CHAPTER 9: The end of the end part 2

I drag the wolf back towards the dead zone. It kept yelping and yelping and it’s worsening my headache. I pass the other carcass and I notice it never turned into dust. I see a rib sticking out and using it, I decided to kill the wolf by stabbing it from its bottom jaw.

“Ugh! Come on! Fucking stop struggling!” I shout as I force the head down towards the sharp edge of the rib bone, but it used its last remaining strength to push itself up and we ended up battling with our strength. “Go. Down!”

I kicked its foot making it slip and using the momentum, I pushed its head through the bone and it went through like butter. I watch it struggle for a bit as its health slowly decrease as more ‘critical hit’ appear above its head floating into the ceiling over and over again. Once its life reached zero, its body went limp, but it didn’t turn into dust.

"Perfect, this way, I can eat you bastards when I kill you," I whisper as I grab it by its fur and pull it out. Blood was coming out of its mouth as more blood gushed out the hole under its jaw. I laughed and laughed as I play around with it mouth trying to make it talk.

“I should have never betrayed you. I should have never tried to kill you. Woof woof!” I imitated its mouth as it goes up and down. After having my fun, I pulled its carcass passing through the door towards the safe zone. I forgot about the force field, but it never activated as the carcass passed through. I went back out the hallway and grabbed the other two dead wolves slowly dragging it into the statue room leaving a blood mark on the ground.

“Shit, how do I skin you?” I whisper to myself as I look around and found the rock I used to stab the troll corpse and kill the other wolf. It was covered in blood still stuck in the wolf’s head. Getting excited at my first proper meal, I didn’t bother washing the meat and just threw it in the shield to cook it. Since I gained the fry skill from leveling up to two, I managed to fry the meat without turning it black. Once cooked, I didn’t wait for it to cool down and ate the meat devouring it like a monster. It burned my mouth, but the pain was like ecstasy. I ate and ate and ate up until I managed to devour half the wolf in one sitting.

“Ahh~” I say laying down as I rub my stomach. “That hit the spot.”

My body must have been really exhausted and fell asleep within seconds.

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“What a moron you are.” I hear a voice and as I look, I see Junpei standing over me.

Hiroko appears to my left and mumbles, “What a moron you are. You deserve to be eaten alive.”

Then they all appeared one by one surrounding me calling me names while manically laughing.

“Get away! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill all of you!” I shout waking up from my dream. “Shut the fuck up! Shut up! Shut the fuck up!”

Their voices rang in my ears non-stop. I see the carcass of the troll and all of my rage just exploded in my body as I punch its head over and over again.

“Shut the fuck up! Who told you to talk to me?! Shut the fuck up!” My fist hit the face over and over again. I feel my skin ripping apart, but the pain somehow made me smile.

Shut the fuck up~I sang in my head. I feel like nothing could stop me now. Fuck everything. Fuck all of them and fuck this world. If I survive this place and get out of here. First thing I would do and pay a visit to my dear friends and beat them with my frying pan. Not kill them, just beat them to a bloody pulp. Death is an easy way out for those fuckers.

I stop as I lean back laughing. “Hmmm… Should I torture Luro also? You hear that you bastard?! You better hope it’s not me who finds you!!”

I’ll start with Hiroko first. I whisper in my mind as I blankly stare at the ceiling.I’ll beat her senseless until her pretty face becomes ugly. She’ll be so ugly not even Junpei wouldn’t want to touch her. Then I’ll beat Junpei. If my frying pan breaks, I’ll beat him with his own fucking shield. Then Riki, Sawada, Tobi and that old cunt Rikimura.

I kept thinking on how it would be such a thrill to see them cry as my frying pan hits their face. I’m not going to kill them, but I’m going to make them wish they were dead. I’ll make them want to die but keep them alive.

“Should I heat up the frying pan first before I beat them?” My body was filled with excitement making me hug myself. I felt the sticky upon touch and as I look down, I noticed I’m still covered in blood from head to toe.

Holy shit.I whisper in my mind as I look at my body back to normal. Just the day before, I looked like a zombie with missing flesh, yesterday I looked like a dead man walking, now I look normal again. I took out my bloodied shirt and see that even my rib cage isn’t showing anymore. Is as if, I never starved or didn’t go through the ordeal of being eaten alive.

“I healed?” I asked myself and I suddenly remember my foot that was injured by the wolf’s bone. I quickly look at it and the hole that was in my foot disappeared as if it never happened even the areas where I was missing flesh was back to normal. But a sudden fear enveloped me as I remembered the pain and I held my head covering my ears trying to drown everything. After a while, I managed to calm down and decided to wash as I was covered with so much blood, the water in Hiroko's room turned red. I didn't care and washed every part of my body and even my clothes. I placed them near a torch and walked around naked drying my body. I sat near the pedestal looking at the ceiling excited about how many times I can level up cooking the wolves and remaining troll corpse.

“I wonder what the giant ogre would taste like?” I asked myself as I approach the half-eaten wolf and started ripping out meat using the sharp rock. I placed them in the pan and collected as much as I can before lighting the torch on fire. I noticed that after cutting the other half of the wolf, it was a lot of meat. I remember eating and eating up until I started feeling the food enter my stomach which is about eating half of the wolf.

“If I can regain and heal wounds in a day, I have a bigger chance of survive this hell.” I tell myself as I cooked all of the wolf meat. It took me roughly two days to get the meat out of the other wolf and cook it. I stored all the meat in my bag after cooking it. I left the innards and any inedible parts out but decided to cook them to just gain some level. As for the corpse of the troll ate raw before, I dragged it to one room and left it there. As much as I want to chop up its corpse, I can’t forget the fact that I was saved by him.

