episode_0002

Three days have passed since my silent scream rang out.

Of course, the person I am now is a furry flower bud that is cute, if not cute, but somehow ugly and not pretty.

Since it feels like only flower buds are sticking out without even blooming, should I say that flowering has not occurred yet?

Still, compared to other flowers, it was fortunate that it was small and hard to notice.

Buried among other flowers, I was able to enjoy a flower kikomori life similar to before.

The reason I could tell that three days had passed was simply because I felt the sun rising and setting over and over again.

As a result of repeatedly standing in the flower bed for three days with the flowers blooming, I was able to feel somewhat satisfied.

Even though it was very little, I could feel that my body was growing, and I was thinking about talking to the guys in the flower pot next to me in the near future.

But the important thing was this.

‘There are too many people around… … ‘

As I grow taller, the flowers around me are not as tall as me.

While I was pursuing a peaceful Kkotikomori life, it was an unimaginable development.

As I grew older, my height began to catch up with the heights of the other flowers, and a time came when it was clear that tomorrow I would surpass the heights of the other flowers.

From tomorrow onwards, someone’s eyes would be on me as they inadvertently glance at the flower bed, which meant that someone would look at these ugly, furry flower buds with a look of disdain.

‘It’s different from the story… … ‘

I just don’t like being looked at with unreasonable disgust or hostility by someone, so I’m living like this again, choosing to become a tree that lives alone in a place with no one around.

‘If I was going to be reborn as a flower in a place with so many people, why not let me be reborn as a pretty flower?’

It was the moment when I began to feel like the woman who was dragging her feet and turning around was just a piece of pretense, as if it was Heaven’s regret that she had not been able to lead me to a bright path.

And at that moment, as a bright light flickered in front of the flower bed and my body began to warm up, I was puzzled by this sudden situation and was quietly waiting as usual.

“How have you been? Kim… no… I guess I should call it Enic now.”

The flickering light faded and a woman appeared in front of me.

The woman, who had a tearful expression on her face as if she had the same sad expression from back then, looked down at me, the flower bud, in a slightly quiet voice.

‘Why am I Enic?’

“That flower… No, that’s the name of the creature.

It is an ancient species at an extreme stage of extinction called ‘Enic’… …

There are probably not two left in this world.

I didn’t want to suffer that fate, but… … ”

‘Extinction… wait for a sec… ‘What does it mean to be a living thing?’

“It’s literally true.

Enic is a plant, but it is also a ‘living organism’ that also has the functions of an animal.

Since your growth is not enough right now, you are still growing there.”

‘Well said. Please stop here.

It’s getting bigger and bigger, and now… … ‘

“Enic is a behemoth with a stem exceeding 50 meters when fully grown.

There is no way to stop growth…

Even if you try to force it to grow shorter, stopping its growth as a plant means it will die.”

‘Then what should I do? If it continues like this, again… !’

I would go back to that disgusting life.

“I… I tried my best to grant your wish.

I wandered around, looking for ways, following precedents, and somehow trying to find a way that could lead to a better direction…

And the conclusion… Now all you have left is… After all, this is it… … ”

‘Becoming a crazy giant Rafflesia?

Is it best to become a tree worse than a zoo monkey?

‘Are you saying that because you think it makes sense?’

“Women and that… You also thought you wanted to try it, right?”

The woman’s shocking statement suddenly made me stop thinking and froze.

“It’s your opinion. There’s no way I wouldn’t know.

So I worked hard to find something that meets both of your requirements.

The conclusion is Enic.”

Perhaps trying to appeal to me for working hard, the woman smiled brightly and gently stroked my bud.

“I wanted to make it as an ordinary animal or human, but my wish was so strong that the ‘tree’ part was fixed.

So, you had to struggle to find something in the tree category that could make your second wish come true.”

Her smile changes little by little.

As her breath began to tickle the flower bud, which had a somewhat sorrowful and sorrowful expression, but gradually transformed into a happy breathing sound, I couldn’t help but be surprised by the changes that began to occur in my body, or more precisely, in the flower bud.

A flower bud that slowly begins to open, like a flower just before it blooms.

When the bud opened, a beautiful and large flower like a sunflower began to unfold, but this was different from a sunflower.

“Enic is an ancient species in danger of extinction… The reason is that… … ”

Unlike ordinary flowers, which have a certain shape such as pistils and stamens inside the petals, although they are fixed and soft to some extent, the shape is not set, so the contents are like a jiggly jelly.

Moreover, as if to disprove that it was a living thing as the woman said, the opened bud waved its petals as if it were raising antennae towards the woman who was handling it, and was glaring at her as if warily.

