The Death Mage that doesn't want a fourth time

125 The eyes of heaven that look this way. And a great scythe is raised

She didn't want to let it out.

She used reason as a weapon to firmly resist her instinctive urge.

Letting it out was, in itself, a very natural thing; it wasn't something to be embarrassed over. In fact, it was one of the essential processes in development, and reaching that stage was something to be happy about.

In fact, her companions and kouhais like Pete and Pain, the ones taking care of her and even Vandalieu were happy and congratulated her when told that she would soon let it out.

However, the timing was terrible. Once she let it out, she wouldn't be able to move for a while, at least for a few months. It was difficult to say that she was "able to move" now, but she would become completely immobile.

That was why she didn't want to proceed through this stage until the matter of the reincarnated individuals, which was apparently a large problem, and the matter of the Noble Orc Empire, were settled.

"Pigiih~"

Quinn, who was several times the size of a regular larva, let out a frustrated cry inside her chamber in the Cemetery Bee nest.

"There, there. Unlike the business with the Noble Orcs, the reincarnated individuals will take at least a decade... no, depending on how they act, multiple decades, to deal with. I'm sure you'll make it in time," Vandalieu said as he used his extended tongue to lick Quinn, stimulating her growth.

Indeed, Quinn was about to finally become a pupa.

Bees didn't form cocoons, but they closed their chambers with lids made of string-like fibers, with the soon-to-be pupa inside. It was no different for the monster bees that were Cemetery Bees.

And it seemed that the same applied to Quinn, the Cemetery Bee queen who had undergone a pseudo-reincarnation into an egg filled with death-attribute Mana.

"Pigih, pigipigippigih."

"You're worried about the time during which you're a pupa? It does seem like it will take longer than ordinary bees," said Vandalieu.

Normal Cemetery Bees took about a month to emerge with wings. Even the pupa that would become the queen bee would apparently take half a year.

However, Quinn, who had undergone a pseudo-reincarnation, was already a member of a different race that was not the Cemetery Bees. Her biology was similar, but that didn't mean everything was the same.

It was possible that she would stay in pupa form for over a year.

"But that doesn't mean I can keep you equipped with Insect Binding Technique as a pupa..."

"Pigih..."

The inside of a pupa was completely liquid other than the nerve cells. Thus, excessive movement would cause the pupa to die.

The pupa would be isolated from any vibrations from the outside world while equipped inside Vandalieu's body, but there was the possibility that it would slip outside of Vandalieu's body.

Knowing this, Quinn reluctantly backed down.

And then, seemingly having made up her mind, she began producing thread from her mouth.

"Pigih..."

"I'll come and visit you every day when I can," Vandalieu said reassuringly as he looked at Quinn's beautiful eyes.

Vandalieu's image reflected off Quinn's beautiful compound eyes until the lid made of her thread blocked him from her vision.

Once the lid completely covered Quinn, Vandalieu suddenly looked to the side.