Chapter 102

〈 102 〉Reunion

“Uwaaaah! I’ll, I’ll kill you all!”

Asha used her embarrassment as fuel, endlessly burning the swarming Tentacles. They were pouring in from all directions, making aiming unnecessary. While Asha and the Tentacles were literally bursting into flames, Lucia stared wide-eyed, watching her mother’s conflagration.

‘Why is she doing that?’

Lucia was still too young to properly understand the emotion of embarrassment. Lucia watched Asha turn the Tentacles into ashes as if in a fit, but she wasn’t just idly playing either.

Whoosh, whoosh—

She was throwing punches as if a baby were playing, but each time she swung her fist, the approaching Tentacles were crushed along with the space they occupied, accompanied by a deafening roar. The Soldiers, already struggling to deal with the Tentacles swarming in front of them, didn’t even notice her, even though a more terrifying presence was wielding terrifying physical force behind them.

Asha’s embarrassment and social dignity aside, her nakedness didn’t hinder her from smashing the Tentacles, and the Tentacles’ resistance was blocked by her shameless but sturdy-as-a-fortress armor, rendering it futile. Thanks to the firepower of Asha and Lucia, the Soldiers were able to finish off all the attacking Tentacles, and the battle ended without much trouble.

As the Tentacles surrounding them disappeared, Asha quickly took out a robe from her Inventory and covered her body.

“Ah…”

Some of the Soldiers, who had been about to admire her figure now that the battle was over, let out a hollow sigh as if they had lost their country, but she pretended not to hear them. Asha, who had even pulled the hood of her robe over her head and was bowing deeply, felt someone approaching her. She glanced up and met the eyes of the Commander who had been shouting earlier. He approached Asha and bowed deeply.

“Thank you so much. If it weren’t for the Mage, our army would have suffered irreparable damage.”

“No, you’re welcome. I’m just glad there’s an army that can stand against the Tentacles in a situation like this.”

Asha wasn’t just being modest; she was sincere. Perhaps no one here knew the danger of the Tentacles as well as she did. The Commander seemed to realize that Asha was speaking from the heart, and the rigid expression on his face softened slightly. In the meantime, someone from the other side spoke in a suspicious voice.

“…Asha?”

“Who…”

Asha turned her head to look at the person and turned pale as if she had seen something impossible. She couldn’t tell if she was in reality or in a dream. As she was bewildered, the man approached her and took off the hood of her robe.

“It really is Asha. I never thought I’d meet you here like this…”

Hearing his voice in front of her, Asha finally felt a sense of reality. The person in front of her was Captain Maximilian, the Captain who had left her alone to escape in the stormy sea and remained with the crew until the end, and a member of the royal family.

“Captain… you were alive? I thought you were definitely dead, hngh, heuuugh!”

Seeing Asha burst into tears as she stared blankly at him, Maximilian was embarrassed and patted her shoulder.

“There, there… it’s okay, I’m alive like this.”

He brought his lips close to Asha’s ear and whispered quietly.

“And keep the fact that I was a Captain a secret from the people here, please.”

“Then… what should I call you?”

“Master?”

Seeing Asha’s eyes, which had been tearful with the emotion of reunion, turn sour, he cleared his throat.

“Ahem, ahem… I think you can call me Prince.”

“Ah, ahaha… ahahahahaha! It doesn’t suit you! Prince!”

“Hey! You rascal!”

Maximilian wasn’t that old, but he looked like a dignified man in his mid-30s, so Asha burst out laughing. Although he scolded her, he seemed relieved when he saw Asha wiping away her tears and laughing, and he laughed along with her. The Commander, who seemed uncomfortable with the two people’s atmosphere, spoke up hesitantly.

“Your Highness, do you happen to know her?”

“Ah, Aveneu Commander. She’s an important person to whom I entrusted my seal. Do you happen to have it, Asha?”

“Yes… of course. How could I ever forget it.”

Asha took off the pendant of the red jewel that she had cherished all this time from her neck and handed it to him. But Maximilian shook his head without receiving the seal.

“Keep it.”

“This… isn’t it important?”

“That’s why I’m telling you to keep it.”

Asha, who had been hesitating, sighed and put the pendant back around her neck after seeing his firm gaze. In the meantime, Lucia approached and tilted her head, looking at Maximilian.

“Mom, who is he?”

“I told you about him before, right? The person who helped Mom when she was about to die. He helped me a lot.”

Lucia’s eyes sparkled at her words. Asha had told her several times that if it hadn’t been for him, her meeting with Lucia might not have happened.

“Thank you so much for helping my Mom, mister!”

“Pfft!”

“Cough!”

Asha burst out laughing again, and the Commander gritted his teeth so that his laughter wouldn’t be heard. Lucia, who had only known men as grandfathers or uncles, didn’t know what was wrong and tilted her head. Maximilian staggered from the innocent and brutal attack, but he managed to hold back his laughter. He was surprised to see that Lucia was bigger than he had thought, and he stroked the child’s head as she looked up at him.

“Yes, you must be Lucia. I’ve heard a lot about you from Asha. Are you traveling with your Mom?”

“Yes! Mom and I were on our way to the capital.”

“The capital… hmm…”

Asha suddenly became uneasy as Maximilian fell into contemplation.

“Did something happen in the capital too?”

