Genshin Impact: My roommate and I became funny Hilichurls

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He looked away, his tone softening slightly.

"I don't need to carry out my plans anymore."

The wolf king nodded upon hearing this: "I agree."

Chapter 157 Celebration Banquet

"Fuck..."

At Nata's grand victory celebration, the four sat in unison on specially made, extra-wide and thick stone benches, their heads tilted back in perfect unison, staring in disbelief at the food laid out before them.

Those were no ordinary plates; they were veritable barbecue fortresses, even describing them as small mountains would be an understatement!

The meat of an unknown animal, roasted to a crispy exterior and tender interior, with its fat still sizzling, was piled up in a grand manner into a near-perfect cone, almost as tall as Qingyu and Erkang when they stood up straight!

The rich aroma of meat, mixed with the spicy scent of Nata's unique spices, bombarded their olfactory nerves like a tangible shockwave.

The four of them subconsciously swallowed hard, their voices clearly audible against the backdrop of the noisy banquet.

“I know that the Nata people are fierce and have an enormous appetite…”

Qingyu tilted his head back, his neck a little sore, and his voice trembled.

"But... this is too outrageous! Is this feeding the Hilichurl King or the Ruins Heavy Machine?!"

"Just looking at it makes me feel indigestion..."

Er Kang clutched his stomach, his face filled with despair.

"Are you sure this won't be so delicious that you won't get tired of it until next year?"

"Do not worry!"

Marani hopped over like a happy little lark, pointing at the mountain of roasted meat and explaining, "This contains 'degreasing mushrooms,' a specialty of the Land of Wolu! The flavor is incredibly delicious, and it magically cuts through the greasiness, guaranteeing you won't feel greasy no matter how much you eat!"

"While our weight is exaggerated, considering our size and activity level, it's not entirely incomprehensible..."

Zhang Chu analyzed the situation relatively calmly, glancing at Ying and Paimon, whose faces were already as green as slime, and decisively ignoring their pleading looks that seemed to say, "Help! This is enough for us to eat for a year!"

However, his composure completely crumbled when he saw the "pile" in front of Gu Qian!

"but--!!!"

Zhang Chu's voice suddenly rose eight octaves, his finger trembling as he pointed in Gu Qian's direction, letting out a soul-stirring roar: "But what the hell is this in front of Gu Qian?! Did you move a mountain of roasted meat here?!"

Before Gu Qianna’s enormous body, there was a giant stone “tray” with a diameter of more than five meters and a height close to his chest (about four meters).

The mountain of roasted meat on top was beyond the scope of normal measurement in terms of volume and weight, as if several whole giant wild beasts had been roasted and piled up there!

Gu Qian lowered his head, looking at the mountain of flesh. The words "life is meaningless" seemed to be visible on the huge Thunder King mask.

Silently and tremblingly, he raised a wooden sign he had found from who-knows-where, on which were written crooked Nathan script:

"I surrender! (ΩДΩ)"

"Where did you get this five-meter-high pile of roasted meat?! Did you slaughter an entire race of dragons?!"

Zhang Chu felt like he was suffocating.

"Haha, don't be surprised!"

A laugh rang out, and Ian Shane walked over carrying her training dumbbells (she even brought them to the banquet?).

"We often hold eating contests in our land of Wolu, so this amount of meat is just routine! Besides, the ecological environment near Mount Nata is excellent and rich in resources, so this scale of meat reserves is quite normal!"

She suppressed her smile and solemnly addressed the group of four: "Thank you again for bestowing such a powerful aid as Galactron upon Lord Vulcan. If it hadn't intervened at a crucial moment in the Nightwatcher War, we would never have been able to return safely and easily."

"It's just a little effort."

Qingyu waved his hand, trying his best to look away from the mountain of flesh.

"Galatron isn't exactly an essential thing for us. We're just happy to be of some help."

"in addition……"

As if remembering something, Ian Shan turned to the side and pointed to a spot not far behind her.

“If you really feel there is too much food and too much pressure... you can consider sharing some with the child.”

Following the direction she pointed, everyone saw a shy-looking girl sitting in a corner.

She had healthy honey-colored skin, a pair of bull horns on her head, and at this moment her eyes were tightly closed. Her hands were tightly covering her stomach, which was making a slight "gurgling" sound, and her brows were furrowed, as if she was enduring some kind of great pain.

“Her name is Valesa, and she is my apprentice.”

Ian Shan explained, her tone tinged with a hint of helplessness and...pride?

"Don't let her appearance fool you, she's a well-known champion in our land of Wolu, and even in the whole of Nata... a regular champion in competitive eating."

"She...what happened to her?"

Erkang looked at Valesa, who seemed to be "about to ascend to heaven," and asked in confusion.

That expression doesn't look like someone who's full; it's more like...

Ian Shan scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly and explained, "Uh... she..."

She paused, then said in a tone that suggested, "This is only natural":

"She's hungry."

Everyone: "..."

The air seemed to freeze.

Looking at the mountain of roasted meat that Gu Qian had to look up to, and then at the girl who was huddled in the corner because of "hunger" as if she hadn't eaten for three days, an extremely absurd feeling that shattered common sense welled up in everyone's hearts.

