小嫂子的味道

It seemed like reality itself was splitting apart as a hole was opened in the fabric of space. Darkness spilled out from the hole. At first, it was the size of a ball but in no time it turned to the size of a door. From outside it was like something was forcing it open from the other side.

The noble's daughter stared at the strange hole as she stood before it. She had not seen something like this before, and being the curious kid she was this had left her perplexed.

Her eyes widened to their maximum for a second, but it was only for a very short span of time. It was such a small amount of time that even she herself wasn't able to realize what happened.

She didn't even get the time to think, since she didn't have her head anymore.

A four-legged beast, the size of a bear, jumped out of the portal. It opened its jaw—revealing fangs that were as long as human fingers—and bit off the girl's head from her body. All of it followed in such a short span of time that neither the girl nor the people around her were able to realize anything.

But they did realize it when they saw fountains of blood pumping out from the girl's decapitated neck.

The beast landed on the other side and it munched on the girl's head—making crunching sounds as it chewed through her skull and eyes—while her headless body fell limp and motionless on the ground.

"Wh-What the hell is that!?"

"A Monster! A MONSTER!!!"

"It killed that girl! What the hell are the guards doing?!"

"Why the fuck is there a monster in the middle of the city?!"

"Run, run, run, run, run! Run for your life!"

"Mom, what is that?"

"It's nothing, don't look there. Come on, we should hurry home."

A number of screams and cries followed and the people in the surroundings broke out into a rush. All of them mindlessly ran away from the epicenter of the incident in a desperate attempt to save their lives.

Though one person did not run. Instead, slowly walked toward the girl's corpse that now lay like a doll on the roads. It was her mother.

"A…A-Alicia!" she probably wanted to scream but things happened so quickly that no words were coming out of her mouth. Perhaps her brain still wasn't willing to accept the death of her daughter.

Perhaps she thought her daughter was just sleeping…without a head, that is.

She reached out to the corpse and sat on her knees. She guided the girl's body in her lap and attempted to pat her head. But then again, she ended up touching the gush of blood and meat coming out of the girl's neck.

Turning her head to the side she looked at the beast that had jumped out of the portal and had just finished munching on the girl's head.

It was the size of a bear but its body was much thicker and more muscular than that of a bear. The shape of its head was like a lion and the color of its skin was a dirty maroon as if it had been burned. It walked on four legs, but by no means it was an animal or monster mankind had seen before.

With crimson-red eyes, the beast glared at the mother and turned in her direction. It growled and licked its teeth with its long and pointed tongue as it continued to walk in her direction.

The mother's body was split into three pieces. Her daughter's corpse was bathed in her mother's blood as her bowels were splattered out in the open along with a few more of her internal organs and gastric fluids.

Though the said beast was still a bit far away and hadn't attacked the woman. Rather, it was another beast that came from behind the portal as the previous. It flew out of the portal and stretched out its limb, reaching for the woman's body with its razor-sharp and long claws.

The beast split the woman into two parts—her lower abdomen and the center of her chest—dividing her into three as a result.

This beast was almost the same as the one that had come out previously and the only difference between them was that this one was even bigger in size—probably the size of an orc.

As it lowered its neck and began to eat the flesh of the woman, the portal from where the beast had come outgrew in size, soon it was as big as a five-floor building. And as it grew, more and more beasts of different sizes rushed out of it and began to hunt down the nearby humans.

Although most of the people around the area had run away from where the portal had opened, they weren't fast enough to outrun the beasts. Moreover, the beasts had more than just the road to run.

Several of them were scampering wildly on the walls of the buildings since they had claws that were strong enough to be able to clench into the concrete.

This allowed them to chase down the humans, and since the number of beasts that came out of that portal—and were coming out constantly—was in thousands and increasing. It didn't take much time for it to turn into a massacre.

The corners of the roads and the walls of the buildings were splattered and washed with blood. Human organs were flying around on the road; the guts were a real problem, as they caused many people to slip and fall over.

Those lucky ones were those who died instantly. Since the beasts were hunting and feasting on the humans even if they were still alive.

They killed with absolute equality. Whether it was a man, a woman, a crippled, a kid, or an infant. None of it mattered to them. They saw everyone as nothing but a source of satisfying the eternal hunger that was burning inside their stomach.

They were, by all means, befitting of the word 'demons'.