Chapter 8: The end of the end part 1

Huh? Where am I? I say in my mind as my jaw’s feel like it’s wired shut. The last thing I remember is dying and a notification appeared that my life reached zero. Which is weird for someone that’s dead.

Ugh, I can’t move. It’s so dark, I tried struggling but is as if my whole body went numb and lost all feeling. God dammit! What’s going on?!

“Well you died that’s what. And why curse at me? I didn’t kill you.” Someone says over me. A voice too familiar that even without my vision, I can distinguish.

Luro you bastard! Where am I?! I curse him with all the bad words in my mind.

“Wow, you’re so friendly. Ah, wait; you’re trapped in a limbo. Let me get you out.” He says and with a snap of his fingers, I was able to open my eyes and move my body. I gasped for air as if I held my breath for too long under water.

“Where am I?” I whisper looking around and I’m in a white room that has no walls. The floor and ceiling look like it can go on forever.

“You’re in the section between life and death. I call this, the neutral zone.” Luro tells me as he walks around. He’s wearing a red suit with glasses that probably is just for fashion. His hair is greased back and even his horns have a glossy shine in them. “I don’t know if you remember, but, you kind of died like a bitch.”

My memory is still vivid. I can clearly picture the gruesome way I died. I look down into the grown knowing that I won’t be able to see my mother, brought tears to my eyes.

"Goddammit." I weakly say crying to myself. "W-where's everyone?"

“Your team? You mean them? They spawned back into the world.” He tells me making me look up to him.

“I-I thought it was permanent death?” I asked him.

“It is, I’m just too generous.” He tells me as he walks around me. “Now, want to know what will happen to you?”

“W-what?” I asked him nervously.

“I’m going to spawn you back into the dungeon.” He tells me, and my heart sank.

“Do I have another option?” I ask him.

“Nope, well, you do. You can remain dead and pass on.” Luro says as he walks around me some more.

“What about everyone else?” I asked him.

“They will spawn outside the dungeon. Ah, they know you will spawn inside the dungeon, so they told me to tell you, that to wait for them or something. They’re going to rescue you or something.” He tells me, and I somehow feel relieved. Even knowing my fate, they decided to try and save me rather than leaving me to die.

“Ok. I accept. I trust them.” I tell him. But to be honest, I had no other choice. This is the only chance to live on so I’ll take it. Luro gave me a smile and somehow, I feel like he's hiding something. Like it isn't all that it seems to be.

"Good, well then, have fun little one." He says as he snaps his fingers and I lose consciousness. I slowly woke up inside the cold hard floor in my room. Is as if it was the first day I got here. An orb illuminates the door with a sign on it. I read the sentence on the sign and proceed through the dark hallway following the orb this time. As soon as I got to the circular room, the silence finally hit me. I'm all alone now.

“Ok Yasu, you got this," I whisper to myself as I try to walk towards the other rooms to double check and each and every room is empty. "I'm really alone."

I walk towards Hiroko’s room and used the water to wash my face and drink to elevate my hunger. I don’t know how fast they can come to me, but I need to find a way to keep myself from being hungry. I don’t have much food left and the only thing I can substitute is water.

"Dammit, what now," I say to myself as I walk back out to the statue room. I sat near the statue leaning on the pedestal trying to figure out what I should do next. My mind is empty. I didn't have a plan and what I can do is very limited due to my class. I look at the door that leads to the skeleton room and it's wide open completely more than what we left it. As much as I fear to venture out, I need to know if all the monsters respawn. If it did, I'd be in really deep trouble if I have to go through the undead skeletons.

I decided to brace myself and slowly walked towards the opened large wooden double door. As I step out, I see the notification that I exited the safe zone. The torches started lighting up on each side and I took one from the wall and carried it as I slowly walked in the dark tunnel. As I got to the end, the door is also wide-open more than what I remember. I slowly peeked through and I sighed with relief when I saw all the weapons and armor scattered in the ground.

“Is as if the same as we left it. I guess I don’t have to fight the undead skeleton, but I have to try and fight the rest on the other room?” I whisper to myself. “Shit. This is the same as death.”

