I've been swallowed alive a lot by different creatures. It's very slimy inside and… I'm starting to like it. NOOOOOO!!!
Kazu, out.
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Tsuhhhgg! Tsuwwwk!
Everyone creates free time for themselves. It's not like I hunt monsters all the time. I also do some practice for killing efficiently.
Tsuhhhgg! Tsuhhhgk!
I am almost there. I'm throwing two knives with one hand.
Tsuhhhgg! Tsuhhhgg!
It's really hard. I regularly practice whatever I think of. Last time I researched how to die effectively while in battle. Dad once told me about Hara-Kiri which he emphasized as an honorable way of dying. In short, I just need to cut my abdomen.
Honorable or not, it takes minutes to die with that. Sigh. I don't know, maybe I got it wrong.
After trying different ways to die, I discovered one that worked for me. If I stabbed the sides of my neck enough, I would start to die right away, though it felt much more painful. But I wondered why stabbing the front or back of my neck didn't produce the same result. Instead, I would just drown in my own blood for minutes.
I had two ways to die that I prefer. One was to slice the sides of my neck, and the other was to stab the heart and then twist and pull it. The first one was faster, but I liked the second one better. It felt more natural and fun.
Tsuhhhgg! Tsuhhhgg!
That was enough for today. If I kept practicing regularly, I might be able to throw four knives in each hand with great accuracy.
I missed half of the targets, though. I picked up the twelve knives that I had thrown. They were all different, made of various materials. Five were nails, four were fangs, two were horns, and one was a tail. Yes, a tail. It belonged to a monster that had a hard and sharp tail. A weird monster, indeed. It never used its tail in combat, as though it was guarding something precious. Was its groin that important?
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I wandered around aimlessly after the practice.
Sohhws~
Something was moving in the bush.
A rabbit? It was hopping without any caution. From time to time, I saw animals like this.
Aww. It looked at me with its cute eyes~ I threw two knives with one hand. One missed and the other hit its forehead. It squeaked and died instantly.
There was no fun in killing animals. They didn't even fight back. I wondered how they survived. Should I torture one next time? I found their squeaks alluring. Was this how the strong felt about the weak? Did they see them as insignificant?
I kept walking while thinking about this.
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At last, a monster that used magic!
I blocked the incoming fireball by throwing a knife. Huh, it worked. It wasn't that powerful, then.
I sprinted towards the monster. It had six legs, but it didn't look like a wolf or a tiger. It was unlike anything I had seen before.
I noticed its eyes glowed red whenever it cast a fireball. It kept firing at me, but I didn't dodge. It left burn marks on me, but they didn't slow me down.
As I ran, I threw a knife at the six-legged monster, and then another one right after.
What??? It jumped. As if it knew it was futile and outmatched to fight any longer.
Hey, hey. Wasn't that too high?
"Hey! Wait up! Don't run! Let me kill you first!" I yelled, blurting out something absurd.
Huh? Fuhhh… Hahaha.
"Here, here, six-legged monster…" I taunted. I chased it slowly. Hahaha. This was fun.
It only knew how to jump. I could catch up with it just by walking.
I threw a knife at it whenever it was in mid-air.
Ick!
How cute, it squeaked like a rabbit. Should I torture it after I wore it out?
We played this game for a while.
Pwwwww!
Tsk! I was just getting started, but someone interfered.
Pwwwww!
Ah! It hit the six-legged monster.
Tsk, someone interrupted my game. What an asshole.
I dashed towards the asshole who threw some kind of projectile. I zigzagged between the trees, using their huge trunks for cover.
A spear? It flew past me, missing by a wide margin. The asshole couldn't even aim.
I had run far, but I still couldn't see the asshole. And its accuracy was getting better.
Pwwwwww!
Ahhh! It pierced my left shoulder, making my left hand go numb. The knife I held fell to the ground. I slowed down a bit, but I kept running.
It looked like a spear when it flew, but it wasn't. Air? Was it magic? It left a trail in the air that resembled a spear.
I saw you. I saw its shadow behind a tree.
I was about to throw the knives with my right arm when something hit me in the back and made me stumble.
Pwe!! I spat out the dirt that entered my mouth.
Another asshole?? No, that wasn't it.
I grabbed my knife and restarted.
I didn't move right away. It was a cunning asshole, all this time it could control the trajectory of its air spears. Yes, there was no one else around, it was just me and this thing.
Did it want to play tricks? I would give it one. I pretended to be dead and didn't blink at all. I waited patiently for this thing.
If a human saw me, they would notice a huge grin on my face. I couldn't help it, I was too excited.
What a careful creature, it took so much time to approach me. It kept looking around whenever it walked.
It resembled a monkey, but with scales instead of fur. And it was green, making it look invisible when near a bush.
Pwwwwww!
It fired at me from a close distance and hit my back. I didn't flinch or move. This kind of pain was nothing to me.
Pwwwwww! Pwwwwww! Pwwwwww!
Hey, hey. Wasn't that a little too much? This was getting annoying. If this continued, I would split in half. Dude, I was dead. Couldn't you see? Don't be a scaredy-cat and walk a few steps more.
When it used magic, some kind of faint red vein flowed in its hand. It used both hands to form the magic.
Three more steps and you would be dead, asshole.