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8. New Companion
Author: J.Stephano
last update2025-05-14 20:21:56

“So it really does exist in the real world,” Shaden murmured.

This wasn’t a story he had found in the fairy tale book his father had given him, but around the time he was nine years old, his father once told him about a dream he had—seeing people transform into a species no longer human after accidentally swallowing a mysterious pill they found.

Back then, Shaden never believed something like that could actually happen, even in a world as broken as this one. After all, if it was a pill or some sort of drug, it wouldn’t just appear out of nowhere. He assumed it must have been created by humans, and his father’s dream had always sounded absurd.

But now, he saw it with his own eyes—someone who had been completely human suddenly transformed into... whatever that was. Shaden wasn’t even sure what kind of creature he was looking at.

“That crazy bastard! He didn’t throw away the pill!” the man Shaden had fought earlier shouted in shock.

From that, it became clear that the man who had transfo
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