Chapter 1
Birth
Where is this?
What spread before me was darkness. And inside me the creaking sound of hunger echoed.
Hunger? No. Rather than call this hunger, it’s more like ‘starvation’.
"Gigi."
I’m, hungry.
I couldn’t’ even say it properly. What came out of my mouth was something reminiscent of a cramped and blurred shriek.
I close my eyes.
The pangs of hunger continue to attack me, but opening my eyes is also troublesome.
"Gagururu!
I hear some sort of noise from a place not too far away.
"Gi?"
That noise got closer as it stopped before me. And then some kind of meat with a repugnant smell was thrown in between my eyes.
Without even stopping to think what kind of meat it was. I put a part of it into my mouth.
Delicious!
Fuhahaha! Delicious!
I don’t know what kind of meat this is, but I’ve never known that meat could be so delicious.
I put it into my mouth, bite a part off and then chew it.
Without any hesitation, I even bite into the bone of the meat.
"Gigi–––gigigi!"
Before I knew it, the meat that was before me had already disappeared within my stomach.
–––More! I want more!
It’s not enough! I want more! More! More! More! This swirling craving within this body is becoming more and more voracious for meat.
All of the sudden the back of my neck was grabbed and I was lifted up with great strength.
"Gi?"
If I were to look up I would see myself being held by a huge hand as the figure walked.
I can feel the wind.
Gradually… the light filled my sight.
And just as it did, my eyes narrowed.
It’s too bright. As if I had been living in a cave my whole life, that light entered my eyes like a flood of light burning the retina of my eyes.
I narrow my eyes. If I slowly let my eyes get used to it, then…
"Gigi?"
What was there was a great thick forest.
It was at that, that I first realized that my field of vision was shaking.
I wonder if it’s been around 20 years since I’ve been born that I’ve carried something in that way.
No, even as a baby you would carry things in a more normal way. Humans from the start…
Wondering exactly who it was, I moved my eyes. But what was dangling me around was something that I couldn’t have thought to be anything but a joke. A creature with a huge green build.
"Gi?"
No, no matter how you look at this…
This isn’t human.
In other words, it’s that.
Because of my limited knowledge I don’t know any other words for it, but…
Goblin.
Right, with that monster-like appearance, there’s no other way around it.
As I was muttering, that thing that couldn’t be expressed in any other way except as an ugly face twisted by hate, looked at me.
Not good. I’m going to die.
Just being looked at was enough to make me prepare for death.
However, it only glanced at me, and then it continued to walk again.
And then after leaving the thick forest I was lightly thrown to the sh.o.r.e of a lake. That kind of beautiful lake was something unusual nowadays.
"Feed. Catch. No good, then die."
After it told me that one sentence, it then turned its back on me and walked away. Looking at it I noticed that the green monster had a lethal weapon that looked like a one-handed club on its back.
Get feed. And if it’s no good, then die?
Feed?
Is she talking about the meat from a while ago? But that… exactly what kind of meat was that?
I don’t really feel like going against what that monster said, so for the mean time let’s at least drink some water from the lake.
This can be drunk, right?
Looks like even with water I can distract myself from hunger.
Should I try to run away? But the problem is that I don’t understand what kind of situation this is. I look at the surface of the water while being unusually calm, when all of the sudden, my thoughts stop.
"Gi?"
Ah?
It’s reflecting. On the surface of the water, the appearance of that hideous green monster is reflecting.
"Gigi?"
Aah?
Seeing that, I turn my hand. The reflection copies me and also cheekily turns its hand.
Unbelieving, I touch my face several times. And just as I did, the reflection did so as well.
I put