For Ejie, the desire he enjoyed most now was his appetite.
After all, in that world, it was difficult to have a good meal.
Most of the time, he ate compressed foods or paste-like substances that had no taste or tasted indescribably awful.
These things had decent nutrition, but eating them for long periods was truly unbearable.
After all, he wasn't born and raised in that world, eating them since childhood.
Having been accustomed to various delicious dishes of the 21st century, then switching to this was truly like falling from heaven to hell.
In that world, there was a type of food mockingly called "corpse starch food," which he had naturally also eaten.
Since the word "corpse" was involved, the source of raw materials was obviously quite delicate.
Ordinary animal corpses were fine, but what if human corpses were also used to make food?
The answer was that starch really made from human corpses did exist.
However, this type was generally quite rare. Under normal circumstances, unless extremely dire situations arose, human corpses wouldn't be used for production.
The term "corpse starch" was actually more of a general term for any synthetic food or synthetic materials.
As for synthetic food materials, while human bodies were rarely used, corpses of various chaotic creatures might not be uncommon.
Anyway, overall, due to environmental problems in that world, enjoying good food was quite a luxury.
So now that Ejie had come to a normal world, he was enjoying familiar food again.
"Is your stomach a black hole?"
When Nashida Oriha said this, she also casually reached out her small hand to touch his stomach.
She had to say, this was the first time she'd seen someone who could eat so much—he could participate in a world eating championship.
However, his ability to eat wasn't purely about not being full, but more like someone who had survived in the wilderness for a long time and, after returning to normal society, was frantically enjoying modern cuisine they had been separated from for so long.
And despite eating so much, his stomach barely expanded, which was why Nashida Oriha jokingly called his stomach a black hole.
"What did you used to eat?"
Seeing that he ignored her, she continued asking with great interest.
This time, he did react. Although he didn't speak, he took something out from his body and handed it over.
"What's this? Food?"
Nashida Oriha looked curiously at the several items in her hand. The packaging looked very much like certain biscuits, but quite small—probably only about the size of her thumb.
Opening it to look, inside was a very smooth yellowish-brown biscuit?
This thing was probably compressed biscuits or something similar.
Bringing it to her mouth, she took a bite.
Huh?
She had thought it would be hard as a rock, but actually it wasn't that hard. It felt about like candy, crispy when bitten.
It just seemed to have no taste at all.
So the small piece was swallowed by the seemingly carefree Nashida Oriha.
"Made from corpses."
"Huh?"
Did she not hear clearly? Or did she mishear?
After a brief silence, Nashida Oriha's face gradually couldn't maintain composure, and cold sweat appeared.
"Th-that, you're not joking, right?"
"Not joking. It's corpses."
So why specifically emphasize with the word "corpses"?
Why not say it was made from animal meat or something like that?
After all, the word "corpses" easily made people think of their own kind.
"If you don't believe it, you can take it for testing and discover that it contains a very rich variety of corpse types."
These somewhat playful words made Nashida Oriha's face even paler.
Rich variety?
"You might even discover—the same species."
The words "same species" completely drained all color from Nashida Oriha's face.
Unable to bear it anymore, she instantly ran off—Nashida Oriha really was going to go check.
"Is that really made from corpses?"
"Yes."
Ejie responded to the question from one of two very similar-looking girls who had approached.
These two seemed to have originally seen Nashida Oriha here and had come over with a somewhat confrontational attitude.
So, combined with their fashionable attire—no, it should be said they were dressed like idols about to perform in a concert—it reminded him of the twin sister idols who had also appeared in "Black Lagoon."
As for the compressed block he had just given Nashida Oriha, he indeed hadn't lied—it really was processed from corpses.
These were emergency foods made for him in A2's world, stored in the power armor.
These compressed food blocks were processed from wild animals caught on Earth and some crops.
The bodies of those killed animals could indeed be called corpses.
So saying it was processed from corpses wasn't wrong.
As for this thing, aside from having no taste, it had much better texture than the so-called corpse starch of the Imperium.
Some of them, when eaten, weren't a taste problem but purely a texture problem that really made people want to vomit.
"I say, you're Nashida Oriha..."
"...Hey? Can you listen to what people are saying?"
Ejie directly ignored this, planning to indulge his appetite well during this free time before the formulas were worked out and production succeeded.
Next, he'd order some fried chicken burgers and such.
Hmm?
Noticing something, Ejie raised an eyebrow.
"I say, you bastard..."
Unable to bear it anymore, Mikazuki Helen, being an idol, was very angry.
At first she had spoken to him so politely, but he completely ignored her, which made her furious.
So her angry voice got stuck here because he had suddenly pulled out a pistol and pointed it at her.
Uh, what was this? Was this person sick?
So impatient that he'd threaten her with a gun?
By the way, was this a real gun?
Even if it was real, would he dare shoot?
She wasn't scared—
Bang—
Such a close gunshot, the sound seemed to make her eardrums numb, leaving Mikazuki Helen petrified for an instant.
Then her body instantly went limp and she collapsed to the ground paralyzed.
It felt like some warm fluid had come out too.
"S-sister, are you okay?"
Mikazuki Sumire, being the younger sister, frantically threw herself onto her sister and began checking her over.
"What happened? Why did you shoot? Ah? This is..."
Nashida Oriha, who had just returned and heard the sound, hurried over and saw the situation with the Mikazuki sisters.
Although the older sister of these two sometimes had an aggressive tone and somewhat arrogant attitude, she was actually very kind-hearted—the type of girl who was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted.
It's just that this time she had picked the wrong person.
This guy who had been annoyed wouldn't actually kill someone, would he?
So after running closer, Nashida Oriha noticed another situation and her face changed.
Just three meters behind these sisters, a body lay on the ground—a dead body!
Had the base been breached?
Probably not. Most likely this person had been infected and transformed in this dining hall.
This was terrible!!!
If they had been bitten and then turned into a dead body after hiding in the base, that would be fine.
But if it was caused by eating something, that would be deadly.
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