Penis Slime 4
"Byuryut! Byuryut!"
Byuryut, the first Penis Slime I had ever molded, returned to the Nest with about thirty Penis Slimes in tow.
Unfortunately, my Nest was smaller than I’d expected. It was impossible to cram all of them inside, so I let only the three healthiest ones come in.
Most of the Penis Slimes had rushed off toward the city, but the ones that had latched onto a womb and fed on Yin Energy there apparently saw no reason to risk themselves by going out into the open.
They even presented me with a precious trophy: a massive clump of cells the size of a car tire.
So this is the embryo the womb was carrying?
A being that had grown by monopolizing powerful Yin Energy. If it had been born, it would surely have become the kind of monster people would call a calamity.
But now, stripped of the womb’s protection, it had lost its vivid crimson hue and withered into a gray, dying mass.
Is it dying? But to save it would take an enormous amount of Yin Energy…
The whole reason I’d come to the cave in the first place was to replenish my own depleted Yin Energy. I had no way to spare enough to sustain this thing.
Byuryut’s group had brought back some Yin Energy they’d stored in their bodies, but that needed to be used to satisfy my hunger.
There was truly no way to save it.
What a shame. Still, I’ll make good use of the Yin Energy inside you.
If I couldn’t save it, I’d eat it. Surely it would prefer becoming part of me over being thrown away.
I drove a tentacle in and tore through the embryo’s thin membrane.
Inside, it was packed full of dense Yin Energy, but the membrane had kept it from leaking out, leaving it untouched by the Penis Slimes.
I sucked up the concentrated energy through my tentacle in a long, greedy pull.
-Slurp, sluuurp!
A feast of intense flavor slammed into my brain.
It was like the bliss of biting into perfectly grilled pork belly wrapped in a lettuce leaf—only magnified dozens of times, an ecstasy that surged through my entire body.
I had no idea whether my flesh even possessed a dopamine system, but it was such overwhelming catharsis that even my very existence seemed to tremble.
At the same time, I felt my body changing.
My torso, which had been no thicker than a man’s forearm, swelled to the size of a rugby ball, and my tentacles exuded a tougher, fiercer power than before.
Looks like I leveled up?
Before, I’d only been gaining levels one at a time, so I hadn’t felt much of a difference. But now, since the increase had come in one big chunk, the growth was obvious.
Even my Nest had expanded; it was now spacious enough to fit a compact car without trouble.
So the hypothesis was right—when I level up, my skills grow too.
I steadied my excitement and called up my status window.
My level had risen by six. Now I’d be able to buy better skills and traits.
But that can wait.
For now, I needed to deal with the Penis Slimes that had spread through the city.
Earlier, I’d been too rattled by their endless multiplication, and I hadn’t even known how to command the tens of thousands of them.
But I was calm now, and with my level up, my skills were stronger too; I should be able to exert a greater influence than before.
First, shared vision.
I borrowed the senses of the Penis Slimes scattered all over the city and took in the situation.
The downtown district was a complete hellscape. Hundreds of women were being violated by the slimes, screaming, while the men fought desperately to tear the creatures off them.
“Aaaahh♥! S-stop! I can’t take any more!”
Looking lower, I saw a woman being raped by a Penis Slime. One had gone into her vagina, and another into her anus.
For a human, it was the sort of sight that should have inspired guilt, but all I felt now was hunger and lust.
Apparently, when I lost my reason on that first day, I’d lost part of my humanity as well.
Maybe that was why I found myself cheering for them instead, delighting in the process of my children seizing pleasure.
Yes, that’s it! Deeper—deeper! Pump her full of aphrodisiac fluid!
I moved from one Penis Slime’s perspective to another, encouraging them all.
But Penis Slimes were weak and lacked mobility. Once a woman hid inside a building or men formed a defensive line, the slimes couldn’t make much headway.
As a result, about thirty minutes after the chaos began, roughly a third of them had vanished from Yin Energy depletion.
Shame, but it can’t be helped. If nothing else, let’s secure the ones that survived. They can still make it if they move to another city, or come back to my cave.
There were around twenty to thirty thousand survivors. I intended to scatter them across the country and use them as my eyes.
Everyone, disperse.
At my command, they began moving in all directions. But then something caught the eye of one Penis Slime that was trying to leave the city.
A wall made of steel structures. And emblazoned across it, plain as day, was the seal of the Management Bureau.
The Management Bureau…!
They’d already quarantined the city?
I used the perspectives of the other slimes to sweep the area around the city. Every route out was perfectly sealed.
Less than an hour had passed since the incident began, and they had already turned the city into a giant cage.
City quarantine complete.
Commencing extermination operation against phallus-mimic slimes.
A sinister voice spilled from the loudspeaker.