“Fucking shit, getting saved by an enemy.” I whisper as I focused on cooking the wolf meat. After cooking all of the wolf parts, I’ve gotten to level nine and gained new skills.

“Status window.” I say remembering my new passive skill.

Status Window

Name

Yasu

Class

BLADE

Level

9

Guild

Diamond District

Skills

Skill level

Grill

7

Fry

8

Boil

5

Steam

1

Bake

1

Bartender

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 food and beverages you create taste better.

MB

???

“MB huh.” I whisper before taking a bite of a cooked wolf meat. “I wonder…munch* munch* what the fuck munch* is this shit.”

Studying my body one more time. Regaining my original body in a day was amazing, now I’m wondering if I can tone my body down in a quick amount of time also. If I want to get out, I need to fight. But I can't hold any weapon, so I have to fight them barehanded and aim for any critical strike.

"As I remember what those fuckers said, stamina represents our physical appearance as well as our physical health in this world. If I work out, will it boost my strength? Will my DPS increase a bit at least?" I questioned myself. If I can gain body original body mass in a day, I probably can gain a much more toned body in a short amount of time. This will help me move better. The more my body can withstand or handle attacks, the better chance I have getting out of here. I decided to push my body to its limits and use my healing abilities to heal all the ripped tissue in a day. Doing insane number of push-ups till I feel like my arms would break. I stopped tracking the days on the wall and just focused on getting myself ready to fight all of them head-on.

“I guess gaining and healing is two different aspects in this world. I wonder how healing works?” I say to myself looking at my body still the same even after a couple of days of intense workout session. So many questions run through my mind. The better I understand this worlds system, the better I can utilize it to survive. “Hmmm, let me try something.”

I went back to my original room where there’s a sword lodged in the center. All of a sudden, fear enveloped me again as I remembered the feeling of blades cutting me to pieces and I started hyperventilating. I closed my eyes and chanted ‘I’m alive’ over and over again trying to drown my memories of the pain. It took me a while till I calmed down and looking at the blade somehow, it’s restarting my panic attack so I decided to go back out towards the statue room to get away from the blade.

After I calmed down, I closed my eyes and leaned at the pedestal of the statue.

Think Yasu think. What made you regenerate fast?I whisper in my mind.

“Wait, is it because of eating?” I asked myself. I need to try it out. Rather than cutting my self, I was more comfortable putting my hand over the flames of the torch. I wait till it started hurting and the pain made me laugh as I smell my skin burning. I guess I didn't fear but feared blades as it kept bringing back the feeling of being cut every time I look at one. Even the swords that's being used to hold up the shield was making me sick.

After burning my hand, I washed it and wrapped the apron to cover the wound. I step out onto the statue room and decided to sit around and wait to see if my wound heals without eating. After a while I took out the apron but the wound seems like it got worse forming blisters. I took out my bag and started eating a piece of wolf meat. I put the apron back on my hand wrapping it as it started stinging but not unbearable like being cut alive. After a while, I slowly unravel the apron again and I noticed the pain was gone. I quickly remove the apron as my theory, eating probably heals me because the blisters were gone and my hand was back to normal.

“Well what do you know, probably the reason I ate the whole wolf in one go was due to my body’s condition before. The more severe it is, the more food I need to heal.” I say trying to understand how it works.

"There’s a possibility that this is my class natural ability? Ha, I’m starting to like this class." I say as I remember chef's soul. For all I know, the abilities can be more than one thing and healing by eating food might be one of them.

But this one healed so fast. I guess severe damage takes time to recover from?I whisper in my mind studying myself.

“If I get hurt, all I need to do is eat. I’m a cook so I can level up while I heal myself at the same time. This means, I can take all the damage I want as long as I don’t die I can heal the next day!” I started laughing at my new profound ability. The excitement I feel in my core was making me itch to go out and murder everything. I can feel it, I lost my sense of morality. After snapping out of my weakened state, I feel like a newborn man.

I walk back out towards the statue room and walked towards the shield filled with water. After cooking, I boiled the water I collected from Hiroko’s room. If I was my old self, I would have been disgusted seeing someone drink colored water but, now, I just feel that those thoughts are unnecessary. The water turned purplish red become of the blood I washed off, but it seems like, anything I do in regard to being a cook purify anything making it drinkable and safe to eat. But the only downside is the taste. It remains the same.

After taking a couple of few sips, I hear a scuffle near the entrance of the hallway. As I look up, I see a goblin standing there just watching me. It suddenly shouted a bunch of words that I can't comprehend while hitting its shield with a dagger.

Is it taunting me? I thought about how intelligent they can be as I thought up different scenarios in my mind. They might have set up a trap.

But all of them flew out giving me a blank slate as my body started walking towards the goblin. My mouth formed a smile that made it stop hitting it shield and I can see its legs starts shaking before taking off towards the skeleton room.

“Where you going~ Gooobliiin~” I sang as I ran after it and I can somehow close the distance if I wanted to. My body feels light and faster than before. The thoughts in my mind disappeared to be replaced with a voice in my head. Kill,kept echoing like a record on repeat. I feel like I’m going crazy of excitement.

“Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” I shouted out repeating the voice in my head as I ran after it. I let it get ahead wanting to see what it will lead me to, but it suddenly tripped and tried to scamper back up. I caught up and using my foot, I stomped on its leg twisting its foot the wrong way. I hear crunch and a loud snap as I dig into the ground. It screamed in agony as I laughed and smiled of joy watching blood come out of its twisted ankle. After a few minutes, I stopped and leaned over putting my mouth near its ear and whispering, “crawl little baby, crawl.”

