Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Shota is surrounded by monsters! Author: Long Live the Village Chief

This is the daily story of a gluttonous boy and his pet girl enduring their hunger.

4 parts daily life, 4 parts lower limit, and 2 parts main storyline. Overall, it's a lighthearted, shameless, and parody-style story with a touch of 'intense battle'.

Chapter 1. The Gluttonous Beast

"Fairy? Monster?"

A plump little beast with the body of a goat, deer antlers, tiger teeth, and human claws, covered in golden fur, staggered to the lakeside. Looking at the terrifying image reflected in the water, it murmured in disbelief, "Is that me?"

He desperately wanted to tell himself that he was a human being. But deep down, a primal instinct told him that his name was—Taotie.

"But it looks delicious..."

For some reason, the little beast swallowed hard as it looked at its own reflection in the lake.

"Snapped--"

Just as it was feeling lost, a paw bigger than its entire body gently patted it twice.

"As expected of my offspring, you even want to eat your own body! I like you, boy." The little beast turned its head, only to see a gigantic beast that looked very similar to it but was several times larger...

Startled, it took two steps back, but accidentally fell into the lake.

"...DONT'AFRAID, MY, SON! I'm your daddy!"

Despite being the ancient Chinese ferocious beast Taotie, it spoke incoherently in a foreign language. The Taotie father scooped his son, who had fallen into the lake, out of its shell, tossed him onto its head, and then opened its enormous mouth, taking a deep breath—

A gravitational pull comparable to that of a black hole dragged everything around it toward its mouth, even creating a thick column of water on the lake's surface. The little beast couldn't care less about philosophical questions about animal life; it could only close its eyes and desperately cling to a tuft of fur on its gluttonous father's head with its two claws...

"Hiccup—"

After an unknown amount of time, the gluttonous old man let out a satisfied burp, then grabbed his son from above and tossed him in front of him, saying, "You're amazing! Excellent! Naming a little one is too much trouble, so I'll just call him son. Son, the rest of this stuff is for you to eat. Fill your belly first."

"..."

The little beast had originally intended to take the opportunity to ponder philosophical questions, but upon seeing the remaining fish and small wild animals at the feet of its gluttonous father, it swallowed hard and, disregarding that they were all raw, began to gnaw on them out of sheer instinct.

It tastes awful... but I'm so hungry, I really want to eat it...

Although it was somewhat resistant to this raw food method, the hunger in its stomach kept it from stopping its eating.

"Good teeth, GOOD."

The gluttonous old man lay on the ground. Being lazy and gluttonous, he was unwilling to waste any extra energy. He yawned and blew the little beast more than ten meters away. Then he took a small breath and pulled him back. Then he drooped his huge eyes and watched him eat.

"Awoo—"

After swallowing the last fish in one gulp, the little beast finally felt no hunger in his stomach, but he was thirsty. He looked around and saw that the entire lake had been drained by someone's ocean suction earlier—however, he still found a puddle of water.

A puddle of water "hiding" behind an old tree that had been torn apart.

The little beast took its first steps, using its clumsy limbs, towards the puddle. Once there, it noticed that the water's color was strange; although it was on the ground, it faintly emitted a blue light. Moreover, it was moving without any wind.

But thirsty, it didn't care about anything else and could only rely on its animal instincts to stick out its tongue and lick the puddle of water.

"..."

The puddle of water recoiled as if startled when it was licked by the tongue. The little beast savored the taste, finding it slightly sweet with a unique aroma.

It feels pretty good.

It took a step forward and pounced on it, sticking out its tongue to lick it again.

The puddle receded again...

It took another step...

Something seems off here... Although its instincts tell it that it can lick what's in front of it, its memories of being human in its past life tell it:

Something unusual must be going on!

"A demon, a monster!"

The little beast cried out and then ran towards the giant beast that claimed to be its father and shouldn't hurt it.

"Ok?"

Upon hearing the little beast's cry, the Gluttonous Father suddenly opened his eyes, his domineering aura surging, and declared powerfully, "Who dares to harm my son..."

As he was speaking, he noticed a puddle of water over there—it wasn't that his opponent was too strong to have clouded his senses, but rather that his opponent was so weak that his senses automatically masked its existence...

"Suck--"

He casually took a breath and sucked the puddle of water in, then smashed it with his giant hand. However, the puddle stubbornly gathered back together.

"Don't be afraid, MY, SON."

The Gluttonous Old Man tossed the little beast that had scrambled onto his head back down in front of him, pointed with his paw at the puddle of water, and said, "It's not your fault. After all, this thing is a foreign import. Our ancestors' memories only contain local monsters and a few powerful monsters from other places. It's understandable that you'd be surprised to see something like this for the first time. But it's too embarrassing. As a Glutton, the first thing I do when I see something I've never seen before is to taste it."

"This... what's this thing called again?" Old Man Taotie wanted to show off his knowledge, but he realized he couldn't remember the scientific name of the thing in front of him. So, relying on his past experience, he said, "This is called sweet water. Hmm, sweet water. Your daddy once caught a big one. You can put it anywhere, and just pour some water into it, and it will turn into sweet water. Hmm, you can keep this as a toy. It's nice to lick it occasionally for a change of taste."

"..."

Sure enough, even sugar water in this world is so strange? The little beast only knew that it might have really come to an extraordinary world this time, but even though it was thinking these things, its body still obediently started moving.

Licking it...it tastes so much better than anything else.

Watching the little beast lick water, the gluttonous father, bored, told him some things that an excellent glutton must know.

