The next early morning I was getting ready to leave going north-east of The Empire, more specifically to the mountain ranges that are about a day on foot away, and the plan is to reach there when the sun's down and the Shadow Beast gets more active.
The books I studied about Shadow Beasts said that they are really rare to see because they like to stay hidden in the shadows, and that's why they mostly use the night as a cover. In one of the books, a report was folded and put between a page, and it reported that what was thought to be a Shadow Beast, was scaring soldiers and putting them on edge before a confrontation with the Northern Tribes when they camped close the same mountain range I'm heading to.
So if the Shadow Beast wasn't an already tamed, then they may actually be a very curious Danger Beast and not very aggressive but mischievous instead. I have never heard of anyone being directly killed by one, but many have gone insane by them so that actually leads me to what a Shadow Beast eats? If they don't kill humans do they even eat meat? That's one thing I couldn't find in the books.
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When I finally reached the mountain ranges, the sun already long gone over the horizon.
"Hah, finally here, it's such a drag traveling on foot! I can't ride a horse and it will hurt my pride asking for someone to teach me such a "simple" thing when I easily learned to drive a car in my previous life." I complained to myself a little before my stomach rumpled.
*RUMPLE*
"Well guess I should eat something first before searching for the Shadow Beast" On my way here I was attacked by some human-sized lizards with class 3 strength, but they were easily killed without even moving my hands away from my belt by using my Kagune to impale them.
Because I couldn't take their corpses with me, I just cut some of the good meat intending to eat when I get here.
When I was making my dinner, something else happened somewhere else.
---Somewhere else 3rd POV---
"Gegege" (Meaning = What an idiot-looking human)
The full moon was up and a shadow with 6 red eyes could be seen moving from the shadows of the trees like it was swimming, spying on a man camping with blond pointy hair, wearing a red coat, two nickel-plated revolvers with a top break reloading mechanism hidden inside, and a pair of round sunglasses resting in his hair.
"Damn I'm starving hahaha" the man laughed foolishly while tapping his stomach.
"While the food is cooking I should clean my partners so they don't rust hahaha," He said to himself while laughing again to himself.
Then he took out his two silver revolvers and began cleaning one first while the other laid beside him.
"Gegege" (Meaning = Oh what is that? They are shiny and beautiful, and I want it!) said the shadow hiding a distance away while observing the revolvers.
Then it slowly crept behind the pointy-haired man and open its big mouth eating the revolver on the ground beside the man.
*GULP*
Then it swiftly escaped swimming through the shadows, without being spotted, then when it was sure it escaped successfully, it opened its mouth again and threw up the revolver again and inspected it, trying to find out what it does.
"Gegege" (Meaning = What does this shiny thing do? And why does it have this thing here?) It asked itself, before pulling the trigger.
"BANG" and a bullet were fired with a bang and the shadow flew backward while dropping the gun, and alerting the pointy-haired man.
"Who stole my Angel?" the man yelled calling the revolver Angel and running in the direction of the shadow.
"Gegege" (Meaning = So this shiny thing makes loud sounds, but the stupid-looking human is coming for it after he heard the bang, so I have to run!) It said while sounding like a creepy giggling ghost and ate the revolver again, then ran away.
10 minutes of fleeing, it tried running in different directions, but it could not shake the man off, it was like the man knew the direction the revolver is.
"Gegege" (Meaning = I can't shake him off, oh there's another human over there. Then let's make it more fun, hehe.) the shadow changed the direction to where it located another human.
---Back to Tatsuki's POV---
While I was eating my newly made food in peace and tranquillity, I heard a sound beside me.
*THUD*
Then I turned my head to the side while still looking unguarded on the outside, but actually I was on guard against an attack.
When I looked around I found a silver gun on the ground, so I simply picked it up and inspected it, but while I did that I heard a loud voice close by.
"You dare steal my Angel while I was not looking?!" a funny-looking man with pointy-hair and wearing a red coat is pointing his finger at me, blaming me for stealing someone called Angel?