I Became a Tentacle Monster Blooming in the Academy Garden 336

## Chapter 336 – Dungeons and Adventurers (3)

“So, preparations are roughly done, right? All that’s left is to deliver it?”

“That’s right. Your family’s trading company should handle it easily, right?”

Serkov, the boy in the passenger seat of the carriage, had finished preparing for departure. Vivian, looking up at him, spoke with a somewhat dubious expression.

As if knowing it was half a joke, Serkov thumped his chest and made a confident declaration.

“Isn’t it obvious?
We’re a trading company specializing in monster materials, after all.
It’s a bit much to say, but the medicines I used to make were also made from monster materials.”

“It is a bit much to say, for sure.
But remember, this is business.
I gave you a huge discount on this.
So make sure you get the promissory note properly.”

The Schutzranova margraviate, now an alliance forged through Serkov and Verdi.

Vivian’s plan to sell monster materials through one of the family’s businesses, the family trading company, to reap a double benefit, was also getting its start.

“You really don’t trust people!!
Just leave it to me, don’t worry!!
I’ll sell it properly!!
Don’t go hunting without me!!”

“Alright, alright. Be careful.”

“Hehehe!! Verdi!!
Your husband is going to make money!!
Let’s go!! Giddy up!! Giddy up!!”

The Schutzranova margraviate would receive monster materials at a relatively low price and make a large profit.

And Vivian wouldn’t have to deduct taxes or transportation costs from that money, so even selling it as is would bring in a considerable profit.

“That guy’s a dad…
Verdi needs to stay sharp…”

Watching Serkov, excited and flitting about as he drove the carriage away, Vivian chuckled and turned back into Floraz.

If she went through the underground tunnel connected to Floraz and moved under the gate, Marina Eloise would be waiting there.

The current gate system required a mage to open the gate and take anyone who wanted to cross over.

The mage would open the gate and transfer people at regular intervals for those entering and exiting.

“At this rate, I’ll use up all my magic power just crossing back and forth…!!”

Of course, one could ask if limiting the number of trips wouldn’t solve the problem, and that would be true, but people couldn’t just work inside the dungeon.

Setting up an outpost and processing the byproducts of hunting in the dungeon was good, but the succubus Henia in the lair also had their work as prostitutes, of course.

Although human women were working hard as Henia’s successors, it was true that they were not yet fully capable of taking over the brothel that the Floraz aces had created.

After all, their bodies had been trained by being violated by tentacles countless times.

It was because of those bodies that the Henia were able to become flowers of the night who drained all men dry.

Since Floraz couldn’t be completely entrusted to human women who hadn’t reached that level yet, the Henia had to participate in hunting to some extent and then return to the brothel at night to rest.

And considering that the gigolo cartel’s dispatched personnel also periodically returned for their cartel’s work?

“Let’s go back already!!”

“I need to go back and report quickly!?”

“I can’t right now……!?
Just wait a little… Ugh……!!”

“I think we need another method, Professor…”

Eloise thought it was very inefficient to use her or Marie’s magic power to cross the gate every time.

Vivian hadn’t thought of that, so she was waiting to see if Eloise, who had returned to her lab to create a rechargeable magic tool that could be used to enter and exit the gate, would bring back satisfactory results.

“Marie, what do you think of the current situation?”

“Y-Yes…? If it’s… the current situation…
That person will probably…
Bring back something decent…”

“That’s not what I meant… Haa……
Well, what’s the point of asking you.”

A small sigh escaped Vivian, now filled with a sense of contentment.

To be precise, it was a lost 고민 about how to solve the immediate situation.

The number of things she could choose to do had increased, and her plans were gradually beginning to show signs of a future.

But the problem was that she still lacked talent.

This dungeon was an illegally occupied property with a great income, secretly seized by taking advantage of the country’s chaos.

Being caught with this place would be an act of treason against the country itself.

No matter how weak the current country was after the dungeon crisis, turning all the humans living here into enemies was a direction that Vivian had to avoid.

As such, the only people who knew about this dungeon had to be people she could trust.

