So I'm a Snake, Who Cares?

As a skilled interviewer, I noticed this elderly interviewee was getting too excited.

But I missed the timing to stop him.

Excited, he suddenly stripped off his top.

Since he had already taken off his pants, he had inevitably become a strange man in just underwear.

L: Look at these scars!

R: Doctor, please put on your clothes first.

L: That Chugota impaled me on a treetop and taught its children hunting methods.

There was a penetrating wound scar near Lovanton's collarbone.
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But honestly, that scar was less difficult to look at than his gray chest hair and wrinkled naked body.

R: Please calm down, if you do this, the article...

L: Wyverns are terrible creatures. Cruel and evil monsters! Contact the Empire immediately and mobilize all the knight orders!

He was in a far worse state than a war veteran with PTSD.

I had to stop the interview before the doctor stripped off his underwear too.

L: Ah, ah, wyvern air raid warning! Air raid warning!

R: Haa.

L: Total mobilization of forces!

Wyverns were truly terrible creatures indeed.

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'I'm screwed.'

And properly screwed at that.

Surviving by hiding in the egg was good.

But who knew I'd be dragged to the nest right away.

Pelerian told me about the outside environment.

"They built the nest in quite a scenic spot."

A scenic spot means it's in a high location.

Sharp vertical stone pillars like giant swords stuck in the ground.

Wyvern Queen Celeta's nest was at the highest point among them.

"There are three more eggs beside it. It won't be easy, but if you catch the right opportunity, you might be able to escape."

Though I don't have flying ability.

With help from Isil's vines, I might somehow be able to get down the stone pillar.

I planned to escape as soon as the mother left.

But surprisingly, there was no such opportunity.

"The mother seems determined. She's guarding her egg even while starving."

Would our Mother Medusa have cared for her eggs this devotedly?

Remembering how she would tail-whip her disobedient child, I can't imagine it.

"Monsters that lay many offspring at once and those that lay few naturally have different attitudes. Also, wyverns only lay eggs once in their lifetime."

In the harsh wild, four eggs is certainly not many.

Celeta, who had once had an egg stolen, wasn't taking any chances.

How many days had passed?

It was at the point where I had to drink potions instead of water because I was so hungry and thirsty.

"Oh, the other eggs are hatching."

I could hear the sounds too.

Crack, crack, the sound of eggs breaking.

"Peeee!"

"Pichiii!"

Noisy sounds that baby birds, no, baby wyverns would make.

Interestingly, as if by agreement, three eggs hatched in succession.

Good, now surely she'll have to go find food for the babies.

"That doesn't seem likely..."

But Pelerian was quite negative.

For me trapped inside the egg, Pelerian was the only channel for getting information about the outside.

"Oh dear, this is."

Then Pelerian uttered ominous words.

"She seems anxious because the egg you're in isn't hatching."

No, the original egg was basically just like a raw egg anyway.

Why did the other babies hatch already?

"Originally eggs need to be in the mother's warmth to develop. Left in cold subspace storage, there's no way the egg would have matured properly."

Umberto had kept the egg in a space expansion pouch.

What a stupid fellow...!

But that wasn't what mattered.

"Kugugak!"

With a worried cry, the mother wyvern tapped on the egg from outside.

'Don't tell me she's going to break the egg herself.'

Isn't that too crude a method!

But I couldn't rationally persuade the wyvern.

Crack, crackle-

Finally, she started breaking the egg herself.

It's a critical situation.

Should I launch a surprise attack?

Using Isil's hellfire and my Heavenly Thunder Spirit, I might be able to land one good hit.

"You'll die if you do that."

'Yes!'

I decided to follow Pelerian's advice.

The egg completely broke and I made eye contact with the mother.

I desperately acted like a newborn wyvern.

Staggering as if unable to hold my neck properly.

Making sounds like a baby wyvern with my mouth.

"Pishiii-"

Is that a bit different?

"Peeeeee!"

"Chiiii!"

Fortunately, the other babies cried on cue.

Indeed, seen up close, a wyvern's head definitely resembled a snake's.

The mother was the same, and the other babies were too.

'This might work.'

I gave the performance of my life.

I almost lost my composure when I heard Pelerian snicker, but.

"Kugugugu..."

A strange sound came from the mother wyvern's mouth.

I could sense anger.

Damn, it's not working after all!

Come to think of it, I don't have wings and I'm even white.

I probably don't look like a wyvern.

"Kugagagagagagak!"

The mother wyvern roared thunderously.

She even shot a destruction beam into the sky.

It was terrifying power that punched a hole through the clouds.

'Farewell, world.'

No matter how much I racked my brains, there was no solution.

I wasn't confident I could win.

Nor was I confident I could escape.

The stone pillar was impossibly high.

Moreover, there were many nests of other wyverns who seemed to be Celeta's subordinates all around.

'Still, it wasn't a bad life.'

"Wait, she doesn't seem angry at you."

'What?'

The wyvern showed no signs of crushing to death the snake that imitated her child.

Instead, she checked if I had wings by turning me over, then checked again if I had feet.

And when she realized I had neither,

"Kuooooo!"

Tears started forming in the wyvern's eyes.

"Oh, it's that."

'No way...'

"She's sad because an unfortunate child was born."

The youngest child born white, without wings or legs.

An ugly duckling wyvern.

"Kueeeeeeerk!"

Perhaps she was angry at the humans who stole the egg.

As I tried to slowly back away, disgusted by this ridiculous situation,

Celeta embraced me and her other children together.

It was unmistakably a hug.

"Congratulations. You've got a wyvern mother."

The new mother's embrace was very warm and smelled of rotten meat.

Well, I guess I'll stay like this for now...

"Peeeek!"

"Chupee!"

The siblings all raised their heads at once, crying with open mouths.

I stayed still in surprise, but I could feel the wyvern mom's gaze.

I quickly opened my mouth copying their behavior.

That's when it happened.

Pushing aside the other siblings, the wyvern mom stuffed something into my mouth.

That warm and thick substance was actually something that came out of the wyvern mom's mouth.

It was special nutritional porridge for the babies.

'Urk!'

"Don't throw up, eat it!"

Gulp.

I swallowed without thinking.

「You have consumed Oblivion Wyvern Queen Celeta's nutritional porridge.」

「Your body and magical essence are growing.」

Urgh.