For Duanmu Huai, this was the worst injury he had suffered since entering this trial.
You could tell just by looking at him lying half-dead on the sofa.
"Big brother, are you really not going to eat?"
Seeing Duanmu Huai lying on the sofa with an utterly listless expression, Sakuya asked uneasily. Duanmu Huai merely raised a hand and waved it weakly.
"You girls eat. I don't have much of an appetite lately. Let me lie low for another couple of days..."
Staring silently at the television, Duanmu Huai felt a wave of sorrow well up inside him.
Although as an Inquisitor, it was Duanmu Huai's duty to eliminate entities that threatened humanity, this time... he truly felt that he had sacrificed far too much.
To prevent that monster from escaping, Duanmu Huai had no choice but to absorb it completely. After all, only by doing that could he fully control the monster and stop it from getting away.
However... the texture had been absolutely disgusting!
Duanmu Huai still couldn't forget that smooth, mucus-coated sensation, the soft, mushy feel when he bit into it, or that nauseating taste and color. It had been like eating a lump of...
"Ugh...!"
Duanmu Huai shakily turned his head away again and took a large gulp of cola, finally suppressing the urge to vomit rising in his throat. He exhaled, then closed his eyes once more.
He didn't want to recall the process of destroying that monster anymore. Duanmu Huai felt as if he had been crouched over some writhing, enormous... ugh... thing, gnawing and slurping away while relying on Thousand Howls' countless mouths to forcibly devour it completely. Of course, eating it hadn't caused any particular reaction in Duanmu Huai himself. His current listless state was entirely due to the mental trauma he