"..." I don't move, I can't move, my body is static as if trying to run might make the predator that found attack, so I just stay frozen, staring at this bitch's body on the ground.
'It was a miscalculation...' I never thought she would alert a dangerous monster that was already behind . She must have noticed the monster's approach, just as I also noticed when I felt sothing bad closing in.
"Ara, ara, ara, what do we have here?" I hear a mature, almost seductive voice. Through the sound vibrations in the environnt, I detect the shape of her silhouette, realizing it's a girl.
'A humanoid... that's even worse...' The Abyss is full of evolved monsters who have gained humanoid forms, and a humanoid is stronger than a normal monster.
"So you're the little thing that changed the entire ecosystem of one of the areas in my territory." The tone is venomous, clear disgust and anger over it. I don't hear footsteps, but the sound is getting closer.
'I can't detect her.' My body has involuntary tremors and twitches. I can't detect this thing even though she's only a few ters away from .
"You have an... interesting scent... where have I slled it before?" She talks to herself, a curious tone.
"..." I see her shadow looming over , and with that, I know she's just one step away. My body seems to want to flee madly.
"You look scared, but you didn't kill yourself. You're strong." When I feel her palm touch my back, my body tries to run, but I fall face-first to the ground, and I realize my legs have been torn off before I could even process that I lost them.
"Ugh."
"No, no, no, no running away. We have a long conversation to have, don't we? Did you know that little 'ga' of yours with spiders caused problems? Those little crawling pests killed so of my personal servants and devoured so of my favorite toys." Her frustrated tone is obvious.
"You may move." When she says that, my legs regenerate and I jump backward, facing her, seeing the appearance of this absurdly strong monster.
"..." She's a tall girl, at least 10 feet tall, with massively large breasts and dark pink eyes. The sclera of her eyes is completely black while her skin has a pink hue. Her hair is very long, reaching the back of her knees, and is a light pink color.
Her body is almost entirely in these shades of pink, red, and reddish-pink to differentiate one part from another, while her posture is strong and her gaze is dangerously seductive.
She isn't wearing clothes, but she isn't naked either. It seems she has so kind of tentacular "thing" covering her private parts. And with her appearance, it's obvious she's a tentacle monster.
'Damn it, damn it!! A tentacle girl? You've got to be kidding !! Just my luck, a tentacle!!?' It's obvious what she is. Imdiately, I start building my ntal protection. I'm sure if she doesn't try to kill , she'll try to control .
So I imdiately start creating "Pandora Copy"—an exact copy consciousness of myself. It will act like , have all my mories, think like , and do everything as I would without knowing it's a copy. And of course, it will be slightly more curious than , so it can gather information for by asking questions.
'I just need ti! 30 minutes.' I didn't think I'd encounter a tentacle monster so soon, so I hadn't created the copy yet.
"W-What's your na?" I ask, all tense.
"Mnemosyne. You may call that, little girl." She looks my body up and down.
"I see. You are a very fertile girl. Your internal structure is impressive. Your regenerative power is one of the highest I've ever seen, even though you are of a low level. And you already produce milk with impressive nutritional content." She assessed in less than a second with such precision.
'There's no way I can win against this!'
"You're a servant of Echidna... Urgh!" A tentacle erges from nowhere in the ground, grabbing my throat and squeezing. Mnemosyne's gaze turns cold and dark.
"Do not say her na with such disrespect. It's pathetic for low-level inferior beings to try and utter her na." The force of the tentacle increases, becoming so intense it's about to tear my head off, so I twist my head and bite the tentacle, tearing it off.
"Oh?" She's surprised, but the Devourer passive doesn't care about resistance, so I was able to bite and cut through.
"...Interesting... Well, I think I've seen enough. You caused problems, so die." Thousands of tentacles surge from the ground on all sides.
'W-What?! She wants to kill ?!' I can tell from her look—the complete lack of interest in trying to keep alive. Because she's too strong to need soone like without reason.
"W-WAIT!!" She attacks, too fast for to defend, but slow enough for to see that I'm going to die. This son of a bitch knows exactly how much force she needs to kill .
"I'M ECHIDNA'S DAUGHTER!" I shout the information I least wanted to say, because since I arrived in the Abyss, my mother's servants painted a picture of being utterly untrustworthy.
But when I say that, she stops. Her tentacles are centiters away from piercing my entire body and leaving with more holes than Swiss cheese.
"...Pandora." She says my na, but I never introduced myself.
"Your scent... yes, your scent was familiar... you're the little sister of that bitch Azraelith." When she realizes this fact, her smile becos disturbingly large and distorted. She licks her lips, which allows to see her extrely sharp teeth.
