## Chapter 93 – A Lady’s Change of Pace (1)
‘I sent them off because they wanted to go…
But no matter how I think about it, it looked tough for them……’
Before I dug a tunnel large enough for Arachnella to pass through.
After sending one Kernel Worm as far as possible to scout the surroundings, I discovered the limit to which I could let them out and pondered a lot.
The massive fortress wall surrounding the city’s outskirts.
Digging under it was no different from initiating a wall collapse terror attack.
The sound and vibration were immense, so I couldn’t use the giant Kernel Worms to dig a tunnel of sufficient size.
The giant Kernel Worm had been active during the beastmen’s great escape, making all that noise and vibration, but that was only because the goal was to capture all the witnesses at the scene.
The hole created when it emerged from the ground could be filled, but if there had been others, I would have been exposed.
Well, for that reason, I had to spend so much time on construction, even allocating almost all the ordinary Kernel Worms to the project……
‘But the end result is a wall collapse.’
I couldn’t bring myself to do that, even if it meant saving the Kernel Worms from being crushed to death under the collapsing ground.
If I were determined to destroy the wall, it wouldn’t be impossible, but what is a wall?
For them, it’s a solid barrier that must never be breached.
If it collapsed, they would try to find the cause, and I could be caught after hiding so well until now.
‘That’s the one thing I can’t allow……’
A promise is a promise, and I kept my word.
I did everything I could to ensure they could find freedom as they wished, providing them with as much convenience as possible.
Since it was their choice, I just had to do what I had to do, even if it was a bit disappointing.
Lately, I’ve been getting entangled in various circumstances, so my choices and focus had to be clear.
Arachnella and Lea were helpful in smuggling out the beastmen at first, but after that, they just stayed in my lair, consuming food rather than being helpful.
So, I decided to think positively that one mouth had been reduced, but the problem was something else.
‘How am I supposed to have conversations now……?’
Lea and Pina were the only two talented individuals in our lair who could communicate with me.
Among them, Lea was going to leave anyway, so Pina, the only remaining talent, had taken the children and left.
Her absence, which had been a medium for intellectual conversation, seemed to have a bigger impact than I thought.
The most decisive reason for thinking that was this.
That night I went for a night walk a while ago.
Yui, who had been spending a gloomy time in the lair instead of running away, thanks to Pina’s earnest persuasion based on her own experience.
Not only did she persuade Yui, but Pina had also been providing mental care from time to time. Now that Pina was gone, Yui’s mental state was visibly wavering.
Looking at her curled up like a shrimp on the mattress, it was clear that she didn’t look like a normal person.
Her motionless appearance, along with her listless eyes as if her soul had left her body, probably contributed to that.
And perhaps the reason for that was that I didn’t tell her that Pina was leaving in the first place, although I didn’t allow her to leave.
If I told Yui that Pina was leaving, Yui’s mental state, who wanted to escape from this lair, would definitely waver.
But not saying anything meant that she was imagining what might have happened to Pina.
‘She might be imagining that I ate Pina……’
But above all, the fundamental problem was something else.
Even if Pina left this place, she was an ‘underdog’ who would be chased, so she would hide from humans and wouldn’t care about me.
But Yui, even if she wasn’t from the Groden Kingdom right now, would become the ‘top dog’ as soon as she left this place.
Yui didn’t care what happened to me.
No. Rather, she hated Enic so much that she might try to kill me with her eyes burning.
That worry was the main reason why I kept her confined.
The moment she went out there and gained freedom.
From the moment information about me leaked from her mouth, hell would begin for me.
Even if she didn’t say it right away, it would be no different from having my life mortgaged to her, so I wouldn’t be able to live comfortably even for a single day.
If that were to happen, it would be better to confine her, even if it was inhumane.
If it were the old me, I might not have done this even if I died, but now I want to live selfishly.
‘But just leaving her like that is a problem too……’
As a minimum consideration for her, whom I unintentionally confined, I’m not touching her.
But she’s now immersed in sadness like someone who has given up everything, showing only a helpless appearance without any will.
Although the circumstances may be a little different, I couldn’t help but understand Yui’s feelings from the perspective of someone who has felt helpless in many ways.
Soon, loneliness and doubt about life itself would enter her mind.
And unless she numbs her emotions to pretend to be okay while enduring that feeling for many years like me, accepting the current situation would be mentally difficult.
That, which could be the most painful thing for an emotional girl of her age, was something I couldn’t do anything about.
It was a part that she had to overcome with her own will.
‘Yui and I are different.’
I was alone and in pain, with no one to support me.
But at least Yui had Carla as a pillar of support.
‘Should I bring Carla here……?
No, that’s crazy.’
Suddenly grabbing someone who’s living well outside again would be cruel.
In the end, I was deeply troubled about what to do with Yui.
It was too late to leave her to Vivian or Ranier, as the conflict from when they first met hadn’t been resolved, and they didn’t even acknowledge each other when they made eye contact.
You might think that the problem was resolved when I scolded Vivian and Ranier, but what I did was not solve the root of the conflict, but only gloss over the situation.
In the end, the only conclusion I could draw was this.
A living arrangement where Vivian and Ranier wouldn’t encounter each other as much as possible.
And a bottom line that could convince her that I wouldn’t touch Yui’s body.
‘Wasn’t she in medical school……?’
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Yui was lying still on a moderately soft tree root mattress made like a bed, doing nothing.
Consumed by the helplessness of not being able to do anything even if she tried, she simply chose the option of doing nothing. She suddenly raised her head slowly at the presence she felt next to her.
“What is it……”
It was the appearance of a tentacle that was looking down at her as the presence suggested.
Seeing that he was looking for her now after neglecting her for days, she felt that what was coming was finally coming.
Yui bit her lower lip slightly, suppressed the surging emotions, and slowly closed her eyes.
“Yes… I knew you wouldn’t leave me alone……
Enic is… a being that can’t help it……”
Since she couldn’t even resist anyway, she seemed to be trying to remain unresponsive to the situations that would happen in the future.
But after nothing happened for a while, Yui felt strange and cautiously opened her eyes again, trying to hide her embarrassment.
The tentacle was still looking down at her from the same position.
As if waiting for something, Yui turned her head slightly and looked straight at the tentacle, and only then did the tentacle begin to wriggle.
“Ah……”
As the slippery body wriggled and approached her, the tentacle gently wrapped around one of her arms as if grabbing it. Yui was startled and surprised for a moment.
“Ah ah… Ah… Uh……”
Yui, who slowly got up from the mattress and raised her body by the force pulling her, was only letting out embarrassed groans as she was slowly dragged away by the tentacle that was constantly pulling her, wrapping its arm around her clothes.
Before she could even think about where he was trying to take her, the door in the wall, which she had crossed once before, opened, and the tentacle pushed her into it.
And then, as if passing the baton, a tentacle came from the opposite room and grabbed her arm. Yui, who was embarrassed by the tentacle’s actions, which she couldn’t understand at all, eventually started walking in the direction she was being led.
From the moment she entered the room, she began to feel the stimulating sound that had been piercing her ears gradually growing louder. She swallowed hard and slowly lowered her head.
“Hngh!! Eehee…!!
That’s good…♡
More… More……!!”
