Subaru hurled Ram to her berserker sister with all of his strength. The same moment he hurled Ram forward, Subaru lowered his body and charged. Rem's gaze was aimed up, preoccupied with her big sister, while Subaru approached from the blind spot closer to the ground. His feet slid as his right hand drew his sword from his waist. In one motion, he sliced through the wind as he slid the blade out of the scabbard, aiming it at the horn on Rem's forehead—the timing was perfect. Even Rem could not respond in time to the sudden attack. But—
A strange paroxysm of pain took over him. The curse was acting up again. His vision blurred with dancing colors. His entire body started to tingle. His stomach felt queasy. He shut his eyes, trying to force the strange feeling away. But the tingling grew stronger as he felt his body trembling. He heard a shrill whistling sound in his ears. His muscles started to ache. He could feel the blood throbbing at his temples. His body is still in motion as it ravages in this strange sensation.
Oh, God. It was too much. Something is wrong. Something is terribly wrong.
He had to blink rapidly in order to clear his vision to see that rising before him was a stunned, horned Rem. She looked entirely..different now. Not just the madness-inducing horn protruding from her head. But her size, her height. The short, petite girl he once effortlessly towered over was now taller…no…larger…almost gigantic.
I've shrunk… Subaru thought as he glided through the air, small as a pill. Even in his tiny state, he could see Rem's bewildered face as a result of this revelation. He had particularly disappeared from sight. Her mouth dropped open and Subaru passed through the pearly gate into the dark moist hell that awaited him. The teeth were smooth statues that towered above him, making the mouth look more like ancient ruins than attached to a living being. As soon as he passed the teeth, his world darkened, the light from outside of the lips not reaching far enough into the cave and they were rapidly closing, further darkening Subaru's surroundings until he could only see the spots swirling in his vision, trying to comprehend the pure blackness surrounding him. His sword, his broken sword was still hardly clutched in his weak hand.
For a brief moment, everything was still. It was the calm before the storm as the base beneath Subaru began to moisten and crumble slightly. Not enough for him to fight free, but enough for him to notice and regain some movement in his arms. Then, the tongue beneath Subaru bucked, slamming him and his ride into the roof of the mouth. The saliva that was left behind smears Subaru to the roof, sticking him there briefly before he falls back down by the force of gravity slamming him back down.
"No!" Subaru had no time to regain his bearings as Rem's tongue began to move. Shifting and fluctuating in her mouth, as if to examine the foreign object in her domain, pushing him deeper into her drool-filled mouth.
All of Subaru's bravado….all of his planning of a happy ending was all stopped still in an instant. The boy barely staved off panic, hoping against hope that he would be able to save Rem from her crazed state. He just hoped that Rem would spit him out, she could definitely smell his scent. She had to spit him out…
Subaru's tiny heart beat a mile a minute. He was rapidly losing faith in the idea that Rem would spit him out. All semblance of composure fled him as her enormous tongue pushed him over to the side of her mouth. Massive, intimidating white molars loomed just above his fragile little body – poised to strike at any instant. He plunged into icy terror and screamed.
"N- no! I'm in he- he- here! P- p- pleas-" . He would be just one chew away from churning away in the belly of Rem, destined for digestion into goop deep inside her. He screwed his eyes shut, ready to accept his fate... before a miracle happened.
Subaru felt himself being pushed, but it wasn't into a set of hard molars. Instead, he was rolling back to the center of the tongue. He could have sobbed with relief but the feeling was short-lived. The enormous, soaking slide underneath him was tipping upward. His heart dropped into his stomach.
Subaru unleashed the loudest cries for help that he could muster, muffled as the waterfalls of drools from the ceiling of her mouth. Still, he struggled fiercely. The boy screamed until his throat was raw and dry with the strain. He was crying now but his tears were just as soon swept away in the torrent of Rem's spit. It was then that Subaru heard something. His mind raced in a million directions but seemed to go nowhere. Breaking through the pandemonium of his terror came the most dreaded sound he could have imagined. The man went still with fear as it throbbed in his ears and sent his entire world crashing.
"GLUP!"
