In no time, Yun You had devoured several pounds of meat skewers, chugged down three large glasses of orange juice, and polished off over ten bags of barbecue-flavored compressed biscuits as if they were small snacks.

For an ordinary person, this amount of food would be enough to burst their stomach.

But for Yun You, food containing tens of thousands of calories only served as an appetizer...

It should be said that the Apprentice Death God and most people who have undergone gene modification have an insatiable stomach.

The law of energy conservation is an unchanging rule of the universe. Although some superpowers can transcend these rules, when it comes to physical aspects, one must obediently comply.

Yun You's strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, so the energy she requires is naturally quite immense, which leads to the problem of never feeling full no matter how much she eats.

Old Jin once told her that, under normal circumstances, an Apprentice Death God's physical strength comes from their own soul.

A Death God can decompose soul energy to obtain the nutrients and physical strength their body needs.

However, this method is extremely inefficient, akin to using a match to boil water; it might take half a month to fully recover all strength.

Therefore, the vast majority of Apprentice Death Gods still need to eat, using more direct and efficient means of energy acquisition to replenish their lost strength.

Of course, Yun You had heard that a very few Apprentice Death Gods adopt more extreme methods, such as carrying a mini nuclear bomb to trigger at critical moments, absorbing the massive energy inside to quickly restore physical strength...

But the young girl felt this was quite unrealistic. After all, nuclear devices were so dangerous. Even for an Apprentice Death God, there should be no way to safely absorb all of its power...

This might just be some Death God's bragging.

...

"Crunch~ Crunch~"

Watching the young girl devour the meat rolls like a whirlwind, Jack couldn't help but be a little stunned.

"How long has it been since this child had a proper meal?"

He couldn't help but think but continued preparing ingredients with his hands.

"Slow down, there's no rush... I'll grill some more Mexican Burritos for you, they have more meat and are quite filling."

"Mm! Mm!"

The young girl mumbled indistinctly and continued to bury her head in the food.

"Speaking of which..."

Jack stirred the firewood with a branch, speaking softly, "Since we've known each other, we still don't know your story, Chica."

"Are you interested in sharing?"

Surprised by the sudden question, Yun You was initially dazed but soon realized and nodded.

"I, from a certain point of view, am actually quite similar to the 'bird in a cage' Jack once mentioned, trapped in a cage made of the mind..."

"But I'm different from you, Jack... To be precise, the sequence of being trapped is different."

Yun You put down the skewer in her hand and closed her eyes, as if reminiscing about the past.

"My childhood was the exact opposite of Jack's. I was an ordinary person living in the lower class area."

"Both my parents were ordinary workers, and conditions at home were never very affluent. Forget about luxury steaks; even untainted meat was something we could only get on holidays."

"However, my parents were very enlightened, unlike the Carlos Family, which had rules that meddled in everything... They supported and embraced me in every possible way, pouring all their love on me."

"I was very fortunate; from the start, I was like the 'free bird' Jack described."

"But as you know, things in Nest City are often terrible; beauty never belongs to the lower classes, nor to the poor."

Speaking of which, Yun You's voice gradually deepened.

"An accident... or it's called an accident, a deliberate massacre by an Apprentice Death God is far too common in the lower class; you should know about this, right?"

"..."

Jack was slightly taken aback, then nodded.

Though the Apprentice Death Gods' reputation among common folk was decent, often being portrayed as 'the guardian deity of the people,' Jack certainly wasn't an ordinary person...

As a former member of an underground crime group, Jack naturally knew what most Apprentice Death Gods really were.

Slaughtering their own, finding amusement in human lives, using torments and unspeakable acts akin to evil rituals to derive even the slightest thrill...

If gigantic corporations were the root of Nest City's corruption and decay, then the Apprentice Death Gods, those who transcended mortals, were the greatest backing and support of the corporate system.

And the Carlos Clan had done dirty work for the Apprentice Death Gods before, understanding their methods, so Jack could naturally comprehend... the overwhelming hatred in the young girl's tone.

"And coincidentally, one massacre happened right near my home."

"Just like previous incidents, almost everyone died, including my parents, but I... perhaps out of sheer luck after using a lifetime's worth, survived by a narrow margin."

Yun You lowered her head and said softly, "Surprised, right? This Apprentice Death God once almost died at the hands of Death Gods."

"Mm..."

Jack nodded.

He truly hadn't expected that this young girl, whom he thought half an hour ago was a scion of a great family, came from a lower-class background and had such a grim past.

"From that moment on, I silently vowed to myself to kill all Apprentice Death Gods... It sounds incredible, doesn't it? As grand and difficult as the ideals of you and your sister."

Yun You shook her head, calmly saying, "But my mind has no room for anything else, filled only with killing... Killing."

"Yet later on, as you've seen, in pursuit of the power to seek vengeance, I instead became the Apprentice Death God I hated most, which is quite ironic."

"At the same time, I also realized that not all Apprentice Death Gods are innately irredeemably vile... Like my teacher, he's a good person, or so I think..."

"So now, my goal has become straightforward, which is to kill four Apprentice Death Gods, the four who participated in that massacre."

"Just as Jack said he was trapped in a birdcage, I am similarly confined in a cage; only this cage named 'Hatred' is one I forged myself."

Saying this, Yun You slowly extended her hand, looking at her blood-stained nails, her emotional state unusually calm.

"For me, the most meaningful thing in life is to personally chop off those scumbags' heads."

"This is my goal, and also the birdcage on the spiritual level."

"But... I don't hate it because I live for it, the word 'revenge' being the meaning of my existence, Yun You."

"Everything I do is to accomplish it... As long as I can get revenge, as long as I can crush my enemies, even if it means being shattered to pieces, it's worth it."

Yun You lowered her head, chewing the meat, word by word...

"This kind of life, this kind of cage, I have no regrets."

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