Several hours had already passed since Miyuki had left the pool. Her entire body still burned, inside and out. "I-I have to kill… Meat Tower…" she began to speak, stammering.

She slowly stood, struggling not to scream from the pain. "I have to…" she said, trying to encourage herself.

Her completely exposed legs glistened under the layer of slick slime, the goo stretching and quivering with each tentative step.

Every movement made the wet, squelching sounds echo louder, as if the slime itself was alive, clinging and sliding over her soft, supple skin.

Her feet, bare and delicate, left shiny trails behind, toes curling slightly with each cautious press.

She wiped her hands, trying to remove as much of the goo as possible. "Ugh…" she muttered through clenched teeth.

She slowly squeezed her eyes shut, trying at least to dull the pain in them or to see better through her blurred vision.

She slid her hand between her breasts to pull out the kunai, and immediately her fingers were slick with slime.

Her chest glistened, the goo tracing the curves of her soft, full breasts, sticky globs sliding down over her delicate skin.

Every subtle movement made the slime quiver and stretch, emphasizing the roundness and tenderness of her chest.

She made a disgusted face, then turned toward the stairs and started moving upward. Her long, elegant legs trembled slightly from the pain coursing through her with every step.

The pounding heartbeat of the building grew louder as Miyuki ascended. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! repeated in perfect rhythm.

When she reached the next floor, her eyes fell upon the massive lungs, rising and falling with a slow rhythm.

Each inhale swelled them until the tissue stretched taut, then they sagged as they exhaled, releasing the air with a whispering hiss.

Tiny iridescent bubbles clung to their surface, quivering and occasionally bursting with a pop, sending a faint ripple across the glossy membrane.

Miyuki gritted her teeth and approached the lungs. With the kunai in her hand, she made a cut along the left lung, creating a hole through which the air began to escape.

The lungs desperately tried to breathe, but every time they inhaled, the air just escaped through the hole Miyuki had made.

They began to convulse from lack of oxygen, trying a few last breaths, but to no avail — the hole was too large. They simply dried out.

Miyuki tried to feel a sense of victory over her small triumph, but she couldn't; her body still burned from the acid, and the visible burns on her body, especially her legs, were proof.

She simply turned to the stairs and continued upward, trying to reach the top of Meat Tower, where its heart lay.

"I-just need to pierce the heart… And victory will be mine…" Miyuki thought, dragging her feet across the floor.

Her soft soles trembled from the searing pain coursing through her, but she couldn't falter; she had to save her people. If Kai and Mai wouldn't help, she had to do it herself.

She climbed the stairs, each step heavy and shaky. One step, then another, then a third. She struggled, barely moving. She took a breath and finally reached the last step.

In front of her stood the heart, pulsating wetly but loudly. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! Each contraction pushed blood through the tubes extending from the heart.

"F-finally… I-I made it…" Miyuki thought. You could only imagine how much her whole body burned as she stammered inside her head.

She approached the heart and gripped the kunai tightly. "I… I'll… I'll kill you!" she barely whispered, trying to hold back the screams building with each passing second.

She stepped forward, raised the kunai, and plunged it into the heart with all her strength, making a deep slash across its surface.

The heart split open, and blood gushed out.

The pressurized blood sprayed onto Miyuki. Her burns flared in response. She fell to the floor, back to the heart, clutching her head and trying to ease the pain in any way possible.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Miyuki screamed in agony as her wounds burned under every drop of blood that landed on them.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Her screams echoed through Meat Tower, reopening her wounds.

But her screaming wasn't the only thing reverberating off the fleshy walls; behind her came wet footfalls, though Miyuki didn't hear anything over her own screams.

From a large crack in the heart emerged a small leg with four toes, each connected by webbing. With a soft, wet sound, it landed on the slimy floor. It looked like a hybrid of a frog and a fish.

It stood on two legs and had two arms, but it was entirely made of raw meat, perfectly matching the appearance of Meat Tower.

