Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 256
Only Noblemtl
Ep. 255
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A cocoon that fills a wide space.
We have already seen it many times before, when a baby goes into a cocoon to grow up.
She pulled out a tentacle and put it against the cocoon.
Familiar sensations, such as the warmth felt on the surface of the water, the rough pulsation like waves, etc. The dizzying mix of sensations and elements were things she had experienced before.
She has a mysterious ‘force’ and feels objects and movements with her whole body. It is not as detailed as other animals’ senses such as smell, sight, or hearing.
That doesn’t mean her sensing powers are lacking, though. If she concentrates, she can sense not only this huge, foul-smelling boulder, but also a wider area.
But what she felt now was completely different from before.
Now she was feeling the thoughts of a completely different creature, the one inside the tentacle-connected cocoon, the thoughts of the big baby.
Originally, she did not have this ability.
It is only relatively recently that humans have acquired the ability to use their innate ‘powers’ to read the thoughts of other creatures and to transmit those thoughts to them.
Her friend knew how to pick out the thoughts of the ‘bad friends’ and make them her own. The older child was delighted to see that.
If there’s something she doesn’t know, it’s better for her to learn it from her friend. Then, if her friend can do it, she can do it too.
Through a very simple process of reasoning, she learned on the spot how her friend handled the force. She is not as good as her friend yet, but she will get better as she grows.
In fact, her skills had improved greatly since she helped the little baby and the little baby’s mother share their thoughts. Now, she was feeling the big baby’s thoughts much more smoothly than before.
The big baby in the gochi 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 locked up in prison.
So, she felt bad, but she endured it. How scary it would be for the older child to be alone in a strange place. She thought that if she watched over him, the older child’s mind would be at ease.
Fortunately, her mind was connected, and the older child gradually regained his composure. When he reached a dead end, he lifted his long appendage and pushed against the wall.
The moment when the wall is pushed away and a space she has never seen before appears.
“Little adult?”
A familiar wave of thought woke her up.
She jerked her tentacles away from the cocoon, her consciousness returning to the stomach of the foul-smelling boulder.
“What are you doing?”
“just.”
“?”
The little baby tilted her protruding sensory organ at her strange answer. She hadn’t done anything wrong, but for some reason she felt reluctant to say anything. So she unconsciously mumbled something.
Fortunately, the little one didn’t seem to care about her suspicious behavior. What interested him was something else.
“Big man” “Again” “Will it change?”
“Yeah. It’ll grow quickly.”
Then the little baby shook its protruding sensory organ.
“More” “Bigger” “Difficult”
“Why? It’s good because it makes you stronger when you grow up.”
“When it grows” “I know” “It’s difficult”
When I heard that, my mood really got worse.
“The little one doesn’t know yet.”
“Why?” “Me” “White” “Growth” “Success” “Little Adult” “Promise” “Me” “Growth” “I know” “It’s possible”
“You can’t do that because you’re not an adult yet!”
“Big man” “Me” “Adult” “I admit it”
She was speechless at the little girl’s logical words.
“Big man” “Growth” “Completion” “Me” “Know” “I’m going to ask”
“The little baby and the big baby are both babies! Babies can’t make babies!”
“Not yet” “I don’t know” “I have to check”
Seeing that he didn’t back down even an inch, it seemed like he was determined this time.
As the little girl said, she had no reason to stop the two from mating. She said that when the little girl grew up, she wouldn’t stop them either.
Moreover, the little baby fulfilled his duty as the head of the household by protecting his family members who followed him. Although he was small in stature, the little baby was already a full-fledged adult.
But she didn’t want to admit it.
I felt like if the big one and the little one mated, I would feel very, very bad. To the point where I would destroy this smelly, giant boulder.
“The big one is busy. That’s why we can’t have a baby.”
“Breeding” “Important” “Family” “Prosperity” “Egg” “Must” “Necessary”
“… … .”
She said she had grown up, but did her brain get better? Every time she spoke, the little one immediately refuted. She searched for something that could stop that reckless child, but nothing came out.
So the last thing she chose was the middle child.
“Middle baby, big baby, can’t you have a baby now?”
“Huh? Huh?”
“Friend” “I don’t know” “I told you” “Friend” “Words” “Help” “No”
“…That’s not wrong, but something feels off.”
If it were a middle child, she would probably take her side.
She thought so, but the middle child’s behavior was different from what she expected.
“It might be possible….”
“I” “Friend” “Words” “I heard”
“Really? Can you really have a big baby?”
“Listen to what I have to say. Ugh, the big baby, ahem, can’t make eggs right now.”
“Look. Am I right? Big baby, you can’t have a baby.”
“Negative” “Friend” “‘Now’” “I said” “Later” “Know” “Production” “Possible”
“… You guys have good comprehension skills. No. Should I consider this as growth as well?”
The middle baby scratched the sensory organ protruding from her appendage. Judging from what they had been doing together so far, the middle baby was embarrassed by her and the little baby’s questions.
“What does that mean?”
“Oh, it’s a bit complicated to explain. Should I say that the baby isn’t fully grown yet, so it can’t make eggs?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Ask the older one for more details.”
“Agree” “Directly” “I will check”
In the end, the middle baby couldn’t stop the little baby. There was no way to stop the little baby anymore.
Now the only way left is to stop the little one by force.
However, it was not good to forcefully scold someone without a reason. If the child was a bad child, then it would be okay, but if not, then it was not something you could just hit.
The moment she thought that, she suddenly recalled a previous memory.
