Chapter 473: Problematic Enemy

I lunge at her just as she charges at me. Our speeds are almost matched, but she’s slightly faster. Just before we collide, I use my tail against the ground like a spring and leap over her, causing her to miss her strike.

“…” Right now, I’m thinking of the best way to fight. Lately, I’ve been relying too much on magic. Maybe it’s a good thing I can’t use it here; it’ll force me to focus on evolving physically and spiritually.

I really need to learn how to manipulate souls, to understand them. And then there’s the matter of soul creation, which I still don’t grasp, even though I understand universal laws.

“…” I end up striking her back with my tail, not wanting to waste the opportunity, but she catches my tail and flings me forward. My back slams into the ground, and I finally realize something.

’We haven’t even cracked the floor of this real abyss yet?’ I notice how strangely resilient the entire environment is. She lifts me by the tail again and starts slamming me forcefully against the ground. I feel my bones breaking with each impact.

’Endurance! I need more endurance!’ My body has always been too fragile. I’ve always avoided using armor because it would hinder my mobility, but now I see how much I’m missing it.

“Uhrg!” She slams me into the ground one last time and drives her claws into my stomach. They begin to rotate, drilling a hole while I feel my organs being liquefied. I writhe in pain as my head twists away from her other claw.

’…’ I dissolve into black slime, turning into a viscous puddle on the ground. She’s momentarily surprised as I slide out from under her, putting distance between us before returning to my solid, physical form.

’Dammit…’ I look at my stomach; the hole is still there even though I used my partial true form.

’Her attacks are so damaging to my body… It feels like they’re adapted to hinder regeneration… It must be common to find creatures that regenerate in the abyss.’ Natural regeneration is a rarity on the planet, but here it seems to be a natural trait.

“Come on, bitch! Is that all you’ve got?!” She charges at me with her claw raised, ready to crush me. I jump back, barely dodging, and immediately deliver a backward kick that connects with her chin when she appears behind me.

“…” She’s pushed back, surprised that I reacted. I regenerate and think about the best way to gain endurance.

’Maybe…’ I try to communicate with Pandora Yandere. She is the body; she must know how to do this. I only know how to modify the body in more literal ways.

’What do you want?’ she says as I dodge a strike from the monster girl that nearly takes my head off.

’I need to know if you can use the black slime to generate some kind of clothing/armor for my body!’ Since the black slime is a liquid, I thought it would help redistribute any impact across its entire structure, protecting me from blunt blows.

’I can do it, but it’ll take time. Besides, I’m a little busy right now, you know?’ she says mockingly before vanishing. I deduce she’ll do it for me and turn my attention back to the fight.

Lately, it’s been easier to communicate with Pandora Yandere without needing to enter the sea of consciousness, though I have a feeling this is a bad thing. I don’t know what that bitch is doing inside there to increase her influence.

“…” She charges at me super fast. I dodge slightly and lunge forward too, aiming for her arm. I manage to evade her blow, and my teeth clamp onto her arm. With a skillful shift of my legs, I propel myself to the side and tear her arm off, spinning my entire body and twisting her bone.

She doesn’t make a sound of pain despite losing her arm as blood flows out. Although her blood is red, it’s so dark it looks almost black. We put some distance between us, and I chew on the arm, noticing how tough it is.

’It’s one of the most resistant things I’ve ever put in my mouth…’ I toss most of it onto the ground. It’s too big for me to eat quickly, and she’s clearly not going to let me eat it now.

“You look pretty even without an arm,” I say, lightly flirtatious. She doesn’t react as a black line appears from her forehead down to the tattoo on her womb. Then, that part of her splits open to the sides, revealing a giant, bizarre mandible full of tentacles that lunge at me.

“!!!” I barely dodge as the tentacles hit a tree, shattering it completely, and then pull the trunk towards the mandible, where it’s crushed to pulp.

“…”

’Falling in there means certain death.’ I see her arm growing back, but her new arm, instead of having a scaly appearance, looks more like the wood of the tree.

’She regenerates by eating?! Actually, it seems more like reconstruction than regeneration.’ She stretches this “wooden” arm towards me and fires black, thorny vines that I dodge. Then, she vanishes into a black mist, and I stay alert, waiting for where she’ll attack from.

But before she can make her move, my body shudders with fear. She appears a short distance away, also shuddering. Both of our bodies felt afraid of the same thing.

“…I won’t waste time on this fruitless fight,” she says and starts running in the opposite direction from where the bad feeling is coming. I look back and see gigantic black lightning bolts striking a point in the distance.

’A fight? I don’t know… but I’m not sticking around either.’ I feel that this isn’t for me. I’m not stupid enough to get involved in a problem on that scale, so I also start running in the opposite direction. But I’m still hungry, so I head in the same direction as the monster girl.

I won’t let my prey escape. I quickly catch up to her, seeing that she’s genuinely trying to flee. She looks back, notices me, and snarls but doesn’t stop running.

