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Chapter 5 - The Flashback

[Host has received quest: (First Kill) Kill your Saviour] 

[Rewards: 100 Exp]

[Time limit: 72 hrs]

[Time Left: 71hrs 59mins 58secs]

[Punishment for Failure: Death] 

"WHAAAAAAT!!! Sheila screamed out.

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The archer thought there was an attack from another creature as he turned to face Sheila. The archer had turned away due to him unable to watch Sheila eating the Krasue.

"What happened?" He asked while already on guard. 

Sheila had a look of shock on her face if he had been ambushed by a predator, her eyes kept reading the quest on the system interface. She had never killed anyone in her past life maybe a few rats and cockroaches but they weren't humans. This time is a human she has to kill in cold blood.

The archer bent down and touched Sheila before she could come back to earth. Sheila flinched at his touch. 

"What happened? Are you alright?" The archer asked. 

"I'm alright, thanks" Sheila replied as she stood and cleaned her hands with her gown. "If he knew that he would die in a day or two and I'm his killer, he wouldn't have asked me that," Sheila thought.

"Where do you stay?" Sheila asked. "I ran away from home"

"I stay down the hill, also I don't stay alone. I have two brothers and a sister, she sure would love the company of her gender." The archer replied. 

"I see…." Sheila said. 

"I'm Richard by the way, what's yours?" Richard asked. 

".... I'm Rebekka" Sheila lied. 

"What a pretty name you got" Richard replied with a light smile before silence fell on their lips.

The trees whistled as the wind blew through, and the dry leaves and tiny rocks getting crushed could be heard as they moved. Richard had some kills on their way to their home. 

Sheila had a look at Richard properly from behind. Richard was a 6'1 foot tall man, with lemon yellow colored eyes, tanned skin due to living in the forest for a long time, His muscles were as thick as a tiger's. He has short black hair with a natural tint of gold. His bow is twenty inches long and eleven inches wide.

Of course, he wasn't human.

The walk was quite a long one. Sheila had thought of many ways to kill him but couldn't find a way. 

Time flew as they journeyed to Richard's home.

"Aren't we there yet?" Sheila asked. 

"You asked at the right time, Welcome to my home," Richard said with a broad smile. 

"Where? I don't see anything"

"I know," Richard said as he brought out five abnormal-looking stones and threw them into the air. 

Before the stones could land on the ground, they multiplied into ten and formed a circle spinning clockwise for a few seconds then the stones formed a golden portal.

"Let's go," Richard said giving Sheila his hand Sheila was amazed seeing the magical portal. She never thought in her life she would go through one, nevertheless seeing one.

She held Richard's hands as they both went through a magical portal. 

In the blink of an eye, they were on the other side of the portal.

In front of them stood a five-story building, built with red bricks and covered with Jersey Devil Wings, windows made with glass. 

"Where are we?" Sheila asked.

"We are still in the Veil Forest, the portal is just a way to reach home quicker"

"So, you are saying we could have gotten to your home, earlier than now."

"Hmm, yes" Richard replied with his hands akimbo and a light smile.

"You had to make me walk and follow you around while you hunt!" Sheila complained with a surprised expression on her face."

Richard chuckled, "I was just making sure, you weren't a shapeshifter or beast hiding in human flesh, I don't want to bring death to my family's doorstep."

Sheila calmed after hearing his reason or rather because of the 'death' word. "Oh, I'm sorry said."

"I'm sorry too for the stress" Richard replied. 

'Come on in, we don't live outside'

Richard led her to the guest room which was spacious for four people alone.

"Wow, this is large," Sheila said going into the room with Richard.

"Oh well, enjoy. I will be back later." He said and left with a smile on his lips. 

After Richard left, Sheila located the bathroom to take a bath. As she washed herself, Sheila remembered the system. "How do I call it out?" She asked herself. 

With her thought, the system responded.

[Name: Sheila Kinsad]

[Job: Man Eater]

[Blessings: God of Origin and End]

[Health: 100]

[Exp: 20/50]

[Strength: 8]

[Stamina: 7]

[Agility: 10]

[Intelligence: 5]

[Charm: 5]

[Attribute Points: 0]

[Skills and Abilities]

[Shop]

[Vault]

[Daily Quests]

[Quests]

"Impressive, just the same as in the webnovels," Sheila said as her eyes scrolled down the screen. "But why is my intelligence so low? I'm not that dumb." 

"Let me check out the skills and abilities." 

