I gently held the mass of tissue upside down in my palm and gave the command: Separate.
This time, it resisted far more fiercely than when it had been just a small clump. That reluctant emotion surged into my heart along with it through my left hand.
I couldn't describe the feeling. Who the hell could possibly understand what the emotions coming from my arm felt like?
The black tissue kept pulsing and struggling, trying to return to my body, but I cut off its connection without hesitation using a paper blade.
"Dunji~"
The mass of tissue fell to the floor.
Hmm... how should I describe it?
Have you ever seen a water balloon filled to the brim hit the ground?
This roughly half-meter-wide spherical mass of tissue looked about like that.
I gestured for Ning Jing to keep quiet, then slowly turned to look at the mass. It, too, began sprouting a few tentacles, but the next second, something happened that left me dumbfounded.
This completely defied the course of biological evolution. Two slits suddenly appeared on its round body. Then they began to open wider and wider, while the tissue inside them clearly started rapidly congealing...
"Holy shit..."
I raised a hand and rubbed my eyes. The mass in front of me followed suit, using a tentacle like a tail to rub its eyes just like I had.
I blinked. I couldn't believe it. What the hell was this thing in front of me?
The mass blinked, too.
Oh my god, what had happened to me?
Did I just lay an egg? Huh!?
I blinked, momentarily dazed. This black glutinous-rice-ball thing blinked, too, just staring at me.
Hmm... two peas in a pod... No, no, no!
This thing was a piece of flesh that had fallen off me...