Chapter 47: If I Hate You, I’ll Do It Again (6)

It was literally a tense situation.

The opponent had pulled out a red glowing energy blade, and I was also ready to activate the despair circuit at any time.

I don’t really want to eat humans, but…

I was so hungry that I would get irritated just by breathing, and when a magical girl whose name I didn’t even know kept getting on my nerves, I couldn’t hold it in any longer.

Ah, I didn’t want to do this.

Woof—woof—

“Huh?!”

I was starving to death until the very end, but I died.

Right now, I’m a new type who’s been depressing me with a despair circuit or something—Anyway.

The opponent’s expression was distorted as the despair spread in an instant.

His face looked like he’d never thought it would be this bad.

When I lifted the corners of my mouth because I found his shocked expression funny, he bit his lips tightly.

Surprisingly, he doesn’t despair.

Ordinary humans—well, even Peridot despaired immediately upon seeing my despair.

The plan to scare him enough to suck out his despair and then turn off his despair circuit and fight him was ruined from the start.

Now that it’s like this, what can I do?

I have no choice but to scare him sincerely.

“Should I start with his arms or his legs…”

“If I want to keep him from running away, his legs would be better, but judging from what he’s holding in his hand, it seems like it would be better to start with his arms.”

The magical girl aimed her blade at me, but she couldn’t hide her slightly shaking hands.

She wasn’t fine; she was just pretending to be fine.

The problem was that I hadn’t felt despair yet, but still.

“…This isn’t fun.”

I sighed and turned off my despair circuit.

It wouldn’t be fun or touching to eat someone who didn’t even feel despair.

Above all, I wouldn’t be full.

“Then why are you coming to a quiet person and swinging your sword at him, you?”

“Ha, are you calling that a question? You monster…”

Perhaps because she sensed the gap in strength, the magical girl’s attitude, which had been trying to kill me until just before, became obedient.

Her mouth was still rough, but judging by the blade made of hope energy shaking, it seemed like she had no more will to fight.

No, I thought she didn’t.

Phew—

“I won’t kill you. I have a lot to ask you. About the underground lab, and about the doctor.”

“Ah, this is what it’s going to be like.”

The part where she stabbed me in the stomach and said she wouldn’t kill me was really funny.

Was she being soft or stupid?

“No matter how much of a monster you are, you can’t run wild where Emerald is, right?”

“Phew.”

That wasn’t really the case.

I instinctively laughed at the other person’s misunderstanding.

No, in a way, it’s true that I can’t run wild because of Emerald.

They mean when they say that even though the direction is wrong, the answer is right.

“What’s so funny? I’ve never seen a monster that got stabbed by this blade and came out fine.”

“That’s definitely true.”

Maybe that’s what…

As the magical girl said, the feeling of my insides being shaken up wasn’t a very pleasant feeling.

It was as if a taser gun had been stuck in my insides.

The lump of hope that was starting to run wild inside my body was so painful that it almost made me feel good.

‘…But, you know.’

“If you were going to aim, you should have aimed for the neck.”

“What—”

Woof—

A monster is a monster, after all.

It was the same even if it had a human form.

Did you think that it would succumb to pain just because it looked human?

The magical girl, flustered by the despair circuit that was starting to spin again, tried to pull back, but my arms were much faster at wrapping around her body.

It was as if I had hugged her.

It was a pose that seemed to come straight out of a yuri manga, but the person who was actually being hugged had a pale face.

“You’re too soft, you. It would have been better if you had aimed for the vital spot.”

“This, damn it…!!”

“I don’t want to.”

If I let go, it was obvious that she’d swing her sword again.

Just holding on to her was hurting, and the strength to struggle was getting weaker and weaker.

Maybe she had given up resisting.

If not, she was pretending to give up resisting and waiting for an opportunity to attack.

“Isn’t it too quick to give up, considering you just stuck a knife in me?”

“_”

“I think it’s polite to respond when someone speaks…”

Was she trying to escape from the reality where she was easily subdued?

I tilted my head slightly, looking at the magical girl who was trying not to meet my gaze.

This wasn’t the reaction I wanted either.

She wasn’t a wild beast in a zoo, and if she continued to be indifferent, she thought it would just fall down on its own.

It seemed like she was deliberately thinking of something else so as not to despair…!

