196. Forbidden from leaving the library
Choco has been quite dissatisfied lately. She is helpless. She’s been fighting a lot of powerful enemies lately, but she’s rarely been in a fight.
Of course, it wasn’t that Choco was incompetently lacking, but her cream was too good nonetheless. Even so, she couldn’t steal the boss’ prey.
As her unresolved feelings of uneasiness piled up little by little, an opportunity finally came to her.
“Sister, I’m having a hard time…”
“Let’s go a little further. Huh? Not nice.”
Hundreds gathered and joined forces, but among them, of course, there were also those without combat skills and children. The unfortunate little brother and sister became the hound’s first prey.
Behind the brother and sister who ran while holding their breath, a shadow smaller than the two of them flew up.
“Who… Me?”
Choco was not very reluctant to slaughter her weaklings. Not only did these little things not fill her stomach properly, but she instinctively learned that she was holding up the food web, being the prey of other halfway predators.
In addition, it is not good to intentionally inflict pain on the prey by inflicting wounds instead of killing them instantly with a single surprise attack because the quality of the meat deteriorates. Over time, other predators may find out.
However, the prey scattered here are rare and valuable in the world outside her, despite her weak body, and even now there are no predators to be wary of.
No, these are all excuses.
“No. Something smells familiar…”
“Don’t approach me!”
When Choco revealed her appearance, her younger brother among her siblings approached her without hesitation. Although the shapes of their ears were different, they were the same beastmen, much less even their ancestors.
However, unlike her younger brother, who was only within her castle walls, the older sister’s side seemed to have heard or seen something about the ‘guest’ who came this time. Or maybe it’s because it’s unfamiliar in the current situation, but I don’t know if I’m wary.
The important thing is that smartness doesn’t always bring meaningful results.
“Ah.”
Choco opened her mouth daintyly. Beyond her small lips, where not even her fist could fit, a clear red flesh was revealed at a glance.
Choco lowered her head as if to kiss her at her young child who approached her carelessly, and the shadow pulled into her arms overlapped. When her boy’s eyes go round.
Choco opened her mouth wide.
Warddeuk.
There were no screams. The girl’s oral structure, which resembles a pure human being because she did not transform into a beast, shattered all the neck bones of her boy with just the strength of her teeth.
However, no matter how young the boy is, he is still a pure-blooded beast. Even though her neck bones were shattered, she struggled to escape without instantly dying. Choco strained her arms that gripped her boy.
It was something too violent to be a hug. It is said that a bear has the power to hug a beautiful tree and pull it out by the roots. That was exactly what the boy was facing right now.
“Two.”
Spitting out the remaining bone fragments from her mouth, Choco turned her head to look at her prey’s sister. Her face hardened as she couldn’t move as if she was embarrassed by the unpredictable situation.
Throwing away the corpse she was holding onto, Choco flew forward. She struck her sister’s skull with a single blow, a tiny, baby-like fist smaller than a normal human’s hand.
I’m not good at fighting, and in the Tower of the Four Seasons, the beast’s wildness has lost all of its teeth and claws. Even so, only that tough vitality remains. They couldn’t even die in peace.
No, it wasn’t impossible at all. If only Choco had abandoned the form of a little girl and assumed the form of a beast. Even if that wasn’t the case, if I had drawn the power of the stars I received from someone up there.
“Hmm.”
But Choco didn’t do any of that.
Her preferred hunting method was to catch her open and then bite her by the scruff of her neck at once. It’s not like playing with prey while inflicting unnecessary pain like this.
A young beast learns to hunt by watching its mother. But Choco was abandoned by her mother as a child, and since then she has had to learn her own way out of her world.
And she was still growing up.
“It’s better than I thought, isn’t it?”
And a growing child needs a lot of nutrients. It’s not just about eating, but also mentally.
Choco trembled for a moment as she felt the touch of blood on her knuckles. The reason she was reluctant to deal with her underdog was simple enough. Because she has nothing to eat, and she breaks too easily.
However, her fighting skills are clearly weak, but her survivability alone is amazing. These prey with excellent sense of hitting awakened a new sense inside Choco.
“Adults will know how.”
“Why not open! Why won’t it open!”
Choco closed her eyes and tilted. She couldn’t hide it, she heard the hasty footsteps and smelled the faint fear of her prey.
