Burning Forest (1)
If you suddenly think about it.
Sometimes memories from my previous life come to mind.
Werewolves.
My kin. My bunch. And… My precious family.
Now I was faithful to the present to the extent that I sometimes forgot that I was a human being.
For me, the werewolves who raised me, protected me, and cared for me were not just members of a pack.
Now, even if I were to die, I would have been willing to die for them.
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Now come they.
They… Really became everything to me.
Come now, fully adapted to the current life.
If you stare at the bright moonlight rising in the far night sky and think carefully,
Perhaps God granted my wish.
The family wants to have it.
I wonder if someone in this world has fulfilled my most simple and primitive wish, even if it is in the present form, even if the form is different.
That’s why I-.
Every time I go to sleep, I always say a prayer of thanks to a being whose name I don’t even know.
Of course all of this could have just been a coincidence,
Although it could have been something similar to Mother Nature or a transcendent unspoken arrangement.
‘Nevertheless, always. I cannot help but be grateful to that unknown being.’
Sincerely.
I can’t help but thank you.
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Kwaduk! Quadduk!
The Kraken’s tentacle legs, like the pillars of a huge building.
The werewolves continued their predation by recklessly tearing at the flesh with their snouts embedded in that large piece of flesh.
It was the same in winter.
[Kurrurerreu-.]
Just with a frown.
At worst, the discomfort leaked out like a growl.
Awesome. Cringe
The texture of this Kraken is not a joke, it is the worst of the worst.
‘What’s with all this stuff?’
Georeum chewed the kraken flesh in his mouth with a distorted face.
‘Toughness is also filthy tough. The stench is also terrible.’
It’s fishy, tough, awful, and tasteless.
It was salty, and the texture of the liquid was sticky.
Actually, winter doesn’t seem to be the only problem.
The facial expressions of the werewolves eating the Kraken’s flesh were not all good. Some even had a dead complexion while eating.
“Hey hey.”
“Miu Miu.”
Even Yu and Yumi were crying.
Because I’m much younger than the rest of my kind.
His two sisters, who had no concept of ‘patience’ yet, strongly expressed their intention not to eat any of this worst flesh, and insisted on catching a new game.
“…”
Even Yuhwarin’s mother, with a disgusted complexion, was chewing on lean meat.
I just shook my head helplessly.
It was a clear expression of rejection.
‘Ha ha.’
Looking at that scene, Winter let out a deep sigh.
‘I wish I did too. The problem must be that I can’t throw it away.’
I didn’t like to eat.
All of my own people were like that.
But even so, it was impossible to throw it away.
If you were to throw away this huge mass of flesh, where would you be dumping it?
Is the size a bit big?
Even one leg of this tentacle is the size of several train cars connected together.
I didn’t usually go through a lot of trouble when I brought it in, but I had to go through that much more to throw it away.
‘Furthermore, the decaying flesh will vibrate. If I throw this away, even if I can’t do it, the forest around there will be vibrating with germs along with the stench.’
If you throw away a piece of flesh this big, at least the area around it becomes a realm of death until at least this flesh rots away.
The stench and germs would follow, and most normal life forms, except for a few, could not live in such an environment.
After all, there was such a series of problems.
I was also reluctant to throw it away.
Still, it wasn’t so bad that I couldn’t even eat it at all.
I was able to eat somehow.
However, since I have become an 8-year-old who needs to fill my stomach for a while with this, I will have to suffer for a while.
[…]
Winter pierces the paralyzed olfactory system and struggles to get rid of the stench that stings the roof of the nose.
I looked at the system window in front of me.
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Looking at the open talent shop window.
Kyeo-gyeol chewed on what was in his mouth.
‘…Invertebrate characteristics, doesn’t the same thing open? In fact, the biggest feature of squid is their invertebrates.’
Well, if you think about it, there’s nothing strange about it.
Most of the invertebrates were much smaller than humans.
‘If these huge guys can keep their shape intact without bones, that’s rather strange.’
In fact, when I turn my head and look at the chunks of flesh my people are eating, I can see thick, white pieces of bone sticking out here and there.
In one way or another, this monster, like other animals on Earth, has no choice but to have a basic skeleton to support its body.
In addition, it had twelve legs instead of ten like common squids.
Although they are the same squid, the difference between squid and kraken is as stark as their size.
It was not surprising that there was such a difference.
Because monsters and animals that have adapted to magical powers are inevitably different.
Then suddenly.
Georeum remembered Inari and Luna in the cave, and turned her gaze to them.
Leakage-.
[…]
With their eyes closed, Inari and Luna are soundly asleep in a fur nest carefully prepared in the cave.
I see the two of them sleeping, exhaling evenly.
Suddenly, from the cross section of that figure.
Georeum overlapped with the image of herself lying in the nest.
‘I used to sleep like that all day too.’
Inari and Luna.
The two spent most of the day sleeping.
Actually, there was very little time awake, and even that was all about crying out to their mothers, Eve and Rubris, asking for milk.
Everybody was like that when they were babies.
He spreads his little hands toward his mother and cries for her milk. The mother is willing to embrace them with affection and give them milk.
It’s probably the same for both humans and werewolves.
Still, there have been some changes in that short period of time.
‘Because now Luna can also be humanized.’
The day after Inari transformed into a human girl.
After that, Luna was also able to change into the form of a little girl.
If you see something like that.
In general, there are differences between individuals, but from a large perspective, similar corners seemed to overlap each other a lot at some point.
Occasionally, their tiny limbs can be seen twitching and trembling as if electrified.
Winter’s mouth went up a little.
They’re always cute.
In effect, this would mean that only winter could not take on a human form.
But if you keep chewing the cud over and over again, there’s no use anyway.
‘If you can’t, you can’t. There’s no way I can come up with an answer even if I think about it.’
It was then.
Awkward!
Suddenly, winter, which was concentrating on predation, stopped.
His two antennae were pulled tight as never before.
It’s creepy.
I could feel the fur all over my body standing upright as if an electric current had flowed in an instant.
The atmospheric layer began to change in an instant.
His beards also sensed it and swayed like threads.
[…]
Unbeknownst to me, he jumped up from his seat.
“…Hmm?”
Yuhwarin, the mother of winter, looked back at him curiously.
Before he had time to respond to her question, he blankly raised her head and looked in one direction.
‘It’s coming.’
The sky far away.
The side facing the north.
It was like a premonition.
‘It’s coming.’
Goooooh!
Far away. From very far away.
I could see black flames burning like the flames of hellfire.
Even though it was obviously a very long distance, I began to feel the ‘magic power of that thing’ clearly in the winter snow.
It was a confident intuition.
He’s coming.
Towards this place.
‘…Fenix.’
With the appearance of the catastrophe that was finally approaching, that was pronounced.
The two pupils of winter glared at him in a bright yellow vertical shape.
The bastard has finally approached their territory.
The beat of winter began to run steeply.