That’s why she was running things like this, bringing in the sisters of the lair, the Henia and Lanie, Aurora of course, Serkov, who had boarded the same ship, and even the talents carefully selected by the gigolo, whom she could fully trust.

“Serkov… He’s not someone I can’t trust…
But he hasn’t completely taken control of his family yet.
Even if he receives support now, the risk is greater…
Laura……? Grenot can only provide financial assistance…
I’ll have to pay that back as soon as possible and end the relationship.”

Vivian’s eyes narrowed as she muttered to herself, thinking of people who could be helpful, and Marie, who was standing next to her, fidgeted nervously.

“I need talent. It would be good if I could gather more…”

The human women who had sworn allegiance to Enic could not easily become a force.

Unless they were like herself or Lanie, who had been walking the path of the sword from the beginning, all they knew how to do was housework and prostitution.

No matter how much stronger their bodies became by accepting Enic’s fluids, the essence of being weak females who were afraid of even a drop of blood didn’t change.

In the end, the best thing for the human women was to become outstanding prostitutes who wouldn’t fall behind the Henia, so that they could fully devote themselves to this work as the Henia’s successors.

Vivian was momentarily lost in thought, as the lack of human resources was putting too much strain on the Henia, when she heard a voice from the side.

“Um… Madam……?”

“Why are you calling me…?”

“I’m sorry for eavesdropping…
But if you need more people……
I know some people……
No… To be exact, my sister……”

“What……?”

Vivian’s eyes widened as she turned to look at Marie, hearing her unexpected question.

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.
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“You’re working again today, Sis…?”

“Yeah. I might have to sleep over tonight.
So make sure you eat dinner?
And wake up early in the morning?”

Seeing Marie’s warm smile, Anne pouted and lowered her head.

“I see…”

But perhaps it was because she had a sister who knew her feelings so well.

Marie gently approached and hugged her tightly from behind. Anne couldn’t help but relax, feeling her sister’s heartbeat and warmth through her back.

“Don’t look at me like that, Anne…
It’s not hard work, it just takes time…
How’s your training going these days?”

“It’s just… nothing special…
Only the training grounds are open…”

The academy was currently in a state close to temporary closure.

With monsters wreaking havoc all over the royal capital, the faculty and staff who commuted to work needed time to repair their homes.

Sometimes, their families had been sacrificed, so they needed time to hold funerals.

Aside from that, the academy had begun activities to help the surrounding area, ostensibly to share the pain and focus on rebuilding the royal capital, but in reality, it was helping those around them.

“Mr. Schmitz. How’s your leg?”

“I-It’s fine…!! I can see it getting better every day…!!”

“I’m glad to hear that.
Then we’ll do another round next week…
Make sure you take the medicine when you leave and take it properly?”

“To our people… like this…
Thank you, student…!!
You’ll be a great person!!”

Naturally, medical students, who had plenty of work to do treating the injured, volunteered to go around helping out.

Similarly, many engineering students were doing individual research, but many were also volunteering to build houses.

“Head!! Head!! Wrist!!”

Meanwhile, there were those who had contributed greatly to the fight against the monsters and whose work in the now peaceful royal capital was completely finished.

“I said wrist!! Focus!!
Your wrist will fly off!!”

“Ugh!! Be a little gentle!!”

“You guys were good at killing monsters!!
You’re excellent swordsmen now!!
Why are you pretending to cry over this!!”

Wielding a heavy wooden staff, a professor tormented a student who was now wielding a real sword.

The male student, flustered by his clubbing along with his folksy dialect, inadvertently blurted out his true feelings.

“That’s because you’re more than a monster, Professor…!!
Ugh!! I’m sorry!! It’s nothing!!”

“You guys, huh!! You’ve gotten rusty from resting for a few days!!
I’m going to give you all training, but some guys aren’t coming, are they?”

In the end, the students, who were beaten like dogs on Boknal for angering the professor with that one word, offered excuses for the professor’s question.

“Ah, those guys…”

“I know!! These guys!!
They’re skipping to earn money to send home!!
They’re working their butts off to earn money!!
Why are you guys lying around even when you come to practice!?”

