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Venomira's smile only widened after seeing Ben's new transformation.
Instead of attacking immediately, she slowly floated around him, her crimson eyes studying every inch of his body like a scholar examining a newly discovered species.
"So this is your answer..."
She giggled.
"Hehehe..."
"I was expecting something majestic."
She lightly tapped her chin.
"Something terrifying."
Her gaze slowly moved over Big Chuck's round body before stopping at his enormous stomach.
"...Not..."
She tilted her head.
"...this."
The villagers had already evacuated behind multiple defensive barriers created by the captains.
Charlotte's briars, Nozel's mercury walls, Fuegoleon's flames, and Dorothy's dream barriers layered one over another, ensuring none of the civilians would be caught in the crossfire.
Ben didn't reply.
Big Chuck simply stood there with his short, stout body planted firmly on the ground.
He looked almost harmless.
Almost.
Venomira slowly raised both hands.
"Very well."
"You've piqued my curiosity."
Around her, dozens of crimson magic circles bloomed into existence.
Unlike ordinary spell circles, these looked almost organic, constantly pulsing as though they possessed a heartbeat of their own.
One after another...
Small crimson spheres emerged from them.
Each orb looked like a drop of blood compressed into a perfect sphere.
Inside every sphere, poisonous mist swirled violently.
The surrounding air hissed.
Even standing dozens of meters away, the captains could feel the deadly toxicity emanating from them.
Venomira smiled proudly.
"These are among my favorites."
She gently waved a finger.
"They're concentrated venom cores."
"They explode upon contact... or dissolve anything unfortunate enough to touch them."
Her smile became playful.
"They even melt magical barriers."
The next moment...
She snapped her fingers.
The crimson poison spheres shot forward like meteors.
One.
Five.
Ten.
Twenty.
Dozens of them tore through the air, leaving trails of crimson mist behind as they converged toward Big Chuck from every direction.
Several villagers screamed.
"Avoid them!"
"Away!"
Even Nozel instinctively shouted,
"Your Majesty!"
But...
Ben didn't move.
Not even a single step.
Venomira noticed immediately.
Her smile grew.
"So..."
"...you're planning to tank them?"
The poison spheres closed the remaining distance within seconds.
Still—
Big Chuck remained completely motionless.
"...."
Then...
His massive mouth suddenly opened.
Far wider than any normal creature should have been capable of.
The corners of his mouth stretched almost impossibly.
From within...
Several thick, muscular tongue-like tentacles shot outward.
Each moved with astonishing speed.
Slurp!
One poison sphere disappeared.
Slurp!
Then another.
Then another.
The tentacles darted across the battlefield like living whips, intercepting every single crimson orb before they could reach him.
One after another...
Big Chuck swallowed them whole.
No explosions.
No poison clouds.
Nothing.
Only loud gulping sounds echoed throughout the village.
Gulp!
Gulp!
Gulp!
Within only a few seconds...
Every single poison sphere had vanished.
Big Chuck slowly closed his enormous mouth.
His belly gave a tiny wobble.
Then—
A soft emerald glow pulsed from deep within his stomach.
Once.
Twice.
As if his body were calmly digesting everything he had just consumed.
Silence fell over the battlefield.
Everyone stared.
Even the captains.
Yami lowered his cigarette slightly.
"...He..."
Jack blinked caught off guard.
"...He just ate it."
Dorothy tilted her head.
"That's adorable..."
Nozel's eyes narrowed.
"He consumed concentrated devil poison... without a single reaction."
Even Julius, who had remained silent until now, looked genuinely fascinated.
"Incredible..."
Meanwhile...
Venomira had completely stopped smiling.
Her crimson eyes were wide with disbelief.
"...Impossible."
She whispered.
Her gaze remained fixed on Big Chuck's glowing stomach.
"No..."
She shook her head.
"Those weren't ordinary toxins."
"They were condensed devil venom."
She floated closer. Much closer.
Still staring.
"I personally refined those poisons over the course of decades."
Her voice slowly rose.
"Each one can poison an entire lake."
"One sphere is enough to kill hundreds of humans."
Her breathing became slightly faster.
"You..."
She stared directly at Big Chuck.
"...ate them."
The green glow inside Big Chuck's stomach slowly faded.
Then...
He looked at Venomira.
Opened his mouth again.
And let out an enormous—
"BURRRRRP!"
A faint puff of harmless green vapor escaped his mouth.
The children watching from behind the barriers immediately burst into laughter.
"Ewwww!"
"Big Brother burped!"
"Amazing!"
Venomira didn't even hear them.
Her entire world had narrowed to one impossible fact.
For the first time in centuries...
Something had consumed her poison.
Not resisted it. Not neutralized it.
Not survived it.
Consumed it.
Her breathing became uneven.
Then...
A smile slowly returned.
Much wider than before.
Almost frighteningly so.
"Hehehe..."
A quiet laugh escaped her lips.
Then another.
"Hehehehehe..."
Finally...
She laughed openly.
Not out of mockery. Not out of arrogance.
But pure excitement.
Her crimson eyes glowed with an almost obsessive light.
"I've found you..."
She whispered.
"My perfect specimen."
The way she looked at Ben was no longer that of an enemy observing an opponent.
It was the gaze of a scientist who had just discovered something that overturned everything she thought she knew.
And somehow...
That expression was far more unsettling than any killing intent.
Venomira's delighted laughter echoed throughout the barrier, sending chills down everyone's spine.
"Hehehehehe..."
Her crimson eyes never left Big Chuck.
The excitement within them had grown into outright obsession.
