26. Orphanage (3)
26. Orphanage (3)
Warm sunlight wrapped around Lea and Amber through the window.
Lea was asleep, hugging Amber, who was next to her, as if she were a pillow.
Lea didn't need sleep, but since she always slept in, Amber carefully woke her up.
"Lea-nim."
"Uung..."
"You must wake up."
"Ung..."
Amber, who now perfectly understood how to handle Lea, helped her up.
Seeing Lea unable to open her eyes or steady her body, she looked like a child.
Sseuk.
But once Lea woke up a bit and opened her eyes, seeing the black aura and the countless eyeballs moving within her pupils, she realized again that the woman in front of her was not human, but a transcendental being.
"Lea-nim."
Suppressing her trembling voice as much as possible, Amber called the name of Lea, who was exuding an aura that would make an ordinary person faint just by being near.
—Lea. Queen of the Creatures.
Having never seen her fight, she couldn't gauge her combat ability, but just being next to her made her feel like her lifespan was shortening.
She hadn't felt it much when she was first human, but as both her body and mind began to turn into a creature, she realized just how far outside the norm the Lea in front of her was.
When Lea heard Amber and closed her eyes for a moment, the heavy air vanished in an instant.
"Ah, sorry. I got a message for a second."
"It is nothing."
With that charismatic yet warm voice, Amber moved her stiff body and began to help Lea change her clothes.
"Hoo..."
At the sudden sigh from Lea, Amber had the illusion that the temperature of her entire body dropped in an instant. And to ask if something was bothering her, she hurriedly asked Lea.
"Is there something bothering you?"
"Hmm..."
Amber, while slightly trembling, did not stop changing Lea's clothes. She knew.
That Lea would no longer kill her. But even knowing that, every time she felt Lea's bottomless, deep-sea-like mind through the Hive Mind, she couldn't help but tremble in fear.
But at Lea's words, the fear vanished in an instant.
"I'm just wondering what to eat for breakfast."
"Ah."
"Hm? Why are you sweating so much?"
Lea personally wiped the cold sweat on Amber's forehead with her cold hand.
"Are you not feeling well? Don't do anything today and just rest in bed. Come to think of it, you haven't rested for a month."
"I am fine."
"No. I am ordering you. Don't do anything today and just rest."
"..."
"Amber?"
At the call, pressure came through the Hive Mind.
Feeling as if it were digging into her brain and seizing control of it, Amber hurriedly said.
"I, I'm sorry!"
She shouted, bowing her head.
What Lea hated most was making her repeat what she said. In that process, she extremely disliked answers like "Huh?" or "Yeah?" without actually answering.
She hated it so much that it wouldn't be a problem if she died right now.
"Other than 'I'm sorry'."
Fortunately, Lea stroked Amber's hair with a soft expression and said.
"I will rest..."
"Good. You thought well!"
Lea stroked Amber's hair and walked out of the bedroom.
Silence descended upon the bedroom.
Even though she was clearly being hit by the warm sunlight, the chilling sensation throughout her body made Amber tremble, even as she was turning into a creature.
"Haa... Huu..."
Amber sat on the edge of the bed where she had been sleeping until just now, calming her rapidly beating heart.
==
Things to do today.
Eat something delicious with the donations the orphanage received.
Because Amber is managing the orphanage diligently, it runs well even without me.
I just need to make the children who will become food later feel happy for a while, so their brains grow deliciously.
"Hello!"
"Saint-nim!"
"Hello, Saint-nim!"
To the children doing morning exercises, I smiled as I practiced in the mirror to look the prettiest, greeted my future food, and left the orphanage.
Originally, Amber was always by my side, but since I told her to rest, I went out to the orphanage alone, and someone started following me.
As if they had been waiting for me to be alone.
I was going to head to the square to eat breakfast, but I changed my destination and entered an alleyway.
I was walking happily while wondering what to eat for breakfast in the square, but to think something like this would happen suddenly.
No, is this actually a good thing?
I stroked my nun outfit.
'I should finish this quickly and go.'
==
Saint.
If you talk about the most famous person in Medherun City right now, it's obviously the Saint.
Various people became interested in the Saint, who appeared suddenly and became more famous than anyone else.
The Saint's appearance, as if she were in a different world all by herself, is an existence that people who like the creature called 'woman' want to obtain too much.
