## Chapter 52 – The Junkie’s Rampage
After transporting the girl Yui outside the dungeon using the Kernel Worms and ensuring the waiting faculty found her, I returned with the Kernel Worms, the operation a success.
I thought I could finally relax, but I found myself in a situation that wouldn’t allow it.
I was at a crossroads in my deal with Arachnella.
‘I don’t know if this is the right choice…
But there’s nothing I can do now…’
All I could do was hope for the best and trust that the agreement would be honored.
– Rumble rumble rumble
The peaceful flower garden of the academy.
The ground around the flower garden, where no one happened to be passing by, began to shake with an unknown tremor.
The flowers in the garden swayed back and forth in the quake-like vibration.
And the moment the shaking began to subside, students emerged from the buildings one by one, strolling around as usual, going about their lives.
– Ptooey!! Ptooey ptooey!!
And completely separate from those humans, in this place filled only with the darkness of the earth and tree roots.
A huge earthworm emerged from the wall, twisting its head to fix its body against the wall, and spat out two lumps from its mouth with a cute sound.
‘Ugh…!!’
But unlike the cute spitting sound, the thud as they landed was anything but, and as I rolled across the floor, unable to clutch my aching back because I had no hands, I had to crawl towards her, who had fallen with me.
‘Ugh… They should really provide safety training…’
The giant creature I rode was a Giant Kernel Worm.
This seemed to be a kind of mutant, and unlike other Kernel Worms that were only about the size of snakes, this one was truly a mutant.
This one was so big, even an anaconda or boa constrictor wouldn’t be enough for a snack. It was as big as a large truck.
Perhaps influenced by the special, unique genes of its mother, it had emerged from Pina’s lower body, which it had widened to the point of almost tearing her apart, and its initial size was already exceptional.
I wondered how many days had passed since then, but thanks to this creature, which had grown large enough to swallow Arachnella whole, I had managed to bring her straight to the lair.
‘Seeing this, I’m sure it’ll be useful someday…
But still, it’s not something you can use on a regular basis.’
Just moving causes an earthquake.
You can’t use something like this in everyday life.
Even in this operation, I couldn’t use it because it caused too much vibration and risked exposing the plan.
Anyway, I brought Arachnella to the remaining empty room, not the three-part fan-shaped rooms used by Vivian or Lanie, and immediately began to move my tentacles to grab Arachnella’s body.
‘The tentacles have regenerative properties… Maybe they can even regenerate burns…’
Honestly, I couldn’t guarantee it would work on her exoskeleton lower body, but seeing the skin on her upper body, which the tentacles were caressing, gradually healing, it seemed to be working for sure there.
‘I was in such a hurry that I forgot for a moment, but now I can send Kernel Worms to the other beast-people…’
Now I just need to bring the beast-people here as well, and then dig tunnels leading only to the outside of the academy so they can go their own way.
Now that there are so many Kernel Worms that I can easily dig tunnels wide and long enough for them to go, there was nothing to worry about anymore.
Returning to my true form as Enic after a long time, I moved my tentacles and tree roots, working hard on the expansion.
Arachnella would need the regenerative mucus from the tentacles for a while, so this was a consideration to make her comfortable during that time.
And soon the beast-people would be pouring in here, so it couldn’t be too cramped.
The quiet but steady expansion work gradually revealed the shape of the widening lair.
Since it was using underground space, it took a little longer than expanding above ground, but the space utilization was amazing.
‘Does Arachnella use a bed…?’
I wasn’t sure, but I prepared a net hammock where she could hang her body, and after catching her and laying her on the hammock, I rubbed my tentacles together in satisfaction.
Of course, because of her unique body shape and injuries, she was half-draped over the tentacles, and I couldn’t lay her down as if she were lying on a normal hammock, but she would be able to feel the same level of comfort as if she were landing on a spider web.
From now on, I just needed to heal her as much as possible until she woke up, and then let her go on her way when she was healed to some extent.
‘Still, if the Kernel Worms are this good…
It’s a little disappointing, but I definitely gained something…’
Through this special evaluation, I learned quite a lot.
The concept of dungeons in this world and the combat methods within them.
And in a way, even how to deceive humans as a monster.
‘I feel like my perspective has widened a bit…’
I learned about the existence of beast-people, and on top of that, I learned about the level of the academy students to some extent.
Arachnella was strong, but most of the students weren’t strong enough to beat her.
