Chapter 15: I Have Araophobia (02)
“Gasp…!”
The narrow opening of the girl ierced by what seemed to be my thing, now twice as rge as usual.
Though I wondered if it was too big for her slender body to take, it miraculously slid into her with ease.
As I cautiously observed her, she reached out to feel my head again. I leaned forward and pressed my lips to hers, and she eagerly reciprocated, as though trying tet the pain by immersing herself in our kiss.
She was still nothing more than a young princess, and now, as my wife, she would i this kingdom as its successor.
Being chosen by her was an honor, and it felt like my duty to melt every part of myself into her and pass it on to her.
‘How lovely.’
From the moment I was born, I had lived for her.
To build a kingdom together with her…
Squish.
Something cold suddenly touched my thigh. However, it was just a sensation and didn’t disrupt the unioween us.
I was in the process of transferring everything withio her and the children we would create together…
‘Wait, is something in my mouth?’
The kiss that had tasted so sweet now carried a strange, fishy, and ing smell. Unsciously, I pulled away from her face.
“Ugh!”
The feverish passion that had ed me moments ago quickly subsided, repced by a cold chill running through my entire body. The only warm sensation was the part of me still ected to her.
“Huh…?”
ing to my senses, I looked at the small Arae, who was kissih a puzzled expression, and then at her spider-like mouth… where my thing had entered.
“Ahhh!”
“???”
Goosebumps spread over my entire body.
Until now, I thought I had been making love to a beautiful girl, but it turned out I was ihe lower body of an Arae!
‘Well, teically, this is still mating, but!’
I remembered past versations with Dane and Levin about mermaids. If you were to meet one, would you prefer the lower half to be human or the upper half?
Levin argued the lower half o be human to make things funal, while Dane and I preferred the upper half to remain human. Seeing my thing inside a spider’s mouth now, I finally uood Levin’s perspective.
No, I could endure a fish tail, but this… I was mating with a spider!
‘This is horrifying…!’
The soft spider fur tickled my thighs as my thing was entirely engulfed by the small Arae’s body.
Where the spider’s mouth should have been, her reproductive ans were located. While it looked like I was sharing intimacy with a beautiful girl from the upper body, once I realized the truth, I couldn’t keep myself aroused any longer.
Gurgle…
‘And this sensation on my thigh…’
Carefully l my gaze, I saw Molng ging to my thigh, sug out some bck substance mixed with my blood.
‘Is she detoxifying me?’
Earlier, the Arae’s mother had ied venom into me, melting my insides so they could be verted into semen and transferred to her daughter. Molng seemed to be terag the poison to save me from this fate.
‘But I thought I lost Molng earlier… How did she… Ah!’
As all the spiders’ attention was focused on me and the daughter Arae, a pair of burning blue eyes appeared between the webbing. Uhe other spiders’ eyes, these had visible pupils, and I immediately reized their owner.
‘Erin!’
Somehow, Erin had found me and brought Molng along. Before my insides could pletely liquefy, Molng had climbed through the webs and started detoxifying me, saving my life.
Squeak?
The daughter Arae tilted her head curiously, snuggling against me with a pleased expression. Not seeing her spider lower half, my body reacted again…
Drip…
Molng, now finished with her work, detached herself from my thigh. Erin, who had been waiting for this moment, smashed her battle-axe against the wall, creating a loud noise.
g!
Creaaak!
The mother Arae and tless giant spiders turheir attention toward Erin, who boldly tore through the webs as she ehe ir.
“Bring it on.”
Screeeeeech!
With a shriek e, the mother Arae ordered the swarm of spiders to attack Erin, spitting webs as they rushed toward her.
“Danger…!”
Thud!
But Erin ighe webs entangling her body, tearing them apart with brute strength and cleaving one of the approag spiders in two with her battle-axe.
Spt!
It was as if bursting a leather pouch—the spider's body exploded. The spiders tried to stop her by firing their venomous stingers and weaving webs, but it was futile.
Like a heavily armolem, she deflected every attack, crushing the spiders in one blow. No matter how much the webs entangled her, she tore through them with the raw strength of a half-ogre.
Even their venomous stingers couldn't pee her heavy armor. The spiders, g intelligence, failed to aim for vulnerable spots like joints or the eye slits in her helmet. She was a one-person army.
"Chirp..."
Seeing my daughter Arae trembling in fear and ging to me, I hesitated for a moment. But I couldn’t stay idle any longer.
I couldn't just stand by and watch the spiders trying to ambush Erin from behind.
Whack!
"Chirp...?"
