I Became an Evolving Lizard in a Martial Arts Novel

Chapter 28

Attercopus was in despair.

The long-tailed green lizard, her idol, had disappeared.

She had waited day after day, but even after a week, there was still no sign of him.

... Could he have been defeated by that crocodile?

Pus whimpered, her small body trembling with worry over the lizard.

“Ki-eeng....”

Atelakomartus, her sister, came closer and nudged her gently.

“Ke-ek....”

It seemed to be her way of comforting Pus.

Pus and Tus—they were sisters.

Not blood-related sisters, of course. In fact, they weren’t even the same species.

One could spin webs, while the other possessed venomous fangs.

But from the moment they were born, they grew up together.

They slept together, ate together, and lived together. Pus and Tus had always been by each other’s side.

Their peaceful life came to an abrupt end when they were captured by humans.

It was the Tang Clan.

They were collecting venomous creatures to pit them against each other, with the survivor’s venom being extracted.

It was a process known as solitary venom.

The sisters’ fate would have been to become ingredients for this brutal practice.

Before they could be forced to fight and devour each other, a man had rescued them. He had stolen all the spiders the Tang Clan had kept, including the sisters.

That’s how Pus and Tus ended up here, released into the wilderness of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

A new start in a new place.

The two sisters banded together, determined to survive.

But survival in this harsh wilderness wasn’t easy.

For some reason, massive creatures the size of buildings roamed the area, and even the insects were larger than Pus and Tus.

At barely five centimeters each, there was little the sisters could hunt successfully.

They were constantly on the run from predators, barely managing to escape to a swamp.

They tried hunting, but with their weak webs and the small amount of venom in their fangs, they couldn’t catch anything.

They were literally starving.

If it weren’t for the seeds they occasionally found on the ground, they would have died long ago.

Then, like a comet, a green lizard appeared.

From the moment they saw him, Pus and Tus felt an inexplicable attraction.

This was thanks to the lizard’s title effect, but they didn’t know that.

His sharp yet somehow endearing face, the green scales, and especially his plump white belly, made them salivate.

And the highlight was his long tail, which was nearly twice the length of his body.

Even Tus, the more timid of the two, couldn’t help but take an interest in him.

Their initial attraction, however, was nothing more than instinctual.

But the lizard proved himself to be more than just an intriguing sight.

Out of desperation, they had approached him, and he had offered them a water beetle to eat—something far beyond their capabilities to hunt.

Starving and weak, Pus and Tus immediately lunged for the beetle.

Of course, the beetle had almost eaten them in return, but the lizard had saved them once more, using his sharp claws to dismantle the beetle’s shell piece by piece.

Their admiration for the lizard only grew.

But just as they were basking in happiness, the lizard did something unthinkable.

He touched Pus’s bottom!

Not only that, but he used it to draw out her webs!

The spider sisters were in shock.

Pus, who had never even courted a mate, had her bottom violated.

Pus tried to spin more web, but nothing came out.

Without the lizard to tap her bottom, her production had slowed.

The caiman watched her closely, then slowly raised his massive paw.

Pus screamed.

“Kiaaak!”

She knew what this meant—he was going to smack her to make the web come out.

She would rather die than allow him to touch her there.

No matter how hard Tus tried to stop her, Pus refused to back down.

“Kiaaaaak!”

She wouldn’t submit to the monster who killed the lizard.

Spinning webs for him had been humiliating enough.

Now he wanted to touch her?

“Kieeek!”

For the lizard, and for her pride, she would rather die.

Pus’s determination was fierce.

The caiman raised his paw once again.

Tus might be the more valuable one, with her venom.

One less spider wouldn’t make a difference.

In fact, setting an example might make the other more obedient.

A massive shadow fell over Pus.

She still clung to life.

She felt guilty about leaving Tus behind.

And she regretted never seeing the lizard again.

Attercopus closed her eyes, trying to picture him one last time.

His long tail.

His green scales.

Thud!

... If only she could hear his voice one more time.

At the very moment she accepted her death, a growl rang out.

It was not the caiman’s growl, but a different one.

And somehow, it sounded familiar to her.

Pus opened her eyes.

The caiman’s massive paw was trembling.

Standing between her and the caiman was a huge lizard.

A lizard she had never seen before.

Its skin was dark teal, and its eyes were blue.

Yet it seemed familiar.

The long tail, wrapped in multicolored threads—it was unmistakable.

... How?

No, how could this be?

Her eyes widened in disbelief.

Emotions she had suppressed for so long burst forth like a waterfall.

Her heart swelled with joy, bubbling up from the depths of her soul.

Her short legs reached out to touch the figure before her.

It wasn’t a figment of her imagination.

“Geggegek!”

He had returned.