episode_0146

“Umm… Tsk… … ”

It didn’t take long for Leah, who had fainted and writhed in extreme pain, to wake up.

Did he watch her completely unconscious like that for about half a day?

Should I say I’m glad I’m safe, or should I say I’m scared to deal with what happens after I wake up.

Her body was regenerating rapidly, and now, at least from the perspective of the tentacle inside the egg sac, the outer surface of the mucous membrane was showing a significant recovery rate.

Accordingly, the elasticity of the flesh and the strength of the muscles were also returning, so I thought that maybe after three to four days of thorough recuperation, the inside would be healthy and regenerated.

In that state, when Leah started moaning as if she was going to wake up at any moment, I slowly pulled the tentacle out of her vaginal opening and began to watch her wake up, pretending not to notice.

“Ah… … Hmm!!”

She gently opened her sleepy eyes and stared blankly into space for a moment before suddenly shaking her head and shaking her head.

However, unlike before she fainted, she had already completely regained her freedom a long time ago. She thought she was being held, so she moved her body, but due to the excessive strength of her body, she was staggering and struggling on her legs.

“Uh… oh… !! Ah!! Ahhh… … ”

Stumbling and swaying back and forth like a drunken spider, she hit the back of her head against the hard snout of the kernel worm that was looking down at Leah from behind in preparation for any unexpected situation. She could only cover the back of her head with both hands and let out a low moan. There wasn’t.

‘Wow… … It must hurt a bit… … ‘

“Ugh… little…

It’s not that painful… …

but… also… … ”

‘huh?’

Leah, who had been crouching with her upper body for a moment and covering her head, slowly began to straighten her back, and then looked down at her body and began to open her mouth.

In addition to the aftermath of the previous fall, the exoskeleton of the lower body was cracked here and there, and there were burns and hot marks from the few drops of Hye-ryeong’s medicine.

And now the pain in my lower abdomen has faded considerably and become bearable.

“Truly me… Was it cured? … ”

As the cracked exoskeleton reattached and became smooth, and the skin that had been red and ugly from burns and melting returned to its original state like a pear, Leah had no choice but to realize what had happened to her body.

‘Please understand that the process was a bit difficult.

Because this was the best for me.’

“Doing useless things… … ”

‘Such words can be hurtful, so please refrain from doing so.’

“What are you planning to do with me now? ?”

‘how… ?’

“The reason you helped me wasn’t because you wanted something… ?

Wasn’t it like that in that prison too?

Since we both had something to gain, we just kept our promise to cooperate… ”

As she spoke, which seemed to be about something that happened in the underground dungeon during the special evaluation, I suddenly remembered the situation at that time.

A promise that I will help Leah be safely rescued from there, and in return, I will take the prisoners whole.

As an extension of that, Leah does not oppose me, and even waits quietly in the den until it is time to let me out.

Perhaps she also perceived the current situation in that way.

“He must be planning to knock me down and crush me…

Otherwise… There’s no way you can save someone like me… … ”

‘that… … please… It’s not like that… … ‘

In fact, Leah never treated me in a friendly way, but she faithfully followed my instructions, which may have been frustrating, and I repaid her by letting her escape outside as promised.

That meant that our contract had already been finalized.

‘If you’re thinking of being in debt or something like that… …

no… Maybe he’s thinking more seriously… ?’

This time there were no promises or contracts.

There was nothing she could give me to guarantee her own safety, or even material to threaten me.

It was just a situation where Leah unilaterally received my help, so it was inevitable that anxious thoughts would grow in her head as she faced this situation.

Even if she had a history of being treated like a gentleman once, it would have been natural for her to feel afraid this time, as she was trapped in a den without any trust or even a promise.

Perhaps that’s why Leah went into the house she had built as soon as she entered the den and didn’t move at all for fear of what might happen.

‘I understand, but… … It’s a bit bitter… … ‘

It is in the den of a monster where Leah herself had a history of realizing that it had a very clever intelligence.

Even if it’s like me, if a monster that could take the clever option of betrayal at any time was being nice to me, I would have felt fear coming from the unstable current situation before feeling grateful for the monster.

Although most of her injuries have now healed and she looks like she could fly, she has already been captured by me once.

Now, I wasn’t just a baby Enic who was begging for her life as she was about to be eaten by her, and I only had a few small bugs and earthworms that would explode if I stepped on them.

‘But now… Does it feel like a small business? … ‘

There are giant kernel worms that are still reliably watching over Leah, and colony members who seem to move around without thinking, but can turn around at any time if they feel threatened.

If the tentacles were added, they could cause significant damage when they and Leah fought again, but there was no guarantee that she would win this time.

‘surely… At best, the tentacles will be torn off a bit more than before… … ‘

As a result, it seemed like Leah couldn’t easily choose to rebel, as they might use her as an excuse for rebelling even for a moment to capture her again and use her as a source of nourishment for the den.

Maybe that’s why, while I was thinking carefully about what to do with Leah’s eyes, which had calmed down a lot now, but still had a bit of caution, I had to take a moment to think about it for a while while wriggling my tentacles.

“What… Try saying something… … !!

