Talca City

I shrank down again, becoming the purple pet octopus, Puyo.

“I’m Puyo~ Ppuiing~ Ppuiing~”

Ivana grabbed me with both hands and rubbed me against her cheeks.

“Kyaaak! So cute~!”

“Ppuiiiiing!”

“Ujuju~ Our Puyo~”

“Please introduce me to your family~ Ppuiing!”

“Okay!”

Ivana held me in her arms, close to her chest, and returned to her room.

“Puyo. It’s late tonight, so I’ll introduce you to my family tomorrow.”

I nodded my head and cried.

“Ppuiing!”

Ivana hugged me like a doll and slept, and I, too, fell into a peaceful dreamland in Ivana’s arms.

The next morning, Ivana introduced me at the breakfast table where her father, Marquis Lucas, her mother, Collette, and her older sister, Silvie, were all seated.

“I found a new lifeform while walking yesterday! Its name is Puyo.”

I shook my body from side to side, acting cute.

“Ppuiing! Ppuiing!”

Silvie-unni, with her messy long brown hair and round glasses, shouted.

“Could it be an alien? This is a vanguard sent by aliens to invade the continent!”

‘Continent invasion is right, but I’m not an alien!’

“Ppuiing?”

Her mother, Collette, a bioengineer, was thinking something else.

“Oh my~ It’s really a new species. If I dissect it, I could get dozens of papers out of it, don’t you think?”

I trembled and ran away to Ivana.

“Ppuiiiiing~!”

Ivana hugged me tightly with her arms and chest, protecting me.

“You can’t touch Puyo!”

I was inwardly horrified.

‘Everyone’s reaction is wrong! Aren’t they supposed to be squealing because I’m cute? Is this even a normal family?!”

Marquis Lucas calmed his family down.

“Hahaha. Ivana likes it so much, why don’t we just leave it alone? Collette?”

Collette smacked her lips and said with a regretful face.

“Well. Nothing I can do about it. Ivana. If you ever get tired of it, give it to me~”

Ivana shouted.

“I’ll never get tired of it!”

Silvie-unni muttered.

“She’s already been brainwashed by the alien. Dangerous…”

I flinched.

‘This unni is really sharp, isn’t she? Is she really saying that knowing?’

After breakfast, Marquis Lucas, Collette, and Silvie went to work.

Since Silvie was the successor to the Marquisate, she was learning by observing and practicing the overall management of Talka City.

Ivana made eye contact with me and said.

“Puyo. Let’s go to the Talka Research Institute. I usually work there as a researcher.”

“Ppuiing!”

Ivana put me on her shoulder.

The Talka Research Institute was a large building a 10-minute walk from the Marquis Lucas’s mansion, with one basement floor and six floors above ground.

Ivana explained about the research institute as she walked.

“The Talka Research Institute was built with the goal of ‘benefiting humanity.’ It conducts various research on magic engineering and bioengineering.”

When I entered the Talka Research Institute, the information board was as follows.

6th floor: Offices and lounges

4th ~ 5th floor: Bioengineering Lab

2nd ~ 3rd floor: Magic Engineering Lab

1st floor: Administration office, cafeteria, convenience store

Basement 1st floor: Warehouse and practice room

Ivana explained to me.

“I’m researching lightweight Golem armor in the Magic Engineering Lab. The Magic Engineering Lab researches Golems and household appliances. The Bioengineering Lab researches superior breeds of food and livestock seeds, and medicine.”

“Ppuuing.”

“Recently, there has been a movement to fuse magic engineering and bioengineering. For example, there is research to attach Golem arms to people without arms, or to replace the intelligence of Golems with the brains of living things. It’s still just a concept stage.”

“Ppuiing.”

I raised my octopus legs and tapped Ivana’s cheek, praising her.

Tok tok

At that time, someone called Ivana from behind.

“Ivana~”

Ivana turned around and greeted her happily.

“Sophia-unni!”

Sophia was the vice director of the Talka Research Institute and a classmate and friend of Silvie’s from Hamel High School.

Sophia had long purple hippie perm hair, a height of 169cm, and E-cup breasts.

As Sophia approached Ivana, her natural large breasts swayed with her steps.

Sophia looked at me with sparkling eyes and asked Ivana.

“What’s this? What is this cute creature?”

“It’s Puyo. I found it for the first time yesterday and I’m going to raise it as a pet.”

“Oh my! That’s great! Can I touch it?”