Bzzzzt

I hear a strange electric crackle and immediately see something black near my eyes. I’m confused until that something hits my face, throwing me backward, and I realize it was a kick.

I slam into a tree and try to get up, only for that monster girl to smash into my face; she was thrown and hit me precisely. I look ahead and see another girl.

She has black lightning covering parts of her body. She looks about 2 meters tall, with claws made of electricity on her hands. Her skin is very pale, but her veins are black, and both her hair and eyes are black with lightning coursing through them.

The black lightning emits a black glow with occasional white sparks, giving it a frightening tone. Her intimate parts and vital organs have a kind of “defense” made of black lightning spiraling around those points.

My whole body bristles with aggression towards her, while the monster girl beside me snarls at the new enemy.

“What luck, two weak prey so close together,” her voice comes out with a strange static, as if the electricity is affecting how the sound propagates.

“You bitch, can’t you see she’s my prey?! Why did you interrupt?” I say arrogantly, pointing at the girl beside me.

“Bold. That’s not how it works here, brat. Whoever gets there first, takes,” she states the obvious. You can’t expect beings in the abyss to wait for a fight to end, and I guess I wouldn’t either if I saw two weaker beings fighting and I wanted to eat them.

“Hey, how about a temporary alliance?” I say to the girl beside me. We both know we can’t beat this lightning bitch who butted in.

“…After we kill her, I’ll kill you,” she agrees. The lightning bitch looks at us both with an arrogant smile. She charges at me first, but because of my sensitive skin, I feel the electricity affecting atoms and electrons interacting. I catch her leg, bend it, and using a martial arts move and her own momentum, I flip her upside down.

The intuitively skilled monster girl spins and delivers a kick while I jump. The kick hits the lightning girl in the stomach, throwing her against a tree. When she hits the tree, her body dissolves into electricity, and she rematerializes quickly, charging at the monster girl.

’I could run, but considering that lightning bitch’s speed, she’d catch me… and that little bitch over there probably knows it too.’ Both of them look delicious in both senses of the word, and I’m really, really hungry.

The monster girl, who has great brute strength, blocks the strike with her hands, confirming that the lightning girl is fast but physically weaker compared to us two.

’It seems that, like me, most beings in the abyss have something to balance out their advantages.’ I have high regeneration, so I have low endurance. The monster girl has great physical strength but lower mobility. The lightning girl is fast but naturally physically weaker.

With the monster girl holding the lightning girl, I leap through the trees and punch the lightning girl, sending her crashing into the trees. The monster girl and I advance from the left and right as the lightning girl unleashes powerful discharges of black lightning.

’Pandora, I’m done, but there’s no way your “clothing” can be resistant. It will just give you a few advantages,’ Pandora Yandere says, and right now, I’ll take anything.

’It doesn’t matter! Just give me the damn clothes that can do something!’ Since the clothes will literally be made from my body, they should help somehow.

’Okay, okay, no rush.’ As I charge at the lightning girl, the black liquid oozes from my skin, expanding and tightening around my body.

Long stockings appear, covering up to my thighs, while some kind of short, completely black skirt that barely reaches mid-thigh materializes.

On my chest, a completely black top covers the upper part of my body, though it’s short, so my stomach is almost entirely exposed, covering only just above the navel.

On the chest part, this thing squeezes strangely tight, gripping them firmly with a design that resembles claws, as if hands were covering the chest area.

Gloves cover my hands and reach up to my elbows, covering my hands completely, while my arms from the elbows up remain exposed. The positive point is that each piece of clothing has dozens of eyes that can open and close at any moment.

They are directly connected to my field of vision. It’s like when I create extra eyes, but the difference is that these aren’t physically attached to me; they’re linked to the clothing.

It gives me an immense field of view. The eyes open with a red glow, looking in all directions. I notice the clothing is relatively slutty.

No, “relatively” would be stupid. The clothing is slutty in every sense—so tight and revealing it’s almost like being naked. Which doesn’t make sense; if it’s for defense, shouldn’t it cover more of my body?

’…?’

’Don’t judge me! Pandora, we are beings with low physical resistance! Trying to increase your endurance is pointless! This is the best I can do. This is our body, and you asked for our body to turn into clothing to protect the flesh body! A very stupid idea, since you could just stay naked and transform 100% into black slime.’

’But at least with this, you’ll get impact reduction, a wide field of vision to dodge, predict, and analyze attacks, and above all, the top on your chest is draining your milk by squeezing it, so we are being fed 100% of the time you wear this clothing,’ she says, not understanding my logic.

I don’t want to turn 100% into black slime because the slime uses mana to regenerate, while the flesh body regenerates passively, costing only general energy, which is much better.

And the mana cost to regenerate clothing made from my “flesh” slime version is much lower than having to regenerate and restructure my entire body.

’Forget it. The clothes look slutty, but at least I’m not naked like those two.’ I dodge the lightning bolts using my new eyes as I get closer, while the monster girl uses her monstrous hands to block the lightning and advance.

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