Lucy

Ttiriririring

[Connecting to the brain of a human, a highly intelligent life form, using 100pt.]

Now I have 67pt left in evolution points.

As soon as I evolved, my tentacles connected to Lucy’s brain nerves, and Lucy’s information poured in.

Suddenly, a tremendous amount of information flooded into my head, and I felt like my head was about to explode.

“Aaaah…. Huh? Aaaaaaagh!”

The brain of a highly intelligent life form like a human was far too complex.

Vast memories and hundreds of millions of emotions associated with those memories.

Signals from the motor cortex that freely move the 650 muscles of the human body.

The human brain automatically assigns meaning to symbols seen with the eyes and syllables heard as sounds, evoking associated emotions and possible actions.

To perfectly control a human, I had to receive, understand, and regulate all of this at once.

It was impossible with my meager, human-level intelligence and ego.

Just then, an alert rang, saving me.

Ttiriring

[You have focused your investment on one thing, opening the possibility of species evolution. Would you like to evolve into a ‘Brain Parasitic Tentacle’ using 50pt?]

“Oh! This is a new alert, different from the others. So, focusing on one thing can change my species. Okay, I’ll do it.”

The feeling of changing species was incredibly fascinating.

It felt like not only my body but also my instincts and essence were changing.

More tentacle legs emerged from my body.

Countless fine cilia sprouted from every tentacle leg.

Each cilium connected to Lucy’s brain nerve synapses, receiving brain signals.

I instinctively understood the meaning of the signals obtained from the synapses.

Now I could precisely control human behavior and mind.

I invested all the remaining evolution points into intelligence.

Increasing intelligence can be thought of as going from seeing only two moves ahead in Go to suddenly seeing four or five moves ahead.

Now, all that remained was to adjust Lucy to my liking.

I felt proud when I saw my current status.

My grade had become mid-low-level tentacle, and the trait ‘Control of Higher Intelligence Brain’ appeared.

[1. Name: Kim Cheol-su

2. Grade: Mid-Low-Level Tentacle

3. Species: Brain Parasitic Tentacle

4. Stats:

Strength: 1

Stamina: 2

Agility: 1

Intelligence: 39

Mana: 0

5. Authority:

1) *****

2) Evolution

6. Traits: Control of Higher Intelligence Brain, Brain Nerve Mimicry, Brain Connection (Horned Rabbit, Human), Anesthetic Mucus, Digestive Fluid Immunity, Tentacle Generation, Blade Tentacle, Soil Digging

7. Evolution Points: 0pt]

I didn’t plan to erase Lucy’s ego like I did with the Horned Rabbit, turning her into an empty doll to move as I pleased.

Frankly, I had grown fond of Lucy during the two months, and I wanted her to help me with her ego intact.

Also, if I became Lucy, it might feel like a TS story, and my ego might be influenced by femininity.

I focused on the cerebral cortex responsible for Lucy’s memories and examined the long-term memories accumulated since she was one year old.

“Hmm hmm. So that’s what happened. Hmm.”

———————-

Lucy originally lived with her parents and a younger brother, one year younger than her, in a small village in the Gale Kingdom.

Her family ran a small restaurant.

Her younger brother’s name was ‘Kyle,’ and like other siblings, they bickered and fought, but she loved her brother as a sister.

Of course, Lucy loved her parents very much too.

Lucy worked part-time at a cafe in the nearby city, saving money, and used this money to learn magic at the magic academy in her spare time.

The magic academy was established for magicians who weren’t skilled enough to become court mages or magic school faculty to earn money easily, and it was located in various cities.

Some magicians tutored individuals, while others taught students in large lecture halls.

Lucy quickly improved her magical abilities with her exceptional magical talent and soon surpassed the magic academy instructors.

Lucy always told her family that she would become a great magician, earn a lot of money, make her family happy, and send her brother to a good school.

Of course, by the time Lucy became a great magician, her brother would already be a grown adult.

One day in the year Lucy turned 18.

Lucy was returning to her home in the village, trudging along after attending a lecture at the magic academy.

Lucy saw smoke rising from the village in the distance.

“What?! What’s going on!”

With an uneasy feeling, Lucy ran towards the village.

Arriving at the village, she saw flames rising and heard screams.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

At the village’s main gate, bandits wearing rags or leather armor and covered in scars were raping a woman.

There were bodies of villagers everywhere.

There were also bodies of bandits, possibly from resistance, but judging from the situation, it seemed the village had failed to resist.

Lucy fired a Chain Lightning spell.

Three bandits who were taking off their pants and frantically raping a woman next to the main gate were roasted and collapsed.

“Kuaaaagh”

Lucy ran to the woman who was being raped.

It was a village ajumma that her mom often chatted with.

“Ajumma. Snap out of it!”

“Eongeongeong. Eongeongeongeong.”

The ajumma was only crying, unable to speak due to the shock of the rape.

Lucy had saved the ajumma for now, so she ran home to check on her family’s safety.

Lucy cast a perception-impairing magic on herself, used for concealment and cover.

Powerful individuals or monsters with special abilities would recognize her immediately, but she could avoid bandits.

