—2nd November 2025—

I woke up in my bed, feeling a bit dizzy. I couldn't remember much of the day before and I was still in my working clothes

'Did I drink too much yesterday? It's not something I would do.' 

I slowly got up and when I opened the door of my room, my jaw dropped as I saw something that made me think I was in another dream for a moment. I was not in my apartment anymore, the walls were high and red with gold symbols engraved all over them and the columns supporting the structure were black with the same red symbol all over them, a big rhombus with a red pupil at the centre, the same on my palms.

I pinched my right cheek hoping to wake up from that but this time, it was real.

While looking around me the dizziness passed and I started remembering what happened the day before (without throwing up this time.)

'That devil is probably playing with me again…'

While walking around, I started smelling a really good odour, someone was cooking something tasty that was giving me an appetite and made me think

‘Maybe she wants to lure me into a trap and kill me…?’ I stopped talking to myself for a moment and then resumed while shaking my head

"No, it wouldn't make sense. She could have let the old man kill me, but instead, she defended me.”

In the end, having no other options, I decided to follow the scent.

———

After some minutes of following it, I stopped before a door as it was coming from that room. I opened the door and there was an enormous lunchroom, a long table in the middle with a lot of food on it and there were more than a hundred chairs. 

The walls were really different from the ones in the corridor, being white with finishings in gold and with green, blue and red gems on the columns. 

To finish off, there were the remains of 3 statues, two really close the door, one without the head and the other without the arms and the third statue was at the opposite part of the room, it was the most ruined, with all the upper body missing; but overall they were all old and could not figure out who they were refiguring.

At the head of the table, there was that damn girl who with a gesture was inviting me to sit close to her. At first, I was reluctant but the hunger overwhelmed me, so I quickly sat at her right.

"What is this place?" I asked and she could notice from the look in my eyes I was fascinated, especially because the whole building appeared out of nowhere.

"Just my little home. I created it myself!" she looked so proud of it.

"Oh I see, you have shitty tastes too. At least I'm not the only one." I looked at her and from her irritated smile, she was trying to hide her anger.

“Aren’t you getting a bit too comfortable already?” she asked while her left eye was twitching. “Maybe I should show you another nightmare…”

'I have to change the subject…' I thought preoccupied "A-Anyway, why all this food? Do you have guests?"

She giggled, probably because she saw how preoccupied I became

"No, I decided from today you'll start training your abilities and I won't give you a single moment to relax, not even lunch or dinner so this is your only moment to eat."

I knew I could not choose and any question would have been pointless, but I still asked out of curiosity 

"And if I get too hungry or tired?"

"Your body is not 100% human anymore, so being hungry will not affect your performance. This training will also help your body to assimilate the powers I gave you, with this in the future you will be far superior to a mere human. And for the tiredness, it can still affect you for now, but it will be fine. With my training, you won't have the time to think about that, since your life will be at risk!" at the end of the explanation she smiled with pure joy.

"Why are you smiling??! If you want to kill me just do it now!”

She laughed a bit and ignored my request. "Now, eat whatever you want and don't think about it."

I was still preoccupied but my hunger was stronger so, without further questions, I started eating. 

There was a lot of food, grilled fish and meat, tempura, noodles, fried chicken, pizza, hamburger, quesadilla, paella, shawarma and much more! There was food from every part of the world and everything was still hot like it has been just cooked.

Everything was cut into small portions so I could taste everything and the god assured me that the remaining food would not have been wasted. I also tasted tartare, which wasn't bad and the size was small so I ate everything but she did not want to tell me what meat she used.

"Well… I'll tell you later" 

This was her answer…I don't know why I’m having faith in her.

———

After an hour I stopped, I felt like I was going to explode.

"Are you full now?" she was impressed by how much I ate.

"Yeah, I think I'm going to explode and-"

She interrupted me "Nice. We can start with the training then."

I immediately spoke up my mind 

"W-wait a minute, I have to digest all of this first! If not, I'm going to vomit again! I'm still part human after all!" 

"That's not a problem! You'll digest while training." she looked calm, while I was going crazy.

"No! I will not do it-" I got up slamming my hands on the table, which immediately broke causing all the food to go onto the floor. 

I felt like something was moving inside my body and I was full of energy.

"What is happening..? How did I do it?" I looked at her and she was grinning.

"I'll go straight to the point this time” she started saying “There is a method banned from the gods to gain new powers, that is eating the flesh of other people with powers…and from your expression, I suppose you already understood where I’m going." she looked at me as my eyes widened in realization and I started sweating while looking towards the broken plate where the tartare was. This time I didn't feel the urge to vomit, but something new was growing in me.

“Hunger” 

I brought my hands to my head as I heard that voice, which sounded like there was some interference, causing it to glitch.

“More. I need more.”

It wasn't someone else who was speaking to me but something inside me that was expanding in search for more.

“With more power, you’ll be less useless”

“W-What?”

Meanwhile, the devil was looking at me, surely knowing what was happening and hearing the voice too because of the link with me.

"Contain that hunger. We'll start with the training now." 

She then snapped her fingers and both of us appeared on top of a palace in an abandoned city where everything was grey apart from them.