I looked at the mutant monster sprawled lazily on the ground, staring idly at the sky like some kind of vagrant, and said,

"This one doesn’t seem to eat people."

"Huh? Oh, no! It does eat people. When it first turned into a monster, it devoured all the patrons at the restaurant," Michelle countered hastily, as though panicked by my statement.

"Ah. But, well, somewhere along the line, its behavior seemed to change. At first, it was just like any other virus-infected monster. But when it dragged me out of the restaurant where I was hiding, something was different. It moved like it was smarter, like it had become more intelligent... And after that, I don’t think it ate anyone anymore."

It felt like it was evolving.

Mutant monsters were said to have the intelligence of a young child, full of curiosity.

But if evolution was still ongoing—could it develop even higher intelligence?