taking requests. Submissive and breedable," he replied. "Now shut up. Brain thinking," he added.

Indeed, some deep thought was taking place in Yugi's mind. He was well beyond the current moment, figuring out a series of likely events that could occur. His warning for Miko not to touch him, for example, was one such thing. How could they take advantage of the situation obviously weighed against them, though? That was the primary question in his mind. There were too many negatives for an easy victory; that much was obvious. They now had one sample of magical offense, albeit a dangerous one... and a looming threat of that bubbling slime, which seemed to be... splitting into multiple, small, proper slimes. In the midst of that, Miko demanded the lad's secrets: the ultimate instant fix for gamers. He turned his head, looked straight into her face with utmost seriousness, and spoke in a dark, all-knowing tone. "... Uninstall."

Miko was reproached, this time with a pointed finger. Her argument dissected down to a singular grammatical issue presented in her word choice. You and your... the difference between a possessive and a participle both correlating to a single individual. "Grammar and semantics... okay." That was it. That was all Miko had to say in the moment, well... that wasn't exactly true. She was steaming, boiling just beneath the surface, but she'd put it aside for some other time. Yes, it would be the case that such a thing would be cause for one of those boiling over points later, quite literally at one of the least opportune moments for it from the other person's perspective, that was how she tended to operate in general.

Oh well, her own brain put an eventual revenge plot on the backburner for the ultimate gamer technique. Uninstall. "Sou ka... suicide. I guess kill yourself has always been an option. And the easiest way to avoid the pitfalls of a game is simply not to play..." she gave that minor commentary as if it didn't matter. Still that boiling slime was something odd. Even as she pulled herself onto solid ground she didn't know what to expect. "Eh? I guess it did say it was a colony. This just seems like the weird side of one of those would your rather things," she murmured. "I mean technically a bunch of little ones would be easier to handle than a single big one. And I'd be less likely to lose everything before they...'extracted' the mana they're looking for. So let a bunch of little things take small bites out of me, instead of letting one big thing eat me whole... seems like the scenario," Miko murmured as she came to her own conclusions based on the information and the strangeness of the words used when giving her quest. Somehow the smaller ones might be easier to handle on an individual level with just physical or as a group with one large mana based outburst. It had consumed quite a bit of her mana, if other troupes held true, it might be easier to control them all if they happened to have enough of her own mana in their base. Perhaps commanding or debuffing magic would be easiest. If she could paralyze them all or something like that then it would be easy for them to be picked apart piece by piece? Those were options. It would have helped there was a bit more specification to magic and the like and how it worked. She wouldn't want to accidentally choose a class and then not be able to switch her magics afterwards.

For a moment, Yugi was able to be in a world of his own. In that imaginary world, he observed, he theorized and he... lost that glorious silence amid Miko's verbalizations. There was a furrow to his brow. Though he understood that she would also be shuffling through thoughts to reach some kind of helpful conclusion, but he was giving his own thoughts precedence... or at least trying to. "Something's weird. Game-like System, freaky account link functionality... synchronization collapse? No, no... there was something specific..." he ranted. Eventually, the nude lad was sitting with his legs crossed, biting and chewing the nail of his thumb furiously. What was he missing?

Well, he wasn't going to get there quickly this time. There were too many surprises here; he had to sort through things and get over how outlandish this entire situation this was, if he had any hope of reaching a proper conclusion. Alas, Miko's words continued distracting. "Yeah, I agree. Shutting the fuck up would be a lot easier to handle than big ones or little ones. Should be, at least," he griped. It seemed Miko's decision was to take on the smaller slimes. He didn't imagine that approach could make things easier the same way she thought it would, but if that was the idea worth her continued yapping... "Yeah, go for it," he said. Regardless of any decision Miko made, slimes were bouncing out of a shrinking pool by the dozen. Each one had every intention of jumping onto Miko, where any success would result in attempts to consume her mana where it was strongest. Some of them even had higher concentrations of the mana absorbed earlier, and would thus have some rather questionable, phallic protrusions strangely similar to Yugi's member. 'No, that doesn't make sense. What kind of goal is that? It said survive the extraction, but don't hit zero mana. It told me to support her survival and extraction. But that means. . .'

The masked boy was shuffling through is own thoughts, seeming to want to focus on multiple points while giving his own thoughts priority. Miko moved through her own as she always would. Of course, that furrowed brow was noted, as was the distinct oddity in change after a few moments of silence was interrupted. She had something to say about that, but she'd keep it to herself. His own words were ones she could easily process beyond her own thoughts, like running background noise filtering. Synchronization collapse, sounded like what would occur if the mana-link between them was broken. It gave her bad vibes as if it were much more ominous than it could have. 'Sou ka, he's one of those people who can't think past people noise. That's a huge weakness for someone who's supposed to be the brains of the operation...' Miko decided as the lad griped about shutting up.

Not a word would be uttered by her after that point. He'd been the one to claim he wanted warnings before she did anything potentially magical. Allowing mana drain even in smaller increments should have counted. She'd be taking on the test and verify approach, by having her status open as the first few attached her. The amount of mana drain sustained as they began was something which she'd be keeping track of. All the while she'd be uncannily quiet. For a couple of reasons not the least of which being one of those slimes managing to attach itself to one of the most mana rich places on her body. Her mouth... which was filled with a member not unlike the one she'd taken earlier today. Oh well, she could remain mostly calm while being attacked and not force magic but still use the physical aspects of her body. Extraction was what these creatures were going for how much did they need? She supposed she'd be finding out as time progressed.