Chapter 18

While I was moving around from one of my marked regions to other soon I caught the scent of blood and moved towards it. Soon I reached the area from where the smell of blood came from. I slowly moved close to the walls making sure not to alert my prey and soon I saw him. A man in his 30s eating another man who is lying lifelessly on the ground. The sound of breaking and squishing of bones and flesh was all I was hearing along with the biting sounds of the ghoul.

This time aswell I made sure to attack the ghoul the moment he finished his meal cause it was the time almost anyone would have the lowest guard cause they are happy and filled with the satisfaction of a full stomach.

I slowly crouched my way towards him, made a knife out of my palm and sent a piercing strike towards his back.

*PSSSTTT*

My palm went all the way in easily, something I was not expecting and exited his chest while grabbing his beating heart. Without any second thoughts, I crushed the heart.

"Wha- AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh….." The ghoul didn't get the chance to realize that he was attacked before he felt the crushing of his heart and soon died.

The surrounding became completely quiet after the death of the ghoul. I picked up the wallet of both the ghoul and the human and kept their money.

I checked my surroundings, after confirming that no one was there I removed my mask, went towards the ghoul's corpse and plucked out his arm from his body as a starter meal. I bit on a small piece of flesh in order to confirm its taste beforehand. I gnawed a small chunk of flesh out of his arms and bit on it while making it roam all over my mouth so that I can experience its taste completely. It tasted like chicken meat the problem was just that it tasted like the meat whose juices has all been extracted in short the taste was bland and only the chewy texture of the meat was present.

Well, I don't find it that bad, better than eggplants in my opinion. The reason ghouls find this stuff disgusting according to me is that the taste of all normal human flesh is so mouth-watering and delicious that they feel that it's like torture for them to eat something as bland as this. Not much of a problem for me.

I devoured the man's Kakuhou along with most part of his upper body and along with all his limbs, as for his private region... unless I'm devouring some hot lady, I'll pass on that region.

Soon after finishing the meal, I could feel that my body was reinvigorated with energy and felt more active than ever, so this how consuming RC cells feels like, I said to myself.

I felt my tummy was full so I decided to go back home. By the time I reached home, it was around 1 AM. Nanami woke up seeing me entering, I gestured her to go back to sleep then went in to take a bath and after that, I went to sleep.

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I woke up early in the morning but this time my body was filled with more energy than usual, I could feel the power emanating from my body linking this change to my intake of ghoul meat last night I put on my jogging clothes and went out for jogging and stretching like always.

After returning I prepared some coffee for both me and Nanami who had already woken up. After finishing the coffee, I told her to freshen up and get ready as we would be going outside so that she could buy some essentials for herself. Surprisingly Nanami had a hint of excitement in her eyes after listening to what I said, unlike her usual nervous and silent expression. We both got ready soon after and we went out towards a shopping centre.

After getting out of the bus when we were entering the shopping area an old lady in front of us lost her flooring and almost fell as a result of which she dropped her bags and other stuff, so I gestured Nanami to help the lady while I picked up her stuff from the ground. While picking up the stuff I suddenly noticed something which solved one of my queries.

I gave the items back to the old lady while noticing how Nanami's scent has changed to smell like that old lady now. She thanked us for the help to which we smiled kindly and then went towards the shopping area. I gave Nanami some money as she busied herself in buying things for her in the ladies' section of the area.

She came back soon afterwards with few bags on her and we were about to return when I saw Nanami's eyes hovering on a bookstore nearby, seeing that I asked Nanami.

"You want to buy some books for yourself to pass time?"

Nanami hesitated to answer me..

I understood what she was thinking

"No need to worry about it," I said while giving her money to buy some books.

Nanami came back with 3 storybooks and one could notice a faint smile if they looked closely around the corner of her lips.

"Let's go home now," I said, to which Nanami nodded.

After reaching home Nanami busied herself with the books she just bought and I decided to take a short nap to fill my sleep quota.