What if I did this?

I licked my lips, licked my saliva, and slowly opened my mouth.

It wasn’t as sharp as a monster’s teeth, but it would hurt if I bit her.

Then, I’ll eat her.

I won’t really eat her, though.

“Kyaat?!!?!”

Did I hear a crack?

Anyway.

As I bit the cheeky magical girl’s neck, her still body began to tremble like a live fish.

Whoa, whoa, stay still, you punk.

If I use the wrong amount of force, my throat will really be cut off?

The taste of the fishy blood in my mouth made me want to open my mouth, but the despair that flowed in the moment I tried to open it made me decide to bite just a little longer.

“T, this, s-ss-ss…!?!!”

“Auaaaung…”

“Hwaaaaak?!!?!”

Give me more despair, more.

Screaming is fine, but this hospital room is incredibly soundproof, so it would be best not to even think about help.

I said no to her shouts to let go, but my pronunciation was all muffled because I had her neck in my mouth.

“Ugh.”

“If I eat everything from head to toe, not leaving a single bone, who would be able to find you?

I’ll digest every single strand of hair.”

“Huh.”

Huh, I didn’t mean to cry.

But anyway, since the despair was flowing out, it didn’t matter.

“Even if she’s a magical girl, she might be scared because she’s a girl. Right?

It might be natural for a normal human to be terrified when something with the same appearance as a human bites their neck.”

“Then why did you come to my hospital room on your own, you?”

“…”

Even in her state of despair, the answer to my question didn’t come easily.

Did she receive professional training or something?

Well, judging from the fact that she talked about being a test subject created by the doctor and such, she might be the type who wanted to know the doctor’s whereabouts.

‘Emerald is like that, and this girl is like that too.’

Doctor, aren’t you too popular with the magical girls?

You’ve built up so much karma that these girls are all clinging to me.

That was the moment when I grumbled inwardly, badmouthing the doctor.

Kkuruk—

“Akari—! It’s time to go now!”

The door opened and the doctor came into the hospital room.

“Why. If you have something to say, finish it.”

“No, uh… I never thought you’d be eating.”

“Don’t just watch, close the door.”

When I gave him a hint with my eyes, the doctor, who had been standing there dumbfounded, carefully closed the door to the sickroom.

Anyway, it’s no help, no help.

“More importantly, I think this is one of your guests.”

“Me? Hmm… I’m seeing you for the first time.”

“…”

“Really? I think I know you, Doctor.”

If that’s not the case, then were you lying to me?

When I looked at the magical girl with that thought in mind, she began to blankly stare at the doctor with her wide eyes.

Her eyes looked extremely confused.

“Doctor… you say? You?”

“Yes, I’m the doctor. Do you have business with me or something?”

“If a magical girl had business with you, wouldn’t she naturally try to slit your throat?”

“What, don’t say such cruel things! You already know how much I’ve suffered under magical girls, and yet you say such things!”

I’m saying this because I know.

You need to suffer more, tsk tsk.

Anyway, the situation became much stranger because of the doctor’s appearance.

To be exact, it wasn’t stranger, but rather, it was more boring.

I couldn’t feel the despair I had felt until just now.

“The doctor is a man… well, uh…”

“Does he look suspicious even at first glance?”

“Judging from the way he closed his mouth at my words, it seemed like he was right.

After all, there are so many doctors in the world…”

“I even had to act like I wasn’t good because of you. Ugh, tsk tsk…”

He grimaced as he spat out the taste of blood remaining in his mouth.

I wonder if I’ll ever bite something that looks like a human again.

What on earth makes monsters enjoy this so much?

The smell was too monstrous to say it was just a difference in taste.

“.. So, what are you going to do with him?”

“I could put you to good use. That’s better than getting rid of you.”

If she was researching magical girls, she wouldn’t just kill her if I handed her over for research or something and just sucked out any despair.

“I don’t want to.”

“I knew you’d answer like that—what?”

“I said I don’t want to. Why should I do something nice for you?”

She wasn’t going to do anything with the girl in her arms, but it felt like a waste to give the doctor what I had worked hard to catch.

That’s why you told me to treat you better from the beginning.

“What can I do? I even saw you.”

“Well, I certainly… since she was a doctor who was over.

Well, she’d probably lock her in a—”