“I don’t know exactly. The kingdom has been torn to pieces because of those things. In this situation, sending a messenger is just pushing them to their deaths. As of now, we don’t know the situation in the capital. We can only hope that they’re safe…”

“Ah, wait a minute…”

‘But is there any reason to go to the capital?’

Asha had originally planned to go to the capital to investigate Maximilian. But now that she saw him alive in front of her, there was no reason to go to the capital.

“No, there’s no reason to go to the capital. I was going to go there to find out about the Prince.”

Maximilian gave a bitter smile at her words.

“Asha, you’re really something. You could have just kept it in your heart.”

“Anyway, I’m really glad you’re alive. There’s so much I want to hear.”

“Well, it seems like we have some time to talk now. Aveneu Commander, can I ask you to reorganize the troops?”

“Of course, Your Highness.”

Leaving the saluting Commander behind, Asha, Lucia, and Maximilian entered a tent that had been set up.

Maximilian, who had entered the tent with the mother and daughter, tapped the table for a while, wondering how to start the story, and then began to speak.

“First, I have to start from the ship… After sending you away, we all thought we were going to die. In fact, the ship we were on was caught in a strong wind, the Mast broke, and the ship was torn to pieces.”

“Ugh…”

Asha, who remembered the urgent situation at that time, shuddered at the thought of the ship she was on being shattered in the middle of the sea.

“But the really amazing thing is that most of us survived.”

“How on earth did you survive? I thought you were definitely dead.”

Maximilian chuckled as if he remembered the situation at that time.

“The Mast broke, but the lifelines that were tied to it didn’t break. Caught in the storm, some of the crew members were severely injured and eventually died, but more than half of the crew members were able to swim back to the shore, relying on only one Mast to which their bodies were tied. Fortunately, it wasn’t far away, so we barely managed to save our lives. It was a strong storm, but it passed quickly. In a way, Asha, it’s all thanks to you.”

“Me?”

Asha was puzzled by the unexpected words, so he added an explanation.

“We all thought we were going to die, of course. At that time, none of the crew members cared about lifelines. Rather, it was you, a novice who didn’t know anything, who painstakingly tied each lifeline, so we were able to survive.”

“I’m so, so glad… I thought I couldn’t do anything at that time and came out alone, sob…”

Asha burst into tears again as she recalled the despair and desolation she felt when she was pushed out of the ship alone by the Captain. Lucia, who was next to her, saw Asha crying and hugged her from the side. Seeing Lucia rubbing her head against her chest to comfort her, Asha smiled faintly even as she cried.

“Lucy was also really in danger. If the Prince hadn’t sent me away at that time, Lucy might not have survived now.”

“I wasn’t that much in danger…”

When Asha mentioned the past, Lucia frowned and muttered, as if she remembered when she had struggled against Georg. Asha, who found the sight endearing, burst out laughing again and hugged Maximilian tightly.

“I really missed you. If there’s anything you want, please tell me. I’ll definitely help you.”

“I might ask you for something strange, though?”

Asha smiled and replied to him, who was speaking in a teasing voice.

“I believe you wouldn’t.”

“Haha…”

That’s how the two of them ended their long-awaited reunion.

Throughout the kingdom’s lands, which had been completely occupied by the Tentacles and where humans were no longer visible, atypical Tentacle Nests were created. However, the humans who had disappeared without a trace were not inside the Tentacle Nests. The Tentacles, which had previously lost humans in vain, were now storing the collected mothers in a place where no one could easily enter.

Underground, dozens of feet below the Tentacles’ Tunnels that had dug up the earth in all directions, was where the humans were being stored. In the production facility created around the central cavity, the mothers were neatly placed one by one in Flesh Coffins made of Flesh Walls. The cavity, where only the sound of wriggling Tentacles could be heard, was silent, but the Flesh Coffins containing the women were different.

“Uhooot♥ Huuuu♥”

The woman, who had a Tentacle giving her Nutrient fluid in her mouth, was being violently poked in both holes alternately. She, a newly captured mother, writhed in the terrible pleasure she was experiencing for the first time, but her limbs, captured by the Tentacle, were completely buried in the Flesh Wall, so she couldn’t move and had to accept the stimulation as the Tentacle strand poked her.

Squish, squish—

“Hiii♥”

Her eyes were covered so she couldn’t see anything, and she ejaculated relentlessly, tears streaming down her face. The Tentacle didn’t care how many times the trapped mother had ejaculated, and it pounded her two holes while rubbing her clitoris with Tentacle protrusions. In the merciless pleasure, the woman screamed again until her voice was hoarse.

The other women trapped in the other coffins looked no different from her. A woman who had been ejaculated into her vagina and had a swollen belly full of Tentacles after time had passed, a woman who had already been captured for some time and had given birth to Tentacles several times and was being milked like livestock and impregnated again, countless mothers were being violated by the Tentacles in their own ways.

The center of the production facility was quiet, but the silence of the Tentacles was more dynamic than anything else. Hundreds of mothers were being violated while buried in their respective coffins, screaming suffocatingly, but only their moans echoed within the Flesh Walls in which they were trapped, and did not break the silence of the Biofactory. In that way, the Tentacles were constantly taking newly born Tentacles and Breast milk from the women and spreading like cancer cells within the kingdom…