Mohan was stupefied after hearing the comment he heard from behind him as this was not like he killed the morph's parents or his wife and that thing whatever it was didn't even have proof that he stole something from him. He felt there was something wrong with this whole incident.
As he couldn't outrun it, the morph pounced on him with intentions to harm him as clear as day. Facing the morph, Mohan couldn't do anything in panic even with his increased strength. Morph was an adult in his 40s so he had an advantage compared to a 17-year-old youth in this bout.
Facing the assault from a grown-up adult Mohan fell again to the ground, only during the instance of contact with the morph he felt the strength difference between the two was not as much as he had expected, feeling the same morph also frowned but he had a rising feeling that he should get what he wanted no matter what so he didn't think further about this.
Pushing Mohan onto the ground morph started tearing the dress apart without caring about the protest from Mohan after not finding anything on him, he stared at Mohan's body as if, if he tore it apart he could find what he was searching for.
Mohan tried to throw away the morph facing his intense gaze that seemed to penetrate his body, he screamed and shouted for help but no one came to help him. All his protests were useless against the morph. Morph tried to tear open Mohan's body but couldn't as all he did was scratch him all over his body. Its face brightened seeing this.
Facing the threat for his life, Mohan mustered up all the strength he could to push away the morph, and stood up again vigilant eyes to defend against the morph. Morph being thrown away became deranged like a mentally ill person, he continued his assault without any care even knowing he couldn't overwhelm Mohan as easily.
Mohan watched the rushing morph as he searched for something to defend against him or even to knock him down unconscious, unable to find anything useful he too rushed to face him head-on as he knew he could not escape from this situation. They both brawled like angry wild Indian bison which has trespassed another's territory but due to morph's ferocious behavior he held the upper hand, he used everything in his body to attach resorting to even biting. Mohan knew that he couldn't let this go on as he had already starved for months and only due to his adrenaline he could hold on till now.
Seeing the deranged behavior of the morph that didn't care about anything, Mohan's mind flashed with a plan, while defending against the fatal attacks to the neck from the morph's bite he held his hand in its way, taking the bite in his hand, the pain from the bite made his mind go blank for a second he never imagined that a bite would cause such pain. Seeing the dark reddish blood from Mohan's hand due to its bite, morph savored in its taste as if it was a nectar. Bearing the pain from the bite, Mohan took advantage of the morph's distraction and picked up a sharp object that was a few feet away and pushed it straight for the morph's head.
Even with his full effort, he couldn't puncture through morph's head in a single hit. Morph was only shot down as he growled from the pain of the hit. Seeing this Mohan wasn't so upset, as he went straight for the fallen morph before it could stand up and hit it in the head. He didn't care about the blood splattered on him and hit it till it was dead.
"THE MORPHED BEING IS DEAD…YOU HAVE PASSED THE HIDDEN CONDITION…MORPHED BEING'S BODY IS EDIBLE…"
Mohan heard the same mechanical genderless voice that he heard a few days back. But the content of the message was disturbing for him as he could clearly feel the insinuating meaning behind the message. It was indirectly suggesting him to eat the dead body of the morph.
As just a 17-year-old boy only after the adrenaline rush went away, it dawned upon him that he had ended the life of a similar living being that was breathing just a few hours ago and he couldn't bring him alive ever again.
It dawned upon him that everything he knew from before he went comatose has no meaning in this new world, that has changed in a direction unknown to everyone, even to the brilliant minds all around the world who never had even a whiff of what is going to happen to their world, let alone a 17-year-old.
All things began to sink in slowly to him as couldn't keep on carrying all the rules from before as it would only drag him from going forward. World has become the literal synonym of all the novels he read before, "It is a jungle, the only law that is applicable is the 'law of the jungle'". At the same, the only laws that he going to follow are those that are beneficial to him.
He didn't believe he was the only one that is alive after seeing the morph so he knew all the others who had faced the same situation would come across the same dilemma so he couldn't keep on dragging the matter, as if he didn't take the chance all the others who took it would rush forward leaving him in the dust only to regret later.
Seeing the dead body he knew that consuming him would be beneficial to him as he also felt the same feeling as the morph even before the system confirmed it. But he didn't know how to proceed further as he did not have any cannibal experience before all this, he didn't know whether it was allowed to cook the body before eating or not.
Not taking any chances he decided to eat it raw as he didn't know whether cooking would ruin the benefits he would get. Holding his breath to avoid the gut-wrenching metallic smell from the blood he used the same sharp object he used to kill, he cut a piece of meat from his hand. He took a bite of the piece that was hard to chew and rubbery texture to it, he couldn't taste anything from it, as he did all he could to think about something else to distract his mind from the blood flowing from his mouth otherwise he might vomit what he swallowed before.
After swallowing the whole piece he didn't feel any major change in his body so he knew this was not what he was supposed to do. Staring at the body closely one could never miss the abnormal bulge in the abdomen with its dark hue, so he decided to tear it apart to check whether that was what he was supposed to eat to gain something.