The Demon
(I will show you why I am called "The Demon" in my city.)
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Waking up in his real body he felt something fleshy surrounding his body as he feels his flesh burning hot.
It was no doubt that he is inside the creature's stomach.
The flesh and acid surrounding him are strong but not enough to kill him.
Surprisingly, Mike managed to hold his breath even when he is still asleep.
As usual, his body is in full health.
But that's not the time to check himself.
The creature's stomach is tight as Mike would expect in the creatures living under the intense pressure of water.
He knows his location inside the creature so Mike quickly proceeds to his next phase.
Checking his left foot by feeling it he has gotten new information.
(Nice. The tentacle is still here. You're a quite stubborn one aren't you, tentacle?)
Rotating his body towards his left foot is pointed.
As he changes his angle he immediately sees a small narrow pathway.
Not like he saw it, more like he stretches his right hand and feel if there is a path.
If the tentacle is still at his foot means he can follow the tentacle's path to get outside.
Quickly, Mike grabs the flash and pulled himself to advance slowly.
He still can't gather his breath because he is still underwater so he still needs to endure it a little longer.
For how fucking long can Mike hold his breath is unbelievable.
I guess a couple of years has changed him a lot. (Not like I'm not in danger anymore.)
As he advances he felt a vibration. Looks like the creature feels something wrong inside him.
Mike notice the creature's reaction and stop a little bit.
He tried to hold himself but after a couple of seconds, he smiles.
(Time to pay you back motherfucker.)
After he gathers his thoughts he proceeds to advance.
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The creature gives it's all its best to suppress the weird feeling that crawling in his stomach by smashing himself to the stones and trying to swim wildly.
However, the creature is being restrained from its movement.
From the creature's mouth, the tentacle is popping out trying to pull the creature downwards.
Even if it's giant it can't get away from a single tentacle showing that the tentacle is superior.
Not even its large teeth can cut tentacle so the creature got panic and swim wildly making Mike advance more difficult.
(Somehow my left leg is feeling numb because of the tentacle pulling me. This is bad I need to reposition myself.)
Mike positions his body in a more comfortable way, rest his hands for a little while and continue advancing.
(Oh shit this ride is making me nausea.) But he still advances.
He reaches a long tube. He feels the wild waves of water pushing through his body as he advances.
(I'm near, right?!)
[Yeah, you're near so get you ass up already and move forward!]
(I'm already doing it!)
He advances and advances while stopping for a short break.
And soon after an hour of struggling to get outside, he's finally at a wide space, the creature's mouth.
The place is slippery and hard to move because of the water going in and out through the mouth and gills.
Even tho it's open space the pressure of the water is still there. No time for Mike to feel comfortable.
He rests his body as he massaged his left foot because of numbness he felt earlier.
His body was surrounded by acid but it was replaced by his weird substance barrier protecting him from the pressure.
(Damn I still can't get off this feeling of fear towards this creature... Just what are you anyway? Oh well... I guess it's about time.)
Showing a hint of readiness the tentacles reads his intention and pulled him with more force.
(Heh... After years of you being attached to me, I still can't believe that you can read my thoughts. Do you have an ability to read minds or something?)
The tentacles pulled him but Mike didn't move a budge but the creature grain in pain.
[I still can't believe you actually tied up the creature's inside by using the tentacle.]
(It's risky because I don't know if this tentacle is just a tentacle or more than that. But it was answered now so there will be more cards under me.)
He said to Imuthis but inside his thoughts are all shouting in joy for his accomplishment.
(FINALLY I'M TAKING MY REVENGE! IT'S BEEN YEAR SINCE YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING ME BUT THIS TIME IS MY VICTORY! HAHAHA... MY HANDS ARE STILL TREMBLING.)
The reason the monster is groaning in pain because Mike used the tentacles as a rope to tie up the creature's inside and pulled its organ inside out.
Mike did that when takes a rest inside the stomach.
It's still a gamble so he's really trembling inside especially because this is his first-time experience such thing.
Even if it's a gamble the plan is scary and carefully planned by him.
"Demon" if you think of the word you think of it as a monster who goes wild and kills indiscriminately.
But in actual the word Demon is named because it has knowledge beyond human understanding.
The one who gives him that title is smart to give him such a meaningful name.
It's not Carlo who gave him that name but we will talk about that in another story.
(I guess even tho I overcome a fear underwater doesn't mean I can overcome all of it, huh.)
The creature's mouth is about to be overflow by blood as the creature's stomach is already pulled in its throat.
For minutes of waiting for the creature finally stop shaking as it slowdown.
And another minute had passed the creature's stomach was pulled out along with Mike and the creature finally die.
Mike is covered in blood but he completely ignores it and quickly goes to his next plan.
Going to the vision of the dazzling stars he quickly looks for a safe place(bubble).
Squinting his eyes he carefully looks for one.
The vision is slightly lighter because of the active volcanoes below him which help him a little bit.
(This is amazing that my vision has already used to seeing a dim light for a long time. Ah it's getting hot.)
He looks left to right until something bumps his head.
(???)
Turning around he saw a god of luck giving him a gift.
The gift is so good that Mike went into tears.
What's in front of him is a bubble.
Not a gigantic one like at the surface nor the soft one like in the middle part.
It was hard to get in but he already has gotten used to this so it didn't take a while to get inside.
(Ahh... Thank you, luck...)
Dropping a one drop of tears after he gets inside he lies down and embraces the usual exhaustion and recoil.
Breathing slowly and steady his body health is going up to another level which he didn't notice.
As he rests before he realizes he already has gotten to sleep like he didn't give a care to the world.
And so Mike survives another day in this harsh place.
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