I Became the Companion of the Gods

76 – EP.19 Spider’s House -6

The first meeting with Alice was not so good.

The missions overlapped by chance, they met by chance, and by chance, they found out about her identity and started fighting.

A series of coincidences led her to a troublesome first meeting.

If rabbits didn’t like games, they might have fought until one side died.

However, she found out that she likes games, and she was happy in her own way when she wooed a rabbit using games.

Because Alice coveted her after knowing her ability.

Of course, it is not a story as a reason, but a desire for the value of poetic soil.

Time Leap. The ability that only you can jump into the future while everyone else’s time is slowing down.

I was sure that if I had this ability, I would be able to get out of any emergency situation.

That’s why I tried to bring Alice to my side. In fact, the twist was successful.

Even if it’s not a relationship of companion, it becomes a relationship between employer and employee, and I can call Alice when needed.

Although she was able to pamper her to her heart’s content, she didn’t particularly want to be a vicious employer.

On the contrary, I wanted to be a good-natured employer, so I treated Alice kindly and even threw my body to help her when she was in a crisis.

But even in a country like this, the ending of the hell and the fortune teller is unbearably scary.

So even though I know that her Alice is in a difficult state to control her body, I am asking her like this.

“Alice… ?”

“I’m sorry, boss. It’s hard now….”

“Oh no!!”

A situation where you can no longer rely on a rabbit in a confused state.

I earnestly pray that someone miraculously appear and get rid of the dying Arachne.

There were no miracles.

Miho jumped up and grabbed the spider’s twin fangs, and mercilessly threw the spider to the ground and pinned it down.

With its materialization ability, it created a large rock on top of the lying spider and even showed it to kill it.

-Kwajik!

The sound of a spider being crushed under a rock. From this, it was found that the giant spider was dead without fail.

Ah, it’s over. Spider and me….

“Seobang! You saw me killing a spider, right?”

“Ugh, ugh.”

“Then the victory in this confrontation and the right to wish belong to me, right?”

“Uh…. Hmm….”

“…… Right?”

I couldn’t help but nod my head at Miho’s action as she began to crush the rock on which Arachne was placed with one hand.

If I thought that my body would become like that rock, I couldn’t help but move my head up and down.

“Whooping♡ Then, Mr. Seo! The job will be done! Come back home…….”

“It’s not over yet, why don’t you stop drinking kimchi soup?”

From the stairs behind Miho, a brown-skinned woman came down with a familiar voice.

And right behind her woman, a wolf woman with a bright smile was following.

It seems that the other side has also successfully completed its task.

“What do you mean it’s not over? Bird head?”

“It literally means that this situation is not over yet. So it’s still a long way from calling it your victory.”

“Don’t be fooled. Can’t you see Arachne’s corpse in front of you? Is there anything wrong with the color of your eyes?”

“I’m sorry, but it’s perfectly normal. And no matter what your b*tch says, Arachne is still alive and well. It’s not over.”

“Wait a minute?! If so, surely the giant spider we just killed wasn’t Arachne. Is that a story?”

“No, strictly speaking, that spider is Arachne. But you are no longer Arachne.”

“What is that! Town… ?!”

Before I could finish talking, Yata covered my lips with his index finger and told me to calm down because he would explain everything.

I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut as she said, and Yata started to explain with a satisfied smile.

“Actually, there is a hidden ability of Arachne that has not been told to everyone.”

“Didn’t she end up with three abilities, but one more?”

“Right. I’ll explain what her hidden ability is now. Before that, nanggun.”

“Huh?”

“Isn’t there anything strange about the baby spiders you’ve met?”

It’s strange….

Come to think of it, all baby spiders have one thing in common.

“Ummm…. There’s not really anything in particular, but if I had to pick one, it would be that the movements are very stiff.”

“I got it right. If you feel the baby spiders’ movements are strange, that’s normal. Arachne’s baby spiders have no will.”

“Well, then, are you not a creature?”

“No, it is true that it is a creature. It’s just like a living doll that follows Arachne’s orders.”

“The baby spiders are living dolls… ?”

“Spiders are animals with surprisingly strong maternal love. But how has Arachne been treating her own offspring?”

Surely, Arachne gave orders to her pups to fight, and even though the pups were dying one after another, she didn’t blink an eye.

From the beginning, they seemed to think that they were discarded words….

It was something that could never be seen as a parent-child relationship.

“It wasn’t normal.”

“That’s right. They say it’s a living doll, but in reality it’s Arachne’s spare body.”

“A spare body?”

“Yes, Arachne can transfer her soul into the body of one of her baby spiders.”

“What… ?!”

“It’s the ability to transfer one’s body to a limited number of spiders it gave birth to. That’s why it’s arbitrary to the baby spiders. In other words, they didn’t have a soul from the moment they were born.”

I never even thought of it.

The baby spiders born by Arachne were actually new bodies prepared for emergency escape in a crisis situation.

So it’s almost impossible to end Arachne….

“I don’t think he’s going to look that serious. There is definitely a way to get rid of it.”

“How?

“Even Arachne’s hidden abilities have limitations. Once used, it cannot be used for a long time and loses the ability to mass-produce baby spiders until fully grown.”