"Yes, I am..." Her gaze seems even more dangerous than before, but it was either this or she'd kill .
"I know your older sister... yes, I know her very well... we have... an interesting past." Her tone is full of hatred. You can tell it's not "interesting" in a good way.
'I need to buy ti to defend my mind...'
"Could you tell ?" I ask while the tentacles that were about to kill retreat into the ground.
"Of course, little daughter of Echidna-sama..." She approaches , standing in front of . She's much taller than I am.
"That bitch, your older sister, humiliated so much... I offered her a deal. I idolized her, who was Echidna-sama's daughter..."
"A deal?" I try to stall her.
"Yes. You see, I am a swarm monster... it ans I increase my power by reproducing, creating more and more children. All disposable, but together they are a frightening force in the Abyss."
"I myself reached my position as Echidna-sama's servant by defeating one of her servants. That bitch was delicious. It felt so good to devour her body until only her torso remained and use her to create millions of my children..."
"Unfortunately, being a swarm monster has two disadvantages... First, we need other bodies to have children with special 'genetics.' So, a tentacle can only be a new type if it has a special mother."
"And the second problem is a body that can withstand the stress of having so many children. Most monsters in the Abyss focus on defense, aning beings with high regenerative power are rare, even though they are the most perfect for this task because they never run out."
"What I offered your older sister was simple. I wanted her genes. My tentacle monsters would beco much stronger by having the genes of a being created by the Abyss Goddess herself."
"With Azraelith, I would beco the second most powerful being in the Abyss, below only the Goddess... I offered Azraelith everything for this. My body, my soul, my eternal servitude. All I wanted was solely to use her body once." She delivers a whole monologue that I pay partial attention to, focusing more on creating my ntal copy.
"I can perform mitosis. As long as I had a single tentacle with her genes, I could make that tentacle be born from any body of any incubator."
"My body stores data from my children and replicates them, so I will always have different children... but she... she humiliated in front of everyone... she beat until I died, with my true body literally dying."
"And I only survived because that wretch didn't even really try to eliminate , and I managed to escape in a small tentacle that carried my consciousness... I spent years weakened because of that miserable creature."
"I lost everything!! I lost my position, my power, and the respect I had!! I only managed to recover these things recently when a large part of my original power returned..." Her neutral tone is more chilling than if she were angry.
"W-What does this have to do with ?" I ask tensely. I need a few more minutes.
'Co on, co on, co on!! Hurry up!!' With every second, my fear increases. I need to finish soon and protect my head.
"What does it have to do with you... it's simple, little daughter of Echidna... you are a Tenebris Abyssus..." Her smile returns to her face.
"I didn't want Azraelith. I wanted the genes of her race... the rarest race of all, but with infinite evolution potential... I know my tentacles won't inherit the infinite evolution of a Tenebris Abyssus."
"But they will inherit the general adaptation—a weaker version, but still, the power to adapt is one of the most powerful things in the Abyss, which is always in a constant state of chaos!! If I can have tentacles with Tenebris Abyssus genes,"
"I will finally be able to reach level 5 billion." Her eyes shine with greed, and her plan becos clear.
"H-Hey, you wouldn't do that to , right? I have nothing to do with my older sister!! Besides, I'm the daughter of the Abyss Goddess. Do you really think forcing into sothing is safe?" She ponders for a second and then replies.
"She won't know... besides, little of what you said matters. I tried being friendly once, and look what happened to . I almost died and lost everything I had. I won't make that mistake again." Tentacles erge, wrapping around , holding in place.
I feel my magic disappearing completely, being locked by sothing, while her gaze toward is as if I were a sweet reward. But I'm still in the process of forming the copy, so it hardly matters that I can't use magic.
"I was going to kill you. You changed the ecosystem of one of my territories... but now things have changed. And you... you are my treasure." She hugs —a strangely comfortable hug.
"What will you do with ?" I ask, trying to finish creating the fake copy soon.
"I'll take you with to my ho. I'll fill you with lots of love and children, and I'll take the position I always deserved here in the Abyss. And don't worry, Pandora. I'll give you all my love, my beautiful treasure." Her gaze is the most manic I've ever seen.
It's animalistic, wild, and... similar to ? Okay, that's kind of weird, because her gaze reminds a lot of the psychopath Pandora Yandere. Besides, her wild attitude is very coherent with a wild beast.
She tried comnsalism with my older sister. That tactic failed, and because it failed, she, as a wild being, changed tactics. And now she'll try parasitism with .
'Shit...' I feel dizzy. Everything seems to spin while the tentacles holding pierce with needles and inject sothing into . Things seem to darken while her voice becos muffled, but the process of creating the copy continues on automatic, so I'll probably manage to finish creating it.
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