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“Die! Die! Die!”

The dwarf, no bigger than his thumb, was swinging her dainty limbs, her face flushed crimson.

The dwarf, who called herself an Elf, looked similar to a human, but her ears were slightly longer and she was breathtakingly beautiful.

While giants or humans always had some slightly crude features, her form was so perfect that when she first took off the headwear and showed her face, he had stared blankly.

However, he now knew how terrifying her short limbs were as they flailed, despite her adorable appearance.

Each time her fist landed, the spot caved in and rippled, bringing pain that resonated through his entire body, like when his father used to slap him in anger for doing something wrong before he died.

“Ugh… ugh! Stop! Stop!”

“Waaah… It hurts! It hurts! Mommy!”

The giant Golb watched his younger brother, Silb, huddled next to him, crying and enduring the violence while calling for their mother.

How had they, who feared nothing but other Titans, ended up like this?

As if in a flashback that warriors were said to have before death, Golb traced back to the past.

He had gone hunting as usual with his slightly dim-witted brother.

Titans weren’t the only type of giant, but if there was one thing they all had in common, it was that giants ate as much as they were big.

They always needed a lot of housing, clothes, and food, so all giants living outside the giant capital had to be diligent to survive.

After his mother saw them off, they decided on today’s hunting ground.

It wasn’t anything special, really.

Giants were too conspicuous, and prey disappeared as soon as they saw a giant from afar, so they weren’t easy to catch and there wasn’t much of them.

It was easier to catch the fearless, large ones that recklessly charged at them, but the problem was that these were tough, tasteless, and had a gamey smell.

So, while they did hunt sometimes, they basically just chose one of the few paths that humans used and waited.

The things humans made were small but of good quality.

If they blocked the road and demanded passage fees, they would hand over various goods they were transporting or even make things for them.

The tattered clothes he was wearing were also obtained through a trade with humans.

Well, those who had nothing or lacked goods would fill the gap with their companions.

Humans were softer than the beasts of the fields and forests, so they were quite a delicacy.

That’s why there were days when they came up empty, but today, he was looking forward to seeing what would pass by as he settled down behind the rocky mountain path.

They had recently raided other places a few times, so there might be fewer humans passing by, so he chose this place, which they hadn’t raided recently.

Leaving his brother sprawled out, Golb blankly looked up at the sky and sensed a presence approaching the rocky mountain.

But what was strange was that the presence wasn’t large, but he felt something huge.

Puzzled by the contradictory sensation, he slapped his brother, who was sprawled out asleep, to wake him up.

Crack!

“Wake up, you!”

“Kkihing-!”

Ignoring the guy who screamed an unknown scream and stroked the spot he was hit, he went out to the path.

What was approaching was a large stag.

It was unusual for a deer to be on such a path, which wasn’t a forest and had traces of humans.

“Brother, it’s a deer, a deer.”

“What? I felt like something big was caught, but is it just a deer? Huh? What’s on its back?”

Looking closely, there was a green mass slightly hidden behind the deer’s Antler.

“Wow… there was a 8 Elte tall wolf, but I didn’t think there would be a 8 Elte tall human?

What was riding the deer was a small human.

He had seen humans riding horses, but he had never seen them riding deer.

Horses were timid, but deer were even more timid, and they rarely allowed anyone on their backs.

Above all, they were smaller and weaker than horses, so they didn’t have the strength to carry humans around.

After that, they continued the conversation.

He felt a great energy, but all there was was a deer and a tiny human.

He wondered if there was an ambush to catch him, even though he wouldn’t be defeated by dwarves.

However, at the end of the story, it turned out that the dwarf was alone, and above all, she said that she wasn’t a human but an Elf.

Then, the face she showed after taking off what she was wearing on her head was truly beautiful.

As he stared in a daze, the Elf dwarf made strange gestures like a human sorcerer and made a loud noise.

And she said that she was a martial artist and trained her strength…

He couldn’t help but want to show her what was what, since she was showing off her strength in front of the children of Terato, the giants who moved mountains, who were Titans.

When he showed her his strength, she looked shocked as if her soul had left her body!

Then the Elf dwarf seemed to have hurt her pride, and she prayed to some tree that was her mother or the Earth Mother, but it didn’t reach him.

Trees were only good for firewood or building houses, so why would you use them for anything else?

She must be a dwarf because she was born from such a ridiculous thing.

That’s why she didn’t have this huge body and strong strength and was always being taken advantage of.

If she said that tree was a god or something in front of him, he would find an axe that fit his hand and use it as a bundle of firewood.

She said something about enduring rudeness, but in the end, the guy who only suppressed his anger muttered for a while.

I was getting bored and decided to just take this Elf and deer as today’s prey.

Unlike a group of humans, a single dwarf Elf wouldn’t have much.

However, he wanted to distort her cute face, so he tried to threaten her, but his stupid brother suddenly made a fuss.

“Hehe… I want to marry her.”