On the way home, she saw villagers screaming, bandits killing, assaulting, and raping those villagers, and bandits carrying goods out of houses.

Lucy arrived at her house.

Lucy’s house was on fire.

Lucy couldn’t help but stop thinking for a moment at the miserable sight she saw there.

Lucy’s beloved brother and father had been beaten so much that their faces were covered in blood, making them unrecognizable.

Her beautiful mother was naked, with a knife stuck in her stomach, pinned to the ground, being raped by two bandits.

“Khahahahaha, this married woman’s pussy is so chewy, huh?”

“Hurry up and finish. Kkk. I’m next.”

“I can still do it for another 30 minutes!”

Lucy suppressed the immense anger rising from her chest and fired a Fireball spell.

The bandits were so focused on the rape that they didn’t notice the Fireball coming and were hit directly.

“Euaaaagh. It’s hot. Keuak”

“Save me! Save me!”

The upper bodies of the two bandits turned to ashes and scattered.

Lucy approached her mother, shedding tears.

Her brother and father were already corpses, no matter how she looked at them.

“Mom! Mom! It’s me. It’s Lucy.”

Her mother looked at Lucy, shedding tears.

“Lucy… I’m glad you at least survived. Ugh. It’s painful.”

Lucy’s mother also had no chance of surviving, as she had lost too much blood while being raped with a knife stuck in her stomach.

“Lucy. I’m sorry. And I love you.”

Her mother uttered her last words, as if knowing her end, and closed her eyes.

“Mom? Mom? Mom! Mom!”

No matter how much she shook her, her mother’s body only grew colder.

Fifteen bandits approached from the distance.

One in the middle was wearing leather armor, a plate helmet, and carrying a huge greatsword on his shoulder, and he looked like the leader of the bandits and seemed strong.

The bandit leader shouted with an angry face.

“Are you the bitch who roasted my kids? Today, I’ll make you neither dead nor alive and use you as my personal onahole for the rest of your life!”

No matter how much Lucy was, she couldn’t face 15 people, including a strong one.

Just then, the sound of horses’ hooves was heard in the distance.

The lord’s knights and soldiers who managed the village were coming as reinforcements.

The unfortunate thing was that it was already too late.

As soon as the bandits heard the sound of hooves, they quickly fled on their horses.

It was obvious that the bandits would be annihilated if they fought against regular soldiers.

When the knights and soldiers arrived, there was nothing but ruins in the village.

The soldiers went around the village and gathered the survivors in the center of the village.

The village, which had 200 people, had only about 30 survivors.

The knight took off his helmet and asked with a troubled expression.

“Are these all the survivors?”

Lucy shouted at the knight in rising sorrow and futility.

“Why are you so late? Everyone’s already dead! My family and friends are all gone!”

These words represented the feelings of all the surviving villagers.

A soldier who was listening shouted with an angry face.

“What nonsense is a commoner spouting at a knight! Show some respect!”

The knight stopped the soldier and replied.

“Huuuuuu. I’m sorry. We also tried to arrive as early as possible, but it seems the bandits were more numerous and organized than we thought. We are chasing the escaped bandits now, and we will surely catch them and bring down the hammer of justice. And we will give support money to the survivors. Give 10 gold each to the survivors!”

The soldiers took out 10 gold each from the gold coin pouches they had brought and gave them to the survivors.

Considering that some nobles treat commoners like bugs and don’t even do this much, this knight who apologized and even gave support money was a person of very high character.

Lucy had no choice but to shut her mouth and receive the money.

It wasn’t enough money to live on in the future, but she had to receive at least this much to survive.

Since her house had already burned down, Lucy gathered what was left of value from her house, buried her family’s bodies in the ground, and left the village.

After that, Lucy lived as an adventurer.

An adventurer is a profession where you register with the adventurer’s guild in each city and then earn money by receiving and resolving requests from the guild or by selling monster parts.

Lucy used the money she had saved as much as possible until she was 23 years old to get a house in Bradon Village.

The reason she chose Bradon Village was because she hoped that being away from the city and surrounded by beautiful nature would help her forget the memories that still tormented her.

Lucy ran a potion shop in Bradon Village and met Elvin, returning to her youthful and lively self.

———————-

This is the memory of Lucy that I have grasped.

I pondered how to make Lucy obey me while reliably preserving her ego.

The human ego is very complex, so even a slight misstep can lead to the mind being structured or broken in an undesirable direction.

This was why a high-level plan was needed to make Lucy submit.

It pricked my conscience to control such a pitiful woman as I pleased, but I didn’t care much.

Of course, I’m not a psychopath.

I shed tears when I see sad movies, and I can empathize when others are in pain.

However, because my personality was formed while losing my parents early on Earth and living a long, hard life, I didn’t have much aversion to harming others to survive.

Perhaps the world created the monster that I am.

Also, I wanted to make such a pretty and talented woman my woman in the direction I wanted.

I’m sorry to Elvin, though.

If I had been a tentacle from the beginning, I wouldn’t have thought about preserving human ego.

I felt everything in Lucy’s brain and made a plan.