Chapter 4: Becoming a Monster
The second half of the steep slope was much more relaxed, unlike Kane, who fell from mid-air, and Keisha who rolled down the slope the whole time only suffered some skin trauma and some concussions to her brain.
Kane, who checked her injuries, had to sigh that maybe this was the real protagonist's life.
Seeing that the void creatures didn't catch up, Kane didn't forcibly wake her up. Shortly after this, Keisha woke up with her head covered.
Her eyes were closed and her brow furrowed deeply.
At this time, part of her outstanding physical talent had been revealed, her face was handsome, and her eyebrows were furrowed like a sharp willow leaf; The bridge of the nose is straight, and the slightly upturned upper lip has a hint of sensuality.
Three days of mourning, so that the long black hair was messily draped on the face, and a face covered with dust had already cried flowers. But even that didn't overshadow her dark and bright eyes in the dark underground.
If none of these things had happened, Keisha might have been able to become the Muraka.
Kaisha, who opened her eyes, was stunned for a moment when she found Kane sitting in front of her, and then pounced on him without saying a word, and hugged him tightly into her arms.
"Oh my God, I'm not mistaken, am I? Kane, aren't you dead? ”
It's rare, it's so rare!
Keisha was overjoyed, tears of joy welling up in her eyes.
"Keisha, you light, and quiet! I'm going to be caught by you, my arm hurts! Kane hissed and begged for mercy.
Keisha's reaction was so fierce that if she had known she would pounce like this, Kane would have kicked her away.
But it's no wonder......
She thought that she was the only one left in the whole village to survive, and since then she has endured the loneliness and darkness alone. But Kane's presence was like a beam of light shining into the darkness inside her, making her no longer feel lonely.
Children are emotional, so how can she not be excited about such an encounter?
After being reminded, Keisha noticed her gaffe, and also remembered the ugly creatures she had seen earlier, and quickly released her arms and closed her mouth, looking around in fear.
"They didn't come along, but in the underground, no matter how excited you are, you don't make a louder noise than a lamb cries, okay?"
Kane endured the pain and tried to explain to her clearly, this reckless girl is a bit different from the brave Void Hunter in his impression, and it seems that it will take a lot of beatings from life to become a feared Kaisha.
"I'm sorry." Keisha wiped two handfuls of tears and explained in a low voice: "I didn't mean to, I just, I just made me so happy to see you." ”
"I know, and I'm happy...... It's just that I'm not in a state where I can hug you. ”
"What's wrong with your hand?" Keisha finally noticed the outline of Kane's left arm hanging limply at her side, reminding her of the old man in the village who had been kicked in the arm by a horse, and his arm had been hanging like this.
"It's broken." Kane looked helpless.
"Have you been strangled by me?"
"Falling ......" Kane choked on Kesha's brain replenishment ability, but after thinking about her words, he seemed to really feel that Kaisha's strength was a little bit like that of a ten-year-old child.
"Do you feel it?"
"What does it feel?"
Keisha was at a loss for Kane's question.
"Your hands."
"My hands? It's like stinging......"
Like a bug covered in stitches crawling on her skin, Keisha felt the tingling sensation in her arm more and more clearly.
She lifted her hand and made a closer look in the darkness, revealing that it was covered with a dark purple carapace, like a huge ugly scar entrenched in the skin.
Keisha turned her head sharply to look behind her, and sure enough, there was a dead monster corpse lying there.
She seemed to think of something, her frightened eyes wandered over her arms and corpses, her expression gradually collapsed, and she took out her dagger in a panic, trying to peel off the extra ugliness on her body.
But the carapace was as hard as iron, and Keisha broke her dagger with too much force.
"Ahh The blade popped out of the broken hilt, and she screamed, then looked at herself with disgust in her eyes.
She gave up her resistance and let it cling to her skin, like thousands of tiny hooked teeth hanging into the flesh and pain, and the feeling of being wrapped in the fine needleboard like a cat's tongue made her grit her teeth with hatred.
"What did I just say? No matter how agitated you are, don't make a louder noise than a lamb cries. Kane watched as Keisha broke the dagger before he stopped it.
Although he didn't know the significance of fate arranging for Keisha to break the dagger, since it had already happened, it was best to happen again.
"But I've become a monster...... "Keisha sobbed as she touched her rough armor.
"Keisha, you must know that this is a world of monsters, and you can only live if you become a monster."
In Kesha's tearful gaze, Kane stood up and walked over to her, holding out his still-intact right hand to her.
"Don't be afraid, Keisha, take your dagger and hold my hand tightly."
The girl complied, grabbed the dagger in one hand, and was led by the boy to the monster's corpse.
"Peel off a layer of armor from it." Kane said, pointing to the four-clawed monster.
"Why?"
"Don't ask why, just do it, I won't hurt you." Kane's tone was terrifyingly tough, and Keisha had never seen him do anything like that.
Still, out of trust in her partner, Keisha endured her nausea and plunged her hiltless dagger into the monster's chest filled with sticky purple slurry and strange flesh.
Probably because the monster was dead, the carapace of the corpse was not as hard as the one on her body at the beginning, and she took a lot of effort to rip out a slap-sized piece, and then carefully handed it to Kane.
Kane was very nervous, trembling and took the carapace from Keisha's hand, and then said softly to her:
"Keisha, it's not terrible to become a monster, it's terrible to fall and give up being a human because of this. It's just the two of us in the underworld, and I don't care what you look like...... Let's fight against fate together and work hard for each other to live. ”
As the words fell, Kane smiled palely.
In fact, he said this because he knew what Keisha would become, and he was more worried about whether he would become a monster? Will you be abandoned if you become a monster?
Everything is unknown.
Listening to Kane's words, Keisha was very moved, but just as she opened her mouth to say something, the smile on Kane's face suddenly turned hideous, and she grinned as if she was enduring extreme pain.
She looked down and saw that he had actually pressed the monster's armor to his broken left arm!
Hurt!
Unforgettable pain!
The sharp pain of the corroded flesh was deeply rooted in his mind, and Kane's face turned pale as he shook off the piece of armor that almost killed him.
He bowed his head stiffly, the skin on his forearm that was sticky with purple slurry had been peeled, and the energy of the void spread along the blood vessels, and the flesh and blood along the way turned black and necrotic at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It wasn't what he had expected, and it couldn't have been worse.
Not only did he fail to complete the symbiosis, but he was also eroded by the void!