Faced with so much meat... she actually made that expression because she was hungry?!

What does she look like when she's full?!

Just as everyone's brains were overloaded, Valesa seemed to smell an even stronger aroma of meat in the air, and her tightly closed eyes suddenly opened!

Those were a pair of amber eyes, burning like flames and filled with an insatiable craving for food!

Her gaze, like the most precise tracking missile, instantly locked onto the five-meter-high mountain of roasted meat in front of Gu Qian!

"Um, I can't eat that much, so you can have it?"

Gu Qian probed.

"Thank you! Thank you very much!"

Valesha clasped her hands together in gratitude.

The next moment, to everyone's astonishment, Valesa, with a speed completely at odds with her shy appearance and comparable to a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, transformed into a blur and rushed straight towards the mountain of flesh!

Nata's victory celebration is about to enter an even wilder and more unbelievable phase with the arrival of this "competitive eating champion"...

Chapter 158: The Game Is Set Up

"Um...I...I really can't eat anymore..."

Ying felt as if her stomach had turned into an elemental reactor about to explode. Looking at the mountain of roasted meat that was still half full in front of her, her vision went black, and she finally foamed at the mouth and fell straight backward with a muffled "thud".

"Paymon... he's not going to make it..."

Paimon was like a white balloon that had been stretched out to its fullest extent, her little belly bulging out. She rolled her eyes, swayed in the air twice, and then with a "thud," she fell face down onto the dining table, her short limbs still twitching unconsciously.

Having chosen to stop and only devoured half a mountain of barbecue, Zhang Chu had just tossed Qing Yu and Er Kang, who were carrying on his shoulder and were so full they were rolling their eyes and burping incessantly because they refused to eat his share, into a nearby haystack like sandbags. He turned around and saw a scene that shocked him to his core—

The bull-horned girl named Valesa was devouring the mountain of roasted meat in front of her, which was no less than Gu Qian's, and the leftover roasted meat from the other Nata warriors who had also been "tricked" into her mouth with the speed and power of a whirlwind!

Her chewing speed was so fast that it left afterimages; her throat seemed to be connected to another dimension, and the large piece of roasted meat disappeared almost without her chewing!

“That’s outrageous!”

Zhang Chu felt that his worldview had been challenged once again.

"Valesha...is her stomach connected to the abyss?! How can it hold so much stuff?!"

Gu Qian, who had just easily finished off the remaining barbecue from Ying and Paimon (and half of Zhang Chu's portion) and was wiping his mouth with a huge napkin, also came over. Watching Valesha's "performance," he muttered, "There's no need... really no need to eat like this..."

Even he, the seven-meter-tall Thunder King, had to admit defeat.

(Note: Qingyu and Erkang only collapsed after forcing themselves to finish their portions. Zhang Chu, seeing that he was doing well, only ate half and gave the other half to Gu Qian. Gu Qian easily finished off the remaining portions from Ying and Paimeng, as well as Zhang Chu's "gift.")

“Mavika!”

Zhang Chu finally couldn't hold back any longer. He turned to look at Lord Vulcan, who was standing not far away, covering his mouth, his shoulders shaking, and clearly snickering. His voice was full of speechlessness and accusation: "Tell me the truth, is the amount of barbecue tonight the same as the standard meal for your competitive eating contest?!"

"Oh, you guys found out?"

Mavica lowered her hand, a bright and slightly smug smile on her face, showing no airs of a deity whatsoever.

"I knew it was impossible for a normal victory celebration banquet to serve everyone enough roasted meat to feed a whole dragon..."

Zhang Chu put his hand to his forehead, feeling that he had been incredibly naive.

Xinoning sighed helplessly, pushed up her goggles, and explained, "Sigh, ever since you guys came and solved the threat of the Abyss, Mavica has been like a huge weight has been lifted off her shoulders, and she's completely... let loose."

His tone carried a hint of indulgence and headache, as if he thought, "My child is too naughty."

"wait wait wait!"

Zhang Chu suddenly realized something, and with trembling fingers, he pointed at Mavica, then at Marani and Kazina behind her who were covering their mouths and snickering, and then at Kinich, who was holding his forehead with a look that said, "I didn't participate, but I couldn't stop it."

"So...you all knew all along?!"

Zhang Chu's voice was trembling.

"From beginning to end, were we the only outsiders kept in the dark?! You've set us up!"

"That's right! It was a setup!"

Er Kang struggled to sit up from the haystack, still hiccuping, but that didn't stop him from shouting indignantly, "And we trusted you so much! You Nata people are too cunning!"

"Hiccup—! I second that!"

Qingyu, standing in the haystack, also raised a trembling hand in protest.

Seeing that Er Kang had recovered so quickly and joined the condemnation, Mavica raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Oh? He recovered so quickly?"

She readily admitted it, her smile growing even brighter: "Indeed, this is a little 'welcome ceremony' that we all came up with together. Everyone is very curious about how the legendary, omnipotent honor knights will react to our Nata-style 'enthusiasm'."