Ep. 255
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A cocoon that fills a large space.
We are familiar with the sight of large babies entering a cocoon to grow rapidly, as we have already seen them many times.
She pulled out a tentacle and held it against the cocoon.
Familiar sensations such as warmth felt on the surface of the water and rough pulsation like waves. The dizzying tangle of sensations and elements were things she had already experienced.
She has a mysterious ‘force’ and feels objects and movements with her whole body. Like other animals, they are not subdivided into things like smelling, seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears.
However, this does not mean that her sensing ability is diminished. If you concentrate, you can feel not only this huge stone block that gives off an unpleasant smell, but also a wide area beyond that.
But what she felt now was quite different from before.
Now she was feeling the thoughts of a completely different creature. These are the thoughts of Big Baby, a being inside a cocoon connected to tentacles.
Originally, she did not have this ability.
It was relatively recently that humans gained the ability to read the thoughts of other living things and transmit those thoughts to other living things using their innate ‘power’.
Her friend knew how to pick up the ideas of ‘bad friends’ and make them her own. The eldest child was happy to see that.
If she doesn’t know something, it’s better to learn from a friend. Then, if your friend can do it, she can do it too.
Through an extremely simple process of deduction, she learned on the spot how her friend manipulated power. I’m not as good as my friend yet, but I will get better as I grow.
In fact, her skills improved significantly after helping the little baby and the little baby’s mother share their thoughts with each other. Now she was feeling her older child’s thoughts much more smoothly than before.
The big baby inside the cocoon is walking somewhere.
It was a large place similar to her hometown, but it had a very strange smell. The stinging, unpleasant smell reminded her of the past when she was imprisoned.
So she felt bad, but she held back. How scary would it be for an older baby to be alone in a strange place? I thought that my eldest child would feel at ease if I watched him from the side.
Fortunately, her eldest daughter gradually regained her composure. Reaching a dead end, he raised his long appendage and pushed against the wall.
The moment when the wall is pushed aside and a space she has never seen before appears.
「Little Adult?」
A familiar thought wave woke her up.
She was startled and pulled her tentacles out of the cocoon. Her consciousness returned to the stomach of an unpleasant-smelling rock.
「What are you doing?」
「Just.」
「?」
At her strange answer, the little baby tilted his protruding sense organ. I didn’t do anything wrong, but for some reason I felt reluctant to say it. So, without even realizing it, I was prevaricating it.
Fortunately, the little one didn’t show any interest in her suspicious behavior. What he was interested in was something else.
「Big Adult」「Again」「Will it change?」
「Yes. “It will grow bigger.”
Then the little baby shook his protruding sense organ.
“If it gets bigger” “It’ll be difficult”
“Why? “It’s good because you get stronger when you grow up.”
“When you grow up, you know.” “It’s difficult.”
When I heard those words, I felt really bad.
「Little baby doesn’t know yet.」
「Why?」」Me」」White」「Growth」「Success」「Little Adult」「Promise」「Me」「Growth」「Know」「It’s possible」 「Not yet an
adult Because it’s not, it can’t be done!”
“Big adult” “I” “Adult” “I admitted it”
She had nothing to say at the little baby’s logical words.
「Big adult」「Growth」「Completed」「I」「Al」「I’m going to ask you a question」
「The little baby and the big baby are both babies! A baby can’t make a baby!”
“Not yet” “I don’t know” “I need to check”
Seeing as he didn’t back down even an inch, it seemed like he was fully prepared this time.
As the little one said, she had no reason to stop the two from mating. Because I said I wouldn’t stop her when the little baby grows up.
Moreover, the little baby fulfilled his duty as the head of the family by protecting his family. Although the body was small, the little baby was already a full-fledged adult.
But she didn’t want to admit it.
I felt like my mood would get really, really bad if the big baby and the little baby mate. Enough to destroy this huge smelly stone block.
“Big baby, I’m busy. That’s why I can’t make a baby.」
「Reproduction」「Important」「Kindred」「Prosperity」「Eggs」「Must」「Necessary」 「
….」
They say they’ve grown up, but maybe their brains have also improved? Every time she said something, the little girl immediately refuted it. She searched for something to stop the rambunctious child, but found nothing.
So the last thing she chose was middle baby.
“Middle baby, big baby, can’t you have a baby now?”
“Huh? Huh?」
「Friend」「I don’t know」」「I told you」「Friend」「Tell」「Help」「No」 「
…It’s not wrong, but it feels bad.」
If you are a middle child, you will probably stand by her side.
That’s what she thought, but the middle baby’s behavior was different from what she expected.
「It’s probably possible….」
「Me」「Friend」「What you said」「I heard」
「Really? “Can you really give birth to a big baby?”
“Listen to the end. “The big baby won’t be able to make eggs right now.”
“Look. Am I right? You can’t have a baby.”
“Denial”, “Friend”, “I said ‘now'”, “I said later”, “I know”, “Production”, “Possible”,
“… You guys have good understanding. no. Should this also be considered growth?”
The middle baby scratched the protruding sensing organ with its appendage. Judging by what they had done together so far, the middle baby was embarrassed by her and the little baby’s questions.
“What does that mean?”
“Well, it’s a bit complicated to explain. Should I say that the older baby can’t make eggs because it’s not all grown up?”
“I don’t know what you mean.” ”
Ask the older baby for more details.”
“Agree.” “I’ll check it myself.”
In the end, even the middle baby couldn’t stop the little one. There was no longer any way to stop the little baby.
Now the only thing left is to stop the little one with force.
However, it is not good to forcefully scold someone when there is no justification. Unless the little baby was a bad child or something, you couldn’t just hit him or her.
The moment she thought that, she suddenly remembered a previous memory.
