## Chapter 392 – Unconscious Intent (12)
“So, Laratina suggested, like, infiltrating the academy again.
But that’s completely out of the question, so I cut her off right there.
As an alternative, how about supporting a promising student instead?
Um, are you even listening?”
[…Oh, sorry. What did you say?]
“Your tentacles wiggle like crazy when you’re spacing out.
Haa… This is important, so please focus.”
[O… Of course!!]
I nodded my tentacles at Vivian, who let out a soft sigh, and straightened them again, focusing on what she was saying.
‘Honestly, Vivian would do a better job handling this than I would.
I’ve learned a bit from sending out spiders and Kernel Worms, but…’
I still relied heavily on Vivian for handling things since I wasn’t that familiar with the outside world.
“So, here’s a list I compiled from the academy.
For now, these are the students I’d recommend…”
A table made of natural-looking tree roots.
Vivian placed the list and various documents on it, tucking her hair behind her ear as she continued her explanation. I twitched my tentacles and turned my gaze back to the documents.
[Wouldn’t it be better if Vivian just took care of this and told me about it?]
“You need to do these things to improve.
You wanted to know how I work, right?”
Of course, that was true, but the fact that I didn’t have as much leeway as I thought was an unexpected obstacle.
I had hundreds of tentacles and one mind.
Even though controlling them had become a bit more natural, multitasking with my tentacles alone was quite taxing when I was sober.
Adding multiple elements to think deeply about was like creating a cauldron of chaos itself.
Besides…
[Vivian, have you ever been interested in human men?]
“Can you focus right now?
That’s not really important, is it?”
[Just asking out of curiosity.
Like, first love or something?]
“I haven’t really thought about it.
Most of the guys my age seem like kids.
And the decent ones are all old men.
There’s no way I’d have a first love.
And…”
“Asking questions like that makes me suspicious of your intentions.
Are you planning something?”
I was taken aback by the sudden sharpness in Vivian’s eyes. I twitched my tentacles and scribbled a hurried explanation to her.
‘It’s kind of hard to ask Vivian about this directly…’
The thing that had been occupying most of my thoughts lately.
It was Lanie’s affair.
‘How should I bring this up…?’
Honestly, it was out of the question for me to ask Lanie directly.
Since I didn’t know much about Lanie’s circumstances, I needed to ask Vivian, who at least knew her best among us.
But apart from that, I was afraid of how Vivian, who didn’t seem to know about this yet, would react when she found out the truth.
When Laratina messed with Floraz, she destroyed a brothel with a drug, raided high-end prostitutes in the middle of the night, and kidnapped them to the lair.
And she was expanding her blood-soaked influence in the back alleys by smashing various cartels through gang fights for my sake.
‘If she thinks Lanie betrayed us, that could be dangerous…’
Due to the nature of our group, we absolutely couldn’t allow any secrets to leak out.
That’s why the Henias avoided unnecessary outings except for work, and when they did go out, they went in pairs.
In a way, it seemed like they were trying to make it easier to deal with anything that happened together, right?
Until then, the rules had been relatively lax, but with the arrival of the innocent elves, it was necessary to be careful while they got used to the back alleys, so the rules had become strict again.
The problem was that, in another sense, it also served to monitor each other to prevent any betrayal.
A woman who betrayed the lair, a woman who leaked secrets, would be immediately subdued and dragged back to the lair to be ‘punished,’ and I agreed with that.
In the midst of all this, what if Lanie, Vivian’s right-hand woman, left the lair to find another man?
I had affection for her after all this time, and I believed that Lanie would keep her loyalty.
If she found a good match and started a new life, I wanted to support and help her as much as possible.
Unlike me, Vivian might not have such lenient thoughts, and a certain image suddenly flashed through my mind.
A man and a woman with urgent expressions ran down an alley, holding hands tightly.
But after being driven this way and that, the couple reached a dead end and turned to look back the way they had come to escape.
At that moment, they would be confronted by women in sleek, black latex suits, walking towards them with the click-clack of their heels from the path they had come.
“Vivian-nim…”
“Lanie. Betrayal is unforgivable.
I wouldn’t want to do this to you, since you’ve been loyal all this time…
But you know? There are no exceptions to the organization’s rules.
Betrayal… must be paid for in blood.”
Vivian said, lowering a knife that was still dripping with blood, as if she had already sliced up a few people, and looking at her ‘friend’ with cold eyes.
Honestly, Vivian’s dark charm in my imagination was about to explode, but I couldn’t possibly make that imagination a reality with my own hands.
A sense of crisis that I absolutely couldn’t be caught was engulfing my tentacles.
[No, if you think about it, there must have been many people who liked human men.
So maybe Vivian also has such thoughts…]
“I see now. You’re thinking of finding me a partner, right?
