【The Rise of the Ugly Monster】 His Realization About His Previous Life
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"Kyaiiin...!?"
The giant wolf, having received an uppercut from Emi, flipped over with a scream and rolled onto its back, knocking down giant trees as it went.
"Vuuuuh...!!"
However, it was still alive.
Although it had rolled over in a pathetic manner, the giant wolf's eyes were dyed with anger, and it twitched its nose with a *suun*.
It was an instinctive action to pinpoint the location of the minuscule creature that had dared to strike it, an act of disrespect worthy of punishment.
But, to state the conclusion, it was a completely futile action.
Because in the next moment... Emi was at the tip of the giant wolf's nose.
With a *suton*... she had descended from the sky and landed.
"Tougher than I thought."
The giant wolf, surprised by the suddenness of it, stared dumbfounded.
Emi, towards the wolf's dazed face... towards the area around its forehead.
Her clenched right fist.
She leaped from the tip of its nose... and struck!
PAAAAAAN!!!
In an instant, a great roar echoed!
The fist that Emi had brought down clearly demonstrated a power that ignored the laws of physics and blew away the giant wolf's head.
What remained was the corpse of the giant wolf, which had lost its head and stopped moving.
"............"
Emi, who had landed on the ground once and then jumped up to land on the giant wolf's flesh, silently deployed tentacles from her entire body and transformed into a figure that could be best described as a "tentacle monster."
The shape of those tentacles was broadly divided into two types.
One was the normal 【Black Tentacle】, equipped with a sharp claw-like organ at the tip, which pierced the corpse and sucked up its magical power.
The other was the 【Black Extending Jaw】, which bit into the flesh of the corpse while chattering its fangs.
Countless extending tentacles covered the giant wolf's corpse and, with an approach different from the "predation" of normal creatures, devoured it in an instant...
"N'eeeeeh...!"
He watched it, trembling.
Even if the one doing it was Emi, who called herself his "pet owner."
No matter how many times he saw it, what was scary was scary.
Moreover, as for the speed of predation using her tentacles, it was clearly faster now compared to when he first met Emi.
Emi was also growing.
Even though she was off the charts from the beginning.
(Seriously, 'what' is she...?)
An outrageous physical strength.
A mentality that thinks nothing of killing.
Furthermore, poison has no effect on her, and tentacles extend freely from her body.
But at the same time, she possesses a beauty that is almost divine.
He had no evidence to judge Emi as human.
If he had to say, it would be that her normal form is humanoid.
Perhaps she's a humanoid monster, or something of that sort.
His speculation, lacking common sense in this new world, could only come up with such a conclusion.
It was a waste of time to think about it.
He couldn't fathom her.
(Scary...)
"You didn't get caught in it? Are you okay?"
And here, Emi's main body emerged, *nururi*, from the mass of tentacles.
Countless tentacles still extended from her back, devouring the giant wolf's body, but it seems her main body could also move freely in parallel with that.
Emi approached him with a *sutasuta* and lifted him up with both hands as he cowered in fear, and stared at him intently.
"The scary thing is gone now... there, there."
And with that, she pulled him into a tight embrace and gently stroked his head.
(The scary thing here is you!)
Keeping that heartfelt thought—which he couldn't say for various reasons—to himself, he was stroked as she pleased.
It was a minute later that he was released and placed on top of the Giant Yellow Topopolock.
After all, Emi's physical strength is abnormal.
If she misjudged her strength even slightly, his fragile body would be no more.
Released from that tension, he let out a deep, deep breath.
However.
"............"
That feeling of being gently stroked on the head.
It was by no means unpleasant.
Emi.
No matter how much he was covered in poisonous liquid and trash, she didn't care.
She interacts with him without creating a wall between them.
(............My family from my previous life)
If only they had been like that...
He suddenly thought of such a thing.
And shook his head, thinking it was useless to think about it now.
"............"
Another thing, a "fact he didn't want to see" that he had finally noticed, he turned a blind eye to.
And silently... he began to peck at the flesh of the Giant Yellow Topopolock.
But, it was at that moment!
"GUOOH!!"
Once again, the cry of a beast echoed in the surroundings!
And felling giant trees, with a *zushinzushin* trembling of the earth, a giant tiger appeared before his eyes.
Its size was almost the same as the giant wolf from before.
So tall he had to look up!
"SHAAAH!!"
And that's not all!
Appearing from the opposite direction of the giant tiger and raising its head was a jet-black giant snake!
Its girth was so thick it seemed it could swallow a house whole, and its body extended deep into the forest, so it was impossible to imagine how long it was!
Its eyes burned with fighting spirit, and even though it was winter, there was not a trace of a sign that it was going to hibernate!
And furthermore, even a giant Noshiterukecchi appeared!
"N'EEEEEEH!?"
Why, suddenly, how did it come to this!?
He trembled in fear while spewing a large amount of poisonous liquid from his entire body!
To state the conclusion... the giant monsters had been drawn by the sounds of battle that he and Emi had made.
As mentioned earlier, winter, with its scarce food, is a harsh season for giant monsters.
Where there is the sound of battle, there is meat in the name of a loser.
And if you're lucky, there is also meat in the name of a wounded and weakened victor.
...There was no way they wouldn't intrude.
Don't call it cowardice!
This is a perfectly legitimate strategy for survival!
"...Fine."
...However!
Unlike him, even when surrounded by multiple giant monsters, his pet owner Emi did not waver in the slightest.
While scattering an 【Intimidation】 around her that was as strong as... no, even stronger than the monsters'.
Emi grandly... shouted!
"...I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!"
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