episode_0351

‘How are you? ‘Do you think this place is worth living in?’

“It feels like it reminds me of old times… …

Wouldn’t this be the place that suits me best?

It’s even worse when you have a companion.

Hehe… This is probably how Yunmei felt… … ”

‘Yoon… who… ?’

“This person was precious to me.

Won’t we have a chance to talk about that someday?

But for now, we should enjoy our meal together.”

Leah glanced sideways at the small spider perched on her shoulder and blinked her red eyes as if smiling, then gently fell into her seat with a light laugh.

This place is Leah’s new hideout.

Leah was one of the Enic vanguard who took the lead in establishing an outpost within the dungeon and laying the foundation.

Arachnella is one of the strongest monsters that most monsters cannot even dare to threaten.

Although she is a monster herself, she is in a position to hunt down the majority of monsters, cutting down her opponents with overwhelming force, and playing a central role in the operation to clear the outpost site.

“Isn’t it common for siblings to enjoy their leisure time like this?

These days, you have so many things to worry about.”

‘haha… … I feel a little sorry about that… ‘

“I didn’t mean to feel sorry.

Thanks to you, I can enjoy this luxury… … ”

When the dungeon outpost that had been worked so hard to build was finally revealed to the public, Leah, who could not be revealed to too many people, chose to stay in the dungeon rather than return to her lair.

Of course, it’s just her wish, so there’s nothing I can do to stop it, and it’s true that the den, which is filled with strangers from time to time, making her feel uncomfortable, is extremely cramped for her with a special body.

Therefore, she was sent out of the dungeon outpost after being given a magic tool that connected to the lair so that she could return to the lair at any time.

After finding a suitable place, Leah neatly squeezed out the spider webs from her body and built a cobweb nest that resembled a treehouse in one day by tying the tops of several large trees.

As the cool wind blew, the sight of the dungeon unfolding before my eyes was fresher than I thought, and I, who sometimes became the spider inside her and chatted with her, was also enjoying it quite a bit.

“ character. Try it… It’s too big for me.

I’ll cut it for you… … Right… Rather than eating well… ♡”

Leah, who was feeling embarrassed as she felt the difference in size from the small spider as she held up the piece of meat that had been torn off with her hands, then cut the meat into even smaller pieces with her fingernail and placed it in the snout.

I didn’t know much about it because I only ate the copious amounts of urine, saliva, and body fluids, but it seemed like spiders were surprisingly omnivorous.

‘Oof… uh… this…

‘It tastes like pork?’

As it is a monster that is a combination of a spider, a hunter from ancient times, and a human, the lord of all creation, Leah showed no mercy in sweeping away the monsters, and she was already showing her greedy side by tying up all kinds of monsters with thread and storing them in abundance. .

‘If that’s the case, I can just sit around at home for a while… …

that… … It might be better than you think… … ‘

And as I slowly ate the meat with a trembling feeling, I could not help but tilt the spider’s body in surprise at its softer texture than I expected.

“Is it delicious?”

‘delicious. It’s pretty soft.’

“Injected with a softening poison.

Your body will probably become soft soon…

then… … Hehehe… … ”

‘Hehe… … !!’

“It’s just a joke, don’t be too surprised.

I have no intention of melting down my pet♡”

At her words, which made her laugh a little pretentiously, I stumbled and tilted my body, and was laughing inwardly as I tried to straighten the spider’s body.

“……!!”

But this time, when she heard my empty laughter in her heart, her expression, which was supposed to be her turn to make fun of me, suddenly became serious.

She was rolling her eyes here and there with a sigh, and as if she instinctively sensed something, she immediately grabbed me who was on her shoulder and threw herself like the wind.

‘uh… Wow!!’

While being held by Leah’s hand, I was quickly blown out of a house the size of a house made of spider webs, and I was losing my senses due to the rapidly changing scenery and shaking dizziness.

Leah, who got out like that, was quickly jumping down from the tree house as if she was rappelling, spewing out cobwebs from her chest and gently twisting her long, strong legs.

‘what… !!? Why are you doing this!!

However, beyond my four pairs of eyes, which soon revealed the reason why she did such a thing, I saw a spider web nest shattering with a breaking sound.

– Uji string

Leah’s new sanctuary, built on a moderately tall tree.

Leah’s blunt words came back to me as I was appalled at the sight of it collapsing.

‘what… !? Why is it falling apart… !!’

“I’m keeping it quiet now!!”

Leah, who was quickly going down the web that was tied to her legs, must have thought that even her speed was not enough, clicking her tongue and holding on to the web with one arm.

She then unraveled the spider web from her legs, and was seen descending at a speed that would have caused a fragile human hand to be torn apart by the web.

“Ugh… !!”

However, fortunately, after her legs finally touched the floor stably, Leah quickly moved her legs and fell away from the collapse site.

After finally reaching a place she thought was safe and looking around her house, she silently placed the body of the spider held in her hand on her shoulder again and seemed to sigh self-mockingly.

“Some kind of magic has been on me lately…

Every house built cannot avoid this… … ”

The house she built after working hard all day.

Moreover, even the food she had stored was buried inside.

