“Y-You’re Wolfman...! I’d heard your name before, but I never expected that your true form would be a werewolf! What a masterful disguise...!” Résistance muttered, cold sweat dripping down her face!
Please, for the love of all that is holy, IT WAS HIS NAME!! SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!
“Long time no see, Résistance! I’ve heard about you from the Demon Lord! You’re neutral now, done with the Four Masters?”
“That’s right!” she admitted!
“Hmph! But I don’t care what you say! You’re just a traitor!” Wolfman pulled his shoulders back, stretching out his impressive chest!Rrrrrrriippppppp!!
His shirt ripped itself apart, revealing an impossibly muscular torso completely covered in brown fur! His pectorals and abdominal muscles were inhumanly jacked!! The amount of muscle mass that could be seen under the fur was unbelievable!
“Let’s begin!!!” Wolfman roared! He instantly lunged at Résistance, his picturesque mane flowing in the wind!
“Wh-What the—!?”
Wolfman’s fist rocketed at Résistance! She immediately drew her sword and braced it with both hands, blocking the werewolf’s punch with the blade! But such a delicate block couldn’t stop the full force of Wolfman’s blow!
“Rrrragh!” Even though he didn’t hit Résistance directly, Wolfman’s overwhelming strength was still powerful enough to send her flying!
“Agh!” She managed to adjust her position in mid-air and landed on her feet, but a flash of pain crossed her face! “Grr, this isn’t going to be easy...”
Werewolves were monsters with incomparably stronger muscles than humans! Résistance’s advantage of having a sword couldn’t do too much to make up for that!
“Hmph! Not too bad, Résistance, but I’ll play with you later! First I have to take care of him!” Wolfman grabbed the sleeping Wataru by his ankle!!! “I’ll just swallow him whole!” He opened his jaws wide and swallowed the still-sleeping Wataru whole without even chewing!!
“N-No! Wataru!” Aria fell to her knees, devastated!
What a turn of events! Wataru was so easily devoured without even a fight! What a shocking tragedy to have befallen our hero in the midst of his quest to defeat the Demon Lord! Dear Readers, I know your hot-blooded tears are soaking into these pages or splashing on your screens right now!!! But now that our protagonist has been eaten, there is no way to continue this novel! The story ends here!
Farewell, Wataru!!!!!
On a separate note, there was a fairytale in Wataru’s world called Little Red Riding Hood. While there were some variations in the telling depending on the region, here’s the gist:
One day, a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood is heading through the forest to her grandmother’s house on an errand. However, her grandmother had already been eaten by an evil wolf. Having disguised himself as the grandmother, the evil wolf tricks and eats Little Red Riding Hood, too. Then, the wolf falls asleep with a full stomach. A hunter happens to come across the scene, and cuts open the wolf’s stomach to rescue them. Happily ever after.
Now, allow me to present a hypothesis. What if Little Red Riding Hood’s hobby wasn’t anything cutesy like playing with flowers or dolls, but sumo wrestling? What if Little Red Riding Hood’s grip strength was nowhere near 10 or 20 pounds, but an unbelievable 500? What if Little Red Riding Hood was no little girl, but a Hot-blooded Fighting Teen? ...The result is self-evident. Any wolf who let this Little Red Riding Hood into his stomach would regret the day he was born.
“W-Wataru...” Aria groveled in devastation!
“Grahahahaha! Wataru is no more!” Wolfman declared gleefully!
“Grr...!” Résistance glared at Wolfman as she readied her sword!
They were positively doomed! No one was going to save them now!
“Now, Résistance... You’re next...!” Wolfman growled ominously, and grinned as if to show off his sharp fangs! His beastly eyes stared into Résistance’s!!
“Hmph! I’d like to see you try! I won’t go down so easily, Wolfman!” Résistance tightened her grip on her sword, and raised it above her head! She bravely leapt at Wolfman!
“Rahahahahaha, bring it on!” Wolfman squatted down, and held out his right hand!
“Aaaaahhhh!” Résistance swung her sword down straight at the werewolf’s face! But Wolfman quickly swung his arm, deflecting the sword with his sharp claws!
Clllllllankkkkkkkk!!!!!
Sparks flew, and the sound of scraping metal echoed through the wasteland!
“I’m not done!” Résistance persistently readied for her next attack! She lunged forward at Wolfman once more!
“Nice try!” With a cocky grin, Wolfman used his extraordinary leg muscles to leap high above her!
Résistance’s attack missed! Her sword cut through nothing but empty space! “Grr!”
“Playtime’s over!” Wolfman used the downward momentum of his fall to put extra force behind a kick aimed at Résistance!
“Watch out, Résistance!” Aria cried!
“Urm!” Résistance jumped to the side, just in time to dodge Wolfman’s kick!
“Huh, you’re a fast one!! But how long can you keep it up!?” Wolfman taunted, still maintaining his victorious expression.
Résistance frowned as she raised her sword once more! Beads of sweat adorned her face! It was clear to see that her endurance was close to spent! Still, she showed no sign of giving up! “No... I’m not done yet!!” she shouted, and charged the werewolf! “Rrragghhh!!!” She closed the distance between them in the blink of an eye, and went to kick the werewolf in his side!
Wolfman anticipated the attack, however, and swiftly reached out with both arms!
Catchhhhhhh!!!
Wolfman spectacularly caught Résistance’s kick in his hands!!!
“I got you now...!”
“Grr!!”
He yanked Résistance around by her leg and violently tossed her entire body into the air with the ease of an Olympic hammer thrower! Even though Résistance was a small woman, she was still wearing heavy armor! This only served to reestablish how much strength Wolfman packed in those fur-covered muscles!!
Résistance crashed into the ground 10 meters away! “Rrragghhh!!”
Dust erupted into a cloud as a sharp pain wracked her body! Résistance could not even make a sound in her agony! Her eyes widened, and she struggled to climb to her feet, but to no avail!
Having watched the fight go down, Aria could only mutter “R-Résistance...!” Of course, she wanted to run to Résistance as soon as she could to heal her with magic! But that would have been suicide, with Wolfman standing between the two of them!!
“Grahahaha... You’re journey ends here...!”
They were in absolute, mortal danger! Was Wolfman about to devour Aria and Résistance, too!?
“Rrh!!!!!” A shout was heard coming from Wolfman’s stomach!!!
Gsh!
A section of Wolfman’s stomach suddenly bulged outwards, then snapped back with a heavy vibration!