The Top-Ranked Player Pampered the Doll Boss's True Body as His Wife - Chapter 3

My fight with Lu Ze grew so violent that it alarmed the Game Master.

It immediately imposed a rule separating the two of us and issued me a warning.

【This is the tenth-anniversary celebration. Don’t go around fighting and killing people.】

【Just kill the players quietly, without making a scene.】

【The maintenance department is on vacation. No one is available to repair the instance.】

I nodded.

I did not want to destroy the dollhouse I had spent so many years maintaining, either.

Lu Ze received a stern warning as well. His face turned black enough to wring ink from it.

At the entrance, a raven rolled its red eyes and recited the rules in a mechanical voice.

【This is a world forsaken by the gods. The anomaly boss of the Rose Throne is its sole king. Find the king’s true body and behead him before midnight to clear the instance.】

【Welcome to the limited-time SSS-rank instance, *Rose Dollhouse*.】

【Take care not to become a doll, or you will be trapped here forever.】

The raven finished with a bloodcurdling, demented cackle.

The players clearly had not prepared themselves. Every face turned grave.

Only Lu Ze remained perfectly calm. He even gave the doll a gentle, reassuring pat on the back, as though telling it, *Don’t be afraid.*

I felt that soft touch, too.

It was strange.

No one had ever cared about me before.

And the first person to do so was a player—my sworn enemy.

After a pause, I announced, “Night has fallen. Players, please enjoy your dinner.”

A plate appeared before every player.

They whispered among themselves.

“This is a lump of cotton and thread.”

“Are we seriously supposed to eat this?”

…

One hot-tempered player thought I was toying with him. He threw down his fork.

“I’m not eating this!”

The doll behind him saw its chance and pounced.

After a burst of agonized screams, he became a chubby little doll with stubby arms and legs and dropped onto his chair.

The room fell silent.

The players crammed cotton into their mouths. Not one of them dared object again.

I smiled as I looked toward Lu Ze.

He seemed oblivious to everything around him. After eating half the cotton on his plate, he stopped.

Lu Ze gathered the doll into his arms, took out a box of pastries, and pinched off a small piece to place in its mouth.

He coaxed it softly.

【Sorry, baby. I forgot to feed you today. It’s all Hubby’s fault.】

【How about mung bean cake today~】

Me: Don’t feed random things to my true body!

I sent a fork flying at him.

The game rules intercepted it.

Suppressing my anger, I watched Lu Ze wait on my true body like a servant. He tied on a bib and fed it tiny sips of water. He offered it cake and wiped the crumbs from its lips.

He might as well have been tending to a wife bedridden with paralysis.

The resonance doll could not absorb human food.

But I could.

Soft, sweet cake slid down my throat.

Sugary and tender.

So this was the delicious food humans ate.

The strange sensations I had felt in my throat before must have been the tastes of human food.

Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty…

all mingled together.

I became distracted and decided to spare the players for the moment, letting them return to their rooms early.

After all, the night…

was my true hunting ground.