Rem's mighty gulp pushed squirming Subaru down her throat with only slight difficulty. For all his struggling and fighting he did not slow his descent into her waiting gut even a little bit. Strangely enough, however, the deeper Subaru sank the less panicked he became. The boy found himself oddly soothed by the inner workings of Rem's body and her hungry belly. Her heart beat a thundering rhythm somewhere in the pitch darkness. Her stomach gurgled with happy contentment as the last of its food finally was finally coming inside.
All this actually served to calm the frightened boy during his long descent into the belly of the very girl he came to save. He would soon be in for a rude awakening, however. He was abruptly ripped from his soothed state as Rem's throat pushed him unceremoniously into the tight chaos of her full stomach. To Subaru's horror it went right on churning as it had been doing just minutes ago as he dropped inside. His presence made no difference to this nightmare prison other than prompting a loud gurgle.
With darling sister safely in her arms, and Subaru far from her mind, Rem broke out into a mad dash into the forest.
With every movement she made, all the abdominal flexing and splashing was freeing up the excess air bubbles within her. All those extra bits of air that had been gulped down with the rest of her new meal were banding together... and they wanted out. Before she was quite ready for it her mouth opened and she unleashed a powerful belch.
"UUUUUUUURRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPP!"
The boy called out fruitlessly inside Rem's gut before a wave of horrid stomach stench hit him. The mix of meaty stew, strawberries and fresh vegetables mashed together among whatever else had made up Rem's earlier dinner made Subaru gag uncontrollably. The cramped prison he'd been trapped in melted away with ease inside the churning gut, leaving him at the mercy of the contents of the stomach.
"Re-"
The boy barely managed to get these words out of his mouth, retching with disgust the whole way through. Some relief came to him though as his nose finally seemed to give out from the constant barrage. All the while the scared boy continued to yell for help from inside her, banging against the walls of her stomach and squirming in the sopping muck of her digesting meal.
On top of all this Subaru would soon be met with yet another trial. Just as he seemed to be getting his bearings within the thrashing mess of Rem's gut there came a surge of pressure from all sides, squishing together everything inside it to aid its digestion.
The boy could barely manage to stay afloat as the hot, slimy walls of her stomach mashed up and condensed everything inside. The force of them pressed him downward, shoving him underneath the mess that was Rem's food and leaving him even more covered in the liquid mush. The churning and gurgling of her packed stomach rang louder than ever in his ears as he was played around with.
Subaru called out fruitlessly inside Rem's gut before a wave of horrid stomach stench hit him. The mix of meaty stew, chili and fresh vegetables mashed together among whatever else had made up Rem's dinner made Subaru gag uncontrollably. The lump of food he'd been trapped in melted away with ease inside the churning gut, leaving him at the mercy of the contents of the stomach.
Subaru was overcome with terror and grief in equal parts. The two emotions vied for his feelings as if trying to win him to one side in a twisted tug-of-war. All this amidst the unceasing chaos of Rem's gut hard at work on the dinner provided to it. Subaru felt utterly alone. Trapped. Helpless... His only solace came from what felt like rubbing on the outside. It could only have been Rem 's hands, he realized.
Some relief came to him though as his nose finally seemed to give out from the constant barrage. All the while the scared man continued to yell for Rem from inside her, banging against the walls of her stomach and squirming in the sopping muck of her digesting meal.
On top of all this Subaru would soon be met with yet another trial. Just as he seemed to be getting his bearings within the thrashing mess of Rem's gut there came a surge of pressure from all sides. He could only guess that Rem was massaging her own belly, squishing together everything inside it to aid its digestion.
Subaru could barely manage to stay afloat as the hot, slimy walls of her stomach mashed up and condensed everything inside. The force of them pressed him downward, shoving him underneath the mess that was Rem's food and leaving him even more covered in the liquid mush. The churning and gurgling of her packed stomach rang louder than ever in his ears as he was playing around with.
Subaru squirmed and struggled as much as he could to no avail. Rem's belly gave no reaction but to bubble and slosh around even more, as unforgiving as ever. The shrunken human was losing hope. He was sure his situation could get no worse... Until he felt some air bubbles push up against him. All around him it seemed that pressure was building. Countless bubbles were surely scrambling to the top of the stomach as he floated in place. He knew the worst was yet to come.
