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The commander slowly walked to his room as he recalled the events from earlier that day. During their session, Emma had gave him what she called spaghetti bolognese. He wanted to decline but he just couldn't turn her down, it would have been rude if he had.
After she left, he was quickly acquainted with the toilet, hoping that the taste of bitter spices amalgamated with unspecified flavors would leave his tongue. In fact, after he retched up his meal, he went to the maid cafe to try and mask it with sweeter flavors to no avail. At least Maid for You were happy to see him, even if Cocoa's special omurice couldn't help with his predicament.
So when he went back to the Command Center, all he wanted to do was sit down and relax. He opened the door ever so slightly, ready to turn on the lights...
"Commander~!"
Rapi stood in the fully lit room with a table topped with many platters covered with cloches. She was dressed in a nicely fitted maid outfit that showed off her thighs and had a frilly red apron just barely covering her cleavage. Three chairs were placed around the table, with Anis sitting in one of them.
The commander stepped into the room, a bit wary of the sudden layout change. "What's all of this doing here?"
Anis reached for one of the cliches, hoping to get a morsel of one of the many goods on display but her hand was slapped away with great force by Rapi, who seemed to have muderous intent for the poor Nikke.
"Commander, I heard you had lunch with Emma, is that true?," Rapi inquired. The commander nodded his head and Rapi continued.
"I thought that you needed something more nutritious, so I spent half the day making a meal fit for you and you only. Of course, I did get some tips from Emma after we had a…talk," she revealed, neglecting to mention that the talk ended with her tied to a chair in a damp room with a blindfold covering her face, the only hopes of getting out being that the commander liked the meal enough that Rapi would have mercy on her former squad mate.
Another thing that Rapi failed to bring up was the real reason why she went to all the trouble to do this. For starters, she bought a cache of magazines hoping to find tips on how to win the commander's heart and found out that one way to achieve this was through his stomach. Half of the meal was already being prepared when Rapi accidentally (read: intentionally) overheard his and Emma's session earlier that day. From there, Rapi scrambled to finish the feast, even going so far as to buy fancy tableware with some credits she had stashed away.
"Please, come sit down," she said as she motioned over to the chair, trying to hide her excitement as best as she could.
The commander hesitantly obliged and sat down at the seat…only for cuffs to spring forward, shackling his wrists to the arms.
"Rapi, what is this?!," he asked as he struggled to get out of his bindings.
"Anis, hold him down."
Anis stood up and approached the commander. "Sorry about this, it's for Emma," she said before pushing his head down on the table with great force. For a second, the commander thought his skull was going to crack open from the impact.
"Ok, let's get started with the appetizers. First…" Rapi lifted the lid of one of the platters to reveal two rolls of Japanese styled dumplings, piping hot and fresh. Using a pair of chopsticks, Rapi grabbed one of them and brought it to the commander's face.
"I made these gyoza from scratch. I hope you will appreciate the work I put into it," she said as Anis held his mouth open for Rapi to pop the foodstuff into it. Anis then forced him to chew the dumpling, the commander tentatively swallowing it. The dumpling was…actually delicious. He didn't know why the two of them would go to the trouble of forcing him to eat food like this. Maybe it was a prank and one of the dumplings was going to have something spicy in the middle like chili pepper or wasabi.
"Commander, what do you think?" Rapi asked as the commander finished downing his portion.
"I like it, you're a really good cook," he truthfully admitted. Rapi took this as a green light for her next move.
"In that case…Anis, open his mouth wide for me."
"Yes, ma'am!"
Anis used her hands to spread his jaw, letting Rapi dump the rest of the dumplings in to his gullet. Once they were all in, the commander nearly choked on them before Anis helped to stimulate his jaw to chew the food. Slowly, the commander was able to digest the gyoza.
"Tasty, isn't it? I found the recipe in an old cookbook Phantom gave me. Now onto our next dish: miso soup."
Another cloche was taken off of the platter to reveal a heaping bowl of broth with tofu and seaweed with a large funnel laying beside it. Surely, she wasn't going to…
"Rapi, you don't have to do this—" the commander started to object before Rapi interrupted him.
"Open wide, commander!"
Anis practically unhinged his jaw and forced the funnel inside of it, Rapi pouring the lukewarm liquid into it and marveling at how fast the commander could swallow.
Once the contents were drained, Rapi moved on to other dishes, all of them more filling than the last. There were creamy croquettes with all kind of meat in them, a juicy 32 oz steak that he had trouble even swallowing, bonbons, and finally, a large three layer wedding cake complete with a topper consisting of a doll of Rapi in a wedding dress and the commander in a tuxedo.
"Now Anis, make sure he takes this one slowly…I hid something special in there."
"Rapi, he looks like he's going to throw up! We need to stop this!"
"He'll be fine, he's been through worse! I just want him to know how much I care…now…" Rapi cut a heaping piece of cake and help it up to the commander's face, the commander noting for the first time that Rapi had a band on her right ring finger.
"Try not to choke, dear."
Suddenly, the door burst open, revealing a blue bolt running in Rapi's direction.
"Commander, I will save you!," Neon yelled as she approached Rapi with a riding crop, the same one Marciana had, and whipped her across her ass, making her drop the slice of cake onto the table.
"Did I arrive before the marriage proposal? I would use my firepower but the prompt calls for a crop…"
"Neon…you…!"
Neon wrung the crop in her hands as Anis took the commander out of his restraints and jerked him out of the room.
"Now that that's over, that means I don't have to die…right? Ri—"
Rapi cut her off with a rain of bullets to her face.
Just another day at the outpost.