But that wasn’t the important thing.

Clearly, the house that Leah had built with meticulous care and close observation for a comfortable dungeon life was destroyed like this.

Perhaps the most important thing for her was that she was feeling a strange sense of discomfort to the point where her eyes were frowning quite a bit.

“My son. Did you feel it?”

‘what… what… … ?’

“I can’t say for sure, but… …

For sure… Something was twisted… ”

‘Twisted… … ?’

“Can you tell me more about it later?

now… I think I need to get out of here first… ”

She was saying something incomprehensible, but then she put her hand between her heavy cleavage, which had been tied like a bandage with spider webs, and took out a card and showed it to her.

‘uh… Go back… ?’

After realizing that the card was actually a magic tool to return to the lair, I was also looking at her, trying to suppress my feeling of uneasiness.

“Something is wrong.

I might be able to come back later.

Prioritizing immediate safety… hmm… ?”

The basic purpose of magic tools was to make it easier to use magic, but it was also made so that people who could not use magic could achieve similar effects.

Humans contain a certain amount of magical power in their bodies, and the small amount of magical power flowing through their bodies causes the Madojin to react and activate.

And the core magical power that makes the magic tool work is designed in a way that it can be charged separately, so the core of the magic tool is that even ordinary people can use it without difficulty.

Leah, who was staring at the card in her hand with her bright red lips pursed, soon widened her eyes, sighed, and put it back in its original place.

‘what’s the matter… ?’

“Strangely enough, it doesn’t work.

Anyway, it’s probably one of the two…

Either it didn’t work in the first place… ”

For a moment, my thoughts hardened at her words, and then she shook her head and continued talking, perhaps to deny what I was thinking.

It would be a leap to say that this magic tool doesn’t work in the first place.

That means someone betrayed Leah and me who trusted her.

The people who were related to this magic tool were Vivian, Aurora, Ranier, and at least Eloise.

Heloise, who on the surface has nothing more than a bad relationship with me, is the most likely, but if that was the case in the first place, there was no need for her to make the rest of the items properly.

The other three were out of the question because they had no reason to betray me in the first place.

‘hmm… then… wait a minute… ?’

However, you must always make sure to check.

I tried to transfer my consciousness and return to the main body, but I felt a frustrating feeling, as if something was blocking my mind, like a wall, and I found myself staggering around as if I was going to be thrown out.

The body of the tap-dancing spider shook violently and fell onto Leah’s hand, which caught it. Leah was quietly looking down at me with an expression that seemed to change from suspicion to confidence.

‘what… this… … What happened… … ?’

Leah, too, seemed to have sensed my confusion at being in a situation where I couldn’t move my mind and was experiencing this for the first time.

Not being able to return to the main body meant that it was no different from being trapped here.

Now, Leah, as Arachnella, seemed to have a sense of sensibility, chewing her lips for a moment, then squinting as if closing her eyes and letting out a small sigh.

“I’m not sure… If it’s not what I said…

What we are feeling is definitely an unusual situation… ”

‘Then it would be better to go back to the outpost… ?’

“It is too dangerous.

This thing happened here…

There’s no way it didn’t happen there too.

If that were the case, it would be a total mess over there too.

People who are mentally driven… …

It’s better not to face it… … ”

She, who had a deep-rooted distrust of humans, turned her back on the collapsed house and began to walk slowly.

Maybe it was because I couldn’t return to my comfortable body and became trapped in the fragile body of a small spider, so the fear felt a little more real.

I was able to think that this feeling of helplessness and fear, as if she didn’t know when the world would strike her, was the life she lived.

“Anything that comes at me is welcome.

I don’t think my pet will like it.

I guess I’ll try to find somewhere else first.

so… Rather than being with me on a bad road… … ?”

At the same time, her smile looked a little sad, so I was trying to get lost in my thoughts and tried to make a joke.

‘I’m not going anywhere… ?

It might be okay as long as you don’t use it as emergency food… ?’

“Hohohoho!! My farming has increased quite a bit.

yes. That’s how I become my companion… ”

I sat on her shoulder as she began to walk quietly, with the sound of her legs moving through the gravelly soil.

As if I was suppressing the sadness of having to walk away again, I gently smoothed out the regret on Leah’s cheek and brushed it away, and then I carefully walked away with her.

Of course, it will be a way to return somehow.

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“Once I’m ready, I’ll try to move slowly.

Everyone, you’ve already become familiar with Terifica, right?

Thorough preparation always never betrays.

Be careful not to cut the pockets on your stomach.”

“Yes!! Assistant!!”

“Good. Then let’s go.

According to the map, if you go over this hill, you can see the forest.”

“Yes… Assistant… … ”

“It’s the first monster for everyone…

It’s nice to feel like we’re on an adventure together… ”

At Lucia’s unusual girlish smile, Anne was smiling awkwardly with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

Her seemingly innocent appearance as an hated lover, a respected senior, a reliable teaching assistant, and even a girl with dreams.

Because it is a shining and dazzling image that you can’t help but compare yourself to, knowingly or unknowingly, but it will never come to you again.

Even though it’s a lot of money, it’s especially true for a girl who has become consumed by the world and sold her body for a few pennies.

