I Became a Murderer in the Academy. Chapter 49

I was small in stature, with thin arms.

In contrast, those surrounding were nurous, large in build, and even ard with weapons.

But why?

For so reason, they didn’t seem threatening. Surprisingly, not at all.

I took a step forward towards them.

Then, they took a step back.

It was an attitude similar to that of beasts who turned their backs on instead of charging.

“Are you afraid of ?”

There was no answer.

Their gazes on were piercing. Their trembling eyes, filled with terror, were as if they were looking at sothing inhuman.

Am I not human?

This was the sprout of doubt that had been slowly blooming for a few days.

It was gradually turning into certainty.

The humans I knew weren’t fine after starving for days.

The humans I knew didn’t have the ability to catch and crush a flying axe with one hand, nor did they have their appetite stirred by the sight of blood.

And,

If I were human, my body wouldn’t have reacted so extrely to the small amount of blood I accidentally drank.

“M-monster……”

Those were the words that escaped from the mouth of one of those looking at .

His words might be right.

The current state of my body was far from human by any asure, so I couldn’t deny his words.

My head felt like it was about to split.

It seed to be because I had tasted blood in an extrely starved state.

Even though I knew in my head that it shouldn’t be done, my body was craving human blood.

It might have been different if I hadn’t tasted it at all, but perhaps because I had tasted too little, I felt even more desperate.

My body was heating up regardless of my will.

Now, I seed to know clearly what my body wanted.

I wanted to eat humans. Iria, the original owner of this body, was a monster that lived by eating humans.

‘One person…… One person should be fine, right…? I was really so hungry, eating just one person should be……’

After all, aren’t those people extrely bad people?

They were people who routinely cut off people’s wrists. Besides running gambling dens, they were an organization that made money through various evil deeds.

Literally, they were humans who deserved to die. They were the ones who tried to cut off my wrist, too.

Iria’s body, now fully heated, was craving murder.

With my reason half-paralyzed now, I felt like I would go crazy with the desire to kill soone right away.

But,

“Ugh……”

I couldn’t do that.

The other party was human. Not so other animal, but the sa as–no, what I used to be.

For whatever reason, I didn’t want to beco a murderer.

I wanted to kill humans, but I didn’t want to kill humans.

My body wanted it, but the ‘’ possessing this body didn’t want it.

-Crunch!

To satisfy the itching canines that wanted to bite into a person, I bit my own arm.

Along with a sharp pain, blood flowed. I didn’t drink it. Unlike others’ blood, my own blood really tasted bad.

I just thought that feeling pain might bring back my numbed reason sowhat.

The effect was sowhat there. This was the first pain I felt since falling into this world.

Iria’s canines hurt. More than I had thought.

“It’s better if you don’t keep moving there. Unless you want to see this girl’s head cut off.”

“Kyaak?!”

The man, having figured out that I wouldn’t move for a while, put a knife to the neck of the pink-haired girl he had grabbed from his subordinate and spoke.

It was Riana.

I had told her not to follow inside, as the interior of the gambling den could be dangerous, and to wait outside.

It seed one of the man’s subordinates had caught her waiting outside.

“Kekek, this is your friend, right? These days, your story is famous in Dusty Lane. One is a gambling fraud, and the other is a petty thief, they say.”

“……”

“I heard two orphan girls were running around doing all sorts of crazy things just to survive? Sorry, but no one here is on your side. This is a lawless zone, after all! A criminal killing another criminal is a common thing here!”

He said with a loud laugh.

Every word was true. Although we did it to survive, Riana and I had indeed committed minor cris.

The only difference was that our cris were slightly less severe than theirs, but in the eyes of ordinary people, we were all the sa villains.

Then, is it a bad thing for a villain to kill another villain?

From the perspective of a good person, it’s just one piece of trash being erased from the world.

Rather, if they fought each other and their numbers decreased, it would be a welco thing.

That’s why we couldn’t receive the protection of the law. Even if we were caught and killed by them here, no one would look into it, nor would anyone mourn for us.

Maybe I never had the right to criticize him from the beginning.

In a neighborhood where law doesn’t exist, there are only the weak and the strong.

You can only ponder who is good or bad when you have the luxury to do so.

They were strong, and we were weak.

I decided to comply with the result that ca out like that.

