## Chapter 144 – How to Tame a Spider (2)
Female Dormitory Building 1, Saint Flansina Academy.
On the bed in a room where traces of girls her age could be found everywhere, was a black-haired girl who had been reading a book. Feeling a sensation of being poked in her stomach, she gently parted her legs.
Seeing a fist-sized spider wriggling out of her vulva, the girl smiled faintly. I wrote on her palm, briefly explaining my business.
“Um… no matter how much I think about it…
I don’t think that’s a good idea…”
‘You’re the only one who can do it.’
“So… um…
It’s a bit… hard to say this, but…
I have a bad history with that Arachnella…”
She, who rarely showed any signs of backing down, looked pale and stuttered. It seemed like she really didn’t want to do it.
‘Is there really no way?’
“Today… I’m supposed to go out with Carla…
I’ll be out until evening…”
“Yui…!! I… I don’t have a towel!!
What do I do!! Help me, Yuiemon!!”
“Carla!! Just… just a moment…!!
I’ll get it for you, so just stay there…!!
Hurry…! Go back in……! Sniff…”
Then, hearing the voice from behind, Yui was startled. She shoved the spider she was holding between her legs, letting out a soft groan. In the end, I had no choice but to give up on asking her.
Until recently, Carla had been doing her best to hide me from Yui, but now Yui was hiding me from Carla.
Still, hearing Carla’s voice again after a while made me feel a little better.
For the past few days, she had been holding Yui and crying, so Yui had barely had time to escape and come to the lair.
Now, she seemed to have recovered from the loss of separation, and her bright and confident demeanor seemed to suit Carla better.
‘This is enough, I guess…
But there’s a bigger problem…’
Carla’s heart recovering was secondary. The fact that Yui, who had been a reliable source of help, was completely tied to Carla and couldn’t move was a problem.
This meant that my options were limited in the face of the ongoing confrontation with Lea in the lair.
“Carla!! Here’s the towel…!!”
“Thank you, Yuiemon!!
You’re the best, Yui!!”
“I know, but dry yourself and then hug me!!
Eek!! Ack!! Don’t splash water!!”
“Ahaha…!! Ahahahaha!!”
In the end, I returned, leaving behind the giggling laughter, with a mix of emotions swirling in my head.
‘It’s a relief that she comes back whenever she has time.
The fact that I can’t call her whenever I need her is just an unavoidable reality.’
As I returned to the lair from Yui, my tentacles saw ‘her’, still unable to let go of her tension despite the prolonged confrontation.
‘What am I supposed to do in this situation…’
In fact, the situation itself might have been solvable somehow.
In the meantime, Vivian, Ranier, and Aurora, as well as fifty or so succubus, and thirty or so (former) males had diligently given birth to colony members, already numbering several hundred.
‘There’s a reason why the 4th basement floor is entirely for them…’
But the important point was that no matter how many they were, they were just small fry.
To put it simply, compared to the combat power of our colony members, Lea’s existence was like Zhang Fei at the Battle of Changban.
As far as I knew, Vivian, Ranier, and Aurora, at least, didn’t have the combat power to face Arachnella.
I thought that putting them in a fight would only hurt them, and the succubus were in a similar situation.
Even before, nearly a hundred succubus had been threatened by Lea alone, so the difference in class was clearly obvious.
Especially since they were the females who provided me with nutrients, it was out of the question to hurt them carelessly.
So, I had no choice but to turn my attention to my colony members. Most of the hundreds of colony members stored on the 4th floor were ‘spiders’.
‘Those guys aren’t meant for fighting in the first place…
There’s a limit to how much you can achieve with numbers…’
And among them, only a few dozen, who had injected poison needles into her body when Lea was subdued last time, and a few dozen who had taken drugs.
Only about 70 of them had become Toxonate variants with strong poison, but as before, this poison would only end up arousing or stimulating Lea a little.
And there was only one Tortura variant that had grown to the size of a small dog by eating Carla’s fluids for a long time, and now had grown to almost the size of a large dog by drinking the succubus’ fluids.
‘It’ll grow as big as a rhino or an elephant later…
But the fact that it’s ambiguous now remains unchanged…’
And the number of Kernel Worms had also increased to nearly 100, but they were only in charge of tunneling, and their direct attack power was negligible.
So, if I wanted to expect something, I needed to use the Carrier variant, the giant Kernel Worm, which was a far superior version in terms of weight and strength from the start.
‘You’re going to cause a ruckus in here with those guys…?
I don’t want to destroy the lair that I just finished decorating…’
But since there was a difference in agility, even if Arachnella, who used a quick attack method, was tired, the giant Kernel Worms, which were bound to be clumsy due to their large size, were unlikely to catch Lea before the lair was destroyed.
‘Should I… use that…? No…
It hasn’t been that long since I sealed it away…’
I thought about taking some damage and capturing Lea, then using the mind control tentacles developed by the Parasites, but at least for now, I wanted to explore other options.
I had just told Vivian a few days ago that I wouldn’t use it, and the moment I saw Lea being brainwashed, her trust might be shattered.
I wanted to avoid that situation if possible, so as I was thinking about how to get through the situation, my gaze suddenly landed somewhere.
