episode_0055

The feeling may have been very clear.

I just didn’t realize it.

Maybe something that could have happened at any time just happened.

All the prisoners were starting to leave the den and enjoy their freedom, and I was persuading Arachnella, who was left alone in the den, for a while and asked her if she would like to come outside and get some fresh air.

Arachnella also wanted to relax by taking a breath of the outside air, but after briefly touching her not fully healed skin, she simply turned her head coldly.

For her, who seemed to have no energy, she might not have liked the thought of going outside for a moment only to quench her thirst for a moment and then having to come back inside again.

And I didn’t realize at the time that it was the same for everyone.

“Now… for a moment… … !! Where are you going!!”

As a sharp voice echoed through the night sky, I stopped persuading Arachnella for a moment and quickly shifted my mind to the large flower blooming in the flower bed and looked around.

An image of Ranie holding a prisoner by the waist and rolling around on a flower bed together.

And when I saw some of the prisoners outside running here and there, I felt my heart sink and was finally able to begin to understand the situation.

“You can’t go… !! I can’t… !! Please stop… … !!”

Pina, who had the best understanding of their situation after talking with me, also tried to stop them, but it seemed like her words were no longer getting through to the other prisoners.

“If I stay like this, the only thing I can do is get killed by a monster?

We need to move quickly now… !!”

“Honey!! Now is your last chance… !!

If only I could somehow go outside… !!”

The prisoners’ cries and words of persuasion to one another echo, and the prisoners who were standing still at first just watching the escape also look back with fearful eyes and eventually start running.

In the end, I saw that everyone except Pina started to run away from the flower bed, and I could only watch in despair.

‘Pina. Tell them to let go.’

“Yes… ? but… … !! all right…

Mr. Ranie, please let go.”

After hearing Pina’s words, Ranie let go of the prisoner he was holding with a shocked expression, and the free prisoner began to run after his comrades who were running away here and there.

Most of them would probably try to run away somewhere, and while trying to escape by climbing over the fence, they would either be caught by crime prevention magic, or they would be subdued by the guards stationed at the entrance.

And then you will be arrested again and become a slave to the academy like you were before.

Perhaps he would be killed in the aftermath of this escape.

But above all, there is the biggest risk factor…

‘Pina. Tell Vivian and Ranie.’

“Uh.. which one… … ?”

‘Go into the tunnel I went into the dungeon with.

Tell them to stay away from here for the time being.

Also, don’t come out of there until I call you.’

My existence, which helped them escape from the dungeon and took them out of the flower bed, might be revealed.

Anyway, if I only had to raise a few tentacles, those tentacles would be able to provide nutrients and other things for the time being.

As Pina relayed my words, Vivian and Rani also began to look up at me with surprised eyes, as if they had their own thoughts about the current situation.

“No… !! You can catch it now… !!

I’m pretty fast too… !! So, if you bring the beastmen again… … !!”

“I understand… … ”

Unlike Ranie, who urgently told me that it would be okay, Vivian, who had accepted the tentacle I had cut off, looked down at it with meaningful eyes for a moment, then closed her eyes tightly and grabbed Ranie’s hand and began to drag her away.

“Vivian… … !! Vivian… !!

I can’t… !! We can solve it… !!”

“It’s noisy, Ranie. They say do it like that.

So stop talking and follow me.”

And in the end, Pina, who had been restlessly looking at the two girls heading towards the dungeon and me, ended up following them as she saw me fidgeting with the flower.

‘How did it end up like this… … ‘

As I was watching the backs of women walking away from the flower bed, I suddenly looked down at the flowers and lost myself in thought for a moment.

In my past life, I was a failure.

So, it wasn’t that I didn’t have enough money, but other than that, I had to live an empty life.

The warmth of the people I am with, the warmth of the people who affirm me, and the earnestness of the people who need me.

Because everything I wanted could never be bought with money.

That’s why, even though I’m just a monster without a penny, I may be able to be happy by having the little things I want.

No, it’s only half of it.

The warmth I felt as I forcibly hugged those women who didn’t want it, the made-up warmth of humans who couldn’t say yes to a monster, and the earnestness of those who wanted me according to their own needs.

‘Wasn’t it a great thing for me to run all the way here?’

I want to meet that ‘woman’ again.

With only that one wish, I began to live a noisy life that could not be compared to before.

From a small, ugly flower bud blooming in a small flower bed in this academy, until it becomes a deep-rooted sunflower that looks down on everything around the flower bed by itself.