It shouted in a different language as I laughed watching it struggle to crawl towards the door that leads to the skeleton room. I hugged the wall and followed it in the dark while it tried it’s best to get away from me. The smile on my face never left and the excitement I felt only doubled as the adrenaline rush through my system. After reach the door to the skeleton room, it shouted some more and I see a wolf starts barking at the door looking at my direction. Using all my strength, I jumped out and my body flew faster than I anticipated. My body met with the wolf’s mouth as it barked, and I can feel its teeth digging into my flesh as I accidentally jam my knee in.

It tried to yelp but before it had a chance, I grabbed its mouth and took my knee out and jammed my foot at its lower jaw. Using all my strength, I pull up the top half of its jaw and using my foot, I pushed down the bottom ripping it apart. Blood spurts out in all direction as I laugh watching its face get ripped in half. I feel its teeth cutting my palm, but I kept pulling till its lower jaw ripped off making me stomp on the ground. A small crack formed beneath me as my foot hit the ground and it stunned me for a moment. I notice a movement to my side and I see the goblin trying it’s best to get away crawling with all its strength.

I slowly followed it as it crawled to its teammates. Upon seeing me, they all sprint out the skeleton room passing the stalactite and running towards the other hallway. I can hear the goblin in front of me shout with all his might as tears come out of its eyes. I slowly lean placing my head next to his while looking at the door where everyone ran out too.

“So, what now?” I whisper smiling and I can feel the goblin shake in fear. I placed my right hand and stroke its bald head like a dog while whispering, “Hush hush little baby, don’t cry~”

I stood up and dragged the goblin while walking toward the hallway in front of us. The same hallway that leads to the portal.

“Ah. Ah. Ehem. Wow acapella is good in this hallway.” I whisper as I let him go. I look at the goblin in the eye and gave it a smile that made his complexion turn pale. I squat down and it didn’t say anything as it froze in fear.

“Say goblin, let everyone hear your song.” I smile as I slowly place my thumb in its one eye. “Sing little goblin, sing.”

I jammed my thumb in its eye and it screamed as it grabbed my hand trying to pull my thumb out. I laughed and laughed as I poke its other eye and it screams echoed through the hallway behind me. I tortured it till it satisfied my anger and the hallway was replaced with silence.

I took the goblin's corpse back to the safe zone along with the dead wolf and deboned them using my bare hands. I was still a bit puzzled how strong I've become. Ripping off bones like it's child's play. Even earlier I dented the ground when I accidentally stomped it at full force. I cooked the goblin meat first and ate one to test its taste. Nothing too iconic, just a similar taste to red meat but on the stale side. After cooking the meat of the wolf and the goblin, I checked my status and my level never went up.

"I guess I need to cook more?" I whisper looking at my status window. But after a while, I started testing my strength and punched a wall. At first, my hand felt like it would shatter and the wall didn't even make a dent. Since I could heal any wound by just eating, I repeatedly punched the wall until my knuckles bled and used food to restore it back. After a while, I notice I'm starting to create small dents onto the wall and the thought of being able to fight without weapons brought excitement to my body that I started punching the wall with both first not caring if I turn my bones into dust.

“Seven thousand!” I shout as I brought my fist towards the wall. It’s been a couple of days, probably but I can’t tell since there’s no indicator for daylight. The impact of my punches has created a small dent as if a police door buster hit it at full force. I laugh at the unbelievable progress I made by just punching the wall for a couple of days. My arms somehow formed a finer tone as I see more muscle making me a bit leaner. I ate after I worked on the wall and as soon as I heal, I would go back to punching it till I moved on to the statue breaking off parts of it. After a few more days of non-stop hitting the wall, I decided to visit the skeleton room to see if they all came back but nothing. I was tempted to walk out the other hallway but, if the gatekeeper is still there, I can't just nonchalantly walk out asking for trouble. I might bite more than I can chew.

“Stupid gatekeeper. Damn bastard. Meh, it doesn’t matter. I feel good. I never felt this good in my entire life before.” I say as I walk back to the saferoom and sit back down the pedestal of the statue. “Show DPH!”

DPH

9

"I’ll die of old age before this even reach one hundred," I whisper to myself studying my DPH. It seems like it's in correlation with my level. If I level up to ten, it will probably go up to ten. "I'd be so old- Age! Crap! I forgot my birthday! Did it pass already?” I remember before I was brought in this room if I wasn't kidnapped, I'd be celebrating my birthday the following month.

“I know I came in here around January. Has it been two months already? My birthday might have passed already.” I say reminiscing my birthdays. I remember that even though my mom worked a lot, she still managed to celebrate my birthday every time. Her coming home from work calling out my name carrying some form of a gift. The last birthday gift she gave me is a sweater I kept safe and only wore it on special occasions. It was a special type of sweater that the sleeves can be removed for summer time. Good thing I didn't wear it that day I was transported here or else that sweater would have been destroyed or covered in blood.

From then on, I made a resolution as I look up the ceiling whispering, “Tomorrow, I’m leaving this place.”

I went to sleep and as fast as I fell asleep, as fast as I woke up. After washing my face and eating breakfast, I decided to head into the end of the other hallway to get a grasp on what I am facing. I quietly sneak through the door leading to the undead skeleton. I can't really blend in with anything and the only pair of clothes I'm wearing has bloodstains on it along with dried pink spots where the brain mush left its memory. I look like a cannibalistic zombie; I doubt anyone would want to attack me head on. My face and hands were nice and clean since leaving the dried blood might cause some irritation.

