Shin growled, pushing the humanoid Char out of the way. "Is it Char or Arachne?" He growled, leaning on the wall with an exhausted face.
"It's me!" Two voices rang at once, Char and Arachne. The two souls are living in the same body. This is going to be far more complicated than anything he had ever worked with. Not once in his life had he seen two souls in one body, not until today.
"What did happen after my death?" Shin felt Arachne's magic right before dying; he knew she had made it to the emerald mansion right after his death.
Arachne looked a bit annoyed, "Your wife? Yeah, we killed her, torn limb by limb. Bitch had all the power in the world but didn't know how to use it. Especially Jin, he ripped her scalp out with a single pull. That ape knows how to vent his anger."
"I see…" Shin looked a little bit sad, "Wouldn't it be better if you just killed her? Slowly ripping her apart is excessive."
"Still sad about all of that?" She approached Shin with a passive face. SLAP! And slapped him across the face as hard as she could, "Wake up! She betrayed you, it wasn't something like cheating, she killed you, backstabbed you. And do you know what? No one has the right to tell you to sacrifice yourself for the world, but you decided to do it and was doing it until she interfered. She fucked over the whole world, everyone from humans to animals to shit rotten demons, they all had a right in her blood."
SLAP! Arachne slapped herself with a confused face. She looked down and her hand was moving on its own, "He's my master, get your hands off him." Char growled. Both of them could control the body, but since Char was always a spider she can't control it as well as Arachne, which is letting Arachne dominate the body for now. But, Char could still try to fight back.
Arachne sat on the ground crosslegged, "Give me a moment, I'll kick that spider and come back." She closed her eyes, looking deep into her soul.
Char, the spider no bigger than a nail stood alone on the surface of a calm blue sea. Facing her was a titanic black spider so big that her whole torso was already above the clouds.
"Little bug I can barely see you! What do you think you're doing?" Arachne growled at her.
"He's my master, don't hit him. I don't care who are you, I'll bite your head off!" Char growled at her.
"You think I slapped him because I want to? I'm trying to get him to understand the situation everyone was in, his previous wife killed the whole world with her foolishness, no, greed!" She bent down to glare at Char.
"I don't give a fly about what you want or think! This is my body, and it'll do what I want it to do!" Char glared back at her, "Get here so I can punch you!"
"Do you even know how to punch, boneless!"
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Outside, Ase kicked the shower's door open and glared inside at Shin who was standing there, and Arachne sitting on the ground, "Are you two all right?"
Shin looked at her, "At least wear something before rushing here." She was completely naked and wet from the bath. She and Mary must've fallen right back where they were before. Seeing that She is Ase, she probably found this as a chance to get out of the water as quickly as she could.
At that moment, Arachne stood, "We reached an understanding." She cracked her neck, "Right, Char?"
"Yeah, I guess." Char replied with a slightly worried voice. "Tame her as well." She looked at Shin.
"Tame Arachne? Isn't she too strong for me to tame now?" He looked at her, seeing her core was quite hard now that there were two souls spinning around inside. His eyes told him her core was far too weak, which he didn't believe. The Arachne he knew was powerful enough to crush several realms in seconds.
Arachne sighed, "I'm far too weak now, I've only got what little power was in that egg and the threads surrounding it. I should be able to grow stronger by finding other eggs, or potentially my dead body."
The moment Shin heard that she died, his face twisted, "And where is your body?"
"In my lair in the underworld, you know where it is."
Shin already guessed, but that place was already one of the most dangerous pits of the underworld, just the terrain and harsh environment would make it impossible for them to reach now. Shin now couldn't be sure who was more dangerous, demons or abominations but from what he had seen, he didn't want to deal with any of them.
"It's impossible to reach now, we'll look for the eggs. The overgod sent us once, and I'm sure he'll keep sending us to finish quests." He smiled, "I'm sure that after several eggs you'd be back to a decent level of power."
"Better than now at least." Arachne replied and Mary walked into the shower room, unlike Ase she didn't run to them naked, she at least wore her underwear before coming to check on Shin and Char. The moment she saw they were fine she sighed in relief, "Thank the gods you two are okay."
"Their god was the one who put us in danger in the first place. Won't thank them for it." Shin patted her shoulder as he looked at his clothes, "We'll, would you want to let me wear something?"
"Change what." Mary giggled, "Just put on something. I'm sure our little guests had a really fun time waiting for us."
They all almost forget the two prisoners that they smuggled in to interrogate. Those two are still tied and locked in tight bags and, hopefully, haven't suffocated yet.
Everyone wore something and Arachne got a pair of Mary's clothes, it was a bit tight around her breasts so she threw the bra away and just used her black threads instead. In the meantime, Shin dragged the prisoners to the basement and tied them to chairs. The woman had already fainted and the man was barely holding to his consciousness.
"I see, been folded like clothes for hours hurt. Rest for a bit and think well, unless you want to spend the rest of your life folded like that." He slapped the man to fully wake him up and splashed the woman with a bucket of cold water, jolting her back to reality.
"You'll fucking regret this!" The man growled with a red face full of veins and sweat. "Let me go!" The woman cried, "I was just helping them!"
Shin giggled, "I'm going to eat now. But before that, how about you check my little friend, I quite love her." The basement's door opened up and a large black widow spider crawled up. She was as big as a sheep with one-foot-long fangs.
When Arachne mixed with Char she didn't just bring her humanoid form, but also her spider form. Since her human form is secondary, the moment Shin saw her in human form he knew she could turn into a terrifying massive spider. She's a tiny bit smaller than what he remembers her, but her size must indicate how much of her true power she holds.
Arachne used to tower over entire realms, seeing her smaller than a room was sad, but Shin knew that she still had her best weapon, her deadly poison.
The woman cried at the top of her lungs, trying to escape while the man growled, trying to look for a way to free himself.
"Your options range from being set free without as much as a scratch, to my cute little…" He was speaking but Arachne interrupted him. "Lover."
Shin stared at her, "As I was saying, to my cute little friend here…" Arachne bit his leg, "You dare friendzone me!"
The two prisoners were just baffled hearing the spider speak.
"She'll eat you alive, year, or that!" Shin pointed at them, "See you later." He hopped out of the room with Arachne following him.