A Cute Little Kid Like You

Kawanishi forced down the churning nausea in his stomach and swallowed the wriggling insect in his mouth along with its sticky saliva.

Only after the insect entered his stomach did Kawanishi feel the Fear shrouding him gradually fade away.

That Fear was like sinking into an endless deep sea. It had made him choose to swallow the insect without hesitation rather than face that terror.

It was strange. He had clearly sensed no killing intent from that owner, yet the instant the man looked at him, his entire body had started trembling uncontrollably, plunging into an abyss of Fear.

Even though the other party had not even bothered to glance at him.

Kawanishi felt utterly pathetic.

He panted heavily. Only after the horrible nausea subsided did a trace of doubt emerge in his heart.

There had clearly been an insect inside that Military Ration Pill, so why had none of these people reacted?

Couldn't they feel the insect's texture when they chewed it? Or had everyone simply swallowed it whole?

He looked around at the others with an incomparably absurd expression and found that they were still smiling contentedly as though savoring some delicacy, leaving him utterly baffled.

Could it be...

He suddenly recalled something: before he discovered that the Military Ration Pill was actually an insect, the Jashin Mark on his palm had suddenly heated up.

That burst of pain had awakened him from the intoxicated sensation he felt after eating the Military Ration Pill.

Could it be that he had discovered the truth about the Military Ration Pill because he was a follower of the Jashin Cult?

But that did not make sense either.

That owner was also from the Jashin Cult. Why would he let other Jashin Cult followers learn the true nature of the Military Ration