"Hahaha look at me, worried about irritation in this situation," I whisper to myself of the foolish idea. I slowly tread through the door holding my frying pan like a sword, and even that, I never washed. Actually, I never used it since I mostly fried food on the metal shield. I proceed out of the other door towards the cave and back into the other hallway. As soon as I reached the end, I slowly peek out and what I’ve seen made me rethink about the monsters from this world.

“well, I'll be damned…" I whisper baffled that even the wolves are helping put what seems to be a barrier blocking the portal. They were using rocks from the cave to build a barricade. I see some trolls and goblins act as lookouts. “They’ve become much organized? Are they doing this to prevent me from going out?”

Crap, if they’re this organized, it’s going to be harder to deal with these fucks.I decided to go back in where I came from to head back to the safe room and think of a strategy when all of a sudden, I hear a growl near the entrance.

"Ah shit," I say as I notice a wolf looking right at me. It barked the minute I looked at it in the eyes and it brought the attention of all the monsters building the barricade. Getting annoyed at its continuous barking, I launched at it with my frying pan at hand and I swing down but it dodges my attack and started running away towards the portal where all the enemies are. All of the goblins and trolls started screaming while the undead skeletons started hitting their shields with their weapons.

“What the fuck!” I shouted out grabbing a rock and throwing it at them. “You fuckasses are really annoying!!”

I guess I pissed them off as they all started returning fire, a bunch spear came flying towards me and I quickly jump to the side to dodge them while running towards the entrance of the hallway behind me. I zig-zagged my way there to prevent them from hitting me with those spears and blades. I can hear some of the goblins and trolls are following me with their wolves as they charge like an organized army. As I enter the dark hallway, I kept a smile on my face disappearing into the dark.

“Grah!” I hear a troll shout as he stopped near the entrance. I hid in the dark and kept still trying not to make any noise. Luckily, they must have taken all the torch to use since the hallway never lit up. I wanted them to think I ran towards the safe zone giving me the element of surprise. The hallway isn’t big enough for all of them to fit so I can probably handle them if they enter in pairs. Suddenly, I notice a troll comes in with a goblin and I swung at full force with my frying pan directly in its head. The sound of metal hitting its skull have ringed out the hallway and throughout the cave. The rest of the group that’s standing outside the dark hallway couldn’t move an inch and was afraid to go inside to try and save their comrade while the goblin that came with the troll ran back out. I kept hitting the troll with the frying pan as I laughed and laughed until the hallway was silence again.

After killing the troll, I waited in the hallway for another victim but no one came in. I used the dead body as bait to see if one of them will try to retrieve it. As I was about to give up on waiting, a goblin sneak in and slowly walked towards the dead toll.

"Bad move," I whisper.

I bolted out the darkness and swung my frying pan contacting its temple. The goblin fell to the ground and I hit it as hard as I can with the frying pan. Blood came pouring out of its nostrils and it looked up to me in fear. I looked back at it and gave it a smile. The goblin screamed non-stop probably calling for back up but none of them came out to try to be a hero. The goblin shouted and screamed more as it started thrashing around like a little kid. I used the frying pan and hit the goblin square in the face breaking its nose while shutting him up.

As I watched it try to regain its sensed, I grabbed its left leg from the heels of its foot then I lifted it up. Using my left foot, I stomped down towards its shin and I hear a bone snap and the goblin screamed to the top of its lungs.

“Shut the fuck up!” I shouted at it, but it didn’t work as it screamed louder. I continued to torture the fucker. I grabbed his hair and yanked its face up to force it to look at me. I want it to see my hatred. My anger. I want it to know it made a wrong choice fucking with me. “For something that level 15, your quite weak when you don’t have your weapon.”

goblin lvl 15

HP 800/800

“Say, do you know what this is?” I lift up the frying pan covered in blood and hover it near its face. It didn’t say anything but just looked at the frying pan and back to me. “Well, you will soon find out.”

It tried to trash again trying to get away as I laughed while rubbing the blood on the pan at its face. It tried to cover itself using his hands a shield and closed its eyes as if it accepted its fate.

“No No No, that won’t do. You can’t see the glory if you have your eyes closed and your hands in your face.” I smile while I look at it whimper in fear. I grabbed its hands and proceeded to break them forcing it to snap from the elbow as I bent it the opposite way. A bone stuck out as it screamed and trashed from the pain.

"Let's make it so you see the picture-perfect situation," I whisper as I grabbed its eyelids with my fingers. It probably felt my eyes dig in but I carefully made sure I didn't damage its eyes as I proceeded to yank its eyelids off his face. It felt like a tough rubber as it didn’t come off at the first pull. I jammed my foot in its face and used it to push his head down while my fingers clamp on its eyelids.

“What. The. Fuck!" I shout between pulls "Come off!”

The goblin kept on screaming and screaming that his voice and struggles echoed throughout the hallway.

Good, I want them to hear it scream, my voice repeated in my mind as I gave it a smile during our tug of war.After a few more pulls, it finally gave in and its eyelids ripped off its face as I pulled it off with a bit of skin that ran up its forehead. It was like peeling a mango.

The goblin shouted and cried as it tried to grab its opened eyes with its remaining hand. I put my face near him and I could see blood dripping from its wound making it look like he's crying blood.

“One more eye to go~” I sang as I grabbed its other eyelid and tried to yank it off like the first one. It took roughly twenty minutes to yank off the other eyelid. It kept trying to grab me, so I broke its other hand immobilizing it completely. Now, the goblin has two broken arms and one broken leg with no eyelids making it look really freaky as it couldn't close its eyes. But after a while, it just laid down as it breathed unnaturally. It still alive but I guess it lost all the will to live. I went back and continued what I was going to do in the first place. I stood on top of it and then raised the frying pan. This time it couldn’t block its face and couldn’t close its eyes.