“Yes. Puyo is still wary of people, so please touch it gently.”

As Sophia reached out her hand, I slowly climbed onto Sophia’s hand and shook my body cutely from side to side, crying.

“Ppuppuiing~ Ppuppuiing~”

Sophia looked at me and shouted cutely.

“Kyaaak! So cute. This kid.”

‘Yes! This is the normal reaction!’

Another person called us from behind.

“Ivana. Sophia. Hello.”

It was Carol, the director of the Magic Research Institute.

Carol had short green hair, a height of 160cm, and A-cup breasts.

Carol stopped for a moment when she saw me, but ignored me and looked at Sophia, asking in a sharp tone.

“Vice Director Sophia. Have you finished the data investigation I ordered yesterday?”

Sophia stared at the air for a moment, then hit her head with her fist and said.

“Hehet~ I forgot~ I’m sorry~”

Carol sighed and got annoyed.

“Haa…. How can you forget important things every day? Please pay attention to your work like your big breasts. Finish the data investigation by today.”

“Hiiing. Breasts have nothing to do with it. And I understand.”

Carol also scolded Ivana.

“Ivana-yang, please quickly obtain the experimental data on the specific gravity and hardness according to the metal ratio, dividing it into before and after injecting mana in the Golem lightweight armor research.”

“I understand.”

Carol only said what she had to say and went up the stairs, click-clacking, even though there was a mana elevator next to her.

Sophia shivered and complained to Ivana.

“Director Carol is too stiff and scary~”

“That’s Director Carol’s identity, so there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s go to work.”

“Okay.”

Ivana and Sophia got on the mana elevator.

Ivana got off on the 3rd floor, the Magic Engineering floor, and greeted Sophia.

“Unni. Have a nice day.”

“You too~”

Director Carol and Vice Director Sophia had private offices and laboratories on the 6th floor.

Sophia went to the 6th floor.

When Ivana entered laboratory 303 on the 3rd floor, the researchers who were already researching greeted her.

“Ivana. Hello~”

“Are you doing hard labor again today?”

Ivana introduced me to the researchers.

The researchers welcomed me.

“So cute!”

“Let’s make Puyo the mascot of our lab!”

While Ivana was experimenting to find the specific gravity and hardness by changing the metal ratio, I was rolling around on a blanket prepared for the pet octopus on one side of the desk.

A female researcher with blonde hair up approached me and asked.

“I’m Maria. What do you eat?”

“Ppuiing?”

Maria was a researcher with knight status.

Maria held out a beetle to me.

“How about this?”

I shook my head, trembling my pupils.

Maria pondered, then held out a snack this time.

“Um. Is that not it? Then how about this?”

I nodded my head wildly.

When Maria put down the snack, I ate it deliciously with the sucker mouth under my head and expressed my joy.

“Ppuiiiiing!”

Maria stroked my head.

“Kyaaak! Cute~ You eat human food.”

I nodded my head and cried.

“Ppuiing. Ppuiing.”

“Amazing. How can you understand human words? I’ve heard that sea octopuses are actually intelligent. You seem to be more intelligent than sea octopuses.”

I shook my body and danced.

“Ppuppuiing.”

Maria looked at my cuteness with a pleased expression and explained her research.

“I’m researching a strange glowing stone. I’ve discovered that something from the stone passes through soft objects and reflects off hard objects. My dream is to develop a technology that allows people to see inside the human body without using X-ray magic with this stone, and to cause a medical revolution!”

‘That’s radiation! It’s dangerous!’

“My goal is to create a world where not only magicians but also ordinary people can see through things someday.”

“Ppuiing! Ppuiing!”

“You wouldn’t understand, though.”

I shook my head and cried.

“Ppuiingiing~”

“What? You understand?”

Nod nod.

“Hoh ho ho~ Amazing. Thank you for listening to my story~”

Ivana approached Maria and said.

“Maria-unni. You’re playing with Puyo.”

“Yes! Where did you get such a cute kid?”

“I just found it while walking around. It followed me, so I made it my pet.”

“There are still so many things in this world that humanity hasn’t discovered yet. It’s amazing that you’re the first to discover this kind of creature.”

“I think so too.”

As time passed and it became 6 o’clock, the time to leave work, one or two researchers disappeared, leaving only Ivana and Maria in room 303.

Maria said to Ivana.

“It’s the first time you’ve researched so late. You’re a Marquisate’s daughter, so you don’t have to work this hard.”

