KEEPTHEBALL

…Ring! [ The Unique Skill ‘Grand Devourer’ has been acquired! ]That’s how it first started.And then… it didn’t stop:[ The Unique Skill ‘Evolve’ has been acquired! —[ The Passive Skill ‘Jelly-like Shapelessness’ has been acquired! —[ The Passive Skill ‘Resistant Body’ has been acquired! —[ The Unique Skill ‘Dwell’ has been acquired! —[ The Unique Skill ‘Skill Copy’ has been acquired! —[ The Passive Skill ‘Mana Perception’ has been acquired! ]Up until…[ The Passive Skill ‘Consciousness’ has been acquired! ]And then I was through—Normally, monster-type creatures don’t just pop up in some random place—let alone a human place—out of the blue, and without notice.Yes, if we’re talking ‘normally’, monsters belong more to places like remote, hostile grounds: they ought to be from dark, nasty forests, old caves, or abandoned, ancient ruins.As I said, it was only so long as we spoke of the usual deal, however. For better or worse, I wasn’t your regular mob.So, forget about all the remote, uneasy places humans hardly go to—all the abandoned forests, caves, or dungeons I, a monster, should have been from—and picture a bright, lively family restaurant, in an oh-so-peaceful human village. A restaurant where people ate, chatted, and jested together, all having a good time, blissfully oblivious to the fact that, very soon, I would be cutting them all down.By magic, a monster-type creature spawned in such a place. It was me.So far, for the few seconds I had been living, it was quite the good life… I got to listen to a fantastic story being told and shared a cool moment with people.However! Following an uncertain course of events, I happened to be put up against a wall, with a sword aimed at my chest, before I was mercilessly killed.I, a unique monster, just spawned in that restaurant, with no clue regarding what was going on.All I knew was that I wanted to live and survive.Also, I knew I wasn’t your regular kind of monster.Thankfully, I’d been granted unique abilities before I showed up.That is how I managed to survive.