"Ah, you see? Isn't it better this way~” I sang before I brought down the frying pan to its face slowly smashing it to pieces at every hit.

It’s been at least thirty minutes of nonstop bashing till the goblin reached zero health. Hitting it with the frying pan hardly took any damage and very rare case I saw a critical hit. I sat back down in the dark waiting near the entrance to see if any more will decide to walk in the darkness trying to be a hero. I would gradually expose myself to them from time to time taunting them but all they did is scream when they see me but never took the initiative to run after me.

“What a bunch of lame bastards,” I whisper as I turn around to walk back to the safe zone and think of a plan how to get past the barricade they made near the portal. I doubt I can make them run away when I corner them into a wall. I look at my frying pan bent the wrong way covered in blood. It’s starting to become loose from the handle and feel like if I use it one more time it will break.

“Can’t have you breaking now~ I need you for a couple of people to say hello to~” I sang as I put my frying pan inside my dimensional bag pack. I grabbed the dead goblin and dead troll by their leg and dragged them towards the safe zone.

"Wait, I could have used the dimensional bag!" I say thinking how stupid it was to waste my energy carrying these corpses. I tried to fit a goblin in my bag but somehow, I can only fit its leg since the bag’s opening doesn’t stretch. Which means, to store it, I need to chop it to pieces which I can’t do since I can’t even hold a sword, so I just gave up trying and dragged both corpses towards the safe zone. Once I got back, I dumped the dead troll and goblin near the pedestal.

As usual, I couldn’t use a knife to cut the troll or goblin, so I used my teeth to gnaw on the legs and arms. Biting chunks of flesh and piling them up in the shield to cook them. It’s harder for the troll and goblin because their skins are like rubber. Once I know I have enough to cook, I rinse my mouth of the blood from the two. The goblin had red blood like humans but the troll’s blood was purple. I didn’t want to take a chance and catching troll disease if I drink its blood. I only took meat from its arms and legs and decided to leave the rest since it was too much to keep biting. I have enough wolf meat to last me for a while. I just want to see if I get experience points on cooking these things. I lit the fire and decided to fry the meat. I don't have oil so the meat sticks to the damn metal shield but it still counts as frying. While I let the meat sizzle, I look at my frying pan which has blood stains and dents here and there.

“I’m surprised this thing hasn't broken yet," I whisper looking at it from all angle. I store it back in the dimensional bag. I wanted to save it for them. I really wanted to hit them with it. So I vowed, I would only take out the frying pan when I see them. My attack power is the same with or without the weapon, so I can punch them to death. If I break my fist, I’ll just eat and let it heal overnight but it sounds more exciting to beat them with a blood-covered pan. After a while, I flipped the meat to let the other side cook. Probably due to my class being a cook, I notice a strong urge overcomes me to flip the meat when one side is cooked. I don't even have to inspect it, I just know when I need to flip it. I felt my body starts recovering after eating a wolf meat and I lay down next to the fire and closed my eyes and listen to different sounds around me.

I can hear the small stream hitting the tiny pond in Hiroko’s room,I can hear the fire next to me.I can hear the flesh of meat cooking.I can hear my own breathing.

I’m alive…Yes, I’m still alive…

DING!

The sound surprised me as a notification appeared even with my eyes closed.

Congratulations on reaching LVL 10!

- You have gained a new passive skill

- You have gained a new skill!

The excitement of learning a new cooking skill made me sit up as hastily call out my status window.

Status Window

Name

Yasu

Class

BLADE

Level

10

Guild

Diamond District

Skills

Skill level

Grill

7

Fry

9

Boil

5

Steam

1

Bake

1

Bartender

1

Sharpen

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 food and beverages you create taste better.

MB

???

Chef's Knife

This gives you the ability to wield blades of all kind.

“N-no way.” My heart beat faster as I look at my new passive skill. “Wield any blades, does this includes swords?!”

I quickly run to my room so I can try to pull out the sword lodged on the ground. But the minute I touch the hilt, my panic attacked started making it harder to breathe as I remember all the pain I went through.

“I-i-cant.” I feel like I want to vomit as I run out of the room. As soon as I got outside, my breathing went back to normal, but my body won’t stop shaking. Looking directly at swords from a distance doesn't give me panic attacks. Even when walking past them. But somehow, when I think in my mind of holding one my body starts to remember my flesh being cut by the goblins dagger.

“Fuck! Come on!” I shout frustrated at my inability to hold the only thing that can increase my chances of getting out of here. I tried again but every time I feel the coldness of the blade makes me picture it entering my body slowly peeling off my skin.

“I can’t survive, mom,” I talked as I cried, and I feel different emotions go through me at once. Anger, sadness, happiness, everything, I was feeling it. It took a while till I calmed down. I wanted to get out of here fast. I'm sick and tired of the darkness and I'm starting to forget what sunshine looks like. I've been taking the risk but now, but my chances before were greater than slim. With the ability to hold a weapon, I have a better chance of defending myself but the inability to even touch a sword makes me frustrated.

I walked back out towards the statue room and took my anger out on the statue by punching it till I broke one of its legs and it came toppling down. I kept punching it even as it fell up until I turned it into rubble.

“Oho~ What is this? Am I being attacked?!” I hear a voice and I noticed the statue’s head that rolled away looked at me with a changing expression. “Come on now don’t destroy me-“

I swung at it at full force and it shattered into pieces.

No matter what I do, I am meant to die here. He wants to kill me! I shout as I felt a huge ball of anger surge in me and I clench my fist till I felt my nail dig into my palm.