Using my shoulder, I pushed my daughter Arae aside. With the recoil, I grabbed my Mana Saber, activating its bde to slice through the web binding my arms.
Rip!
Swinging the saber widely, I cut through the webs pinning me, nding on the ground. I quickly ed the severed webs around my lower body as a temporary fix.
"Chiiiiiik!"
Five spiders simultaneously spewed webs, engaging in a tug-of-war with Erin. But with one arm, she yahem all toward her and readied her axe.
However, there were far more than just five spiders. the terrain and their positions, I swung my Mana Saber.
Whoosh!
Crash!
The Mana Saber cleaved a spider’s head in half, sileng eleven of them. I the to cut away the web tangled on Erin's arm.
Erin’s battle axe, covered in webs, had lost its edge. But it didn’t matter, as she could still use its sheer weight to crush the spiders. The Mana Saber, powered by a fming energy bde, remained ued by the webs.
"What about an escape route?"
"We could exit through the way we came, but it’ll be tough."
The iryway was now blocked by Mother Arae. I scouted other passages, but they weren’t suitable for humans to escape—perhaps for spiders.
"Molng..."
I grabbed Molng, who had turned limp—perhaps poisoned—and tucked her into the web-made pouch I was wearing. Her burni hihat the venom was highly toxic.
"Chiiiik!"
With a signal from Mother Arae, spiders poured out from every hole in the cave. I easily deflected the ining webs with the Mana Saber, while Erin tore through the few that mao around her, smashing spiders with brute force.
Although we were holding round, it was only a matter of time before we would be overwhelmed.
‘If we’re going to escape on our own... two choices. Either kill Mother Arae blog the path in one blow, or...’
I g Princess Arae, the heir of this pce.
‘...Take her hostage.’
She reached out toward me from the webs, letting out soft cries. I couldn’t make out what she was saying over the shrieking spiders. Of course, I couldn’t uand her nguage anyway.
"Sigh..."
As I firmly gripped the Mana Saber, ready to make a choice—
Thud!
"Skreeee!"
A massive battle maul—a two-handed hammer—smashed into Mother Arae's upper body, disrupting her posture. At that moment, a short female knight with a shield burst into the cave.
"Erin, reinforts are here!"
It was Knight Banerim, followed by other short-statured rades chosen for their agility to navigate the narrow cave.
Bang!
With a shield, Banerim struck a spider’s head, standing proudly with her chest puffed out. Seeing her impressive stance, I uood why the other rades praised her so highly.
Not only did her valor swell my respect, but it also ignited admiration that made my chest feel grand.
"There are too many spiders! We o retreat!"
"Got it!"
Erin ripped the webs tyio the wall, crushed the spiders with her axe, and broke free, charging forward. I turo follow her, aiming for an escape.
"Chirp..."
I briefly stopped as my daughter Arae reached out to me with a sad expression, as if pleading for me not to leave. But staying was not an option. Uhe rades' cover, I fled the spider cave.
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Molng helped drain some venom from my body, redug its potency. However, that was only a temporary measure to decrease the spread. She couldn’t fully detoxify the venom cirg through my system. When I returo the camp, I had to rely on Instructor Pandel.
"Instruy lower half is numb. What’s going on?"
"You’ve been hit with paralyzing venom. Obviously."
While examining the venomous stingers collected by the knights, Instructor Pandel worked on making an antidote using his portable alchemy tools. Fortunately, it could be prepared quickly.
"It’s a reproductive toxin."
"I suspected as much..."
"You’ll experience prolonged... arousal for a while."
‘Wait, isn’t that a good thing...?’
Maybe I shouldn’t get detoxified...
"And then it’ll rot, starting from there, due to poor blood circution."
"Please make the antidote immediately!"
"I already am. Stop rushing me."
Using the spider venom and my blood as a base, Instructor Pandel synthesized an antidote. He also made one for Molng but hat she didn’t . Being a slime, she absorbed the venom’s protein, rendering it harmless.
"Now rest."
Uo train, I y alone in the medical tent, my predit kept private as my rades were too busy training to visit. Had they seen me like this, I’d have been teased relentlessly, much like Dane, Levin, and Jake after their infamous slime i.
Boing...
"Molng, I owe you my life this time."
Without her intervention, the venom could have liquefied my ans. I would have ended up iemple, requiring intense care from the priestess—a fate I absolutely refused. I’d rather die.
Squish... Squish...
"What's wrong?"
Molng transformed into her humanoid form, puffing her cheeks in apparent anger. Her body took on a venomous purple hue, mirr Arae's toxicity, as she climbed onto me.
‘Why is she ag like this all of a sudden?’
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