When I connected the thoughts of the little baby and the little baby’s mother, she saw it. How did the little baby’s mother mate?
「Wait.」
「Not yet」「Say」「Are there any left?」
「Yes. If you want to mate with an older baby, you have to compete with me.” “
?”
At her words, both the small and middle babies tilted their protruding sensing organs.
「Why?」「Little Adult」「Me」「Competing?」
「I will mate with the older one too.」
The younger one’s family mated in a different way than her family. Although it was the same for a single head of household and multiple families, there was a difference in that there was an order. The strongest or longest-serving family members mated first.
The little girl kept her mouth shut at her declaration. Because he knew what she was talking about.
「Little Adult」「Big Adult」「Do you like it?」
「Yes.」
「Me」「Mating」「First」「I said」「Little Adult」「Me」「Next」 「
No. “I am stronger than the little baby and I have been with the big baby for a long time.”
“Negative” “I” “I have grown”
She felt a familiar strength flowing out from the little baby.
A power that seems similar to, yet different from, the ‘power’ she possesses. It used that power when catching prey or scolding bad kids.
The little one was thinking of fighting her.
She also tried to use her strength, but the middle child jumped in between her.
“for a moment! It’s not my thing to say, but if you’re going to compete, go out and do it! “If I do it here, my eldest child will hate it.”
“Agree.”
When she heard those words, she immediately lost her strength. The little one relaxed just like her.
And together we went out of the smelly rock.
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Adhai was more nervous than ever.
She never imagined that she would be competing for a mate with her own kind. She said she had a more attractive tail than anyone else, but her body was too small.
Therefore, I thought that the only person who would truly care for me was an adult.
In any case, it was difficult to find a handsome male that was as big as an adult and had wild horns. The tail was a bit thick for a male, but she was able to fully embrace that shortcoming.
Because she is an adult.
Her compatriots also knew her feelings and there was no one targeting her.
So Aadhai did not think that he would compete with anyone else for the eldest position.
Especially not that the competitor will be a small adult.
She glared at the being on the white snow in the distance.
It seemed to be a small and fragile being that could not be found anywhere else on this planet. Of course, Adhai knew well that it was only in appearance.
That small creature that Aadhai calls Little Adult has very strong power. Because she was as strong as her mother.
It was quite a burden to have to face such a powerful enemy alone, but Adhai was confident.
With the power of a star, she has become stronger than before. In her mind, the only opponents who were definitely stronger than her were the elder and the liar Od Grad. Except for two, the rest were worthy opponents.
As the thought reached that point, Adhai could feel his fever slowly rising. The blood of a fierce predator latent in her body slowly awakened.
She knows that strong males mate with multiple females. I also know that adults will become like that someday.
However, you cannot miss out on the status of an adult’s first pet. A small adult is worthy of respect, but it is not enough to give up the first pet.
“This is not hunting. Let’s control each other’s strength.”
“Okay.”
“Confirmation.”
While answering the middle child’s words, Aadhai raised his star power. At that moment, the little adult attacked first.
A long tentacle came out from the small adult’s body and hit her on the head. It was something a small adult would do when scolding her, but the power was on a different level.
If she hadn’t covered her head with the power of the stars, she would have lost consciousness right now from the attack.
Adhai, who blocked the first attack with star power, counterattacked. A compressed force was released from her mouth and flew towards the small adult.
The little adult waved his tentacles without a care in the world, nullifying Adhai’s attack.
But this was also what Aadhai had predicted. As soon as she unleashed her power, she jumped right away. As any adult would do, she moved one step ahead of her opponent.
The distance between me and the little adult narrowed in an instant. She was planning to attack her like this, but the little adult blocked her attack.
An invisible object held her tightly, as if tying her down. However, the wings imbued with star power are still intact.
She used her wings as weapons and swung them vigorously, like an adult would. As if the small adult had not predicted this, he quickly raised his tentacles and blocked the wings.
And the sharp membrane of the wings cuts off the tentacles of the small adult. I have never rebelled against a small adult before, but this was the first time I got hurt.
Two emotions swirled within her: joy and guilt. But that was a mistake.
The little adult didn’t care that one tentacle was cut off and swung another tentacle. Aadhai quickly covered his head with the power of the star and blocked the tentacles.
The moment it hit the tentacle, the air vibrated loudly and her cervical spine screamed. Because the blow was so strong, it was not able to absorb all of the small adult’s strength.
But it was still okay. Because there wasn’t a single wound on her head.
As she thought so, the small adult’s wave reached her tentacle.
“The little baby has grown up a lot. “I won’t look at you anymore.”
“?”
Before he could understand the meaning of those words, Adhai felt his body rising high into the sky against his will. The little adult had controlled the power that bound her.
And she saw.
All the ice around the little adult cracked and floated in the air.
“Hey! I told you to do it in moderation!”
“I said the little baby is all grown up, so this is okay.”
“Even the ship is involved!”
The little adult’s body was already several times larger than Aadhai. Numerous tentacles were sticking out here and there, and a powerful force that could only be felt from an adult was felt above the body.
I couldn’t quite remember what happened next.
Because so many ice chunks were flying at Adhai, she was busy blocking them. Her latent star power was by no means small, but it was not enough to block endless attacks without stopping.
In the end, Aadhai, whose strength was gone, was hit by a tentacle thrown by a small adult and was stretched out.
“I won, so the baby talk is over! “Don’t ask your eldest child to know!”
Those were the last words he heard before he fainted. Adhai had no choice but to answer by nodding.
But Aadhai thought to himself.
Although she was born with less favorable conditions than others, she became the queen of the group.
There is no word for her like give up.
She lost her mind, vowing that one day she would definitely mate with an adult.