"I did it! I killed the monster and survived!"
It felt like a dream, yet it was so real... However, before she could marvel at it or recover enough strength to reason with Wakaba Hiiro, a massive eel monster suddenly appeared by the shore, opening its huge jaws and biting at her.
Even though Urushibara Mirei reacted and hurriedly tried to dodge... she was still too late. A section of her little earth dragon body was bitten clean off from behind. Her tail, along with one leg, was swallowed in a single bite!
"Ahhhhhhhhh!!"
A heart-wrenching scream rang out!!
Pain! It hurt so much!!
It hurt even more than being hit by venom and fireballs before. After all, she had had dragon scales protecting her then, but now... nearly a quarter of her body was simply gone.
After barely avoiding it, Urushibara Mirei collapsed onto the ground without moving. The pain had numbed her... her mind was completely blank.
This time, she really was going to die!
She did not even have the strength to howl anymore. Her HP had only just recovered, and it was about to bottom out again!
So... in the end, she still could not survive. Even after reincarnating as a monster, she had only gotten to see the person she loved once...
Finally, her HP reached zero...
The little earth dragon, less than a day old, died just like that.
The eel/fire dragon looked at the little earth dragon lying dead before it, swallowed the food in its mouth in satisfaction, and crawled ashore, preparing to eat the rest of her corpse in one bite as well.
"Die!"
Just as it approached to swallow the little earth dragon's corpse, a figure suddenly appeared beside the eel and smashed a fist into its head. Before the