## Chapter 302 – The Monarch of Monsters (4)
Now, a day has passed, and the mysterious rain of flesh falling from the sky has stopped.
“Kya-ha!!”
“Ahi-hit!!”
I guess this is what they mean when they say youth is good.
The young demi-human children that Vivian brought, along with the two demi-human girls who were originally in the lair, were mingling and having a good time together in the open space on the first floor of the lair.
Thinking back to when they were first brought in, they would burst into tears, terrified, whenever anyone approached, and they would flinch at the slightest touch, as if they had suffered a lot of abuse. It was heartbreaking.
It took some effort to heal those wounds, but…
“Huuu… Noooo…….”
“Waaaaah……!! Mommyyy……!!”
‘Well, I guess there’s no reason for these kids to have encountered monsters in the royal capital.’
The children, trembling with fear as tentacles wrapped around them, were thankfully able to calm down and receive treatment thanks to Fina, the most trustworthy adult demi-human.
As the wounds on their bodies gradually began to heal, their astonished eyes were quite adorable.
“Unnie!!”
“Are they new friends!!”
“Is that right? We have new friends, so shall we get along well?”
When the children who were originally playing in the lair were brought in, the other children’s emotions seemed to gradually recover, thanks to the two children who hadn’t lost their liveliness.
‘Cute……’
“But it’s not okay. There’s a reason why I brought them here.”
‘Doesn’t it have to be like that? They’re still young kids, and……’
“We can start with basic knowledge and teach them slowly. I’m thinking of gradually teaching those kids who are playing… work…”
‘Wha… wha… what are you trying to make the… kids do…!!’
“Th-that’s… not… not what I…!! Uheuheu……
Ugh… what are you thinking……!?
It’s not like I’ve fallen that low, you know!?
I’m just going to have them do chores…!!
Kids that age usually help with household chores!!”
‘That scared me……’
I wrapped my arms around Vivian, who was flustered next to me and biting her tongue, and listened to her excuse, which wasn’t really an excuse, while looking at her cute face.
When I think about it, it’s true that those children need to develop some independence.
I’ve been thinking about the two girls who live in the lair and never see anyone other than Fina and the Henias, and the truth is that I can’t say their future is bright if things continue like this.
But now that Vivian has gone on a ‘FLEX’ spree for the first time in a while and the number of children has suddenly increased, it will be more efficient to teach them something.
‘If I don’t teach them something and give them a chance to work hard on their own… those kids will end up not being able to do anything on their own later. Yeah… that’s right.’
As Vivian said, this world is one where even children have to take care of their own needs.
In the world where I lived as a human, there were things like human rights and children’s rights.
But those values, which are based on peace, are difficult to shine in a world where such a premise is not yet fully established and controlled.
The children here have to help their families by doing their own work from a young age, and in doing so, they have to lay the foundation for their independence.
In that sense, what we had been doing since the days when there were only two girls was our own form of private education.
“Ah-eh!! Let’s try it!! Ah-eh!!”
“Ah… eh!!”
“Oooooh!! Good job!! So cute!!”
‘I think the last part is your true feelings…’
“Then… Beh!!”
“Beh!!”
“That’s right!! Good job!! Good job!!
Oooooh!! Cute kids!!”
Lanie, who is close friends with the Henias, has a close relationship with the children, and she has been teaching the girls very basic common sense.
Even though she’s a bit of a delinquent, Lanie is capable of teaching them how to read and write, and basic arithmetic.
“That’s right!! Uhi-hit!! How did you get it right!!”
“Lanie Unnie told me!!”
“That’s right!! Unnie told me!!?
So cuteeeeeeee!!”
‘Maybe it’s because their mental ages are similar……’
She seems to think she’s doing something good, and she’s showing a hard-working attitude, so I thought it was a good opportunity…
Of course, there was an unavoidable background to it.
“No, if you subtract three silver coins from that, you get two gold coins.
And then you have nine silver coins and seven copper coins, right?”
“Uuuu……”
“If you can’t even do this much, you’ll become a useless adult later.
Quickly, swiftly, accurately, perfectly, until you get it right.”
