CH 178.2

Chapter 178.2: Hot Flesh and Blood

「Meat, Meat… Meaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat…」

Though he could barely speak like a human, the way he walked on all fours with drool dripping from his mouth and a clearly lost face showed that he had lost his mind and turned into a beast in the truest sense.

And as if to demonstrate the fact, Yokomichi was lapped at his lips with his metamorphosed, branched tongue.

The skin around his mouth tore apart until his ears, just like the famous woman with a split tongue, as if to make it easier for him to eat more of his prey meat. But it was his densely packed, crooked fangs that were the true horror.

His razor-sharp fangs, hard-looking molar, and a row of crooked teeth that grew without a sense of unity were enough to elicit feelings of repulsion and fear. And that eerie mouth still hadn’t finished its transformation.

Yokomichi’s horn was beginning to grow from the side of his face… or rather, it appeared to be a massive jaw. It resembled chelicera in a spider or scorpion.

Yokomichi’s face was no longer human. With his chelicera wide open, he resembled a repulsive monster.

「MO-MONSTER!」

Thus, the famished monster dashed toward his prey.

「M-MEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!」

「ST-STAY AWAY, SA-SAVE ME, TAKA! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!」

Ooyama forced his paralyzed body to flee from the monster Yokomichi, crying out in despair like a girl. He attempted to get back on his feet and flee the scene. But he failed, and all he could do was crawl like a lowly bug.

And even that was too slow. Just like a butterfly caught in a spiderweb, resistance was futile.

「YOU CAN’T RUN, MEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!」

Contrary to his savage, bestial roar, he surprisingly unleashed a swift and powerful attack that could instantly kill his prey.

And that attack came from a long, scorpion-like tail growing from Yokomichi’s back. It was an ominous-looking tail with a violet-colored tendon and a black luster shell. The tip was bright-red, big, and sharp like a spear.

Predation Skill:

『Death Stalker’s Poisonous Spear Tail』：Tail of a giant scorpion that contains an extremely powerful neurotoxin.

The red scorpion’s poisonous spear struck right in the center of Ooyama’s defenseless back that was trying to crawl away from Yokomichi. The hypocrite homo who accused Momokawa of being sissy turned out to be the real sissy.

「KAH! Ha, Ha, Haaa…」

The stinger which transformed into a 30 cm long knife mercilessly pierced Ooyama’s back. But then, the overwhelming effect of neurotoxin didn’t even allow Ooyama to scream in pain. [TL: Serves you right!!]

Soon, his body could only twitch.

「FU! HA, FUHAA!」

Though neurotoxins are terrifying due to their paralyzing effect, the most terrifying aspect is that the target is fully conscious. Now that Ooyama was completely paralyzed, he could only watch in terror as the monster Yokomichi crept closer and closer to devouring his prey.

Yokomichi’s extremely foul stench aside, the sight of him walking on all fours caused extreme humiliation and fear because it looked like he was about to be ra*ed. Ooyama had an epiphany when he reached his lowest point of despair.

「I, shall, partaaakeee!」

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「――Hah! What I’m doing!?」

Yokomichi, who had escaped from extreme starvation, regained his sanity after consuming fresh prey.

「Ah, fu*k, I lost my sanity.」

And then, he noticed that he had just eaten another one of his classmates.

There was a pool of blood on the floor. And yet, not even a piece of bone, or meat remained. Everything had already been eaten till there was nothing left.

Though he ate every part of his prey until there was nothing left, he apparently did not eat his prey’s clothes; instead, he unconsciously peeled away the clothes before eating, much like peeling shrimp shells.

「Uhm? This gakuran’s trouser… Does that mean I just ate… a MAN!?」

Yokomichi was writhing on the floor, his face contorted, as if he wanted to vomit, but the taste of hot flesh and blood in his entrails was real. Originally, the gender didn’t matter for『Cannibal』; it was still delicious.

「Dammit, ain’t have any idea who the bastard is, but I shall forgive him just this time. It can’t be helped since it’s an emergency situation after all.」

Yokomichi finally consented after writhing on the floor for a while.

He had no idea who the classmate he had just eaten was, but he did recall that he had become severely malnourished.

