## Chapter 180 – 재회몽(1)
## Chapter 180 – A Dream of Reunion (1)
While Yui was tending to Carla’s condition,
Vivian stood guard at the door, anticipating any possible situation.
How much time had passed since then?
Perhaps it was because her heart wouldn’t calm down.
Each second felt like an eternity.
She wanted to burst through the door and check on the situation immediately, but if anyone were to see the spider, everything she had protected would crumble.
Leaning against the wall beside the door, she bit her trembling lip. Every time she heard Carla’s scream from inside, she flinched, praying that Yui was doing things right.
Then, at some point, Carla’s screams began to subside completely. In that moment, filled with hope that something might have improved,
the door opened slightly, and Yui’s haggard face appeared through the gap. She began to murmur quietly to Vivian, who had pushed herself off the wall.
“I… succeeded… but…”
Yui gently held out the blood-soaked spider, its mandibles partially melted. Vivian carefully took it.
The venom sac, too, was drenched in blood, like a blood transfusion pack.
Fearing that the sac might melt, Vivian turned to bury it in the ground as quickly as possible.
But Yui’s voice stopped her.
“She… lost too much blood…
If she doesn’t get a transfusion…
And the wounds are too deep…
Her palms… her shoulders… you can see the bone…”
Hearing that the potent acid had penetrated so deeply, melting away so much of her body, Vivian couldn’t help but groan softly.
“That… we can find a doctor to…”
“Then… she can be healed…? Right…?”
That’s why… that’s why…
“Weren’t you… trying to avoid involving your friend in the first place?”
“In this state… she might have to have her arms and wrists amputated…
She’ll have to live… as an invalid for the rest of her life…
I can’t let Carla… live in such agony…
He could… restore her missing parts…!!
Just like… how he changed your face…
Please…!! Help Carla…!!”
That was why she didn’t want Carla to get close.
It was as if her own premonitions were coming true, each anxious feeling finding its place, and Vivian’s expression hardened.
“I can allow you to take her.
But you know, don’t you?
How you were able to get out of that place.
Even if your friend is trapped there forever…”
“I’ll end my contract… and offer myself completely to him…
My body is… attuned for Enic…
Even if I can’t leave for the rest of my life, it’s okay…!!
I’ll… diligently produce the swarm members…!!
So… Carla, at least… *sob*…”
Seeing Yui, who had barely regained her freedom, pull out herself as the final bargaining chip, Vivian was rather taken aback.
She had wanted to somehow resolve this matter without him knowing, but now the situation was beyond her control.
‘If I cut her off here, saying it can’t be done…
If this woman holds a grudge for no reason…’
Besides, after watching Yui work at the brothel to make excuses for Carla, she had concluded that, although she was a student, she was quite a talented individual.
To not only lose a doctor with great potential, who came from Chao Xing, the heart of modern medicine, but also turn her into an enemy, would be too great a loss for his lair.
‘Not long ago… I received help from Lanié, too…’
If she hadn’t accurately pinpointed the areas to treat while checking on Lanié’s condition, who had been suffering from internal injuries sustained during childbirth, Lanié might have become permanently disabled in the worst-case scenario.
But even so, she could simply wash her hands of it and refuse to help Carla, drawing a line, but then she would have to worry about how Yui would react.
If even a small rumor spread that Enic was in the royal capital.
Especially if such words came from a victim and survivor of the Chao Nan incident.
Even if some people dismissed it as crazy talk, people would flock to it out of curiosity.
‘Do I have to end it here…?’
Of course, she could silence Yui here to prevent her from talking, sending her to the afterlife with Carla.
‘But that would… ruin the plan…’
Vivian was operating within a plan for him.
However, due to too many variables, she had already caused enough of a commotion.
Even killing Hye-ryung alone required a great deal of resolve.
‘It’s just getting more complicated…’
If Yui and Carla disappeared at the same time, she would have to deal with Hye-ryung, who had witnessed them both being here.
It was only natural that she could be cornered into an unforeseen checkmate.
