Monster no Goshujin-sama

eighteen

"Lily! Rose!

"" Your husband!

I took the two families who jumped in from the front.

Perhaps we should say 'pushed down' to be precise.

Because my hands were still glued to the floor, and I couldn't move properly, and I had to smudge them while they held me.

"I'm glad you're safe..."

"I'm worried, my lord"

They leaned around my chest and rejoiced.

Of course I'm happy. But I'm sorry that's not all.

"No... it hurts! Hey, both of you, calm down a little bit."

"Oh, yeah. Your husband, you weren't safe."

When I screamed, Lily quickly put on her recovery magic.

In the meantime, Rose releases me from the bondage caused by the thread of the spider with a small knife suspended on my hips.

"I'm sorry. We're happy."

"No. You don't have to worry"

That's all you cared about about me.

Just knowing that makes my heart warm and I don't care about the pain.

My body is also pompous and warm.

The healing magic is healing your wounded body.

Though it will take about a few minutes to be able to move.

That's the limit to Lily's healing magic. I can't complain.

Besides, it wasn't the kind of situation where I could cry about my injury.

Lily and Rose were miserable.

Lily was half-personalized because of the huge damage, and half of her face and majority of her body were back in the slime. Being completely naked was not nasty, but it was miserable.

My hand, which gently touches my broken right arm, has also become completely transparent, and I haven't even figured out my fingers. Her bodily fluids, which occasionally fell from scratch, even drifted over my arm. It was clear that the limits were already close, although they now painstakingly retained their human contours.

Rose, speaking of, is losing one arm. He damaged the joint part of one leg when he was slapped on the floor and pillars several times, and he was trying to drag one foot when he came running over here.

The biggest injury would be a crack that ran to the torso area. He took the last punch by the spider leg he was eating, only a direct hit was painfully avoided and flanked, but there was a deep crack running radially down to his shoulder.

Exactly full of creativity.

If something was wrong, there must have been no life for them.

Even then, they came to help me.

"Thanks, both of you. Thank you so much......"

I didn't have any other words to hang on to.

... If that was the end of it, then that must have been an ideal happy ending already.

Reality was cruel because it wasn't.

"What... are you happy?

A grudging voice came to us rejoicing.

When I looked up, my eyes and eyes met with red eyes burning in anger.

White Arakune was perfectly alive, staring at us.

"Are you going to beat your concubine with this degree of scuffle wound?

I couldn't see the damage caused by Lily's magic earlier on in the white Arakune, who said so and intimidates him with a low voice.

Even more surprisingly, there were no traces of burns on his face. It seems that High Monster is a monster to resilience.

Speaking of opposing power, it was clearly not in such a state that Lily and Rose could fight.

By just living and getting to me, they were running out of everything they could have. I didn't even have the strength to fight.

I mean, we're done here.

I had received a state of despair, in wonder and serenity.

I don't even dare look for a reason.

If I were to die here with Lily or Rose, I didn't think it was too bad.

That much, the fact that you and I were able to hug each other again had given me peace.

It's so much better to die here with the lilies than to remain alone and live captive in spider threads.

I thought so naturally.

I won't be the only one killed more than I have a white Arakune purpose... then I just have to bite my own tongue.

"Wait, your husband"

Lily's liquefied hand enveloped my hand, which I had laid down.

"Lily?"

"It's too early to give up."

Lily whispered.

What does that mean?

This situation was clearly 'stuffed'. The means of reversal from here is physically impossible.

That's supposed to happen, but Lily's only half look at the approaching white Arakune was full of certainty.

"I'll rip that body right into fine dust and have my concubine stuff returned"

Ringing the spider legs properly, the white Arakune is proceeding with his steps.

I guess you're not going to make a full jump attack simply to keep me out of it. Surely she was going to take Lily and Rose's breath root.

"There is no point in your struggle. It's the concubine who wins."

"Isn't it your act that doesn't make sense"

It was Kato across the street from us who pinched Arakune.

She was just like Lily, and she hadn't given up yet.

When I looked him in the eye, Kato glanced at me and lowered his mouth slightly.

It was a natural grin.

It's as if you're happy from the bottom of your heart that I'm safe.

……

That's just for a moment, too.

Mr. Kato immediately pulled in a grin, this time pointing his sharp gaze towards the white Arakune.

"Had a blast, had an eclampsia... so did you get what you wanted, Mr. White Arakune?

"I'm about to take it back now. Shut up, little girl."

"Take it back? You say funny things. Isn't that something you can do?"

"What?

Did I not miss this rambling, and White Arakune turned to Mr. Kato.

"Don't you see reality? I don't care what you think, these guys don't have room to fight. But the rest will only be ravaged."

