Chapter 269: Host Has Chosen a Snack II

’I need a map.’

’A map of this beast world. Not just my territory, but of everything out there that I haven’t seen.’

’It would be very helpful to my main goal.’

Tera’s whole mission was to see the whole world and advance it. Did this silly system think she wanted to play guessing games with its limited scanner and map?

[(⊙?⊙)]

[Host is quite innovative]

{PervyGoddess did not expect Host’s request}

{BeastWorldAddict says they did not expect it either}

{PervyGoddess laughs}

{BeastWorldAddict says they chose the right Host to watch}

Tera stood very still and tried not to visibly combust.

[Sponsor gifts have been granted]

[Items received]

[Items have been placed in Host’s storage]

[(????)?]

{BeastWorldAddict had gifted two map versions to Tera}

’What?’

[Host! Host! The map!]

’What—what about it?’

{BeastWorldAddict says they have gifted Tera a physical map, along with a virtual one she can view using the system}

Sponsors were the best!

Tera promptly bowed in thanks, the way one bowed to someone who had just changed their entire life.

"Thank you so much, Sponsors!"

Tera noticed how a few of the voices around her died down.

She straightened up and turned around to find roughly eleven beasts staring at her.

One of the wolves was looking at the ground where she had been bowing, clearly trying to find out what was down there.

"Go on, don’t mind me." Tera smiled and waved them off before returning her attention to her gifts.

Her mind lingered on the chocolate bars sitting in her storage.

She wanted to open it that second, sit down in the first and eat an entire box on her own without speaking to anybody!

She immediately controlled herself, afraid of checking her storage. She would give herself a stomach upset. It would also be foolish to go through something so rare in one sitting.

But at the same time, Nadia and Althea had never had chocolate before.

And the thought of her cubs’ faces the first time they tasted it felt better than the thought of eating it alone.

The faces they would make would be quite cute.

Tera eyed the shelter. She needed to rest a bit for a whole day before they continued.

- ※ - ※ - ※ -

The box was sitting on the floor of her shelter, and Tera could not stop staring at it.

It was not a box. It was a fucking crate. It was almost as tall as her head and was wide enough that she could have laid down across the top of it with room left over, and the shape of it was unmistakably the shape of packaging a deep freezer came in.

A large deep freezer.

For chocolate?!

’Where did they even get this?’

The lettering printed across the side was in English. She could read every word of it. But she had never seen this product in her life, she had never seen a brand name like it, and she had absolutely never, in thirty-two years on Earth, seen chocolate sold in a container this size.

Were chocolate boxes ever this big? Had she just never shopped in the right place? Was there a shop somewhere that sold chocolate by the freezer-load and nobody had told her?

Was this even from her world at all?!

Calis stood beside her with his eyes wide. He had come back with her to rest and spend time with her, and he had walked into her shelter, taken one look at the thing sitting in the middle of her floor, and gone completely silent.

Nadia and Althea were on the floor of the shelter. They had been playing with each other, but they were now staring up at the box with their eyes bulging out of their heads.

{PervyGoddess claps and asks if Tera likes her gift}

Tera nodded. She could not get a single word out.

{PervyGoddess smirks and says Tera is welcome}

The gift explained a great deal about the last ten minutes, actually.

Because the system had been extremely strange when she first wanted to pull the box out of the storage herself. She did this for big items she didn’t want dropping on the floor.

[Host should not attempt to remove that item]

’It’s chocolate.’

[It is not something Host can lift]

’WTF? You think I can’t lift some chocolate carton?!’

[Host cannot lift this]

[? ? ? ?]

Tera had frowned. ’I am not a human anymore. What chocolate box exists in this universe that I cannot pick up?’

[If Host attempts to lift that item, it will crush her]

’...What?’

[It will flatten Host]

[Like a pancake!]

[(???;)]

She had assumed it was being dramatic. The system was always being dramatic.

And now here she was, standing in her own shelter, looking at a triple jumbo-sized block of packaging that could have housed a big appliance.

Tera laughed. It came out thin and slightly unhinged.

She decided to closely inspect it, walking around the package to look for an expiration date.

She got about halfway along before she stopped and realised how her system worked.

Anything in the system space sat in limbo. Time did not touch it. However long it had been in there, it would come out in exactly the state it went in. She had put a half-eaten piece of fruit in there for months, and it had still been fresh when she pulled it out.

A box of chocolate was going to be fine.

She was looking for an expiration date on a gift from a higher-dimensional being. She was losing her mind.

Tera laughed nervously again, pulled a saw out of her system space, and cut open the seal.

She pushed aside one of the top flaps, hopped on the box to stand on the closed flap, and looked into the packaging.

Tera thanked every god in this world and the last one, that the bars were normal.

But there were so many.

They were packed tight in smaller grouped bundles, and stacked in neat rows all the way down into the crate. There were so many of them that Tera had to physically sit back on her heels for a moment.

Then she noticed something and paused.