Forgotten, but not broken

Chapter 4

Wait.

I have a brilliant but very horrific and disturbing idea...

What if... What if I use the corpse as a way to pay Rumia, or any youkai really, I encounter to convince them not to eat me but to eat the corpse instead?

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Hold on, that aint right.

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But I like the thinking behind it! She is dead anyways! However, she can still be of use to save a life! I truly am crazy to think that, but I do not care anymore! Kill or be killed! Eat or be eaten!! That's what it's all about here, no!? Hahaha...HahAhAHa...HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

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Agh! Snap out of it! What the hell is wrong with me!?

Alright, alright... I will take the dead body with me and use it for me to be sparred if the need arrives. This will hurt my moral obligation as a human being but does it truly matter in a case of survival? No, I do not think so. Maybe in your world! ... I gotta stop talking to myself...

I drag the corpse with me in the direction I was heading for... The corpse wasn't particularly heavy, so even if I did still feel some pain from last night and still have some broken bones, I should be fine if I do not make any sudden movements.

After I fill my stomach I think I should really hurry to the human village and locate a doctor for myself, before the situation worsens with these bones of mine.

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AH! The lake! It seems today is my lucky day!...for now... I end up at the lake, at last. The whole time while I was walking, I was resisting the urge to talk to the dead woman I was dragging with me. I have no idea why I wanted to spill the beans of what I had to go through yesterday to a corpse. I guess, I was either bored or somehow tried to normalize what I was doing, yet I think I would have done quite the opposite and only make it worse for myself. If I had started talking, I might of have even caught some unwanted attention which I very much wouldn't appreciate.

But here I am! The... wow, quite misty that lake is... isn't it? Ignoring that, I dropped the corpse beside me and went ahead to collected some water into my hands to drink from.

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Egh, I can feel the taste of fish in the water! But I think it did the job and made sure I don't dehydrate. As for fish... I don't see any. The mist is very much not helping. Thankfully, it isn't as dense as that red mist from yesterday when I finally got out of that Mansion. Since, if that were the case, I would have walked right into that lake without knowing.

I think I should make myself some kind of spear to obtain the fish once I spot one. I don't think I'll find a fishing rod anywhere close by, heh. That would have been too convenient. So, I head back to the for- !!!

„Hey! It's that guy I told you about!" Said the voice, which source is coming from the edges of the forest in front of me, belonging to a certain red eyed, blonde which I might of have tricked last night. Yup, that's Rumia in front of me, alright.

„Oh.... Why, hello again!" I try to play the innocent card.

„Shut up! You tricked me!" Said a not so happy Rumia. Who would of have thought one would be quite mad, after possibly standing still like a complete moron for several minutes, because they were tricked? Definitely not me! Nope! Nada!

„This time, I am going to eat you right away! No more tricks!" Said a Rumia which slowly started levitating upwards. ...Well, fuck.

„So this is the guy who tricked you?" Said a... oh, it's a fairy! A weird one...I think those are supposed to be icicles as wings. So, an ice fairy...?