Have you ever lived a life so passionate?

In my past life, I burst into laughter that I never thought I would, and I even got immersed in curiosity, a sense of accomplishment, and even just a little sentimentality.

The tickling feel of long, vivid magenta hair.

The whispers of the woman who gave me warmth and affirmed me were heard again in my ears.

‘I’m happy, Enik. ‘Are you like that too?’

Having felt that, I may have already been saved.

As she said, at this moment, I can say that I am happy.

I guess I can really let go of everything else now.

In my mind, as if I had closed my eyes and blocked all senses, a small fragment of memory suddenly appeared.

Even though she was crying, her eyes towards me were warmer than anything I had ever felt, a scene that silently resonated in my heart.

With a captivating smile, but with a sincere gaze that was so obvious that even I, who didn’t know much about humans, had no choice but to recognize it.

I began to activate all the senses in my body again.

[I love you]

As I gathered all the kernel worms that were scouting for escape routes and began reviewing all the cards I could play, I immediately began to recognize the situation around me and come up with the best actions I could take.

Vivian, Lanier, and Pina have long since disappeared from sight.

And in the distance, towards the main gate, it seemed like some prisoners had finally been discovered, and fierce voices along with shouting could be heard.

When the vibrations perceived by nearby kernel worms are collected, several male prisoners face the guards and start a fight, and female prisoners try to escape, but are eventually blocked by a perfect barrier, like a 3D screen. It started to unfold.

The male prisoners continued their fight, and the female prisoners turned around and ran away inside the academy.

Feeling like I was looking down at a map, I began to take action immediately.

“Aaaaa!! Hiya!!”

“Run away… !! Ugh!!”

I had some sense and caught the female prisoners running back towards me with my tentacles and pushed them into the still open den. I quickly gave orders to ‘that guy’ as I watched the female prisoners running in the other direction.

– Rumbling

As the ground shook and the vibrations traveled up their toes, the female prisoners instinctively stopped in place.

– Queee!!

When they heard the trumpet-like cry of the being that momentarily broke through the ground and raised its head above the ground, they were startled and turned around and started to run away.

A secret technique that cannot be used unless the guards are distracted like now.

The giant canal worm moved around to various places and herded the female beastmen, and in the end, the female beastmen who were driven towards the flower bed were being wrapped around their waists by tentacles one by one and thrown into the lair.

This is the end of achieving my actual goal.

But I didn’t stop there, so I immediately turned my head and looked towards the front door where the chaos was going on.

“Kaaaa!! Go through me!!”

Perhaps because they are ignoring their own lives, the prisoners and guards are fighting fiercely.

Considering that the guards were quite skilled, in a way, the beastmen seemed to be fighting back surprisingly well.

Leaving to my instincts, I watched them respond with bites and scratches even after being attacked with a sword, so I quietly moved the leaves and picked up a handful of spiders piled up in the leaf litter.

Not many survived because they spent a lot on Arachnella, but those who survived were the ones who paid the price.

When I put those spiders on the leaves, I started pulling and releasing the curled leaves like a catapult and throwing them, and the spiders spread out wide as if I had thrown a bunch of pebbles, and flew towards the prisoners and guards who were fighting.

‘The properties of the spiders changed as Arachnella was subdued.’

Spiders that bite Arachnella, inject spider venom, and swallow and digest the spider webs she spews.

The moment those spiders fell to the floor and crashed into the prisoners and guards, everyone at the scene was shocked and tried to find out what was falling.

But before they had time to check, the spiders rushed towards them and stabbed them with their poisonous needles, and it didn’t take long for everyone to collapse on the spot.

‘I said Enic evolves.

Then this too… It’s definitely an evolution… … ‘

I just watched indifferently as the spider venom, which normally only had an effect of awakening them, knocked them out so easily.

And after everyone completely collapsed, from the human security guards to the male prisoners who had some resistance to the poison perhaps because they were beastmen, I lifted a flower and a huge earthworm leapt up from the floor and swallowed everyone up.

No, to be exact, there was only one person left.

A guard who lost his eyes after being attacked by a beastman’s scratches, and then fainted from spider venom.

The giant kernel worm that had swallowed everyone except him carefully crawled back into the hole it came out of, and the spiders that had been shot out wide on the floor had finished their mission and were beginning to toddle towards the flower bed.

‘I said I would survive. No matter what happens.’

As I watched the spiders return to the flower bed, the desire and earnestness of someone who could not give up was present in my mind.