661. Dependents (Seeking Subscriptions)

"I really... wasn't human!"

Sulu raised a tentacle, or rather, an organ resembling a tentacle.

It was not one of his true limbs. He had merely felt that he ought to have one, and so it appeared.

With another thought, the tentacle retracted. The skin on its surface became finer and smoother, and five human fingers grew from it.

That section of tentacle had become a human arm.

"Looks like I'm not a tentacle monster either... but a... shapeshifter? A Ditto? A creature without a fixed form... No, not necessarily a creature..."

After becoming able to "sense," Sulu examined himself and discovered that he seemed to have reincarnated into a strange form of life.

"Some matter, some energy... able to decide its own appearance and even grow organs suited to the environment... This life form is quite advanced."

Sulu sighed and fell asleep once more.

"Hiss... awaken..."

"Division of labor... cooperation..."

At some unknown point, he heard some "voices" beside his ears.

No! They were not sounds, but mental fluctuations that manifested directly within his thoughts, simpler and more efficient than mere language.

Sulu awoke again and felt that the symptoms of his soul splitting had finally eased considerably.

At the same time, his strange body, originally like a mass of "Ditto," had grown to a certain limit and come into contact with a membrane.

With a slight exertion of force, he broke free of the thin membrane, and a great amount of light poured in.

"I... I am... Starry Sky Kin? Or rather, a Starry Demon?!"

A lengthy stretch of information surfaced directly in Sulu's mind. This was the bloodline inheritance unique to demonic creatures, information branded directly into the most fundamental genes of their bloodline.

Starry Sky Kin!

This was a branch of demonic creatures, descended from