Yue Mei: Kill me or flay me, do as you please

"You can marry wives recklessly, but you can't speak recklessly. Why can't you trust what I say? When have I ever lied to you?"

Luo Yang was not pleased to hear Yue Mei say that.

This was his first time crossing over to the Dou Qi Continent, and his first visit to the Tagor Desert. He did not want to shoulder that enormous black pot of blame.

"Hmph! You humans are all cut from the same cloth. I let my guard down for a moment and fell for your dirty trick. I have nothing to say. Kill me or flay me, do as you please."

Knowing she could not escape today, Yue Mei turned her proud head aside after those last words and said nothing more.

She was already prepared to meet her death.

Her only regret was that she had failed to send this information back to her tribe before dying. With the queen unaware of this, she might very well suffer a terrible setback at this despicable human's hands too.

"Do as I please, huh..."

Luo Yang gave a wicked smile as a very bad, very quick idea surfaced in his mind.

Slowly approaching Yue Mei, the small diagonal portion of his body running from his left shoulder to his right waist, like a monk's robe, reverted to human form. Then he caught Yue Mei's chin in his right hand, lowered his head, and kissed her pink lips.

Yue Mei: "????"

Yue Mei's mind went completely blank. She even stopped breathing and thinking.

H-had she just been taken advantage of?

That was her first kiss! How could it just...

Even worse, that human actually slipped his tongue inside!!!!

Yue Mei instantly came to her senses. Fury surged up, and she shoved the lecher away, thrusting her three-foot serpentine sword at him.

The instant they parted, that half of Luo Yang's body was covered by the Ultraman panel again.

"You bastard! How dare you humiliate me!! I'll kill you!!!"

Clang, clang...

The serpentine sword stabbed toward Luo Yang's chest. He raised two fingers and firmly caught Yue Mei's forceful thrust between them.

Even using every last scrap of strength she could muster, Yue Mei could not advance it half an inch.

"Hey, hey, hey, weren't you the one who said I could do as I pleased? You even said earlier that you'd take responsibility for me. Why are you going back on your word now?" Luo Yang spoke unhurriedly, forming a stark contrast with the furious Yue Mei.

Away from Tushan Rongrong, Luo Yang was like a fierce tiger released from its cage, no longer needing to conceal the greed, anger, and delusion in his heart.

"Weren't you the one who said I could do as I pleased? As the prettiest female commander of the Snake-People Tribe's Eight Great Tribes, could you really be an untrustworthy person who makes empty promises? If word of this gets out... heh heh, you wouldn't want to smear the faces of the Snake-People Tribe and Queen Medusa, would you?"

As these few suspiciously Japanese-sounding remarks reached Yue Mei's ears, her frenzied emotions slowly settled, and Luo Yang released the fingers gripping her serpentine sword.

Yet Yue Mei's gaze remained filled with anger and resentment as she looked at Luo Yang.

"Don't look at me like that. I told you, I came to the Snake-People Tribe without any ill intent. We aren't enemies..."

Under Yue Mei's man-eating stare, even someone as thick-skinned as Luo Yang felt a little embarrassed.

Though Yue Mei was a Snake-Person, she was far more fiercely protective of her chastity than Luo Yang had imagined. She had teased him earlier, yet now she was threatening to kill him over a mere kiss. This had very likely been Yue Mei's first kiss...

Heh heh heh...

At that thought, Luo Yang felt even more pleased with himself.

"No ill intent? Then what do you call humiliating me? Hypocritical human!"

Yue Mei's furious gaze practically spat fire as she glared at Luo Yang, wishing she could swallow this fellow who had humiliated her alive and skin him raw.

Unfortunately, she could neither beat him nor escape. Otherwise...

"Ah, I can't explain it to you in a sentence or two... Let's do this instead."

There was not much time left in his transformation, but he should still be able to use that move. Luo Yang decided not to keep arguing with Yue Mei here.

The diamond-shaped crystal on his forehead emitted a golden beam, which shot toward Yue Mei under Luo Yang's guidance.

Unable to dodge in time, Yue Mei was struck by the light and let out a cry.

"Ah~ mm, aaah, ngh, aah-"

Judging by the sound, Yue Mei seemed quite comfortable.

As Luo Yang poured Ultraman Tiga's "energy" into Yue Mei's body, her Dou Qi gradually weakened.

It fell all the way from Dou Wang ★★★★★★★★ to Dou Zhe ★★★.

Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong...

After he finished using this skill, the timer on Tiga's chest began flashing.

This move consumed far too much energy, almost as much as two Zeperion Rays.

"Huff, huff..."

After her Dou Qi cultivation dropped to Dou Zhe, Yue Mei's entire human... Snake-Person presence wilted along with it.

The Dou Qi Wings on her back vanished, and her body plummeted straight toward the ground headfirst, like something tossed from a high building by an inconsiderate person.

Yue Mei struggled to clutch at a "life-saving straw," but could catch nothing. Just as her head was about to hit the ground, she suddenly stopped, as though time had frozen.

As her gaze gradually moved upward, she discovered a large hand gripping her tail, sparing her the miserable fate of having her head plunged into the sand.

"Don't... grab my... tail... Hurry... let go... let go..."

With someone holding the most sensitive tip of her tail, Yue Mei's breathing grew hurried, and even her voice began trembling. None of her earlier fierce resolve remained.

This was the first time in her life that a member of the opposite sex had touched her tail. Normally, not even her closest female guard had touched it...

"Oh? Why have you suddenly become so gentle, Commander Yue? Could you have fallen in love with me already?"

Luo Yang teased Yue Mei. From his angle, her figure really was extraordinarily well-endowed...

There was no technology in this other world, so everything Yue Mei had was genuine.

"Mm... ngh... ah..."

Yue Mei did not answer Luo Yang's question, instead making a string of strange sounds in a thread-thin voice.

Those sounds nearly made Luo Yang automatically turn into the red [Ultraman Tiga · Power Type].

Whew~

Luo Yang let out a long breath, calming the blazing fire within him.

Then he slowly lowered Yue Mei to the ground.

With a flash of light, Luo Yang returned to his human form, and his strength fell from Dou Emperor back to Dou Shi.

After this transformation, Luo Yang felt that he absorbed Dou Qi a little faster. He expected it would not be long before he could break through to Da Dou Shi.

Compared with the arduous two-plus months he had spent going from Dou Zhe to Dou Shi in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, this was faster by who knew how many times.

"Commander Yue? Little Miss Yue? Little hottie?"

Luo Yang wanted to call Yue Mei up so they could return to the oasis together, but she did not respond even after several calls.

Yue Mei's gaze flickered, her face rosy as though she had just stepped out of a bath, and she turned a deaf ear to Luo Yang's calls.

"Ah, I still have to carry you back..."

Helpless, with his transformation over and flight no longer possible, Luo Yang could only carry Yue Mei back.

He wound Yue Mei's tail around his waist, rested the point seven inches down it against his right shoulder, and supported her plumpest part with his right hand, securing her in place.

Then Luo Yang set off toward the oasis.

Fortunately, Luo Yang was now a Seven-Star Dou Shi, with strength and memory far beyond those of ordinary people. With the large moon helping light the way, returning to the oasis was not difficult.

(Thanks to reader 202602115411 for the two monthly tickets.)