Saint Monster (2.5)

Existential Crisis

Now that I have somewhat gained the trust of the middle-aged man, which I haven't asked his name yet, I just need to consolidate everything while eating monster cores for my flesh. This of course, will take some time, so I'll hop right into it.

I entered deep cultivation, and was awakened after an unknown amount of time. Hearing commotion, I released my divine sense to see a fight going on at the bow of the ship. I saw a gang of physically and mentally deteriorated boys surrounding the girls. All of them had somewhat deranged and sinister looks on their face like feral creatures. I frowned a little at this sight.

I flew over and hovered in mid-air. I decided to try a new way of communication. Using something similar to energy transmission, I mixed it with my divine sense.

"What's going on here?" I said, my voice echoed away from me. All of them jolted and looked up at me. All of the females jolted in joy seeing me while the male's faces turned ugly with anger.

"S-senior monster! These b*stards ganged up on us and touched us, demanding service!" yelled a female disciple who's clothing looked somewhat torn.

"Dumb b*tches! One of you stole our energy crystals! If you won't give it back, then pay us back with your bodies!" yelled the one in the front, who seems to be the leader. His face was somewhat haggard and crazed. But energy crystals? Is it those crystals you mine and are full of Qi?

*sigh*

I guess I can only solve this by intimidation. But where's the middle-aged man? Shouldn't he be doing something about this? Or was I wrong about his character? Either way, I should stop this fight.

My body suddenly began expanding. The dimly lit area seemed to get darker as my body grew larger than the ship. My size stopped at 750 meters or fifty meters short of the width of the flood dragon. From below, I looked like a floating circular object and from the side, a floating dome object. All the shingles at the bottom had sharpened up and were pointing to my large mouth that seemed as if it could eat anything.

A devour sword appeared out of my body before seemingly vanishing. When it appeared, the leader's head was already on the ground, spraying blood and falling over. The males screamed in fright before putting their heads on the floor, begging for mercy. The ladies face's paled seeing the decapitated body in a pool of blood.

"Shut up. All of you need to start using your brain, or this will happen again. Go cultivate or whatever, but don't disturb my cultivation," I said indifferently as I shrunk down to 22 meters and floated away.

"Y-you're protecting them because you're a female," yelled a disciple behind me. I froze, before my body expanded back to it's original size in a second. Huge devour snakes exited my shingles that all seemed to be frantic in wanting to devour. A menacing aura was released from my body that seemed to be as black as darkness while mixed in with a light blue elemental water.

Shrinking back down, my body partially turned to a human form for the first time. It wasn't quite human, but some horrifying humanoid monster. Black shingles were everywhere on my 22 meter tall body. My head had only one thing and that was a horrifying mouth as an entire face. Like the Carnictis human eating worms from King Kong, it was a pretty horrifying sight that would scar a mortal human. But looking at my body, it looked somewhat... curvy, in a females sense.

Combined with medusa-like devour snakes wiggling about on every spot of my body, even cultivators would be frightened. Like an incarnation of the devil, I looked down upon the disciple who said that. His face turned white before white form bubbled from his mouth, seemingly lost his last mentality. Even the females had fallen on their knees from such a sight. The males seemed traumatized.

I appeared instantly in front of the disciple as I popped my neck.

"Alright, you win. You've officially pissed me off," I said as I grabbed towards his head. Controlling my strength, I reenacted the same scene from King Kong and devoured from the head up. His screams of horror resounded before becoming muffled as he squirmed. In a few seconds, his entire body was eaten like a snake eating a mouse. Burping, human bones came out after a few seconds of eating. The other males seemed to have foam coming out of their mouths.

"W-wait," said a weak voice from inside the ship. Sending my divine sense through, I realized it was the middle-aged man, who had been chained up with bruises on his body. Sending a devour sword, it sliced off the chains. He got up weakly with an exhausted face.

Encasing him in a shield, I brought him to the surface, ripping through the jaded wood. He appeared in front of everybody, and the shield vanished. Even though his cultivation is stable, his energy is low. My anger quickly dissipated and I returned to my small form.

Even though I'm lazy and prone to anger easily, it actually takes a lot to make me angry. Most accidents like stubbing my toe or hurting myself make me mad, but insults usually don't. There's only one insult that can make me mad. It is when people complain about my voice, as it wasn't really deep after hitting puberty.

I remember getting out of my chair in anger because a female student complained about my voice. I was about to fight her until the teacher intervened and made her apologize. That was the only case that has happened in my life because my voice became normal late in high school, but that female student was a drug user and one that had a lot of mental problems.

What that person was implying was that my voice sounded like a female, so it ticked me off quite a bit. I don't know why he thought my voice was female, but my voice sounds normal. Unless...

I shook my head in disapproval, but first I need to settle this.

"The two of them were getting on my nerves," I said bluntly.

"Sorry," he said bowing deeply.

"It's not an issue," I said waving it off, "But most importantly, why did he say my voice sounds female?"

"Eh? Aren't you a female?" he asked. My body froze.

"H-huh? Aren't I a guy?" I asked, not believing this.

"Your voice is clearly that of a female. Why? Is there something wrong?" he asked. My imaginary eyebrows twitched violently as I fell into an existential crisis.

"B-but to me, my voice has always sounded male!" I yelled. The guy seemed speechless and at a loss for words.

"E-excuse me!" I said, turning into a ray of light.

"No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no! This can't be happening! Don't tell me this body is a female! I refuse to accept this!" I screamed and rolled around like a coin bouncing off the floor.