Just selfishly thinking of being alive and accepting Luro’s proposal, I noticed I’m not better off. I slowly walked towards the end of the skeleton room and peeked through the door. Thinking that the monsters are in the next room, I let my guard down as I peeked through. All of a sudden, a wolf that was sleeping beside the door woke up as soon as I peek my head out the side. We locked out for a moment before it started growling at me. It let out a loud bark and all of a sudden, more wolves came out of the dark corners of the cave while goblins and trolls came out the door on the other side.

“Oh shit!” I curse running back as the wolf goes on a full sprint towards me. One of them almost caught up and using the torch in my hand, I managed to impair its vision for a bit giving me time to gain some distance. As soon as I passed the skeleton room, I went into a full sprint towards the safe zone trying to gain some more distance, so I can have enough time to close the door. But as I tried, the door won’t budge as if they were glued to the ground.

"Fuck!" I cursed as I let go of the door and ran to the safe room. As I get close to the entrance, A wolf suddenly pounces on my back and got a hold of my shirt. It wildly shook its head side to side flinging me around with superhuman strength. The shirt ripped off its mouth and my body went flying towards the safe room. I see it jump and I and out of instinct, I used my hands to try and block him. But rather than getting bitten, I heard a loud yelp as if something hit it so hard it made it cry. I look, and I see the wolf shaking its head trying to shake away its concussion. A bright green light separated us as it covered the entrance where I came from acting like a wall deflecting every attack that's coming from the goblins behind him. I see arrows, spears, and blades all coming my way, but the force field blocked every attack.

“Ha! That’s what you get!” I scream at it and as I see the wolf and the horde couldn't come into the safe zone.

“Get out of here!” I scream to the wolf, but it snarled at me before walking away with everyone else. “Whew, so this is why it’s a safe zone.”

This is bad. The exit is through the other end. I need to get past them somehow. I whisper to myself, as I remain laying down.

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“I don’t want to die," I whisper to myself as I place my hand on my eyes. I just lay there crying up until I got tired and fell asleep. It’s been a couple of hours since I woke up and I’m starting to get sleepy again.

"I guess it's night time," I whisper as I yawn trying to keep myself awake. I retreated back into Hiroko's room taking a couple of torches with me. Good thing is that the flames never run out as soon as they're lit. It stays on forever or up until I put it out. "Status window."

Status Window

Name

Yasu

Class

BLADE

Level

2

Guild

Diamond District

Skills

Skill level

Grill

2

Fry

1

Passive Skills

Passive skill description

Chef's Soul

Gives you a chef's natural abilities.

Purify

Whatever you cook is automatically purified making it safe to eat.

Midas Touch

All the food and beverages you create taste better.

MB

???

"Ugh, it’s all the same. He really did spawn me back with this shitty class.” I groan as I look at my status carefully. “MB? This wasn’t here before.”

I ignored the new passive skill for now. There's no description and the skill window only work on my regular skills, not the passive ones. I called out my dimensional bag with a command and it dropped in front of me. I took out a piece of rat meat and ate it slowly taking the smallest bite as I possibly can. After taking a couple of bites, I store it back into the bag and walked towards the tiny pond in Hiroko's room. I used the frying pan to collect some water and dumped it on the makeshift campfire.

"Good thing this is still here," I whisper as I dump the water onto the shield, so I can slowly boil it. I made a mistake earlier drinking from the pond directly. Luckily, I didn't get any stomach ache, but I rather not take any chances after that. As I wait for the water to boil, I suddenly hear one of the wolves let out a howl that almost made me run to a room. I remembered the forcefield, so I decided to approach the entrance of the safe zone.

"What the fuck," I whisper to myself. As I got closer, one wolf started growling at me. I feel a bit safer with the invisible shield from the safe zone but sleeping here while those things are watching me is another thing. "Fuck, I have to sleep with these things outside?"

