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The name Eugene is a fairly androgynous name. Maybe that’s why, when I was an immature elementary school student, I was tied up with a girl with the same name in my class and made fun of.

I once asked my mother, who gave me the name, why she gave me that name. The answer that came back was that it was a name that could be used anywhere abroad.

However, it was not a reason that appealed to me, as I had no intention of going to Japan, which was the closest place, let alone Europe.

My thoughts changed after I came to my senses and found myself in a different world.

“Wow…….”

I couldn’t close my mouth reflexively at the beautiful colors of nature unfolding before my eyes.

By the time I got used to the visual stimulation, I couldn’t close my mouth for another reason. This is because the situation that came to me was extremely unreasonable.

“Where is this….”

There was no need to look back on the last memory. Because I was clearly sitting in front of the computer and looking at trash on the community.

But without lies or exaggeration, I blinked once and the world changed. It wasn’t like I got hit by a truck.

There was no sign that anything would change just by sitting still, so I took a step first. As I walked through the vast meadow, miraculously, I came across a path.

In addition, there were golden rice fields on both sides of the road, so it seemed like there was a very high probability of meeting someone.

‘No, it might not be a person, right?’

The landscape suddenly turned upside down, and I had no expectation that this was Korea, or at least Earth.

The imagination that the media has instilled in today’s teenagers and people in their 20s is so rich. On the contrary, if it were not from another world, it would be beyond expectations.

“Ah… over there!”

I happened to see farmers working in the fields, so I was happy to talk to them. Naturally, words did not make sense.

However, despite the complete lack of communication, the farmers walked me to the village with warm smiles and treated me to a meal.

I was amazed that the dark brown, cloudy soup tasted similar to consommé soup in the world, and as I enjoyed it, I suddenly felt drowsy.

“What the fuck.”

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself tied with rope.

“They say that rural people’s exclusion of outsiders has gone too far… It seems to work even in other worlds.”

The problem was that everything, including facial features and skin color, was similar, so we relaxed.

Two middle-aged men armed with spears and armor appeared and locked me in a wooden prison.

There were a total of 10 people in the prison, including me, looking shabby, regardless of gender or age.

“What the fuck! Solve this!”

I screamed loudly. Thinking that they also didn’t understand me, I swore a hundred different things, but when one of the men pointed a spear at me, they automatically silenced me.

“Wow… this is so frustrating, really…”

Even if I want to complain to someone, it’s driving me crazy because I can’t communicate. Anyway, the prison that imprisoned 10 people, including me, was loaded onto a wagon and started heading somewhere.

As I looked intently at the people in the same situation as me, everyone had a look of resignation on their faces. There was no trace of life and it was like watching a cow being dragged to a slaughterhouse.

“No, I haven’t done anything major wrong in my life, so why!”

The only mistake you made was applying to graduate school? As if that were a crime in this world, the wagon train entered a deserted forest.

I felt like my butt was going to explode after walking on what was politely called a paved road for a long time, but the huge cave that soon appeared was so majestic that it made me forget all about the pain in my lower body.

‘Wow… surely you’re not a mine slave? ‘Rather be a living sacrifice.’

I joked in the upper town that I was hoping that it wouldn’t be a coal mine that people only go to if they commit a serious crime, and that turned out to be exactly the case.

The people who led the procession left the prison where I was imprisoned.

As I watched their backs running away, I could indirectly see how scary the creatures living in the cave were.

‘Is it a bear the size of a house? No… if it was just an animal, you would have exterminated it, right? It must be an unbelievable monster…’

As if laughing at my thoughts, the person who came out of the cave was a woman wearing a white cooking uniform. With one hand, she dragged the prison where people, including me, were imprisoned, and entered the cave.

After a moment of being taken aback by the terrifying strength that was completely unknown from the outside, the woman opened the prison door and dragged me and the small girl out.

“Ouch!”

