Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-27303410-20180601015444/@comment-33398500-20180606171506

This isn’t going to turn out well...

I had the feeling something strange was going as soon as my normally introverted, indoorsy friend had suddenly invited me and two other friends to go out on a camping trip. After all, he seldom went anywhere without his wife: rather friendly for an Arachne, but perhaps that was because she had found exactly the kind of husband she wanted...

Now that we were out here, though, it felt almost surreal. After all, it was just a hangout, like what the four of us used to do in high school before life took over. The first day was rather nice, completely quiet. However, today, I had the feeling something strange was going to happen when we started watching ‘husband hunter’.

“Poor bastard...” I muttered to myself as the last episode ended with the last guy caught by an Ushi-Oni. “They’re super-aggressive, I hear...” I commented.

However, as the next episode, evidently a new one, started, I now had a rather strange feeling about it. “Umm... doesn’t the area in the camera look kinda... familiar?” I asked the group of them. However, they didn’t even need to answer as after a moment of the host going over that they had been watching the targets, the images came up, first the friend watching on my left, then the one on my right, then me...

“Well... shit...” I muttered as the one who’d invited us had ‘gone out for beers’, the camera showing his wife was there to take him out of the situation. “That scummy son of a...” I started, before Jack shook his head at me “...it’s all right, bud... this close to MGC for this long, I expected SOMETHING might happen if we didn’t find wives on our own...”

However, Jack’s reaction seemed the polar opposite of Rob, on the other side of the camper, who now shouted “Every man for himself!” practically diving out of the trailer and sprinting off, doubtless at least one mamono in hot pursuit.

“You should go, too...” I told Jack, looking toward the door “...before this shit-show gets any worse... I’ll see what I can do about distracting them for you...”

At this, a chuckle came from Jack “That supposed to be noble? Or did you just want them all to yourself?” the two of us laughing at this before a face planted against the front window asked “Soooo... are ya gonna run, or do we get to win without even trying?” her voice annoyingly cute, but reminding the two of us of the situation we were in.

I almost thought to try to reason with her that I wasn’t anything worth catching, but I knew from watching this show before that any mamono desperate enough to go on this show would take whoever they chose as a target.

“Well...” I started. “You take the back door out, I take the front, draw them away from each other?”

“Makes sense...” Jack commented. “Make sure you at least get away from the trailer... No way I want to see anything like that...” he then finished with a smirk.

Shaking my head, I muttered “Damn it, Jack...” before going over to the front door, the face at the front of the camper looking as if she were deciding which of us she’d go after, her smile turning to a grin after seeing me blushing when I caught her looking me over. “All right... one... two... three... now!” I called before forcing the front door open, Jack forcing the back door open before the two of us started off from the trailer.

“Aaaaand the other two are off! Their third friend has already been caught, we’ll cut back to their consummation in a minute, but for now, let’s see how long these two avoid capture!” the host now called out to the camera, looking rather excited to see not if, but WHEN we would get caught.

In the corner of my eye, the figure from the front of the trailer was darting off after me, the crashing along the ground behind me telling me it was either something big, or something REALLY strong now following me, crashing through trees as soon as I got out of the clearing. However, as I attempted to get out of her field of vision, a voice called out from above “Over here! Down there!” a harpy wielding a camera called out to the mamono following me, keeping me from escaping their tracking.

“Oh come on!” I shouted, as I carried on attempting to get away. However, as I passed a rather large tree nearby, I felt a warm mass impact me from the side, my head turning slightly to see a wererabbit hastily starting to straddle me, a rather sweet-looking girl with short, powder blue hair “Caught ya~” she declared triumphantly, as the crashing through the trees got closer and closer, an emerald-haired wurm rushing out from the last tree she crashed through “Mine!” she declared simply.

“Silly wurm, I got him first~” the wererabbit giggled, sticking her tongue out at her childishly. As I tried to get out from under her, however, she asked “Nervous, hubby? It’s okay~ But I know how lonely she is, too, so... if you wouldn’t mind... can we share?” However, even without me saying anything, the wurm’s body started wrapping around my legs, long enough that her human side started near my head “We win!” the wurm cheered.

I guess it didn’t turn out THAT badly...