“Yessss……”
Of course, it would be best if Vivian, who gets top grades in every subject, were the teacher, but she’s busy traveling around and working, and for some reason, she has a scary aura when it comes to teaching others…
“Okay, the word ‘cool’ means this?
I need to teach you about Master’s coolness first…
If you hug that squishy and smooth thing…… Uhoohut……”
“E-eeeh……”
Next, Aurora, who can be considered the smartest, doesn’t really have a talent for studying, but rather for social life and work, and I couldn’t possibly ask her to do it because it seems like it wouldn’t be good for the children’s emotional education(?).
Anyway, Lanie, who had been teaching the demi-human boys and girls in that way, is now taking care of other children as well.
As a result, the first basement floor, which was originally an empty space with no purpose, naturally became a space for learning and playing, where children could run around and study.
From the beginning, the second basement floor was the only living space, and at first, there were only two girls, so they were able to live with Fina in the Queen’s Room out of consideration.
Now that there are so many children, it’s no longer possible to solve the problem with such a haphazard approach.
After all, the design of the living floor itself was such that you could lie in bed and receive the caresses of tentacles.
Even though a lot of tentacles have been cut off, it’s not like the remaining tentacles can’t do their job, and I can’t do that with so many children watching.
Even the Henias, who are crazy about tentacle dicks, seem to feel guilty about that, so instead of spreading their legs on the bed and moaning, they naturally go down to the third basement floor as soon as they wake up to receive their morning caresses.
So, a tacit rule was established and implemented: the children go up when they wake up, and the adults go down.
Perhaps because they were making slight concessions to each other, the lair was full of energy.
Thanks to that, the work floor on the third basement floor, which is usually used as a space for raping women, was recognized as a dining room for the children, at least.
“Okay!! It’s meal time!!
Shall we go eat?”
“Yessss!!!!”
One of the children’s favorite delicacies is Enic’s sweet nutrient solution.
Since you have to buy something from outside the day before to eat something else, I just fed it to them from the first day, and the children seemed to like the sweet taste quite a bit.
One problem is that the nutrient solution comes from, as you know, tentacles…
I was worried that it would be unappetizing for the children, so at first, I had them squeeze the nutrient solution into a cup, but I realized that you can’t get all the nutrients you need by drinking a little bit of nutrient solution.
Unless they drink until they’re full, it won’t provide the nutrients needed for growing children.
Rather than squeezing it into a small cup all day long, Vivian strongly argued that it was necessary to get used to it someday, so the children started drinking the nutrient solution directly from the tentacles.
“Okay… I’ll eat well… Huum…… Slurp…”
The sight of the demi-human girls sticking their cute lips to the soft tips of the tentacles, as if they were sucking on a breast, made me feel ashamed, and I was spilling out nutrient solution full of shame.
The small mouths, which are no match for adults, can’t even hold the tentacles inside, so sticking their lips like that is the best they can do.
To think that they’re using something that originally poked at the shameful parts of adults and poured thick white fluid inside, and the children are gulping down the sweet nutrient solution and eating deliciously.
‘Good thoughts…… good thoughts……!!’
Along with the thought that I should secure a separate supply of food for the children when the tentacles grow back, I had to suppress the subtle sense of guilt.
And in the midst of all this, my gaze was focused on one demi-human girl who was emitting a strange sense of incongruity.
Soft hair of a deep Prussian blue color.
Even though it doesn’t seem to have been managed or trimmed even once, is it possible for it to be so shiny just by washing it once?
And the unique shape of the horns on top of that head.
The shape seemed fundamentally different from the horns of common bovine or deer demi-humans.
‘This kid is kind of unique……’
I also felt it when I was treating her body, but she had some scales on some parts of her body.
According to Vivian, it seems to be because she’s a rare type of lizard demi-human.
She doesn’t say a single word, so I don’t even know her name, so I’ve given her the name ‘Greta’ for now.
“Chup… Tsup… Gulp……”
The face of the girl who is sucking on the nutrient solution with her lips attached to the tentacles.
The thick eyelashes, which are dark for a child, flutter, and the glass-like eyes that are sometimes gently closed and opened.
She looks like she hasn’t lost her baby fat, but even the shape of her face seems to have been sculpted like a statue.
