Kenji was just lazing on his chair like he always was when suddenly, he felt a strange pain in his heart and—
died.
Kenji awoke
"ugh.... I'm alive? Thought I died for sure"
He looked around—
The sky was blazing red, the ground covered in some kind of red mist—
and creepy sounds were coming from every direction.
"huh, this is strange? This doesn't really seem like my room"
He stood up
'was I always this tall?'
He looked at his legs.
"?"
They were covered with fur,
not just his legs, his arms too.
"Is this what they call a lucid dream?"
He tried pinching his face, but noticed that it was no longer like that of a human's.
He pinched it regardless.
It hurt.
"Right... of course it would"
"Did I get reincarnated?"
He looked at his body again,
judging from the shape of his head, it was probably, most likely that of a goat.
He could also feel two horns sprouting from his head.
"Such misfortune.. what did I even get reincarnated as..."
he decided to look around, everything was still like before, red sky, red mist everywhere and strange sounds coming from somewhere.
"well, nothing better to do than explore, is there?"
He walked around a bit, following one of the strange sounds that he was constantly hearing.
Once he got close enough to one,
he saw something.
A living creature.
Something that was obviously inhuman.
The creature was small, it had razor sharp jagged teeth, round awkward body and lots of "feet".
'....Is it eating something?'
Curious, Kenji approached it.
The creature noticed him.
"hi"
the creature did not reply, in fact, it probably wasn't even capable of speech or spoke some other language.
The creature tried attacking Kenji.
It lunged at him
however, Kenji noticed something weird.
'Why am I not scared or stressed?' Considering his situation, it wouldn't be strange for him to be scared and panic, especially with the gross flesh ball lunging at him.
However, he didn't feel any of that.
Actually, he felt as if he was at home.
He caught the creature that was lunging at him with one hand.
His hand compressing its flesh unnaturally.
It seemed to be in pain.
Now that he was holding the creature with his one hand,
he could observe it more closely,
He noticed that the creature also had lots of glowing small eyes on its body, and then—
He did something so absurd that even he himself took a minute to realize what he did.
He bit into the creature and tore off a chunk of flesh,
It writhed in his grip for a few seconds before going limp.
"huh?"
The process felt so natural that he didn't even feel anything wrong with it.
'Is this what they call instinct?'
'not to mention—
This taste!'
It tasted really good.
Like some premium steak at a high rated restaurant.
At least he assumes so, Kenji didn't go outside too much.
He tried eating the other parts of the creature, but to his shock—
it was so repulsive that he almost puked.
"BLEGH!"
"Why does it taste like rotten flesh now?!?"
"ugh... so gross"
The good taste he had in his mouth from earlier was completely gone, replaced by the rotten flesh one.
He shouldn't have eaten that
'why was only the first bite so good in the first place?' He thought.
The answer came naturally, almost instinctively,
It was because he ate it when the creature was still alive.
"What am I? A demon?" Kenji muttered quietly.
probably
he thought, this place does seem like what one would call a "demon world" in stories.
Such misfortune..
"hm?"
Seems like he made quite a bit of noise.
A few more of the small creatures seemed to have come out.
They all lunged at him.
In an instant with a single swipe of his hand,
he grabbed a piece from every small creature and put them into his mouth.
"Seriously! What's with this taste?"
It was as good—
if not better than when he first ate it.
He continued following the noises and found lots of similar creatures.
Some were similar to worms, some animals, some like those little "balls" he ate earlier.
They all had their own unique divine taste.
he took off the head of a small creature and ate it.
'This might not be so bad" He thought.
While he was eating the small creatures like he had before, he noticed something.
A creature that seemed to be the mix of a human and a wolf.
'A werewolf?"
at least that's what it looks like.
It noticed him.
It growled.
And tried pouncing on him—
Kenji dodged.
The werewolf hit nothing,
It repeated the same attack,
Kenji dodged again
and again and again.
The werewolf was confused.
Why could he not hit this guy?
"Is that all you have?"
As if the werewolf understood what he said.
It started transforming, its body increasing in size.
It roared, literally.
'isn't this like, a bit bad?'
"uh.. sorry?"
The werewolf attacked him once again,
this time with speed that shouldn't have been possible with that size.
"Guess this is it, goodbye second life" Kenji closed his eyes, expecting death.
The werewolf's claws hit him and he died—
or at least that's what he thought happened.
"huh? I'm still alive?
His claw had been stopped by his fur.
The werewolf was in shock as well
..was he perhaps really strong?
Not only that, but he could now feel some sort of energy in his body.
He moved that "energy" into his hand, his muscles swelling.
He punched the Werewolf—
half of its body flew away...