I watch the wolves settle themselves outside the safe zone. I taunted them a couple of times but then gave up when they started showing no interest. After boiling the water, I started getting sleepy as I started to frequently yawn. I was planning on sleeping by the pedestal since it’s closer to the boiled water, but I headed to Hiroko’s room and slept there instead. The sound of a small stream hitting a pond of water helps me calm my nerves. It’s better than sleeping in the statue room where a giant door is wide open with the enemies on the other side. As I listen to the water, I slowly started becoming drowsy and I quickly fall asleep.

As soon as I wake up I checked if the wolves are still out there. They are, and they multiplied. They literally made the hallway their campground. I went to my room and tried to pick up the sword again. But to no avail, it's still heavy. I quickly gave up since it doesn't make sense to waste energy unnecessarily. Back at the main room in the middle where the broken statue is, I tried to attack the statue and managed to destroy a piece off its wing. The piece that fell was sharp enough to stab something. I contemplated on getting one of the wolves with this as a weapon but since they're all grouped up in the entrance; I'll die before I kill the first one.

"I hope they're coming for me," I whisper as I walk towards a wall. Using the sharp rock, I started carving the days I'm stuck in here. I tried counting how many times I slept as a way for me to track down the days I've been here, but I decided to start today as the first day carving a line on the wall until I made a mark. Not much I can do but try to keep track of everything. I'm hoping I can pull one of the wolves in the safe zone but, the force field will probably stop me.

One, quickly becomes two, three four, and I carved so much on the wall that the rock started becoming dull. I used the sword to try and sharpen it but it's a lot harder when I can't pick up the sword and try to make do with what I can. Every time I get sleepy, the wolves outside would howl non-stop keeping me awake. Is as if they know and is trying to test my patience and sanity.

“Ughh shut up!” I shouted as loud as I can, but they never did. Their howls echoed through the hallway reaching Hiroko’s room even when I have the door closed. When everything is so quiet, any noise gets amplified so much that I started having anxiety thinking that something will attack me from my sleep. Different thoughts came through my mind as days pass by. If its day, I don’t know. I have lost the sense of daytime and I’m starting to forget the feeling of the sun. I laid down listening to the water and the wolves howl and started thinking of my life in this world.

In my entire life, I died twice. First was in the train, the second was near the portal of the dungeon. Both of them weren't a really nice way of going. Getting your heart ripped out or being stabbed, cut, and stomped on while being eaten by wolves isn't really any better. I talked to myself in my mind trying to keep my sanity. But the thought of going through pain, going through the same situation created a fear in my heart that stopped me every time I tried to be brave and confront the wolves outside the safe zone.

The next morning, I started feeling much worse as my body feels slugging and any sudden movement makes my head spin. A piercing headache didn’t help as the rumbling of my stomach kept me awake. I stepped out to the statue room and I sat by the pedestal of the statue and put my head down towards my knee while hugging my legs. In that position right there, I waited.

"I trust them," I whisper but even talking is painful, as my mouth feels dry at every word even when I drank all the water I can drink. But how long can I continue believing them? I don't know. The day's kept adding up as more lines I carve in the wall. My daily routine of waking up, washing my face, drinking as much water as I can before taking a tiny bite onto my remaining food caused me to feel the stagnant pressure of my situation. The pattern has become so heavy that I feel like a programmed robot to do the same thing over and over till I die.

But at least a robot doesn’t need food. A couple more days have passed, and I cut down on my daily food intake to one tiny bite a day. I don’t have enough rat meat to last me for a long time, so I tried my best to save whatever I have left. But as time goes by, my food depletes with it and I was brought to only drinking water multiple times a day. I don’t really know how many days have passed since I stopped keeping track and carving the worse require too much energy. Has it been really days in here, I’m not completely sure. But one thing I do know, it feels like an eternity.

I sit by the pedestal of the statue and rest my back on it. More days passed by and I started to feel numb at certain parts of my body. It became so worse that I stopped moving at all. I wake up near the pedestal; I sleep where I woke up. I can't gather water anymore. I don't have the strength for it. I should thank physics. An average person with a normal weight can live up to eight weeks without food. Without food, my body will burn the fat and that fat can extend my life for a couple more days. But, I'm on my last stretch. I don't know if I will wake up tomorrow.