“……I’ll go, so please let that child go.”

“You should have said that from the beginning.”

I raised both hands above my head, indicating surrender. The man tied up with a leering smile.

After that, I was moved sowhere with my whole body tied up.

***

A bit differently from what was promised, they didn’t release Riana.

But I didn’t resist. Because right now, the target of their anger was only . Riana was just watching , tied up sowhere else.

And I was hanging from the ceiling with both hands chained.

Like a human punching bag.

-Whack!!

A sound like hitting a person with a heavy club rang out.

Surprisingly, it was a sound coming from my body. It seems this was the price for biting their organization mber with my teeth.

I was hanging there, taking the violence coming from all directions.

Of course, it hurt.

Regardless of the body’s own durability, being hit in a defenseless state fully transmitted the pain to .

I was beaten all over with a wooden club with several nails in it.

It hurt even to be hit normally, but when I was occasionally hit with the protruding part of a nail, blood ca out of my body.

Wounds scratched by nails were engraved, and pierced wounds were also noticeable. Naturally, most of my clothes had been torn for a long ti.

It was quite a miserable feeling.

-Whack!!

A dull reverberation spread along with the red blood splattering in all directions.

I don’t know how much ti has passed. Covered in blood, I just hoped for this ti to end quickly.

Would it be better to die like this?

In fact, my hunger was more painful than the pain of being beaten. The extre hunger that swallowed the pain was enough to swallow reason.

At this point, one of us, him or , should have died here.

But since I couldn’t kill people, I thought it might be better if I died instead.

“You’re tougher than I thought. Not screaming even in that state.”

That’s because I would get hungry again if I scread.

I didn’t have the strength for that either.

From far away, Riana’s scream mixed with crying could be heard. Is she worried about even though she’s captured too?

If I die here, it might be her turn next.

My feelings were a bit complicated.

I didn’t care much about dying myself, but I didn’t want Riana to die.

She was the person who helped when I was confused after falling into this world not long ago.

I don’t know about others, but at least to , she was a good person.

It was enough for alone to experience this.

I didn’t want her to get involved.

“……”

I had two choices now.

The first was to kill those here and escape, and the second was to die here with Riana.

It was the most difficult crossroads. Because I hated both sides. Literally, it was a situation where only the worst choices existed.

Even after thinking for a long ti, I couldn’t choose.

At least not as I was now.

In the end, since I couldn’t choose, I decided to leave the choice to Iria, the body’s owner.

I am tired of enduring.

So I closed my eyes and killed my reason.

As the reason that had been suppressing instinct disappeared, Iria’s body started moving on its own.

For a mont, it felt as if the control of the body had been handed over.

If anything I chose would be the worst, I would follow what instinct told to do.

Just before losing consciousness like that, the last thing I heard was the sound of chains breaking.

***

It was a place covered with red stains everywhere.

Human blood and flesh were rolling on the floor, dyeing the surroundings red.

It’s a cruel scene.

At least, that’s how it looked to .

When I ca to my senses, everything was already settled.

The hunger that had been strangling was resolved, and all humans in this area except and Riana were dead.

It took quite a long ti to grasp and understand all the situations.

It was probably my doing.

My figure was faintly reflected in the broken window’s glass fragnt.

A monster with blood on both hands and around the mouth was standing. The red eyes that had been glowing were a little calr than before.

The lost reason returned.

When I ca to my senses, I was standing in a field of blood.

And,

“I-Iria……”

Riana was sitting in front of , her body trembling.

It was eyes filled with terror. Only this ti, I was the target.

She was feeling fear looking at . Just that alone made feel sick.

I actually wanted to ask.

Why are you looking at with those eyes? What happened while I was unconscious?

But I couldn’t. If I had heard the answer, I wouldn’t have been able to turn back anymore.

First, I reached out my hand to help her up.

“D-don’t co!”

But I was rejected.

Perhaps it was because my hands were thickly covered with human blood.

Terrified, she was looking at with eyes as if seeing a monster. We couldn’t even communicate.

Even though Riana had run away and disappeared sowhere, I couldn’t move from that spot for a while.

The first murder I committed was like a dream.

Everything felt unreal, and it remained only as a faint mory.

I wished it had been a dream.

It was a long nightmare.