First, they are no longer on the land of Yanhuang, but on a land called Europe. The reason is that Old Man Taotie seems to have eaten some kind of cake that looks cheap and big but is actually incredibly heavy and expensive, and he is being hunted down by a group of very powerful figures. So he had no choice but to flee abroad to avoid the storm and, incidentally, experience the delicacies of foreign lands.

Secondly, there is a species called humans in this world, and they are now the masters of this world. So, if you see anything with two legs, avoid contact with it if possible, and don't eat any females, no matter how delicious they look. Not only will you get an upset stomach, but you might also be hunted down.

Third, they are called monsters by humans, and there are many other monsters in this world. Some monsters like to oppose humans, while others prefer to hide in human cities. But the Taotie clan, with its single lineage, only likes to do things according to its own whims. Incidentally, the little beast is the fourth generation, and its father is the third. In short, having only one member in the lineage is a very difficult thing.

Also, monsters are edible.

"But aren't we monsters?" The little beast felt that eating its own kind was still a bit...

"NO, NO, NO, although we are monsters, just like humans and chickens are living beings, this is just a broad category. In terms of species, according to human classification, we are called Taotie. UNDERSTAND? Taotie eating other monsters is the same as humans eating chicken, duck, and fish."

"..."

The little animal thought it was making excuses... but what it said made a lot of sense. However, eating animals is enough, isn't it...?

"Let's go, it's time to change places. The appetizers have just been digested, let's find some proper food."

The little beast hesitated for a moment, then rolled the puddle of water at its feet with its paws like rolling yarn—finally turning it into a large water droplet. After covering it with its tail, it followed in the footsteps of its gluttonous father.

It's safest to stay with him now.

Thirty years later...

"OH, MY, SON." The Gluttonous Old Man lay belly-up in a huge pit, saying, "These past thirty years have been so incredibly delicious... There are just so many little monsters and animals in Europe. Even without messing with the big ones, your old man has had his fill. If my old man and grandfather knew that there are so many delicious things to eat abroad, tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

"...Hey, hey, you bastard dad, are you going to choke to death?"

The much-grown little beast touched his father's enormous paw with his own—though he had never considered him his father, after thirty years together, he had grown somewhat fond of this ferocious beast who always left some food for himself and spouted bizarre foreign languages. Who could accept it if he suddenly died so inexplicably!

"Nonsense, this is called perfection. As Taotie, our lifespan is endless. Although the purity of your and my bloodline is less than half, it's still very, very long. The ultimate wish of our Taotie clan is to eat until we die, hahahahahaha..."

Then he laughed maniacally and died.

The little beast didn't even have time to react. It could only watch helplessly as its "father" was suddenly compressed into a single point, and then transformed into a small, pitch-black bead.

"Is this a lie?"

Although I've wanted to escape this annoying behemoth and flee to human society more than once, seeing it actually "finished" still feels somewhat unbelievable.

"Ah, right, right." A voice suddenly came from the dark bead, saying, "The little monsters in Europe are almost all eaten up. If you're hungry, go hang out in the East. I heard there are eight million delicacies to try there. That's all, I'm going to hang up now~ Oh, right, hurry up and get far away, I can fill my stomach a little more before I die."

"Huh?"

The small bead slowly floated into the air, and then...

"A black hole!"

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"That scared me to death. That scared me to death. No monster dies looking like this."

The little beast didn't know how long it had run, but after escaping danger, it stopped in the woods, remained silent for a while, and then slowly stood up on its hind legs. With a flash of black light, it transformed into human form.

"Hey……"

The naked boy stretched, then sighed and said, "Without realizing it, I'm actually getting used to this form. From now on... am I going to have to live alone?"

Fortunately, before his father died, he had given himself enough food to sustain him for a month. Otherwise, with his current terrifying appetite, there probably wouldn't be many animals around to feed him.

Although his father didn't feed him animals.

"However, he's ridiculously strong. Even my monstrous father has an opponent he can't beat... How am I, a non-pure-blooded and young Taotie, supposed to survive? I guess I'll have to go back to human society and earn my own living."

The gluttonous young man murmured to himself, "Perhaps listening to my father and going to Japan is a good choice. Besides, there are some things I want to know there."

However, he was still thirsty. Thinking of the small ball the gluttonous boy had tied to his tail—

"Why is the tail still there? Is it that the more powerful a monster is, the harder it is for it to change its form?"

Fortunately, only the tail failed to transform. The gluttonous boy looked at his reflection in the transparent, reflective, multifunctional water sphere that had followed him for thirty years, and breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just the tail, then it shouldn't be a big problem.

Thinking of this, he stuck out his tongue and licked the multi-functional little water ball...

"ah……"

He seemed to hear a soft cry, and the gluttonous youth suddenly realized something. If he were to turn back into a human, it would be better not to use licking as a method.

Then he held the small water balloon above his head, squeezed it hard, and opened his mouth to receive the falling sugar water...

"No, don't pinch...it hurts...ah."

The gluttonous boy fell silent. He suddenly realized that the voice of this lovely girl was actually coming from the water sphere in his hand.

"Could it be that you are a spirit artifact?"

Having already devoured monsters, the gluttonous youth was at least more composed this time than he had been thirty years ago. He looked at the water droplet in his hand, which had been with him for thirty years, with some confusion.

"I...I am a slime girl...please don't eat me..."

The water droplets turned into a pool of azure liquid and flowed onto the ground. Then, a naked girl made of water slowly stood up.

"Big, big SHOCK..."