I Became a Tentacle Monster Blooming in the Academy Garden 143

## Chapter 143 – How to Tame a Spider (1)

Nothing is ever accomplished perfectly on the first try.

Sometimes, I had to correct awkward designs and add various facilities for convenience, all while observing and managing the females in our lair.

As the busy days passed, I could finally see the end in sight, allowing me to relax a little.

That meant it was time to tackle the next problem, which I had been putting off due to the immediate busyness.

‘Leah……’

An Arachne who had somehow wandered into our lair, and who, despite being released once, had returned here as if by a twist of fate.

I could understand how she had returned to the lair through the Kernel Worm, thanks to Vivian’s rough explanation.

‘She was captured again……
Looks like there was an accident……’

She was currently holed up in her web house, not showing any particular hostility, so I could have left her alone for the time being.

However, there was another reason why I couldn’t postpone this matter any longer.

‘It’s been more than a few days since she’s eaten anything, right……?’

No matter how rational a being is, starvation is a catastrophe that can even drive humans, the epitome of reason, to cannibalism.

Moreover, she was a carnivore from the start, so I didn’t even have the option of feeding her nutrient solution.

If Leah went half-mad with hunger and started causing a ruckus in the lair, I doubted whether I could even stop her in my current state.

And now, all the demihumans in the lair were female.

Throwing them to her as food, my precious resources and people, would only increase the confusion among them, who had been given the trust that they could survive because they were female, that they would be safe if they offered their bodies.

I had to come up with a plan for something to feed her and, ultimately, discuss what to do with her.

‘No matter how I think about it, there’s nothing else to feed her……
The Colony Members consume labor as much as they eat, and the time to recover that labor will increase……
But I can’t just feed her the only source of nutrition, the women……’

Eventually, as no suitable conclusion could be reached, it became clear that there was only one option I could choose.

‘I have no choice but to confront it……’

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Deep underground, in the Level 4 Colony Member Assembly.

There, the Colony Members, who had been living without stretching their legs in a narrow space, were frolicking and growing up happily (?) in a wide space.

– Kyuing!! Kyuing!!

– Kkueok!! Kkuieok!!

A pair of giant Kernel Worms, who always had nothing to do, but who had recently gone to work, were reunited and having a romantic time.

Although the female was born later and they had grown up like an older brother and younger sister, in the end, all creatures seemed to follow the laws of nature and found a mate.

Whenever they were bored, they would go out and rummage through the deep underground, sharing the delicious soil or minerals they found together.

– Kyuik!! Kyukyu!! Kyuiiing!!

– Kueok!! Kwak!! Kwelkwak!!

Or they would enjoy dating by singing (?) together like this, looking like a pair of mandarin ducks (apologies to the mandarin ducks…!!).

While the two were sticking their heads out of the Level 4 wall and cuddling, other small Kernel Worms were coming out of the ground below and crawling on the floor, rolling around to relieve the fatigue of their arduous soil-digging work.

And the spiders, busily crawling through the small tunnel that the Kernel Worms had newly constructed after the lair’s interior design, were continuing their long journey towards the Mado Dormitory girls’ bathroom, which was overflowing with females who always provided clear and fresh love nectar.

It had been quite a while since the Mado Dormitory girls’ bathroom had become a famous spot.

Normally, as soon as rumors of a ghost appearing spread, the clergy department should have rushed over to exorcise the ghost, but wasn’t that just how women were?

If there was something good, we would keep it to ourselves as much as possible, and we would fight to the death for it no matter what.

Their desperate struggle to protect the famous spot, which everyone knew about except for those who really didn’t, even slipped through the surveillance of the sacred arts department, which had transcendent abilities, and the divine arts department, which sometimes even made prophecies, protecting the ‘ghost of the Mado Dormitory girls’ bathroom.’

And next to the hole where those spiders came and went, in a small space with walls made of tree roots.

In the laboratory of the Parasites, who seemed like they would live next door to a pineapple house in the deep sea.

