## Chapter 72 – Variant
No matter how much I thought about it, the Parasite was a fascinating colony member.
It was as if, in some ways, it had inherited Enic’s ability to freely customize his own body, possessing the freedom to modify any creature as it pleased.
– Organism. Skeletal structure. Inefficient. Room for improvement. Present. Metabolism. Unification. Neural center. Reconnection. Efficient evolutionary process. Commencing.
The current situation reminded me of a cute, green, mad scientist monster with a strange way of speaking from some game, but either way, the fact that I was finding a new method of development was definitely exciting.
‘First of all, the Parasite can’t be used on creatures with carapaces.
Or rather, it’s very difficult to use…’
The Kernel Worm, with its developed outer carapace for digging into the ground at high speed, had difficulty undergoing changes in form.
Of course, it was possible to push the Parasite into the Kernel Worm’s mouth and change the fleshy internal structure itself.
Was it because the outer carapace was, in a sense, similar to bone or hardened keratin?
‘Maybe it’s because our colony members’ outer carapaces are much harder compared to human bones.’
So, in conclusion, soft flesh and muscles made of protein were the easiest to manipulate?
There might be various types of creatures in this world, but since the majority were animal-type life forms made of bones and flesh, it was good news for me.
Among them, the spider I had experimented on had no carapace, and its entire surface and interior were made of bones and flesh, making it one of the easiest to manipulate.
That’s why it was possible to manipulate it as I pleased, but the Kernel Worm wasn’t because of its outer carapace?
‘But why aren’t you guys…?’
However, the Parasites didn’t seem to undergo any modification process among themselves.
Even when I gave commands, they only showed a blank reaction, making me think that the source of Enic’s variability and diversity might be this Parasite.
‘Is it because they’re perfect and don’t need to be touched?’
I didn’t realize it at first, but the Parasite was truly amazing.
Unlike the spiders or Kernel Worms, which simply served as labor or workers, the Parasite, acting as a technician, was the best colony member in terms of versatility.
‘Manipulating the bodies of animals.’
Moreover, since body manipulation could also be applied to other colony members, I continued to experiment with various colony members, observing them with great interest.
The spider that the Parasites had been chewing, tearing, tasting, and enjoying was transformed from four pairs of legs to eight pairs of legs, making it a horror in itself.
I couldn’t even tell if it was a spider or a centipede anymore.
Plus, the fact that the one that used to be one had two mouths doubled the grotesqueness!!
However, it looked like it would do its job really well.
After gaining new legs, it wriggled and crawled around, eventually catching a scent and rushing towards a beastkin female, which I quietly observed.
Even with four pairs of legs, it was more than enough to do the job, but until now, the spider’s actions had been limited to embracing the thighs and buttocks with its legs.
But now that the spider had twice as many legs as before, it firmly embraced the waist, hips, and even the abdomen, fixing its body as if it would never fall off.
Compared to before, the adhesion and stability of clinging to the female seemed to have increased significantly.
“Hngh…!! What is thiss!!
Nooo.. Nooo….!!
Not there…
Hnghk.. Hngh.. Euhgh!!”
Moreover, the upper mouth bit the beastkin female’s clitoris as usual, but from the opened lower mouth, something protruded and pierced somewhere below her clitoris.
At first, I watched it, thinking it was just injecting poison, but after realizing that the hole it entered was her urethra, I had to work hard to calm the turmoil about what I had created.
“Ahheut…!! Not… there…. Euhngh!!
But it feels goo… Hiiiik..!! Hngheut!! No wayyy♡”
The beastkin female, deeply pierced in the urethra by something like a cicada’s proboscis, seemed to feel like she was being sucked, and she gasped and whimpered as if having a seizure.
She arched her back while lying down, wriggling her sweaty body energetically like a fish out of water, but eventually, she couldn’t take it anymore and tried to push the spider away with her hands…
Even though it was a small spider, the spider’s strength, with twice as many legs, seemed much stronger than her trembling hands that couldn’t muster any strength.
She couldn’t even resist properly and writhed in pleasure.
Then, at some point, she seemed to reach her limit, rolling her eyes back and drooling as she fainted, her body limp and twitching intermittently.
“Hnghii… It’s coming… Hngh…
Being sucked… Eheut… Hngh…♡”
The spider, having collected a lot of bodily fluids from the beastkin female, came down from her and vomited the sucked-up fluids in a corner of the room.
Then, it raised one leg, saluted me, and the spider slowly crawled back to where it belonged.
‘What the hell did I create…?’
After roughly pushing the completely exhausted female beastkin aside, inserting a tentacle, and cleaning up, I continued to experiment on the colony members, organizing the elements I had learned.
– Kernel Worm. Tunneling. Individual specialized in drilling operations. For nutrient intake from soil. Ultra-acidic digestive system. Loach variant. Endocrine gland mutation in digestive system. Nutrient intake possible with ordinary food. Hormone gland control. New food possible through tunneling tooth modification.
‘Is this an A*turian…!!’
Of course, I didn’t actually say those words, but the Parasites were rushing into the Kernel Worm’s mouth, starting to tinker with various things.
And after a while, they quickly came out of the Kernel Worm’s mouth, pretending to wipe away sweat, and I stared at them with an absurd feeling.
‘Why are starfish doing those gestures…!!
Do you live next door to a pineapple in the deep sea…!!’
At my teasing, the Parasites shrugged their shoulders(?), and I gave up thinking any further and observed the Kernel Worm variant they had created.
‘First of all… it doesn’t look that different on the outside…’
As always, it was covered in a sturdy scale carapace made of hard keratin.