"How long…" I tried muttering, but I couldn't make up the next words, as it requires too much energy. It feels like my lungs might give out any minute. I look at my hands they look really skinny in such a short amount of time. Now that I don't have food altogether, my body started burning my fat and flesh to the point that I can see the outline of my bones from the top of my hands. I can't cry anymore, I don't have the energy to even shed a tear. I just sat there, staring at a wall.

“Wow, you look like shit.” Luro suddenly appeared in front of me but I couldn’t even talk to curse him out. “Well, this is unexpected.”

I see him put his cold fingers near my neck, but I didn’t even try to move, as it requires too much energy to even lift a finger.

Go away, I say in my mind.

“I will, I just passed by to check on you but damn, you look like you’re going to die any minute.” He tells me as he stands back up. “Well, since you’re about to die, why don’t I show you a nice clip.”

A clip? Like a movie? I asked him in my mind.

“Hmm, well depends on you how you interpret it.” He tells me as he sat down in front of me. “Here, let me just show you.”

He snaps his fingers and a hologram with a white noise appeared in front of me. After a while, an image slowly formed as clear as if I was watching through an HDTV. I see Hiroko on top of Junpei crying while trying to shake him awake. After a while, I see him wake up and it didn’t take long for him to start crying.

Everyone. I say in my mind as I watch what’s going on.

"Ah, let me turn up the volume on this part," Luro says as he sat beside me like we’re on a date watching a movie. The volume increased and it was loud enough to wake up the wolves sitting outside. But, upon seeing Luro, they all ran to the skeleton room yelping.

I watched as I listened to them talk. Junpei was crying that he let them all down as a leader. I wanted to cry myself but I had no energy left. After a while, they see luro sitting on a table wearing the same clothes he has now. I see them have a bit of scuffle but they all started calming down as soon as Luro started talking to them.

“Well here’s the deal little babies.” I hear Luro talk in the monitor. “I can revive people who died. But, on one teeny itty-bitty condition.” He paused for a minute waiting for our reply but no one said anything. “Everyone or Yasu?”

You fucking asshole, what did you do? I asked him in my mind.

“Shhh, this is not the best part yet. Keep watching.” He tells me.

“Don’t worry, everyone will be revived. But, if I revive everyone outside, I can only do it with the current people in this room. You see, Yasu is still alive and for some reason, that bastard hasn't died yet because he thinks he's shooting a drama crying his hearts out." Luro says that made me want to strangle him.

“Can’t we wait for him?” Hiroko asked.

"By my calculations, when his soul gets here, your soul will pass the time limit and will vanish so if you wait for him, you're waiting for your deaths," Luro says.

“What do you mean everyone or Yasu?” Junpei asked him and I feel a gut-wrenching feeling as I keep watching the clip.

"Well, as you can see, I'm still an evil god. I can spawn you all outside with the same class and abilities. But I will only spawn only you guys outside since he decided to not die at the same time as all of you. Isn't that a selfish act? He doesn't deserve to be outside for being selfish. But, if you choose, I can spawn you all inside the dungeon with him, so you can try to have a go again. But when I do, I will reset the whole dungeon and also reset your levels and class. Basically, you will start from scratch. Oh, and it’s not like I’m that evil. If you decide to spawn outside, I will spawn him in the dungeon with his current class and level. If you decided to spawn inside the dungeon, I will change his class to a fighter one, so he can fight alongside you. Hurry up and pick, your time is running out.”

Don't tell me, they... I whisper in my mind.

“that they did~” He whispers as I see him nod beside my trying to hold back his laughter.

"I choose to go outside," Rikimura-san says that made my heart sank.

"Good! Now four more and we have our winner! The clock is ticking little babies~" Luro replies with a mocking tone.

“How can you choose so fast?!” Junpei asked him and I’m glad he still on my side.

"I also choose outside," Riki says and I wanted to kill him at that spot.

"Three to go," Luro says and I watch the remaining clip to see what everyone else would pick.

“Do you really think we can go through all of that again? We don’t have a healer.” Rikimura-san says, and I couldn’t take it anymore.

