The Revenge of the Soul Eater

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Any of the hopes that I had of being saved spilled out of my chest like a pile of sand.

No, more importantly, if this was the king of flies’ nest… then the sounds that I’ve been hearing are…

I slowly turned my neck in fear to take a look…

I knew that I would surely regret it if I look, but I couldn’t choose not to.

Then, I immediately regretted it as I expected.

「……..* Híííííí  *」(squealing)

There was another adventurer here.
From what Lunamaria had told me, he was probably one of the adventurers that had gone missing.

He was in extremely horrible shape.

He had already lost both of his arms up to almost where his shoulders were.

His legs had disappeared up to his thighs.

A countless amount of maggots were all running all over his wounds.
His bones and his red-colored flesh were exposed.

Maggots from the size of a finger to the size of a fist were all competing to gnaw on the adventurer’s bones, chew his flesh, and drink his blood.

「…* Híííí *?!」(squealing)

The horror did not end there.
Maggots the size of a rice grain were also flooding out from the adventurer’s nose, mouth, and ears.

Only his eyes were safe.
Then right as I thought that-

—Our eyes met.

He looked like he was going insane from the horror and despair, but I was sure that at that moment, we had recognized each other’s existence.

The proof of that was his eyes were opened wide at that moment and he opened his mouth to try to tell me something.

…But what came out of his mouth was not words, it was a large amount of maggots.

「*AHHHHHHHHH*!!」

He was still alive.
He was still conscious even though his limbs, his nose, mouth, and ears were being violated.

A king of flies captures its prey alive and brings them back to their nest to feed its larvae.

And then the larvae take their time to slowly consume the live prey in a manner that doesn’t immediately kill them.

The information that I’ve learned from the documents that I’ve read before was true.

This horrible scene that I was witnessing in front of me will become my fate in the near future.

When I recognized that fact–

「NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!」

I screamed out as I couldn’t take any more of it.

As if the surrounding maggots took that as a signal, they all came swarming at me at the same time.