Chapter 36
by Shini
〈 Episode 36 〉Acting as an Agent
Asha ended up staying at Walter’s house with the Village Chief, just like before. Since they were scheduled to have a direct meeting with the Chief tomorrow, the Village Chief went into his room from early evening. Georg and Eva had returned to their own homes, so Asha was alone with Lucia again. She cautiously asked her daughter,
“Hey… Lucy, are you okay since your father died?”
Asha had endlessly mixed feelings about the Tentacle, but the only thing she was grateful for was that it had protected Lucia while she was gone. Asha was worried that Lucia might have been hurt while living with the Tentacle in her absence. Lucia shook her head.
“Father doesn’t die that easily, Mom. While you were gone, Father spread himself really far. He must have sent himself beyond this forest and mountain range. He might not be here anymore, but Father is somewhere else.”
Asha frowned at the thought that even though the Tentacles had died here, the main body remained somewhere.
“Ugh… I thought it wouldn’t die that easily. Are you really okay, Lucy?”
“Yeah… Father was just protecting me because he definitely wanted something from me.”
Asha was puzzled by Lucia’s words. Was the Tentacle so clearly purposeful?
“Lucy, did you even talk to Father?”
“Yeah. He could have talked to Mom too. He just didn’t bother to talk to Mom. Mom, what do you want me to do?”
Asha was taken aback by Lucia’s sudden question.
“Huh? What do I want you to do? Do you want to do something now, Lucy?”
“Do you want me to protect people?”
Asha pondered Lucia’s question and then answered.
“Well… if you help people, that would be great and wonderful, of course, but I just want you to do what you enjoy right now. Is that okay?”
“No… but is it possible to only do what you want to do for the rest of your life?”
Asha was speechless at Lucia’s question. Didn’t she know it herself? None of the quests she had done so far had been voluntary. Asha pondered and then said,
“It might be difficult to only do what you want to do for the rest of your life. But there’s a time for everything. Um… Lucy, people grow plants to eat or to look at. Do you know what the most common mistake they make when growing plants is?”
Lucia blinked at the sudden story about plants.
“I don’t know? What is it?”
“They can’t wait and give the plant too much water too often. There’s a limit to how much water a plant can take. And some plants like moisture, and some like dryness, but people don’t pay attention to that and just think that giving a lot is good, so they give a lot of water without thinking. Lucy, nothing is decided for you yet. I don’t want to give you too much water from the start and make your roots rot. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
“Yeah!”
Lucia felt a little relieved by Asha’s words. Asha smiled at Lucia’s intelligent appearance.
“Oh, Lucy, you’re so smart. Let’s go to sleep now. We’ll have to wander around again tomorrow.”
“Okay. Good night, Mom.”
Late at night, Asha was fast asleep. Lucia was also asleep with her, but she felt her mother’s change and opened her eyes. Half-asleep, Lucia placed her hand gently on Asha’s stomach with sleepy eyes.
Lucia’s fingers divided into fine threads and burrowed into Asha’s body. Lucia realized that the Tentacles in Asha’s womb had stopped hiding and were growing vigorously.
“Hmm… why are they doing this when they’ve been quiet…”
Asha and Eva had been simultaneously impregnated before leaving the Labyrinth, but unlike Eva, Asha had not conceived a Tentacle. But when the Tentacles that had been quiet suddenly implanted and began to grow, the sensitive Lucia felt it. Lucia pondered.
‘Should I leave them alone, or should I take them out…?’
Lucia, who had been sick of seeing her father and mother having relations since she was born, knew that Asha didn’t dislike being in pleasure. At the same time, her mother had mixed feelings about her father, who gave her such pleasure, neither liking nor disliking him. But Lucia remembered that Asha had never said she wanted to go back to the Labyrinth.
“Sorry… but it would be a problem if Mom suddenly gave birth to you here…”
Lucia, who was still growing, could already imitate her father a little. After injecting a sleeping pill into Asha’s neck, Lucia undressed her mother when she had completely fallen asleep.
“Ugh…”
Due to the implantation, breast milk was already dripping from Asha’s nipples.
Lucia divided her arm into dozens of strands and inserted them into Asha’s vulva. Asha’s face flushed slightly at the sensation felt in her lower abdomen, but she was still fast asleep. Lucia soon found the Tentacle’s offspring rooted in Asha’s womb.