“Then, before the skill cooldown expires, should I find and kill Arachne’s body somewhere in this building?”

“Right.”

“Oh, crazy… !!”

It was nonsense in reality.

I came here and killed a lot of spiders, but if you add the spiders and their eggs in the multipurpose hall, there are thousands of them.

There are still so many left, but only one of them is Arachne.

But how do you find Arachne?

However, before she died, Arachne said she would release spiders to kill other people.

Even if it’s inside a government agency now, it’s only a matter of time before it spreads throughout the city.

It meant that the great hallucination party I had envisioned would happen exactly as it was.

“How to find the body of Arachne….”

“The West.”

“Huh?”

“What if we demolish the building and bury all the spiders underground?”

“…… Let’s stop that.”

Certainly, if you use that method, you’ll be able to strike Arachne down without much effort.

That said, destroying a government institution with a long history and tradition is like burning a field to catch a pest.

Those terrorists who saw government agencies fall will rise in place of spiders.

So Miho’s proposal was rejected without further consideration.

“Yata, is there any other better way? For example, telling us where Arachne is now.”

“I’m sorry, Nang-kun.”

Shaking his head, Yata has made it clear that he can’t tell you where he is.

It’s probably because if I tell you the location of Arachne, the future will flow in a bad direction.

“Haa….”

How could my life never go so smoothly?

“It’s hard to say instead, but I prepared the environment in advance to end Arachne.”

“Huh? In what way?”

“Before joining this place, I sealed all the entrances with my own fire to prevent spiders from leaving the building…!”

“Wait! Then we will be in danger too?!”

“It’s okay. Cor can change the nature of fire at will. You can even create a fire that isn’t hot at all if you want.”

“That’s fortunate, but in the end we have to wipe out every single spider inside.”

“That would probably be impossible…. Because the building is so large, there is a limit to how long the fire can be maintained….”

“Do you know how long the retention time is?”

“That…. About an hour from now Oh….”

No. One hour is too short to wipe out over a thousand spiders.

Besides, realizing that all entrances are blocked, Arachne would desperately try to hide…….

“Nang-kun, have you ever seen Arachne’s torso?”

“Torso? I watched the whole thing once in the multipurpose hall….”

“Then do you remember seeing the red pattern on the torso?”

“Yes.”

Arachne and baby spiders are all black spiders.

The only difference is that all the baby spiders are black, while only Arachne has a red pattern on its body like the black widow spider.

“But why are you asking that?”

“Would you like to take a look over there?”

At the end of Yata’s finger pointing was the corpse of a giant spider.

A corpse that has been crushed by a large rock and is pouring bodily fluids in all directions.

There was nothing special about it, but for some reason, I kept feeling uncomfortable.

When I looked carefully, I immediately knew what the identity of that sense of incongruity was.

“Oh, what? Aren’t there any patterns?!”

“Right. Only Arachne wears the red pattern. And this also applies to Arachne, who moved her body.”

“Then you don’t have to deal with all the spiders… !”

“Only Arachne can be identified and killed.”

All you have to do is find Arachne and deal with it within an hour.

It’s a little bit, but I’m starting to see the possibility. It’s just that the odds have risen a little bit.

The situation of having to find Arachne, which is hidden deep inside, is still hopeless.

Perhaps he read my worries, Yata tapped me on the shoulder and said one good idea….

“I’ll tell you a good way for my worried husband.”

“What is it?”

“How would you like to sign a pet contract with a rabbit?”

“Ah, with Alice?”

“Yes. Through the provisional contract, the nanggun gets some of the companion Shinsu’s abilities, right? If I get the ability of a rabbit, wouldn’t even my husband be able to find Arachne?”

“Yes, but… Will Alice really sign a contract?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I’ll vouch for it!”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, look at the rabbit.”

As I look at Alice as Yata said, the rabbit becomes conscious of my gaze and begins to hesitate.

Since he is a rabbit with good hearing, he must have heard the word contract with his companion.

Still, I didn’t particularly hate it.

It’s like it’s okay to be my pet…….

“It seems like he liked that Nanggun kept him well.”

“You knew everything….”

“Of course. If Nanggun didn’t protect it, the rabbit’s future would disappear on the spot.”

“Why? Can you save me with your ability to implement? “

“Unless you know if it is a relationship of companions, the ability to materialize in the West cannot affect Shinsoo.”

I was completely unaware of this fact.

Because I’ve never used the materialization ability on other gods except for my companion.

I didn’t think it would work for other divine beasts at all…….

Anyway, if I hadn’t greeted her instead, Alice would have been in danger.

Alice’s face became more reddish when she finally realized this, as did I.

“As you can see, you don’t have to worry about a pet contract with a rabbit.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Rather, it is over there that Nanggun should worry.”

“Huh?”

Yata’s index finger pointed somewhere else before he knew it.

I followed the end once more, and Miho was looking at me with a cold smile.

Because there was an object with a lot of red sticks tied to her hand… She could tell at a glance that it was dynamite.

“Whoops! Are you thinking of getting more pets other than me? West?”

“Wait a minute, Miho-san… ?!”

“I will give you a special choice~! Will you bury and kill only the spider without signing a companion contract, or will you sign a companion contract and get all buried together to search for it!”

Can I return home safely?