Mr. Kato was flat, even if he was poised to kill himself, who might pass out if he were a small liver person.

"Maybe that's true."

Lightly Mr. Kato admitted to White Arakune's remarks before shaking his neck sideways.

"But that's not what I'm talking about. I just killed Lily and you'll never get what you want again. Instead of... you never really got what you wanted."

"You still don't realize?

On behalf of Mr. Kato, Lily flickered her mouth this time.

"You were wrong."

I didn't know what she was trying to say.

That would have been the same for the white Arakune.

At least not until this moment.

"A mistake, you say? What..."

The spoken words of white Arakune broke off there unnaturally.

It's not like Lily did anything. White Arakune cut off his own words and opened his eyes wide.

Her red eyes reflected two family monsters leaning against me, her husband.

Lily was softly resting her hand on my arm as she sat down, leaning against her flax head around her shoulder.

And my other hand was held in Rose's doll's hand.

White Arakune stared at their two families with a frozen expression.

Lily spoke to Arakune, who had stopped like that.

"... you seem to have noticed. Then you'll see. I said I was mistaken, that's what I meant."

Her face, half slimmed, even floated with a seemingly unfortunate color.

"Willed? Did you get yourself? Sure, that would be great. Yeah, me too, I remember. The world was colored, about that moment."

That was what White Arakune also said.

Monsters are born with no self. If so, the moment I got it would be a vivid experience shared by my family, difficult to replace with anything.

"Your husband gave us his self. Your husband is a human being, like your mother. - No. More than that, special existence. I don't know what it's like to grab him for wanting to monopolize him."

All three of my relatives have a different stance on me, my master, but some of them are common.

As Lily put out her mother's metaphor, special feelings for me are what everyone has, and that doesn't change where she turned me into an abducted Arakune. Instead, it was because she had those feelings that she should have gone into the radical act of abduction and imprisonment.

"But it doesn't make sense just to get your husband. There, you were mistaken."

Lily grabbed my hand.

"We care about your husband above all else. Your husband cares about us, too. I think that's happiness without a replacement for nothing."

Hands on his transparent collapsed chest without a shadow to see, but Lily looked full.

She said silently that it was the wounds she suffered that made her proud.

Lily is now in happiness.

That's the same thing with Rose leaning on me.

I'm with you both. 'Cause, of course, I was.

And it was this situation that Lily and the others risked their lives to create.

"Hey, our happiness is telling you, too, isn't it?

There is a path between me and my family that connects my heart and heart.

That's no exception to white Arakune.

Communicating information via a path does not allow for the exchange of very complex information. But on the other hand, we can also communicate things that cannot be communicated via words.

We can communicate directly with each other emotions that are not something we can express when we spend 10,000 words on them.

In other words, Lily now tells Rose, and what I'm feeling, not to mention the white Arakune.

It is, for example, a sense of fulfilment that works hard for those close to you.

It is, for example, a joy to love and a joy to be loved.

It was a truly superior happiness, not to be gained alone.

All of that becomes the hammer that beats down the white Arakune, the hammer that pierces through it.

Because she's my family, too.

She was supposed to be with us as a family, as a beloved companion, as a family.

That's how I was supposed to get the kind of happiness I'm not alone with right now.

But you can no longer get that for her.

Even if she didn't get happiness, she wouldn't have made that an issue before.

Because she never knew happiness before.

I didn't know, so I couldn't help myself.

But the path between us allowed us to communicate directly to her the feeling of happiness that she had never experienced.

Thus white Arakune learned of happiness.

As something that has nothing to do with me.

Having been taught so plainly that it is a supreme happiness, we are made aware of the reality that we can no longer reach it again.

If this hadn't broken my heart, the truth, white Arakune, would have been a monster.

"Ugh..."

But it can't be.

More white than anyone else, she is like a child who has just gained a heart, and gave it to her because I am the only one who thinks of it.

In a way, this was ironic.

Because if she hadn't even had the heart she'd always wanted, she would still have been completely invincible.

"Wow, the concubine... the concubine..."

No matter how strong the outside is, there's not a single stab at the soft spot on the inside.

Thus, the white spider, waving an incomparable atrocity, was brittle and collapsed.

"Glad you're okay, seniors"

"Thanks"

Lily's restorative magic allowed her to walk for now. When I approached her, Kato welcomed her with a modest smile.

Everyone was fluffy, but Kato, who didn't actually fight with a sword in his hand, was also slightly pale. I guess that's all that meant I was forced to be nervous.

"Did Kato do that operation?

I asked what I cared about.

There was no certainty, but I didn't feel that way was Lily or Rose's idea.

