I Became a Tentacle Monster Blooming in the Academy Garden 381

## Chapter 381 – Conditional Intent (1)

The third daughter of the Tang Family.

Though it might be a bit different from the kind of prestigious families that appear in martial arts novels, within the circles of influential figures in the Hwang Dynasty of Chaoxing, it was a family that held considerable weight.

In some ways, that demanded a great sacrifice.

Others might think of her as an arrogant young lady born into a good family.

Seeing her, aside from the academy uniform, stubbornly adhering to Tang Family attire even while living in Groden.

Or seeing her brimming with pride in her family and confidence in herself, sometimes to the point of being grating.

But to possess that arrogance, she had to witness the deaths of her two older sisters before her very eyes.

The eldest daughter, bleeding profusely from all seven orifices due to the side effects of drug experiments, collapsing to the floor, gasping for breath, and dying.

And the second daughter, who seemed to barely withstand the same drug experiments, along with a brother who had gone half-mad.

The second daughter, too gentle-hearted to become the talent the family needed, disappeared one day, only to be found with her collarbone to lower abdomen dissected, submerged like a specimen in a test tube.

Even if the eldest sister, who always had a tense, frightening look in her eyes, was one thing.

The deaths of her second sister, who was always kind to her, and her only brother, who had gone mad, were bound to be a significant shock to her.

But her father, the young patriarch, who watched their demise indifferently, didn’t despise them, but neither did he pity them.

He merely looked at them with the eyes of someone stating the obvious, that this was what happened to those who were weeded out.

Just that much.

“Hye-ryeong. You must not become like that.
You are the glorious successor of the Tang Family.
The Tang Family shoulders burdens. And dominates.
Your elder brother and sister merely failed.”

She was well aware of the Tang Family’s history, steeped in blood, where countless lives were risked in revenge after revenge to protect themselves.

What the intelligent Hye-ryeong felt as she passed those three deaths.

It was precisely the difference between them and herself.

It wasn’t that she wanted to pity them.

It was that she shouldn’t become like them, that she had to ensure she didn’t.

Receiving countless injections that would make her stronger.

Enduring the pain of surgeries that tore her flesh and opened her abdomen time and time again, sometimes to the point where her mind felt like it would die even if her body didn’t, barely able to whimper without writhing.

“You mustn’t move, Junior Sister.”

“Ugh… u… ugeueu…”

Without receiving even a single word of encouragement to endure.

There were times when the agonizing routine of lying down for months, unable to even get up from her spot, was her daily life.

“Aaeugh!! Euhheueuk!!”

“You must do it. Let go of that hand.”

But the reward for that pain and tears could only be described as sweet.

Each time she overcame a difficult hurdle, the family’s reaction towards her grew warmer and warmer.

A perfect human, a ‘superhuman.’

All the surgeries and drugs that the Tang Family had implemented to make their descendant a superhuman, condensing all the essence of the family of that era, were gnawing at her body, yet making her stronger.

Finally, after undergoing plastic surgery, which could be called the final surgery, to erase all traces of the side effects of all the secret surgeries and drugs that had been inflicted on her.

In the instant she thought of slapping the family researcher who knelt respectfully before her, after her hair, which had been sparse from being torn out in agony, her skin, which had been scratched and festered with blood, and her bones, which had been twisted, returned to their proper places.

The sight of the ‘perfect’ being in the mirror that he showed her made her stop, her resentment melting away like snow, and she could only reach out to the surface of the mirror.

The perfect human that the family so desired.

An appearance that even she, a child not yet ten years old, couldn’t help but fall for.

Eyes that looked like black pearls floating on white jade, without even a single visible blood vessel.

Hair softer than silk, making her doubt whether it was really hers.

Even skin as soft and tender as when she was first born.

“Ah… aah…”

As she looked at her newly reborn body, as if she had undergone a complete transformation, her ears caught something while she stared wide-eyed, touching her body several times, rather than shedding tears of sorrow.

“You have suffered greatly, Junior Sister.
No, Senior Sister. You are now the Great Disciple of the Main House.”

The Great Disciple of the Main House.

The foremost among all members of the Tang Family Main House, except for the Family Head.

Even her father, the young patriarch, was currently beneath her, before becoming the Family Head.

Hearing him change his address from Junior Sister, a subordinate, to Senior Sister, a superior.

It was then that she was able to realize that she had finally done it, that she had succeeded.

From then on, what awaited her was nothing compared to what she had been doing.

“Crimson Plum.”

“Plum containing strengthening ingredients.
Two drops can awaken even the unconscious.
One drop has an awakening effect.
But, using three or more drops will kill you.”

“Excellent, Senior Sister.”

The countless things she hadn’t learned while tampering with her body.

Countless medicinal herbs and ingredients, the structure and weaknesses of the human body, as well as the flow of blood points.

