Chapter 9
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Any normal human, staring directly into that kind of incomprehensible cosmic horror, would have had their sanity shatter like thin glass.
However, I did not.
Perhaps it was due to the emotional hollowing-out I had already gone through.
Maybe it was the mutations numbing something inside me, or some twisted instinct protecting me.
My mind was oddly clear at that moment.
Crystal clear.
It wanted to eat me. Not my flesh, but my entire being.
Its countless eyes twinkle with greed and hunger. It was absorbing my fear, my despair, and my memories.
I felt slowly stripped of them.
The joy of riding a bicycle for the first time. The excitement of getting into college. The pain of my first breakup…
All those memories were slowly becoming a blur to me, at the same time turning into its nourishment.
No.
I was not going to become an empty shell.
In despair, my mind turned quickly.
I knew it feasted on emotions. Fear was an appetizer, while love was its main course. So, what about hatred?
What about those insane, distorted, destructive hateful thoughts?
Dr. Chenowith said that it fed on bioelectric signals. What if I somehow 'poisoned' it?
I shut my eyes and stop resisting its feeding. On the contrary, I opened up my heart to it.
However, I was not giving it the gourmet menu that it wanted. I thought back about the most vile, disgusting, infuriating, and darkest moments of my life.
When I was berated by my boss without any reason. When I saw the news of people torturing kittens. All the injustice I experienced in that cut throat city for the past five years.
Also, the rage I felt for wanting to blast the creature into pieces.
I force fed it with all of my negative emotions.
"Have at it! You're hungry, right? I'll let you have it all!" I yelled inside.
I instantly heard a deafening roar. Not the song of joy, but a roar in pain.
The creature clearly had not tasted anything that 'spicy' before. The sea convulsed. Tentacles lashed wildly, splintering the ocean floor.
The link broke for a heartbeat. It was a brief moment, but it was enough for me to seize the opportunity.
Although my body had transformed a little, I still had a human brain. I knew where its weakness was.
In the center of that galaxy of eyes, something glowed. A massive core, shimmering with cold, blue light.
That was its brain. The true source of the signal.
I moved my legs, swimming like a fish, and headed straight for its core. The water pressure was about to crush me, but I did not care.
I still held the folding knife tightly in my hand.
The knife was nothing to it. It was barely like a toothpick to it.
However, I wasn't trying to kill it. I was just going to annoy it.
I was going to be the fish bone stuck in its throat.
"Come on, then! Let's destroy each other!"
A thin translucent membrane wrapped around its core. I raised my knife and drove it in with all my might.
The membrane broke, and a surge of blue fluid erupted, swirling in the water like spilled light.
I opened my mouth and bit down on the exposed core.
Since it wanted to eat me, I was going to have a taste of it as well!
Fishy. Bitter. Spicy.
It was a taste of nothing I had ever encountered before. It was as if I had swallowed a thousand wronged spirits.
A surge of energy coursed through my body. My body started to inflate and my veins were about to explode.
The God of the Seas got mad. It threw all of its tentacles at me, but I was biting hard on the core, not letting go.
My mind flickered between annihilation and something monstrous.
Until finally, only one thought remained.
'You want to take me on? Dream on. I'm going to devour you instead!'