The cage made of thoughts was not very large. On the side where Cream and Carval were located, the bookkeepers had all fled, so they were scattered, and their location was sufficiently traced.
Choco’s eyelids opened again, and her hideous golden eyes flashed. As soon as the situation was sorted out, she jumped out.
“Go ahead, hurry up!”
「”It is still too early to give up. Use more medicine…”
The ‘story’ that they open the book was quite difficult even for Choco. When she found a group of new prey and pounced on her, her bookkeeper, who seemed to be her leader, sent her children to stand alone against Choco.
The gentleman in the story shook his pipe, and the gray-blue mist that gushed out of the hole caused Choco’s nervous system to malfunction. However, her near-immortality and her regenerative powers reversed all of her damage in an instant.
However, the story also has her resilience, so no matter how much Choco tears and cuts, the finished story repeats itself from the beginning and tenaciously holds on to her.
“Ugh.”
For a moment, the book keeper’s face was filled with hope. Of course, the story won’t be able to redeem this ‘guest’ forever, but if you wait a little longer, even one more person will be able to escape.
Unfortunately, it was a false hope from the premise. Annoyed, Choco ignited her thunderbolt, and the story slowly ignited in the electric current radiating from her body.
It’s hard to believe from her usual behavior, but she’s a saint. Even among all users of divine power in this world, no one with greater divine power than her could exceed her hand.
It is a power that just overflows without elaborate spells or perfect control, but its enormous output is enough to wipe away everything that stands in the way of the hound.
“Why, why are you doing this? Why!”
The escaped bookkeepers were caught one by one, and were mercilessly torn apart by her violence, which did not know how to control her strength. Most of the presence felt now has diminished. What’s left.
Choco just sat down. Without making the slightest effort on her part to hide her own presence, she neglects.
The bookkeeper was astonished as if he had a fit when he saw Choco covered in the blood and flesh of countless relatives. He floundered and stuck his head at the end of this garden of the Four Seasons.
“Let me go, let me go!”
Kung. Thud. But no matter how much he banged his head against the wall, he couldn’t escape this half-real, half-dream world. As if some force was blocking his entry.
There was no need to rush. Choco approached her opponent with a deliberately slow step. She banged her head against the wall, bleeding from her forehead, and the bookkeeper gnashed her teeth and shouted:
“What the hell, why are you doing this! Stop right now!”
Of course, Choco didn’t listen. This time, she’ll break her opponent’s head off with her headbutt. As she leisurely thought about that, Choco’s expression suddenly stiffened as she approached.
As she bounced backwards like her spring water, something in her slammed into the spot where Choco had been a moment before. The clouds of her dust lifted, revealing the shape of her teeth that soon assailed her.
It was the young bookkeeper who first guided Choco. The appearance of her flustered being caught in Choco’s side was nowhere to be seen, and in contrast to her young appearance, the bookkeeper’s expression and attitude showed her age.
“Elders…”
“Please stop, sister.”
The story danced at the bookkeeper’s fingertips. However, it was not the shape of the ‘book’, which is a shape wreath as the mental body of most book keepers. Something that looks like a bow or a one-string harp.
Unreasonable objects that could exist because it was in the spirit world, and the sharp murderous intentions emitted by the arrowheads attached to the strings were real. Choco stopped laughing and glared at her opponent with a wary expression.
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“What, are you hiding your power?”
“Because I wanted to know what kind of person the sister I met ‘outside’ was. What will be our people who have abandoned their sacred duty…”
Her mild and foolish appearance was nowhere to be found, and she raised her eyes ferociously.
“However, reality is always crueler than imagined.”
At first, Choco felt the other forest keeper she had targeted run away, but Choco couldn’t take her step. Although I don’t know exactly what arrow the bookkeeper is aiming straight at.
Her intuition was ringing the alarm. That’s dangerous. On the contrary, chocolate has a strong regenerative power.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Umm, because the owner ordered it?”
For such a shallow reason, the book keeper’s face was contorted with disgust and pity.
“A long time ago, there was a time when humans enslaved fairies and beastmen… There were records like that. With all that power, do you not even have your own free will?”
“What are you talking about? This is my free will.”
She didn’t mind getting close to the arrow and Choco took a step closer with her chest straight.
“That’s what I want to say rather. Wasn’t it like that when you said it last time? We are all descendants of divine beasts. Funny, really.”
“······What do you want to say?”
