Chapter 405: The Giant Octopus, Battered and Bruised

Chapter 405: The Giant Octopus, Battered and Bruised The Giant Octopus, Battered and Bruised

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She... the giant octopus... was hungry.

That’s only natural.

Lately, she’s been so busy with her important task that she hasn’t even eaten.

The energy required to sustain her giant body is enormous.N/nêw n0vel chap/ers are published o/n n0v/e/(lb)i(n.)co/m

Frankly, the stage where she could recover by catching and eating small fish in the forest has long since passed.

Even though her work is finally done and she’s free, it’s too late.

All that’s left is to journey to where her partner should be waiting.

That’s how it should have been.

But... she found it.

A small... small but... an unseen two-legged creature, with a jet-black color, harboring an enormous amount of energy!

If she eats that...

If she eats that, her stomach will be full.

Life will once again fill her body.

The giant octopus’s instincts told her so!

So she immediately commanded her body...

...Hunt it... kill it!

It was... the kind of impulse that she would normally suppress with reason, if she was calm, if it was a normal time.

She’s inherently an intelligent creature.

An unknown creature is scary.

Just because it has a lot of energy doesn’t mean it’s not poisonous.

It might even have “too much” energy.

Probably, under normal circumstances, even if she had found the jet-black two-legged creature... she would have retreated to her den and hidden herself.

But she’s hungry now.

If she does nothing, she’ll die anyway.

Then, for the last time.

She’ll challenge it.

She’ll show it that she’s not going down without a fight.

Despite taking the giant octopus’s fierce assault!!

...Was standing there nonchalantly!!!

What Emi was holding, as if cradling it, was the severed tip of the giant octopus’s arm.

Emi quickly bit off and swallowed the entire thing, which should have been quite large, hard, and elastic, and...

...Muttered a single word.

“Delicious.”

The giant octopus’s instincts!

The instincts that had irresponsibly ordered her body to hunt and kill that creature!

Now sounded the alarm with all their might!

Run!

Run, run, run!

Run away!!

It’s obvious to anyone.

Despite being slammed against the ground so many times, it’s still unharmed.

They’re on a different level.

There’s no way she can win!

But... the giant octopus didn’t run.

First, even if she runs away now, she has nowhere to go.

Second, she doesn’t think she can escape.

Third, her pride won’t allow her to run away after coming this far with such determination.

And fourth... if she sacrifices herself here and satisfies its hunger... there’s a chance that... ‘something precious to her’... will be saved.

So she didn’t run.

She swung all her arms around wildly, attacking Emi.

And then...

Her body was sliced in two by a jet-black greatsword that Emi had created at some point...

...And she died.

Please... be satisfied with just my body.

Wishing that...