“Arise, Great Disciple.
Maintain balance.”

“Keuaaaat!!”

“The imbalance of everything means that you yourself are wavering.
From body to mind, ensure there is not an inch of wavering.”

She had to compete with male disciples and masters to learn personal combat skills for self-defense, rolling countless times on the floor of the training hall, but none of it matched the pain of changing her body.

It was merely an action that could be done until she collapsed from exhaustion.

For Hye-ryeong, who had already realized what it meant to prove strength, it was merely a medal.

There were clearly many masters in the sect, but as she received their teachings, those walls would be broken down one by one.

The walls of becoming a supreme master, the Family Head and Sect Leader, that remained ahead would also be broken before her.

Just as much as they wanted it to be so, Hye-ryeong also had no doubt that she would definitely make it so, devouring the precious medicinal herbs, elixirs, and ingredients that were presented to her.

Hye-ryeong, conquering the walls of pharmacy and medicine led by the sect, and the skills as assassins, which were also their main profession.

From some point on, her head had become the pride and self-esteem of the family, never needing to be lowered for even a moment, becoming the future leader of the Tang Family.

But there was something that the Tang Family’s educational policy failed to consider.

It was perhaps human relationships.

The Zhuge Family, the Daichi Family, the Rutheong Family, and so on.

Although the surrounding families did not reveal their secrets, they opened various meeting places with the aim of purely honing their martial arts and interacting with each other.

“Why are you holding your head up so stiffly?”

“It was to match that stiff facade.
Is this an act of ignoring my consideration?”

Of course, unlike the original purpose of exchange, these meeting places often turned into pride battles between the future leaders.

They merely hit and kicked each other, trying to figure out who was stronger, without any way to get to know each other, with prideful future leaders gathering and trying to bring down their opponents in various ways.

In the midst of all this, Hye-ryeong’s meeting with Yui Kazunomiya, the second daughter of the Kazunomiya Family, was a strange experience in many ways.

She was merely weak.

Not strong, and not particularly knowledgeable.

Among the many prestigious families of Chaoxing, she was a descendant of a soft family that was just right for destruction.

The sight of the timid girl hiding behind her older sister, who was praised as the family’s successor, secretly watching people, gave Hye-ryeong a bit of frustration.

“Follow me.”

“Hiiit…!!”

“Oh my? Is she going to become Yui’s friend?
Have fun playing together?”

The girl, who couldn’t hide behind her sister, now stuck to her back like gum, was somewhat uncomfortable.

Just like that girl’s sister, she was simply looking at people with admiring eyes in this battlefield-like arena of underwater blood battles, which made her feel strange.

The memory, which would be forgotten in a few months, flowed by and was forgotten, and when the news of the Chaonan Monster Massacre came, she briefly thought of the girl she had spent time with, and then forgot again.

As such, many years passed, and Hye-ryeong was gradually growing into a beautiful young lady like a blooming flower.

“It seems the time has come, Great Disciple.
All bodily reactions and organ health are stable.
As of now, all physical growth has ended.”

“Growth… has ended…”

“Now, there are not many people in the Tang Family who can beat Senior Sister.
Soon, the Sect Leader will give direct orders.”

Unlike all the people of Chaoxing, who had to eat only genetically modified food.

Now, it didn’t matter what she ate, and even if she ate poison, her body would neutralize it, making her body so strong that it could be called immune to all poisons.

And the martial arts she had been training in every day, bleeding, had raised her to the point where she could stand shoulder to shoulder with the family’s assassins.

And the knowledge she had gained from learning the family’s secrets was making her not just a simple doctor, but placing her in the ranks of the Tang Family’s renowned physicians.

On that day, when she turned twenty, a blooming age.

It was only natural that she would not understand why such an order was being given by the family’s Sect Leader.

“Why is that?”

“It is for the sake of learning.”

“The Tang Family is the best in the world, so what else is there to learn besides that?”

“The best in the world, you say with that mouth.
Go and experience it for yourself.
Whether you can become stronger.”

The prosperous Tang Family.

The glorious Tang Family that handles only the best without any shortage.

No matter where she went, everyone would bow to her, and even the Family Head would not be able to treat her, who had become a strong successor, carelessly.

Hearing the Family Head, her biological father, who was standing next to the Sect Leader, tell her to experience it, Hye-ryeong’s eyes sparkled at the words that she could become stronger.

‘If there is such a thing.
Even if it’s not from the Tang Family, it would be worth facing.’

She had done anything to become stronger, so it was only natural that she would do anything if she could become even stronger.

“It suits you well, Senior Sister.”

“It’s just tight and uncomfortable.
And the lower body might be a bit indecent.
I wonder if these people don’t catch colds in the winter.
That’s why it has to be the Tang Family.”
Without saying anything more, she got into the carriage, taking her first step towards a world she had never experienced before.