“I will not die here!” I shout as I run out of the safe zone. My mind couldn’t think of anything except to bulldoze towards my enemies and rip their eyes out. Rip their limbs off their body. Rip their hearts out and make them watch it beat outside their chest. I ran like a madman not caring if there’s an ambush waiting for me. I lost all sense of direction, I lost all sense to think, I lost my sanity as aimed to kill them all. To destroy them till they beg me to live.

As I reached the skeleton room, I noted some of the goblins, trolls, and skeletons are collecting the weapons scattered around. As soon as they saw me, they dropped everything trying to get away, but my body moved too fast as I was able to catch up in no time. One goblin tried to use a shield to block a punch, but the impact made him and the shield fly to a wall. The feeling of destroying him made me more excited as I went after the troll that ran out of the room heading towards the next hallway. I was able to catch up to him grabbing the troll by the neck and forcing him down. I brought my fist towards its faces with the weight of my anger and it went right through destroying its skill as I see a critical hit float above its head diminishing its life to zero in an instant.

“Let’s all die in hell!” My voice echoed with the impact of every punch as I kept hitting the dead troll with my fist over and over again. The goblin that flew with his shield tried to bash me and I quickly jump to the side making the goblin trip over the troll’s body. Its shield flew out of its hand and as It tried to get up, I stomped on its leg breaking its ankles. It screamed in pain as I laughed with joy. It was a new feeling that surged inside me. Like I was a whole new person that lose the ability to feel remorse and I liked it. It made me feel like a winner, a feeling of victory that lasted only for a moment up until I felt a sharp pain in my body as it was forced to the side.

“Ack!” I grimace in pain as I roll to the ground.

“Rogarukah! Marakoh!” I hear a voice and as I look up, I notice a troll riddled in golden armor standing tall over me. It lifted a club over my head and in a quick swing, it brought it down trying to smash my face in. I roll to the side dodging its club and the impact was hard enough to crack the ground. A sudden sharp pain hit me in the side as It kicked my ribs and I felt all the air disappear in my lungs while my ribs crack into pieces. My body rolled to the ground as I grabbed my side trying to ease the pain.

“Bwahaha!” I spit blood as I laughed at the pain. I laughed at the troll as I looked at it in the eyes. “Is that the best you got!”

It grabbed me from the collar of my shirt bringing my face close to his. I see the fury in its eyes and I blew kisses towards him before spitting blood at his face. It threw my body across the room and I felt like a ragdoll bouncing around before hitting the far wall.

“That’s the spirit you son of a bitch!” I shouted as I look up glaring at the troll. I couldn’t stop smiling. Even when facing a formidable enemy, I couldn’t stop smiling. Even when my ribs are breaking, I couldn’t stop smiling. I just felt really happy. It started walking slowly as I struggled to get up. I see a sword in front of me and the thought of holding it is making my skin crawl. But, my happiness was a lot stronger as I slowly reached out to the sword. It felt like it was only me and the sword. Everything turned into silence as I looked at the blade. Grabbing the hold sent shivers down my spine. The thought of getting myself cut made me sick but I couldn't stop smiling. Every pain I felt, every anger I emitted, the happiness I showed, the sadness I cried, everything flashed before me. And as quickly as it appeared, as quickly as it disappeared leaving me to look at my reflection on the sword. From then on, everything felt lighter, I didn't feel like vomiting as I felt calm holding the sword. Is as if, it became part of my body.

"We are one," I whisper as I look at my reflection and I could see myself smiling. A smile so sinister it brought me joy looking at it. "Give up everything and, kill everyone."

The troll stood in front of me raising his club over my head. It swung downwards, and I find myself moving without thinking stepping close as I swing my sword upward aiming for its wrist. The blade entered his skin only to stop where the bone is, using all my strength, I pushed upwards, and the sword went through the bone cutting his hands cleanly. Blood spurt out of his veins hitting my face at it rained is blood. He stumbled backward screaming as I stood my ground as I close my eyes and tilt my head back while opening my arms as if was welcoming rain made from blood.

"Ah~ That feels good," I whisper as I listen to the sound of his screams echo throughout the room. I slowly open my eyes looking down at him and I can see he's trying to grab a dagger with his remaining hand. I quickly stepped on top of his palm as I lodge the sword downwards impaling his arm to the ground. He tried screaming but I quickly muffled his mouth with my hand as I brought my face close to his.

“Shhh~ You wouldn't want you friends to hear you being a bitch you know," I tell him smiling as the excitement feels my core. I could see it in his eyes that he feared me. It made me even happier. I slowly let go of his mouth and walked around him. The troll tried it’s best to remove the sword impaling his arm but it didn’t budge as I lodge it as far as I can into the ground. Without his other hand, he couldn’t grab anything let alone pull the sword out. I see him try to stand up, but I guess the pain he feels was enough to force him down. I picked up another sword and without saying anything, I stabbed one of his legs pushing the sword down the ground. He screamed more in pain as I quickly stab his other leg making him look like a frog ready to be dissected.

He screamed in pain as I twist one of the swords lodged in its leg making it bleed more. I slowly pull it out making him go crazy. I’d stop for a few second to slowly push it back in and his screams echoed in my ears. I walked around its body while waving my hand around as if I was conducting an orchestra.

“Louder! Encore!” I shout as I move the sword around and I could see its body shaking from the pain. “Ah, wait, I did get a new skill.”

I called out my status window and looked for the name of the skill. Huh, sharpen, do I need to sharpen blades?

I read the skill description and it says it gives the ability to increase the sharpness of any blades at the price of durability. I grabbed one of the daggers on the ground and using the armor around the troll’s body, I scraped the edge of the blade trying to sharpen it. I wanted him to become paranoid hearing and feeling the blade scrape back and forth. I checked the skill to see if it leveled up but nothing.

