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◈ I Became the Gate Summoner Hunters Obsess Over ◈
Chapter 42: Gets a Mother. Gets a Mother.
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❗This chapter contains illustrations that may be scary.❗
Kang Yul doubted his eyes after reading the notification.
He had learned how to become a plant, and now he could produce nutrients.
If that message was true, it meant only one thing.
Kang Yul was no longer human.
This was on an entirely different level from Team Leader Myo having feline traits due to a skill, or Kang Yul stuffing himself with dirt because of the Gift he received from the Worm.
Those were still things someone who had Awakened as a Hunter could experience within the bounds of humanity.
There were quite a few Hunters whose appearance had strayed slightly from human.
Hunters who ate things humans could not were rare, but they existed.
There were also Hunters who could do things humans could not.
But no matter which of those Hunters one brought here, none could do what Kang Yul was doing now.
This was something only a nonhuman being could do. Something only Kang Yul, the plant-human, could do.
'...Sunlight tastes good.'
That was what he thought when the sunlight entering the cavern touched him.
Kang Yul no longer felt warmth from the sunlight on his skin.
More intense was the sensation of something filling him up and leaving him satisfied.
And the longer he was exposed to sunlight, the clearer that feeling became.
'Is this... mana...?'
The nutrients Kang Yul gained through sunlight were mana.
Just as plants produced nutrients through photosynthesis, Kang Yul produced mana within his body through photosynthesis, gradually increasing its capacity.
Once he realized that, he also noticed that even breathing felt slightly different from before.
Whenever Kang Yul inhaled and exhaled, a pleasant forest scent, like the one he sensed from the woman before him, mingled with his breath.
At that moment, Kang Yul wondered if, while photosynthesizing like a plant, he inhaled carbon dioxide to create mana and released oxygen.
'I'm really a plant-human....'
That realization saddened him.
The harder he denied reality and searched for something that could still qualify him as human, the more certain it became that he was a plant-human merely imitating one.
So Kang Yul slightly moved his head and cautiously looked up at the culprit behind all this.
Then.
Whirr.
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you!
: Thinks you're very lovable!
His eyes met Mother's gaze, filled with an affection she seemed unable to contain, and he had no choice but to lower his head.
Because of his position, he ended up burying his face in her chest again and felt that soft, springy sensation, but he had no room to care about that.
After all.
'...The moment I met her eyes, my anger faded away.'
Kang Yul was definitely afraid of Mother.
He even hated her for turning him into something no longer human.
But the instant their eyes met, all those negative feelings withered away.
No, more precisely... they vanished completely.
He began to think that this had merely been a small mistake on Mother's part.
He accepted it with the thought that Mother only needed to be more careful next time.
Kang Yul was no longer afraid of Mother, nor did he hate her.
Mother was beginning to feel lovable to him.
He simply wanted to stay with Mother like this for the rest of his life.
Like a pair of trees.
Holding each other tight.
Here for the rest of their lives.
Together.
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Wiggle...?
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you?
Someone was trying to speak to Kang Yul.
But he liked being with Mother so much right now that he ignored it.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, did not want to do anything anymore.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, only needed Mother.
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Wiggle...???
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you-???
Someone kept trying to speak to Kang Yul.
But once again, he ignored it.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, did not want to do anything anymore.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, only needed Mother.
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...Wiggle.
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Realizes something is wrong with you.
Someone kept trying to speak to Kang Yul.
But once again, he ignored it...
Wiggle.
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Realizes why something is wrong with you.
: Delicious dirt has made you strange.
: How dare mere delicious dirt.
: Do this to precious you.
: Dev■■r it.
...He could not.
Someone was angry at Mother.
Who could it be?
How could anyone dare feel such emotions toward the mother of all life?
So Kang Yul tried to stop them.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, only needed Mother.
Kang Yul, who had become a tree, had to protect Mother.
But the next moment.
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Something opened its mouth.
Something beyond words.
It opened its huge mouth and turned toward Mother.
Kang Yul had to stop it.
He had to.
He tried to stop it.
Had to.
Stop.
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"...Ah?"
Kang Yul suddenly made a strange sound and came to his senses.
Then, thinking, 'Something got me again,' he quickly shut his eyes.
This was already the second time today, so he reacted immediately.
But honestly, the situation was not good.
He could not touch her.
He could not meet her eyes.
But Kang Yul was already tightly held in that being's embrace...
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'What? Where did she go?'
Only then did Kang Yul realize he could no longer feel that soft, springy sensation, and he opened his eyes.