But if there was one clear difference in appearance, it was probably the hard teeth, one of its biggest features, that could crush even rocks.
‘What is this now…?’
The hard teeth that would normally be densely packed like a grinder were gone, and soft tentacles were sprouting instead.
Watching them unfold and wriggle at once, it reminded me of a sea anemone spreading its tentacles in the water.
‘So what is it used for…?’
But the biggest advantage of the colony members was that they knew what they had to do on their own.
I was quietly watching the creature as it started to crawl on the ground, and it seemed to have targeted one female and was approaching her.
‘Could it be…?’
“Not anymore… Let me rest…”
Of course, even though I had moved the females aside, the tentacle torment was still ongoing, so I withdrew all the tentacles from her and watched, trying to observe what it was going to do.
Eventually, the creature, like the previous female, approached another female who was lying on the floor, panting.
And I could see its tentacles wriggling wildly as if reacting to something.
‘Oh… oh no…?’
“Eh…? Hiii! Get away…!! Get…!! Euhgh…!!”
As if realizing its approach, she looked down at the Kernel Worm with surprised eyes and struggled, but she was just a helpless female who couldn’t do anything with her exhausted body.
As if a snake were jumping into a narrow jar, the creature jumped up as if half-flying and slipped between her spread legs.
“Ah… ahh.. No… Euhnghii…!!♡”
‘Oh… crazy…?’
Its movements, wriggling almost convulsively, were so well-suited to the name “loach variant” as it burrowed into the gap of her vulva.
“Euh… G… Iiik…….!!”
Perhaps because of its more energetic movements compared to my tentacles, the female, who couldn’t even breathe properly for a while and twisted her waist, was showing a reaction that seemed desperate.
Watching it, I momentarily thought about stopping it, but I suppressed the urge and continued to watch.
At first, I thought it would go inside and gnaw at her from the inside, but it was gnawing at the female in a different sense.
‘M-My… Euhheut… Inside…… Hicc……!!
Wriggling… It’s wriggling……!!
N-No way…!! If it moves… Euhnghii…!!♡’
Similar to when I inserted my tentacles, the creature’s shape was visible, wriggling as if it would break through the skin of the beastkin female’s belly.
Each time it wriggled like that, the female, who was clenching her hands and feet as if having a seizure, eventually screamed, unable to hide the moans that burst out with it.
“Kyaaaa!! Stop ittt….!! If you stir it like that, I’ll dieee….!!
It feels like my head is burning up….!! Stopp!! Nooo…♡”
The creature’s actions, pushing the woman to her limit as much as the modified spider from before, made even me, who had been handling the beastkin females quite harshly, watch it anxiously.
Her lower abdomen was bulging out, and the creature’s movements inside were being shown without any filtering.
“Hiii…!! Baby room… Hnghk!! Please don’t open it….!!
Please…!! Nooo…!! No wayyy…..!!♡”
Eventually, unable to overcome my curiosity, I moved my consciousness to the creature wriggling inside, and I was able to watch it opening her cervix with its sea anemone-like tentacles and burrowing into her uterus.
The creature’s body, which had filled the vagina and made her belly bulge, opened the cervix and burrowed inside like a snake, causing the uterus to swell and bulge as if it were expanding.
And as it rubbed and groped the uterine wall inside, the vibrations and shocks of her twisting body outside were being transmitted directly.
“Eht..!! Iiik…!! Hnghghk!! Heuk…!!
Don’t come… in……”
Eventually, the creature, with even its tail hidden inside the uterus, coiled up inside like a baby nestled in the womb, groping the uterine wall with its tentacles and pulling something in to swallow it little by little.
‘This… is that……?’
The uterine lining that continues to fill up while there is no menstruation, and then comes off when menstruation starts.
I couldn’t help but think, “What kind of bizarre thing is this?” as I watched the creature writhing inside the uterus, taking the pieces that were falling off little by little with its sea anemone-like tentacles and bringing them into its mouth.
‘Ew…’
It was going to come off anyway when menstruation started, but the female was feeling immense pleasure just from having that area stirred up.
In a sense, it was disgusting, but in the spirit of “good things are good,” I just told it to eat as much as it wanted and come out, and moved it and the female together into a corner.
A small stream of saliva dripped from the mouth of the woman, whose body was limp and trembling each time the creature stirred inside her uterus.
And tears of unknown meaning were flowing from the eyes of her face, where the facial muscles were stiff, whether she was smiling or crying.
‘Still, it seems to have some uses in many ways.
I should make good use of the Parasite after all…
I might see a new direction……’
While manipulating the bodies of the beastkin males as it pleased, I finished the work of changing their bodies, or at least their genitals, even if not at the genetic level.
Of course, there were still some men left who were guards of the academy, but as a result, the gender ratio inside the lair had changed quite drastically.
‘I didn’t think there would be so many females…
Maybe I should have thought a little more before doing it…?’
But on the other hand, since the number of females that can be used for experiments has increased, the burden will be reduced even if there are losses due to failed experiments.
At least as far as the beastkin were concerned, I had no intention of treating them humanely anymore.
Even if they begged and twisted their bodies in agony.
They did what they had to do, and I was just doing what I had to do accordingly.
‘Once trust is lost, it can’t be restored.
I’m not a saint… I’m just a person… or rather, I used to be…’
To me, Enic, whose colony seemed to have no major achievements for a while,
A plausible change that was worth focusing on was finally coming.
‘Wait… come to think of it, there was a new one besides this……?’
