The man pulled off a finger. Blood immediately splattered onto the ground, then, as if alive, it slowly floated up toward his severed wound.
Before the wound could heal, however, he suddenly shoved the finger into his mouth.
CRUNCH, CRUNCH—
The sound of chewing raw flesh echoed from his mouth. It was as if he was grinding his own finger to bits before swallowing it whole.
At the same time, the man's missing finger grew back on his hand. In an instant, it had completely regenerated, good as new.
But then, his stomach began to swell rapidly, visible to the naked eye. Like a balloon, it just kept inflating.
Bigger… and bigger…
In the span of a single breath, his stomach had ballooned into a massive sphere. Purplish-blue veins bulged on the surface of his belly, the skin flushed red. In some places, you could even see something bulging and shifting beneath it.