A green cavern full of life came into view, but the being was nowhere to be seen.
Instead, far away in the center of the cavern.
Wiggle!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you-!
The Worm, which Kang Yul had so desperately wanted to wake up, was energetically wiggling at him.
"Worm!"
The instant Kang Yul recognized the Worm, he ran toward it at full speed.
A surge of emotion welled up inside him, leaving his eyes damp.
When had it woken up? Why had it been asleep at that exact moment? Why would it not wake up no matter how much he shook it?
So many thoughts came to him, and he wanted to pour them all out like a complaint. But once he reached the Worm, that was not what came out of his mouth.
Because beneath the Worm.
Tremble tremble tremble...!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Thinks the being above her head is terrifying...!
The Woman in the Roots was lowering her head, trembling violently. Her lower body had been roughly torn away, as though something had eaten it.
Wiggle!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Is angry that mere dirt dared to torment you!
: Intends to swallow the remaining half in one bite!
And above the Woman in the Roots's head, the Worm was slowly approaching with its mouth wide open, as though it were about to devour the rest of its prey.
'Did the two of them... fight?'
But calling it a fight was strange. One side had lost her lower body, while the other was perfectly fine.
There were no traces of battle anywhere in the cavern.
So Kang Yul judged that this was less a fight than a lull after one side had utterly crushed the other.
Then, all at once, his eyes met the Woman in the Roots's.
Tremble tremble tremble...!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Thinks the being above her head is terrifying...!
: Wants you to save her...!
The Woman in the Roots desperately wanted Kang Yul to help.
Considering what she had done to him, that seemed rather shameless. Yet Kang Yul was surprisingly calm.
All those negative feelings had already disappeared long ago.
'Well, that was also something that being did....'
...The funny thing was, some of the feelings that came afterward still remained in a corner of Kang Yul's heart.
The feelings that had made him blindly follow that being. The feelings that had made him think of her as Mother and depend on her.
So.
"Worm, couldn't you stop at that for now?"
Kang Yul decided to do the bare minimum.
He knew this was absurdly merciful.
Those tree roots had caused him pain, made him nonhuman, and even brainwashed him.
So letting the Worm eat her would be the cleanest way to deal with it, but...
Wiggle...?
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you?
"I told you, didn't I? If you raise plants, you can eat them for a long, long time. It'd be a waste to eat it all now."
...As he had said before, all his negative feelings toward that being had already vanished.
If he vented any more anger on her, all Kang Yul would gain was the bitter result of killing his own mother with his own hands.
So it was better to keep her around and make use of her for as long as possible.
Wiggle....
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Thinks it will comply if that is what you want.
"Thanks, Worm."
Kang Yul stroked the Worm with one finger, then gently lifted it and placed it on his shoulder.
Then, as he looked down at the Woman in the Roots, who wore a relieved expression now that the Worm had moved away, he spoke impassively.
"You... don't mind if I call you Root, right?"
Nod...
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you....
"All right, then, Root. From now on, I want you to grow plants in the cavern. That's why I saved you, and why you won't be eaten by the Worm. Understand?"
Nod...
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you....
: But your cold attitude makes her heart ache a little....
Root nodded with what seemed like sadness.
She looked like a pitiful mother abandoned by the son she had believed in.
'This doesn't feel right, either....'
If he struck her, he'd be committing an act of filial impiety. But if he treated her coldly like a stranger, he felt like an unfilial child.
Thinking that this brainwashing was truly bothersome, Kang Yul rubbed his temple for a moment before deciding to leave himself a little room.
"If you do that well... then maybe there won't be any reason I can't treat you as my mother. So please do your best, Root Mother."
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﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you...!
: Thinks you're very lovable...!
"Of course, not yet. If you want me to treat you as my mother, work hard."
Nod nod nod!!!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you-!!!
: Thinks she will grant any request you make-!!!
And so, that day.
Kang Yul gained a mother he had never expected to have...
Wiggle!!!!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deeply hurt-!!!!
: Strongly thinks it is the one meant to become your mother-!!!!
"...Ack, you startled me. ...You want to be my mother too, Worm?"
Wiggle!!!!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deeply hurt-!!!!
"Ah, okay. Be my mother, Worm Mother."
Wiggle!!!!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Thinks it wants you to call it Mama-!!!!
"Ah, all right. Worm Mama... there, happy?"
Wiggle~!
﹝Special Characteristics﹞
: Feels deep affection for you~!
...Anyway, once again.
That day, Kang Yul gained a mother he had never expected to have.
Two of them, no less.
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