The Parasites seemed excited after unveiling their monumental first independently developed product, a new tentacle.

Although the brainwashing method itself was too dangerous because it touched the brain, and the main body, seeing the reaction of the blue-haired human female who was favored by the main body, made the decision to postpone commercialization and distribution, did that matter?

The monumental No. 1 tentacle was still hanging on the wall of the Parasites’ laboratory, its thin, long tentacles fluttering beautifully in the air, waiting for the day when it would fulfill its role again.

I heard that researchers live off the research funds they are allocated.

“Eunghat… Euhik…!! Ang!! Aang!!”

“If you touch there… Haaht!!
I’m going!! I’m gonna cum!! Hyaaaaang!!”

This had also become a daily routine, and the Parasites, who fixed three demihuman females to the wall every day, who came down of their own accord, were researching ways and means to efficiently take control of the females’ bodies.

“Aangat…!! Not that hole…!!
That place……!! Heuet!! It’s not a good hole…!!”

Sometimes, they touched on physical and mental modification issues to effectively maintain the lair, but according to the main body’s requirements, it was almost always finished at a level that did not endanger their lives or health.

In general, the females didn’t seem to dislike the experiments themselves, which involved considerable pleasure.

“It wasn’t… like this before…!!
Hiiit!! I can feel it…!!
The good place… is getting bigger…
I can feel it as I please…!!
Haaaang!! Eungok!! Ogogok!!”

Anyway, in the midst of all this, in the Level 4 underground where so many Colony Members were diligently doing their jobs while protecting their positions, there was a being who was exuding a sense of incongruity all alone.

A house made of spider webs hanging on the wall.

Inside, she seemed to be sitting comfortably, but her expression was anything but, a pseudo-humanoid with the upper body of a woman with hair as red as blood flowing down, and the lower body of a spider, Arachne.

She was occasionally trembling and breathing roughly, as if she was fighting something alone inside the house.

Although she was sitting comfortably inside, the way she was curled up holding her stomach seemed to show the appearance of a hungry beast, or even more than that.

“Haa… ha… hoo……”

Curling up and closing her eyes tightly, her eyes suddenly opened, and her sharp, vertically slit pupils were widening.

“Heueup… Heueueup…… Heueup……”

And what was coming into her widened pupils was a long, smooth shape that was casting a shadow due to the faint halo.

‘Are you not feeling well somewhere……?
I just came to talk for a bit……?’

Seeing Leah’s condition, which seemed to be far from simple hunger, I reached out a tentacle to her, despite her raising her two front legs as if to threaten me.

– Thwack

‘Augh…!!’

Whether Leah’s raised front legs were not just a threat, the surface of the tentacle was cut by the end of the swinging front leg, and a tingling pain flowed in.

Since the tentacle could also feel pleasure, it wasn’t that it couldn’t feel pain.

Suppressing the pain with effort, I stepped back and started looking at Leah again.

Perhaps she didn’t know that I would be greatly cut by the front leg that instinctively reached out, her pupils were shaking…

‘Am I screwed.’

Unfortunately, her gaze, as her pupils gradually narrowed again like a beast aiming for prey, was fixed on the wound on my tentacle, where a transparent and sticky liquid similar to blood was flowing down.

Still, thanks to Leah’s mental strength, which did not let go of the last thread of reason, the situation was not getting worse.

Because the moment she stepped out of the web house to attack the tentacle, the Colony Members spread out around here would rush at her as one, her spirit, exerting the last bit of patience, was creating the current standoff.

But that didn’t mean that the situation was being resolved, it just meant that it wasn’t getting worse.

‘As I thought… something’s wrong……?’

Leah’s appearance, panting while holding her stomach tightly and glaring at me, was truly precarious.

Just like when she first came to our lair.

Like a wounded beast trying to protect itself from the world alone, refusing even the touch of healing with wary eyes.

‘It seems like it’s time for an expert again……’