Raising A Few Wives in a Beast Apocalypse

"Grrrrl... Rhoof!" The killer dog growled menacingly as it got closer to Muku. With one final bark when it was close enough, it sprinted forward.

Muku was ready to receive it. So, he prepared to jump to the side. However, the dog noticed. It changed the direction of its charge to match where he was about to jump to.

Unfortunately for it. It turned out that it was a feint. Muku stopped himself at the last moment. This made the dog miss him and pass by.

It seemed to have all been part of Muku's plan as he immediately got into position and threw a powerful kick. The kick wasn't aimed at the dog's meaty body. That probably wouldn't do much damage.

He aimed it at its leg instead. The side of the leg join, to be exact. So what if his kicks weren't strong enough to kill it. They were at least strong enough to break its legs right?

Bang!

Crack!

"Howl!"

The dog howled in pain after Muku's kick landed and did what he intended. While he didn't manage to break it all the way like he had hoped, it was enough to disrupt the dog's tempo. As well as reduce its deadliness, so, he was okay with it.

Bang!

"Argh!"

Due to the not-so-serious injury. The dog wasn't instantly incapacitated like the others. In fact, the injury angered it even more. It made a move Muku wasn't expecting. It gave him a heavy kick in the gut with its good leg. Which threw him a distance away.

The kick was so unexpected that it knocked the air out of him. He even vomited some blood as he flew across the sky.

If he was a normal person. It would have definitely killed him. Hell, for a second there, he felt like he was going to die as well.

He grabbed his stomach as he lay on the ground. It hurt so much he could barely keep his eyes open. Which he forced himself to do since he had to keep an eye on the dog.

Fortunately for him, it didn't immediately act. It was also dealing with its own pain at the moment.

However, he didn't get to relax for too long. The dog soon turned his way. Pain would still flash in its eyes from time to time. However, anger was still the dominant force in them.

It slowly limped toward him. Doing its best to ignore the pain. Its hate for him drove it forward. He had taken way too much from it! From its friends to its leg. He had to die!

Muku lay limply on the ground as the dog approached. Both his hands clutched his stomach as he looked on as it approached. A look of helplessness and fear appeared in his eyes. Which the dog noticed and revelled in.

However, it didn't get cocky by slowing down its pace. It had long realised that he wasn't someone it should look down on, no matter the situation. It could only relax after biting off his head...

With that thought, the dog reached Muku's side. It immediately attacked. It opened its large mouth and bit toward his head. It wanted to end it with one attack. Who knew if he had other tricks he could use if it delayed?

Soon, Muku's head was almost in its mouth. Everything was about to end. Muku seemed to have given in to his fate as his eyes were shut.

That's when...

Whoosh!

"Howl! Gurgle gurgle" The dog howled in pain one more time then fell back. It then began choking on its blood as it lay on the floor...

.....

A few moments before...

Muku was hit in the gut by the dog and found it hard to even move. He instantly ran out of ideas of what to do in his incapacitated state. He was even thinking of dragging himself away while the dog was still trying to get used to the pain.

Something happened just as he was about to do so...

[You've successfully killed two peak rank one beasts. Gained reward! Slight improvement to physical capabilities×2]

Muku heard an unfamiliar and odd prompt in his head. Unfamiliar in the fact that he had never heard of such a reward for killing beasts. It has always been KP from day one.

And weird in the fact that the voice was different. It wasn't the usual cold female voice he was used to. It was a male voice this time... Though still cold.

Well, whatever, the event couldn't have occurred at a better time. The reward didn't just improve his physical strength like the prompt said. It also healed his condition to some extent.

While he wasn't returned to his tip-top state. The pain he felt was reduced by half. Which was enough for him to move again, though painfully.

It was all he needed. Now he had a fighting chance. Especially with his slightly improved strength. He should be able to catch the dog off guard if he played his cards right...

Anyway, he sneakily took the remaining stake he had tucked into his trousers. At the back.

It was one of two stakes he had made in the lounge. It was during the time the beasts were hesitating to go on. He broke apart a couch to get the wood. Which he then shaped with his axe.

They were definitely roughly made. However, they were still very effective. Which the killer dog he stabbed in the eye could attest to.

Anyway, when the killer dog finally started paying attention to him. Everything was already in order. He carefully hid the stake. He put on his best act for the dog. He felt that his acting was so good that it could trick a human, let alone a R1 beast.

While he had a plan which he was committed to. He still felt nervous. After all, things could always go wrong. Like how he was unexpectedly kicked in the gut.

That nervousness probably made his act more believable. So, while the dog thought it had taken proper precautions. It probably wasn't as cautious as it should have been. Which contributed to the success of Muku's plan.

Just when the dog was about to bite Muku's head off. Muku made his move. With his current fastest speed, ignoring his pain. He stabbed right into the killer dog's fully opened mouth.

The stake easily pierced through the killer dog's weak inner mouth flesh. It then got lodged at the back of the dog's throat. It blocked the killer dog's throat. Which prevented it from breathing properly. It soon fell to the ground in its struggle to breathe.

.....

Back to the present...

The dog's mouth bled extensively. Which, of course, led to it choking on its blood. In less than two minutes, the dog which couldn't remove the stake was dead...

Unfortunately for it, it didn't have humanoid hands. So, there was no way it could reach into its mouth and take the stake out.

It died with its mouth open, while looking into empty air. Instead of pain, there was a look of disbelief frozen in its eyes. It was greatly surprised by how it died.

It had taken so many precautions. It didn't take Muku lightly. It acted at its fastest speed. Yet it still lost. How could it not be in disbelief??

Its death was definitely unfair! It had lost to the plot armour, not Muku. A normal person would have definitely been killed by it.

"Argh! Finally, it's over..." Muku spoke to himself as he lay back down. He had gotten another prompt after the dog's death. This improved his condition some more. It pretty much returned him to peak condition.

However, he was still spent. The adrenaline rush ended the moment he got the prompt. All the tiredness his adrenaline had been holding back, flooded in all at once.

It had been a long time since the last time he felt physically tired after a battle. In his recent battles, he'd either be completely fine or be completely beaten up to a pulp. Neither was actually physical exhaustion. So, the feeling felt slightly alien. However, he didn't dislike it. It was a sign of his hard work!

"Wait... Weren't there four killer dogs? Why did I get prompts for only three of them?" Muku, who was enjoying his tiredness, suddenly thought out loud after calming down a bit.

He immediately felt a cold chill go down his spine. Since when did he make such newbie mistakes?! Even when he was a newbie, he never did such a thing. Had his usual strength got to his head?!

He didn't stay down as he thought such things. He quickly got up and made his way to his axe while cautiously looking around.

By the time he grabbed his axe. He had noticed that three of the dogs were definitely dead. The one he stabbed in the eye bled to death. The one he sliced open also died and the last one he stabbed in the mouth was also dead.

Which only meant one thing. It was the dog he axed on the head that wasn't counted for.

So, he cautiously made his way to the principal's office again. His axe was tightly held in hand. He couldn't help but feel nervous.

He and the dog had pretty much switched roles after all. Unlike before, he was the one who had to go through the door uncertainly.

However, it had to be done. The dog seemed to be waiting for him to come since it hadn't appeared despite being alive.

It was going against the script though. In such situations, it should have appeared and attacked him when he mentioned it. Such a dumb dog. It definitely deserved death!

Soon, Muku stood by the door. He looked in from a little distance away. There was no way he was going to rush in after all.

"Okay. That's just anticlimactic" Muku spoke to himself while looking into the room...