Cute Bug Overlord Joins the Chat Group! Chapter 8

Kiana froze for a moment.

"Zerg, charge!"

Before the white-haired girl could think any further, the tiny child shot off like a bolt, carrying the other two Drones as he ran into the city ruins.

Kiana saw that the two Drones being carried had white circles for eyes, looking rather pitiful.

"Wait for me, Zerg!"

The girl quickly ran after him as well.

Why was she thinking so much? Zerg was an adorable child, and that was all that mattered!

Even if he was not human, it did not matter!

As Zerg cheerfully ran into the city ruins, he failed to notice that the [Dimensional Chat Group] system seemed to have undergone a new change—

[Retrieving group member... Retrieval successful!]

A new avatar slowly appeared in the group chat.

It was the avatar of a cold and stunning white-haired beauty.

Her group ID was—[Happy Little Orca]

[Joining the Dimensional Chat Group... Joining successful!]

In a desolate wilderness.

The cold, white-haired beauty silently stared at the strange panel that had suddenly appeared before her.

Slowly, she reached into the sword case on her back.

The next moment, her heavy greatsword cleaved the earth before her.

Yet the strange panel remained completely unscathed.

Skadi did not know what this thing was.

Was it an illusion created by the consciousness within her body?

The Abyssal Hunter remained silent.

Then, she tried to ignore the strange panel and continue her wandering journey across the land.

Except—

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: Huh, a newcomer actually joined the group?]

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: Welcome to the group! Let me see what the newcomer's name is...]

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: Happy Little Orca?]

Three messages appeared one after another on the strange panel.

"Happy Little Orca?"

Skadi tilted her head slightly.

[Happy Little Orca: Who are you?]

She tried sending a message.

After seeing her own ID, the Abyssal Hunter did not care much.

Her personality had always been this aloof.

After all, contact with others would only bring them disaster.

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: I'm Kiana Kaslana!]

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: @Exuberant Zerg, a newcomer joined!]

[Exuberant Zerg: Newcomer, play together!]

Skadi looked at the strange, illusory panel.

It seemed to be something called the [Dimensional Chat Group], and there were only two people in it.

One was called [Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!], and the other was called [Exuberant Zerg].

Very strange.

Even stranger—

[Exuberant Zerg is playing. Would you like to accept his summons and play with him?]

Volume One: Hey, Kiana, Give Zerg to Me

Skadi hesitated, unsure whether she should accept this strange summons.

What if it was a trap set by the Seaborn?

But when had the Seaborn ever become capable of something like this?

In the final battle, she had slain the Seaborn's god, but because of that, she had been forced to begin her life of wandering.

If nothing unexpected had happened, her compatriots should still be resisting the Seaborn.

But with the Seaborn's intelligence... they did not seem capable of setting traps at all.

Unless they had evolved during the time she had been wandering.

[Happy Little Orca: Are you Seaborn?]

So Skadi asked directly.

[Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!: Seaborn? What's that?]

[Exuberant Zerg: Can Seaborn be eaten?]

"..."

That was probably enough to confirm it.

The Abyssal Hunter sheathed her greatsword in its case.

According to the information she knew, the Seaborn had no concept of lies.

What was more—

Seaborn could be eaten.

Only among the Seaborn themselves.

Her brief contact with the Sea God Consciousness had allowed her to glimpse fragments of the Seaborn's lives—

Some Seaborn willingly became food for other Seaborn.

Out of curiosity, Skadi ultimately accepted the summons.

A portal tore open before her.

The Abyssal Hunter stepped through the portal.

When she appeared again, she was already standing amid the city ruins.

The architectural style looked somewhat familiar—

It seemed to be the style of an Ægir city.

"Happy Little Orca?"

Two figures stood before her.

One was a white-haired girl.

The other was a delicate, adorable black-haired child.

The one who spoke was the white-haired girl.

"Who are you?"

Skadi asked.

"I'm Kiana Kaslana."

Kiana chose to give her real name.

Her skin was not that thick.

After all, [Ultimate Invincibly Fucking Cute Paramecium!] was just too embarrassing.

Especially the last three words.

Without those last three words, Kiana felt she could confidently announce her group ID.

"I'm Zerg!"

The tiny child looked delighted.

"...Skadi."

After several seconds of silence, the Abyssal Hunter gave her name.

"Skadi, want to play together?"

Zerg picked up a Drone and held it out before Skadi.

"U!" (Play!)

The tiny purple creature's bean-like black eyes met the Abyssal Hunter's gaze.

Skadi narrowed her eyes slightly.

She sensed a faint Seaborn-like aura from this strange purple creature.

No—

Rather, the aura of the Seaborn was somewhat similar to this creature's.

Unlike any Seaborn she had seen before, this tiny purple creature... seemed utterly out of place in this world.

Its art style was like the comics she used to read when she had still been an ordinary Ægir citizen.

The comedic kind, at that.

In the end, the Abyssal Hunter did not attack.

It had an aura somewhat similar to the Seaborn's, but this creature possessed its own consciousness.

She could feel it.

Especially when it waved its two little claws in her hand, she could sense its happiness.

The Seaborn could not do such a thing.

They had only one consciousness—that of the Swarm belonging to the Seaborn.

After thinking for a moment, Skadi placed the purple creature atop her head.

After all, she still needed to keep both hands free.

"Skadi, play together!"

Seeing that she had accepted the Drone, Zerg raised both hands and cheered.

"Mm."

Skadi casually agreed.

She surveyed the surrounding city.

It was certain now—

This was an Ægir city.

But she had never been here before.

That was normal enough.

Before becoming an Abyssal Hunter, Skadi had only lived in her hometown.

And after becoming an Abyssal Hunter, there were only two places where she often stayed—