What should I do if the hero is resurrected in the Monster Girl Encyclopedia?

Chapter 177 Bait

It was 10 p.m. in the Royal Capital of Rescue, in a room on the second floor of the embassy.

"Alas!"

Luo Geng let out a joyful cry and pounced onto the bed. The humanoid magic was dispelled within a second of stepping into the room, and now the beast ears, which were larger than a palm, were twitching unconsciously as they touched the pillow.

Her muffled voice seeped from under the pillow.

"After running around all day, I can finally... hehehe..."

"You didn't even go to the banquet; you just stayed in your room gossiping. Lord Mirad and I spent the whole night at that boring banquet, putting on an act with even more boring people, you know?"

The white membrane wings unfurled from her back. Siolitta kicked her leather boots aside, and Mirand noticed that under her nun's habit, she was wearing thick white stockings that only reached her calves, completely obscuring her flesh color.

At this moment, she floated above the prostrate Luo Gen and used her silk-clad feet to retaliate by stomping on the rounded curves of Luo Gen's smooth back. Her small feet sank into the softness, causing Luo Gen to let out an ominous groan.

"Hehe, Xiaoxi's back massage... Considering how attentive you are and how much you've sacrificed, hehe, I won't compete with you for it tonight, sister."

Loran rolled over, face up, and hooked her long legs around Hyolita's slender waist. Lilim, who was floating in the air, only had time to let out a soft moan before being dragged down and lying on top of Loran.

Of course, due to the height difference, Hyolita couldn't face Loran. Her fluffy, silvery-white head was currently buried somewhere, and after a few seconds of stunned silence, she let out a mournful wail.
"Guhhhhh, Lord Mirad, save me...! This disgusting, vicious restraint bed is suffocating me, I can't breathe...! Haa... Haa... You gigantic, gray-haired monster, let me go, waah..."

Hiolitta's cries for help were completely absorbed, and when they reached Mirad's ears, they sounded like echoes that had been transmitted countless times.

With nowhere to go, her small hands could only brace themselves against the soft bed surface in an attempt to break free. However, several giant arms with grayish-white shells made of unknown metal emerged from under the bed, gripping her limbs and pinning her firmly to the larger bed.

"Don't relax too much... Rosemary."

Mirad was used to this scene. He took off his tuxedo... After the Night Demon transformation, his body, which had been stagnant due to the Eye of Inertia, began to change again. Many of the clothes he could wear before were now obviously a size too small, making him feel tight and suffocated.

A warm breath from Hiolitta's nose and mouth brushed against her chest, causing Luo Ran's cheeks to flush slightly and her voice to tremble at the end of her sentence, yet she still smiled mischievously.

“No problem, I hacked into those annoying surveillance spells when I checked in this afternoon and replaced their visual receivers with real-time virtual ones… Let me see… Pfft. If those people watching come to see us now, they’ll only see the three of us devoutly praying in the evening.”

Those mechanical hands were all filled with cotton from the Anawas monster sheep grass, and then covered with a layer of fabric woven from Arachnid silk... Loran once proudly declared that under her arrangement, the palms of these giant mechanical hands felt exactly the same as hers!

Of course… Mirad still gave it a much worse rating after the actual test.

The extra robotic arms glided gently over several spots.

As a result, the obstructive fabric between Loran and Hyolitta's waists, which had been preventing the monster girl's second... or rather, first feeding organ from contacting Mirad, tore apart, as if precisely cut by an invisible blade.

"For dinner, I've prepared sandwiches and hamburgers for you, buddy."

Food I've never heard of before.

But seeing the actual object before him, Mirand could roughly guess what its structure was like.

"Milad".

Someone tugged at his sleeve.

"Ok?"

"No sandwiches or hamburgers for dinner...just cookies."

Ophie appeared beside Mirad at some point, holding a plate of cookies.

The cookies... or rather, the cookie dough, are in the metal pan, perfectly preserved as they were before they went into the oven, with visible finger marks on the soft dough.

...Mirad could still sense Orpheus's magic from above.

"This is…?"

"The previous few times I tried, it all burned."

Orpheus's pure white snake eyes watched him silently.
"It's inedible in that state... so I used a magic eye to shine on it, so it won't turn black and crispy when I put it in the oven."

Mirad looked at the cookie dough, which had been fixed in its state and put into the oven to withstand hundreds of degrees of high temperature, yet remained steadfast in its original intention. He then looked at Orpheus, whose face was full of seriousness.

"..."

"...I'll try harder next time."

Unable to bear his gaze any longer, Orpheus turned his head away, but the snake-haired creature picked up one of the pieces and tried to stuff it into Mirad's palm.

"fine,"

Milad opened his arms and took the cookie dough that Medusa offered.

"Remove the Eye of Stagnation. I'll try to roast it with fire magic."

"W-what to do... In this cozy atmosphere, it seems Lord Mirad can't eat the sandwich you mentioned, Randuin's...? What a cunning female snake! She's using her lack of common sense to her advantage, turning it into a clever way to attract Lord Mirad..."

Siolitta muttered to herself, her nose twitching slightly.
"Gurgle...Loran, does Lord Mirad smell like this too?! I'll lick it, I'll lick it..."

"Alas…!"

Unable to hold back, Luo Gen pushed away the petite Lilim in her arms, and the mechanical hand also released its restraint on Siolitta. The Demon King's daughter regained her freedom!

