Chapter 497: Take Me On Your Side!!

The demon chief just chuckled.

"Let me show you what real pain is," the chief whispered. "Because your hits... well, forget pain... they don’t even tickle. It feels like the wind is hitting my face."

As he said this, the chief raised his hand and grabbed Yuusha by his upper arm.

His fingers dug deep into the skin and they didn’t stop at the surface. They just kept going in. It got to the point where his fingers were gripping into Yuusha’s muscles and flesh.

As the chief slowly pushed his fingers deeper in, Yuusha screamed.

"AAAAAAUGHHHHH!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! GUHHH!" He let out a loud, incoherent scream of pure agony. He kept screaming until his throat went dry and hoarse, but he just couldn’t stop.

As the chief went deeper and deeper with his fingers, he finally stopped moving. Yuusha felt a very slight sense of relief. That simple pause was still incredibly painful, but it was less painful than the feeling of fingers actively burrowing into his biceps.

But the relief was short-lived.

The chief looked straight into Yuusha’s teary eyes.

"This is pain," he said coldly. "You want to eat people, don’t you? I’ll show you how to properly eat human meat."

And then, he viciously pulled his hand back, ripping a massive chunk of flesh straight out of Yuusha’s arm. The meat tore away with a sickening wet sound.

Yuusha just screamed, and screamed, and screamed even more.

The chief brought the bloody chunk of flesh right up to Yuusha’s face.

"Look at this," the chief smiled. "It looks really delicious, doesn’t it? Look at the blood dripping from it. Do you want a taste?"

Yuusha just glared at him with bloodshot, red eyes. He gritted his teeth to the point where they made a loud grinding noise.

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The chief chuckled again. "What, you don’t like it? I thought you really wanted to eat human flesh. Didn’t you say you wanted to accumulate negative karma? Come on, have this."

The chief then spat directly onto the gaping, bleeding wound on Yuusha’s shoulder where he had just ripped the flesh out.

The saliva burned like hellfire on the wound and it made Yuusha scream even louder. His own saliva dripped down from his mouth as he looked at the demon who was still carrying him on his shoulders.

The chief brought the chunk of bloody flesh toward himself. He tipped his head back and brought it close to his own mouth, pretending he was about to take a bite.

But as Yuusha watched in horror, the chief stopped. He looked at Yuusha and sighed.

"Nah," the chief said. "This is too boring. This is not fun anymore. Let’s do something else. Be a good boy and open your mouth."

Yuusha stammered through the pain. "F-Fuck you."

This only made the chief smile wider.

"Oh, so cute," the chief mocked. "I really like it when my prey fights back."

He grabbed Yuusha by the neck with his free arm and threw him down.

Yuusha crashed onto the muddy ground, rolled backward, and quickly stood back up. He brought his good arm over to clutch his heavily bleeding shoulder.

Before he could even register anything else, the chief dashed forward in a blur and grabbed him directly by his jaw.

Yuusha panicked. He punched, kicked, and clawed at the demon, but it did absolutely nothing. The chief didn’t even have a reaction to the desperate strikes. He just gripped the jaw tighter.

"Come on, open your mouth," the chief said softly. "Be a good boy and let me feed you some meat."

Seeing that Yuusha was fighting back by stubbornly keeping his mouth shut, the chief just grabbed him by the face and violently smacked the back of his head straight into the ground.

The impact rattled Yuusha’s head and made him scream in pain.

Using that exact opening, the chief shoved the bloody piece of flesh straight into Yuusha’s open mouth. He then forcefully pushed Yuusha’s jaw shut.

Caught completely by surprise, Yuusha choked on his own flesh. Tears rolled down his eyes from the sheer panic and disgust. But there was nothing he could do. He coughed against the chief’s unyielding hand, gagging on the meat that the chief had pushed into his mouth.

The chief didn’t give him even a single second of relief. He kept him pinned down to the ground. Yuusha struggled and thrashed, but he had no other choice. His body forced him to swallow to clear his airway.

He swallowed it down, and only when the meat was fully swallowed did the chief finally remove his hand from Yuusha’s mouth.

The chief stood up and looked down at the coughing man, looking slightly disappointed.

"Is this really all you have?" the chief sighed. "I was expecting more. I thought that you were just holding back earlier, but even though I went this far... is this really it?"

Yuusha didn’t say anything. He just coughed violently and glared at the chief from the ground.

The chief sighed again at the weak reaction.

"If you are this weak, then there is no reason for me to let you live anymore," the chief said coldly. "I just wanted to have some fun, but there is no fun to be had when your opponent is a weak bitch."

This was finally when Yuusha felt an unexplainable sense of fear deep within him.

He immediately tried to scramble backward but the chief just calmly walked toward him as he crawled away.

"Come on, don’t run," the chief said lazily. "The more you try to run, the slower I will make your death. So just be obedient and let me finish this quickly."

Yuusha didn’t stop. His hands and legs just kept moving frantically to get away.

"Wait! Wait, wait!" Yuusha yelled in panic. "I have been holding back! Yes, you are right! I’ve been holding back! Fuck! I wanted to keep my appearance the same. Why are you forcing me?! Why can’t you just accept me on your side?!"