Mad God Sub-body

Inside the wound of the red-skinned lion beast, which had golden manes only around its neck and tail, a metallic human face gleaming with a cold light was gnawing on a "short sword." With every bite, a portion of the weapon vanished, and it dragged the sword downward so it could keep eating.

Young Gilgamesh said, "The weapon I projected was a longsword, not a shortsword. It ate the sword shorter."

The beasts had also noticed that something in the sky had instantly shot dead over a hundred of their kind. Already terrified, they instinctively avoided that direction. However, when they saw the people aboard the Vimana, killing intent flickered in their eyes before quickly fading.

Young Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes and shot down another hundred or so beasts, making them flee even faster in terror. This time, however, he found no second metallic face. "It seems my senses were right. Only that one was abnormal."

Chloe complained, "Does that even matter? What matters is that metal face is eating swords! Is that even a life-form that should exist?!"

While everyone else was frightened, Kikuchiko suddenly noticed something. "Wait, does that metal face have an expression?"

With their scalps tingling, everyone looked more closely.

The metallic face was chewing on the shortsword inside the beast's corpse, and a bewildered expression appeared on its face. With every bite, it became more lost and confused, as though it were chewing on air.

By the time it had finished, the metallic face was utterly bewildered. It felt as though it had eaten an entire sword, yet gained nothing but magical energy.

Tohsaka Rin found it somewhat amusing. "Why does it look like it was deceived by something, but doesn't know why? And it doesn't even seem angry?"

Young Gilgamesh said, "It is probably