Success! Siolitta's lips curled up; she had guessed Loran's weakness correctly... because she had never missed the dazed look on Loran's face whenever Lord Mirad traveled through the valley!

She wanted to open her arms and laugh out loud, because she knew that some birds cannot be caged, and every feather of theirs shines with the light of freedom!
Then, she was fixed in mid-air, transformed into a stone sculpture with outstretched arms, only her nun's habit remaining intact at the top.

The upturned corners of his mouth and his smug expression were frozen in time... Even the most skilled sculptor couldn't capture this perfect moment!
Orpheus turned his gaze back to the flame in Mirad's hand with expectant eyes.

The cookie dough gradually expanded under high temperature, releasing a sweet caramel aroma. The snake's tongue flicked in and out, collecting scent molecules, its pure white eyes slightly narrowed.

"Hehe, Xiao Xi... you really tried your best to save her. But if you can't save her, there's nothing you can do, right?"

Luo Ran got up from the bed and began to examine the statue.

“By the way, Orpheus, I remember you can… fixate on individual concepts, right?”

"can."

"Could we fix only a part of the whole?"

"…Can."

"Gulp... Kill me! I never thought that I, a princess of the Demon Realm, would fall to such a state... Show no mercy, just kill me!"

Hiolitta closed her eyes tightly and tried to turn her head, but to no avail. Her neck, which was connected to her head, and her entire body remained fixed in mid-air.

"Open your mouth."

Mirad sighed and placed the baked biscuit near Hiolitta's mouth. Upon seeing this, she opened her mouth, pressed her pink tongue down, and made the moving sides of her throat clearly visible.

"what--"

After taking a bite of half a cookie, Siolitta gave her assessment.

"Hmm... it's a bit too dry, and the seasoning ratio... is too sweet. But what surprises me most is that you, female snake, didn't mix up the sugar and salt..."

Looking at Hyolita's puffed-out cheeks, Luo Ran couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Ophie...you didn't fix her esophagus too, did you?"

"It's fixed."

Upon hearing this, Mirad looked at Siolitta, whose face was indeed turning blue. The biscuit was stuck deep in her throat. If it wasn't dealt with in time, she might become the first Lilim to choke to death because her esophagus didn't move properly while eating...?

"You won't die, Orpheus, you can let go of your tail... gulp... vomit, it's all out! There's no residue left in your throat, uh..."

Fixed in place and forced out of her throat by Ophiukas's snake tail, Hiolitta looked like she had lost a lot of weight and her face was pale.

She lay weakly limp in the serpent's tail, which Orpheus had not yet freed her from its grip, her silvery hair disheveled and plastered to her sweat-dampened forehead.

"Ugh... I want Lord Mirad to use that Helicon you mentioned, Loranth..."

"Since it arose because of me, it is naturally my responsibility to resolve it."

Orpheus's snake-like hair fell down as she helped Hyolitta tidy her hair. "...I'm sorry."

"Hmm... In that case, tonight's tonight will be..."

"After you finish compiling today's summary, you can do whatever you want."

Mirad narrowed his eyes. Upon hearing this, Hyolita instantly perked up, sat up from Orpheus's coiled serpent tail, a glint of light flashing in her eyes, and color returned to her pale cheeks.
"Heh... That's exactly what I've been waiting for, Lord Mirad."

"I really admire Xiaoxi for being able to maintain such a confident demeanor even after making a fool of yourself, and for the self-assurance that's written all over your face."

Luo Gen rested her face on one hand as she sat on a cushioned chair made up of two arms. The large mirror beside her displayed her day's haul.

"Understanding the attitude of Wilmarina, the strongest warrior on the surface in Rescade...and..."

Luo Gen tapped his fingertip, and an image of the banquet hall appeared on the magic mirror. "Dude, why don't you tell us yourself?"

Mirad nodded. "Yes. At the same time, we confirmed his father, the priest Nosculim's... so-called conditions."

The banquet recorded by the collared magic tool was clearly visible, and the faces of each noble and high-ranking priest present were also displayed on Loran's mirror, comparing them one by one with the information provided by Opola.

"None of them are clean, and... their titles and influence within the church are not high, and the strength of their knightly orders within the country is only in the middle to lower ranks... If they were truly the mainstay of the Nosculim faction, they would be more than that."

Luo Gen quickly sifted through the information. "Let me see. There are eight suspected of embezzling parish funds, five related to the slave trade, and three suspected of instigating wars in neighboring countries. This is only after the extremists of the demons secretly intervened to reduce the casualties."

Hiolitta frowned. "Simply put, it means you should go and report to your second sister."

“These people…”

Mirad looked at the fake smiles on the mirror. Those minor nobles, whose status wasn't high, all seemed to float as they walked, clearly unaware that they had been used as pawns and pushed to the forefront.
"They are the people he can sacrifice and abandon in his eyes, and also the bargaining chips he throws out to test the waters."

Luo Geng scoffed, "Trying to fob us off like we're beggars, thinking we'll be satisfied with just a few petty villains? Wow, that old Deng is being too naive. The big boss is probably still testing us, isn't he? His style, his strength, and his bottom line..."

Orpheus blinked. "Should we freeze everything?"

“Good idea, we’ll discuss the feasibility later. Next…” Mirad said.

In reality, he prefers to leave it alone.

The bait that Northrum throws out isn't something you have to bite. Since all those nobles are on record... then when the time comes, none of them will be able to escape.

(End of this chapter)