“Hiii!!”

The swordsmanship students were not unaffected by the situation either.

Especially among the swordsmanship students, many of whom were commoners, were those who had commoner students registered in the royal capital.

They were already struggling to pay for their academy tuition, and they couldn’t ignore their families, who were half ruined by the recent crisis, so they were looking for all sorts of jobs to earn as much money as possible and bring it home.

The professors were not completely unaware of this situation, so they were turning a blind eye to the fact that they were missing some training, with a bit of nagging, but in the end, the important thing was what swordsmanship students could do in the current situation to make use of their major.

“So, you know, I’m a top student at the academy, you know?”

“Hey, Mac!! Stop talking nonsense and carry this!!”

It was only natural in a sense that the students who graduated from the swordsmanship department were forced to do manual labor.

The biggest problem was that there was no need to eat sword rice in this peaceful royal capital.

Now that all the monsters had been subjugated, there would be no need to fight them, so all that was left was for people to fight people.

“I wish we could do escort work or something…”

“Yeah… But I don’t think the country would use me.”

If it was a large trading company registered in the royal capital, it was common to hire swordsmen for escort and security from bandits.

But experts had already taken those positions long ago, so who would use hatchlings like them who hadn’t even graduated yet?

Even if they did, they would be lucky to get paid for their work because they were students.

One thing they were hoping for was the dungeons that had been sealed this time…

As some clever ministers began to talk about turning the dungeons that appeared in the royal capital into national interest projects, a business of catching monsters and selling byproducts, like what Vivian was doing, began.

They could expect to earn a high income there, so the commoner students were looking forward to the release of the application.

Of course, the problem was that only subjugation parties officially authorized by the state could participate.

“I can do well……!?
Please give me a chance…!!”

“Even if you say that, who doesn’t know that?
It’s full, that’s all!!
What can I do about it!!”

Similarly, there was no room for hatchlings in such places, and there was a particularly high wall for swordsmanship students from commoner backgrounds who had no one to rely on.

There were many shortcomings in presenting a business card as a newcomer to the dungeon subjugation party, where experienced people who smelled the money had begun to gather one by one.

“That guy got in…!!”

“Th-That person is… Ahem!!
Anyway, if it’s not possible, know that it’s not possible!!”

The children of noble families didn’t go to earn money in the first place, but to gain experience in the dungeon.

The commoner students could only watch the students who were taking a safe study abroad by taking a seat through solicitation, and had no choice but to turn their eyes to reality.

“So… everyone looked like they were having a hard time…
It seems difficult to escort because of lack of experience…
It would be good to gain experience in dungeon subjugation or something…
But it seems like there are not enough seats in such places…”

‘So I have no choice but to deal with more boys…’

Of course, Anne, who swallowed the last word in her heart, was also in a position where she couldn’t turn a blind eye to that reality.

The more she worked at night, the more flexible her body became, strangely enough.

It might not matter if she was lying under boys, twisting her waist, and convulsing with her thighs trembling, but for Anne, that was the only factor that could allow her to guess her changes.

‘Really… Could it be related……?’

Anyway, she had proven her own development along with the monster crisis, somehow juggling that softened body and practice.

In addition to the on-site teachings of Lucia, who had been distant recently, she showed her improved level by cutting down dozens, nearly a hundred monsters.

‘But… it’s no use even if I do……’

But despite her dazzling development, she couldn’t get it recognized as experience.

It was estimated that the royal knights who had been annihilated had cut down at least thousands of monsters per person.

There were those who had shown such great feats, so a sprout who couldn’t even show her full potential wouldn’t catch the eye of the world.

To that extent, the difference between a trainee and an expert was so great that even if it could be said that ‘she did well for a student’, the words ‘she’s not as good as others’ would come out first.

In the end, Anne, who had fallen into a dilemma, was currently working and earning money without a specific goal.

Anne’s eyes widened with curiosity, feeling a strange sense of discomfort at her beloved sister’s hesitant question to her.

“I see… Anne……
Can you… spare some time for a while……?”

“Huh……?”