So we can have children through mating.
One baby with you is enough for me.
It’s growing up well in Floraz right now.”
‘That’s not it…’
“Come to think of it, that’s how it’s been.
Unlike before, you’ve been leaving several males behind, right?
I heard that several of the elven women have become pregnant recently.
Um… I’m just saying this in case, but you shouldn’t touch women who are pregnant, okay?
The women who receive your blessing are already strong, but you never know with babies…”
‘That’s true, but no…
That’s not what I meant by the question!?’
“That much, everyone seems to be used to living in the lair now.
I can feel that they’re slowly relaxing and becoming more lively.
In some ways, that’s a good thing, but…”
Vivian, who was continuing to speak, stretched as if she was getting tired.
“It’s just a thought, but there are quite a few people now.
I’m worried that there might be a traitor among them.
We need to manage them thoroughly so that doesn’t happen.
Betrayal is unforgivable, no matter what.”
‘Hiek…!!’
I hurriedly wrapped my tentacles around her waist, pushing away Nemea, who was disguising herself as clothing on her skin, and started caressing her body.
“Aah!! We’re not done talking… Eungh…!!
Don’t tell me you’re trying to get away with it like this…
Eueut… Not there… Haaang…♡”
‘First, I need to save Lanie…!!’
Nemea, who had been covering Vivian’s body in the form of clothing, melted and flowed down like ice touched by a warm hand, gradually revealing Vivian’s soft, smooth skin.
It was stained with the sticky fluid of the tentacles, and a slippery sheen flowed down her skin as it became moist.
Vivian, who hadn’t finished her work, sent me a sulky look, but she couldn’t help but give in and gently spread her legs for the tentacles wrapping around her thighs.
But, at that moment.
‘Ugh…!!’
“Eueung…? Why… Ah!!”
Vivian was bewildered by my actions of suddenly releasing the tentacles that had been greedily wrapping around her body, but she seemed to be used to it now and pointed to a certain direction.
Then, the melted Nemeas instantly covered her body, this time taking the form of simple pajamas.
“Greta…!! I told you not to come in here?”
Mysterious blue eyes.
Vivian was approaching her with a bewildered look as those eyes stared intently at her face.
“……”
The queen of the lair, revered by everyone and sometimes the object of fear.
But despite her scolding, the girl stared at Vivian with pure eyes that showed no sign of wavering.
“Hey, Greta?
This is our room.
You can’t come in here without permission, okay?
Pina told you that, right?”
“……”
The smooth horns on her head, unlike those of other beastmen, had a smooth sheen, and her body, which was now showing signs of development, seemed to have outgrown her childishness.
But it still felt like she was young.
Greta was gazing at us with a demure expression, as if her lips were tightly closed, or maybe that was just her usual look.
Vivian, who was embarrassed to have been caught in the middle of setting the mood, gently stroked her hair, perhaps because she found those innocent eyes burdensome.
“……”
Of course, there was no reply.
“Then I’ll leave this here for now, so please check it.
Greta, I’ll take you, so come here?”
In the end, Vivian forced herself to calm her flushed body and left the queen’s room with Greta’s hand in hers.
Greta’s back as she was dragged away by Vivian showed a hesitation that seemed to betray her expressionless face.
‘Should I just start teaching her little by little…?
No… she still looks too young…’
Greta was special.
Back when my mind was trapped inside the dungeon during the dungeon mana instability incident.
My, Enic’s, main body lost its reason and indiscriminately attacked all the humans in the lair.
In the process, many children gained Enic’s blessing and rapidly grew into adults.
The only child who remained a child was Greta.
To be exact, she had grown a little from her kindergarten or elementary school appearance, and now she had a body that was quite womanly, but ‘still a minor.’
For that reason, Greta was still the only one in the lair who was treated like a child, enjoying a treatment that she might not even realize was a luxury.
I didn’t know why, and it was difficult to try to find out why Greta was the only one growing so slowly, since the priority had become helping the children who had become adults to adapt.
‘Did Enic stop halfway?
Actually, did he instinctively realize it?
That you shouldn’t touch minors!!
Or is that too much bullshit…?’
I had been busy surviving in the dungeon with Leah, so I didn’t really know what had happened in the lair, so I couldn’t figure out what to do with Greta.
Anyway, there was an atmosphere in the lair.
The beastman females and elven women blindly followed me, with an attitude that was almost like slaves, so they didn’t care what I did.
Even when I touched the beastman children this time, the beastman Henias just reacted as if it was inevitable.
Rather, they sincerely congratulated the beastman girls who had been promoted to members who served Enic together.
But on the other hand, the human women were rational.
