Chapter 647: Building confidence
These absurdly huge creatures were about twice as tall as the Soma People, and clearly had no habit of eating cooked food. They simply tore into the corpses and stuffed the flesh into their mouths.
At most, they ripped off the armor plates or anything that got in the way of their mouths, or spat out scraps of bloodstained clothing after chewing.
Riva, who had witnessed almost the entire process, looked terrible. He felt as though he were being eaten too.
Although the six Giant Monsters had terrifying appetites, they clearly could not finish all the corpses. Each ate roughly two before starting to belch.
Then they began tugging at the corpses, stripping off armor and bits of clothing and holding them against their bodies. They seemed to want to string the armor and other pieces together and hang them on themselves, adding to their ridiculous homemade Giant Monster armor.
About half an hour passed. The heavy footsteps gradually receded, and the Giant Monsters disappeared into the woods beside the path.
"They're gone!"
Youyi looked down at the pale, rigid Riva and suddenly slapped him on the head.
"Ah... mmph!!!"
Startled, Riva nearly cried out, but clamped his hands over his mouth.
"All right, they're far away now. Come on, let's go down and take a look!"
"Huh?"
"Come down!"
"No!!"
Riva's left hand only managed to grab a clump of grass on the mound before Youyi dragged him down with her. The unfortunate, flourishing clump was pulled up by the roots and carried down along with him.
Dragged unwillingly over to the corpses, Riva remained stiff all over, moving mechanically as Youyi pulled him along.
Severed limbs, large and small intestines... The pungent smell of blood mingled with the stench of ruptured organs.
"Hmm, looks