The Strange Cat from Fuuto

People can never escape the arrangements of fate, cannot get away from it, are powerless to resist it, and are at the mercy of the clutches of fate!

But you, who are so different from everyone else, should cast everything aside and forge ahead bravely!

March towards the future you envision, and let the world be painted with your own colors!

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An eerie floral fragrance mingled with a light mist, permeating the woods. Tall, straight trees pierced the sky, their dense canopies blocking out the sunlight. Yet, the woods were not entirely dark; various strange plants grew on the ground, emitting a faint glow, while bizarre vines meandered along the ground.

Plants never before seen in our knowledge grow rampant in this forest, and a strange fruit can be seen everywhere.

With an appearance resembling a padlock, the pale purple, crystal-like peel encases translucent, jelly-like, tender white flesh inside.

At first glance, it has an irresistible allure, making you want to pick it and put it in your mouth.

"Tsk, that bastard Wang Xiaoming is doing the same thing as last time, leaving me here all alone and running away!"

Miku, riding on Iggy's back, spurred the dog beneath him as the cat and dog strolled through Helheim, experiencing a foreign land they had never known before.

What appears to be a vast forest where Miku and Iggy are located is actually just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger world.

This world was corrupted by the Helheim Forest and, ultimately, driven by a certain snake, embarked on an alternative evolution.

The original inhabitants were all corrupted by Helheim and turned into monsters, with the best among them being called: Overlord.

Perhaps they are active somewhere in the forest right now, or even secretly watching Miku and Ichi.

"Huh?" Iggy stuck out his tongue and moved closer to the vines, looking at the fruit in the book, seemingly with an urge to taste it first.

Miku lashed his tail hard across the dog's head and scolded, "Are you out of your mind? You can't just eat this stuff!"

"Eating this will turn you into a really ugly person!"

"Awoooooo..."

Iggy, who was arguing loudly, seemed very unconvinced. Miku, with black lines surging on his forehead, said with a gloomy face, "I haven't been paying attention to you lately, and you've become quite presumptuous!"

Three minutes later, Ichi, covered in bumps and looking dejected, led Miku quickly through the forest.

"We must find a way to escape through the spatial rift, otherwise if we stay here without food and water, even I won't last long!"

Miku would never taste the fruit of Helheim, even if it meant death. Everything was destined from the beginning; only Miku could obtain the Golden Fruit and ascend to the throne of God.

If anyone else were to consume it, there would only be one outcome: they would become utter monsters, losing their reason, humanity, and sense of self!

As for Aojiao, the reason he gained power after eating the fruit of Helheim was because this bastard had already adapted to the toxins of Helheim. Through the suppression of the driver and his determination to fight to the death, he managed to seize that one in ten thousand chance and successfully evolve into a lord.

The most insidious old fox, the snake of Helheim, who foresaw the future DJ Sagara, took the initiative to help Sagara from the very beginning. After all, having already known the outcome, he was actually promoting the evolution and development of the Earth by helping Sagara.

Unexpectedly, in the end, Silly Orange chose to create a new world and did not intend to transform the Earth.

The golden fruit looked wonderful, promising godhood upon consumption. However, it was actually a shackle. While one might become a god after eating it, they would be trapped in this world by its rules, destined to remain here forever.

Miku wouldn't be foolish enough to fight for the Golden Fruit; at most, he'd try to extort a portion of its power from Byakuya or DJ Sagara.

As for how to proceed, we'll have to plan that out slowly!

"If the drinking water here is okay, I'll do a handstand, dance, and rap!" Anyone with a brain knows that the water in Helheim is undrinkable. How could water that provides nutrients to the forests of Helheim possibly be clean?

This is similar to how everything in a nuclear-contaminated area is filled with radiation.

Miku and Iggy, who had been walking in the forest of Helheim for more than a few hours, had not found any spatial rift leading to the outside world.

"This is just too unlucky!"

After the cat spat out a fireball, blasting a low-level Inves that had jumped into the air to prey on them into pieces, Miku, whose body was surging with data streams, disappeared along with Iggy into the gradually closing in group of Inves.

"These little animals are so annoying! If I wasn't afraid of making a big commotion and attracting Bai Ya's attention, I would have burned this place to ashes long ago!"

That's right, these monsters that would kill ordinary people are just small animals to Miku, and that's actually the case.

All living things in this century have been transformed into monsters by the corruption of Helheim.

Among them, only Byakuya, the king of this other world, can rival Miku!

Miku, who appeared in a corner of the forest, rode Ichi and continued searching for the spatial rift that had opened by chance, which resembled a zipper.

Such spatial rifts appear randomly in Sawame City, while the Yggdrasil Foundation headquarters forcibly maintained a permanent spatial rift in order to study Helheim.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, Miku raised an eyebrow and caught a strange smell in his nose. The Helheim Forest was filled with the unique scent of the forest, the fragrance of fruits and flowers, and a faint smell of earth.

But the scent that Miku detected in his nostrils was a creamy aroma, like a sundae.

"Does this place smell like sundaes?"

The cat, its lips slowly curving upwards, clamped its legs together, and Iggy reluctantly turned its gaze away from the fruit hanging on the tree.

With Miku in tow, Iggy quickly drove towards the location of the scent Miku had smelled. Thanks to his powerful physique, Iggy quickly brought Miku to the place where the scent was coming from.