She had spent centuries perfecting every conceivable poison.
She had watched kingdoms collapse because of a single drop of her venom.
She had experimented on countless creatures from the Underworld.
Yet today...
Something had happened for the very first time.
Someone had eaten her poison.
Not merely resisted it.
Not purified it.
Not survived it.
Actually...
Eaten it.
The discovery alone made her heart race with excitement.
"...Magnificent..."
She whispered.
"...Absolutely magnificent."
However...
Big Chuck had no intention of standing there and letting the devil admire him.
The Omnitrix user had already analyzed enough.
Venomira possessed terrifying attack power.
Her speed exceeded almost everyone present.
She was treating this battle like a game.
Which meant...
He needed to hit her hard enough to make her stop smiling.
Big Chuck suddenly inhaled deeply.
His massive belly expanded even further.
The green glow inside his stomach intensified.
Venomira tilted her head curiously.
"Hm?"
"What are you..."
Before she could finish—
Big Chuck threw his head forward.
"BWOOOOOOOM!"
A torrent of crimson poison erupted from his mouth.
It was the exact same poison spheres Venomira had launched earlier.
Except...
They weren't the same anymore.
Each orb now glowed with a faint emerald aura.
The poison had been compressed.
Refined.
Empowered.
The entire volley shot toward Venomira with frightening speed.
The Poison Devil's smile vanished.
"...Interesting."
She disappeared from her position.
The barrage tore through where she had been only an instant before.
The poison spheres continued flying until they struck a distant hillside outside the orphanage.
Then—
BOOOOOOOM!!
The night erupted.
A deafening explosion shook the entire barrier.
The hillside collapsed under the blast as crimson poison spread across the rocks.
Everything caught within the impact zone immediately decayed.
Trees blackened.
Stone crumbled.
The earth itself seemed to rot before everyone's eyes.
The explosion was easily more than twice as powerful as the original attack.
Venomira slowly floated back into view, several dozen meters away.
For the first time...
She looked genuinely surprised.
"...He amplified it."
She stared at the devastated hillside.
"My own poison..."
"...returned stronger."
Her smile slowly returned.
Even wider than before.
"Hehehe..."
"No..."
She placed a hand over her racing heart.
"I've made my decision."
Everyone frowned.
"...Decision?"
Venomira looked directly at Big Chuck.
Her crimson eyes sparkled with genuine excitement.
Then—
She spoke in the most serious voice she had used since arriving.
"King Benjamin."
The entire battlefield became quiet.
"I want you."
Big Chuck blinked.
Venomira continued as though proposing the most natural thing in the world.
"Marry me."
"..."
"..."
"..."
Complete silence.
Even the wind seemed to stop.
Big Chuck stood completely frozen.
His tiny eyes blinked once.
Then again.
Somewhere in the distance...
A cricket chirped.
Even it sounded confused.
The first person to react wasn't Ben.
It was Charlotte.
"...What?"
Her eye twitched violently.
A thorny vine instantly erupted from the ground around her.
"What did you just say?"
The temperature around Charlotte seemed to drop several degrees.
Without waiting for an answer—
Hundreds of blue briars exploded from the earth, pointing directly at Venomira.
Her usually calm expression had completely disappeared.
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
Her voice carried unmistakable anger.
"You appear out of nowhere..."
"You attack him..."
"And then you propose marriage?"
The briars continued growing wildly.
"...Absolutely not."
At almost the same moment—
Dorothy floated forward.
Her sleepy eyes opened wider than usual.
She placed both hands on her hips.
"No."
She declared simply.
Venomira looked at her.
Dorothy shook her head firmly.
"No means no."
Then she pointed dramatically toward Big Chuck.
"He's already surrounded by enough troublesome women."
Charlotte's face immediately turned bright red.
"W-What are you saying?!"
Dorothy ignored her.
Turning back toward Venomira, she continued,
"You can't just attack someone..."
"...then ask them to marry you."
Venomira blinked.
"...Why not?"
"..."
Dorothy paused.
She genuinely hadn't expected that question.
The Poison Devil looked completely confused.
"In the Underworld..."
She explained matter-of-factly.
"...if someone survives your strongest attack... they become an excellent partner."
She smiled innocently.
"It means our children would probably survive my experiments."
The entire battlefield froze again.
Yami slowly lowered his cigarette.
"...That's somehow the most disturbing thing she's said."
Jack nodded.
"I actually believe she means it."
Meanwhile, Big Chuck remained completely stunned.
His enormous mouth hung slightly open.
His brain had simply stopped processing events.
One moment he was fighting a High-Ranking Devil.
The next...
She was discussing future children.
The transformation's round face somehow made his bewildered expression even funnier.
From behind the barriers, Asta doubled over laughing.
"HAHAHAHA!"
"Big Brother got proposed to by a devil!"
Magna nearly fell to the ground.
"I can't breathe!"
Even Yuno quietly looked away.
The slight shake of his shoulders betrayed that he, too, was trying very hard not to laugh.
Charlotte, meanwhile, took another step forward.
Her briars continued expanding.
She glared directly at Venomira.
"I said..."
Her voice became colder.
"...No."
For the first time since arriving...
Venomira finally looked away from Big Chuck.
And met Charlotte's eyes.
The Poison Devil tilted her head curiously.
"...Why are you so angry?"
Charlotte answered without missing a beat.
"Because your proposal has been rejected."
Venomira blinked confused by the aggressive lady.
"I wasn't asking you."
"I know."
Charlotte replied with a cold look.
"I'm answering anyway."
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