Chapter 281 Arachne 2

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Arachne is a lonely girl that has lived for… I don’t know how much, but when I asked the System, it said; “since the beginning of this dungeon” and this dungeon is hundreds of years old. The Rabbit-kin were only some years ago attacked by the spiders, but that’s because they arrived in this forest by themselves, as they were a wandering tribe of beast-kin.

Due to her loneliness, she acquired the “Lonely Empress” Title Skill for some reason, I feel like the Soul Script of hers is trying to mess with her or something, how can you cruelly give a little girl such an evil title?! Damned System!

<This is not my fault, other people don’t have a System, the Soul Script might be similar but it is ruled for non-general rules, it even generates skills specially for the user, so sometimes there might be various Skills with similar effects named differently…>

Oh… Well, anyways I think it is okay, right? I just want her to be happy and make her my friend, perhaps what she just needs is a friend to trust her and make her feel not… lonely, I suppose. I can even talk to her and she doesn’t seem to mind it that much… I will continue working hard to make her my friend, but I honestly don’t know how she’ll react whenever she learns the truth about how I really look like and who I am… I really hope she doesn’t hate me.

She’s so lonely and cute, she really broke my heart. I kind of knew she was a deadly monster or something from before based on her presence alone, but she is such a sweet girl that is just needy for some friend that I couldn’t reject her! I even showed myself to her for that purpose, because I always saw her lonely and on silence…

“Snek… Hungy?”

Arachne suddenly asked me if I was hungry. I honestly don’t need to eat, but she likes seeing me eat, so I nodded.

“Yeah, I am feeling a bit hungry.”

“Want food!” She said, as the spiders quickly obeyed her without saying a word, they moved around quickly throwing a pile of captured wolves, monkeys, lizards, and other creatures.

“Yum, yum! Eat?” She asked, looking at the pile, she grabbed a big wolf-like creature that was still alive, and mercilessly pierced its head, using her sharp fangs to pierce it entirely. Her fangs were like the mouth of a spider, so she looked quite… picturesque when she opened such a… Erm, highly detailed mouth. I don’t really want to call her “grotesque” or “ugly”, she’s just a cute little girl.

Despite being incredibly strong.

“Slurp…”

Arachne drank the insides of the wolf as it agonized, slowly stopping to move and drying out like a mummy until she consumed all its insides, yep, that’s how spiders eat.

“Phew… Yum!” She said. She was very cheerful today, I remember she always had a lonely expression in her face, often expressionless even, but out of nowhere she slowly began to cheer up a lot, and even enjoyed the boring meals she often skipped.

“Is it yummy? I don’t really like raw meat but I’ll serve myself anyways… Gryshishishi~” I giggled like a snake, as I opened my giant mouth and began to swallow an entire bear wrapped in spider silk. Arachne always liked to see how I ate, as she clapped her tiny hands.

“Woow!” She said, she seemed incapable of doing what I could do, and was surprised each time I swallowed my prey whole. Actually eating with this clone has made it regenerate energy on its own, so it can maintain itself quite easily.

“Hah~ I am stuffed, gryshi…” I sighed; it was going to take a little bit for this enormous bear to be digested by Phantasmal Stomach.

“No mowe?” She asked.

“Ah, no, I can’t eat more, dear…” I sighed.

“Oway…” Little Arachne quickly began to devour the other monsters with ease, it was always amusing to see her eating food like this… Although it was a bit gross, yes, I had to admit it.

When she was done, she ended stuffed, so she jumped over her bed to nap, and she dragged me with her. She hugged me with her tiny arms and rubbed her face over my long and serpentine body.

“Good night, Arachne…” I said.

“Night…” She said, she slowly closed her eyes, sleeping soundly, with a relaxed and serene smile.

Damn, she’s so adorable and innocent, how come such a cute girl would be called Primordial Beast? Loki, you’re a cruel motherfucker! How can you call her like this? In fact, I bet you forced her little soul into this form, right?! Why didn’t you just reincarnated her into a normal girl or something! Hahh~ Of course I am not going to get any answers, I am rambling like an idiot…

I looked into the girl sleeping, as I used my snake tail to caress her cheeks and her hair. She wasn’t completely asleep, so she opened her red eyes again and looked at me.

“Wish… you wewe biwer…” She said.

“Eh? That I were bigger?” I asked.

She nodded silently. Ah, does she wants to hug me? Maybe she wants me to hug her instead? Cute little baby girl, so you want a mommy this entire time?

“You won’t get angry if I show you another of my forms?” I asked her.

“Huh? Nwo… Never…” She said adorably.

“S-Sure?”

“Yeah!”

“Okay then…”

I quickly transformed this clone which had grown strong enough into my humanoid form, slightly smaller by a few centimeters, but certainly bigger than her.

“Ooooh!” Arachne looked at me with surprise.

“Heheh, I can take this form…” I said. “I don’t look too snek-like, but my hair got snakes, look~!”

“Oooh Snake lady!” She said, hugging me tightly, she seemed to enjoy my bigger-sized body.

“Yes, I guess you could call me a snake lady… Fufu, Arachne… I will… I’ll take care of you…” I said.

“Heheh…” She giggled adorably, as I hugged her with my arms and my air, and we cuddled in her bed. Such a little and precious girl…

“I won’t let this fate imposed upon you affect you… You’re not a monster, you’re an adorable and innocent girl…” I whispered to her, as she smiled happily, and cuddled with me, without understanding my more elaborate words…

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