Mercenaries who received money from such people were waiting for the Saint to walk alone.
"Hello. Saint-nim?"
A man revealed himself in the empty alleyway along with a gruff voice.
Mercenaries began to appear one by one in the alley where sunlight barely reached, and in an instant, they trapped the Saint in the alleyway.
"Wow... She's really pretty."
"The breast size is insane, right? I just want to bite them right now."
"Do you think it'll end with that? I'm just going to pierce them as mine right away."
"Wow. Are you a genius? That sounds good too?"
"Everyone stop with the delusions. We're not supposed to touch her. Don't you remember?"
"Ayy. It's fine if there's no trace~ Boss."
"Saint-nim, I'm sorry, but you'll have to get kidnapped. There's someone who wants that body."
The men looked at the Saint's face and body, grinning lecherously, and raped the Saint in their heads.
Lea sighed while looking at those men.
Lea looked at her massive breasts that obscured her feet and touched them with her own hands.
'Men are definitely crazy about breasts.'
In fact, even she, when walking down the street, would look at a woman's face and then naturally her gaze would drift to her breasts.
However, the moment she opened her eyes as a woman and they became her own breasts, no matter how big and soft they were, she felt nothing when fondling her own breasts.
After becoming a Queen, not a human, Lea's sexual desire was completely pushed aside by her appetite, so she hadn't really felt anything.
'Is it a different feeling when doing it alone versus when someone else does it? I should ask Amber to fondle my breasts later.'
The moment the men were about to approach the Saint, all grinning 'hehehe' at the sight of the Saint fondling her own breasts—
The head of the man who first approached the Saint and reached out his hand disappeared.
To be precise, his head was eaten by something.
The head that was imagining raping the Saint couldn't even continue that imagination and disappeared into the creature's mouth just like that.
"Is it tasty?"
Lea stroked the creature that was mimicking her nun outfit, and with that motion, the man who lost his head collapsed, spraying blood.
Suddenly seeing his colleague's head disappear and die in front of his eyes, the mercenaries were shocked and completely frozen, but the man who was the leader of the mercenaries immediately drew his sword and took a combat stance.
It was a preparation possible because he had experienced life-or-death situations while doing many jobs.
Shuruk! Syak! Syak! Syak! Syak! Syak!
Kuung!!!
'Keuk!?'
The man who was the leader of the mercenaries predicted that something was aiming for his head and blocked it with his sword, but was pushed back by the powerful force.
"Keuk! Huh?"
The man who blocked the attack and came to his senses opened his eyes wide enough for his eyeballs to pop out at the scene unfolding before him.
"Th, this, wh, what on earth is...?"
All of his subordinates had their heads gone.
The fallen bodies just had blood gushing out from their severed necks every time their hearts beat.
Only when the alleyway was completely dyed with blood and even his shoes were stained did the man come to his senses and look at Lea in front of him.
The Saint wearing only underwear.
The nun outfit was moving like a living garment, chewing on the people lying around.
Chew, chew, crunch, crunch.
"Eat slowly. If you get an upset stomach, it'll be troublesome for me."
The Saint was stroking the creature that was eating people, still in the form of her nun outfit, casually worrying about the creature.
"Wh, what on earth, wh, what is your identity...?"
The man said, opening his trembling lips to the entity in front of him.
Even though he had a relic sword that couldn't be bought with the annual salary of a few decent knights that had protected him until now, it couldn't stop the fear of death.
He already realized that the entity in front of him was not a Saint, but a grim reaper bringing death.
"Oh my? You were alive? To think you blocked my child's attack. That's impressive."
"What on earth is your identity!"
"Shh. Someone else might hear. Be quiet."
The man realized intuitively.
That there was no way for him to return alive.
That he could not win against that monster eating humans right now, no matter what.
He didn't even run away. He didn't think he could run away from that monster anyway.
In the end, the man gripped his sword tightly and swung it at the Saint just like that.
However—
The sword did not reach the Saint.
Because the creature that was mimicking the Saint's nun outfit, which had become stronger while eating humans, chewed off the man's head along with the sword.
Lea opened her mouth while looking at the gruesome alleyway and the corpses.
"You can eat it all in a minute, right? I need to eat breakfast too, so hurry up."