Chapter 42: Most wasps are female(02).
Aaaaang... Aaaang...
Vroom... Vroom...
"......"
I couldn't sleep.
It was already hot enough to sweat and keep awake, and outside, the loud buzzing of wasps could be heard.
'Damn, are these creatures louder at night than during the day?'
I knew that during the day, the noise of the training center drowned out their buzzing, making it seem less, and at night, everything was quieter, so it sounded louder.
Yet, this increased noise at night kept from sleeping, causing my irritation and stress to boil over to the point of fury.
How frustrated must I have been to try to stimulate myself to feed Mollang but ended up so annoyed that I couldn't even manage that?
They say too much fatigue and excitent can actually prevent arousal, and that's exactly the situation I was in.
'Whew... Whew... Calm down. It's just a creature...'
It's not trying to annoy on purpose; it's just active at night... So... So...
"It's just a creature... Do they even know what they're doing?"
Being angry at a creature was aningless for a higher organism like a human. What would those little vermin know?
How could such trivial creatures understand that a human can't sleep?
Could such insignificant beings know that I haven't slept for days, leaving too exhausted to feed Mollang?
"I'll burn these damned creatures to death! Aaargh! I'll kill all the wasps!"
Unable to hold back, I grabbed my mana saber and flathrower potion and ran outside.
I knew it was foolish, but if I didn't slash and burn them, I felt like I would explode from frustration, so imdiately after getting outside, I searched for the buzzing wasps, my eyes bloodshot from three days without sleep.
"Is it here!"
I chased the continuing sound of flapping wings in an area without night guards, ready to grind all the wasps with the flathrower potion in my left hand and the mana saber in my right.
"Huh?"
There were wasps there.
'Why are these wasps so big?'
Plus, the silhouettes in the dark were not rely those of wasps; they almost looked like humans with limbs distinctly outlined.
Black and amber mixed furry tails, and the distinctive sleek yet transparent wings of a wasp.
Eyes black but shimring like jewels were set in them, and faces that seed enlarged as if wasps were magnified.
"Aaargh!"
At the sight of the giant wasp's face, I was so ntally shocked that my response slowed, and in that mont, the wasp woman struck first.
Whoosh!
The sting of the tail flew at .
"Gah!"
The mont I was stung, I felt burning pain, different from being stung by a small wasp, as my body stiffened with an intense burning sensation.
'This venom...!'
It was different from Arachne's venom.
If the venom I had experienced before from Arachne dissolved human innards to convert them into nourishnt and then into vigor, this venom was purely a combat paralytic.
Instantly, my tongue stiffened, and I struggled to breathe, ridiculously overpowered by a single giant wasp.
'What the...'
As I lay there, paralyzed, the wasp woman lifted her wasp-like face while holding her chin.
Vroom...
'Why a perfectly human face...'
The helt covering her head looked exactly like a wasp, but inside it was a human-like face with eyes divided into multiple facets, shimring insect-like.
From a distance, those eyes might look beautifully jeweled...
* * *
Aaaaang... Aang...
Crunch... Crunch...
Gulp... Gulp...
'What's that sound?'
Woken by the sound of wasp wings, which I hate the most, I had just had a deep sleep for the first ti in a long while.
"Ugh...?"
But my tongue wouldn't move.
It felt as if soone had forcibly tied up just my tongue, making it difficult to even breathe, and as I tried to push myself up using the wall, my hand touched a wall that felt dry and crackled.
'This isn't the training center wall... What is this?'
It felt just like touching a beehive with bare hands.
"Gasp...!"
As I ca to, I realized I was sleeping inside a hexagonally shaped cave.
'Where am I?'
The hexagonal cave was just large enough for a person to lie down, making it difficult to turn around, but I managed to flexibly move and slowly crawled out of the cave in a low crouch.
"Where is this...?"
The sll of beeswax, pollen, and the distinctive insectoid scent of wasps drifted in.
There were many hexagonal caves around; so were empty, so had wasps entering, and so had larvae.
