I Became a Murderer in the Academy.

Chapter 48

The next morning dawned.

The hunger that had been slowly tightening around me since about two days ago began to intensify.

It was natural. I really hadn’t eaten anything since falling into this world.

It was impressive that I had endured until now. This body seemed to have a longer hunger cycle than other people.

It was a body that could go without eating for a few days without any problems. By my estimation, once every three days.

No, it seemed like I could eat even less than that.

The problem was that I didn’t know what kind of food would satisfy my hunger. Ordinary food didn’t agree with my body.

At first, I thought all the foods in this world tasted disgusting, but seeing Riana eating so deliciously, that didn’t seem to be the case.

Even the appearance looked fine.

Then, with high probability, the problem wasn’t the food but my constitution.

I approached Riana, who was having breakfast.

I felt like I would start having problems with daily life if I didn’t eat soon.

Even though I knew I couldn’t eat, I tried to at least smell it. It seemed to have a strangely sweet scent.

“Hm? Iria, are you hungry? I bought two, thinking you might be hungry, so have one.”

What she gave me was a hard-looking bread.

Of course, it didn’t look delicious. Being the cheapest option, it probably wasn’t very tasty even disregarding my constitution.@@@@

But there was a sweet smell coming from the bread. Maybe I could eat it.

“......”

I received the hard bread with both hands. As I brought it closer, I felt my appetite drop.

Before I even put the bread in my mouth, my body had a rejection reaction. As I had somewhat expected, this bread wasn’t food I could eat either.

Then where did that sweet scent that brushed my nose come from? I looked around for a moment.

And not long after, I was able to find what seemed to be the source.

“Riana, you’re hurt.”

“Hm? Oh, this? I fell while being chased by a guard earlier. It’s just a little scratch, so it’s fine.”

Red blood was flowing from Riana’s arm.

For some reason, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. My gaze was captured by the small amount of blood flowing from the wound.

I swallowed the saliva pooled in my mouth. I seemed to have been out of it for a while.

“Um... Iria?”

“Yes, yes?”

“Are you really okay? Your eyes looked a bit scary just now.”

“No, that’s not... it’s......”

I hurriedly turned my head away.

The appetite that had been fine in front of human food seemed to boil at the sight of blood.

It was probably the source of the sweet scent. I wanted to put it in my mouth. Now that I looked, Riana’s skin also looked soft, and the thought of biting it once with my teeth crossed my mind.

My teeth itched with the desire to immediately put that passing thought into action.

My vision was dizzy, and my heart was beating fast. My breathing was rapid.

“Iria?”

So, I stepped back and distanced myself from Riana.

I didn’t want to admit that I had felt hungry at the sight of her blood for a moment.

“I, I’m fine. I’ll go ahead first. See you in the evening.”

It must have been just my imagination.

I wasn’t a monster that got excited at the sight of blood.

“......”

But I couldn’t. Large men blocked my way as I tried to leave.

Then they grabbed me tightly so I couldn’t escape. My whole body was restrained, and I couldn’t move.

“Bring the axe.”

The man who had been watching the whole scene from the beginning said. He looked like the leader of the organization.

He took the axe handed to him by his subordinate and slowly approached.

My arm was held by the men, fixed in place.

“Ugh, ungh......”

With my whole body pressed down by my hands, my chin was lifted. Thus, I made eye contact with the sharp-looking man.

“I hate bitches like you the most in this world. We let you win a few times, and you come back here not knowing your place? Did I look that easy to you?”

The sharp axe blade traced my neck.

It was clear killing intent. I knew from seeing what had happened to those caught in the gambling den before.

That’s why I was more scared. Because I knew what the next scene would be like.

“You know what happens when you cheat here, right?”

My hand would be cut off. Brutally chopped off with an axe.

My body trembled with the extreme fear that was coming over me. I resisted with all my might, but I still couldn’t escape from the enormous weight pressing down on me.

Several men, much bigger than me, were holding me down.

They were holding me loosely now, but they were probably controlling their strength.

Still, I didn’t want my wrist to be cut off, so I resisted more violently.

“Ugh, how can a woman be this strong? Help me hold her down!”

“The legs, grab her legs first!”

They were big but not as strong as I had thought.

I could barely shake them off, but their expressions looked strained.

Maybe Iria’s body that I had possessed was stronger than it looked.

“Let me go!”

Thinking I needed to escape before more people came, I bit the arm of the man holding me with my teeth.

It was a half-instinctive action.

“Ugh! You bitch-!”

Iria’s tooth structure was slightly different from that of other people. Her canine teeth were sharply protruding, so they easily pierced human skin.

The strength holding me loosened as I bit down with all my might. I tried to escape from the gambling den right away, but I couldn’t because my vision was dizzy.

My heart was beating faster than ever, and my eyes were hot.

If someone else were looking at me now, light would be coming from my eyes. Because the light slightly leaking from my eyes was reflecting off objects.

Red eyes flickered.

The man whose arm I had bitten swung an axe at me.

It was an attack filled with heavy killing intent.

Normally, I would have ducked my head immediately in terror, but it was different now.

The axe flying towards me looked so slow. It was coming slowly, like in slow motion.

I could have dodged, but I caught it midway.

I thought I could catch such a slowly flying axe with my hand.

I grabbed it and then broke it.

It wasn’t intentional, but it just broke when I gripped it tightly.

“......I told you to let go.”

Was it because I had eaten a small amount of blood?

I don’t think I was in my right mind today.