Chapter 15 (Beast Complex)

The Python and the Hyena (ニシキヘビとハイエナ) is the fifteenth chapter of Beast Complex.

Synopsis
At a high school, a python student named Kameji is happy to be able to crawl through the corridors without feeling the trembling of the other students' footsteps, as he is always early. Upon entering the classroom, Kameji witnesses the worst tragedy that can happen in an empty classroom first thing in the morning, finding the body of a student who committed suicide, hanging himself on one of the ceiling beams.

Kameji screams loudly and upon discovering that this student's body is still warm, deducing that the subject was alive recently, Kameji cuts the rope with his fangs and upon looking closely at the student's face he discovers that it is the thug of the school, the hyena Murou, a bully of whom Kameji has been a constant victim. Although he is not sure if Murou is completely dead, Kameji wonders why Murou would try to commit suicide and decides that he should call a teacher, but Kameji becomes paranoid and although he is the first witness to the tragedy and was only trying to help, seeing the situation From another perspective, in which a bullied student discovers that his bully committed suicide by hanging himself, they might think that he strangled him with his body.

Snakes are malicious, you never know what they are thinking and that is why people turn away from him, malicious words that Murou himself had said to him, Kameji feels like even from his apparent death, Murou continues to torture him. Kameji hears someone about to enter the room and in an impulsive act of panic, Kameji quickly engulfs Murou's body completely, upon entering the teacher sees Kameji's exaggeratedly swollen body and through the snakes' digestive system, he assumes that Kameji just eat a lot for breakfast. Kameji realizes that he just swallowed his classmate while trying to hide it, and surprisingly managed to swallow his whole body. Throughout the class Kameji wonders if people are suspicious seeing him so swollen and wonders what he should do, Kameji supposes that being a python could dissolve Murou's entire body in one day, but he recants and even believes that he can hear Murou inside him, being lighter than he thought and assuming he hasn't been eating much.

Kameji wonders again why Murou would commit suicide and checks his backpack to see if there are any suicide notes, but even checking his backpack and locker, the more he searched, he only found that everything was "empty", his hobbies, skills or even friends, he couldn't find anything that would give him a hint about it among Murou's things. Kameji remembers how Murou was only recognized for being a bad hyena and for his harassment, making jokes, noise, scaring people, Murou only acted under the stereotype of a typical hyena that everyone thought about and maybe he just struggled to shape himself. Kameji prepares to spit on Murou's body and hand it over to a teacher, decided to deal with whatever they accuse him, but before spitting on Murou's body, Kameji feels Murou's body squirming, realizing that he is alive, Kameji fights Murou, begging him not to move or he will die again, since he will not be able to spit it out, Kameji tells him not to worry and to forgive him, declaring that after his call he will return to life safe and sound.

After spitting on Murou, annoyed tells him that Kameji among all people is the worst, but Kameji only hugs him and asks him when he woke up, Murou replies that he woke up when he said that "it was empty" and claims that he will never forgive him, Kameji says he's happy and Murou asks him what he wants to say, but Kameji says nothing. Surely someone will know who you really are.

Capítulo 15 (Beast Complex)