“Hm, I wonder how to activate it. Is it voice activated? Sharpen?” The minute I utter the word, I felt the dagger vibrate as it faintly glowed. “Wow. It is voice activated. So fancy~”

I study the blade and after a few minutes, the vibration stopped and the light surrounding the dagger disappeared. I activated the skill again and the glow came back as fast as I said the word. Wanting to test it out, I slowly stab the troll’s armor and it went through faster than I expected as if I was stabbing gelatin. The troll shouted as the blade of the dagger reached his back. I slowly pull it out while I kept a big smile in my face looking at the blood drip from the dagger to my hand. I walked back towards his head and brought my face close to his while showing him my bloody hand.

“Hey, want to go through what I went through?” I whisper in his ear I brought the blade close to his cheek and slowly run the tip across his face.

“Grougah! Grougah!” It tried speaking as I laughed at its plea.

“Well, aren’t you unlucky, I can’t understand one bit of what you're saying," I whisper as I slowly stab the dagger into his cheek. I watch blood drip out of the wound as he tried to trash his head around. I held him by the neck forcing him down towards the ground with one hand. My strength was enough to hold him still as I slowly stab his cheek again tilting the blade sideways. I slowly took out the skin on his face and I didn't even get halfway till he passed out from the pain.

I waited for him to wake up, but he never did. Trying to vent my frustration, I stabbed the troll multiple times trying to jolt him awake but I ended up killing him in his sleep.

"Blah." I felt defeated as I failed to make him scream in pain and watch him suffer. I sat on top of his corpse as I cut its armor and I was able to flick it off his body using a sword.

“I guess if I use a weapon to carry them, I’m able to as long as I don't directly touch them. What a weird concept.” I say picking up the troll’s hand using the sword. “I wonder if I can make a glove out of this. Wait.“

Let’s have some fun~ I say in my mind dancing around the corpse.

“Happy Halloween! Hahahaha is it even Halloween back at earth? I would win any contest. Realistic troll costume. I wonder if I can fool those bastards by the portal." I sat there thinking. "Well, it won't hurt to try, the element of surprise.”

I study the troll and the height doesn’t seem to pose an issue. The problem that I might encounter is our weight is quite different. It’s fat.

“What if I take out its bones? I think I can cut a small opening and use a dagger to carve out its bones from inside. Then I probably could wear it from inside. Hahaha, I'm going insane! A homemade troll costume!” I say as I drag the dead troll towards the hallway that leads to the safe zone. As stupid as the idea can be, I can’t help feel excitement throughout my whole body.

"Might as well kill everyone and cook them," I whisper to myself as I walked in the dark. After dumping the body in the safe zone, I went back and collected the other bodies lying around. I started cooking while I worked on deboning the troll to make it into a costume.

It took a couple of days to elaborate my plan. To create my own homemade troll costume, I cut an opening through it back where I stabbed it multiple times. I removed all of its guts as I threw them in the shield to cook them. Luckily, my skill sharpens made it easier to cut the meat from the inside as it went through like butter. Every time I hit a vein, blood would spurt out and spray everywhere even when it’s already dead. I could skin it and wear the skin but I need some of its meat intact to fill in the gap between so the whole thing doesn’t sag. I need it to make it as believable as possible.

“This is a stupid idea Yasu. A really stupid brilliant idea!” I tell myself as I debone the troll but a smile never escaped my face even when I know that my IQ is slowly dropping. “This is my stupid idea~”

It was a lot harder to carve the end parts like hands and feet so I cut it up and decided to make my own troll skin gloves and shoes. I tried storing the whole body but it didn't fit through the bag’s opening so I had no choice but to work without sleeping. Any amount of flesh I cut off I throw into the shield to fry and I noticed I stopped leveling up even when I cooked almost the whole troll. I don’t know if a day passed by my time in the dungeon consist of me carefully carving the other parts and deboning them while constantly fitting it into my arm, legs, and even my head. After all the hard work, I managed to finish right when the flesh of the troll emit a decaying odor.

“I’m such a genius!” I say I wearing the troll costume that’s a perfect fit for my body. "Oh, now how do I cover the joints?"

I whisper to myself as I look at the area’s where I separated the limbs and the leg. I suddenly remember the Goblins loincloth and even the cloth undergarments of the troll that I was able to pick up and carry. I used most of them to cover up the cut pieces and if I had a mirror, I probably looked like a troll that came back from fighting an army. I tried moving but my clothes made it feel uncomfortable to even move my legs and arms.

“Butt naked is the way to go~” I whisper to myself as I undress to wear the costume. I felt it a lot more disgusting to have a skin contact with its cold flesh. It felt like I was being hugged from all side. “Ugh, this feels…amazing?”

I started walking towards the hallway to enter the skeleton room. I tried imitating the troll even trying to sing in their language as I walk in the dark. As soon as I got out, I notice two goblins collecting the swords again. They quickly took notice and I thought of my hard work ending would end a blink of an eye. But it didn't. One of the goblins stood up and waved at me with a happy expression as the other ran my way

What the-I whisper as I walked toward the goblin running trying to meet him halfway. As soon as a goblin got near me, I used my fingers to stab both its eyes and it started screaming flailing on the ground. The other goblin just stared at me with disbelief. I took out my troll mask exposing myself and I see his complexion turn pale.

"Well, what do you know, you guys are more stupid than me," I whisper as gave it a smirk. In a quick motion, I quickly closed the gap between us as I jammed my pointer finger in one of its eyes and it started screaming in pain falling back. Using my right foot, I kicked him in the nuts and my strength seemed abnormal as his body went flying crashing into a pile of swords. I slowly walked to the goblin as it tried to stand. I kicked it back down and stepped on its back like a cockroach.

