In the marsh of a forest, two adventurers are surrounded by slow and weak zombies outside a small cave. A seemingly experienced, lightly armored adventurer who has blonde, well-kept hair and slanted eyes, slashes his well-refined sword through the zombies with confidence and skill. The other adventurer, a novice female adventurer with amber-colored hair and newly-worn leather armor is overly cautious of her surroundings and is too scared to defeat the zombies using her flimsy dagger, shaking in her leather boots and yelped every time a zombie get near enough.

"Hahaha! Farming these zombies is too easy!" a lightly armored adventurer flaunts proudly as he butchers a weak zombie. "Don't you think so, Mel?"

"Clyde, even though they're zombies you really should be careful... e- eek!" a cloaked adventurer said so worryingly as she watched her distance from the zombies.

"Are you kidding me? The zombies around this cave are harmless! What will they even do, flail around like a drunk idiot?"

The lightly armored adventurer then switches to another zombie that's trying to attack him, but he quickly beheads it with his sword, making the headless zombie tumble down to the muddy ground.

"But..."

"Hush hush. I get it that you're still a newbie adventurer, but you really shouldn't be afraid of these low-ranking monsters, HA!" The guy then delivers a flashy yet unnecessary finishing blow to the last zombie.

"Yes, but..."

"Phew~! That wasn't even a warmup!" The guy then flicks his sword, ridding the almost gooey black blood off his sword, and sheathes it in his scabbard. "I was awesome wasn't I?"

"Umm..."

"Come on, not even a thank you? this is your first-ever quest and I helped you with it."

He then closes in on the girl and coldly gazes into her eyes, scaring the girl and making her freeze in her place.

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"When a person helps you, don't you think they deserve some kind of... 'reward'..?" He whispers to her ear, then he looks at her with a malicious expression as he licks his bottom lip. "You're really cute, you know? Meekly coming into the guild like that, searching for a quest buddy. There are other ways to pay someone for their kindness, can you guess what it is?"

"..!" The girl jolts and took a step back, terrified, but she slipped on mud and fell on her butt, she tries to get up and run away but her body is trembling too much for her to even stand up.

"Come here!" He forcibly grabs her wrist, she tries to resist but the guy's strength overpowers her.

"N- no... someone, Help!" she tried hard to scream for help, but the shock made her voice numb.

"Khahahaha! Are you stupid? we're so far away from the Village! Nobody will come to help you!" He mocks the girl as he drags her to the cave, then he threw her to the cave's wall.

The guy then forcibly gets on top of her and grab her wrists, making her unable to fight back.

"No! HELP!"

"Hehehe, I'm going to have fun with you alright!"

Not paying attention to his surroundings, a zombie is sitting in a dark corner of the cave with its lazy eyes wide open, the zombie then slowly gets up. The girl notices it and gets even more terrified.

"C- Clyde! There's a zombie behind you!"

"Nice trick, but it's useless!"

The zombie shambles towards them slowly and stealthily then it charges a powerful bite into the male adventurer's vulnerable neck, biting it so hard the blood bloodies the girl's face and splattered all over the ground.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The male adventurer released a blood-curdling scream, the zombie put his weight onto the male adventurer's back and made him fall to his side.

"C- Clyde!" The girl watches in horror as she clumsily gets up and is too afraid to pull out her flimsy dagger.

"H- Help me! Ple- AAAAAAGH!" He releases more screams as the zombie gnaws on his neck relentlessly, he tries to fight back but the pain weakens him.

"I..!" The girl then ran away, completely abandoning him.

"Y- You... bitch..." The male adventurer weakens as his neck is now fully exposed and the zombie continues to eat him.

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Meat... delicious meat... more... I... huh..?

Regaining consciousness, I looked at what I was eating and what I saw was a dead man with his neck chewed out and his shoulder bones exposed right in front of me. I look at my hands which are dyed in red with pieces of meat and drool on them.

"Gh- Haa.. aaa..!" I jolted back in shock and hit a wall behind me. I tried to scream, but it was only a weak moan as if my throat was incapable of speech.

W- What?! Why am I- Why am I eating a man?! What am I doing?! Is this a dream?!

I looked at my surroundings and it seemed to be a small and empty cave apart from the dead, chewed body.

Where... is this..? what is this place? More importantly... why can't I remember who I am..?