Chapter 3

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The mysterious particles knocked the wolves down with a thud.

And using the power of【Gluttony】, I ate them…… as proof of that, I felt a euphoric sensation―― a sensation that I had never felt before, the euphoric sensation of fullness.

And then, the power returned into my body once again.

But……I couldn’t feel that surging heat anymore.

Even though I understood what that power was…… I still had now idea how to actually control it. For a while now I’ve been doing things like stretching my arm out and trying to activate it , and saying 「 【Gluttony】 ……！」out loud, but I still couldn’t feel it.

「……haaa」

I only ended up, needlessly wasting my energy because of that.

I don’t understand what I don’t understand. I’ll just leave it at that.

More importantly…… I have to keep looking for something to eat.

「……do I really have to though?」

I now knew a way to get rid of my hunger.

And because of that I was unsure if I really had to go out of my way just to gather food.

“Then should I just go back?”

But I still wanted to keep going

The reason wasーー

「I want to keep eating. more…… I want to eat even more」

It was a straightforward reason.

I’ve been enchanted-

By the pleasure of the act called eating. Now that I’ve felt it, I can never go back. What reason was there to even hold back?

To eat is to live.

If you don’t eat then you die.

「…………」

I kept on searching without saying anything.

I was no longer afraid of the wolves and other animals…… well I still was. But other than that there wasn’t anything left that could suppress my craving

I was scared, but even bigger than that fear was my desire to eat.

「……haha」

I found it.

A wolf pack, different from the one before. But I couldn’t feel the hunger that I felt earlier.

「……so it was something else」

It seems like it wasn’t something that was triggered by looking at something.

…… I held my breath.

One of the wolves started growling at me. It looks like I was found, which means that there was no longer any reason to keep on hiding.

「……」

It’s eyes were looking at me as if I merely was nothing but prey.

but it was the same way for me.

After all, I was looking for wolves because I wanted to eat.

The wolf came leaping straight at me.

I easily saw through it…… I jumped away to the side as hard as I could and dodged its attack.

But then the wolf immediately swung around as it landed, and pounced right at me .again.

「――ｈ！」

I was still in the air and couldn’t dodge…… with all I had, I desperately swung my fist at the head of the quickly approaching wolf.

This was the first time that I’ve ever punched anything, the weird gouging sensation confused me……

when I looked up……

「eh?」

There was a twitching wolf with half of its head caved in in front of me.

And when I looked down at my fist, ――it was covered with blood and flesh.

「ーーGRRRRRR-」

The other wolves threatened to lunge at me, they rushed at me all at once―― but at that instant, my entire body was wrapped up by fatigue and hunger…… like a savage beast that had found food, something was surging from within me,

The same sensation as that time, the power of 【Gluttony】

It became a blaze of heat inside me and I unleashed it in full.

「ーーKkyaun! ?」

Black particles appeared and all around me and spread out, and the wolves fell to the ground.

「h, goho, geho」*coughing noises*

But my hunger wasn’t being satisfied.

on the contrary, my hunger only got worse…… the pain from my hunger became even worse.

…… and the power of 【Gluttony】 kept on going

Steadily, my hunger grew stronger.

…… and in proportion to my hunger, the number of particles that came out from me was also increasing.

The way it worked was unclear, but I didn’t have the time to think about that right now.

「Aa……gh……」

Each step I take was heavy.

As I moved, it felt like something was sapping strength out of my body. My hunger became even stronger and my vision began to blur.

――and then I came across another pack of wolves.

Howling in the distance, they rushed right to me.

There was a lot of them and they looked stronger than wolves from earlier ……but right now I couldn’t see them as anything other than a big source of possible sustenance.

「――Glu ttony」

The black particles moved as I willed, and engulfed the wolf pack, and then began to consume them.

……my hunger was slightly satisfied. But it wasn’t enough……not enough.

My hunger became harsher.

My throat was dry.

……a, my consciousness was fading. No. I don’t want t o d ie.

「I don’t want to die」

I fell to the ground.

I lost strength in my arms and legs, I couldn’t move even if I wanted.

My eyelids closed. I want to sleep…… I wonder what would happen if I were to sleep now.

ーーeven though I’ve gone through all that trouble and gotten reincarnated.

even though I’ve been given this new chance of life.

Am I just going to …… die of starvation again?

I was on the verge of starvation―― I couldn’t do anything about my hunger

but still……

「hーーhuh?」

in that moment, my hunger began to dissipate.

I could feel something flowing to me and relieving my hunger…… and there was a lot of it.

「what’s going……on? 」

I regained enough strength to stand up, and when I looked around ―― there were black particles everywhere around me.

I was no longer about to control them as I wanted the same way I could just a short while ago. The particles rapidly expanded around the wolves, as if trying to satisfy my hunger.

…… my hunger became a little satisfied.

「This is……」

I had some time to think―― and I made some realizations about the nature of this phenomenon.

――my hunger is what caused this

With a fuller stomach and a clear head, I started musing over several different things.

When I get hungry, this power――”gluttony” will activate.

And the hungrier I get …… the more powerful its effects are.

As if to reaffirm my conclusions, that power continued to sate my hunger.

「……I see」

And as soon as I become “satisfied” ーー the black particles would immediately disappear.

Even If I wanted to release those particles there wouldn’t be any response.…… but to make up for it, I would be the filled to the brim with energy, just like when I first woke up here.

「…………」

For now, I decided to go back to the lake, I was thirsty, and there was also something that I wanted to confirm.

Even though I should still be okay for a while ―― I hurried back as fast as I could.

Right now my body was in an amazing condition

Amazing to the point that it was unnerving……

＊＊＊

……it was as I thought, the corpses near the lake were withered up as if all nourishment had been drained from them ――just like the wolves from earlier.

「……I ate …… 」

I’ve gone and done it, haven’t I.

Before I woke up 「Gluttony」had probably activated on its own because of my hunger……

That would I explain why I wasn’t hungry when I woke up, It’s because I had eaten……

「but, so what?」

I said so out loud without even trying to make any justifications to anyone.

I was hungry, so I ate. That was all.

They have the same appearance, they are the same race……the ones that have to justify themselves from that are those that aren’t hungry.

I didn’t feel any guilt from the fact that I ate people.

but, at the very least…… I still felt that I needed to mourn those that had become my nourishment.

「…………」

I couldn’t think of anything else that I could do for them aside from burying them in the dirt.

I didn’t have any tools, and it would be difficult to bury this many people but

ーー right now I was overflowing with energy, I should be able to do it,

while motivating myself with those words, I spent the rest of the day giving everyone their burial

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