I Became a Tentacle Monster Blooming in the Academy Garden 64

## Chapter 64 – A Lady’s Nightmare

“Yui… Yui…? Haven’t found the hundred yet…?”

Carla called out to Yui, who had gone out to the bathroom to find some cosmetics and hadn’t returned.

But no matter how many times she called, her roommate didn’t come.

Eventually, thinking that she might not be able to hear her well, Carla waited a little longer before going out and looking around the room.

“Yui? What are you doing? Huh…?”

But even after searching every corner of the room, she couldn’t find her friend. Carla’s voice, filled with bewildered suspicion, echoed in the room.

“Yui… where did she go…? Ah…!!
Spider-kun!! You shouldn’t be out!! How did you get out…!!
I guess it’s possible… Spider-kun is smart, after all…”

She noticed the desk drawer was open and Spider-kun was slightly climbing onto the bed. She rushed over and scooped him up into her arms.

“Could it be that you scared her and she ran away…?
I didn’t hear any screams though…”

Carla’s heart grew anxious. She began to wait for Yui, wondering if she might have gone out for something urgent.

Eventually, the creature in her arms began to fidget, demanding food. Carla hesitated for a moment, saying, “N-Not right now…” but then weakly spread her legs and gently pushed her black underwear to the side.

After a moment of hesitation, a clear, sticky liquid that had already begun to flow gently was trickling out of her vulva, like dew.

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‘This wasn’t really in the plan…’

Nothing seems to be going according to plan these days.

I couldn’t even sigh as I bit down on the hem of the ornate traditional dress and dragged it through the tunnel. Recalling the situation from just now, my head began to throb.

The pale face of Yui, the East Asian girl with long black hair, who had met my eyes.

When I made eye contact with Carla in the bathroom before, I was a weak spider with no power, so it was a gamble I had to take.

But this time, the situation and the person were different. It was unreasonable to think that she would have a favorable impression of me.

Honestly, even I think that if a grotesque creature much larger than an average crab waved its arms in greeting, anyone would scream immediately, not even think about accepting it.

The timid Carla froze and couldn’t even scream when she saw me, but Yui was different.

Compared to Carla, she was more active and relatively more expressive.

‘If I hadn’t covered her mouth right away, she definitely would have screamed…’

So, I inadvertently headbutted her lips to cover her mouth, and in my haste, I immediately stuck a poison needle into her open throat.

Yui, feeling a sting in her throat, thrashed for a moment, but then her eyes rolled back as if the poison was taking effect.

Before, the spider venom had only served to overstimulate the nervous system.

But now, as if the venom had become stronger as I grew larger, it completely subdued Yui in one shot. At first, I was startled and had to check if she was dead.

‘I was really surprised…
But… she saw me…’

Someone witnessing me meant that the possibility of my identity being revealed had increased.

In this state, I might have to erase the connection with Carla that I had worked so hard to build, and that meant that the quick shortcut to obtaining information about me, Enic, would disappear.

‘I can’t let that happen…
Rather, now that it’s come to this…’

There must be a way.

A way to make Yui keep her mouth shut.

‘I just need to show her that I’m not dangerous in the first place.
First, make her recognize that I’m not dangerous, and then talk to her.
I had no choice but to rely on chance with Carla, but not now…
Now I can even have a conversation through Pina, right?’

If I could ‘persuade’ Yui, I could establish a more solid connection with Carla, who was already friendly to me, and then my goal would be even closer.

That’s why I’m doing what I’m doing now.

Fortunately, a few Kernel Worms that were digging the tunnel were supporting Yui from below.

Originally, I had only brought a few Kernel Worms and dug a small tunnel to bring back books, but now that a person had entered this tunnel…

‘She’s a little chubby… she’s heavier than I thought…
It’s a miracle that I can even drag her like this…’

As I dragged Yui along, her heavy chest got caught in a narrow gap. Dumbfounded, I stopped dragging her and sat down on the spot.

‘No… I need to call someone…’

In the end, after mobilizing a lot of Kernel Worms, I was barely able to move her to the lair.

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A black-haired woman who resembled Yui walked cautiously through the darkness, along with a young girl who looked just like her.

‘Sister… Sister…!!’

‘Yui… listen to me carefully…
If we get caught… you must never resist…
If you don’t resist… everything will be alright…’

The woman, calling the little girl ‘Yui,’ hugged her tightly and then stood up again, taking the girl’s hand and walking forward. The anxious girl spoke in a tearful voice to the woman’s retreating figure.

‘I’m scared… I don’t want to…!!
Why are you doing this…?
Sister… where are you going…!!’

‘Sister will save Yui…
So it’s okay… I’ll be right back…
Just wait here for a moment… and… sniff…’

But the woman, who eventually compromised with reality, sobbed as she secretly hid the girl in a corner of a hollow.

The small girl, her anxiety amplified by this, called out to the woman again in a tearful voice.

The woman ran forward, leaving the girl hidden.

And then, unidentified beings swarmed towards her.

The wriggling, slippery, and metaphysical beings grabbed the woman as she ran, panting. The girl inadvertently called out to her as she saw them tearing and melting her clothes.

‘Sister…!!’

‘Ah… Aheheh…!! Yu… Yii…!!
Sister is…!! Hic…!! Hugging… sob…!!
N-No… my head… it’s getting weird…!! Euhic…!!
Yui… Yuii…!! Haaang…!!’

The beings clung to the woman’s body, wrapping around her and tearing and melting her clothes with violent movements.

And as the woman’s voice, like a scream, became more and more slurred as her mind became paralyzed, the girl could only burst into tears, driven to the brink mentally.

“Sniff… sob… Sister…!!”

Thinking that she had to do something, the little girl crawled out of the corner where she had been hiding.

And at the very moment that the tiny girl staggered to her feet.

She screamed as she faced something that was already looking down at her in front of her, and the girl’s scream, engulfed by it, echoed in the place before disappearing.

“Kyaaaaaaah!!!”

With a piercing scream, the girl woke up, breathing heavily.

What came into her eyes was not the familiar ceiling of the dormitory, but the ceiling of a place made of soil and tree roots, a place she had never seen before.

As Yui, startled by the ceiling, remembered the creature she had encountered, she trembled and retraced the memory of that moment.

A terrifying being that she thought she would never see again.

The moment she encountered it again in front of Carla’s bookshelf, she froze with PTSD and lost consciousness before she could do anything.

‘That’s definitely… a ‘Harvester’…
That can’t be… this is…
It’s definitely a dream… it’s a dream…’

Yui, looking down at her body with trembling pupils, saw her traditional dress covered in dirt.

She was relieved that there was nothing wrong with her body, but she felt fear consuming her mind as she confirmed that the current situation was different from her usual dreams.

‘H-How…’

Whenever she had nightmares, she was always a small girl from her childhood.

She wasn’t tall and slender like this, and she didn’t have big breasts.

That’s because all of this was a curse brought about by the nightmare of that time.

Yui’s face turned pale as she inadvertently raised her head and looked up.

“Ah… Aaa…”

The confident girl who had bravely stood up to Arachnella for her friend.

What made her tremble with fear so much was the sight of something looking down at her, just like that day, that moment.

A long, smooth, sticky, and slippery being.