episode_0156

– Kyuuu!!

After hearing the news that Vivian and the children had returned from a scouting trip, I went out to meet them. I was able to spot several people popping out of the mouth of a giant kernel worm protruding from one of the kernel worm platforms on the fourth basement floor.

Since I was already helping them through the spider about halfway through what had happened in the first place, I was worried that one of them might have been hurt.

“I went… ”

Vivian, who found a tentacle that had come down from the ceiling and was twitching, came quickly and hugged me tightly, and her quietly whispering voice was softly echoing inside the tentacle.

“I’m here too!!”

“Master!! I missed you!!”

Then, was it because Ranie and Aurora, who were together, rushed over and hugged the tentacles and kissed them?

The tentacle, which was swaying back and forth under the weight of the three women, fell to the floor and was crushed like a cushion under the three women.

‘I don’t think there’s any need to worry… … ?’

After such an intense reunion, when I met the other group that returned with them, I couldn’t help but give them a greeting of joy that felt a little awkward.

‘long time no see.’

“…… It’s been a while… See you… … ”

‘You must have had a hard time out there.

The kids have also lost a lot of weight.’

Vivian retrieved Pina, who was about to start working at the Changgwan, and the children she had been hiding, and returned to the lair.

“I’m sorry… … After all, outside…

I can’t survive on my own… … ”

‘If you’ve done enough, there’s nothing you can do.’

Since I had already heard about the circumstances from the beginning, I was able to know about her return in advance and greet her warmly.

Pina was one of the few beings I could talk to directly, so I was so glad she came back.

“This is the life that Leah sacrificed and protected… …

In the end, I couldn’t escape properly… Hmm… ”

However, Pina began to cry because she was so sad, and the prisoner girls seemed to comfort her by hugging her tightly in their small arms.

But no matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like there was some kind of misunderstanding, so I couldn’t help but say something to her that I felt I had to say.

‘Leah is here?’

“Black… Hmm… yes… … ?”

‘That young lady is in here now?’

When Pina heard my words, which reminded me of an old woman who seemed likely to develop a cancer that didn’t exist before, she stopped crying immediately and looked at me with surprised eyes.

“What… I said… ? That.. that…

That’s really… Is it… !! Ugh!!

He fell from the wall… He was captured again… !!

And yet, it’s really here… … ?!”

Just as I was about to say yes, I heard her voice trudging forward, stammering for words, grabbing her tentacles and waving them.

“Yes, it is here.”

Likewise, upon hearing the voice of Leah, who was staying on the 4th basement floor, Pina’s head jerked in the direction from which the sound was coming from.

There, Leah, who seemed to have come out of the cobweb nest before she knew it, was walking towards her with clattering footsteps, glaring at Pina with a stern expression.

“Stupid… After putting them through so much trouble, I sent them away… …

On my own feet… Coming back to this place… … ?”

“Hmm… Sigh… sorry… sorry… … ”

“Now I’m being caught again…

Now I don’t know… … ”

Leah, standing in front of her, was looking down at Pina and shooting in a grumpy voice.

It was a voice and expression that sounded as if he was reprimanding Pina, but it felt like the emotions contained within were being conveyed, so it was pointless to intervene.

The two met as they were born as a predator and a prey.

But I don’t know what happened, but maybe they ended up being secretly happy that each other was safe.

It’s like Pina holding on to one of Leah’s long, black legs without even realizing it.

And the moist texture of Leah’s eyes, which was probably too high for Pina to see.

“Sister!!”

“Wow!! ”

Moreover, Leah was embarrassed to see even the children running towards her and clinging to her legs, leaving behind the sight of Pina who burst into laughter even after crying.

Deciding not to disturb the reunion, I left Aurora and Ranie to guide the children and Fina, who had returned, and began to walk around the fourth floor with Vivian following me.

Since I wasn’t always keeping an eye on them, I could hear Vivian’s voice coming from next to the tentacle as she began to explain step by step what had happened.

“I guess things are going better than expected.

We made contact with a back alley cartel.

I need to watch it a bit, but I think I got the score.”

‘It could be dangerous if you reveal yourself and move around.’

“Because I changed my appearance temporarily.

If you reveal your true face, you might get into trouble…

I probably won’t get my identity discovered at this level.”

As I was chatting while gently drawing letters on her palm, I noticed the scratches and slightly swollen skin on her arms.

“Ah… … This… ”

Maybe he got scratched somewhere while fighting with the bull beast.

Or maybe I was overexerting myself to subdue him when he rebelled.

Because I didn’t know what she did for me or what she went through.

“It’s no big deal. Because it will get better soon.

I know you will make me better. Right?”

When I gently licked her arm with a tentacle, Vivian looked down at the wound that disappeared without a trace after a while and the swelling on her arm subsiding, and she smiled at me.

“Thank you. It doesn’t hurt at all anymore.”

‘still… It’s dangerous.’

“You don’t have to worry.

It’s something I’ve prepared for… ”

Vivian’s smile, as she gently walked with her back to me and smiled as if nothing was wrong, was so dazzling that I thought it would remain in my memory.

“I’m not worried either.

When I come back… Because this is how I will make you better.

therefore… It’s not scary at all… ”

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Maybe I was being complacent.

As a human being who has lived in the modern era of the 21st century, which has been extremely peaceful until now.

Could it be that we have forgotten how reforms have occurred historically?

‘People get hurt. I forgot about that… ‘

All changes could not be without bloody wars and fights that left only victims.

Didn’t I get hurt while fighting with Leah, who I myself had a misunderstanding with?

Of course, in my case, the pain was quite mild compared to the injury, and even if I was injured, it was easily regenerated, so it didn’t matter.

And isn’t my fight always for myself?

If I were to survive, I would have to fight on my own, and it was only natural that I would get hurt for that reason.

‘but… … ‘

In this world where people swing swords and even use magic for battle, why did I forget that these women who said they would give me the world and fight with me could possibly get seriously hurt?

‘Measures are needed. So as not to get hurt… …

no… At least your life isn’t in danger… ‘

As I was gathering the gangsters and Parastas in the den using the gathering command, I collected as many ideas as I could from the surface of my mind and began to inject them into the Parastas.

The appearance of the parastars continuing to make gestures among themselves while being injected with the thoughts in my head and my hopes.

‘I have to protect it. So that you never get hurt.’

Perhaps it was a difficult spell.

Even when I was an office worker, if a client placed an order ambiguously like this, I would have wanted to grab him by the collar right away.

‘But what can I say… It’s not that I don’t know how… … ‘

After I became Enic, many things were changing inside me.

Is it because the body itself has changed?

Just like when I was human, I knew what I was capable of.

As time goes by, what I can do as Enic is becoming more and more clear.

What I was trying to do, at least, wasn’t what I ‘had to’ do now.

‘I’m Enik.’

In other words, it was a being that coveted and exploited the female body, not a being that protected the female.

The parastars also seemed confused and confused by my actions to reverse the merciless instincts and exploitative ecology of Enik.

‘Let’s make something like that.’

If what I had done so far was just ‘what Enic can do’, for the first time, I was thinking of creating a new evolutionary process according to my will.

It’s as if Pina and Leah can go together and defy the fate of the food chain.

‘Because you have to try everything you can do.

‘By using everything I can.’

Even if I couldn’t walk someone’s thorny path for them, I could walk it with them.

With the intention of walking together on the thorny path that she is trying to walk, I think I am starting to suggest more specific plans to Parastas.

I was filled with the excitement of the unknown, which I had never been to before, and the spirit of a new challenge that I had never felt so keenly before.

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