Chapter 40: Jilly, Why Do You Do It?

I walked into the room and went over to a table, setting the platter on the table. I sat down with Mary, and the Cerberus girls grabbed a chair and pulled it over to get closer to me.

"What have you brought us this time?" Jilly asked as she came over to the table, but she looked uncomfortable.

"Do you want to wait until I get the snakes fed, and then I will take you outside to eat with me while the girls eat?" I asked her.

"Really? I mean, I don't really mind, it's not like you asked me to the bedroom or anything, ahhaha!" Jilly said with a funny laugh that was really hard to read, but kind of forced, but not?

"Sure, have a fried egg; for now, they are cooled down now," I said, passing her the egg, and then I turned back to the plate of meat stakes I had got.

As soon as I started to cut up the meat, Jilly hit the floor and started to roll around again in pleasure. What is up with eggs? Are they like a monster girl aphrodisiac, or did I just meet all the exceptional cases?

I sighed as the Loose Leaf Dagger finished cutting some steak in small pieces, but then it also cut up some other ones. It cut them up into cubes, and then it even stacked them all the while I held the thing; I needed to give this thing a raise!

Then one of the blades pointed at me and then at the meat, and then two pointed at the Mary and the Cerberus girls, who had all stopped eating to watch me. Oh, I see what was going on, but I didn't mind feeding the girls some.

Turned out to be a full-time job with the snake, Mary, and the three girls. I was like an automaton on an assembly line. I had to be friendly with how I fed it to them all, but I accidentally poked Bera in the eye with a chunk of steak and made her cry.

That was because Mary was done eating, but now she was cleaning my hand off, finger by finger. I had to get up and wipe her face with a wet towel that Mary handed me that she grabbed out of nowhere; it made me wonder if she could see where the things were?

"I am sorry for that, Bera," I said as I got up.

As I did, Mary slipped off me to coil on the chair. I pushed it closer to the table so she could reach the meat and the rest of the small pieces for her snakes.

"It's okay, I wasn't paying attention, and it was a tasty weapon! My eye feels better now, thank you!" Bera said shyly.

I leaned down, and kissed the tops of the girl's heads, and then scratched behind each of their ears. I turned and kissed Mary's forehead, and she made a slight moaning sound, but she was also eating a piece of meat, so who knows what it meant.

I scraped the rest of the girls' food onto the table since there were no plates and then grabbed the platter. I turned to Jilly, and she had gotten herself back up now and grabbed some meat off the plate.

"Ready to go now that you have fed the children?" Jilly asked as she went over to open the door for me and then followed me out.

"Would you like me to cut up your food and feed it to you?" I asked, being serious. "I don't mind when we get outside."

"Hmmm, possibly. I am still trying to figure out why we are going outside to eat when there is more than enough room in my room," Jilly asked me as we went down the grass carpet stairs.

"Pft, because you would have tried to sexually assault me, and then we would never get anything done!" I said, chuckling as Jilly opened the front door, and we headed outside.

"That doesn't sound that bad, does it?" Jilly said innocently with a husky tone.

"No, It doesn't, but that is the problem, hehe. I want to work with you to figure out how to help you increase your Systems-level while we train. Your class is going to be one of the most important classes if we are going to help other Monster Girls," I explained to Jilly as we turned right to the east side of the castle and went over to sit under a tree but with the sun still on us.

I set the platter down and then crossed my legs, with my back to the tree. Then Jilly laid down flat on her stomach beside me, and then she rolled over into my lap.

"I cooked them in the oven this time with the steaks, so they should be a bit meatier, and I put salt on them," I explained to Jilly as I started to pop them into her mouth one at a time until she stopped to turn her head a bit to get a better look at me.

"Why do you do this for all of us? I mean, I get that it's your System, but you really seem to enjoy doing it. I just can't figure out why? We must be a handful and hard to handle, so I just don't get why you try so hard for us?" Jilly asked.

"I enjoy cooking for you all, and you guys are my friends. You are also fun and make me laugh and are adorable at times, and like you said, it's my System. I would be stupid if I didn't learn how to use it, and that means teaching you all to learn how to use yours, so I don't end up dying because I didn't take all the proper steps," I said with a smile.

"I guess that is a good enough reason, plus it's not like you will run out of things to do with us," Jilly said, giving me a wink. "Now feed me, Nanny, so we can figure this thing out."

{author note: Sorry i have to move down to one chapter a day for the next week because on some studying I have to do, but new art for Nushi is on the way!}