“Everyone is in good shape. Huh. Sturdy, fast. Still, I was weak.”
The most prominent of the bookkeepers supported the weight of thoughts in the center of the castle of books, and when the castle of books collapsed, they were swept away by the tower of swords and perished together.
Of course, most of the non-combatants are running away. Nevertheless, this level is disappointing. Choco clicked her tongue and continued her words as if looking at something pathetic.
“Who is calling whom a slave? You don’t seem to have any freedom, let alone free will. No matter how good your body is, what do you do? You forgot how to even use it.”
A body blessed with near-immortality regenerative power, innately powerful strength, and the best of all beasts in the world. Even so, the bookkeepers were really weak.
Instead of polishing their original bodies, they devoted themselves to dealing with thoughts as book keepers, and they collapsed so easily even in the face of small pain.
“No, they are not slaves, they are completely livestock. Confined to a small place for hundreds of years.”
“What! How could you say that…”
Choco was pathetic about such things. Since she was very young, she wandered the streets alone and overcame all her difficulties with her own strength. For her, her strength was the measure of the value of an existence.
And, although these prey were easy to play with, they had no value as hunting targets. Yes, the same is true of her book-bearer who is blocking her now.
Surely, that ability is so great that even Choco can’t belittle it. However, her practical experience is extremely lacking. Much better than her other bookkeepers, but still in her choco eyes.
“Ah!”
That Book Keeper, too, was not something she would declare her hunt for.
Choco’s body trembled as if she would jump out at any moment. The moment he reflexively released the protest, the book keeper realized his mistake. Choco’s body flexed elastically in the opposite direction to where she was first shot.
The arrow with all those stories gathered didn’t even touch Choco and flew off and got stuck in a tree. Dozens of human faces sprouted from the trees, and the branches began to sway like human limbs.
“Really, it’s too flimsy.”
An arrow of a story packed with vast amounts of information into the size of the palm of your hand. If it had been hit by immeasurable information and thoughts contained within it, it would have instantly destroyed the insignificant shell of the self and assimilated both body and mind into the flow of these thoughts.
However, no matter how incompetent a sword is, if it falls into the hands of her husband, the blade will become dull. The book keeper, feeling his mistake, threw down the harp and transformed.
She is also a pure-blooded prisoner. She hasn’t even lost her divine factor yet. Her silver hair rose in waves and her body swelled in an instant.
Unlike her ears that reminded me of a rabbit, her book keeper’s transformation body was a ferocious monster itself. There was no part of her body that was not a weapon, and her limbs were as thick as a log. At most, the only traces of her transformation are a pair of pricked ears.
“Phii!”
“Kwalwalwalawalwa!”
As if responding to a bird’s scream or whistle, Choco’s body jumped high into the air and swelled in an instant. The five-meter tall beast crushed the bookkeeper at once.
A beast with dark brown fur resembling a chestnut and a beast with silver fur resembling the moon rolled their teeth at each other, clawing their claws. The entire area was shaken by the clash of enormous power.
However, the superiority and inferiority of power was obvious. In terms of size and fighting skills, the Book Keeper was no match for Choco.
[Still, one is…]
I looked into the distance at the silver beast, soaked in tears and pain. This is the place where a bookkeeper ran away a little while ago.
That was her end. The beast with dark brown fur opened its mouth to tear, and swallowed the upper body of the silver beast whole. There was such a weight difference between the two.
The dark brown beast also had wounds all over its body, but they healed quickly enough to be seen. With her teeth driven into the silver skin, Choco remained still for a moment.
All of those senses are vividly felt. My heart beats harder and my blood vessels squirm more violently to repair the punctured body. But all that struggle was in vain.
Enemy. Enemy.
Every time Choco nudged the silver beast’s upper body, her undead body flinched and trembled. Soon, Choco slammed her teeth into her teeth.
Damn it. With the sound of something being torn apart, the silver beast’s upper and lower body were ripped apart. Without chewing the chocolate properly, she gulped down half of the silver beast.
Certainly, at this point, I was full. On the contrary, she didn’t chew properly, which made her feel more bloated. Choco lightly stretched her body as she felt her body grow tired little by little.
The hunt isn’t over yet. Choco’s senses thump from afar. Thud. She hears a resounding sound.
“Let me go, let me go!”
Inside the tower of her Buddha chips, now her pure white coffin, her last bookkeeper was calling her.