Apocalypse Dark Elf Style -Magical Tribes Reincarnated in the Modern World

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T-That’s…!?

……。……。…………！

I found it.

The chance to overturn this.

This… is what I should eat!

GIVE ME, GIVE ME, GIVE ME, GIVE ME, GIVE ME!

EAT! EAT! EAT! EAT! EAT!

I definitely should eat it!

Give me the strength to entirely consume it!

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My eyes and consciousness were caught by the sudden appearance of the radiant beast.

“What… are you… going to… GUEHHH?”

The sound of vomiting.

Yuika’s throat swelled up, and an irregularly shaped lump the size of a clenched fist came out of her mouth.

By the time Rensuke and the others realized what was happening, it was too late.

It was the Aguyanuba that had been lurking in Yuika’s stomach.

“Bwahahaha, bwahahaha!”

It bounced on the ground a few times and then, with the agile speed that comes with its small volume, took off at once…

It heads toward the radiant beast.

Sheena quickly formed a web of blood with her magic, but the target was too small to catch. It was able to sneak through the smallest of gaps.

And so the tiny mass of slime flew straight into the mouth of the bright beast.

Was it eaten? That doesn’t seem to be the case. It starts eating the beast from inside out.

　After a moment, the radiant beast, which had not shown any biological reaction, shuddered and trembled. A sheen appeared on the surface of its black body hair, and it enveloped its entire body with one blow. The milky white streaks on its body surface spread out as if they were melting, and their color coated the black body hair.

“Ooooh, ooooh…!”

A roar of delight.

It was no longer a beast, had no shape as a living thing. It is now a gelatinous slime with a milky glow, a monstrosity of indefinite form.

“Could that have been what escaped from inside of the Class President? The nucleus of Aguyanuba!?”

Sheena glanced at Yuika, who was coughing, and then quickly returned her gaze to what was assumed to be Aguyanuba.

“For now, let’s try this. 《I, who command the spirit of blood. Gather together and burst into flames!》”

This is not the time to worry about the RV of the knight school that would be circling overhead. This time, a fireball flew horizontally and burst into the milky slime that had eaten the bright beast.

《FLAME EXPLOSION》. The slime scattered in all directions. However, as they dispersed, they absorbed the flames. Each one grew more considerable than its previous size. Then it combined at an incomparably faster speed than before, merging into one again. As a result, its volume became one size larger than the original.

“Tch…”

Sheena’s tongue clicked in annoyance. Her gaze was pointed directly at this abomination. The slime’s body was expanding even though it was doing nothing. Little by little, but certainly – it was getting bigger.

“Aaaaahhhh… Wh-What are you… doing?”

“That’s should be my line!　What’s up with that? What the hell are you up to?”

“No, no. I thought that if the radiant beast attacked you, I could escape and regain my footing.”

Yuika saw it. She was trembling with an expression of disbelief as her face turned pale. Even though it was the Aguyanuba that she had taken out of her body that was doing it.

“I know. I know it! I keep eating more and more. That’s why it kept getting bigger and bigger. Then, why? Why did it become like that after eating the radiant beast?”

“Did you know? About… radiant beast? I’ve never seen a raw one before.”

Sheena snorted and answered.

“I remembered what Rensuke said. The liquid produced from it is a useful energy source. What’s the characteristic of it again? Ah, it’s ridiculously efficient at storing energy, right? And if the slime can ‘take in all that energy,’ then…”

“If it eats the whole radiant beast that is the source of EF… And absorb its energy fully…!?”

“If the energy is converted into the volume of the slime, well, it’s not surprising that it will swell up. It’s a little troublesome that even actual fire didn’t work. Then what about this…?”

Yuika’s eyes widened, probably out of reflex, as Sheena spun the cane around in contemplation.

“No, it’s useless! It’s impossible! That was… totally different from the past. It became something different than it had ever been before!”

“What does that mean, Class President?”

After being asked, Rensuke realized that what he had asked was a bit difficult to answer. However, contemplating how to respond, Yuika answered, hanging her head in resignation.

“You saw it, didn’t you? That thing splits when it receives an attack. I don’t know if it’s conscious or not, but I bet it’s the same no matter what the attack is. No matter what it is…”

Aguyanuba’s body is still bulging. The size of a boar has become similar to that of a humanoid. Then it became the size of a payphone booth. And finally, the size of a small car.

“It’s eating everything around it at random, converting it all into energy, making it bigger and bigger.”

The look that Yuika gave to her master, the magic species Slime, as her partner, is…

The undeniable emotion was fear.

“It’s a monster. It evolved into a monster, in the truest sense…!”

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Ahh! How delicious!

This is too delicious that I’m about to go crazy.

More! Give me more of it. This taste, I can’t stand it.

Eat. I love eating it. I want it more.

My boosted appetite, my greed. Swallows up everything.

Everything but the essence of selfishness is being swallowed up.

Eat, eat, eat. Eat more and more.

“────────!!!”

The rage of the impulse roars out. It is not even a word you can describe. It’s just desire. A full expression of “I want ” like a newborn baby.

Where? Where is it? There it is? I want it! I want to eat it! I want more! ALL OF IT!!!

Right now, three things were in front of me.

One was my little self. One was a staff. And lastly, the main ingredient looked so delicious that I so badly wanted to eat. But it has painful thorns. I tried to eat it so badly, but I had to eat something else first before that. Swell up a little more. I have to eat a lot and be strong. Eating it slowly. I want to eat that too. They won’t escape from me…!

It’s not a logical thought, but rather it’s an instinctive thought.

Conclusion. For the moment, I don’t need any of the three in front of me.

What I need is quantity, not quality.

Hence.

My sense of smell is tingling. Where is that smell? It seemed far away.

Far away, but sure enough, there was – a lot of it.

Something beastly that made my stomach growl, and now, for the first time, I can eat it all.

A human being.

If I eat it, my stomach will expand even more. Because I know myself. So I should eat it. Eat it and grow. And then eat that thorny thing, too, and eat more and more.

And then.

I will be even bigger.

I will be so big that I can eat the whole world…