“Five, no, six… that’s a lot…”
She immediately began working. First, Lucia severed the connection between the Tentacle and Asha’s womb, and then took the remaining offspring out of Asha’s stomach. The finger-sized Tentacles that had been taken out wriggled in various shapes, still alive.
“…”
Lucia hesitated as she was about to crush them with her fingers. Lucia hadn’t said much to Asha, but she had been able to understand everything the Tentacles said since she was born. Like the Tentacles that cried out for reproduction and survival, the fetuses on her hand were desperately calling out for life, even though they had almost no intelligence.
“It’s not your fault… but I can’t let you tire Mom out.”Lucia, who had been pondering about the baby Tentacles, came up with an idea.”
‘If Mom can’t do it, I’ll do it.’
Lucia pushed the small things into her vulva. As Lucia guided the baby Tentacles to her womb, they took root in Lucia’s womb. Lucia, who could clearly feel the connection between herself and the Tentacles, blushed slightly.
“Oh… this is how it feels.”
As soon as the Tentacles were completely settled in her stomach, Lucia went out the window and climbed onto the roof of Walter’s house. From the roof, she silently crossed between houses and escaped out of the Orc Village. Lucia entered the forest and absorbed her clothes, becoming naked. Lucia looked at her small, flat body.
“My body is too small right now. If I’m going to give birth to Tentacles, I need to get bigger.”
She closed her eyes and slowly grew her body. Lucia, who had been a stocky 120cm tall, grew to 160cm. Her flat chest and hips also changed to become curvy, and before long, soft female curves had appeared.
Lucia, who had finished preparing to give birth to Tentacles, sent Catalytic Fluid into her womb. Then, Lucia’s smooth belly gradually swelled and grew like a crescent moon over time.
“Ugh…”
Since Lucia’s body could be stretched or shrunk at will, she didn’t feel any pain, but she frowned at the feeling of her womb growing and pushing other organs. With her belly swollen, Lucia began to wait for the time to come.
As time passed and dawn approached, the Tentacles submerged in the Catalytic Fluid had grown enough to be born without difficulty. Until then, Lucia, who had been wrapping her belly and staying still, began to give birth to the Tentacles in her womb while leaning against a tree when the Tentacles had all grown and began to knock on the uterine door. She expanded her vagina and vulva enough to let the Tentacles out, and then she gave strength to send the Tentacles out as her hole was wide open.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
Lucia, who was not yet familiar with her grown body, awkwardly strained her stomach and gave birth to her babies. Soon, six Tentacles were huddled between her legs.
The babies she had given birth to with her own belly for the first time began to whine that they were hungry, leaving Lucia behind. There was also a guy who made strange noises as soon as he was born, but she ignored him without even looking at him.
Originally, the Tentacles would have clung to the mother as soon as they were born, but the Tentacles could not easily approach Lucia, who emitted strong waves. She sighed, hugged the Tentacles, and brought them to her chest.
“It would be a waste if you starved to death after I gave birth to you like this… just for today.”
The clever Tentacles understood her permission and began to suckle on Lucia’s chest. Lucia’s pale face flushed slightly at the first breastfeeding. The Tentacles who were sucking breast milk were satisfied.
While she was breastfeeding, she subtly slapped away one of the Tentacles that was approaching her vulva.
The other Tentacles froze and stood still at Lucia’s eerie warning wave. After feeding all the Tentacles two at a time in order, Lucia peeled off a layer of her skin to clean her body and then shrunk back to her original 7-year-old body. Lucia, who made and wore a dress, quietly watched the born Tentacles leave.
Lucia, who had sent away the Tentacles that she didn’t know whether they were her mother’s children or her own, quietly returned to her room. Lucia, who lay down next to Asha, who was fast asleep without even knowing that Lucia had been away, carefully hugged her mother, worried that she would wake up.
Asha, who had slept like a log for the first time in a while due to the sleeping pill Lucia had injected, felt as light as a feather. People are bound to be happy enough for simpler reasons than they think. Lucia, who was staring at Asha, asked.
“Mom, do you feel good?”
“My body feels light today. Is it because Walter’s house is nice?Asha smiled and talked to other people, unaware that Lucia was worried about giving her mother sleeping pills every day.