Me dying again… The reason I saved it again… !!

And like this… What is the reason for just waiting and watching!!”

Rather, as I remained silent instead of answering, the tremors in Leah’s body gradually became stronger as she screamed as if she was having difficulty overcoming the pressure of the current situation.

‘What do you want to do?’

“I… ?”

Leah’s eyes began to waver at the completely unexpected answer she heard from me.

‘You wanted to go out last time too.

‘You don’t want to go out this time?’

“I… I hope so… …

but… … !!”

Leah, who was at a loss for words at such a fundamental question, looked at me with a bewildered expression, and the members of the colony guarding her surroundings appeared to disperse one by one.

Now that it had come to a conclusion, there was no need to watch over Leah or be on guard anymore.

However, she was embarrassed by even that situation, and looked back at the giant kernel worm slowly disappearing into the wall, then turned her gaze back to the tentacles.

‘Then let’s go out.

that… All you have to do is go out through the passage you opened before.’

“That… It collapsed… ”

‘Then just wait a moment.

‘I’m going to make another oyster.’

“Really me… That means I won’t catch you… … ?”

‘For what?’

“……?”

‘I would feel very reassured if you would be with me.

It won’t be easy to feed them, but it can be done somehow.

But you said you wanted to go out, right?

It’s okay to catch someone who wants to go.

‘It can’t end well.’

“At best… For that reason…

This time, the prey that walked in…

I plan to let you go without any conditions… … ?

What you want from me… That means there is nothing at all… ?”

‘What’s the reason? What do you think?

Then what… Do you want to stay here like this?

But you don’t have any intention of doing that, do you?’

If I were to be honest, my way of thinking was definitely similar to Leah’s.

What I tried to do well to those around me.

When I look back, it must have been an act of ‘reward’ for the type of human relationship where I wanted someone to look at me and be with me.

And the end was that I, who was clumsy and stupid, became a fool, a pushover, and remained the only good human being, and it was just a series of moments where the wounds were always accumulating.

So I could sympathize with her idea that there is no such thing as action without consequences, but if there was one thing I learned, it was this.

If you empty your mind in the first place, you won’t get hurt or suffer.

I just make the best choice I can and, if it doesn’t turn out as I thought, I can flexibly get out of the disappointment.

‘I will treat you and dig a tunnel for you to escape.

Of course, if you are going to attack me or be hostile towards me in the meantime, I will treat you accordingly…

I’ll just do my job, and once that’s done, you can take care of the rest.’

If there is a favor that has no return because someone ignores it and looks down on it, then isn’t it also possible for a favor that doesn’t expect anything in return to exist in the first place, regardless of what the other person says?

The best choice a coward who doesn’t want to get hurt is to cover his or her eyes by pretending it’s not the case.

‘Even if it’s Hogu’s miserable excuse, I can’t help it… ?

just… I just hope that favor doesn’t turn into malice.’

If he had no intention of wanting something from the other person in the first place, it didn’t matter what the other person thought of him.

Whether the other person ignored my favor or was sincerely grateful for it, I just did what I wanted to do.

In the end, paradoxically, what was important was the difference in what the people who accepted it thought of it.

At least for me, the joy of receiving a good response that I didn’t expect was better than struggling to get good results to avoid feeling bad.

‘I’m not feeling well right now, so I need to get treatment regularly.

Let’s just say that’s what I want.

What’s more important than that is what you eat for the time being.

You can just eat the tentacles you cut for a day or two… ‘

“Even if I starve… It doesn’t matter… … ”

I threw one more tentacle that had been cut off towards her, who expressed her intention to decline with a helpless expression.

Then, Leah caught it, accepted it, and looked down at it in silence, her lips moving as if she was hesitating about something.

‘It’s okay, so eat.

‘Because it’s new anyway.’

Of course, Parastars could reconnect the severed tentacles, and even if left unattended, they would someday grow again thanks to their unique regenerative power.

Therefore, in my eyes, where there was no need to save the tentacles, it seemed as if Leah was watching me for no reason.

‘I need to eat something before I go out.

It’s hard to put it back on anyway, so just eat it.

Come to think of it, quite some time has passed.

It’s time to change the fluid. ‘You’ll be okay, right?’

Soon, her lower abdomen, where the sweet-smelling sap that had dried slightly and became stronger, was flowing down, came into view, and after a moment of hesitation, I slowly began to move my tentacles towards that area.

‘Leah, should I put it in?’

“…… As you wish… Do it… … ”

‘okay. It will still sting a little.’

After hesitating for a moment, Leah finally allowed it, and with a single word, the tentacles began to gently dig into the egg sac.

And Leah, who was frowning and closing her eyes tightly as if it was a little stinging, hugged the tentacle that was given to her to eat as if it were a long cushion, and quietly buried her face in it, trembling…

‘Is it still very painful…? … ‘

“As for feeding them… they do it somehow…

It’s really a courtship without atmosphere or style… Ugh…!!”

For that moment when a low moan comes out of her mouth as she mumbles something into her mouth.

All I could do was carefully scrape the inside of her body, which was subtly relaxed.

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