Shen Yuan was very unhappy, and it wasn't just because he was the property of the scum villainâ˘. His living conditions were terrible. Apparently Shen Qingqiu didn't deem him worthy of needing a new enclosure or whatever, because it'd been a good week and not once has he left that cramped cage.
Shen Qingqiu wasn't here at the moment though, and Shen Yuan boldness was ticking up slowly as he paced around his enclosure.
This sucks, doesn't this guy know how to treat ANY living creatures right??!
Shen Yuan thought bitterly, cleaning his front legs again. He cleaned it for a while before he paused and stomped all of his feet.
What the hell am I cleaning?! I haven't been allowed to roam, much less get dirty doing it!!
The spider instead decided to focus on chewing through the web he'd made yesterday, planning to rebuild it the same way he'd been doing these past few days. With resentment on his mind while he build, Shen Yuan ever so graciously left a nasty message in the weaving of his web.
A crudely webbed "Fuck you" was now scrawled across his web. It was in english of course, he wasn't stupid enough to curse the scum villain⢠in a language that he could understand.
With his grievances just barely settled, Shen Yuan tucked his legs beneath him and glared at the door. There was nothing new to see, Shen Yuan had already looked at his surroundings 6 times over. There was literally no place in this room that he hadn't already seen.
With a glance at the red netting that surrounded his cage, Shen Yuan faintly wondered if he could just break through it.
Shen Yuan jolted, looking around for the voice that just spoke to him. He rose up on its back legs, his pedipalps raising threateningly as he whipped around.
"Stop doing that, we look stupid."
Shen Yuan paused, lowering himself slightly as he stomped his feet on the ground. He stuffed his front leg into his mouth again, cleaning it again as he questioned this mysterious voice.
I'm you, isn't it obvious?
"No, I'M me. Do I look stupid enough to believe a disembodied voice that randomly claims I can do something? What, are you going to offer me 'Ultimate power' if I follow your directions?"
"What a paranoid guy, if I was here for that I certainly wouldn't choose YOU, you don't even know how to control your own body! Do you get off stroking your own ego? You're not some protagonist."
If Shen Yuan had a face that could make expressions he would've had a flush that stretched all the way to the back of his nape. Instead, the keyboard warrior settled for cursing the voice out in his head.
"Did you kiss your mother with that mouth?! Better yet, did your mom drop you in your last life?! I just said I'm you, you're cursing at yourself here! Are you too dumb to understand that?! "
Shen Yuan and the voice went back and forth for a bit, arguing with and cursing at eachother like they were elementary schoolers that had just discovered curse words.
"Wait you distracted me! I am you! To be specific, I am your instincts! When you took my body over, you didn't even do it right."
"What? What does that..?"
"Don't ask stupid questions, you're already irritating me. Is this how you felt when reading Airplane's wife plots? Ah whatever, that's not why I'm here. I'm here because you fused with me when you transmigrated."
"What, so you're going to be my guide?"
"No, who would want to guide you? I'm what you already know, you just don't know that you know. Well, I'm what our body knows. I inherited a bit of your personality and as much as I don't like you, I instinctively want to help you."
"Got it, so I'm a spider with D.I.D now. Great."
"We'll fuse and I'll disappear if you're competent enough. Anyways, you mentioned breaking through the red silk--"
"That's silk? Like spider silk?"
"Don't interrupt me. Gods you're so annoying, couldn't I have gotten stuck with someone better... Yes we can break through the netting, it's not like we're a normal spider. One claw is enough to get through this flimsy cage! If it were just me in here I'd have already bitten that scummy bastard to death."
Shen Yuan nodded in agreement, deciding to ignore the jab aimed at him. He switched to cleaning his other leg as he assessed the situation. Basically, the ex-owner of the body merged with him. Except they didn't merge fully and now SY has to explore his newfound abilities on his own. Great, now he had an annoying roommate in his head.
"It's not like I'll be active constantly. I'll only be here when you have questions about us."
Shen Yuan internally questioned why the hell his "Instinct" was so sassy. He wasn't--Okay, yes. Yes he was that sassy. He'd been spending the past few days cursing at the scum villain⢠knowing that Shen Qingqiu didn't understand him. If there was anything he was, it was a hater, and clearly his instinct was too.
Well, he wasn't going to get a headache over it. Right now he decided to get out of the cage, now that he knew that he could. Shen Yuan raised his front legs up and dragged his itty bitty claws along the silk. To his surprise it tore apart easily beneath his foot.
With a hyped up tap of his feet, Shen Yuan darted out of his cage. Now that he was out, he took the time to run around. He'd only seen the room from his cage, he had yet to explore at all. So Shen Yuan crawled EVERYWHERE. Leaving webs as he went.
His piled up annoyance from the past few days fueled his petty actions as he gleefully left webs everywhere he knew the scum villain wouldn't like. He was so worked up that he didn't even care that the scum villain⢠would probably kill him for this.
In fact, Shen Yuan was so lost in the moment that he didn't notice when the door opened. He also barely noticed Shen Qingqiu shimmying needles from his sleeve and aiming them at him with rage burning in his eyes.
Shen Qingqiu hissed out through gritted teeth as he tossed the first needle at the spider. It missed by a hair's length, and Shen Yuan finally took notice of the scum villain⢠standing in the doorway.
"Okay I know I said that I'd only appear when you had questions, but as your body's instincts, I suggest you run. We're just a baby, we'll die if we go up against an experienced cultivator right now!"
Shen Yuan couldn't have agreed more, which is exactly why he bolted out of the room with a surprising burst of speed, right beneath Shen Qingqiu's robes and out of the hut. Shen Yuan just wasn't expecting to see Shang Qinghua and the Peak Lord of the beast taming peak standing there. It was clear that they were here to check up on him.
Whew, that was a lot. Shen Yuan may not have a system, but he's still going to have someone annoying in his head!!
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