I was trapped in a hopeless cycle: every seven days, I was "eaten" by the same inhuman being and then reborn.
When he was swallowed for the Nth time, I finally heard his whisper clearly.
Not "go to death", but "... Need... Light..."
So I stopped running away.
His name is Firels.
He is cold, terrifying, and follows the instinct of devouring, but he will gently surround me with his shadow before devouring me.
Like a long, silent embrace.
The cycle is the cage between us and the first encounter.
Through countless deaths, I saw clearly the loneliness and hunger deep in his soul.
In countless reunions, he learned to delay swallowing, learned to remember the candy I brought, and learned to wipe away my tears with his tentacles when I cried.
"Firels, if you 'eat' me, that's the only way you can exist."
For the last cycle, I walked toward the darkness that was trembling due to resistance to instinct, stood on tiptoes, and kissed the nothingness.
"Then, please be gentle."
"Then, take me away from this dusk where there is no tomorrow."
——Later, he became my shadow, my symbiosis, my clumsy inhuman lover.
We finally walked together to the dawn of the eighth day.
Food guide#
Inhuman monster learns three hundred ways to be human for love (?)
Concept: Love is a choice beyond instinct