That meant that if I got a little stronger, I might have a chance to use my strength against them as well.
‘I can do it…’
Of course, if it’s not just the students, the difficulty will increase significantly from then on.
“Ah.. Ummm…”
At that moment, Arachnella started to make noises as if she was starting to wake up, and I approached her again.
She slowly lifted her long-lashed, trembling eyelids and looked at the air.
‘Are you awake?’
But despite my question filled with concern, an accident was about to happen.
Arachnella realized that her body was fixed to the tentacles and momentarily shrugged her shoulders, struggling.
‘Uh… Ah… Ugh!!’
Because she was desperately trying to get out of the tentacles, several tentacles couldn’t withstand the weight and force and tore off, and I couldn’t bear the intense pain coming from my main body and had to scream.
In the end, I let go of Arachnella, and because of her actions that hurt me even though I was trying to help, I was about to scream at her in a moment of rising anger.
But the moment I looked at her, who was cowering in the corner of the lair as if throwing her body away to escape, I could finally understand.
The fear deeply cast in Arachnella’s eyes, as she looked at me with trembling eyes.
‘Ah…’
Right now, she was nothing more or less than wounded prey in the lair of a hunter.
As a monster living in a world of survival of the fittest, if I were Enic, held in the lair with my body held by tentacles, wouldn’t I have the same thought?
That is, the thought of desperately resisting.
“P-Please… let me out…”
‘I think there’s a bit of a misunderstanding…
You’re pretty badly hurt right now…
You can’t go outside right now.
Do you even know where this is?’
“So… you were planning this from the start…?
But I have no intention of being taken advantage of by a young Enic…”
‘I can’t communicate with her. What should I do?’
I wondered if it would be better to just give her time to calm down, but she was now trying to dig a hole in the wall with her own hands.
I couldn’t just stand by and watch her hands become covered in blood so desperately, so I could only let out a small sigh.
‘How many spiders have I made so far…’
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“You… you bad… guy… We made a… deal…”
‘No, you’re the one who’s not listening.
I said I’d let you go, you couldn’t wait for a moment.’
Arachnella’s red eyes, looking up at me with a distorted expression, were stained with humiliation.
But I could only stroke her cheek with my tentacles, answering with sincerity.
She couldn’t resist and just squeezed her eyes shut, her face full of shameful anger.
“Ugh… Is this what you call…
letting me go…? Aah…”
‘I’m telling you, it’s a misunderstanding… Haa…’
The sight of the mighty Arachnella blushing was truly a spectacle.
“T-This…!! T-There…!!”
Arachnella’s breasts, with spiders biting her nipples, were shaking from side to side as if they were dangling plump cones.
She tried to shoot spider webs from her chest, but it all disappeared into the spiders’ bodies, only swelling their bellies.
There was no place on her chest, her slender waist, her three-dimensional collarbone, her slender arms, or her lewd face where spiders weren’t clinging.
I wondered if it was worth the effort of overworking Vivian and Lanie?
Spiders are born so easily that even though the floor was littered with the corpses of spiders killed by her struggles, her whole body was still occupied by spiders.
“G-Get off… Why are you… there…”
It was truly the sight of a spider queen being loved by spiders.
However, the form of love had reversed, so instead of being the one who eats, she was the one being eaten.
What they were doing now was injecting all the spider venom they had into Arachnella.
The sensation of tingling all over her body and making her body feel hot made her blush and pant, and the strength was gradually leaving Arachnella’s body.
‘Is this that “golbaengi” or whatever…’
It felt like she had become a crazy junkie being force-fed drugs.
But this was all part of the process to heal her, so I could be confident.
‘See? If you stay still, you heal so well…
I told you to wait, but you wouldn’t listen…’
“Y-You just want to… possess me…!!”
In the end, she couldn’t put any strength into her body and staggered, eventually collapsing to the floor and only letting out a feverish moan.
Only then did I dare to subtly extend my tentacles towards her, and when I gently touched her with the tip of my tentacles, Arachnella trembled all over in response to the poke.
As I stared at her appearance, which was the very definition of arousal, and my gaze turned to her smooth upper body, which was beautiful even from an objective point of view, a bit of desire began to boil within me instinctively.
‘Possible… maybe…’
“W-What do you mean… possible…
You’re… you’re crazy…!!
L-Let go… Oogogogogok…!!”