At the same time, the Management Bureau personnel in protective suits began firing their guns in a barrage.
But Penis Slimes were immortal until their Yin Energy was exhausted. Just as I was about to relax, thinking their ignorance would work in my favor—
-Byuryut! Byuryut!!
The bullets burst, and sticky nets snapped shut around them.
Net guns!?
What the staff had fired weren’t metal rounds but net-launching bullets. And that was the most lethal countermeasure possible against a Penis Slime, which had to keep feeding on Yin Energy constantly.
What’s more, because the slimes were weak, they often hunted in groups. That meant a single net could pin down dozens of them at once.
Thousands of agents moved with the unmistakable precision of people trained for this exact kind of work.
The Penis Slimes were suppressed in no time at all.
F-for now, return to the cave. The rest of you stay hidden!
At my command, the Penis Slimes began retreating toward the cave. Those nearest the Management Bureau were ordered to hide wherever they could.
But the Management Bureau was even more capable than I’d anticipated.
Individuals are moving toward the point of origin.
Aerial deployment operation commencing.
Black rain began pouring from the sky. Each drop unfolded a parachute with a sharp snap and landed one by one near the cave.
-Thudududuk!
The slimes gathering around the cave were captured pointlessly, one after another.
And somehow, as if they knew exactly where to look, the staff even found the ones hiding in sewers and trash cans and subdued them without fail.
By the time less than an hour had passed since the Management Bureau launched its operation—
only a few hundred Penis Slimes remained uncontained.
Worse, the ones that survived and made it to the cave could already see Management Bureau agents lying in ambush.
Final individual captured at the origin cave.
Confirmed. Begin cave search.
Since I was hearing those radio messages while bound tight in their nets, I hurriedly severed the channel connection.
In the slimes subdued inside the city, these were the radio messages they heard.
All individuals captured. Memory-erasure agent scheduled for release in 20 minutes.
The agents dumped the Penis Slimes into trucks and withdrew beyond the steel wall.
And twenty minutes later, a white gas really did begin to spread across the entire city.
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Management Bureau Central Laboratory.
Seah was observing the captured Penis Slimes through special reinforced glass.
Inside, the detained slimes writhed weakly, starved nearly to the point of collapse.
“According to the analysis, they split by feeding on the host’s Yin Energy. In here, they’re basically starving to death.”
Yura calmly summarized the data as she organized it.
Seah helped record the findings on her tablet, but her mind was elsewhere.
After all, what she was analyzing were the children of Lord Tentacle.
That was when a vibration seemed to pierce straight through her skull, blooming inside Seah’s eardrums.
[Seah. Can you hear me?]
Lo-Lord Tentacle…!?
Seah jolted and her shoulders shuddered.
[As you expected, it seems I can’t speak within the Management Bureau itself.]
R-right. There’s a barrier in place to block mental attacks from anomalies. But how are you speaking now…?
[Heh. Because I’m not speaking from outside.]
The Penis Slimes!
[Exactly. The Penis Slime is, in a sense… one of my fingers.]
Seah rolled her eyes. Thankfully, Yura was busy examining the slime’s cell nuclei through a microscope and didn’t notice the subtle shift in Seah’s expression.
[Seah, do you see the one lying there without strength?]
Yes… It’s barely moving. It must be close to disappearing now that its Yin Energy is exhausted, right?
[Usually, yes. But not that one. It’s been feeding on the Yin Energy of the others, so it’s in excellent shape.]
Seah’s legs trembled faintly. She had a rough idea of what he was about to ask.
[From what I can see, the dying ones are being transferred to a separate isolation room for disposal.]
…That’s right. They’ll be placed in a sample collection bin and moved.
[I’m going to make it split during transport, so hide it well.]
T-that…! This is the heart of the Management Bureau. If I’m caught, I won’t get out alive either!
At Seah’s frightened protest, the voice in her head dropped lower, becoming more intimate and more insidious.
[Seah, have you already forgotten? Who owns your personality?]
Ah…
Yes. The one who held her life in his hands was not the Management Bureau, but Lord Tentacle. His voice was so sweet it poisoned her reason and numbed it into helplessness.
[Now then, get ready. The isolation room door is opening.]
O-okay…
Ding—
Yura opened the reinforced glass door to the isolation room.
“Seah. I’m counting on you again.”
“Y-yes, ma’am!”
The moment Seah lifted the collection bin and reached out to move it, the slime touched her glove and, in the blink of an eye, split itself in half and slipped into the sleeve of her lab coat before anyone could notice.
Seah felt a tension so sharp it seemed her heart might leap out of her mouth.
[Well done. You’ll deserve a reward when you get home.]
But the praise ringing in her mind made her feel just a little better.
With Seah’s help, a seed of calamity had been planted deep inside the Management Bureau’s most impregnable fortress.
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