Turn it off. Turn it off! I shout in my mind.

“Keep watching, the best parts are yet to come.” I hear him and he somehow forced my head to watch, as I wasn’t able to turn or close my eyes.

Stop! Turn it off! I shout in my mind but all he did was shush my and cover my mouth with his hands.

“I also pick outside.” Hiroko whispers and my heart drops even more as my eyes started welling up.

“What? Hiroko?” I hear Junpei asked her and I prayed that he at least wouldn’t leave me.

“I feel sorry to Yasu but, I want to survive and go home.” She says and I can't help feeling betrayed. "I don't want to die again. I don't think he will spawn us again if we die a second time. I'm sorry Yasu, I’m sorry.”

"I will pick outside," Tobi says, and I can't even do anything.

“M-me too.” Sawada also picks me to stay in the dungeon. The people I hoped would be my companions still found me to be a hindrance. I feel Luro’s hand slowly move away and my body relaxes as he removed whatever prevented me from even blinking.

"Well, dear leader-kun? What do you choose?” I hear Luro asked Junpei in the monitor.

“I-“ He tried speaking and I prayed and prayed in my mind that at least, he’d pick to be in here with me. “Can you tell him something?”

"Sure," Luro replies to him and I see Luro from the side peeking at me giving me the most sinister smile. But my vision was glued to the screen hoping that I wasn’t abandoned here.

“Tell him…” I hear Junpei talk and my heart was beating so fast it felt like it would jump out. “we’re coming back for him. So, stay alive. We will rescue him.”

From then on, everything somehow went slower and look to the ground. I couldn’t comprehend what had just happened.

“Oh look!” Luro says like he’s watching the best part of a movie. I weakly look up and I see them shaking hands with what seems to be people. “Those are the gold district team. They met up and went on to build a camp together. They’re friends now.”

My heart wrench at the word ‘friend' every time he mentions it. I can't seem to accept that they chose to leave me behind. They could have picked to restart. I would have a different class, we would have figured out how to get out together but, instead, they picked the easy way and set me up to my doom.

“Well, I just wanted you to see what actually happened. You know, that they knew that you would be here regardless what choice they pick, it’s just that, they chose to not suffer with you. What a bunch of selfish cunts huh?” Luro says and I didn’t respond. “Well, hope you like my final gift. Bye~”

He snapped his fingers and he disappeared leaving me alone in the statue room.

Was it my fault that this class was named wrong? I whisper to myself with a blank expression. I didn’t do anything wrong.

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I give up, I say in my mind as I found myself moving towards the dark. My mind keeps going blank and I can’t even control my body as I move like a zombie. The darkness was alluring. It feels like a blanket waiting to cover me from all this pain. I kept walking and walking till my legs gave out and I fell to the ground. I didn’t even make any sound as my body feels light like a feather but at least I feel the coldness of the floor.

Ah, let me sleep. I whisper in my mind as I slowly close my eyes. All of a sudden, I hear footsteps that jolt me back awake. I kept my ear in the ground and I hear the footsteps coming closer and closer. Thinking it's them, that Luro lied to me, I used my remaining strength and force my head up. I happily look up welcoming them with a smiling face but it all soon faded as I see them standing in front of me. The darkness I walked towards must have been the darkness from the hallway and I collapse outside the safe zone.

No, I whisper in my mind as I look at them smiling down at me. The same smile I feared before I died.

“No! Get away!” I found the strength to scream but my arms didn't move nor my whole body for the matter. Even if I want to get away from them, I couldn't. I shouted and screamed as I see one leaning towards me while laughing.

“oggabruk Naroosh dukratah." A goblin whispered in my ear and I tried my best to even move an arm, but I couldn't. I see it stand up and I fell something grabbing me by the collar of my shirt and my body started moving forward. I screamed and begged but all they did is laugh as the goblin dragged me into the dark. After entering the skeleton room, they threw me down the ground and I feel something grab my hair and pull it straight up almost ripping it off my scalp. I tried to scream but a hand covered my mouth and all I could do is look at it in the eyes with fear. Goblins, wolves, trolls, they all made came in the skeleton room as I see campfire scattered around.