“Georg, what are you going to do now?”
“Eva annihilated the main body, but there are still other Tentacles left. There’s no need to leave anxiety factors behind. I’m going to go to the Labyrinth from today to take care of the others.”
“You’re not going alone, are you?”
Georg dismissed Asha’s worried question.
“It would be foolish to go to the enemy’s camp alone after this incident. I’m planning to go with at least two or more people.”
“Okay. If there’s anything I can do to help, I’ll help.”
Georg, who was listening to Asha’s words, asked as if he was wondering.
“Asha, weren’t you going to the human village?”
“I’m not really from the village, so I might stay here afterwards?”
“Hmm, I see.”
Georg left the group and went to do his own work. Asha sent Georg away and said to the Village Chief.
“Village Chief, shall we go to the Chief?”
“Yes. Eva, can I ask you to guide us?”
“It’s not difficult.”
The reason why the Village Chief came to the Orc Village was because it had become difficult for the villagers to be self-sufficient. Due to the battles and chaos of the past few days, most of the villagers’ spare food had run out, and they felt the need to somehow obtain other food, so they came to the Orc Village.
Eva brought Asha’s group to the Village Chief’s house. In that way, the heads of each village met. The Chief, who greeted the Village Chief, spoke first.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Rudolph, the Chief of the Heidelberg tribe. What brings you here?”
“I’m Rex, the Village Chief of the human village. Our food situation wasn’t very abundant to begin with, but the village’s food is not enough due to the recent Tentacle attack. I want to continue trading with the Orc Village this time and in the future. Does the Orc Village have spare food?”
The Chief’s undisguised explanation was reciprocated by the Chief.
“We don’t have an abundance of food, but we have enough. I think what’s appropriate for us will be enough for you. Can I assume that the item of trade is the fabric we saw before?”
The Village Chief nodded.
“If there’s anything else you want, I’ll prepare that too.”
“We’ll have to check it out too. What our people eat might not be what humans eat. You probably don’t have enough manpower to transport the food, so it would be better to conclude the deal by going to your village, Rex.”
“Ah, thank you for your consideration. It’s true that we’re short of even one person right now.”
The Chief burst into a hearty laugh at the Village Chief’s gratitude.
“Haha… Besides, we don’t need a lot of people to transport food. It’s not difficult to grab a few idle people and tell them to do it. Just treat them well when you go there.”
“I’ll treat them well so they won’t be disappointed. How long will it take for the food to be prepared?”The Chief, who was thinking about the situation in the village, said after a moment of contemplation.”
“Hmm… if I turn around a few people who were scheduled to patrol, we can leave immediately. Can you guide the transportation personnel? It’s difficult for me to leave my position here, but someone else will finalize the deal.”
The Village Chief nodded at the Chief’s words.
“It’s not difficult. I’ll go with you.”
In this way, Village Chief Rex and Chief Rudolph successfully concluded the deal without any problems. After the deal was over, the Village Chief had a bright face because one of his worries had disappeared. Asha congratulated the conclusion of the deal.
“That’s a relief, Village Chief. Actually, it would have been difficult to find food even if we went around because the Tentacles ate all the wild animals nearby.”
“You’re right, Asha. We probably would have had to dig up and boil even the roots of weeds. Fortunately, we’ll be able to survive this winter. Ah, I haven’t paid you the commission yet, have I?”
“Ah, that’s right. Hehe…”
Asha, who had forgotten about the Village Chief’s request, scratched her head.
“It’s better to pay you right away. Thank you, Asha. I don’t know if it will be enough, but I’ve prepared as much as possible.”
The reward that the Village Chief gave to Asha was 12 times the amount of the first reward.
“Wow… that’s a lot?”
“That time it was a simple investigation request, but this time it was a matter of the village’s survival, so it can’t be the same. What are you planning to do now, Asha?”
“I’m going to stay here for a while. I’m also worried that there are Tentacles left over there.”
“Okay, it’s good to part ways here now. I hope your work goes well in the future.”
“Village Chief, take care!”
The two, who had become closer than clients and contractors after going through many things together, had to part ways sadly because they had things to do. Asha continued to watch until the Village Chief, who was leaving with the Orcs carrying food, disappeared because she didn’t know when she would see him again after parting ways this time.
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