The Otherworld Was Way Too Brutal – After I Healed the Mutilated Girl, She Turned Into a Completely Obsessed Yandere Guard Dog - Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Pain.

That was my whole world right now.

My left arm got crushed in a wild dog’s jaws.

A bristle boar’s tusk punched straight through my right side.

A forest ape’s claws ripped down my back.

Every single time, I kept pouring healing magic on myself.

“GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!”

The scream wasn’t to scare anything off.

It was just pure roaring to let the pain out.

The sound of bones shattering mixed with the sound of them regenerating at the same time.

The feeling of flesh being torn out blended together with the feeling of it swelling back up.

Blood poured out, then got made again.

At this point, I couldn’t even tell if I was alive or dead anymore.

But there was one thing I knew for sure—

“I’m not letting you through… absolutely not…!!”

Right behind me was the town.

Tsugumi was there.

If I took even one step back, the swarm of magic beasts would come flooding in.

So I became a stake.

A stake made of flesh and blood that would never break.

I swung my knife.

No fancy technique or anything.

Just stabbing vital spots, twisting, and taking lives— that’s all it was.

One after another, magic beasts dropped.

A pile of corpses started building up.

That pile turned into a barricade and stopped the ones coming behind.

The magic beasts that had been going crazy from fear started noticing a different kind of terror.

This tiny human right in front of them.

No matter how many times they bit or stabbed, he wouldn’t go down.

Covered in blood, face like a demon, this immortal monster just kept standing in their way.

“Gyah… kuuun…”

The wild dog right in the front tucked its tail and backed off.

The terror right in front of it won over the fear of the gluttony frog behind.

The momentum of the pack stopped dead.

That one tiny opening.

“URAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!”

I squeezed out every last bit of strength and chopped the head off the biggest boar—the Bristle Boar.

A fountain of fresh blood shot up, and the huge body crashed down with a thud.

Silence.

The remaining magic beasts scattered like baby spiders—some deeper into the forest, some left and right.

The wave heading for the town just vanished.

“Haa… haa… haa…”

I barely managed to keep from collapsing to my knees.

Everything looked red.

Was my own blood in my eyes, or was this just what happens when you push way past your limit?

But it wasn’t over yet.

A rumble.

Heavy crashing sounds coming from far away.

It was Cattleya.

She was still fighting that monster all by herself.

“Gotta go…”

My whole body felt like it was made of lead.

My magic was almost completely gone.

Even so, I forced one foot forward.

There was no option in my head to abandon her.

The forest opened up into a clearing.

That’s where Cattleya was dancing.

Literally—a dance of death.

The massive body of the Gratony Frog was thrashing around.

Its attacks basically came in two kinds.

Crushing with those log-like legs, and snatching with that tongue shot out at a speed too fast to even see properly.

Hyun!

The sound of air being sliced.

Cattleya dodged it by a hair.

The tongue stabbed into the spot she’d just been standing, and the ground exploded.

“Tch, fast bastard…!”

Cattleya cursed under her breath while swinging her sword.

The silver flash aimed for the stretched tongue, but frog tongues are rubbery as hell—the blade just bounced off.

Worse, the sticky slime on the surface wrapped around her sword and messed up her movement.

“Defense is annoying too, huh.”

Cattleya gave up on cutting the tongue off and closed in on the main body instead.

Her speed was more than enough to toy with the giant magic beast.

She slipped inside its guard and thrust her sword toward the soft belly.

But.

Splat.

The moment the blade touched skin, there was this gross sound.

The slick mucus covering the whole frog absorbed the impact and made the blade slide right off.

“So slimy…!”

No decisive hit.

Impatience started showing on Cattleya’s face.

It wasn’t that attacks weren’t landing at all.

They just weren’t deep enough.

To kill something this huge you had to punch through that thick fat, muscle, and slime layer.

“GEKOOOOOOOOO!!”

The big frog roared.

A deafening sound that felt like it could burst your eardrums.

Cattleya’s movement froze for a split second.

Right then, yellow liquid sprayed out from the spines on the frog’s back.

“Shit—!”

Cattleya quickly covered herself with her cloak, but some of the liquid still hit her armor.

With a sizzzz sound, the steel started melting away.

Strong acid.

“Ku…!”

Cattleya ripped off the shoulder guard that got hit and jumped back.

But when she landed, the ground was all mushy.

The acid from earlier had melted the dirt.

Her balance broke.

The big frog didn’t miss the chance.

Its huge mouth opened wide and shot out that pink, meaty tongue again.

No way to dodge.

Cattleya braced herself for death and held her sword up like a shield.

That’s when it happened.