[Skills]

[Swordmanship - Lv 2]

[Knife Throwing - Lv 2]

[Scream - Lv 2]

[Abilities]

[Krasue Detachment - Lv 1]

[New Abilities would unlock as the Host completes Quests or kills enemies]

"Everything is so low, I need to level up. Next is the shop

[Shop - Locked]

"What, the shop is locked? What kind of system locks its shop, how am I gonna get weapons or healing potions?"

[Daily Quests - Will unlock after completing the first main quest]

"Shit"

[Main Quest]

[Kill your Saviour]

[Time limit: 72hrs]

[Time left: 62 hrs 34 mins 12 secs]

[Reward: 100 Exp]

[Failure: Death]

Sheila felt her stomach twirl as she saw the main quest once again. How was she going to kill someone who saved her life and gave her shelter, her heart throbbed. 

She had forgotten her promise.

[Host is scared, all stats are reduced by 2]

[If Host is scared of darkness, Host does not deserve System]

"What the heck is this? Sheila screamed out.

[Name: Sheila Kinsad]

[Job: Man Eater]

[Blessings: God of Origin and End]

[Health: 100]

[Exp: 20/50]

[Strength: 6]

[Stamina: 5]

[Agility: 8]

[Intelligence: 3]

[Charm: 3]

[Attribute Points: 0]

"All my stats have been reduced for real" Sheila's eyes widened. "What does the Job mean? Man Eater?" 

"Did I eat a human? When?" 

Like her memories of that night were waiting for her to ask those questions, they came like a flicker but she remembered that night fully. 

**seventeen to twenty hours ago**

"Get the whore!" a guard shouted as he barged into the old house Sheila was hiding in. 

In fear, Sheila fell and touched the purple glowing gem. As her hands touched the strange gem, Sheila couldn't feel her body as her being glowed a bright light. The air became unsettled.

"Get Seize her before she does something." The same guard ordered. 

As the guards brought out their swords and moved closer to Sheila to seize her. They saw something they wouldn't live to tell the tale, Her dark skin turned white not pale, her hair also turned white and became shorter, her left hand became a paw, the size of a full-grown lion's.

As the first guard moved and saw the demonic eyes and black horns, he tried to run but he couldn't. He was stuck and sweaty. Shadowy tendrils came out from the demon's mouth and moved swiftly into the guard's mouth, eyes, nose, and ears eating him from the inside. 

The guard was getting eaten up from the inside without a single blood dripping out, in two seconds the guard was all flesh and no bones. 

Some attacked in panic, before their swords were raised to attack, their heads were rolling on the ground. Those who ran and screamed, escaped not. Their body was massacred beyond recognition. 

After eating to her satisfaction, the demon teleported to an unknown forest. 

**End of Flashback**

"Haaaa" Sheila Screamed and collapsed from the bathroom I. 9as the flashback came, an unknown female figure rushed into the bathroom hearing the scream. 

[Hidden Quest Complete: Feel Fear]

[Rewards: Attributes Point - 10]

Sheila didn't see this.

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"Yo, bro you brought a pet home, where did you find her?" 

"Can I eat her, big bro?"

"WHAT?"

"Never mind Stark, you know he's always hungry, and stop drooling Stark."

"Is she your new girlfriend and why was she screaming like that?" 

Richard's siblings were throwing questions at Richard without waiting for a reply. 

"Okay, okay guys, she isn't my girlfriend. I just happened to find her trying to escape from a Krasue in the veil forest."

"Did big bro ask why she was in the veil forest?" Stark, a young werewolf asked. Although he is in his human form.

"She said she ran away from home," Richard replied.

"Why?"

"I never asked," Richard replied again.

"When she wakes up, we ask so we don't put ourselves in danger," Kiyoko asked.

"Let's talk about her later, I'm hungry from the hunt," Stiles said, moving to the kitchen.

"He's just as hungry as a werewolf," Richard said looking at Stiles, as he left for the kitchen.

"There is a werewolf here, just in case you have forgotten," Stark said, pouting. 

"Oh, sorry about that," Richard said, letting out a laugh. Stark and Kiyoko laughed too.

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*At the same time [Somewhere]*

"What brings you to my domain, Kitsune Shizuka?"

"Don't be harsh on me and you don't have to hit me with my name like that, Lady Mournwick," Shizuka replied.

"Why have you come here? I ask once again." Lady Mournwick asked again coldly ignoring her sentence.

" I came to tell you, the Overeater has been born," Shizuka said.

"I see, your world is doomed now, there is nothing you can do about it. Unless you know who the Overeater is and get to it earlier than anyone else." Lady Mournwick replied, almost yawning.

"Of course, you don't have to tell me that. I just came to tell you that." Shizuka said before turning into golden dust and fading away.

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