Part 1

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Arachne (First Part)


When I reincarnated, I became a half-human half-spider Arachne monster girl!
Yeah, you probably don't understand what I'm saying!
Even I don't (cries).
I'm Arakura Shiori (24). I should have been working at a florist in the city, but...
The last thing I remember is a truck recklessly plowing into the shop.
.........So basically.
It's that thing called the "truck reincarnation"!
Because of my hobby of playing RPG games and reading internet novels, I took a few steps into the otaku realm (it's only a few steps! Probably...) Not long after I woke up, I understood my situation.
I see, I died.
I mean, I can't not understand my situation.
My mother and sisters' upper bodies are all silver-haired world-class beautiful ladies/girls. But their lower bodies are huge spiders.
Taking my RPG knowledge as reference, they look exactly like the half-human half-spider monsters called 'Arachne'.
There's no way this is Earth, right...
And so, since I didn't have much attachments to my past life, I quickly accepted this situation, but...
The problem is that my sisters are drooling and attacking me.
No, it's not yuri or anything sexual.
It seems that in the Arachne race, there will be nearly a hundred of babies born at the same time. These sisters will have to eat each other, and only the few strong survivors will live on and become the next generation of Arachnes!
In fact, the sisters who survived this struggle for existencecannibalism grew even bigger and stronger, as if they absorbed the power of the defeated.
However, as someone with the consciousness of a Japanese person, I can't do something like killing my sisters and eating them... I simply ran and ran.
And, well, speaking of food, I somehow survived by catching caterpillars or rabbits or pheasants.
......Even if I became a monster, I'd rather eat caterpillars than eat my sisters. Also, they're surprisingly tasty.
However, obviously, my food will affect my development.
One month after I regain my previous life's consciousness, the number of my sisters has reduced to only a few people. These beautifully bewitching ladies all look exactly like mother, but my childish body still hasn't grown... For comparison, I look like a 12-13 years old human girl.
I've heard that the nutrition taken during childhood can cause serious problems to a baby's growth later on, but if it's true, then I'll probably have to spend my life as a loli Arachne.
My sisters are all over level 20 too (this world have levels and status, like in RPG games!), while I'm the only one to still be at level 5...
However, probably because I had always been running for my life from my sisters, only my skills in running and escaping reached a higher level than any of them, I think.
Well, I managed to survive until now thanks to that.
But if things continue like this, the level difference will only grow... I can already see myself becoming a crunchy, tasty morsel for my sisters.
Which is why I've decided to run away from the Arachne lair in the forest, in which I had lived in for a month... to run away from my mother and sisters...
"If I'm running away, heading to a human town still seems to be the best choice, I guess..."
I kept on churning out threads from my butt, then wind them horizontally between my legs – to be precise, my front spider legs.
Once I have a wide enough sheet, I weave the thread vertically through the gaps between the current horizontal threads.
The arachne thread flowing out of my butt moves according to my thoughts to a certain degree, so I can weave a piece of fabric perfectly even without a weaving machine.
...Entering a human town butt-naked doesn't seem to be a good idea, and so I decided to make clothes.
My train of thought went from "Well, silk came from silkworms..." to "Then maybe I can make clothes from spider threads too..." And when I tried to do it, I was surprised at how easy it was.
Not only that, I can even adjust how sticky my threads are. They're even stronger than some metal wires, and at the same time smoother than silk, so it's actually the perfect material for street clothes.
While I busied myself with such thoughts, the sheet of cloth is done.
It's about 1 meter long and 0.6 meter wide.
"And this makes, umm... the 4th sheet? That's probably enough."
I take the sheets I made previously in my hands and use one of my knife-like claw to cut them into the correct size, then use some quick-drying sticky threads as an adhesive to glue the sheets together... and with that, an uncolored dress is finished.
Obviously, I don't have any way to dye it, but that's asking for too much in my current situation.
"Yeah, good work, if I do say so myself..."
It's loose from the waist down, like a maternity dress. I made it this way so that I can wear it in both spider form and human form without tearing it apart.
Still, there's a lot of fabric left over, so maybe I'll make a bag.
Maybe a travel backpack... tough, somewhat big, and wearable.
Next is ration. I can't hunt for food after I leave the forest, so I catch three rabbits, bleed them, then wrap them in cocoons made from my threads and bring them along.
Arachne threads can also preserve food. Super convenient.
......It's similar to how other arachnes, like my mother, preserve the adventurers who comes to defeat them for later consumption.
Mmm, that's probably enough preparations...
Well then, my mother of this life, thank you for giving birth to me.
My sisters... I'm sorry that I couldn't let you eat me.
I'm going to survive in this world as best I can, even if I have to leave everyone...
After bowing at the direction of my mother and sisters' nest, I put my rations and clothes into my handmade backpack and began to head out of the forest...

