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DING! 

[Ist Skill Devour Successful]
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"They say a man's skills are honed over a lifetime, but what if he could devour them all in an instant?"

Ryuen Takeru, a skilled, retired assassin, decides to pursue a better job that would keep him away from the dark life he once led.

However, after a while, that peace was shattered when an unexpected train ride derailed reality itself, throwing him into a world and a life he had always hated.

A world teetering on the brink of ruin, destroyed by an apocalypse as a result of the unending war between multiple races.

Unfortunately, the post-apocalypse had already begun.

Ryuen finds himself captured, exchanged, and made to serve kings of different nations.

Yet fate had more in store for him.

A devastating twist, capable of destroying or elevating him—the one thing he had overlooked as normal until the moment he was informed.

A curse.

Possible reincarnation?

[Skill Devourer Activated: Plunder, Consume, Adapt, Evolve.]

Nevertheless, for everything given, something must be taken—or perhaps sacrificed.

Infinite Skill Devourer

Yuki Onna blinked for a while, wondering what was actually wrong with Ryuen.

From the moment he boldly attacked her, dropped his weapons, and even kissed her, she knew something was off.

But she couldn't quite make out what it was.

"Sealing a pact will only trap me in your inventory, or whatever they call the place where you keep your tamed beasts."

Ryuen shook his head with a sincere smile. He knew she would say that.

Yokai hated being kept in one place permanently, and she was a free being—more so than most Yokai.

But somehow, she had been cursed to roam these frozen lands months ago. And it was a human who had done it.

That only deepened her hatred for them.

Except... as she looked at Ryuen, something was off. She couldn't feel anger toward him.

Not that long-term hatred she had carried for so long. And that, she could not ignore.

First Yokai Encounter III