Chapter 10: Hunting Fish as a Fish, is Still Fishing.

*Celia’s POV*

Ignoring the crazy scenario of having those higher beings help me out, the hunt did not go as planned. Unlike cells, fish somewhat had actual intelligence. As such, whenever I came close to one, they would just swim away quickly.

Which is funny, considering that they were all bigger than me. Scared of a little fishy, huh? What funny fish. Those baby fishies seems to lack intelligence, considering how easy it was for me to eat them.

Though, since I do not get Exp from the small ones, besides filling up my stomach, there is no reason for me to eat them at the moment. They don’t taste good either…

Since I had nothing better to do, I decided to look around my new environment. Well, it was still the same place, just now I can actually see it at a world scale that I can comprehend. As for this place, I seem to be swimming around in a decent sized pond.

I didn’t see any dangerous fish either. So this place was pretty safe for me. Assuming that I don’t slip up, and get swallowed whole by a bigger fish, that is. By safe, I mean I don’t see any fucked up looking fantasy fish.

Mostly just fish that you would see in a fantasy game, or something along those lines. Unlike with the cells, with all of the fish around me, I was now fully aware that this was a fantasy world.

Actually, rather than just a pond, I think this place is a farm for fish. The fish that I swam by, didn’t seem to care about eating me. Even if I was smaller than them.

Ah! I just saw what looked to be fish food get thrown into the pond. I was right! Which explains why the fish in this place are too lazy to hunt. They get free food, after all.

Hahahaha! Stupid lazy fish! Just you wait, in time, I will absolutely ruin this small farm completely, and without any remorseful from me doing so!

But that begs the question, I can’t get any Exp from the baby fish, and the bigger fish just swim away from me. How the heck can I get levels up in this situation?

System: “Suggestion, kill other beings within the pond who aren’t fish.” She said.

Ah, that’s right. There are tons of things within the pond for me to kill and eat. But, won’t I also not get experience from eating them?

System: “Although there are many types of fish within this pond, each are related to each other. Since you already have the Kin Eater Title, you cannot get Exp from them at all.” She answered my unasked question.

Celia: “The heck!? That fucking sucks… Please tell me that I don’t have to evolve more than one more time to get a human form…” I say with a sigh.

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Wow… she just straight up didn’t answer me at all. Fine… I’ll just suffer in silence. I would still like to explore this world. Even though it is my original one, I am sure that it is now completely different.

Just another reason for me to get a human form as soon as I can. With that, I swam up to some random bottom of the pond dwelling creatures, and started eating some of them.

*Much Eating of “Seafood” Later.*

I do not wish to describe what kind of creatures that I had to kill. I mean, I didn’t bother to eat them, since I still have other fish that I can eat. But having to put my mouth on them to bite and kill them, was not fun at all…

Even with just having to bite them, the taste was horrible. And I will never forget this for as long as I live… As for the Exp that I got from them, after eating pretty much every creature in the pond, besides the fish, I had gotten to level 9.

I barely had any more levels to get before I could evolve, but I had killed everything, so this was going to be a problem. I doubt that I could just beg the System to spawn more of them for me once again…

If only I could eat the other fish and get Exp from them… Oh, right. I guess that I should show you my Status by now. It has changed somewhat.

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:Status:

Name: Celia.

Race: Red Tailed Fish. (Adult.)

HP: 185/185.

AGI: 15.

STR: 18.

DEX: 12.

INT: 42.

Hunger: 115/115.

True Level: 29.

Race Level: 9/12.

Current EXP: 85/143.

Skills: Inspect: Level: 3.

Titles: Kin Eater.

Self Improvement Points: 0.

Upgrades Available: None.

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I had already spent all of my SIP’s and gained a decent boost to my Stats. You might have noticed that my race is now considered me to be an adult of my species. Though it has only been a few hours, I somehow have grown by a huge amount.

Perhaps the owner of this farm is putting something in the water? No. The small baby fishes that I didn’t eat, are still babies. So it has to be something to due with me being special. I feel like a narcissist after saying that…

Needing more Exp, I went up to the surface of the pond. Around the pond, were many different creatures that I could eat. Assuming that I can actually catch them…

There were insect like creatures flying around the pond, but I was not too keen on attempting to kill them. Doing so would most likely end up with me having to eat them, since they’re so small.

I might have been fine with eating cells, but I draw the line at eating bugs. I would prefer starving over eating any insects. Maybe because they look nothing like the insects from when I lived my first life, but they look absolutely disgusting.

Though, I do hope that I won’t run into any spiders in this world. I have always hated spiders with a burning passion. If spider like creatures still exist in this world, I will declare that all of existence is out to spite me…

On a lily pad, was a chunky frog, and or toad. Peeking up from the water at it, I could probably kill it. As I was thinking about this, the frog unleashed its tongue, which wrapped around me.

Even though it was just a goddamn frog, the fucker was still able to pull me out of the water. Like I got caught up in its trap, it jumped to the edge of the pond, and it started to drag me out of the water.

This was actually extremely terrifying for me… I was completely stuck in this thing’s tongue, and I had no way to actually break free at all. On the bank of the pond, were many other frogs waiting for me. Thinking that this was the end once more, I closed my eyes.

With my eyes closed, and my death slowly inching closer to me, I thought about how stupid of a way to die this is. Hello, my name is Celia. On my second and last chance at life, I died to some fucking frogs eating me…

Though I am an adult of my species, these frogs are still far bigger than me, and could easily swallow me whole without much of an effort…

Oh holy higher beings who once fucked me over, if you’re watching me right now, please for the love of all that is holy, save my fish butt!