I need your help, and I don't know if this expression is a little... because it was too far-fetched.

The idea of that hand doesn't come out of a family monster with a simple place.

That's a human idea.

Mr. Kato nodded.

"I didn't know what reason that spider stripped Senior Mashima. It's just that I can tell from the fact that she took away her predecessor."

"You mean she's obsessed with me?

"Yeah. At least, I found out that seniors are special to her. So I decided that even if I made such a mess of tea, she must be only a senior relative. Beyond being a senior family member, its composition should be the same as that of Mr. Lily or Mr. Rose. Then I thought there was a strategy."

"Whatever you want, strip me, it doesn't matter."

"Yep. My husband, a senior, trusted, trusted, devoted, loved... that would be very happy, wouldn't it?

"... is that right?

"Yes, I am."

Kato laughed lonely somewhere.

"Lily and Rose arrive alive under Senior Mashima. That was the winning condition."

Before I could say anything, Kato pulled in a grin and continued the conversation.

"It was a tough one, but you two accomplished it brilliantly"

For the convenience of the operation, Lily and Rose risked their lives to challenge Arakune, and while they were there, they had to come to me surviving no matter what.

That was the only way to beat an opponent who couldn't defeat him with any hand.

"All I have to do is tell that white Arakune the situation.... I just needed to pull into the conversation for that. I was in charge of this. She is so strong and I am so weak. If someone like that would come out in front of me, it would be something that would interest me. Besides, if you can kill me at any time, killing me now or later won't change. In that sense, I was the most likely one."

"Still, it's not like I wasn't in danger of my life."

Rather than that, she had been killed at the whim of a white Arakune, so she has a truly dangerous lifeline.

"And you came out once before that, didn't you? In the middle of a fight."

As Lily pinched her mouth, Ms. Kato shrugged her shoulders.

"It was, well, an add-on that moved to create a gap. Because it seemed impossible if it stayed that way."

"Too unscrupulous. I thought my heart would stop."

"Right now, Mr. Lily, isn't it a heart?"

"Aren't you two getting along well while I'm gone?"

When I told the two of them that they were having a light conversation, Kato showed only a small bitter smile and Lily turned a tannic face. Again, between the two of us, something happened. I'm a little concerned, but you should hear more about it later.

"But it's like a cold sweat operation, listening to you."

When I snapped, Mr. Kato tilted his neck.

"Really?"

"Oh. I hope it worked, but as a worst case scenario, there was a chance that White Arakune was moving with a completely different logic than his previous family."

"Oh. That's for sure"

Did Kato also consider the possibility of doing so, and he agreed with me?

"You had a beating. Well, that's all I had to do... but I thought it wasn't a bad bet."

"Really?

"Yes, because I knew Mr. Lily and Mr. Rose."

Kato glanced at Lily, who was literally sticking to my body.

"For example, there's something suspicious about Mr. Lily."

"Oh, hey, Mr. Kato!?

"And Mr. Rose is serious"

Mr. Kato ignores the protests of Sari and Lili.

The interaction that led to the power relationship led to the events that took place without me. What really happened?

I was still curious, but I decided to ask Rose for more information later, and I encouraged Kato to continue.

"Maybe Kato's right, for sure. So, what's wrong with those two personalities?

"I think the senior's family is partly influenced by the senior's personality somewhere."

In response to Kato, I felt void.

"Mine?

"Yes. I heard about it, but family monsters didn't have a heart before they met seniors, did they? Wouldn't it be strange to have that side?"

Listening to Kato, I was remembering a story I heard from White Arakune about my power.

My family sprouted themselves by touching my heart.

Naturally, you must be greatly affected by that. Even if that shows up as part of your personality, there's nothing strange about it.

"So I thought even that white spider's heart couldn't be so broken. Because she's also a senior family member."

I didn't think, I looked back at Arakune's nest I was about to leave.

In the middle of the wide space, the spider was folding his legs and sitting up.

The girl grown from the spider is leaning down.

White, long hair covers his face and his expression is irreplaceable.

I knew by passing on the pass that she was already losing her temper to confront us.

All I was there for was a pathetic life to get rid of everything I was supposed to get and just wait for the moment to decay on my own.

She was alone.

Ever.

And probably always will be.

……

Even though this is an open space with no walls, I felt like I was in a cave for some reason.

"Your husband?

You noticed something was wrong with me, and Lily called me.

"Lily."

I called her by her name too.

That's all I did. But even then, Lily noticed something, half in a broken face, and now only one eye opened.

A small sigh made the air tremble.

"Your husband is really already..."

"Bad. You're hurting..."

"Fine. That's what I like about your husband."

Lily was smiling as if she had no choice.

