Berserk of Gluttony - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Devouring

[MangaDex]

 

[AbuHajaar]

This manga in a nutshell

 

[GurenNoOu]

A bloodthirsty Kirito has appeared.
Black hair, check
Black cloak, check
One handed sword, check
Lone-wolf personality, check.

 

[gaylard]

mhm yes, who could this mysterious new character be?

 

[neil1985]

So I am wondering is this a case that he will need to "devour" more souls the higher his stats get? Like that is not sustainable and most people would have the mental faculties to realise that pretty quickly.

 

[Serenata]

In page 6 he forgot to say #NoHomo

 

[seekermoc]

@Neil1985

Yeah, that's how they make it sound. This will spiral out of control pretty quick.

 

[aFFi]

Mmmh, seems like we have another dumb as hell MC.
If I were to learn that I have a skill that makes me stronger the more I kill, BUT! I have to continue killing stronger and stronger opponents to keep living, I might think twice before committing genocide on the hobgoblins. I would, before anything else, keep myself just fed enough to not die, while searching for a way to stop the hunger or put a maximum cap on it.

But our MC doesn't care. After killing a few goblins, they are already not enough. Since he went and killed a whole village of hobgoblins, next chapter he'll probably kill an ogre, then an ogre's village, then behemoths, then dragons, dragonewts, high elves, demi gods and finally gods.

That means that this manga will be over in 14 chapters, or he will have to find something stronger than a God to add 2 chapters more...
Or someone will present the solution to our hero without him having to search for it, or even think about it.

 

[Wolvenworks]

ouch right thru the mouth...

 

[neil1985]

@seekermoc

Like I get wanting to add drama with the plot hook. But I am guessing if the seemingly accelerated rate that this seems to happen that this entire story end pretty quickly with either genocide of humans, monsters or the self sacrifice route.

Edit: There seems to be 80+ chapters of the source LN, so I am guessing it is not that quick. Or the populations in the area are massive.

 

[nfzeta]

@aFFi You're jumping ahead of yourself aren't you? He hunted the goblins and hobgoblins just until the starvation boost receded, the fact that he had that boost in the first place means he wasn't 'eating' as much as he should and he stopped right after the starvation boost ended, he wasn't necessarily full.

 

[CoolOtamegane]

When he lost his sanity, He'll massacre all in front of him while Shout "SUTARBUSTOOO SUTREAMMMUUU!!!!"
ops wrong manga.....

 

[Sola]

Spoiler

LOL This is turning so chuunibyou. And as a result, it's becoming more and more difficult to take it even remotely seriously.

"I gotta have mah dark tattered cloak, and mah glowing red eyes. Oh no, stay back! I can't control teh powerz sealed within me!"
Randomly shouts, "Starvation BOOST!" and then hollers a visceral growl while charging into enemies, eyes glowing sporadically. I can already envision how a hypothetical anime would handle it: A zoom in on the eyes glinting/flashing, him taking some kind of stance, and then moving so fast as if seeming to teleport, multiple sword slashes all over the place, fuckin goblin body parts scattering every which way.

I'm going to keep reading so I can enjoy it purely as a comedy and just to see the extent of how hilariously bad it gets.


@aFFi

"I would, before anything else, keep myself just fed enough to not die, while searching for a way to stop the hunger or put a maximum cap on it."

I was thinking the same as you, but I'm glad to see others commenting about how poorly Fate is managing the positive feedback loop of Gluttony.

Since he's gaining skills and not just stats, maybe when he finally reaches god-tier level and gains "teh god skillz," he'll use his newfound power to simply wipe away the Gluttony skill from himself. And then be promptly, and hilariously, depowered back down to a useless level 1 with crappy stats. Better hope he didn't leave anyone alive who bears a grudge against him. ?

Indeed. A poorly managed positive feedback loop.

 

[aFFi]

@nfzeta

he wasn't necessarily full

Spoiler

He's literally saying he'll kill until he's full. Textually. In the same chapter you're currently commenting on.

 

[070nahu]

@Serenata he didn't forget

 

[nfzeta]

@aFFi Truth is I forgot about that line, maybe because the rest of it doesn't sound like he's talking about being actually full. I'm not sure if that's a translation thing or when he talked about 'it' subsiding he meant his overall hunger and not the starvation. Even so thing I don't see hunger 'subsiding' as him eating until he's full.
Well the next few chapters will tell for sure.

 

[Velsy]

Not really liking this plot.. that O so hungry I have to kill to feed. and then kill more thing. Then as others have already said, he dresses up as Chuunibyou is getting lame and edgy route. .. If he was getting hungry for pussy, that be an interesting development.... for research! yeah research.

#Goblinsdidnothingwrong , bet they were out at night flower picking and MC stormed in and slaughtered them all No wonder they were standing around doing nothing.

 

[Glomoro]

A bloodthirsty Kirito has appeared.
Black hair, check
Black cloak, check
One handed sword, check
Lone-wolf personality, check.

Can we come together as a community, and stop acting like Kirito invented black hair and clothes? Black clothes are an easy way to make a character look decent in stuff like this, and black hair is kind of the norm for characters from Japan unless it's gone full neon rainbow hair, and everyone was born with natural hair colors that look like the artists threw darts at a color wheel and then saturation by a similar method.

I'm not sure I even want to give you the point about the sword, since the only reason Kirito even went one handed was to hide his unique dualwielding skill, or the lone-wolf thing since this guy totally just wants to live the peaceful life serving at that chick's home. Shooting the shit with the other hired help, having tea breaks with his friend and employer. Such a loner.

 

[valconius]

At first, I thought this was Edgy.

Secondly, I percieved this as Kichikuou Rance 2, No-Sex Boogaloo.

Hrm... ah, well... this guy is already a genocidal maniac by chapter 5, so maybe this is actually an unironically dark manga.

What if you made a monster factory? Use your mad skills to make money. Use your mad money to make a minecraft-esque slime breeder factory. Convert all of the matter in a square kilometer into a mush pit, and develop picker-upper robots to scoop slimes into a hopper. Attach your sword to a lever, then pull. Qualitatively assess your reduction in hunger, then adjust Dial 96 accordingly. If your hunger continues to grow into a slime-extinction state, increase capacity to four kilometres square. Meanwhile, slay dragons 'n stuff to raise capital for 3D lithography slime soul making. Eventually, you can make a microfluidics computer that uses your own bloodstream's sugar content to manufacture slimes who quickly enter an accellerated virtual world in a 70THz 9248-core soul maturation accellerator. You can adjust ~/.config/genocide.exe/satiation.conf to increase the micro-slime feed rate over time, and you can enjoy slimes made, lived, and slaughtered in-vivo without worrying about the negative consequences of murdering five billion souls every day! By specifying "interpolator": "direct-data-steream.dll", you can even analyze your hunger over time to use neural networks to auto-adjist the slime feed rate, so this really is a one-stop fire-and-forget solution to the gluttony disease. We include three choices of corporate religion to choose from so that you can rest easy knowing becoming a mass murderer isn't going to send you to the hell of your non-choice, and if you act now, we'll even throw in two autokarichal religio-cultural memesets so you can pretend exterminating a galaxy of nano-slimes to keep up with your hyperexponentiating hunger isn't deserving of nothing but hell, that in fact you're going to heaven! Unfortunately, you must increase your dietary intake to keep up with the slime info-mechano-fluidic nanoforges, so you too become the Berserk of Gluttony today, only 999,999 yen and twenty tanzanian pesos, order now!

 

[SanitaryCockroach]

Great dental work on that goblin.