Terato forbid, he knew his brother was stupid, but he didn’t know he was this stupid.

And when he said he was going to make babies, even the wise and brave Titan himself was speechless for a moment.

But even if he was stupid, Silb was his brother.

As a brother, he had a duty to lead him on the right path.

He wanted to try eating an Elf, but he was thinking of letting him keep her as a pet for his brother’s sake.

He explained and persuaded him in various ways.

But yes… the situation that caused the current situation started from then.

“That’s not even a woman.”

The Elf dwarf’s appearance was pretty, but it was obvious to anyone that she wasn’t a woman.

What did humans call that kind of thing?

A gigolo, I think.

A man shouldn’t be pretty like a woman, but sturdy and strong.

However, he should have been sensitive to the fact that the energy around him was becoming strange from that moment on.

“…breasts to feed milk…”

“…not a woman…”

He should have felt the star-like eyes of the Elf dwarf in front of him gradually darkening.

「Stop」

A command that echoed in his head.

The Elf dwarf in front of him had become ‘something unknown’.

Only then could Golb understand.

The identity of the huge thing from before.

The Elf dwarf, who was less than half his size, suddenly seemed to have grown as big as him.

“I, El-Araya, the seventh daughter of El-Prigion, as a Regulator who upholds a mission and rights, swear in the name of the Mother Goddess El-Prigion, who protects me in the place where life is born, to punish those who insult the Mother Goddess and mock all things on earth like beasts with their innate Divine Power, with a clear attitude as a Regulator.”

She spewed out words that he couldn’t even understand like a waterfall.

At that moment, his vision shook.

No.

“Kkeo———–eo—–eo”

To be exact, he was collapsing.

He couldn’t even breathe properly.

When he looked at his abdomen, where a terrible pain was occurring, there was a line of light connected.

His belly, which had even blocked the teeth of large beasts, was mercilessly caved in around the Elf dwarf’s tiny fist, and the surrounding flesh was rippling.

“Uh? Hyelkyek.”

In the blink of an eye, the line of light that had connected from his abdomen to Silb’s jaw, who was approaching with concern, silenced Silb, who was about to open his mouth.

“Si…Silb”

“You have time to spare. Do you have time to worry about others?”

A chill ran down his spine at the sight of the Elf dwarf looking up at him expressionlessly from below his kneeling form.

“What…what are you…”

“Hmm. You boasted about your strength, whether you’re a Terato or a Titan, so I wondered how great you were, but can’t you even see properly?”

In an instant, the Elf in front of him seemed to disappear, and the vision he had been looking down on with pain in his jaw was now looking up at the sky.

“Well, roughly, it’s like this.”

The Elf landed on his face, which had been thrown up into the sky.

And she sat on his face and continued to speak.

“I don’t really care that giants eat humans. In the story of the ecosystem stage, even if the higher entity eats the lower entity, it can feel uncomfortable as a victim, but it’s too shallow a definition to define it as right or wrong.”

“You bastard!”

Golb slapped the Elf on his face, but the Elf disappeared at some point and he heard a voice from below.

“Bugs are eaten by birds or small animals, those animals are eaten by bigger animals, those big animals are eaten by humans, and humans are eaten by giants. And when that giant rots away someday, its corpse will become nutrients for small creatures.”

“It’s a basic cycle, and everything eventually dies and is eaten in a total carnivorous cycle.”

He swung his palm at the dwarf who was kicking the ground and spouting nonsense.

“The reason I’m angry now is not because I’m in an unfair situation in such a basic natural principle.”

The hand that was covering the Elf felt his body floating in an instant as it covered the guy.

He didn’t know what it was, but his body, which seemed to be 6 times bigger than the Elf’s position, was flipped over.

“Keuheok!”

‘No way!’

Golb was shocked and unable to breathe for a moment as he was slammed into the ground with his own weight, but what was even more shocking was that he had been flipped over by a dwarf Elf who was less than half his size, not even another Titan.

“What I’m discussing is respect for each other as intelligent beings.”

The Elf’s expression, who had achieved such an amazing feat, was still expressionless.

The lightless green eyes seemed to suck in his soul like an abyss.

From that moment on, Golb no longer saw this beautiful Elf as beautiful.

“Even if you saw this body as prey, you should have proper respect for the prey and gratitude for continuing life with life.”

As he staggered back, Golb felt an emotion he had long forgotten from the sight of the Elf slowly following him with her short legs.

“Insulting my Mother Goddess, reminding me of the nightmares of the past that I wanted to forget even in my dreams with the body I received from her, and finally, enslaving this body as a pet.”

As the Elf disappeared again, he frantically looked around and heard a voice from below.

“Does your arrogance stem from the height of giants who look down on others?”

And the sensation of his legs twisting and his legs were already flailing in the air.

Thud!

“Well, now our eye level is about right.”

In front of Golb, who had fallen so disgracefully, was a small Elf who was furious with a face like a demon, breaking her expressionless face.