A pitch-black, lightless cave, its ground stained with blood.
...and that empty husk with nothing left but human skin.
In such an environment, the fat man clearly heard breathing coming from above his head.
The moment he heard those breaths, it felt as if an icy venomous snake were slowly slithering through his heart. Goosebumps rose uncontrollably all over his body.
Maintaining his rigid posture, the fat man slowly raised his head and looked directly overhead.
Then he saw something utterly beyond description—a... monster that would give anyone uncontrollable nightmares at night after just one glance.
Sinews and bones spread like a forest, densely winding across the surrounding Rock Walls to form a web of tendons like a spider web. Flesh branched into countless strips of meat hanging from that web, the lowest of which nearly brushed against the top of his head.
Amid that mass of bizarre things, a long, arm-thick, vein-covered thing like a neck slowly descended from above with an exquisitely beautiful face at its end, until it came before him.
—Ugliness and beauty, two utterly contradictory things, had merged together.
"You saw it."
Staring at the fat man before her, the beautiful face held not the slightest trace of emotion, cold beyond belief.
"W-What kind of monsters are you!?"
The fat man shuddered violently. He wanted to flee for his life, but his legs had gone so weak that he could not move them. The moment he took a step, he trembled and collapsed to the ground.
His face was filled with terror as he looked at that beautiful face before him.
"Become my nourishment."
Having no intention of continuing the conversation with him, the woman coldly tossed out those words. Then countless strips of flesh slowly descended from the air and coiled toward the fat