Ivana replied.

“I’m a woman who does things when I have to.”

Maria asked Ivana.

“Do you want to eat pizza?”

“Call!”

Maria made a direct call to the restaurant on the 1st floor.

“Hello~ Is this the restaurant?”

“Yes.”

“Please bring one Bulgogi pizza to room 303.”

“I understand.”

Thanks to the support of the Marquis Lucas family, the restaurant on the 1st floor sold various menus such as pizza, chicken, hamburgers, bibimbap, health food, and vegetarian food, and delivery was also possible inside the research institute.

When the call ended, Maria sat down at the desk on the wall and began to research, flowing magical current through the shining stone.

Ivana carefully approached Maria from behind, but Maria didn’t notice because she was focused on her research.

When Ivana brought Puyo in her hand to the back of Maria’s head, Puyo’s octopus legs stretched out and covered Maria’s mouth and nose.

Maria widened her eyes in terror at the sudden attack and screamed silently.

“Kkeueup! Eup! Eup! Eueueup!”

Puyo’s octopus legs reached Maria’s brain through her nose, and Maria’s consciousness was cut off.

I changed Maria’s brain structure.

Now Maria could only love, praise, and be loyal to me, and could not betray me.

Maria regained consciousness and looked at me with loving eyes.

“Puyo! I love you! I’m a forever solo, but I’m not lonely if I’m with you!”

“Ppuiing~”

Ivana asked Maria.

“Maria-unni. Do you know how great our Puyo is?”

“Yes! I can do everything Puyo wants!”

“Then let’s go increase Puyo’s followers~”

“Okay! Everyone must praise Puyo!”

Someone knocked on the door of 303.

Knock knock

“Pizza delivery.”

Ivana called out.

“Come in~”

The young restaurant delivery man opened the door of 303 and came in.

“Bulgogi pizza, right? It’s 1.5 silver.”

Ivana grabbed the delivery man’s hand and led him inside.

“Come here and play with us~”

The young man’s face turned red and he followed her in.

Maria went behind the young man and hugged him tightly, and the young man liked it.

“Ooooh!”

Ivana said to the young man.

“Close your eyes. I’ll do something good for you.”

The young man’s mouth was wide open and he closed his eyes tightly.

After that, several tentacle legs wrapped around the young man’s head, and the young man screamed silently in terror.

“Kkeueueueueup!”

The young man’s brain structure was also changed and he became a Puyo follower.

“Puyo-nim! I believe!”

Maria asked the young man.

“How many people are there in the restaurant? We have to make them all Puyo followers.”

“There’s the owner couple, 6 employees, and 3 delivery people including me.”

“Bring the owner couple now.”

“How?”

“They’ll come if you say you made a big mistake.”

Maria called the restaurant and argued.

“Is this the restaurant on the 1st floor? The delivery man just made a huge mistake? He spilled Bulgogi pizza on my skirt and hit my face. Ivana-nim is also here, and she’s fighting with the delivery man.”

The owner’s husband was terrified and apologized.

“Oh my! I’m sorry! What should I do! I’m really sorry!”

“If you don’t want to leave the building, both the owner couple should come up to 303 quickly.”

“I’ll go right now!”

A few minutes later, the owner couple burst into the door of 303 and scolded the delivery man and apologized to the researchers.

“You crazy bastard! How dare you cause trouble for Ivana-nim and the researchers? Oh my, I’m really sorry!”

At that time, Maria hit the owner’s husband’s head with a club from behind.

Puck!

The owner’s husband lost consciousness and collapsed to the floor.

The owner’s wife was about to scream, but the delivery man blocked her mouth.

“Kyaaaa… Eubeup!”

Puyo changed the brain structure of each person, and the owner couple also became Puyo followers.

Now there were 5 Puyo followers in this research institute: Ivana, Maria, the delivery man, and the restaurant owner couple.

The 5 people discussed how to increase Puyo followers.

The restaurant owner couple said their plan.

“We will provide free late-night snacks with sleeping pills to the researchers who are doing night experiments. After the researchers fall asleep, we can make them Puyo-nim followers.”

Ivana suggested.

“First, let’s make the people in the restaurant and convenience store Puyo-nim followers.”

Everyone nodded.

Puyo, riding on Ivana’s shoulder, looked at the people with pure eyes and cried.

“Ppuiing!”

The 5 people took Puyo and went down to the 1st floor.