Vivian didn’t want anyone to doubt her brothel management skills, nor did she want to suffer any potential disadvantages.
‘If, by any chance, Yui tries to resist further and I have to kill her…’
That would only return as a penalty to herself, as she would have to conceal that fact from everyone without leaving any evidence.
The only place where she could completely eliminate her without leaving a trace was in the lair.
But in that lair, he had chosen to free Yui.
‘If I can’t do as I please…
I’ll just fulfill what he wants…’
Recalling his words that Carla should live well, Vivian finally closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She didn’t know if this was the right choice, but it seemed like there were no other options.
“Get ready to leave. I’ll call someone to help.”
Vivian’s conclusion, which made her shoulders look heavier than usual, would only end up hurting herself.
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The connection with one of the spiders was severed.
Moreover, it was the spider she had implanted in Vivian, who had gone outside to carry out her own plan in the back alleys.
Lanié, who had hurriedly followed Vivian, tried to connect to the spider she was carrying, but she seemed busy with something, her hurried movements being transmitted to the spider along the uterine wall.
In this situation, where they might have such an urgent need to move, it might be more of a hindrance if I tried to intervene forcibly.
Suppressing the uneasy feeling, how long had it been since she decided to wait for them to contact her first?
‘The tunnel…!!’
“Here!! It’s here…!! Ugh!! Heavy!!”
“Carla isn’t heavy!!”
Vivian, running in the front as if guiding the way, and Lanié, running with someone on her back with overflowing energy.
And behind Lanié, Yui, running with a worried face and tearful eyes.
After a period of quiet, what came into my sight, as I was flustered by the sudden, incomprehensible situation, was none other than the familiar face of the girl on Lanié’s back.
‘Why……?’
Unlike her usual appearance, her disheveled brown hair was a complete mess.
Her face was contorted, her cheeks were covered in tears, and her lips were completely dry from how much she had cried.
And most strikingly, her bare shoulders were exposed, revealing the red flesh beneath, like a cluster of red spider lilies, indicating an injury that seemed far from ordinary.
Only then did I understand why they had rushed here so urgently, and I gathered my wits, quickly summoning the Parasites and taking Carla from Lanié.
‘Still, it’s a relief… the wounds are deep, but…
If the Parasites cover the wounds well…
And promote wound healing with mucus…!!’
Lanié, who was pregnant, required complex surgery and couldn’t be used, but the problem that had occurred with Carla seemed to be something that the Parasites could handle sufficiently.
While regenerating the melted muscles and blood vessels, the Parasites could melt the flesh and restore it to its original form.
And with a few shots of nutrient solution, they could accelerate not only the nutrients needed for the body to regenerate but also the rate at which lost blood was replenished.
As I carried Carla into the place where the Parasites were, not even wanting to waste time waiting for them to arrive, I could see the two women behind me, their eyes filled with worry in different ways.
“……”
“…………”
The expressions on their faces, having brought Carla into the lair after all, were somewhat understandable.
I didn’t know the details yet, but Yui would be worried simply because she had brought Carla here.
She would think that now that I had taken Carla, I would never let her go.
‘Yui, too… is essentially a slave, based on the contract terms…’
In exchange for giving her the freedom to be with Carla, she had to obey my orders whenever I called upon her.
Although there were parts she didn’t necessarily acknowledge, the fact that she would willingly offer her body whenever I wanted was no different from being a slave.
If Carla was the most precious thing in the world to Yui, aside from herself, it made sense that she would worry about Carla, thinking of her own example.
But……
‘Why is Vivian like that?’
It wasn’t like she hadn’t brought other women to me under the guise of dedicating them to me.
Lanié, Orora, and even when she handed Verdi over to me.
Vivian had never shown such an expression at any of those times.
Looking at her, silently biting her lip with an expression that seemed to be filled with many worries…
‘Could something have gone wrong…?’
I wondered if I should say something, but I couldn’t help but leave Vivian alone, fearing that I might disturb her if she was deep in thought.
‘I hoped… I wouldn’t have to see Carla again…
But I guess it can’t be helped……’
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