Damien looked at the corpse, which smelled roasted, but he didn't see any burned marks on the monster's front. The smell felt like roast, but he didn't see any fire burning the meat.
He waited to see if the meat was really burned; then he could at least see what the reason for the burning was. He waited outside. After all, there were very few times when creatures really entered the city.
But today's incident was also one of those days.
Looking at the dead animal, he thought:
"Can this animal be eaten? If it is really edible, can I gain strength from the meat?"
Damien, who got a sudden idea, started to hold onto thoughts of eating this animal. After all, looking at the present situation, his survival in this world looked very difficult, but if he gained strength from eating the meat, then he would find a way to at least fend for himself while searching for shelter.
"So should I try it? What if I am poisoned? There is risk, but there is also gain if I find a way to gain strength. This will change the whole scenario."
Damien looked toward the monster, then walked back toward the building. He came out carrying a big steel bucket from the building.
Then he walked toward the inner part of the city to look for the butcher shop to get a butcher knife. Although it was surprising that weapons for soldiers or for security were gone—not even arrows—a butcher knife was still intact in its place, which he had felt odd about when he visited earlier.
But then he thought the people who fled from here were trying to survive such mammoth creatures, so weapons might have been taken away by them.
The rest he didn't even search for himself. After all, who knew if it was a horror world? So he always used to go to those places where he had lived earlier, when he didn't have any idea of the horror of the world.
"Looks like I need to collect more information about the world, or else I won't even know whether there is a way to increase the strength of humans."
Now, Damien was sure: if the animal could increase strength, then humans might also have a way to increase it, but he needed to research it himself.
"Damien, this might be your only shot to survive in this world."
Damien was motivating himself; after all, talking to yourself was the only way to entertain himself and keep himself sane.
He looked toward the city with more intensity, to learn more about the situation of this world. He then took the butcher knife and walked toward the place where the monster was.
But he still maintained his vigilance toward the sudden appearance of the other monster; after all, who knew when they might appear.
"Will the butcher knife be able to cut through the skin of such a big monster? Let's hope it will."
Damien looked at the monster, then thought about how to cut it; after all, he wasn't someone who had butchered animals his whole life.
Although his situation in his own world was bad, his family was still a top family of the state, but he had messed up with the wrong people who held very powerful positions in his world.
"Will they target my family?" Damien couldn't help but feel very sad about the situation which was created because of him.
Then he shook his head.
"My family already broke relations with me, so they shouldn't target them."
Damien shook his head. He couldn't control the situation there; he wasn't sure whether he could go back from here alone.
Then Damien looked toward the buffalo. One thing was sure: he had to learn everything in this world to survive.
He looked at the whole body of the monster, then thought to start cutting from the stomach.
"Bones might be difficult to cut with this knife, but the stomach should be easy."
He started to cut the upper skin of the stomach, but as he pierced the knife, the skin tore open easily. He felt something was wrong, but he was still very determined to find a way to increase his strength.
As he cut open a huge section of skin near the belly, suddenly a huge amount of liquid poured out of the monster's body.
Damien wanted to avoid it, but before he could react he was wet with a huge amount of chyme.
"Damn it, I only cut the skin of the monster's belly, so how the hell did chyme come out automatically?"
Then his eyes looked toward the inner part of the belly, where the burned marks were distinctive. He knew the smell might be coming from inside the belly.
"Something burned the belly of this monster. Could it be some kind of treasure it ate?"
Damien started to look inside the belly. He was already wet, and he wasn't in the mood to care about the smell or his clothes. After all, life was more important than anything.
He wanted to see if anything was there which hadn't been digested by this monster. After all, digested things wouldn't burn it from inside.
Suddenly his eyes focused on a huge fruit, but he was sure he had seen this fruit somewhere; he couldn't remember where he saw it.
Now he didn't focus on whether the meat could be eaten or not; after all, he knew if the creatures were fighting with each other for this fruit which was eaten by it, then there might be other things in this forest which could help him—but he needed to at least have some strength.
Damien took out the fruit, which felt more like a jackfruit he had seen in his world.
"This monster didn't chew the fruit but directly ate it. Could it have been in a hurry and swallowed it directly?"
Then he suddenly thought of the other monster.
"Could it be that the other guy was also targeting him for the fruit? But I have eaten so many fruits from the forest, and I didn't feel any different."
But suddenly his expression changed when he thought about the fruit which helped him heal from his broken legs.
"So I was blind myself. If the fruit can heal, then there should be other types of fruits as well which will help to get strength."
Damien reached near the water well, where he put the fruit in his hand on the ground. He took out water from the well.
As he started to wash the fruit, he saw a jackfruit which was a little bit bigger than the normal ones he had seen, but now he was sure that this fruit might be mystical.
Damien washed the whole fruit properly and took it back to the place where he generally stayed. Then he went back near the dead monster.
"Let's cut the meat as well. I haven't eaten meat for very long. If I survive today's experiment, then it will be worth it, but if I fall, then let it be my last night in a world where I will enjoy myself to the fullest."
Damien took more than 10 kg of meat. He washed it thoroughly, and he even washed the stench in front of the monster's body.
If the monster meat would help him increase his strength, then he didn't want to waste so much meat or let it rot due to carelessness.
Damien started to cook the meat into steak. He didn't know how to cook, but he still tried.
This was also the first time he took out a wine bottle from the cellar.
Then he looked toward the fruit, but he still ate the meat first. He enjoyed the meat.
Although he didn't feel anything at first, when he started to eat the jackfruit he felt as if he were placed on a burning stove.
"Damn it, now I feel how that monster felt."
Damien gritted his teeth because intense pain started to overwhelm him, so he drank wine to numb the pain, but he still tried to finish the whole jackfruit.
Just when he finished the fruit, the intense pain became unbearable, so he fainted.