After Kurome finally managed to cripple the bandit leader's arm, the next moment... the wound on his body rapidly healed.
"This..."
Both Kurome and Akame froze. Was he really human?
Kurome even felt that even if she used [Amaterasu], she could not be certain of killing him.
"You deserve to die!"
Although the wound on his arm had healed, the pain from before was unavoidable. Ever since he had guzzled the blood of an elite Danger Beast and gained power beyond human imagination, this was the first time he had suffered such agonizing pain.
He had once merely been a minor leader among a group of bandits. By a chance encounter, he had come across a dying Danger Beast.
Yet even in its dying state, that Danger Beast had been incredibly powerful. After all, it had been an elite Danger Beast, second only to a super-class Danger Beast.
He had nearly... nearly died at that Danger Beast's hands. At the time, in order to survive... he did not know where he found the courage to bite into the Danger Beast's wound and crazily devour its blood.
Normally, doing something like that was practically suicide.
While the meat of some Danger Beasts could be eaten, it still had to be cooked. With an unknown Danger Beast, no one could know whether its body contained toxins or something else. Swallowing its blood raw was practically suicide, yet he had survived.
Not only had he survived, he had also gained part of that elite Danger Beast's power.
His body and build had become different from those of ordinary people because of it, but it had been entirely worth it. With such immense strength, what did appearance matter...
This world had always been one where the strong devoured the weak.
After gaining his immense