Volume 3 Teaser (Patreon)

This is a short scene from volume 3, and there will most likely be more to come as I progress through the book. Look forward to them!

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A tentacle whips out from my back and grabs him by his ankle and picks him up. Dangling him in front of me, I tilt my head and lift an eyebrow exaggeratedly.

"You want to leave us already? What happened to buying my girl here?" I point at Hestia, who looks incredibly happy at being called mine. She hugs me from behind and rubs her face against my cheek. "What's your name?"

"What?" The man hanging upside down asks with a shaky voice. He most likely didn't expect that I would make small-talk after killing almost fifty people without even blinking.

"That's a strange name. But I'm not one to judge." Shrugging, I nudge his cheek and then continue the questioning with a warm smile. "What country is this?"

"W-what?" He stutters, completely terrified by the fact that the monster holding his life in its grasp seems to be unhinged.

"That doesn't sound like the name of a country to me. Do they speak Imperian there?" I keep my voice level, but my smile disappears.

"... what?" His terror slowly makes way for confusion when he doesn't get the direction my line of questioning is going.

"Imperian, do you speak it?" Emphasizing my growing lack of patience by shaking him up and down by the tentacle, I ask him in annoyance.

"Y-yes!" He quickly replies, understanding that making me angry is the last thing he would want.

"Then tell me what country this is." I ask him again.

"What...?" He blinks in confusion, and that does it for me. Three more tentacles grow from my back, grab his limbs, and rip him in four. I throw his remains into different corners of the room instead of eating them as I did to the others before. I don't want to be infected by his stupidity.