Return of the Fallen Volume 6 Chapter 38
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Author: Blue_Rat
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*SPSHHHH*
Kazuki fell directly into the yellowish-green stomach acid down below.
*TSSHHSHH*
As soon as his skin came into contact with the acid, it melted away at a terrifying rate which then exposed his muscle and blood, causing that to melt as well. A burning sensation racked his body as he felt everything dissolving away in the acid. Skin, eyes, muscles, nerves, and bones. The pain was excruciating and Kazuki felt his life being snuffed out.
This however was not his end. Inhaling several mouthfuls of acid, he felt it destroy his mouth and eat his tongue. Swallowing it, the acid tore holes into his throat leaving it bloody and raw before that two dissolved. Before it reached his stomach though, the hole within his soul tree began to devour.
The acid that was more than halfway down his throat vanished from the world and entered the hole within his soul tree and was sucked inside. As soon as it disappeared inside of this hole at the base of his soul tree, a power spread outward and filled his body. The melted flesh, liquified tissue, and gnawed bone, at this exact moment, began to regenerate at a rapid rate.
The acid all around Kazuki seemed to be boiling as this newfound power ate away at it.
Kazuki’s body continued to melt due to the acid but the power within him countered. More and more acid disappeared into Kazuki as he inhaled it nonstop. In return, his body was healing just as fast as the acid was eating away at him.
(DEVOUR DEVOUR DEVOUR DEVOUR!)
An echo rang out inside Kazuki’s head and he felt empty inside. His mouth seemed to stretch open further and further until both sides of his mouth tore open. The pain of this was nothing compared to the itching hunger within that only seemed to grow.
Kazuki sunk into this large pool of acid until he reached the very bottom. His mouth opened even wider and he inhaled the acid faster and faster.
The hole in his soul tree expanded ever so slightly and the pulling force from it increased an entire fold. Kai and Danny were shocked as they felt a tug on their souls and were forced to retreat even further away, otherwise, they were afraid they to would be eaten.
At the same time, Kazuki’s wounds started healing faster and faster. Not only that, as his body regenerated, it also began to grow stronger at a visible rate. His muscles became stronger and his bones increased slightly in density and durability. His all became more resilient as the nameless technique devoured the acid.
His organs increased in vitality, his constantly melting flesh was now burning away at a noticeably reduced rate and his hair started to regrow as well.
Kazuki didn’t stop there though. He gulped down mouthful after mouthful. The power inside of him was changing his entire body. His tongue that had just melted away now regenerated in full. The taste of the foul contents of the monster’s stomach was a foulness best described as liquid shit. Kazuki ignored the taste though. He could feel something, he could feel strength returning to him.
Gulping down more and more, Kazuki let go of everything and gave into the calling voice.
(Devour Devour Eat everything Devour!)
The liquid was falling at a crazy speed as the acid was being eaten. Kazuki had only fallen in the pool of acid barely a minute ago but it was already reduced by half. At the rate he was going, barely another minute later and all of the stomach acid would be gone. Kazuki had no mind to care about such things. The feeling called out to him nonstop, causing his head to feel like it was ready to split. The only way to calm the nonstop voice seemed to be to eat more and eat faster and that’s exactly what Kazuki did.
He couldn’t breathe at the moment but still, he couldn’t care as he gulped down the acid nonstop. At this moment, Kazuki felt a weird itching feeling at his right shoulder. The more he ate, the worse the itching got until it felt as though it was on fire. Kazuki couldn’t help but scratch at that spot, harder and harder, until his fingernails dug into his own flesh and he peeled the meat away from his shoulder.
As soon as he did that, something incredibly strange accrued.
Bone shot out from his old wound and grew. Several smaller bones grew at the end and then muscle and nerves followed by fresh skin grown over top of it. His right arm that had been eaten with a bite, in only a few seconds completely grew back. Not only that, this new arm was even stronger than the original. Kazuki though, at this time had no clue his arm had grown back as his mind was already lost in the wake of gluttony.
The only thought in his head was to eat everything.
A moment later, the entirety of the acid, was swallowed up.
*Bang*
With nothing to float on, the boulder Kazuki was resting on before, became unbalanced and fell over.
*Clank clank*
Kazuki’s black ruler fell from the boulder and landed right next to him but Kazuki was so lost in his mind that he didn’t even notice.
(DevourDevourDevourDevourDevour!)
Kazuki’s eyes shifted all over the monster’s stomach in search of food but nothing could be seen.
*Sniff Sniff Sniff*
Smelling the air, Kazuki quickly located more food. Coming to the wall of the stomach, the smell of flesh came from the wall of the monster’s stomach. Kazuki opened his mouth wide and bit down.
*Clink CHink*
The sound of metal echoed out in this cavern-like stomach. Kazuki’s teeth were incredibly hard but the flesh of the monster was tougher. Kazuki’s teethe began to chip and crack but he was getting nothing from the stomach.
The call-in his mind though would not allow him to give up here.
(DevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevour!)
It only got louder and louder, causing Kazuki’s head to feel as though it would split open at any given moment.
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!*
Kazuki roared at the top of his lungs before he began to punch the inside of the beast’s stomach.
*Bam Bang Bang Bam!”
Still, nothing gave.
Kazuki then grabbed at two pieces of loose flesh and grabbed onto them like handles and began to pull with everything. Still, nothing budged.
(DevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevourDevour!)
The call grew louder and more frequent. Kazuki then placed both his feet on the wall and while both pushing with his feet he pulled at the loose flesh with both of his arms. The tense metallic-like coils of muscle flexed in his arms and legs and veins all over his body thumped and throbbed.
*RRRRRRRRRRR*
Kazuki growled as he used every muscle in his body. The flesh still would not rip away. The voice in his mind pounded and pounded away, causing Kauzki’s eyes to roll up into his head until only the bottom whites were shown.
Under this extreme tension, with his mind lost, Kazuki’s body instinctively began to circulate his ki. Kazuki had trained for over so many years that using ki became second nature to him like breathing. So in this extraordinary state, ki flooded into his muscles. Now that his body had grown even stronger from consuming all the acid, power unlike any other he had ever unleashed came out like an eruption.
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAA!*
Kazuki roared out like a demonic beast and slowly but surely the loose flesh started to rip.
*Shriiiipppp*
Kazuki tore a handful of flesh away from the stomach and fell backward. He wasted no time and shoved the large piece of stomach into his mouth. The piece was far too big to swallow and was too tough to chew and tear apart with his teeth but this would not be a problem. With the power still activated, the piece of flesh disappeared from Kazuki’s mouth and was swallowed whole within his soul world. The hole at the base of his soul tree expanded ever more and the suction force grew again.
Kai and Danny were beyond worried at this time but the two could not waken Kazuki from his beast-like state. They could only watch in both joy and horror. Joy that Kazuki was still alive but horror at what they may have turned him into. All they could do now was wait and see what would happen. One thing they knew for sure, even if Kazuki became a monster from now on, they didn’t regret their decision. Choosing between watching the person they cared about starve to death with a broken and tortured body or giving them a chance at living at the risk of turning that person into a monster. For them this choice was heavy but one they would choose again and again if the situation was the same.
With that piece of flesh being devoured inside his soul tree, outside, Kazuki’s body grew stronger again.
His muscles and frame became tougher and stronger ever so slightly.
Kazuki had no clue of this whatsoever. As soon as the meal vanished, Kazuki jumped back to his feet and rushed for the wall of flesh once more and began to tear away at the flesh and eat it again and again and again. The word repeating inside of his mind still had yet to calm down and his appetite only grew. As it grew, he ate more and his body became stronger and stronger and a cycle repeated itself.
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