288 The Shedding (2/2)

”hah… hah…”

'He seemed to be completely useless at this point…'

I had originally inflicted that much damage on him as I expected to come back soon within 1 day, yet thanks to the unexpected gift that the Shaman left me, I wasn't able to realize that target, so it seemed like 4 days of enduring all of that under ice might have been too much on this wimpy Overseer, not to mention that there seemed to be something else that influenced him…

Leaving him aside for now, I looked at the buff demon who was facing the ground who I was the most worried about him running once the weakening effect that the Overseer had applied on him disappeared but luckily he seemed to be still in place, though he also looked like he was in a very bad state, but at least it wasn't as bad as the Overseer's…

”Hey… you…”

Calling out to him, I tried to shake him a bit to make sure he was still sane with hope that he wouldn't have turned into a vegetable like the Overseer seemed to…

Yet, just as I shaked him, I felt like I was touching something detached… as something slid off my hand… it was actually a gross piece of purple skin attached to some purple muscle tissues…

'Huh?'

Even after I withdrew my hand, as if it was some sort of a chain reaction that couldn't be stopped since it already started, the buff demon's body looked as if it was legitimately shedding…

His horns fell off, his skin and muscles melted away as if they were just a suit instead of his real body tissues, only to reveal a slightly copperish skin of a…

'A human…?'

The body of a human youth appeared under the pile of purple bloody tissues of muscles and skin, this human was so small that the icicles that I used to pin the buff demon's limbs to the ground hadn't even reached his body, this whole strange happening kind of reminded me of the scene of a caterpillar that metamorphosed to a butterfly…

'Could he have possibly been a human seed that managed to succeed in full demonification…?'

There was no possible way that any normal demon could spout out a human body after being shaken a little bit, but just to make sure, I tried doing the same to the Overseer but the result was that nothing happened as expected.

”Cough… cough…”

The sprout human that just slid out from the place the icicles were pinned thanks to the slimy blood let out a few coughs as he seemed like he just came to…

”What just happened… Where's Nia… Oh… wait… Right… that was just another dream…” as the sprout human opened his eyes he started to mutter a few incomprehensible words mixed with normal words as it looked like he was very used to this happening, but that was probably only because he didn't look at himself in the mirror…

”Ahem… Excuse me…?”

”Eh… Woah… What happened…?!”