Chapter 2048: Decisive Victory in the Ring (31)

"But, but...... After listening to the order of the Grand Duke of Parinlore, the White Bear Man looked at the sea view in front of him even more suspiciously.

In front of him was the Mediterranean, a continental inland sea with extremely high salinity. The smell of the sea is tangy. Elaine really didn't want to jump into this water to swim without a special reason.

"I'm not going to repeat it a second time, you're either going to strip naked and jump in for a swim, or you're going to pull it down, and I'm not going to teach you. Parin Lore was visibly upset, or perhaps the man had been looking like this for a long time, and it was hard to tell if he was really angry or if he had the default expression.

"Okay, okay, I'll take it off, I'll take it off...... The White Bear Man then took off his coat and trousers, and went into the water in a very embarrassed way with only his pants on. The sea is not even cold and pleasant.

"Drink this again. Palinlore took another vial of medicine from his pocket.

"W-This?"

"Drink it anyway. "The Heavenly Knight doesn't intend to explain it to the White Bear.

In desperation, Elaine picked up the bottle and drank the potion from it. That thing has a bit of a grassy smell, which can't be said to be unpalatable or delicious, but it can only be said that it tastes amazing.

"This is a magic potion developed by some of my stupid sons, a gut activation. Palin Lore then said: "But this is a failed prototype, and it is extremely toxic." After drinking it, you will become extremely hungry within twelve hours, and your stomach acid secretion will become more than 200 times the original amount. Drink this, and you'll have to keep looking for food to fill your stomach. If you eat slowly, your stomach will be corroded by your own stomach acid and rot quickly. I know that this level of visceral damage will definitely not kill you. But the feeling of intestines piercing the stomach is probably enough for you. ＂

"Uh!" the words of the Heavenly Knight startled the White Bear Man.

Then he saw Parinlore take away all the clothes he had put on the seashore, and another spirit: "You, what are you doing?"

"I took your clothes away first. That way you can't leave this beach unless you want to go back to Cairo with just one pair of pants. Parin Lore sneered: "I'll be back to pick you up in twelve hours." Until then, try to find a way to fill your stomach. Don't starve. ＂

"But what is this, what is this for------?" Elaine didn't understand the other party's intentions at all, and wanted to ask.

Parin Lore had already leaped a hundred yards away, and disappeared without a trace in Elaine's clothes.

The White Bear Man sighed, showing a look of discouragement. He must have been deceived or tricked, right? But the other party is a big man like a heavenly knight, so he shouldn't be idle to play tricks on him, right? In any case, he is now standing almost naked on the shore, and he has to stay in this kind of place for twelve hours, which is embarrassing enough. Fortunately, this deserted beach seems to be a special place specially chosen for Palinlore, and the surrounding area is deserted, and there is not even a shadow of a ship in the Mediterranean Sea in the distance. Elaine doesn't have to worry about her embarrassing appearance being seen by others, at least for the time being.

He had to worry about something else.

Mutter------

Here we go. The effect of the potion was as terrible as Palinlore had said, and a huge hunger pang instantly welled up in Elaine's heart.

It was a hunger like the acid had abroded his stomach and intestines, and Elaine felt that if he ate a minute or two late, the stomach acid would corrode a big hole in his stomach.

You have to find food to fill your stomach quickly. But what is there to eat in such a barren place?!

There weren't even fruit trees around, and the farthest woods from the beach were still a hundred yards away. By the time Elaine ran over, he was probably starving to death, and it was impossible to find a way to catch wild beasts from the woods to fill his stomach. Far water can't save near fire, only near water can save it. The White Bear Man glanced at the sea on his chest. He was standing on the shores of the Mediterranean, and there were fish in the sea, and if he had to find something to fill his stomach, the fish in the sea would be the only food he could feed on.

However, Elaine is a clumsy white bear man now, and he can't catch fish with his clumsy appearance alone. If he didn't think of anything else, he would probably starve to death before he could eat.

There was no way, the only thing he could do was that------

Elaine didn't even think twice before she turned into a White Shark.

This discoloration is very dangerous, and he can easily lose his mind and become a raging beast when he becomes a white shark. But he had no choice, either to turn into a wild beast and make a fuss to fill his stomach so that he could survive the twelve hours of extreme hunger, or to starve to death, waiting for the stomach acid to corrode a hole in his abdomen, and let him die of rotting in his intestines------ which was not so terrible in comparison!

But at this moment, he still miscalculated. The [madness] of the White Shark Man's transformation is even bigger than Elaine expected. This madness originally came from a bloodthirsty hunting nature, and when Elaine was hungry, the madness was rightfully magnified.