I feel a sharp pain in my left leg and I see a goblin running his knife slicing my skin. I tried struggling but my body was too weak and all I could do is a scream but even that I was denied as the troll holding my head kept my mouth covered muffling my voice. I felt the sharp pain as the dagger dug more into my leg but stopped before hitting my bone. I cried and tried to struggle but anything I do is useless. I feel the knife dig in as my leg was being cut open and I lose consciousness due to the pain.

I woke up slowly adjust to the light of the campfire and once I come to, I feel my arms tied up to something. I see them sitting around a campfire laughing while the goblins are dancing around holding a plate. Trolls were stuffing their face with what looks like meat and the wolves are on the side eating also. A sudden sting jolts my attention towards my leg and my heart sank as I see my legs cut wide open exposing the bones. I notice blood coming out, but a magic circle would appear reversing it back. It looked like they cut off a piece of my leg and tears welled up in my eyes as fear succumbs to me.

They are eating me alive! I shouted in my arms as I tried to struggle but my arms don't even have any strength left. I hear footstep coming towards me and as I look up, a goblin looked me down smiling. Fear made my heart race and I begged and begged for him to let me go but my cries only sounded like inaudible sounds. I see it slowly coming down lifting up one leg and brought a dagger in my calves and slowly cut stripping away my flesh up to the bone. I felt the pain and this time, it was enough to keep me awake during the whole ordeal. After he's done cutting a piece of me, he walked back to his group and all threw my flesh in the pot that simmering in the middle. My leg stung and the pain of being cut alive lingered as I cried and cried.

One of the goblins came back and fearing he would do it again, I tried my best to move my leg, but it didn't. All of a sudden, he took out the loincloth he's wearing exposing himself and rolled it before putting it in my mouth and tying it in the back of my head muffling my cries even more. The taste and smell of the loincloth were too much that it made me gag but vomit didn't come out as my stomach was empty. He went back to his group and they all started laughing talking in a language I can hardly hear. The pain in my leg made it difficult to stay still as it throbbed and throbbed resonating throughout my whole body. Magic circles appeared randomly preventing me from bleeding to death and I feared the worse has yet to come. They're going to keep me alive as much as I can, so they can eat me.

Somebody, please, help me. I begged in my mind as I cried to myself through the night.

I forgot how long I’ve been here. Every now and then, I would get a piece of me cut away from my body and the pain is something I could never get used to. I passed out a couple of times which is scarier than staying awake since every time I come to, I notice myself looks completely different. My whole leg is almost missing meat but yet, I was still alive due to the runes that somehow regenerated me slowly keeping me alive. Is as if they made me into a meat farm. They would wait for the runes to slowly recover what they took and once I built enough flesh, a goblin would come and cut me up again. It was a never-ending nightmare and I hoped day by day, minute by minute that they would kill me.

Everyone in the room I've seen has eaten me. Sometimes, they would leave altogether leaving one behind to keep watch to only come back and cut me up again. The only one I didn't see eat me was the troll that was left to watch me every time. It seems like he only eats everything else except the flesh that comes from my body. I see him walk past me and the look he gave me was different than everyone else. A look of pity. A look of anger, a look that means to let me know my place. A human flesh farm that sits in the bottom of the food chain. I see him take out a bottle of what seems to be water and slowly poured it into my mouth letting me drink and satisfying the dry feeling in my throat.

After a while, he would sit back down and fiddle with his knife. He keeps glancing my way and I know what's he's thinking. He wants to cut me up and eat some flesh before his companion gets here. But most of the time, he would hide his knife back and just sit facing away from me. But this time, it was different. He stood up holding a knife and I braced myself from the pain of being cut up. I close my eyes and clench my fist as I hear him walk near me anticipating a blade to enter my flesh. But all of a sudden, I felt the ropes on my arm comes loose as my body falls sideways. I open my eyes and I see him picking me up and throwing me on his shoulder.

Ah, he’s going to kill me now. I whisper in my mind as I accept my fate. As he turns around I hear a sound from a distance making me slowly lift up my head. Everyone came back and they all started screaming running towards us. All of a sudden, the troll holding me went into a full sprint towards the hallway and I hear everyone shouting and screaming while they ran after us.

