Talca City

The five of them took Puyo and went down to the first floor.

In the first-floor convenience store, the convenience store ajumma was sitting alone, reading a novel.

The restaurant owner’s wife asked the convenience store ajumma affectionately.

“Oh my~ What novel is that?”

“The original Sky Ship.”

“Come to the bathroom for a second. I heard about a really good investment opportunity, and I’ll only tell you.”

“What bullshit are you talking about.”

“No, Ivana-nim told me. Ivana-nim is waiting in the bathroom right now.”

“Really?!”

The convenience store ajumma was tricked into going to the women’s bathroom, where she was caught by the restaurant owner’s wife, Ivana, and Marie, and became a Puyo follower.

The convenience store ajumma remained in the convenience store, and the five went to the restaurant.

Researchers were sitting at the restaurant tables, eating dinner, and the employees were diligently making and carrying food.

Ivana muttered.

“There are more people than I thought, so it’s gonna be tough.”

Marie came up with a good idea.

“Let’s just camp out in the bathroom. Honestly, who doesn’t go to the bathroom?”

The owners also shared their plan.

“Today, we’ll provide unlimited late-night snacks to the employees and delivery people, so we can keep them here until night.”

The owners and the delivery people decided to work as usual, and Marie and Ivana, along with Puyo, occupied one toilet stall each in the first-floor women’s bathroom.

Just then, a female restaurant employee entered the women’s bathroom.

“Keueueueu. Did I eat too much for lunch?”

As the employee was about to enter a toilet stall, Marie and Ivana jumped out from both sides, hugged the employee, covered her mouth, and dragged her into the stall.

“Keueueueup!”

Puyo instantly wrapped its tentacle legs around the employee’s head, turning her into a Puyo follower.

Marie and Ivana camped out in the bathroom, turning everyone who came in into a Puyo follower.

The Puyo followers returned to their respective labs.

Around 9 p.m., the owner’s wife entered the bathroom and said.

“All the restaurant customers have left, and only the employees and delivery people are left. Come out now.”

When Ivana and Marie went to the restaurant, the owners, six employees, and three delivery people were happily eating chicken, pizza, and french fries.

Among them, two employees and two delivery people were not Puyo followers and were male.

Ivana muttered.

“It looks like we’ll be lacking in physical strength.”

Marie said.

“I’ll call for reinforcements.”

Marie disappeared and returned ten minutes later with eight female researchers who were Puyo followers.

Several researchers entered the restaurant, and the employees and delivery people welcomed them.

“The boss is treating us today! Eat with us~”

The Puyo followers stood around the chairs of the people who were not Puyo followers.

One delivery person wondered.

“What are you doing, not eating?”

The moment several Puyo followers clung tightly to the people’s bodies, Puyo jumped from Ivana’s shoulder and wrapped its tentacle legs around one delivery person’s head.

As the tentacle legs invaded the delivery person’s brain, the delivery person foamed at the mouth and trembled.

“Eugeugeugeu….”

The remaining two employees and one delivery person screamed and tried to get up, but the people clung to them like ants, hindering their movements.

“Get out of the way! I said get out of the way! Euaaaa!”

One burly delivery person dragged four women attached to his body, struggling to walk to the door.

“Kkeuaaaa! Get off!”

However, after one additional delivery person became a Puyo follower, he hit the burly delivery person in the temple, knocking him unconscious.

The restaurant became a mess, but everyone in the restaurant became a Puyo follower.

At that moment, the restaurant door opened, and one male researcher entered and argued.

“Hey. What’s with all the noise while I’m doing research? Please be quiet.”

The restaurant owner’s husband apologized.

“Oh my. I’m sorry. We’re having a free late-night snack event today, but there was a little fight, so it became a mess. As an apology, I’ll give you some chicken, so come over here.”

“Oh~ I’d love that.”

As the male researcher came to the center, the people rushed at him all at once and grabbed his body.

The male researcher screamed.

“Eua! What is this!”

The male researcher soon became a Puyo follower as well.

More people in the lab than expected became Puyo followers.

Ivana suggested the plan she had made earlier.

“Like the restaurant owner said, let’s deliver chicken and pizza slices with sleeping pills to each room for free to put people to sleep.”

There were only engineers with weak combat abilities here, so they would have no choice but to fall victim to the sleeping pills.

The people nodded.

Ivana continued to speak.

“Marie and I will go around from the basement with these researchers, subdue people, and make them followers of Puyo-nim.”

And so, the plan was put into action.

Ivana, Marie, one male researcher, and eight female researchers went to the basement of the lab.

