Chapter 3: Conclusion
“Gh, gaahh”
The hideous demon, with its distinctive pure white skin, shook its massive body in an attempt to shake off the silver-haired, red-eyed high school boy, Yuiru Enen, who had stabbed it with a silver knife.
The pure white arms growing out from around the shoulder blades tried desperately to pull Yuiru away, but Yuiru himself grabbed the white arm and bit into it with all his might, starting with the fingertips.
He bit off the fingertips down to the bone, and while sucking the black mist that spewed out, he was clinging to the back of the pure white, hideous demon all around him. He thrust the silver knife deep into the center of the demon’s back, exerting force so that it wouldn’t be easily shaken off.
Gori, gorin~. (TN: Crunch, chomp)
Guchyu, gori, boki~n. (TN:Slurp, chomp, snap)
With a raw sound, Yuiru tore off an arm,
“GROSSSS!!”
The pure white fingertips and arm that he had held in his mouth were spat out, covered in saliva, onto the floor of meat. Some were half-chewed, some still had teeth marks, and some were so mangled that they no longer held any shape.
Yuiru pulled out his silver knife and easily jumped off the white demon’s back.
Wiping his mouth roughly, he frowned and muttered, “That was disgusting…” His expression and voice showed that he truly thought the food tasted bad. It was an unusual reaction for Yuiru, who eats ghosts.
“It’s disgusting, oh so disgusting. It’s inedible. It tastes rotten all over.”
The taste of the demon must have permeated the saliva that had accumulated in his mouth, as Yuiru repeatedly spat it at his feet and chanted “disgusting.”
“Damn you, you mere flying insect dare defy me!!”
The demon, whose arm growing out from its back has been torn off, bared human-shaped teeth from its mouth which had been torn to two sides, and threatened.
The arm growing out from the demon’s back wriggled with a rustling sound.
A series of sounds like bones cracking reached Houzuki’s ears. Looking up, she saw that the arm on its back was gradually stretching, spreading its five fingers out to grab Yuiru.
“I came all the way here to eat you, but it was all for nothing. I wish I could get my effort back.”
Squinting his shining red eyes, Yuiru stood in Houzuki’s way as if to protect her.
Clutching the silver knife in a reverse grip, he faced off against the white demon, accompanied by a swarm of wriggling arms.
The silver tableware was meant to be used for eating, but at this moment it existed as a lethal weapon to injure the demon. He was about to get serious about disposing of the disgusting food that he had harshly criticized as “inedible.”
“Just die already. You’re so disgusting I can’t eat you.”
“You’re the one who’s going to die!!”
The demon spat out as it attacked Yuiru, but for a demon with a body so large he had to look up at it, Yuiru’s mobility, which was the average height of a human, was a problem for it.
And Yuiru had good athletic ability. It’s fair to say that he’s been able to hold down and eat rampaging ghosts.
Slipping through the gap between the white demon’s outstretched arms, Yuiru plunged the silver knife into the demon’s throat.
“But well,”
He slashes the silver knife he had thrust into the demon’s throat, ripping its neck apart.
“I’m a big fan of not leaving any food behind. I will eat every single piece of you.”
No matter how disgusting it is.
Yuiru’s words fell silent, and the demon, its throat ripped open, collapsed to the floor of flesh.
The demon’s whole body trembled before it stopped moving altogether as a black mist spewed from the scarred surface of its neck. Its tongue lolled out of its large mouth, suggesting that it was completely dead.
With a look of utter disgust on his face, Yuiru straddled the demon’s massive body, and this time he put his hands together and declared,
“I ta da ki masu”
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“I can’t eat any more.”
Yuiru declared this when he had consumed about half of the demon’s body.
Until then, it had been a normal meal, but what was different from usual was that the word “delicious” had been replaced with the word “disgusting.”
This demon must have tasted so bad. Houzuki didn’t really understand, so he found it strange that Yuiru was frowning the whole time he was eating.
“Are you going to leave some leftover? Wasn’t it the something which lived in the old school building that you’ve wanted to eat for a long time?”
“Disgusting things are unappetizing. My tongue will grow stupid if I eat any more of this.”
Nonchalantly deciding to abandon the demon, Yuiru,
“Oh, is that my real body?”
“Yeah――”
Behind Houzuki, Irune Yuen’s real body was embedded. Only his upper body was sticking out of the pillar of flesh, and he was left there with his head hanging down.
With his emaciated cheeks and a body made up of only skin and bones, he was so skinny that it could be called a mummy. Even if he were to come back to life in this condition, it would be difficult for him to return to human society.
“I’ve gotten so thin. I won’t be able to have a decent meal with this. Eating for a high school student is now a pleasure……”
“……What do you want to do, Yuiru? Can you go back?”
“Not at all.”
Yuiru leaves Irune Yuen’s body, his head hanging, and turns around as if his business is done. He steps on the demon’s messy corpse and says, “Let’s go.”
“Ah, Houzuki.”
Yuiru turns back to Houzuki and points to the plastic container.
“Sprinkle it and set it on fire. It’s my own funeral, so give me a grand cremation.”
–And so Houzuki sets the old school building on fire.