And a few caves had wasps bringing in parts of giant spiders to feed the larvae, and so had wasps resting inside.
'That's right, now that I think about it...'
I started to get a rough estimate of the flying wasps.
On average, they were about one-third the size of an average man, these giant wasps.
Just huge wasps.
Another wasp appeared, with a harder carapace and bigger body, and the noise from its wings was louder; its tail had a long sting, clearly ant for battle.
About twice the size of the giant wasps, roughly 60% the size of a person.
And lastly...
'A person...? No, not quite a person...'
Beings like the wasp woman who captured .
Girls who were half-human, half-wasp, flying around with human bodies, tails, and wings ca into view.
Their height... for flying, was a bit smaller than a human's, but still about the size of a slightly short girl.
'Now that I think about it, I've heard sothing like this before...'
It was a story from a collection of risqué tales among nobles that Jake had brought, about a man who was captured by giant wasps and forced to mate with a queen wasp.
And then, supposedly, a minotaur-like half-human, half-wasp was born, a sort of ridiculous myth.
'At least... I'm ard.'
My tongue was still numb, but my body had no major issues moving.
The mana saber was still securely attached to my wrist, and although I didn't have the flathrower potion, it wouldn't have been usable here anyway.
'If I set fire to this beehive, I'd burn along with it.'
So it's fortunate that I at least have the mana saber to protect myself.
And considering these were wasps comparable in size to humans, there was no chance my mana saber would miss its target, which gave more confidence than when facing smaller wasps.
'Uh, sothing's coming.'
I saw a shadow approaching, so I ducked my head and hid my presence.
Given the cramped structure of the cave, unless soone passed directly through this cave entrance, they wouldn't easily notice I was awake.
Aaaaang...
The sound of wasp wings was close by.
It was quieter than the loud battle-ready wasp woman I heard yesterday, but still loud since it was nearby, not just passing by but doing sothing in the next room which made restless.
'Could it be, have they noticed I'm awake and are secretly gathering allies or targeting ?'
I couldn't hide forever, holding my breath.
The enemy filled this entire beehive, and I needed to escape quickly.
Judging that I needed to assess the current situation nearby, I carefully peeked out of the cave to check the state of the adjacent room.
'Huh...?'
And as I peered out, I almost inhaled sharply and made a sound, but I forcefully bit the beehive wall to keep quiet.
'What are they doing?'
A honeybee girl with fluffy fur on her body was holding a piece of at and munching on it in her mouth.
After a while, she chewed the at sufficiently to make it easier to digest and then fed it to a white girl inside the beehive through a kiss.
'No... Oh... this is quite sothing...'
The white girl seed like the larvae of this beehive, and the honeybee girl appeared to be feeding her the food she brought, but seeing it perford by beings with human forms stirred sothing in .
Gulp.
As I watched the food move from the honeybee girl's mouth to the throat of the larvae girl, I swallowed my saliva and held my breath, while the honeybee girl detached her mouth from the white girl's.
Their lips stretched with saliva, and the honeybee girl prepared to take more at to her mouth again.
'Eek!'
Just then, the honeybee girl accidentally dropped the at from her hand, and it rolled into my cave.
Aaaaang-
The sound of the honeybee girl's wings getting closer made close my eyes tightly, ready to slash her in one swift move and calculate a route to escape by breaking through the cave entrance if necessary.
Aaaaang...
But the honeybee girl didn't notice or make warning gestures with her wings, call for help, or prepare to sting with her cute stinger.
She just seed to have discovered sothing, picked up the piece of at that had fallen inside the cave, and chewed it...
Rustle.
She crawled into the cramped cave, approaching .
"Uh... uhng...?"
By not showing her most threatening rear end, it seed she wasn't displaying aggression, and the honeybee girl then crawled up to and grasped my face with her hands.
And then...
"Mmm..."
Gulp. Gulp.
She pressed her sticky lips to mine and began to feed directly.
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