The Child Hunter Little Red Riding Hood (3)
In the forest, when I spotted a wolf, what should I do first?
What else was I supposed to do?
This wasn't even in the textbook!
‘But people don't survive the world using only the knowledge they've acquired from textbooks.’
Now was the time to shine with my bright experiences.
Choosing a record-breaking option that would make me the wolf with 3 wins out of 3 battles.
“Aaaah! Run!!”
Running.
Today, this command has never been wrong!
“Hey friend. Why are you running?”
“I hear that a lot. When a wolf appears, of course you run!”
“You're a wolf too.”
“Since I'm a wolf, I run! If I were an elephant, I would have run!”
Does a wolf's teeth give immunity? Claws?
No such thing.
If bitten, the skin tears, blood flows, and you get tetanus and die.
Or maybe some bacteria.
These guys who don't even brush their teeth (real dogs) probably have some weird bacteria.
Same species.
Physical contact between them.
With that condition, can the wolf that just became one today win?
Moreover, this wolf looks rugged and is definitely a fighting wolf.
“Don't follow! I don't want to die!”
“Friend, I didn't intend to kill you, but if you go there, you'll die to those humans from earlier.”
“Hic!”
The running legs stiffened in the air.
Even while running, the speed didn't stop, scraping the ground, but that wasn't important.
Wait. There was still that gun-toting little girl and the steroid-pumped grandmother!
If I ran recklessly to avoid the running wolf, that shotgun girl would welcome me with buckshot.
“Friend. You have no reason to run from me. I'm in the same situation as you.”
“Same situation?”
The rugged brown wolf leisurely slowed down and overtook me.
“I also entered this forest but can't leave because of those humans. That little girl and the big man.”
“I haven't seen a man. What I saw was only Little Red Riding Hood and the red-hooded grandmother.”
“What? That was a woman?”
The brown wolf's eyes widened.
By the way, if I hadn't heard the voice, I would have thought it was a long-haired uncle. The muscles on the body could be, but muscles on the face too.
“I... I thought it was like that... I should have secretly asked...”
“What?”
“I should have asked. An old grandmother? You've already helped me, friend. Even though you look sturdy on the outside, if you're old, your insides are probably rotten.”
“Hmm... So the grandmother is rotten?”
Of course, as people age, strength decreases...
“Red Qi! Hup! Redstone!”
Kuakwang!
“No way.”
“No, friend. Old people usually try to look young...”
“No.”
That's not it.
Even old people can maintain youthful physical abilities if they manage well.
And that wasn't the issue. People shooting energy from their hands?
I intuitively saw a tunnel being dug through a pile of bushes, how could that be sent as just an old grandmother.
“Hey friend, why are you so worried? There are two wolves here. While I tear off the old man's arm, you just bite off the little girl's neck holding the weapon.”
“Sorry, but I'm out. After all, I'm a pacifist. People probably don't want to eat anyway.”
“You don't want to eat people...?”
I was human until yesterday. How could I eat humans like that.
Of course, I know wolves are carnivores.
Now I'm not human, and I won't deny the natural law that to survive, you have to eat something. Humans eat animals too.
But even so, can I say 'Now that I'm a wolf, I have to eat humans!' ? Then I wouldn't have been human.
But naturally, this brown wolf didn't like my words.
“Hey friend. What kind of nonsense is that. You're a wolf. Wolves are animals that eat humans. It's ridiculous for a big, strong wolf like you not to eat humans.”
“It's not like there's a law that says...”
“No. That's the law in this Faelim.”
“Churp”
The brown wolf drooled and smacked his lips. Ugh, why is this guy like this?
“Putting a human arm in your mouth and biting with wolf strength... crunch! It's simpler than crushing chicken bones... What about the screams? No ballad singer or king's band can produce a more beautiful sound than the painful human screams.”
“Swoosh”
My front paw moved back.
Even without a mirror, I know my eyes narrowed while looking at that brown guy.
“The voices of children calling their dead mothers... Hey friend, why are you doing that?”
“...Why else?”
“I don't know. Friend, you don't need to get angry.”
Accepting that wolves eat humans is fine.
That's the natural law and the wolf's survival method.
It felt repulsive but I could accept it.
But this is different.
“The parenting education that gives a gun to a child and actively makes them kill wolves has sufficient justification. It was because of wolves like you.”
“Really weird, friend. What's wrong with wolves eating humans?”
Wolves eating humans is natural law.
But this brown demon isn't looking at humans as food.
‘They see them as toys.’
If this is the wolf's nature, with its mouth wide open and giggling, then maybe we should consider extinction.
Feeling bad. Is it because I became a wolf?
Even though it's a furred canine animal, the emotional expression is clearer than humans.
“Because of bad animals like you, the average wolf level has decreased? Or are all wolves in this world like you? If it's the latter, then... it's over.”
Anyway, the task I have to do is the same.
I'm a pacifist who hates fighting. Now I'm the same wolf.
But I couldn't just send this brown guy away.
Not just for the sadism of harassing humans, but something more essential.
I can't explain well, but I feel it's twisted.
“...Hey friend. Your words are weird. Like you're not a wolf.”
“Smart. Yeah. I was originally human. Name is Sihoo.”