“Because the seedbed is a female of a different organism rather than the same species… Ugh… !!”

And then, as if it had existed for that purpose from the beginning, the contents of the flower center stretched forward and began to wrap around the woman’s neck like lightning.

The part, which was probably like the pistil of an ordinary flower, wrapped around the woman’s neck with tentacles as thin as fishing line.

Then, the woman, whose eyes were wide and trying to keep a smile as if she was a little surprised by being strangled, began to ask me for a favor in a strangled voice.

“cho… Choshur… On the soil… Please do it… … ”

Her request to control the tentacles.

After hearing that, my thoughts began to gradually become more complicated.

‘what… ? ‘Tentacles?’

I definitely asked to be reincarnated as a tree, but tentacles on a tree?

But the scene before me was so clear that there was no way to see it.

A tentacle wrapped around the neck of the woman who was gently kneeling in front of me, tightening it as if it were a piano wire, as if it could cut off her neck at any moment.

It was something that extended from my, so to speak, Enik flower.

However, unlike the fact that he was pulling her hard, he felt something gradually breaking from below, and it seemed like his roots were still weak and had not properly settled down in the ground.

Is that why she is also telling me to control this?

If she struggled and pulled on her tentacles, my roots would be pulled out like weeds.

A plant that has lost its roots will simply wither and die, if not immediately.

But she didn’t seem to want that, and even though her throat was strangled, she kept smiling and waited for me to do something.

I tried to concentrate on the sight of the woman’s face gradually turning blue as if she was longing for air.

‘ha… tentacle… What I need to move is the tentacle… … ‘

Until now, I had not thought about trying to control the plant’s body, thinking it was just standing still.

But with people dying before my eyes, it would be natural for me to do something if I could.

As my mind reached out to every part of the plant and I slowly began to feel its entire body, I was able to understand a bit about this creature that moves in a different way from humans.

‘This is a leaf. This stem… this… … ‘

And when my mind touched something that was exerting a lot of pressure, I finally realized that it was a tentacle.

In my unconscious mind, it was a tentacle that was squeezing the thing it touched with all its might, but as soon as my consciousness began to touch it, it slowly began to move, reflecting my will.

Just like that, as the powerful tentacle slowly lost its strength and the tightened tentacle loosened, the woman who was breathing hard reached out with one hand on the tentacle that was still wrapped around her neck, as if to tell me that I had done a good job. He seemed to be stroking it gently.

“Haa.. haa… ruler… well… i did it… .. That’s how I do it… …

now… Hmm… Still weak… ha… …

If Enic grows further… You can do other things too… .”

Even though she almost died because of me just a moment ago, the woman still maintained a difficult smile.

The sight of a woman cheering me up as if comforting a sullen baby made me feel sad without knowing why.

A strange human being who turned me into a useless tentacle plant, no, maybe it was God.

This may be evidence that my feelings are a little shaken due to the kindness and inexplicable affection she shows towards me until the end.

Not wanting to reveal it, I started moving the tentacles again.

It may be similar to the feelings of young boys who feel like they are tickling and want to bully a girl they like.

But in some sense, I pulled out the tentacle that was wrapped around her neck longer and started caressing her face with the tip, which made the woman look embarrassed.

“I… excuse me… for a moment… . Mmm… … ”

The tentacle that was sucked into her mouth while caressing the woman’s face was moving around the inside of the woman’s mouth as it pleased.

Because of this, the bright red mucous membrane inside her mouth was clearly visible as she couldn’t close her mouth and opened it, and I could see her pink tongue entangled with my tentacles and being suppressed.

However, despite the obvious threat or harassment, she just quietly accepted my tentacles.

Rather, the sight of her carefully opening her mouth as if she was trying not to hurt her teeth with my tentacles, which had grown as thick as an earthworm as she was able to control them.

Her eyes were so ecstatic as she tangled the slippery tentacles with her soft tongue, as if she was trying to put affection into the tentacles.

In some ways, she looked like a saint, but at one point, she seemed to have fallen and become a prostitute who accepted tentacles. When I look at her through the eyes of a man, I feel slightly lustful.

In the end, having no way of understanding the woman in front of me, I pulled the tentacle out of her mouth and asked her one last question.

‘Why are you doing this?’

“Yes. Yes… ”

The woman, who was catching her breath by gently closing her teased lips, blinked her eyes and looked at me with a benevolent expression.

“I hope you are happy.

Just like I did.”

A small furry flower bud was reflected in the eyes that became even more profound, but somehow felt very sad.