The place I arrived at, dragging my leash, was surprisingly in front of the door. The person who dragged me in knocked lightly twice, opened the door, and pushed me and the girl inside.

“What on earth are you doing here…?”

Chairs lined up at regular intervals on a long table. The view in front of me was clearly a place where people were eating. The only thing I was wondering was why something like this was in the cave.

“Hee… Hee!”

The girl who came with me was scared and cowered. As I wondered why, I looked forward and saw an exotic-looking woman sitting at the head of the table.

Even without proper lighting, the shiny silver hair and red eyes that seemed to be studded with rubies created the illusion that it was not a person but a statue made of jewels.

“Ah….”

That illusion disappeared as she moved. There’s no way the statue would move anyway.

After she lightly waved one hand, the wind that you might feel when a train comes in from the subway passed by my cheek.

Pow! A dull sound follows later. A large amount of warm liquid splashed onto the left side of my body, accompanied by the sound made when something juicy like a tomato or watermelon explodes.

When I unintentionally tasted the liquid that splashed out of the corner of my mouth, it was a familiar metallic taste. The moment I realized that, my body became as hard as a stone.

I might have reflexively turned my head to check the truth, but at some point, I was filled with fear of what might happen if I took my eyes off the beautiful girl in front of me, who was chewing the bright red meat in her hand.

“…….”

There was silence in the room for a while. I couldn’t even make a sound under my breath, and the ‘monster’, who was enjoying his meal to the fullest, did not make any sound while eating with good manners.

“…What are you?”

Surprisingly, it was not my scream that broke the long silence, but her question. The voice was so calm and languid that it was hard to believe that it was a monster that had just turned a girl into a mess and was eating her flesh.

“No… more than that… Can we communicate?”

Given the situation, it was too late to be surprised.

It seemed like a bad joke that I was suddenly dropped into another world, unable to communicate, being offered as a living sacrifice, and then being able to communicate with the monster that was going to eat me.

To be precise, it was a strange situation in which surprisingly I was able to understand the meaning even though it was a language I knew nothing about.

“Hehe… The reaction is interesting. Because verbs can convey the meaning itself.”

“Even though I can hear… how can you understand what I’m saying?”

verb. When I mentioned the language of dragons, which often appears in fantasy, I felt like I had a vague idea of the other person’s identity.

Nevertheless, when I verbalized the question that remained in my head, she responded with a cute smile that made it hard to believe that she had just committed murder.

“Hahaha! You don’t understand? Isn’t it just because what you think and what you say are the same?”

What he meant was that the creature in front of him could read other people’s thoughts. At that moment, I felt like I knew a little why the child next to me was eaten first and not me.

She responded even though I didn’t say anything else, as if to drive home the idea that she was reading my thoughts.

“That’s right. It was too loud.”

He was not so young that he did not know his situation. In the meantime, I was so scared that a scream escaped my mouth, so I must have felt terrible inside.

The only question that remains is that the young child, who on the outside was just a beautiful girl, felt afraid.

“Ugh… I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but I can really think like that without hesitation…”

“Oops.”

I just had the impression from my first impression that it was pretty.

However, from the perspective of someone who can read your mind, when you first meet someone, they say, ‘You’re as beautiful as a jewel.’ I thought it was a statue.’ Isn’t this like throwing out a work comment like this?

“Hehe… You’re handsome too.”

“…Uh, thank you?”

I was late to react again to the unexpected compliment. The atmosphere started to turn strange. I thought I was definitely going to get eaten…

“Huh? But, you didn’t plan on eating it in the first place?”

The silver-haired dragon said and snapped his fingers. Then the door I came in through was carefully opened, and the woman who had dragged me and the girl came in and started cleaning up the ‘traces of eating.’

“Male humans are not tasty, but they are a little stronger than females. Fortunately, it doesn’t break easily.”

To interpret and summarize the hidden meaning, it means to treat women as food and men as toys.

It was only then that I realized why the gender ratio of people in prison is exactly 5:5.