‘Maybe… if I can corner her somewhere…?’
The only hiding place and shield protecting Lea was the densely woven spiderweb house, similar to a tunnel.
Since the tentacles came out of the wall and floated in the air, I could enter without stepping into it, and I could relatively overcome the adhesive force of the spiderweb thanks to the special mucus…
It was like an ant hell that even ordinary colony members couldn’t easily step into due to its considerable adhesive force, and it had a defensive power that was not only elastic but also comparable to a wall of similar strength in some ways.
What if I dragged Lea out of there and cornered her somewhere before she caused a commotion?
With that thought, I gathered even the slightest hope and started brainstorming. When the Parasites rolled near the tentacles and started gesturing to add ideas, the outline of the plan began to become clear.
‘This… might work…?’
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‘Lea, this is the last warning.
Don’t do this, come out and let’s talk.
It’s not going to help either of us if you do this.
I’m not going to deceive you or anything…!!’
Saying it like this makes it sound like a threat rather than a warning of good faith, but it might be because I’m not good at talking.
Still, for a moment, her eyes were tightly closed and then slightly opened, trembling slightly, so I could tell that her thoughts were wavering, even though I didn’t know what the trigger was.
But in the end, seeing that she wasn’t trying to come out of the house, I had to make an unavoidable choice.
‘I’m sorry, but if it’s like this, I can’t just stand by and watch.’
Indeed, ‘either party’.
Just because she had an inexplicable distrust of me, I couldn’t trust her, who wasn’t trying to say anything, and leave her alone like this.
Besides, from her reaction after attacking the tentacles earlier, I could also tell that she was quite hungry.
With my own rationalization of animal rescue, I had no choice but to start taking action.
Of course, the fact that the animal I had to rescue was a very dangerous beast was a chilling thing.
‘I won’t give you any leeway.’
With my thoughts, the spiderweb house attached to the wall suddenly tilted, and Lea’s expression hardened.
‘You probably think nothing has happened…’
At the end of the spiderwebs that had been attached to the wall and had fallen off, there were small pieces of rock or gravel attached.
Something was wriggling and moving inside the wall where the spiderwebs were attached, as if cutting out the entire wall where the spiderwebs that were holding the house in place were attached.
Lea wouldn’t know the cause, but she would still think it was within the allowable range.
To correct that misunderstanding, I cut out one side of the wall again with the Kernel Worms, and once again dropped the spiderwebs that were fixing her spiderweb house from the wall.
“Keuk……”
If I destroyed the house itself, her options would have to change as well.
If she stayed in the house, she would fall to the floor and be trapped in the sticky spiderweb, creating the worst situation.
‘Then she’ll come out of the house.’
In the end, when almost no spiderwebs were left to support the house and it was on the verge of collapse, Lea came out of the spiderweb house as I had expected. One of her legs was caught on the spiderweb house, dangling, and then she fell to the floor.
– Thud
But before she could come to her senses, tentacles rose from the floor in front of her, and Lea began to back away, dodging the tentacles to avoid being caught.
“Haa… Haa…”
But with the tentacles rising in every path she took and the colony members rushing at her, she had no choice but to be cornered while dodging and fending them off. Just as she was about to jump up the wall to escape the situation.
– Kyuiiiiiing!!
The shadow of a giant Kernel Worm that had broken through the wall Lea was about to land on loomed large over her, her face filled with surprise.
Her lower body, which had been facing the wall, was sucked into the mouth of the Kernel Worm that had sprung out of the wall, and Lea’s expression was gradually filled with despair.
‘If you get caught there, you won’t be able to get out easily.’
Most animal flesh is soft mucous membrane, but the Kernel Worm was different.
It was a creature that moved forward by digging through the soil, so it would be meaningless if it was injured by the soil entering its mouth.
Therefore, the Kernel Worm, which was made up of almost solid muscle, and especially the giant Kernel Worm, which lived with even greater resistance, had prepared this for Lea, who had plunged her lower body into its muscular insides.
‘Seeing it like this, Vivian found something good.’
Lea’s legs were caught in the many holes around the mouth of the giant Kernel Worm, just like when she first saw Aurora.
“Let go…!! Let go of this… Kyaaaa!!”
Lea pulled out her sharp, hard claws and swung them around, but…
Her lower body was completely trapped in the mouth of the Kernel Worm, and her upper body was sticking out of its mouth, so it was meaningless.
Because the Kernel Worm protected itself with dozens of diamond-hard teeth arranged in a circle around its mouth, like a stack of hole cutters, so it was natural that it wouldn’t be harmed.
Before long, tentacles wrapped around her remaining arms, and after being cut off several times, she was completely restrained to the point where she couldn’t even move her fingers.
“Ugh…!! Ugh… Eek……!!”
Even in a situation that was no different from checkmate, she displayed the wildness of a wild hunter, struggling with all her might as if she would bite with her teeth, but for her, who had now become the prey, the resistance was meaningless.
‘I finally caught her.’
My thoughts seemed to be speaking to her, and her pupils were shaking as she heard them.
In the end, she seemed to acknowledge her defeat, letting her body slump and hanging her head as if she was giving up on everything.
Just like before, but with a slightly sadder expression.
“What… are you going to do…
to me……”
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