It was as if it was questionable whether her eating could feel so unnatural, as if she were a doll.
The word doll was closer to meaning that she didn’t feel alive like a doll.
That strange charm was accounting for half of my shame.
Frankly, I can just think of the other children as just children, but for some reason, this child, despite her young appearance, gave me the feeling of a female exuding maturity.
After all, she has a perfect appearance, like a doll.
She’s not as lively as Lanie, she doesn’t show the cold yet fickle appearance of Vivian, and she doesn’t show the sensual appearance of Aurora.
She doesn’t show anything, but her very existence is so beautiful.
It’s as if she’s showing that she’s completely female with her very appearance.
Perhaps because of that unique mysterious atmosphere, this girl seemed to be a little out of place among the children……
Only Lanie, who is trying to make even that girl blend in with the children, is sighing every day because of a situation that seems to be physiologically unsolvable.
“Ummm… what’s the problem……
I guess it’s hard to approach really pretty kids…
But even at that age, wouldn’t they approach out of curiosity?
Why are they so awkward… Huuu…”
Even Lanie, who is extremely extroverted, is struggling with this indifferent girl.
However, the problem was that Lanie’s mentality was quite strong, so it wasn’t just that that was making her struggle…
To be exact, the biggest reason why Lanie was so worried was the bizarre behavior that this girl Greta was committing to the point where she couldn’t handle it.
I don’t know if she’s just curious or if she’s really weird.
The girl, who seems to be interested in various things, disappears and peeks around somewhere if you take your eyes off her for a moment.
Once, Lanie and the Henias, who had finally escaped from childcare and were being raped by tentacles with beaming faces in the work floor, after letting the children play together in the open space and entrusting the rest to Fina.
“Lanie-niim… us toooo…”
“Uhu-hut… Aah…♡
A… I knowww… Aahng!! Deep…
Darling……♡ Love… Kyaaa!!”
“Hiyaaat…!!”
Suddenly, Lanie and the Henias screamed and deployed Nemea, hurriedly covering their bodies.
I turned my gaze to those figures, who were so lewd that I wondered if they could be so modest, and they quickly changed their posture.
“Oh my… you…!!
You can’t be here…!!”
“Oh my!! Did Fina miss her…!?
I’ll take her back…!!”
It was nothing compared to the fact that the other Henias were restless and sent her back up after seeing the girl come down from the living floor to the work floor and stare at the Henias being raped by the tentacles.
Perhaps because that scene was memorable, the next time they ate, she didn’t try to put the tentacles in her mouth with her adorable mouth, as if she was trying to imitate the Henias.
“Eeeh!! You… you should only put your lips on it…!!
The… the tongue is……!! Oh my…!!
If you do that… it’s… not allowed…!!”
Perhaps because she remembered the way they licked the tentacles, she stuck out her tongue and licked the bottom of the tentacles, causing a self-inflicted accident that almost made her spit out white fluid instead of nutrient solution.
Moreover, now she’s going down there and being found mingling with our hive members on the fourth basement floor, which is the prison and the living space for the hive members.
“What… what is she doing there…!!”
“You!! You can’t be here…!! Come here!!”
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t so much that they were mingling with each other, but rather that the hive members were running away whenever the girl approached, so it was closer to tag.
Was it just my imagination that the sight of the huge kernel worms desperately trying to avoid touching the girl was a bit impressive?
Of course, I usually warn the hive members not to hurt the Henias, but even considering that, their reaction was too much.
Anyway, for that reason, she doesn’t look like it at all, and it’s not like she’s actually mischievous, but she’s actually causing all sorts of strange chaos in the lair.
At first, I tried to discipline her with words, but I couldn’t get an answer from a girl who doesn’t speak in the first place.
The girl, who seems to be interested in something but is generally indifferent, just stares at the person speaking with indifferent eyes, without knowing whether she’s listening or not.
So, when I try to put her on a 1-on-1 watch, the Henias in the work floor are screaming with tears in their eyes, being disturbed by the mandatory defense battle at every moment.
“We need… we need a solution……”
“I… I can’t live like this… Heuhheuk……”
“Umm…… what should we do… Vivian-nim…?”
“I need to think about it for now…”
Vivian’s headache is getting worse as well.
