Meal In The Sea

While dealing with that high-maintenance robot, we swam through the sea.

“…………”

Tug tug, Sui-chan the water spirit pulled on my arm.

“What’s wrong?”

“…………”

Grrr.

Sui-chan held her stomach.

Aha, so she was hungry.

“Shall we take a little break? Let’s have a meal.”

“Yaaay, yes we shall!”

Daphne-chan swam along with both arms spread wide. So cute.

Tilting her head, Toka-chan asked,

“However, my lord, how are we supposed to eat underwater?”

“…Indeed, we cannot use fire, and solid food would get soggy.”

Their opinions were perfectly reasonable.

So I took out the item I had left with Cherge.

“Ta-daaa, Meal Potion!”

“Master, aren’t you at the point where you think you can just slap ‘potion’ onto anything and call it a day?”

“Pipe down, robo-maid. Come on, let’s eat.”

We moved over to a nearby rocky area.

What I took out was a potion in a pouch.

Normally they come in bottles, though.

“Big sis, how do we eat it?”

“…………?”

Holding the Meal Potion, Sui-chan and Daphne-chan tilted their heads like, huh?

“You just suck it up as is. There’s a jelly-like potion inside.”

“At that point, isn’t it no longer a potion but a jelly drink?”

…This robot had been butting in constantly for a while now.

“What? Do you want attention or something?”

“I did not say any such thing, did I?”

“Oh really? Then I’ll just ignore everything you say.”

“If you do that, it’ll be murder, not of a person, but of a robot, you know? I’ll die if I get lonely, you know?”

“What are you, a rabbit…? Daphne-chan alone is plenty.”

The real bunny, Daphne-chan, stared intently at the Meal Potion, then put it to her mouth.

As she sucked on it… her ears stood straight up!

“This is amazing! It tastes like steak, it does～!”

“Ohhh, my! Then I shall also… mmh! This one is spaghetti, it is!”

The slave girls sucked on the Meal Potions with obvious delight.

“This potion doesn’t just make you feel the taste artificially, it also has texture, and it lets you absorb the nutrients properly too, so it’s an excellent product.”

“““A-amazing…!”””

Tilting her head, Cherge asked,

“Why did you make something like that? Couldn’t you just eat normal food?”

“When you’re working, sometimes you really don’t have time to eat. Back then, when I needed to gulp down energy in ten seconds flat, I used to drink these.”

“I see. So it’s like a Weider, then.”

Weider… ? Sometimes this robot really said incomprehensible things.

“There are lots of different flavors, so eat plenty. Ah, but if you eat too much, you’ll get fat, so be careful.”

“““Okaaay!”””

The slave girls happily slurped down the Meal Potions. It was so soothing.

“Master. Enough already, please tell us why we came all the way to the seafloor.”

“Ah, come to think of it, I hadn’t told you, had I?”

I told the robo-maid.

“We came to exterminate the monster at the bottom of the sea.”