Vol 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Chapter 5 - Eating and Attaining

The conclusion arrived before even a s turning around, and you could say the result was only proper

With the group of hu since moved on, what I no before me were the remains of the slimes that had supposedly been alive a moment prior, and that was all

After checking that there weren’t signs of anything else around, I decided to take a closer look at those corpses for thethat maybe some of them had survived, but that naive delusion was quickly crushed Everyone here, no, every sli away

Slime A had been slashed with a sword too, and his body lay still with a huge cut running across half of it The partner that I’d had practically no connection to but had been in his ho but a speechless corpse noas proving to be more emotional than expected

But, this was probably just a fact of life in this world If there were people here getting eaten bythose monsters This was a world ruled by the so called law of the jungle And no confusion about it: I’d gotten caught in that circle too

Then if what I’d have to do froin fear either I had to work towards beco I’d die if I didn’t Just as cruelly, and just as pointlessly as Slime A did

Sorry, anything but that One unreasonable death was enough for me

Think, given ht now?

I could just leave at this point, but would that really be alright? I wondered if there was really nothing for ain here

Speaking of that, eating that poison earlier did getother stuff could possibly get me powers too

Take for example: these now completely dead sli till just noould still be fresh And since I’d acquired a resistance, it surely wouldn’t be a problem even if there happened to be some poison Yes, there were no proble up

But, there was no guarantee someone else wouldn’t come here if I didn't hurry up and eat theradually melt and turn to mush too

Melting right as I was thinking that; though the slimes had been jelly-like when they were alive, they were looking to be creatures whose dead forms weren’t preservable in the least and would end up liquefying before long The ones that’d died first had already turned to cloudy white water entirely There was no time

I resolutely took a bite out of Sliusted; it repulsed me so much I could’ve thrown up But, I held that back and kept chewing

Suppressing the nausea dead (though sliulping down the flavorless jelly of a body, and then

『For clearing the requirements, side skills [Cannibalism] [Same Race Eater] have now been acquired』