What? What is he doing? I say in my mind as I watch the ground turn dark as we entered the hallway. I suddenly hear a swoosh and felt the impact of it. I feel blood trickling down my chest yet, I feel no pain. The floor slowly exposed itself as we probably got closer to the entrance of the safe zone.

I guess they’re going to kill me he- The voice in my head suddenly stopped as I see the liquid traveling down dripping to the floor was purple. I see its legs was struggling to walk and all of a sudden, I felt the trolls hand grab me from the waist and my body went flying towards the light. My body came into a loud thud as I rolled around the ground to an only stop facing the hallway I came from. I see the troll slowly slump down the ground with a spear through its chest and everyone else came behind him using swords and blades to finish him off. I see all of them look at me and I felt the fear in my stomach as I notice bloodthirst in their eyes. Yet, they didn't move.

I’m….I’m in the safe zone? I say in my mind as I watch them shout before grabbing their weapons lodged in the dead troll and leaving back towards where they came from. I’m in the safe zone!

Happiness filled me as I felt safe for the very first time but, it wasn’t long till I started to notice I was losing consciousness. I struggled to stay awake looking at the dead troll that carried me and anger filled my core. Using my strength, I slowly dragged myself toward it. My body is telling me to heal but my mind, it was thinking about something else.

Hunger.

But the situation finally caught up to me as my body stopped moving.

I’m going to agian die in the end, I whisper in my mind feeling frustrated I didn’t get a chance to even live.

I’m sorry. I whisper in my mind as my eyes slowly closed.

No.

I can’t.

I want to live.

I’m not going to apologize. I didn’t do anything wrong. I whisper in my mind holding on the last bit of my consciousness. Wait for me, mom. I’m coming. I will come back.

All of you…

Why…

I just want to go home….

You…

All of you…

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“Fuck all of you!!!“ I shouted as loud as I can and like a car being restarted, I managed to open my eyes as life was brought into me. Something in my mind snapped and all of my fear, my worries, my nervousness, my pain, all of this was replaced with anger. I didn’t care about anything anymore. Using my last energy, I forced dragged myself towards the dead troll. I felt every joint and muscle riddle with pain. I notice the rock I used to carve my days on the ground and I grabbed it while struggling towards the troll. I laughed at the pain as the adrenaline-fueled by my anger travel through my bloodstream. I just didn't care if my body rips to shreds.

“I’ll fucking get out of here or die trying!!!!” I shout as I jam the rock in the dead troll and used it to dig into its flesh. “How dare you fuckers eat me alive! Eye for an eye! Tooth for a tooth!”

I clamped my jaw on the troll's neck and using all my might, I ripped off a chunk from its body. I couldn't the taste anything. Even when I chewed and swallowed the raw meat, I didn't feel it. I clamped down one more time and the thought of paying them back the same way they did me was exhilarating and I kept laughing as I ate the troll. I lost everything as my mind went black. I lost my fear, I lost my taste, I lose the pain I felt, but the most valuable thing I lost, is my mind.

I slowly woke up inside looking up a dimly lit ceiling. As I tried to sit up, I notice I’m able to move my body again. All of the meat I lost came back but I still looked skinny. My head was pounding, and a strong smell of metal lingered in my nose and even in my mouth. I look to the side and I see a corpse, the troll missing a portion of its face and the side of its body. It looked like as if a cannibal ate it. I look down and I was covered in purple blood holding onto a rock that was covered also. Suddenly realizing what I had done, I went on all fours and gagged but nothing came out as if I never ate anything.

All of a sudden, I hear howling and as I looked up the hallway where the wolves made their den. Anger welled up inside and my body just moved towards them wanting to rip all of them to shreds. The minute I got out, I easily got in front on one of the wolves and I was quickly on top of it already ready to beat it with the rock on my hand. I could sense fear in its eyes, but it couldn’t sense it in mine.

