The Wolf was staying still. It was like they were about to cast a spell... No, it was about to cast a spell. The very same one that defeated me earlier. I prepared myself. I was too far away to stop the casting at this point, so the only thing I could do was to prepare myself and dodge when the moment came.
Icicles appeared out of the icy fog and rushed at me. Last time I got hit by every one of these things, but this time was different. This time I was ready. The icicles were only a meter away, time felt like it was moving slowly. I Moved my body as hard as I could and dodged the Icicles.
"H-Haha... I did it." The grin returned "Now it's my turn to attack!"
I rushed at the wolf at full speed, my fist up ready to punch using all of my power. And there I was, about to kill this wolf. Did I really want to do this? I guess not, but I needed to, to realistically survive in this world. I needed to become powerful. Huh, I guess I adapted to this whole in another world thing pretty easily... strange. I was only one foot away from the wolf, I was going to end it's life right there. I felt slightly bad for the wolf, if only it hadn't been born as a monster, it could have lived a life as a Human, or maybe a Demihuman. It's really sad how unfair this life is.
I felt my fists impact on the wolf's body. I had done it. No... I had almost done it. The wolf was still alive, and more fired up than it had ever been in its life. He wasn't going down without too much of a fight.
I chuckled lightly "You're quite the resilient thing aren't you? Well, I'm sorry, but you have to die for my sake!" I ran at the monster again. My attack hit it's stomach, so that would be its weak point. That is where I would have to hit. The wolf opened it's mouth and I saw something in it. it looked like extremely cold air.
"W-Wait a minute..." Realization struck me. "DAMN IT-" I attempted to jump back, but it was too late. The Icy air in its mouth was about to be released. Huh, it's like time is moving slow again. Is this going to be one of those things where my life flashes before my eyes? Memories started flooding my head. "He's a useless child." "All he ever does is mess up" "He should just go and do us all a favour by killing himself!"
These memories were the ones of my childhood. My entire family hated me. Maybe that's why I became a shut-in and stuff... I'm really going to die, aren't I?
The Icy air had hit its mark, the air made everything hard to see, almost impossible... I was dead. I knew I was always destined for failure, but this really hit hard.......
Did you fall for my lie? Like I would die that easily. The fog began clearing up, revealing my arm completely frozen in ice. I broke the limb off and the ice melted along with my arm.
"Heh, you can't get rid of me that easily!" I mean, my story did just start, didn't it?
The wolf had fear in its eyes, seeing how I was still alive. I moved closer to the wolf. My steps noise filling the room. the disgusting smell of blood clouding my nose. I was at the Wolf. This time I wouldn't fail in killing it.
"System, Activate Gluttony," I said, feeling the remorse of my actions filling me.
{Of course, Host.} My body began melting down and moving over the wolf. The wolf was resisting to no avail. This feeling... I felt happy, but also sad. This wolf didn't deserve this, did they? No, they lost the battle and I won. It's that simple. In the world of monsters, it's kill or be killed.
The Wolf was yelping in pain, my body slowly consuming it. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't help feeling bad for the thing.
'No. Ignore those feelings, you need to survive' I thought to myself. The reality of the situation hit me. I'm not in my safe modern world anymore. I'm in a medieval world, full of dangerous monsters and things like magic. I could die at any moment. So the only way for me to survive is to become strong.
The wolf's yelping stopped, I knew I had fully devoured it. I took the life of another living being. Yeah, I did it before... but this felt different than the bats, lizards and that vampire. This wolf had real empathy. It had the capacity to love. I'm not saying that a vampire couldn't, but I knew that one was evil. But this wolf... It wasn't evil at all. It just wanted to survive. A question struck me. Is anything evil at all?
I sighed as I turned back into my semi human-like form, still missing the arm. I sat down, leaning against the wall.
"I guess I'm pretty weak if it took me that much effort to kill a wolf..."
I talked to myself, trying to ignore the remorse I had. "Yeah... I'm really weak..." And with those words, I fell asleep.
[Chapter 6 end]