"This guy..."

A young man with blond hair, wearing a blue jacket, came into Miku's view. Holding a driver, the young man looked around curiously, as if he had never seen such a bizarre and strange sight before.

"Oh right, if I remember correctly, this guy is that unlucky guy from the Gaim team who got killed as soon as he appeared!"

Searching its memories, the cat shifted its gaze from the unlucky fellow and began scanning its surroundings: "So, the spatial rift leading to the outside world is nearby!"

At this moment, Hiroyuki Kaku, whom Miku called an unlucky guy, also turned his attention to the fruit hanging on the tree.

Gazing at the fruit's tempting appearance, his nostrils flared as the fruit's fragrance filled his nasal cavity. With greedy eyes and drooling, Yuya Kakuji tucked the Sengoku Driver under his arm.

He reached out and picked a fruit, peeled off the skin, and revealed the crystal-clear fruit inside.

The fruit, shaped like a padlock, has translucent flesh that refracts a hazy glow under the surrounding dim light, giving it a dreamlike and unreal feel.

With greed gleaming in his eyes, Yuya Kakui finally couldn't resist his gluttonous desires and opened his mouth wide to swallow the fruit.

As Yuya Kakuju swallowed the fruit in large gulps, sticky saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth. Before he could even savor the taste, a bright green light suddenly emanated from his stomach, and at the same time, vines from the ground began to climb onto his feet.

"Ugh!!!"

Kakuju Yuya, who was bent over, looked pained and took a few steps back before collapsing to the ground. Vines shimmering with emerald light emerged from his body and engulfed and covered it.

The Sengoku Driver fell to the ground during the process, and Miku's eyes flashed with a sharp light when he saw it: "Hey, that was really something!"

"The uncontrollable gluttony of foolish humans ultimately pushes them into an abyss where they either die from overeating or from poisoning!"

Having completely transformed into Inves, Yuya Kakui's eyes have lost all traces of humanity!

The moment a human ate the fruit, that human part died, completely consumed by the toxins of Hel.

With his appearance drastically changed, Kakuju Yu also staggered and slowly walked aimlessly towards another place.

"If this guy has become Inves, then it means that Silly Orange and that little girl named Mai will be here soon too!"

While Miku was pondering, Iggy slowly moved toward the big tree beside him, his eyes gleaming with an inexplicable light, drool flowing down his face like a waterfall.

Just as Ichi was about to reach the fruit, Miku grabbed him by the back of the neck and dragged him away.

Miku, deep in thought, didn't notice Iggy's constant turning back. After all, he was at the very beginning of the story, the perfect time to do favors and maximize his gains if he acted properly.

And so, the cat and dog quickly arrived at the crack. When Iggy saw the crack, he subconsciously recalled the time when monsters from the Wizard World invaded through the spatial rift. He shuddered and tried to run away.

Caught off guard, Miku was thrown off Iggy's back.

"What's wrong with the dog today?"

Miku, baring his teeth, lay sprawled among the vines. Before he could even get up, a large foot stepped into the crack and stomped on his tail.

"Ah, it hurts!"

Miku, gritting his teeth and glaring at Stupid Orange, yelled, "You son of a bitch, you just wait!"

"Oops, did I step on something?"

Sha Cheng scratched his head, but Gao Siwu turned around and called out, "Kouta, what are you spacing out for?!"

"Hurry up and come here!"

"Oh, here it comes!"

Without further hesitation, Sha Cheng quickly caught up with Gao Siwu, while Miku slowly moved among the vines.

As the plot unfolded, Miku, without much intervention, lay among the vines watching as Sha Cheng and Mai, pursued by Kaku Yuya, who had transformed into Inves, escaped through the spatial rift and fled towards Sawame City.

It's important to know that after Sha Cheng transforms, Gao Siwu in her Beginning Daughter form will appear. If she were to rashly enter Sha Cheng's line of sight, it could cause a negative chain reaction.

Therefore, we still need to continue to observe!

"Damn it, I'll settle this score with you later!"

Miku, who had climbed out of the vines, looked at his tail with pain; that step had really hurt him!

"Speaking of which, where's my dog?"

Miku sighed upon discovering that Iggy had run away, and turned back to look for Iggy again. Following the scent left behind by Iggy in the air, Miku searched all the way to find his dog.

When they found Iggy, the dog's feet were covered with the peels of Helheim Fruits, and its mouth was constantly opening and closing, its eyes filled with a dazed expression.

Iggy, who hadn't felt anything before, finally experienced the feeling he used to have.

This is what it feels like to be alive!

The Devouring Monsters have no feelings. Born with incomplete senses, they will instinctively fill and satisfy their desires if they are not restrained by a superior greedy being.

"You actually ate it!"

Chapter Two: Iggy's Rapid Evolution and the Appearance of the Chief!

"You actually ate it!"

Miku stared in shock at Iggy, who was chewing on the Helheim Fruit, his expression turning blank and panicked.

"You can't eat this! Why won't you listen?!"

"Awooo?!"

Iggy tilted his head and swallowed the fruit in his mouth. Then he bit off another fruit from the tree, skillfully peeled off the skin, and then put the flesh in his mouth. His upper and lower jaws collided, and the stem of the fruit was removed.

Based on this action and the fruit peels on the ground, Miku could tell that this guy had already eaten more than one!

"Creak, creak, creak..."