“Well hello there~ Welcome back~” I smiled the biggest smile I can make and lodged the sharp end of the rock in its eye. Blood spurts out onto my hands as it yelped in pain. I started licking the blood off like a vampire and I turn towards the wolf yelping trying to back away.

“Huh?! Where are you going?!" I shout and the other wolves behind started running away leaving the injured one at my mercy. It tried to run and before it got a chance to get away, I grabbed its tail and yanked it towards me. It yelped some more, and I used my foot stomping on its ribs. I could hear bones cracking and it spits out blood. Since my attack only deals two damage, I started stomping on its ribs some more and I feel a bone come out and pierce me under my foot.

“Argh!!! Hahahaha!” I grabbed my foot looking at the piece of rib from the wolf and yanked it out without care if I was going to bleed to death. The pain was immense but somehow, it fueled me more as I get more excited with all the blood everywhere. Using the bone of the wolf, I stabbed its other eye and it yelped some more in pain before slumping down the ground as its health reached zero. But I didn’t stop there. I kept taking out the same bone and stabbing it repeatedly.

“Die! Die! Die! Die die die die!!!!!!” I curse at the dead wolf between hits as blood splatter everywhere covering the walls and my clothes. I hear a growl in front of me and one wolf has its hair and tail sticking up. I noticed it brought cavalry along as goblins and trolls walk towards me with such an annoying demeanor.

"Hello! I'm quite, hungry~" I sang as I lurch myself towards the wolf and it didn't expect for me to move that fast. I didn't expect it either. With a swift swing, I lodge the bone into its eye and I see a bigger number appear with the word ‘critical hit' appear above its head. Thinking that the damaging the deals with bigger damage, I let go of the bone and grabbed the yelping wolf by its jaw. I feel its sharp fangs dig into my palm as I force them apart. I hear its muscle rip as I yank it jaw out of its face and more blood spurt into my face covering me from head to toe. I see more ‘critical hit' appear on top of the wolf as its life suddenly reached zero. But I didn't care, and I just wanted to kill. I wanted to kill everything.

“What happened little goblin?” I asked as the goblin that acted all high and mighty have regressed into the ground pissing. Everyone else behind him started running back screaming a language I couldn't understand. But one thing I know, we have a common language. Fear. The goblin tried to ride one of the wolves to get away and I managed to grab onto its tail. It’s a lot bigger than the other wolves I killed as it managed to drag me across the hallway. I tried pulling myself up until I was able to clamp on its leg with my mouth. I bit the leg as hard as I can and the wolf yelped in pain as my teeth dig into its bone. It stumbled to the ground and we all crash in the entrance of the skeleton room. I slowly stand up eye all of them while smiling.

“Isn’t this exciting!! Let’s all die, together shall we?!” I shout as I ran to the wolf I bit and using my hands, I poked its eyes as it yelped in pain going blind. The goblin tried to scamper up, but I managed to jump on it and clamp my hands on its neck. I strangle it as it trashed around scratching my arms trying to breathe, but I kept squeezing up until its body became lifeless and it fell unconscious. Using my teeth, I bit its neck and blood squirted all over my mouth as I rip off a chunk of its throat. I placed both hands on the wound and I yanked it apart as if I was ripping a shirt into two.

"Ah~ that felt so good," I say as I slowly stand up and walked towards the yelping wolf that went blind by my thumbs.

I looked back to the crowd that was watching me and I gave them a smile. Even the undead skeletons aren't moving an inch. They all just stared at me. The troll's and the goblins screamed and watched me rip their friend get's ripped apart. I stepped on the wolf's leg snapping it in two making it yelp some more. Its voice is the only thing that echoed in the room as I watch it struggle to survive.

“Was it fun to eat me alive?! Huh?!” I say out loud to the watching crowd.

This time no one made a move and I can see it in their body that they feared me. I grabbed the yelping wolf by the tail and dragged it towards the dark hallway leaving a trail of blood on the ground. It yelped and yelped but none of the other monsters did anything. They just stood there and watched me drag their companion into the dark. Before I disappear, I look back and put a smile on my face.

“I’m going to kill all of you~” I sang as I turn around and walked in the dark.