Everything started when he was teleported into sandy soil with almost no living creatures.

「That fu*king desert stage.」

That dessert was part of the dungeon too. Yokomichi managed to capture a huge desert area all by himself.

The monsters that lived in the barren desert area where resources were extremely scarce were also extremely cunning in nature.

Yokomichi had eaten every single inedible monster he met in the desert area.

He devoured a rock-like lizard, a centipede chimera-like bug, an extremely nimble cactus, a yellow-colored rat that can fire electricity… and, finally, the huge scorpion-like monster, 『Death Stalker』, who had been waiting in the boss room.

Though he ended up losing his mind due to extreme thirst and hunger along the way, since he kept moving forward relying solely on his survival instinct, he managed to beat the boss and safely break through the desert area.

「Whatever, death stalker is really strong so the one that I ate should be quite powerful too… OOOOOOOOOO, HERE IT COMEEEEEEEEEES!!」

Predation Skill

『Ooyama Daisuke’s Fire Sorcery』：Reproduce part of mid-rank and low-rank fire spells.

『Ooyama Fire Fist Style』：Enables close combat with fire system reinforcement spell.

「DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, IT’S THAT FU*KING OOYAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! WHY DID I’VE TO EAT THAT FU*CKING HOMO OF ALL PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

Aside from Higuchi, who NTRed his Yukiko, and the delinquent Ryuuichi, a hot-blooded-looking man like Ooyama was the type Yokomichi despised the most. Especially since he noticed that the way Ooyama looked at him at times was similar to how the girls looked at him when they were repulsed.

「WHAT KIND OF FILTH DID I JUST EATT… THAT FU*KING SWEATY RETARD IS GOING TO MAKE ME SMELLY TOO! DAMMIT, QUICKLY GET OUT OF MY BODY YOU FUCKING HOMO!」

Despite his regret upon knowing that he just ate a man, and homo on top of that… the ability he got was worth it.

The ice spell he gained from eating his first victim, Nagae Yukiko, was limited to 「Part of Low-rank 」. That was only natural given the individual had never attempted to improve her abilities.

However, in Ooyama’s case, perhaps because he advanced so far in this dungeon, he learned a portion of a mid-rank spell in addition to a low-rank spell. As if that weren’t enough, he even incorporated those spells into his own unique combat style, 『Ooyama Flame Fist Style』.

「Fuhehe, this is it, with this Tendou fire isn’t scary anymore.」

Up until now, he could only excrete mucus with high heat resistance or fur with heat resistance, but now he gained the true power of pyromancer. That power brought with it true heat resistance, which shielded him from fire attacks.

「Dammit, when will the revenge event against that DQN Tendou arrive? I shall never forget that disgra―― OOOH? TH-This smell…」

Suddenly, a certain smell tickled his nose. The cave was filled with the smell of blood, but Yokomichi could smell the finest fragrance amongst the stench.

「This smell, Kotaro-kyun! H-He’s close by!」

Like a trained police dog upon detecting the smell of the criminal, Yokomichi was pushing onward through the cave. Fortunately for him, the path was straight.

There was no mistake, Kotaro Momokawa was right at the end of the tunnel.

Yokomichi’s tension was rising non-stop as he followed the smell that kept getting stronger the closer he was to Kotaro.

「UOOOOOOO, KOTARO-KYUN IS MY WAIFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!」

The open plaza that he rushed into at his full power―― was already empty.

「Eh… is this, the boss room? And it has been captured too?」

The corpse of a grilled giant crab lay in the center of the room. When he sniffed the place, he noticed that, in addition to the smell of Kotaro, there was also the smell of Ooyama and other people mixed in with the stench of blood.

It seems they just fought another classmate right after beating the boss.

And then, after meeting Ooyama and sniffing an unknown smell of another person mixed in with the bloody smell… He left the scene, assuming Momokawa Kotaro had already won the fight.

「Dammiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit…」

Yokomichi ended up crying tears of blood upon realizing that he had failed to eat Kotaro yet again.

「I MISSED HIM AGAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!」

Yokomichi, who had transformed into a grotesque-looking 『Cannibal』, was crying like a girl in love, but in the form of a savage beast.

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