The reason they stayed here and kept the secret was, of course, because they were addicted to the pleasure of the tentacles, but more than anything, it was because of the absolute advantage of being able to raise their children safely.
The last incident had resulted in something good for the children of the human women, but weren’t humans always like that?
‘It’s instinctive to feel threatened by even the smallest things.’
Somehow, the last time was glossed over as an accident, but what if I showed myself touching a child this time too?
Then this time, I would be a full-fledged pedophile.
I would be branded as a lolicon tentacle who enjoyed making those innocent eyes cry with pleasure and enjoying the young bodies that hadn’t even blossomed yet, and I couldn’t allow that myself.
‘I don’t mind being called a perverted tentacle. Because it’s true.
But a lolicon tentacle, I can’t stand that…!!’
So even if Greta had already tasted the tentacles and was all worked up, I couldn’t touch her for the sake of the lair’s peace and for the sake of minimal decency.
Greta had become such a symbolic existence.
‘Still, she’ll probably grow up in a few years.
Could it be… is she actually an adult right now…?
The sona and goat beastmen were generally all voluptuous, right?’
Putting aside the ominous thought that suddenly came to mind, I forced myself to turn my tentacles elsewhere.
‘Anyway, I should say it’s a relief that I got away with it…
Nice assist, Greta…!!
I should check this out.’
The documents that Vivian had left behind.
I poked at them with my moist tentacles and turned the parchment, looking at the pages with quite detailed information about the various students, and was lost in thought.
‘Hmm… As expected of Vivian’s work.
If you just look at the contents, they’re definitely impressive, aren’t they?’
Looking at the documents that reflected Vivian’s meticulous and thorough personality, I felt like I could somehow understand her thoughts.
‘There are almost no men… and…
Some of these faces look familiar…
Could it be… the women I’ve kidnapped so far?’
The number of women I had kidnapped through the women’s restroom was increasing, so there were now enough to make a list.
At first, they were just female students who were possessed by a ghost, getting pleasant pleasure through spiders.
Then, some of the women who were completely addicted to it were selected, injected with a knockout drug, and brought to the lair through tunnels.
Those female students were subjected to pleasure training in a daze, and after returning, they were dragged back several times to be violated as if to imprint pleasure on them.
What silenced them was a crystal ball recording of a truly heinous climax intercourse video.
“Hehet!! Is this good, missy?”
“Aang!! Eueuht!!
I… I’m good…♡
So good… Heeing…♡♡♡”
“Should I shake my butt more?
You know what to do, right?”
“Jajii…!! Jajii more jusyeheot…♡”
If they woke up in the restroom and found a crystal ball in front of them containing a video that showed the process of them losing their virginity to unspecified men in graphic detail?
At least for now, none of them, without exception, had proudly revealed their shame as noble ladies and appealed to the facts of the crime.
Rather, they were captivated by pleasure and a sense of depravity, and they looked for the women’s restroom even more.
Some of them even tried to stably obtain that pleasure, according to the Kernel Worms that were attached for surveillance.
Since they had already given up on their bodies, they tried to get the same pleasure as before by clinging to human men like servants or male prostitutes.
But the pleasure of that penis, which was not as good as the tentacles, only made them realize the importance of the women’s restroom even more.
Those female students were tacitly united and were struggling even more on their own to protect the secret of the lewd women’s restroom.
‘I feel a little guilty about the crime…
No… my existence is already a crime, right?’
Anyway, Vivian was picking out the children who seemed promising among those female students and pouring in a lot of support from Floraz.
She was thinking of using that as an excuse to squeeze them dry as much as she needed after they succeeded.
Vivian. You’re a sinful and scary woman.
‘Her too, her too, and her too…
I’m realizing how much of a scumbag I am…’
As couples resemble each other, I, who was also a sinful tentacle, suppressed the feeling of wanting to rub my forehead and looked down at the documents.
‘Oh, I don’t remember violating her… but….’
Looking at the documents of a girl whose smile was felt from the photo, I was happy to feel the freshness of not having violated her.
I stared at her somewhat familiar photo, and then stared at that page with a feeling that I was about to remember something.
‘But why does she feel familiar…
It’s her, right? Yeah, it’s her.’
Naturally curly dark brown bob.
Overall, her body was underdeveloped, but she had good proportions, so she could be summed up as ‘slender.’
And even her naturally cheerful personality, with a smile that was spreading all over her face.
The human woman who was once closest to me, who had helped me become who I am now, and who I was very grateful to, to the point where it was pointless to say more.
‘Carla…!! It’s been a while, hasn’t it?’
Although the spider that was with her had died recently, and both Carla and I seemed to be busy, so we had hardly had any news from each other.
My tentacles, which had found Carla’s page, were wiggling in a sinister way, unlike the heartfelt feelings of joy.
