Supreme Husband System! & Supreme Wife System!

Chapter 25: Strange tasks and suspicions

Three days have passed like this. During this time, the couple was very tired, and their mood was no longer as rosy as at the beginning of the journey.

They stayed awake every night, afraid of the night creatures. They didnʼt even dare to light a fire.

In the afternoon, they went deeper into the forest, leaving some time for a short nap and rest.

These days, they had encountered many monsters in this mysterious forest. They had encountered mirage rabbits like their first opponent a couple of times. Knowing the characteristics of these rabbits, they were able to kill them with little effort.

Also among the monsters were the spiked wolves, as the System called them. Their bodies were covered with long spikes, they were fast and shot their spikes from time to time.

The battle with these wolves, as well as with their first opponent, was not without injuries and some panic. Thanks to the prompts of the System, which arrived on time, they were able to get rid of them with great difficulty.

From the second day, the System began to issue unusual tasks.

Idan was tasked with butchering the corpses of 20 monsters. The reward for completing this task included a certain amount of local currency and System Points.

Arabel was given the task of learning how to cook 10 different dishes from the carcasses of the monsters they killed. The reward for this was also in the form of local currency and System Points.

Idan did not object to such an assignment, but Arabel was surprised at first, and then confused, realizing that she had never cooked in her entire life.

”Does the system really want to make a housewife out of me?” she asked Idan after a long silence.

”Maybe,— Idan replied without hesitation. Arabel stared at him, speechless.

Unlike Idan, Arabel began to wonder what the System really wanted. After all, itʼs called the Supreme Wife System. What should a wife be like, according to the System? Especially the one with the title of ”Supreme”.

Should a wife cook? And what other duties are assigned to her?

Have children? Educate them? Support her husband? To wash and cook?

”No! No! No!” Arabel thought in panic. She wasnʼt prepared for this turn of events. Would the System really start giving her only such tasks?

Just the fact that the System had instructed her to prepare the dishes made her uneasy. And Idanʼs assignments were also related to his responsibilities as a husband—to provide food for the family. To do this, he needed to learn how to butcher corpses.

And then Arabel had an idea. Perhaps our level rise depends on fulfilling the responsibilities that correspond to our role, which the System has defined for us? In order to become stronger, she needed to take on the role of a Wife, and Idan needed to take on the role of a Husband?

This could explain why the System remained silent. At that time, the relationship between Idan and Arabel was only superficial and represented a mutually beneficial cooperation. The system understood that they did not yet fit the role of husband and wife.

Idan only made an offer, and Arabel accepted it. They were not married yet, and neither were ready for this step.

Everything that happened was the work of the System, and their relationship was also connected to the System. Therefore, their relationship has not progressed far these days. They were together only because of the System.

However, on reflection, Arabel realized that she could fulfill her duties as a wife without improving their relationship. Before sharing her thoughts with Idan, she decided to test her guesses and began to complete the tasks of the System.

In recent days, Idan had been diligently studying the butchering of corpses. And Arabel finally took out the kitchen set she received as a reward from the System from her storage and began her first attempts at cooking.

The first results of both were far from perfect.

None of them expected that the System would evaluate their work and reject all their initiatives. For all the attempts to divide the corpses, Idan received an unsatisfactory rating from the System, and his advice was simple.: ”Work harder.”

Arabel also tried to cook, but her first courses often turned out to be unsuccessful: some burned, others were over-salted, and others overcooked or undercooked. The system was stricter with her than with Idan, and constantly pointed out her mistakes without considering the emotions she was experiencing at that moment.

Because of this, the coupleʼs mood has been depressed over the past three days.

And now it was their fourth day in this world. As usual, they did not sleep all night and, moving deeper, they were no longer the inexperienced beginners they were on the first day. During these couple of days, they began to get used to it and behave more confidently, but because of the task of the System, their mood remained gloomy.

Soon they came to a small, clear clearing.

Admiring her beauty, the couple began to cross the clearing. Everything was quiet and peaceful, but when they reached the middle, they noticed that a couple of people came out of the forest right in front of them.

When the couple saw the silhouettes of two people, they were surprised. But when they took a closer look, they fell into a state of deep shock.

This couple was wearing the same clothes as them, their faces were identical to their own, and they were walking in the same rhythm.

Idan and Arabel stared in amazement at the people who looked like them, who stopped a few meters short of them and began to study them with the same expression of shock on their faces.

Idan and Arabel felt as if they were looking at themselves in a mirror. But what struck them the most was the expressions on the faces of their doppelgangers. They were calm at first, but when they stopped, their faces contorted in shock, just like theirs.

”Who are you?” asked Arabel, looking at their doppelgangers. In response, her doppelganger only moved his lips, but there was no voice. Arabel immediately realized that her doppelganger was imitating her movements and facial expressions, but unlike her, she couldnʼt speak.

She mentally commanded Idan to step back, and they both took a step back. However, their doppelgangers, instead of repeating their movement, stepped forward, approaching them.

Arabel looked at Idan in surprise, as if wanting to say something, and averted her eyes from her double. As she did so, a sinister smile appeared on her doppelgangerʼs face, which Idan immediately noticed.

Idan immediately realized that their doppelganger had ill intentions. He immediately warned Arabel about this, and the two of them, without waiting for the attack, drew their swords and rushed into battle. The doppelgangers, copying their movements, also drew their swords and rushed towards them.

While the couple and their doppelgangers engaged in a confrontation, a silhouette was quietly watching them from a branch of a large tree. The observerʼs clothes were similar to those of adventurers, like Idan and Arabel. He had a hood on his head that hid most of his face, which was wearing a fancy mask.

Watching the pairʼs battle with their doppelgangers, the silhouette shook his head sadly. He had already foreseen the outcome of this confrontation. If this continues, the couple will not escape a sad fate.

He got up and was about to leave when a small voice sounded in his head, like a little girlʼs whisper:

”Arenʼt you going to help them?”

”No,” he replied.

”But, Nemo, I have a strange feeling when I look at them. I canʼt explain it exactly, but it seems to me that we have to help them. If we leave them in this position, they wonʼt survive. You defeated your doppelganger with great difficulty, and they look like newbies, and they canʼt handle them without our help.”

The unexpected request from that voice in his head surprised the guy the voice called Nemo.

He stopped and turned his attention back to the battle that was about to change. Having made up his mind, he took off a small round metal shield from his back and attached it to his right arm, which was completely metal. And he waited for the right moment to intervene in the battle.