novelraw Chapter 99 : Heretical Judgment
Chapter 99 : Heretical Judgment
Chapter 99: Heretical Judgment
His current height had already exceeded three meters.
The originally greasy, slack fat was rapidly hardening, turning into layer upon layer of thick, keratin-like heavy armor.
His teeth became sharp and interlocking, like a shark’s serrated fangs.
His fingernails grew longer and darker, easily slicing open fish bodies frozen hard as stone.
“Still need… still need more…”
Inokuchi Ichiro threw away the fish bones in his hands, his gaze greedily sweeping his surroundings.
“Not enough… need to eat more…”
He grabbed a tuna weighing dozens of kilograms and stuffed it into his mouth like French fries, chewing even the bones to碎 pieces before swallowing them.
……
At that moment, outside the cold storage.
Several security guards responsible for patrol were walking around with flashlights.
They were all wearing white vests of the Church of Myriad Spirits, with the church emblem pinned to their chests.
“Hey, did you hear something just now?”
“Seems like… chewing sounds?”
“Don’t scare me. In the middle of the night, who could be eating in a cold storage at minus twenty degrees?”
“Go take a look. The Cult Leader said no anomaly can be ignored.”
The leading guard mustered his courage and pushed open the heavy door of the cold storage.
The flashlight beam shone inside.
The next second.
Several guards froze in place.
The flashlights in their hands fell to the ground with a “clang”.
They saw the most horrifying scene of their lives.
Fish bones and碎 meat covered the floor.
And at the center of that blood-soaked scene, a mountain of flesh slowly turned around.
On that face smeared with grease and blood, a pair of eyes emitting a dim green glow stared straight at them.
“Meat…”
“Fresh… warm… meat…”
Inokuchi Ichiro let out a beast-like low roar.
In the eyes of the glutton, these living humans were no different from the tuna just now.
Even… more delicious.
Because they were warm.
“Mo… monster!!!”
The guards let out shrill screams.
But the next moment, they remembered their identities.
They were warriors of God!
“Heretic! This is heresy!”
The leading guard forcibly suppressed his fear, pulled out an electric baton from his waist, and shouted:
“For the True God! Purify him!”
“Kill him! The Cult Leader will bless us!”
Several guards were driven mad by religious fanaticism and charged forward, swinging batons and riot forks.
“For God!!!”
However.
Inokuchi Ichiro merely waved his hand casually.
Whoosh—!
That bloated, gigantic arm swept across with terrifying air pressure.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The three guards rushing in front didn’t even have time to scream.
As if struck by a high-speed truck, they were sent flying.
Their bodies twisted into grotesque angles in midair and slammed heavily into the walls, turning into several puddles of minced flesh.
The remaining two guards were terrified into numbness.
Th-this… what kind of power was this?
“Meat… don’t run…”
Inokuchi Ichiro stepped forward, the ground trembling with each of his strides.
He looked clumsy, yet his speed was astonishingly fast.
In the blink of an eye, he was already in front of the remaining guards.
A large hand reached out.
“Ah—!!!”
One guard was grabbed and lifted like a chick.
Then, under his companion’s horrified gaze.
Inokuchi Ichiro opened his enormous mouth—split all the way to the corners of his ears—and bit down on the guard’s head.
Crack!
Blood splattered.
The last guard completely collapsed.
He threw away his weapon and scrambled outward, crawling and rolling as he fled.
As he ran, he cried out hoarsely:
“Demon! A demon has appeared!”
“Quick, someone come! Report to the Cult Leader!”
“Tsukiji Market… there’s a demon eating people!!!”
……
Ten minutes later.
Alarm sirens echoed throughout Tsukiji Market.
Countless police cars, military vehicles, and armed vehicles bearing the emblem of the Church of Myriad Spirits converged from all directions.
Helicopter searchlights illuminated the docks like broad daylight.
“Target found!”
“Enormous size! Extremely dangerous!”
“Confirmed feeding behavior! He is eating people!”
“All units, attention! Free fire!”
Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat—!
Dense gunfire shattered the silence of the night.
Countless bullets shot toward the mountain of flesh gnawing on corpses.
However, when the bullets struck that thick keratin armor, they only sparked showers of sparks, completely unable to penetrate.
Inokuchi Ichiro raised his head, his mouth full of blood.
He looked at the flickering lights around him, at the densely packed crowds.
Not only was he not afraid.
He even drooled greedily.
“So much… so much meat…”
“The buffet… has begun.”
……
Prime Minister’s Official Residence.
Ma Yuanzhang was enjoying the massage of female believers when he suddenly received an emergency report.
“Tsukiji Market has discovered a demon?”
“Yes… My lord Cult Leader…”
The reporting official’s voice trembled.
“That monster… he is eating people… and… and the more he eats, the bigger he gets…”
“Conventional weapons are ineffective… our military… is being treated as his food…”
Ma Yuanzhang suddenly sat upright.
The more he ate, the stronger he became?
A Transcendent!
A flash of killing intent passed through Ma Yuanzhang’s eyes.
He immediately stood up and grabbed his scepter.
“Prepare the car!”
“I will personally purify this filth!”
This was an opportunity.
A perfect opportunity to once again display divine miracles before all of Neon and consolidate his divine status.
Moreover, killing this Transcendent would bring him one step closer to victory.
“God rides forth to war!”
Ma Yuanzhang strode out of the residence, followed by a mighty Holy Army.
“Tremble, heretic.”
“God’s judgment has descended.”
……
Tsukiji Market, flames soared into the sky.
Black smoke coiled like a giant dragon above Tokyo Bay, while the air was saturated with roasted flesh, engine oil, and a suffocating blood stench.
“Roar—!!!”
A deafening roar shattered the glass of all surrounding buildings.
Inokuchi Ichiro no longer resembled a human form.
He had transformed into a mobile fortress composed of fat, keratin layers, and countless mouths.
His skin displayed a metallic black-gray hue, reflecting cold, hard luster under the searchlights.
“Fire! Full salvo!”
The Self-Defense Forces commander roared, his voice carrying sobs.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The smoothbore cannons of several tanks roared simultaneously.
Armor-piercing shells, carrying destructive kinetic energy, precisely struck Inokuchi Ichiro’s bloated abdomen.
Clang!
Sparks flew everywhere.
Tungsten-core armor-piercing rounds capable of penetrating composite armor were actually硬ly deflected by that thick keratin layer!
They only left a few shallow white marks.
“Itches… so itchy…”
Inokuchi Ichiro lowered his head, looking at those tanks as annoying as flies.
He extended that bloated, crane-like giant hand.
He grabbed the barrel of a tank.
“Tin can…”
Creak—
The teeth-grinding sound of twisting metal rang out.
The fifty-ton tank was lifted like a toy and brought to his mouth.
Crunch!
Bone-chilling chewing sounds.
Steel, rubber, and the screaming crew inside were all chewed apart by that abyssal giant mouth filled with sharp teeth and swallowed.
“Is there more? I still want more…”
Inokuchi Ichiro greedily scanned his surroundings. “This isn’t even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth!”
Despair spread through the military.
This was a monster.
A Demon God that simply could not be defeated.