Back in the nest, four shadowsArachnes watch Shiori with their superhuman eyesight.
"My daughters... has Shiori left?"
"Yes, mother... it seems she's finally gone."
"*sobs* My little cute Shiori... Shiori..."
"Don't cry, big sister.... If she stays here... She'll be in danger."
"Yes, I also don't think I can resist my instinct... Both to eat her and to 'eat' her."
"That soft baby skin! Those twinkling eyes! Lips like a pudding! She's just like an unripe fruit! Even though we're the same age... Aaaah, I really should have tried to have a taste of her!! Mainly sexually!"
As the Arachne race doesn't give birth to males, when they need to reproduce, they capture human males to squeeze out their seeds.
Naturally, when arachnes need to deal with their libidos in other occasions, the only choices left are ones of their own race and gender.
Basically, the whole Arachne race is all lesbians.
Furthermore, since the babies receive pretty much 100% of their mother's genes, everyone looks like clones of each other.
But Shiori obviously looks different from her sisters... Her cherubic young girl appearance awakened her sisters' sleeping lolicon tendencies, and thus led to their extreme displays of love.
However, at the same time, their instinct to eat the weak still exist. If Shiori continues to stay at the nest, sooner or later, someone is going to lose control and take her life.
"If that's the case, we'd rather let her go..." With such thoughts in their mind, the Arachne family quietly sent Shiori off.

During that time, I simply continued on my way through the forest in spider form, with nary a thought for my mother and sisters in mind.
My burly eight spider legs, its appearance in direct contrast to my delicate-looking upper body, quickly carries me through the forest while leaving deep scars in the earth.
I don't really feel tired, plus the uncomfortable shaking doesn't really affect my upper body much.
Indeed, if not for an arachne's eight legs, I wouldn't be able to move through this uneven forest so comfortably.
I'm moving my legs at a speed that is 'somewhat fast' according to my senses, but the scenery is passing me by quite quickly.
I'm probably going around as fast as a bicycle.
Compared to my sisters, I'm the weakest one out of everyone, yet even I can go this fast... An arachne's physical ability is seriously amazing.
...Oh yeah, I wonder if my human form is still similarly strong.
Hmmm... Let's check out my powers and skills.
If I'm going to live at a human town, I'll need to precisely grasp my own strength, or else something bad's probably going to happen.
My life as an arachne has only begun a month ago, and to be honest I'd always been running for my life from my sisters, so I didn't have much of a chance to check out my abilities.
I put a bit of strength into my right index finger and activate [Tactile Thread]Sensor Web.
And a length of thread, so thin as to be practically invisible to the eyes, quickly grows out of my index finger. I stick the other end of the thread into my own body.
Immediately, info about myself appears in my brain, looking much like a game's status window.
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Name: Shiori Arachne Age: 24 Female
Total level: 5
Race: Arachne
Class: Dressmaker
HP: 90 (Max 90)
MP: 65 (Max 65)
Basic Stats (Level Bonus) (Predation Bonus)
STR 25 (35) ()
VIT 25 (35) (+1)
DEX 18 (25) (+1)
SPD 18 (25) (+10)
INT 13 (18) ()
MID 13 (18) ()

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