Even if you don't believe it, don't think realistically. After all, I'm talking to a wolf.
Honestly, I'm hoping.
If turning humans into wolves in a fantasy world is common, then the opposite should be possible too?
So if this wolf doesn't take it seriously.
At least if the claim that humans can become wolves isn't nonsense. Then I might be able to turn back into a human?
“What? Is that it?”
The wolf's reaction was.
“Hey friend. You should have told me earlier.”
“Eh... eh?”
“I wasted time for nothing...”
The disgusting smile got a bit thicker. Maybe a lot.
“Hey human friend. You were human but have a huge build?”
“Is that so?”
Creep.
The brown wolf moved sideways.
Creep
I moved my feet to the opposite side accordingly.
“I don't know well. I just became a wolf not long ago.”
“Not huge. From earlier, I was looking up, my neck might have popped. Surely in human days you had such a big, sturdy build?”
“No. There were more days of hunger.”
“No. Still, you weren't hungrier than me.”
Spinning.
While continuing the conversation, we drew a circle.
Build? Definitely.
Originally I was skinnier than that wolf, but now my strides are much larger. If I walk at the same pace, I can't maintain distance and will quickly reach.
“Thinking that strength and big size are enough. So I asked the witch to make me a stupidly huge wolf...”
“...Witch? What are you talking about...”
“Don't play dumb... You also heard the witch's words, right? Hahaha... You really tricked me...”
“I hate guys like you who are plump and big.”
Our circle drawing with a perfect parallel line.
The brown wolf jumped sideways without any hesitation.
Can a dog do such movements?
“U, uwack!”
I thought it might suddenly pounce, and even though I was prepared, the speed was too fast to respond properly.
Disappearing from my sight with a light leap without even a footstep sound.
“Krrroong!”
“Uwaak!”
Impact felt from the side?
It wasn't just bumping with the body! This sharp sensation.
“This guy bit me after all! Aaaah! Let go!”
“Krring! Krrrr...”
“Aaaah! Sorry! I was just showing off! Actually, I'm scared of dogs!”
I remember biting a neighbor's dog when I was little!
While shaking my leg to pull it off, it didn't let go. It was too painful, so I slammed it against the wall. After that, the dog wouldn't come near.
“Aaaah! Let go! Let go!”
“Krrroo...”
“Uwa! This kid doesn't let go even while running!”
Even though I can't see it, it's running at full speed and still following and biting!
Moreover, this guy is hard to run while pulling. What to do? Is it going to fall off too?
‘Aaaah... I didn't want to die like this...!’
I should have just ignored and run! Why did I get involved in a fight!
I'm always like this. Even though I can't fight and have a bad head and no money, why do I get involved.
After all, if I run, this wolf would have been shot by those two and died!
‘...Is that really the case?’
But.
This wolf is cunning and evil.
It seems like a demon who came down to harass humans.
It's twisted to such an extent.
It's targeting such a child. Is that really okay?
“Uuu... Aaaah!!”
“Krruk...”
There's no way to teach at school how to shake off a dog. It's useless.
At times like this, the experience I learned with my body shines.
The wolf that I couldn't tear off just by running. But if biting, I wouldn't see ahead.
That I was running to a place with a thick-looking tree!
Kaboom!
I was already at max acceleration, running at full power, and the wolf's biting part hit the tree.
From the tree, an unusual sound. And to us too.
“Aaaah!!”
“Keh...! Eh... eeeek...!”
“What are you saying! Let go of your mouth and speak!”
This was the calculation that the wolf would become a soft cushion and I would be okay. It was a miscalculation!
The collision itself was okay.
This wolf kid! Still hasn't let go of its teeth!
‘No... opposite! When I hit the tree, it went deeper!’
It was like hammering a nail. Thanks to that, the feeling of pain and the feeling that it went deeper than before.
But even so. Would anyone normally think to bite more in that situation? Or is it because I'm dumb?
“Kihik... kihereh!”
“Hiiik...”
No, this guy definitely knew. Otherwise, even if I hammered, it wouldn't have stuck so cleanly.
Knowing that it would shock the jaw, head, and take it to kill me, it accepted it!
‘I went crazy... I really went crazy...’
Why did I try to fight with a guy like this....
Why do I have to go through this? I was just...
‘Maybe I should watch until that kid goes home.’
Stupid.
No strength.
Just a coward who became a wolf in appearance.
Why me, right now.
Who was trying to shoot at me.
A real fantasy resident with some special power.
Hugging the grandmother, looking gloomy like a child.
The rugged grandmother gently hugged it.
Was I thinking of that scene?
“...The fairy tale version of Little Red Riding Hood, the most famous is the hunter splitting the wolf's belly to save the girl and grandmother.”
“?”
“In this era, a kid. Fairy tales where children die are censored.”
Legs trembling, heart pounding.
Because I meddled in someone else's business without knowing the subject. That's why I got killed.
It doesn't fix even after dying once. Really rotten mind.
Re-adjusted my posture.
This time, instead of the head, the belly would be crushed and burst.
“Do you have the guts to hold on? I do too. Until before death, I held on.
Let go of the muzzle. If you don't want to die.”
Let's reenact the fairy tale.
I don't know whose belly will tear.