In the basement of the lab, there was a material warehouse, a golem and chimera hangar, a common laboratory, and a duty room.

As Ivana’s group went to the duty room, the duty officer, Mr. Samuel, asked matter-of-factly.

“What’s going on?”

Ivana’s group rushed at Samuel.

“Catch him!”

As the nine researchers grabbed and pressed down on Samuel from all sides, Samuel got angry.

“What are you doing!”

Samuel used his body a lot, so he was burly, and when Samuel pushed hard, the frail researchers tumbled and screamed.

“Kyaaaaak!”

The male researcher grabbed Samuel’s waist and groaned, and Samuel grabbed the male researcher’s upper body and threw him.

U-dangtang kwang kwang

Samuel went to the duty room door and got angry.

“Ivana-nim, what is all this! I’ll contact the director.”

At that moment, the legs of a small octopus stretched out and wrapped around Samuel’s body, arms, and legs with tremendous force.

Samuel gave strength, but his arms and legs did not move at all, as if connected to a huge machine.

Puyo pulled Samuel to its main body.

Kkigigigik

“Ppuing!”

“Euaaaa! What is this!”

Samuel soon became a Puyo follower and praised Puyo.

“I apologize for the rudeness just now. All humans must worship Puyo-nim!”

Ivana’s group, including Samuel, started from the basement and went up, turning the researchers who were working overnight into Puyo followers.

There were already people who had become Puyo followers, and some people were sleeping after eating late-night snacks with sleeping pills.

Ivana’s group was able to easily turn the remaining people into Puyo followers and conquered up to the 5th floor around 6 a.m.

Dozens of Puyo followers went up to the 6th floor.

—

On the 6th floor, the vice director and bioengineer, Sophia, was left alone, organizing data in her personal office.

“Heeheeheuk…. It’s hard. Bad director-nim. Why are you making me do hard things.”

On Sophia’s desk was her pet chimera, Ppiyaki, which she had made.

Ppiyaki was a fist-sized chick.

Sophia asked Ppiyaki.

“Ppiyaki. You think so too, right?”

Ppiyaki rubbed its head against Sophia’s wrist and cried cutely.

“Ppiyak~ Ppiyak~”

At that moment, someone knocked on Sophia’s office door, and Sophia called out.

“Who is it~”

“Free chicken.”

“Yes?”

When Sophia opened the office door, the delivery person gave her a paper plate with a few pieces of boneless chicken and explained.

“The restaurant on the first floor is giving out free chicken to people working late tonight.”

“Oh my! Thank you!”

Sophia received the chicken without much suspicion and closed the door.

“Hehet~ Chicken~”

Sophia was about to sit down when she tripped over her own feet like a klutz and fell.

U-dangtang kwadang

The chicken spilled on the floor and became inedible.

“My chicken! Why do I only make mistakes! Euaaang!”

Ppiyaki flew to Sophia’s shoulder and comforted her by rubbing its head against her cheek.

“Ppiyak~ Ppiyak~”

Sophia cleaned up the chicken that had fallen on the floor and started organizing the data again.

Dozens of minutes later, someone burst into Sophia’s office.

It was Ivana’s group.

“Is she sleeping?”

Sophia looked in the direction of the door and was surprised.

“Ivana! Marie! And everyone else! Why did you come here?”

Ivana clicked her tongue.

“Damn it. She’s not sleeping yet. It doesn’t matter since there’s only one person anyway.”

As dozens of people tried to enter Sophia’s office, Sophia stood up, terrified.

“Why, why are you doing this.”

At that moment, Ppiyaki flapped its wings with an angry face and threatened.

“Ppiyaak! Ppiyaak!”

Sophia shouted at Ppiyaki.

“Ppiyaki! Save me, unnie!”

Ppiyaki’s body grew rapidly, turning into a 2.2m-tall avian monster.

Ppiyaki’s beak had jagged teeth, and the tips of its wings also had claws that could tear humans apart.

Ppiyaki screamed and threatened.

“Kkueeek! Kkueeeeek!”

The people panicked and rushed out of the office.

“Euaaa! Help me!”

Ivana was annoyed.

“Damn it! My golem is at home!”

Now it was my turn.

I jumped from Ivana’s shoulder, my body growing rapidly, and I became a 2.3m-tall tentacle monster and screamed.

“Kieeeee!”

The Puyo followers were moved when they saw me.

“Ah! The true form of the god!”

“Praise the god!”

Sophia instructed Ppiyaki.

“Ppiyaki! You are the best chimera. You don’t need to be afraid of that fake chimera. Attack!”