When she connected the thoughts of the little baby and the little baby’s mother, she saw how the little baby’s mother mated.
“wait.”
“Still” “Words” “Is there anything left?”
“Yeah. If you want to mate with the big one, you have to compete with me.”
“?”
At her words, both the small and middle babies tilted their protruding sensory organs.
“Why?” “Little Adult” “Me” “Competing?”
“I’m going to mate with the big kid too.”
The little girl’s family mated differently from hers. The family members were all the same, with one father and several families, but there was a difference in order. The strongest or longest-living family mated first.
The little one shut his mouth at her declaration, because he knew what she meant.
“Little Adult” “Big Adult” “Do you like it?”
“huh.”
“Me” “Mating” “First” “I said” “Little adult” “Me” “Next”
“No. I’m stronger than the little one and I’ve been with the big one for a long time.”
“Negative” “Me” “Growing Up”
She felt a familiar strength flowing from the little one.
A power that seemed similar to the ‘power’ she possessed, yet different. The guy used that power when he caught prey or when he punished bad kids.
The little one was thinking of fighting her.
She also tried to use her strength, but the middle child jumped in between.
“Wait a minute! It’s not my place to say this, but if you’re going to compete, do it outside! The older child won’t like it if you do it here.”
“agreement”
When she heard that, she immediately withdrew her strength. The little child also withdrew her strength just like her.
And together they went out into the stinking rock.
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Adhai was more nervous than ever.
She never imagined that she would be competing with her own kind for a mate. She had the most attractive tail of any of them, but she was so small.
That’s why I thought that the only person who would truly care for me like this was an adult.
Anyway, it was hard to find a handsome male with a large, sturdy body and wild horns like an adult. Although the tail was quite thick for a male, she was able to fully embrace such shortcomings.
Because she’s an adult.
Her fellow tribesmen also knew her heart, and there was no one who targeted the elder.
So Adhai didn’t think he would compete with anyone else for the big man.
Even more so when that competitor happens to be a young adult.
She looked at the being in the distance on the white snow.
It looked like a small and fragile being, the likes of which could not be found anywhere else on this planet. Of course, Adhai knew very well that this was only in appearance.
That little creature, the one Adhai called Little Adult, was very powerful. 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 the stars, she became incomparably stronger than before. When she thought about it, the only opponents who were definitely stronger than her were the big adults and the liar Od Grad. The rest were worthy opponents to fight.
As she thought about it, Adhai felt her body start to heat up. The ferocious predatory blood that had been dormant in her body slowly awakened.
She also knows that strong males mate with multiple females, and that even adults will eventually do the same.
However, he cannot afford to lose his position as the first companion of the elder. The younger adult is worthy of respect, but not to the extent of yielding the position of first companion.
“This isn’t hunting. Let’s balance each other’s strength.”
“okay.”
“check”
In response to the middle child’s words, Adhai drew up the power of the stars. At that moment, the little adult began to attack first.
A long tentacle shot out from the little adult’s body and hit her on the head. It was something the little adult did when he was trying to scold her, but the power was on a whole other level.
If she hadn’t wrapped her head in the power of the stars, she would have lost consciousness from the attack right now.
Adhai, who had blocked the first attack with the power of the stars, counterattacked. A compressed force was fired from her mouth and flew towards the small adult.
The little adult nonchalantly waved his tentacles, nullifying Adhai’s attacks.
But this was something Adhai had also predicted. She jumped as soon as she fired her power. Just like the big adults, she was one step ahead of her opponent.
The distance between her and the little adult was quickly shortened. She planned to attack him like this, but the little adult blocked her attack.
An invisible object held her tightly as if tying her up. However, her wings, still imbued with the power of the stars, were still intact.
She swung her wings vigorously, using them as weapons, just like an adult would. The little adult, who hadn’t expected this, quickly raised his tentacles to block her wings.
And the sharp membrane on the wing cut the tentacles of the little adult. It was the first time it had ever been wounded, even though it had never resisted the little adult before.
Two emotions, joy and guilt, swirled inside her. But it was a mistake.
The little adult waved the other tentacle, not caring that one of its tentacles had been cut off. Adhai quickly wrapped his head around the power of the stars and blocked the tentacle.
The moment she collided with the tentacle, the air vibrated violently and her cervical vertebrae screamed. The blow was so strong that it could not 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 little adult’s wavelength reached her tentacles.
“The little one has grown so much. I won’t look after you anymore.”
“?”
Before she could understand the meaning of those words, Adhai felt her body rising high into the sky against her will. The little adult had taken control of the force that had bound her.
And she saw.
All the ice around the little adult splits and floats into the air.
“Hey hey! I told you to do it in moderation!”
“I said the little one is all grown up, so this much is okay.”
“Even the ship is involved!”
Before I knew it, the little adult’s body had grown to be several times larger than Adhai’s. Numerous tentacles were sticking out here and there, and I could feel a strong force on top of his body that I could only feel from a big adult.
I don’t remember very well what happened next.
She was so busy blocking the massive number of ice chunks flying at Adhai that she was distracted. The power of the stars that she had was not small, but it was not enough to block the endless barrage of attacks without stopping.
Eventually, Adhai, who had lost all strength, was hit by the tentacles thrown by the little adult and fell to the ground.
“I won, so the baby talk is over! Don’t ask the big kid to know!”
Those were the last words he heard before he passed out. Adhai could only nod in response.
But Adhai thought to himself.
She was born with less favorable circumstances than others, but she became the queen of the group.
There is no word for give up for her.
She lost her mind, vowing that one day she would mate with an adult.