"Ahhh!!!"
"Crack~ crack, crack..."
I'd lifted its mouth with my foot. The instant it came up, I hurriedly pulled my left hand free. But the mud beneath my feet
made me slip as I yanked my hand back,
and I instantly lost my balance, tumbling into the mud.
"Splut!"
"Ugh~"
I let out a muffled groan. There was no time to feel the pain; I quickly backed away, enduring the stench on my arm. I used my teeth
to remove the magazine, then pressed the gun against it
to snap the magazine into place. Afterward, I bit down on the bolt and pulled it back. Only then did I raise the gun and shine the flashlight mounted on its muzzle at
the monster.
"What is that?"
I stared at the thing before me, dazed.
What was it?
Although I could only see the front half of its body from where I stood, I could still tell that this thing... gave off the impression
of some kind of amphibian.
Its skin was slick, like a frog's, but its face had no eyes or nose, only a
huge mouth. Its jaws made it look like a catfish.
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But unlike a catfish, it had legs.
They were tiny. From where I stood, I could see three legs on the side of its front half... If its rear half had just as many,
wouldn't that mean it had twelve legs?
Its body was shaped like a cylinder. I stood up and, ignoring the pain, walked over to look at its sides. It didn't have the twelve legs
I'd imagined, but ten—five on each side.
And... its mouth was huge, big enough to swallow me whole.
No eyes, no nose. Its entire body was cylindrical,