That was only half collapsed, a monster smile.

For me, it was a smile that seemed prettier than any goddess' smile.

"It's not perfect. As your husband likes me, I love your husband's such sweetness. So, fine. Your husband can do whatever he wants."

That said, Lily moved away from me softly.

With her forgiveness and push, I approached the collapsing spider.

"Your husband? What the hell..."

"Senior?"

I hear Rose and Kato haven't figured it out yet.

Well, you don't know. I think this is a stupid thing to do myself.

"Hey."

The girl who grew up on the spider moved tightly.

Her hair flowed sarcastically, and she looked up at me with red eyes from under her.

If it's just the look, she'll be slightly older than me. But the figure looked like a little kid.

"Are you coming with me?

Arakune's red eyes were opened.

And there was some sign of panic behind me.

"Your husband!? What are you talking about!

"Oh, yeah. Senior!"

Rose and Kato looked like they were eating on the face for a long time, but the most surprising would be Arakune in front of them.

"Books, chi... the Lord's Hall"

"It's connected by a path, you'll see"

"... seriously, it looks like"

The white girl had eyes for incredible things.

"The concubine is hostile to the Lord."

"Well, that's right"

"And hurt a lot"

"You're right, too."

Regardless of my injuries, I am frankly angry that Lily or Rose were seriously injured.

"But if you think about it, you must have gained yourself by touching my heart, too."

By touching my heart with a consciousness that is almost equal to what it is supposed to be, I finally receive my own budding. That's how my Monster Tame works, White Arakune said.

And when they touch their hearts, they receive what I desire.

Lily tried to save my heart that sank in despair.

Rose tried to protect me, determined to survive in this other world.

Only the spider in front of you can be that exception.

Even this guy should be touching my heart and accepting my wishes.

And in retrospect, there are no verses that come to mind.

- Concubines have power. No one else can beat you. With this power, the concubine does what the concubine thinks! Whatever self you got you want!

It's a white Arakune word.

I tasted bitter thoughts when I remembered too arrogant a statement.

Since I've come to this other world, I've been experiencing events that allow me to twist and bend my will.

On the day of the collapse of the colony, I felt hurt and crushed my previous values.

He wandered the dangerous woods alone for three days and was also dying alone.

Other recent times, against Kaga, I was to dye my hands at murders I never wanted to be aggressive about.

All of this would have been avoided if I had the overwhelming power to lightly crack down on this harsh situation.

- As long as you have the strength.

I'm a human being. If you say you've never thought about it that way, it's a lie.

These notions are very dangerous.

Because these thoughts can create the arrogance of 'whatever you do as long as you have the power'.

For example, as Arakune in front of you is.

I'm sure that in me, the heart that desires power kept burying. And I took a white violent piece of cake tonight and stripped my fangs off.

"It was this me who gave you my heart. Then one end of your rampage is on me, too. I blame you for being out of line."

"It was the will of the concubine herself that the concubine went wild. It was the desire of the concubine who made him do so, and his nature as a spider."

"But it was my wish that held it back. It's not like I'm no longer responsible."

"... a tremendous lover, Lord."

The white Arakune was flashy.

"Do you understand, Lord? That's a very dangerous idea. It's easy to imagine a concubine like this. If you're carrying everything in that way... the Lord will soon be broken"

"I won't let you go broke."

It was Lily who answered this.

"We support your master. For that we are here."

She stood next to me as she crawled as she drifted with her liquefied lower body.

"Hey, what about you? With us, won't you support your husband?

"That's... but concubines deserve that"

White Arakune shook her neck to the side.

"The concubine has hurt your lords. by the unsolicited behavior of the concubine."

Seeing her drooling, it wasn't like anyone wanted to come with us.

It seemed to me that guilt teased her heart like a spider's thread.

I think I still have room to reach out because she is like that.

Indeed, she made a mistake. But there has not been irrevocable damage. Nobody's dead, nobody's lost. Instead, if you abandon her here, that's what this commotion ends in mere tragedy.

I won't let that happen.

"You just got your heart. What? If I tell you, it's like a child's seizure on this one."

Whatever it is, it's too much to blind yourself to the behavior of a child and never forgive him again.

"I forgive you, as an elderly man, you deserve it."

As I said, the white girl sneezed and distorted her righteous face.

"... the Lord thinks how long the concubine will live. Perhaps ten times more than the Lord's."

"Then you know how to be sorry, don't you?

"I don't know anything about that. You can't possibly know. The Lord knows how empty the concubine was."

A thin exhale was thrown out of the girl's mouth.

"But from now on, I guess we need to know something like that."

From those white Arakune eyes, there was a grain of clear tears.

So this night my third family joined me on the journey.