Ppiyaki screamed and charged at me with its beak.

Kung kung kung kung

“Kkueeeeek!”

I shot dozens of blade tentacles forward from my body.

Ppiyaki could not fly due to the narrow office and hallway, and just charged, its whole body pierced by the blade tentacles.

Peok peobeok peokpeokpeok

“Kkueeeeeek! Keaek…”

Ppiyaki had holes all over its body and dripped blood.

“Pp….”

Ppiyaki slowly turned its head, looked at Sophia once, and died.

Sophia sobbed sadly.

“Ppiyaki! No! Heongheongheong!”

As I approached Sophia, Sophia screamed.

“Don’t come! You demon! Get out! Heongheongheong!”

I wrapped my tentacle legs around Sophia and lifted her up.

“Kieeeee~”

“Kyaaaaaaaa!”

Sophia’s brain structure was also changed, and she became a Puyo follower.

“God! We can make Ppiyaki again! You’re the only one for me!”

I looked back at my followers and declared.

“I am the God of Darkness, and my true name is Kamaite and Kyle. I can accept you as my kin by sacrificing humans. If you become my kin, you will enjoy overwhelming power and authority!”

“Uwaaaa! We believe!”

“Bring sacrifices. Then I will make you my kin!”

“Yes!”

“I will catch the homeless!”

I declared.

“I will make all the humans in this lab my followers!”

I shrank down and became the pet octopus, Puyo, again.

“Ppuing!”

Ivana respectfully picked me up and placed me on her shoulder and said to the followers.

“Let’s all work hard for Kyle-nim’s cause.”

“Yes!”

I spent a week at the Talca Lab, working to make the lab personnel my followers.

The more followers I had, the easier the brainwashing became.

I rode on the shoulders of my followers and, whether it was a bathroom, lab, or laboratory, if there were few non-followers, I would catch them and change their brain structure.

After a week, most of the lab personnel had become my followers.

I consumed the homeless people that my followers had kidnapped and made important researchers such as Sophia and Marie my kin.

The only regret was that I could not make the lab director, Carol, a follower.

Carol was holed up in her office, only doing her work, and did not enjoy meeting people, so it was difficult to call her out among the followers.

There was also a personal bathroom inside Carol’s office.

Even when Ivana and Sophia took me to Carol’s office, she would not let them approach and would only scold them and chase them away.

Since I did not know what trump card Carol, a brilliant magic engineer, had, it was ambiguous to rush at her with several people.

I decided to brainwash Carol later when I had the chance.

—

It is now the morning of the day after I made most of the lab personnel my followers.

Director Carol was racking her brains in her personal office on the 6th floor.

Carol was a graduate of Hamel High School and the Magic Tower’s Mechanical Engineering Department, and she always had the best grades and was called a genius at the time for her groundbreaking research.

Carol caught the eye of Marquis Lucas and became the director of the Talca Lab at a young age.

When Carol came here and married the Clovis Knight Commander, Carol’s life was on a smooth path, and she felt like she could do anything.

However, the events of the past week have frustrated Carol.

The tasks that Carol ordered were frequently ignored, and the reports that used to come up well suddenly stopped coming.

Even when Carol called the person in charge and got angry, they only apologized at the time and did not change.

Carol was good at studying, but she was not good at handling people, so she kept worrying.

‘Why don’t the lab employees listen to me? What should I do in this situation? My husband said that I should buy people food and praise them appropriately. Have I been too aloof?’

Carol needed someone to talk to, so she called Vice Director Sophia.

When Sophia came in, Carol asked.

“It seems like the lab employees haven’t been doing their jobs properly lately. Do you have any idea why?”

Sophia replied coldly.

“I don’t know~”

Carol was slightly angry at the short answer.

“Vice Director Sophia. Aren’t you getting too ahead of yourself lately? Did you finish the data investigation back then?”

Sophia stomped her foot hard on the floor.

Kwang!

Carol was startled and flinched.

Sophia frowned fiercely and shouted.

“I’m not your toy! Do you think I don’t know you hate me because I have bigger tits?! I’ll do my work as I please, so get lost!”

Before Carol could get angry, Sophia strode out of the director’s office, slamming the door shut.

Honestly, it was true that Carol was jealous of Sophia, who had E-cup breasts, because Carol had A-cup breasts and hated her.

Carol was dumbfounded and blankly stared before anger slowly began to rise.

“Ha- I’m going crazy. That bitch is talking back to the director?! Just you wait! Come to think of it, that bitch must have made the public opinion about me bad. She must be coveting the director’s position.”