As she climbed up the slightly sloping hill, Lucia, who seemed uncharacteristically excited and did not stop talking, was talking to Anne, who was smiling awkwardly.

“I used to imagine it like that.

After climbing over this hill together…

Looking at the scenery unfolding beyond.

There’s definitely something out there that I’ve never seen before… hmm… … ?”

The hill came to an end, and Lucia, who had been talking as if she were lost in thought while looking at the scenery beyond, paused for a moment and kept her mouth shut.

“Senior… ?”

Her sudden reaction and sudden change in expression made Anne momentarily wonder if she had offended something.

“Stop the power.”

Anne, who was only then able to look ahead where Lucia had been keeping her eyes on, was only then able to understand why she had stopped.

“Uh… Uh… … ? The forest… … ”

“It’s not a forest.”

Clearly, according to the information Anne had learned from researching people here and there, there should have been a dense forest here.

But all that exists before your eyes is a wasteland with an unusual shape.

Anne looked down at the map again in confusion, looking at the terrain, which looked like a cracked rice field that had dried out in the winter, but had a large depression that looked as if a person could pass in and out through the cracks.

“This place is definitely… According to the directions… … ”

“Maybe I took a wrong turn.

Or maybe you got the wrong information.”

“Then… First, go back the way you came… ”

“I think it would be okay to check beforehand.

Maybe I got it right, but there might have been something missing from the directions.

and… Don’t you think this place has its own charm?”

“… … ”

Anne, who could not raise her head at Lucia’s seemingly considerate words, had to try hard to erase the feeling of shame that was filling her, apart from the warmth she felt from her.

Consideration, in other words, is sympathy.

Anne nodded cheerfully, feeling as if her inferiority complex had been revealed, as if she had been stripped bare.

In a past that now feels distant, I feel as if the dark emotions I thought had disappeared after Vivian disappeared are blooming again.

Anne’s lips were trembling slightly as she tightly clenched the medicine knife in her hand, following Lucia, who was steadily walking ahead, and the other students following closely behind her.

So after a while.

“It’s deeper than you think. Be careful not to let your feet slip off,”

The students who were walking on the wasteland were moving forward, jumping over crevasses in the cracked soil, following Lucia’s encouragement.

“Oh… be careful… … !!”

“Kya… !!”

Of course, the gap is so wide that it’s not difficult to jump across it.

Also, it wasn’t so deep that you couldn’t see the end, so it was a dirt crevasse high enough that even if you fell, you could at most suffer an injury like a sprained ankle…

Was it because the environment happened to be the environment?

“Are you okay? ah… …

I’m sorry for holding your hand arbitrarily… ”

“Ugh… Yes… no… !!

I survived thanks to you?

thank you. Are you sweet?”

Since everyone is a prosecutor anyway, everyone has a certain level of skill, but this time, it has the unexpected effect of strengthening the relationship between the female students who can legally(?) pretend to be weak as women and the male students who escort them. There was.

“Couple… … Elimination… … ”

“Revolution… It’s a solo revolution… … !!”

Later, as several couples were seen openly flirting, the invincible solo warriors’ resentment also seemed to bloom.

However, these people, who were already living the life of commoners, which was far from fun, were moving on, enjoying the small events that happened to come.

Jumping over and over crevasses, helping and relying on each other.

At one point while moving through the vast wasteland, I heard the shouts of Lucia, who was leading from the front.

“Let’s rest here for a while.

Make it a meal as well.”

“Wow!!”

The students got very excited when they heard that it was meal time.

The moment when they sat together and walked for a while and started to relax their stiff legs.

“Wait a minute… Where did Dennis go?”

“Claire… ? We were supposed to have a meal together… … ?”

The students were looking around at each other as the two students with subtle expressions told a story.

Meanwhile, their expressions slowly hardened as they belatedly realized that something was not unusual.

Several students literally disappeared without anyone knowing or without a trace.

Hearing that in addition to the two students from before, one more student had disappeared without anyone noticing, even Lucia immediately drew her sword and looked around.

“Did I let my guard down…? … what… … ?”

Was he really so excited, feeling like he was on a picnic, that he just verbally told the students to prepare their posture?

Uncharacteristically for someone with ghost-like physical senses, Lucia’s mouth was twisted in exasperation at not knowing what had happened to the student.

The surrounding area is nothing but open wasteland spreading out in all directions.

In a place like this, if someone was left behind, it should have been noticed as soon as they fell even a little.

However, I remember those who disappeared so secretly that no one could be seen from afar along the way I came, and no one around me knew they were gone.

Lucia, who was pondering something, soon held her sword backwards, quickly lowered her body and appeared to be throwing it somewhere.

– Crilly!!

“Uh!! Ugh!! What is that… … !!”

A wasteland with cracked ground, perhaps due to a hot drought.

“Hiik!! Between the cracks in the ground… … !!”

A deep fear began to appear on the faces of all the students as they heard the screams of the boy who stuck his head out of the dirt crevasse of the wasteland and eventually fell after being pierced through the eye by Lucia’s sword.

“I know that!!

It’s a land fairy!! Land fairy!!”