The Player is a Part-Timer

Chapter 1: Just an Everyday Café in an Everyday Town

Being a former human herself, she suspected this much. Though it was some time she became like this, her memories being a human slowly started to fade.

'Huf! Huf! Huf!'

More and more, the creature closed on the target, wondering if it indeed worth or not eating this person at all... wondering, if it's worth the hassle to fight over this meal with the other stray devils who also tracked this person.

Every time this stray wanted to leap, the target changed direction, taking a public route, or turned around, making it impossible to hunt safely! Almost like... this person just messed with her, and the other hunters followed it around! It was almost like, this "human" knew she was followed and intentionally took routes just to annoy them!

Eliminating the prey in the open would be nothing more but foolishness! She knows very well whose territory she is invading — and as she suspected — her fellow kin was also aware of this fact, thus retracting to attack the prey without thinking.

If they would right away start a massacre in the open that would right away call the attention of the ruling faction of this place! And considering who owned this area, it would be their last foolish decision!

She needed power! Oh! She needed it so much!

But for her revenge to be fulfilled, she first, needed to hide, eat, and gather power. Only after that! She can fulfill her desire and take her revenge on those who made her like this against her will! First, the devils, then the fallen, then the angels! And after that... everyone else! Given a chance, she will rule over everything! Yes, this stray devil had plans, plans only waited to be fulfilled!

If she has to live like this, everyone will live like this!

Hopefully, the tender meat of this person will do... for a while at least...

One from the many little first steps, which will lead to her ascension!

"So delicious...!"

Whispering, even sniffing in the air, the stray devil felt the delicious aroma emitted by the jogging person!

So enticing "her" meal looked! So healthy, almost unnatural so compared to a human, instinctually drew to follow this prey. Yes, she suspected why the other stray devils also started to follow this person around. Her scent draws them closer! Like an aphrodisiac! Enticing every hungry devil to follow!

Though the target was somewhat scrawny, the stray female was sure, the quality of the meat will be satisfactory. And after all, this stray always preferred tender, healthy meat, since she first tasted it, she rather ate that than fat meat, sick meat.

"I can't wait..." her rows and rows of sharp fangs revealed, contorting the previous beautiful face of a girl into a grotesque visage of a monster. Her tone deeper, almost like a monster. Willing to fight over this prey with others.

More and more as she reached closer, something drew out her stray, wild side, putting her into a strange, wild frenzy! Casuistic, trembling to get her prey! Evermore willing to act irrational, like a wild beast instead of a thinking person. Throwing her reason away completely!

"Almost!"

"Her" mouth still watered, endlessly releasing her saliva, awaiting the best moment to throw "herself" after "her" target.

"..."

Tracking the human since hours, she felt it was time, because the prey suddenly stopped, looking around. Whispering something, something for first incomprehensible, but even more infuriating!

"Ah! I have enough of this game! You, trash, around, sod off, or you will die! Warn you only once..."

For normal humans, it was a sentence that was impossible to perceive, but for her, and anyone with inhuman perception and hearing, they correctly heard this message. Enraging even more by this daring statement.