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Over the Infinite – Chapter 9 (2)

 

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Translator: mii

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-2-

I heard the… pounding sound of my heart.

I felt like my body was jumping.

In my fading consciousness, my body was filled with something terrible and fiendish.

“…Eh?”

In the distance, I heard a gulping sound from someone.

It was that cat ears’, who abandoned her pretentious character such as those “nya”s.

My body was surely on the verge of becoming a scrap. I was like a run-down car which turned into scrap iron that was on the point of being discarded.

I was being put on a belt conveyor, five seconds before I was crushed.

…In this situation, why?

Why did I feel a sense of deja vu now?

I have never been cornered this much when I fought against the old man or the Minotaur.

Nevertheless, I felt like something similar happened once.

Then, was that the fight I had between the showy orc in my hometown… No, at that time, I wouldn’t be able to fight to this point…

…Something that was not my heart was beating inside me.

Just as how my heart was circulating blood, that beating thing was trying to circulate something around my body.

My vision darkened. I pressed the breaker to my consciousness.

The “Normal Me” had been used up, drawing back after being driven away to the end of the stage.

But I still felt something in the darkness that covered my vision.

“Gu… guhhhh…”

Unconsciously, I growled like a beast.

The flesh behind those countless needles started to swell up. My body was forcibly regenerating.

What boiled throughout my body was not blood, but something similar to the instinct of a beast.

This was… what?

I felt like another existence that I didn’t know was taking over my body.

That existence was suddenly filling the picture of “me” that was drawn on a paper, repainting everything with a black crayon…

The memories of my fight with the showy orc passed my mind once again.

However, the image that came to my mind was not something I remembered, but the distorted face of the showy orc that looked fearful of something, like the fear just before it was eaten by a monster.

Ahh, I see.

I understood. …I finally understood.

This was the truth of that time. The power I awakened at that time.

It was a crazy power that turned me into a wild incarnation.

“Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!”

The voice that came out from my mouth was a roar.

It was a roar with a vow that anyone was my prey, and I would eat them all off.

From afar, my target who was attacking me supplemented me.

I saw Chitta’s terrified face.

Ah, what were you scared of? You bastard was the hunter who came to hunt me, right? If you turned like that…

―Then I would eat you.

“Gwoooooooooooohhhhhh!!!”

My consciousness emerged.

The intense animal nature was running throughout my body, and I felt a terribly powerful force breaking out.

Now, I could dash towards that guy in an instant.

―――― Passive Skill [Starving Beast]――

I felt that a skill I hadn’t learned was activated.

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I kicked the ground. My body was screaming to me, telling me to quickly run to that prey’s body as fast as I could.

Leaving my consciousness too fast, I ran with all of my might.

The distance was around several tens of meters.

Properly speaking, it was the distance that would be impossible to pass through with the rains of those needles, but I closed the distance with just a few steps.

I crossed over the limits of my human shell, like a bullet that breaks through even the walls of the air.

“Oohhhh!!!”

I slammed my fist on the prey that could only open her eyes in shock, astonished by the extreme development.

“Ugh!! Haa!”

My fist smashed her skin, making a terrible smashing sound. My attack reached her face.

For the second blow, I slapped down my fist, firing a kick this time.

The brutal force wrapped my whole body. My bones broke and my flesh was torn, but it roared, telling me to continue fighting. My fighting instinct was stimulating my body.

“Gwah!!”

Even after such a strong force, the cat ears’ HP still blocked my attack.

Not enough. Was the difference between our abilities still that far away?

Her HP wall was so annoying.

I activated [See Through] and kept my pursuit on her while keeping her HP gauge displayed. One attack…, and two!

Even with each attack, her HP gauge was only slightly reducing.

The difference between our status began to weigh on me.

But this was different from before. My attack reached her. I inflicted damage, even if just minor damage.

I punched her with my fist and my legs like a machine gun, to get faster and more powerful.

I have already come this far. Whether it was my arm or my leg, I hit it to her body until it broke down.

Gradually, very slowly, the gauge level had begun to decrease.

“M-monster!!”

“Ahhhhhh!!!”

I slammed my head into her face. Her nose broke, nose flowing from there.

My skill was about to break and my brain felt like it was about to pop out. Yet her face looked even more distorted.

“Hi, hiiii!!”

The prey… Chitta, no, the cat ears were shocked, shrinking away and unable to stand up due to the fear. No, why did I correct myself, oi.

The cat ears jumped back, trying to make a distance from me.

As if I would let you go!

Currently, me who was in pursuit faster than her. This was my only chance.

After reducing the distance in an instant, I fired a dropkick.

The kicking attack already transformed into my bullet, making me leap over many meters. I hadn’t felt any compassion in the world, but I was forced to take part in this trip.

“Nghhhhh!!!”

After I landed, I stomped on the falling cat ears.

There was almost no damage and I felt somewhat immoral, but let’s ignore that for now. I hit her again and again.

I pinned the cat ears that fell down, and set on beating her face.

I hit, and hit.

My hands were covered with blood, and Chitta’s face was stained with red color. It was the attacking me who was taking the damage.

Who cares if I could see my bones from my fist. I haven’t felt any pain for a long time.

But such an unusual condition shouldn’t be able to last for a long time. I didn’t know how long I could preserve this, but I would do everything I could in the meantime!

However, no matter how much I hit her, the gauge wouldn’t decrease much.

“H-help…”

I lifted the unbroken arm of the cat’s ears who was begging, completely lost of fighting spirit, and handcuffed her wrist.

“Wha, what are you…”

“I won’t let you go anymore. From here on, it’s a battle of patience. ”

I also handcuffed my left arm. With this, the arrest perfectly arrested her.

She shouldn’t have any other means of resistance since her left arm was broken. …Right?

I took out my last weapon, the hatchet, from my waist with my remaining right hand and swung it down to the cat ears’ face while pinning her down.

“Uwahhh!! Ahh!! Ahhhh!!”

“Hii, haaah, s-stop!!”

Her HP wall was thick. I hit the hatchet many times to crush that thick wall.

When I looked closely, her HP wall was slightly shining the moment my hatchet hit her.

As I struck her with the hatchet, I was disgusted with her overpowering defense. Just how strong was it.

“Urgh! Just die already!”

I wonder how was my appearance to the cat ears now.

I wouldn’t know it myself, but the cat ears looked frightened as if the “Deep Ones” were standing in front of her. Just like that showy orc.

“Arghhhhhh!! Noo! Nooo!!!”

Stop that, it’s not like I was summoning some kind of evil god here. Rather, I might look like the evil god in her eyes.

Or maybe a giant beast like that giant Minotaur? No, she said that she could easily win against the Minotaur, so I might be something even more powerful than that.

Then what? Was she scared because it felt like she was facing a dragon? What kind of situation was this, me?

As I swing my hatchet, I imagined this scene as a dragon preying upon a cat.

…Hmm?

I thought of something interesting in the corner of my head.

It was also one of the things this guy lectured to us.

“Hyaa…”

I stopped my hatchet and put my face close to the cat ears’ right hand that was handcuffed to test that idea…

“Hey… what are you…”

I bit her finger and shredded it.

―――― Action Skill [Bite Off]――

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