From the moment she transformed into the White Shark Man, Elaine felt her consciousness gradually blur. [Man's] consciousness is suppressed, and [the beast's] consciousness expands and takes over his body. As if she was slowly sinking to the bottom of the ice, as if locked up in a cage that grew tighter and tighter, Elaine's consciousness as a [human] gradually dissipated, and finally she lost consciousness completely.

"Elaine, Elaine------ "Somebody is calling."

"Huh......" The white bearman boy opened his eyes slightly, and saw a golem. More precisely, it was a dragonman golem made of silvery-white Mithril alloy all over, Bols.

Elaine became a "father" when he was young, and after the Great War seven years ago, Elaine traveled the world with the dragon golem Bols, in order to recover the lost key fragment of the [World Wall].

"Do you remember what you've done?" asked the Dragonman Golem as soon as he woke the White Bear Man awake.

"I've done it, I've done it...... What?" the sleepy-eyed white-bear-man boy got up from the ground and looked around.

Their camp became miserable overnight, as if it had been hit by a hurricane, and the tents they had erected had collapsed, and the various changes of clothes that had been hung between the two trees with steel wires fell to the ground, because the two trees had long since been cut off by someone. The bonfire, which was protected by a pile of stones, had been destroyed, and it seemed that there were still fires scattered everywhere when they were destroyed, setting fire to some of the surrounding vegetation. If it weren't for the fact that someone put out the fire in time, this small fire would have turned into a forest fire.

"Is this me—I did it?" Elaine seemed to pick up something from his father's slightly reproachful eyes, "yes, I'm sorry!"

"No, it's my fault, I even told you that fish is more delicious when eaten raw as sashimi. Bols covered his head and sighed, "If I had known that if you would lose your mind and become a beast if you ate raw meat, I would have insisted that you eat cooked meat." ＂

"Uh......h Elaine snorted under her breath.

"Come and sit down. Bols tidied up the messy camp a little, moved a large, clean-looking rock as a chair, and motioned for the White Bears to sit. Bols, the Golem, sat cross-legged on the ground beside him. His body was cold and mechanical, and there was no need to go out of his way to find a chair to sit down.

After Elaine sat down, Bols handed a jug of water to the white bear boy, "Elaine, I heard that the body of your head does not actually belong to you, it seems that the child of Konstantin did surgery to attach your head to the headless body of a wild bear?"

"Hmm...... Well. The white bear boy replied in a low voice, subconsciously touching his neck.

Under the cover of the snow-white hair of the white bear man, there was still a faint circle of scars on his neck, traces of surgical stitches. As Bols said, Elaine's body below his head did not belong to him in the first place, but seemed to be the body that Grand Duke Hall brought back after he beheaded a brown bear that was harmful in the wild. At that time, the white bear man boy who was rescued from the research institute and his body was severely damaged, leaving only one head of his own, should not be far from death, but his first and closest friend in his life, the human boy named Constantine, used precision surgery and near-god-like skills to connect the head of the white bear man to the body of the brown bear.

Of course, that body didn't belong to Elaine in the first place. Forcibly attaching his head to it wouldn't work right away, and Elaine went through a long and painful rehab after that. Again and again, he was disheartened, thinking that his body was useless and that it was impossible to move again. If it weren't for the fact that his friends had been supporting him, he would still be lying in bed like a vegetative person, unable to even sit here and talk to Bols.

But Elaine herself knows very well that this is a borrowed body, a borrowed lifespan, so that what is borrowed from other creatures will definitely have sequelae.

The after-effect is that there has always been a wonderful beast consciousness in him, calling him and luring him to madness.

Until then, the White Bear Man had been using his reason to suppress the beast's consciousness and prevent himself from becoming a mad monster. He thought that he could keep suppressing it, and he thought that as long as he continued to suppress it like this, he would not pose any danger to the people around him. However, he only realized today that the madness took over his body the moment he ate the sashimi that his father had made for him, and the moment he ate the raw fish meat with the faint smell of blood into his stomach.

Once again, the boy looked sadly at the ruined camp around him, and he finally knew what a dangerous being he was. He finally remembered that one day, after a fragment of the White Bear's memory, Constantine was inexplicably seriously injured and sent for treatment, but the adults never told Elaine what had happened. Elaine didn't understand it at the time, but now she finally does.

He also understood why the Gaian knight Cador, who was almost about to adopt him, suddenly looked at him with such disgust.

Elaine remembered that the fragment of the memory had been stained with blood on his hands. It was the blood of his best friend, Constantine.

"Yes, it's me...... The white bear boy who remembered everything put his hands in his face and screamed, "I hurt Constantine------!"

"Calm down, Elaine!Elaine?!"

Bols tries to calm the White Bearman Boy, but Elaine faints in the moments that follow.