Chapter 10: Eating
Lee Han-yeong placed her hand on my chest, and the trembling stopped.
At that moment, from the highest vantage point, the monster that had been staring down at me swelled with wariness and sent ripples through the surroundings.
At its menacing warning, I immediately underwent monsterization again and placed Lee Han-yeong beneath my body.
“You’re... a good kitty... huh, huhu...”
Whether she had realized it was an act of protection, she let out a pained voice.
A dying human—something already no different from a corpse—what need could there possibly be to protect such a thing?
This is my prey. Saliva dripped from my mouth at the hunger that flared from the monster’s instincts.
And yet, a resistance powerful enough to ignore the emptiness, to overcome the monster’s primal urges, held my will firmly in place.
“Can you... win...?”
At Lee Han-yeong’s barely-moving lips and faltering words, I turned my gaze toward the massive wolf.
A dominating force—now that we had both exposed our strength through monsterization—my instincts stirred restlessly.
That thing, as it is now, is stronger than I am.