“OOOOOOOOOOHHH!!”

A blood-soaked shadow flew in from the side.

It was me.

I shoved Cattleya out of the way and jumped right into the path of the tongue myself.

“Jin!?”

Cattleya’s shocked voice.

Right after, a crazy impact slammed into my torso.

DOGOOO!!

It felt like catching a cannonball straight to the gut.

I could tell every single rib was gone.

My insides burst, and clumps of blood spilled out of my mouth.

On top of that, the tongue’s stickiness grabbed me and yanked me back toward the frog’s mouth at high speed.

“Got me…!”

Still wrapped in the tongue, I flew through the air.

Right in front of me, the dark cave of the frog’s mouth was rushing closer.

“JIIIIN!!”

Cattleya screamed and chased after me.

But she wasn’t gonna make it.

I got thrown inside the big frog’s mouth.

Stinky breath and a strong rotting smell.

The jaws snapped shut, and everything went black.

Gulp.

I got swallowed.

Down the throat, falling into the stomach.

It was a hellish pot.

A sea of super-acidic gastric juice.

The second I fell in, searing pain hit as my whole skin started burning and melting.

“Ga…! Guuuuuhhh!!”

Burning. Melting.

My clothes vanished in an instant, and my body started turning into goo.

A normal person would’ve been dissolved down to bones in seconds.

But.

I had this.

(Heal… heal… heal…!!)

I dumped every last drop of magic I had left.

Level 2 effect of Healing Magic <Repair Evolve>.

Regenerate as fast as it melts.

A game of tag between destruction and creation.

My magic was draining away by the second.

No time.

If my magic ran out, I’d just become food.

But right here—

No slime, no thick muscles.

The soft organs were completely exposed.

While thrashing in the sea of stomach acid, I gripped my knife tight.

I forced my half-melted fingers to regenerate and squeezed the handle hard.

“From the inside… I’m gonna tear my way out…!!”

I stabbed the knife into the stomach wall.

Unlike the outside, the blade went in shockingly easy.

Zuburi.

I felt the stomach convulse.

The vibrations of the big frog thrashing outside came through.

Must hurt, huh.

Serves you right.

I dragged the knife sideways.

Made a tear.

Then pushed the blade even deeper, toward where I figured the heart would be.

“OOOOOOOOOOHHH!!”

Screaming, I turned my own body into a weapon.

I kicked the stomach wall with my half-melted legs, widened the wound, and crawled deeper inside.

Crawling through gaps between organs.

Slicing blood vessels, cutting nerves.

The frog’s screams echoed inside its body and pounded my eardrums.

More.

Scream louder.

For scaring Tsugumi, you’re gonna pay every bit of it back.

And then I found it.

Thump, thump—a huge lump of flesh pulsing.

The heart.

I put every ounce of strength I had left into raising the knife.

“This… ends now!!”

Dosu!!

The knife sank deep into the heart.

Hot blood sprayed out, trying to wash me away.

But I didn’t let go.

I twisted harder, gouged deeper.

Thump… thump………… thump………….

The heartbeat got weaker, then stopped completely.

At the same time, all the movement in the surrounding flesh walls stopped too.

It was over.

I beat it.

With relief, I almost let go of consciousness.

My magic was totally empty.

The healing magic cut off.

If I stayed here, the leftover stomach acid would digest what was left of me.

I had to get out.

But I couldn’t move a single finger anymore.

Right then.

Light poured in from above.

Zash!!

With the sound of something being sliced open, the frog’s belly got cut from the outside.

In the backlight of the setting sun, a black knight stood there.

“JIN!!”

It was Cattleya.

The second she spotted me all covered in goo, she shoved her hands right into the mess without hesitation and dragged me out.

“You’re… alive!?”

“…Haha, that was gross… inside a frog’s stomach is…”

When I cracked a weak joke, Cattleya’s face scrunched up—part crying, part furious, totally messed up.

Then she hugged me really tight.

“You idiot…! You absolute idiot!!”

The cold feel of her armor and the warmth of her trembling body made me finally realize I was still alive.

In Cattleya’s arms, with my fading consciousness, I waved my left hand.

I had to check.

After a fight like that, it had to have changed.

The status window floated up against the sunset sky.

――――――――
・Healing Magic <Repair Evolve>

Lv1. Stops bleeding.
Lv2. Treats wounds and fractures.
Lv3. Regenerate lost organs (small) and remove disease.
Lv4. ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊
――――――――

Right before my vision went black.

I saw the glitched-out part for level 4 flashing like crazy.

I… reached it…

Finally………….

I was completely satisfied, and I fell into deep darkness.