"Let's see who's stronger, your head, or me," I whisper as I grab onto its head and pulled it. The goblins tiny hands held onto my arm trying to prevent me from pulling its head off his body, but it failed as I see it’s the skin around the neck slowly rips. Like a rubber band snapping, I pulled its head off its body and its arms went limp. The other goblin screamed and screaming trying to walk away but it couldn’t see anything as it walked towards me.

I slowly walk behind him and the minute he hears a noise, he tried running to the only trip on his dead companions’ body. I lodge my foot on it’s back and using my hand’s I grabbed its head and pulled it off his body like the other goblin. The minute the skin around its neck ripped, his head came right off his body as I tore it with my bare hands.

"I'M YOU'RE FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR TROLL MAN! HAHAHA!" I laughed as I held its head up to my face. “You sir are an ugly thing.”

Not wanting to lose time, I walked towards the dark hallway leading to the portal while I put my mask back on. I sang in the dark slowly walking toward freedom. I can feel inch by inch its flesh meeting with my skin. I felt like I was being hugged fully from inside the deboned dead carcass. It was cold due to the fact that the whole dungeon is cold.

If they think I'm one of them, as soon as I get near the portal, it’s a full-on sprint from there. I walk out trying to copy the motion of a troll. I don’t know how I look from the outside but I guess I look like a normal troll since I didn’t hear screams. The troll was wearing nothing but my apron. I guess it looked normal to them. I covered the wounds and walked limping pretending to be hurt. I got close to the lookout when all of a sudden, I hear a “Grwoah?” towards my side as a troll comes out of the shadows.

“Grwoah? Broakgoosh Taramo Dogara. Grwoah?” It tried to speak to me and I held the urge to rip him apart.

fuck, how do I reply? I whisper in my mind as it looked at me.

“Um, um, G-g-groog chiga chiga chiga choo?” I tried imitating the sound, but I don’t think it worked. The lookout turned around to screamed to the rest of its group. I quickly grab a dagger from my dimensional bag whispering my skill as I pushed it to the back of its neck. The sound of his voice turned into gurgles as I stabbed it multiple times for its life to reach zero. Even when it’s on the ground, my hatred got the best of me as I stabbed it over and over until I severely mutilated its neck separating its head from its body. As I slowly look up, I noticed I’m surrounded by trolls, wolves, goblins, and undead skeletons as all of their screams slowly came back while I fade out of my trance.

I’m dead. I’m so fucking dead. If that’s the case…Then…

I ripped the costume revealing myself inside. Butt naked, crazed look in my eye, covered in blood while eyeing all of them. They might kill me but that didn’t matter. I jumped on a goblin and I lodged my dagger into its left eye. Its screams were enough to keep the others at bay from fear but somehow, I felt dizzy as they all ran for me. I swung my dagger around me while shouting my skill over and over again. My head started pounding some more. It felt like my heard switch with my brain and it’s about to burst. My vision slowly fades and the last thing I remember was the feeling of something jumping on my back as I completely black out.

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I slowly woke up to a liquid dripping down my face. It was dark, and the smell of metal lingered. My body felt heavy as if I was buried alive.

“Huh?” My throat feels dry as I tried to utter a word. I feel my palm closing and I tried to dig my way out of my tomb. As soon as the light came through, I noticed what I was buried with.

All of them. Dead.

I pushed dead bodies off me as I slowly stand up looking around. Some of the trolls and goblins don't have a head. Some of them are cut in half. There was a goblin that had a spear lodged from its mouth and came out of it rear end. Some undead skeleton was in pieces like something have stomped on their skulls. The whole place was a bloodbath. Purple blood, red blood, there was blood everywhere mixed together. Splattered everywhere, on rocks, on the dead bodies even to the ceiling of the cave. Puddles of blood accumulating from dead bodies made the ground beneath me feel warm.

"Well shit," I whisper as I stood in the middle of the massacre. Butt naked but not a wound in sight. I was covered in blood from head toe. Few places of my body ached but nothing major. All of my limbs are still intact. “What the fuck happened?”

I tried to recall my memory but nothing. All I remember was being found out and my head started hurting then that’s it. Everything else is a fuzzy memory. I look around some more and I finally noticed it. The portal. With everyone dead, I have a clear path out of the dungeon. Happiness enveloped me as I smiled while running towards the light.

“Finally! I can escape! I’m one step closer to going back home!” I shout as I quickly ran butt naked to the portal with all of the happy thoughts on what I am about to see outside. How it will change things around me.

Swooosh! BOOM!

A bright hot light flew past me as it went straight for the portal. As soon as it made contact, it exploded into pieces and launched me backward.

“No!” I shouted out as I regain my footing. I ran as fast as I can, but everything crumbled as the while light quickly disappeared. My last hope of escape just shattered into pieces. "n-n-n-n-no no no no no please don't break. No no no No! No! No!" I tried to piece the portal together frantically, but it just kept crumbling as the floor vibrates. I looked around and see rocks jumping from the ground as if someone installed base speaker underneath.

All of a sudden, I hear a loud scream behind me that made me cover my ears. It felt like it was going to explode if I didn't. When I look back my heart sand but quickly became excitement as a smile replaced my expression.

"Gatekeeper," I whisper as I slowly stood clenching my fist. The gatekeeper was standing in front of me. Even when he’s far away, the sheer size of his body made it look like he was within my reach.

“You will pay for that! You overgrown lard!” I screamed at it as I slowly walked his way. “You bastard. That was the exit. You!! You’re fucking dead!"

Without fear, I ran towards the gatekeeper ready to fight it to death.