It had a head that seemed too large for its small body, with two rows of sharp teeth protruding from its mouth.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Miyuki's scream was so loud her vocal cords suddenly failed. She clutched her throat, unable to make a sound.

The frog-fish creature stood staring at Miyuki's back, then suddenly raised an arm. From the wall, a spear materialized directly into the hand of the fish-like creature.

It raised it above shoulder height and threw it, aiming at Miyuki. But the throw missed, hitting the floor in front of her.

Miyuki flinched, finally realizing she was in more danger than a few burns. Her eyes widened in fear as she looked at the beast before her.

The creature said nothing and simply materialized another spear, aiming it at Miyuki.

"This might be the end for me…" Miyuki thought, feeling a strange sense of déjà vu as if this had happened before.

"Why does this feel so familiar?" she wondered, staring at the sharp spear in front of her.

The frog-fish prepared to throw, but then, out of nowhere, Vex appeared and stood in front of Miyuki. The spear flew toward him, but he casually caught it with one hand.

"I expected more," he said mockingly, then turned the spear toward the strange fleshy two-legged creature. He rotated his wrist and threw the spear.

The thrown spear flew faster than Miyuki's eyes could track. In an instant, it pierced the sound barrier and struck the creature's head.

The frog-like creature collapsed, and the entire Meat Tower began to shake, producing gelatinous sounds.

Vex ran, grabbing Miyuki with one hand under her knee, the other under her arm and around her back. As soon as he held her, he jumped through the wall, breaking it instantly.

"Who is this…?" Miyuki asked, looking into his eyes as they fell from the upper floors. "He seems… familiar…" she said.

During that brief fall, which felt like hours, Vex only glanced once at Miyuki, but it was not an ordinary look; it was gentle and soft.

Miyuki's heart raced, her snow-white ears twitching with joy despite all the pain she felt.

"I want to crack her!" thought Vex, glancing down at the ground.

Vex and Miyuki, in his arms, approached the ground, but he cared neither for speed nor height. When they finally reached the floor, Vex landed as if it were a simple curb jump, softly on his feet, without effort.

Behind them, Meat Tower began to collapse, but instead of falling apart, it just deflated, crumpling into a mess of meat and blood.

Vex looked at Miyuki, then gently set her on the ground.

Miyuki lay stretched across the floor, her body trembling faintly with each breath. Slime glistened across her calves, dripping down to her soles, where it pooled between her toes and along the delicate arch.

Her toes curled unconsciously, the pads of her feet pressing lightly against the slick surface beneath her, leaving faint, wet imprints as she shifted just slightly.

The burns across her thighs and ankles only heightened the raw vulnerability of her body, while her white hair spilled around her face and her rabbit ears drooped weakly to the side.

Miyuki, the Neko Minister, stared at Vex with wide, unblinking eyes. "T-that power…" she thought.

Vex just sighed. "She's in love with me… How utterly pathetic... Now I can't erase her memory…" he thought, trying to devise a new plan. "Well… whatever…"

Vex looked her over from ears to toes, noting the wounds and burns on her body. "Well, since I can't erase her memory, I might as well have some fun with her body…"

He knelt before her. "You know… I can heal your wounds…" he said, with a wide, sinister grin.

"Really?" Miyuki asked, awe in her voice. She was thrilled that she could finally get rid of the pain.

Vex stepped closer slowly, his eyes gleaming with something almost unhinged, a grin stretching across his face that made it look like his whole body was trembling with anticipation.

His hand quivered as he placed it on her leg, almost instinctively, unable to contain himself.

"Yes, but you have to—" he whispered, his voice sliding through his teeth. The tension in him was palpable, almost painful.

After a short pause, he shuddered as he continued, his voice dripping with wicked delight:

"—SPREAAAAAD… YOUR… LEGS!"

Miyuki blinked a few times, confused, but the pain was too great to protest. She slowly spread her exposed legs.

Vex's smile widened even more as he placed his hand on her inner thigh and moved closer to her.

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