Zhu Tong was not called Zhu Tong in the past. She has no name, not even a fixed title.
She looked like a child now, and had always done so in the distant past. But in fact, she lived a long time, longer than Xie Yan, who looked older. Maybe she already existed before the human Satsuki-kun was born. But she always looks like a child and never grows up.
Zhu Tong was a bad monster without a name, a very bad monster. But all bad monsters also grow up from little monsters - and little monsters are not necessarily bad, just like human children are not necessarily good. Whether a person's "nature is inherently good" or evil at first depends mostly on what kind of person his parents are. Since the terms good and bad in human terms are used, then, just like humans, whether demons are born good or bad is also determined by the environment that comes into the world.
Zhu Tong has no name because no parents gave her a name. Without parents, there would be no one to teach her about good and bad things. However, not having parents is common in the world of monsters and is not a rare thing. After all, in that era full of war, hunger and disease, many humans did not have parents. Not to mention ordinary animals, nature is always cruel. If you are not strong, you will be eaten by the strong. Survival of the fittest is a matter of course.
Zhu Tong is lucky, but not so lucky at the same time. Her mother is a spider demon who has become a spirit through cultivation, but her father is just a spider with no name and no need for a name, that is, an ordinary insect. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Tong's appearance never completely resembles that of a normal human being, but rather retains many characteristics of a spider. Like her eight eyes without whites, like her several limbs that are deformed and difficult to hide. To maintain the human form, one needs to expend more demon power than others.
Perhaps it was because her mother was not an orthodox youkai in the first place that she would take a closer look at the class she had stayed in when choosing a spouse. Discrimination among monsters is more common. She should have chosen a stronger mate to make her offspring more adaptable to this cruel nature, but if no one likes her, there is no way she can force it. If those strong people are willing to choose weaker targets as their lovers, they most likely want to take the opportunity to eat them.
In order to save her life, she chose a weak husband, a real insect - of course, he should be somewhat spiritual. But what happened after that was hard to say. She had to take care of her children alone. The habit of spiders is to lay their eggs in bags woven with spider silk and wait for them to hatch successfully. During this time, she was left alone in the lair. There is no source of food, and even water can only be obtained by using nets to capture the moisture in the humid air. Her body was failing.
Zhu Tong was the last to hatch, and its eggs were naturally small. But like her brothers and sisters, she grew up very quickly. After crawling out of the egg shell and bag, she was able to stand up on her eight legs and walk in the nest in a short time. It's just that she was born too late, and her brothers and sisters had already left here and gone to the outside world. No one paid any attention to her, or rather they were lucky that they didn't eat her unhatched form as food. Naturally, they didn't leave much food for her.
In a place where their mothers didn't have much food, the only thing that could be called food was...
Although cruel, it does happen everywhere in the world. The first time she saw her mother, she was already beyond recognition and was riddled with wounds by her own children. The internal organs of the softest human upper body and the spider cavities of the lower body have been hollowed out, and there is not much human skin left. She couldn't recognize her mother's appearance at all because her face was so soft. The remaining human and spider bones barely held up her final outline. And her long hair, as strong as her silk threads.
She won't be afraid of it - fear only develops if she's taught a thing is worth fearing. She only knew that this thing that was corrupt but still exuding a fragrant smell was her mother. This is biological instinct. She crawled into her mother's skeletal arms alone, as if she was being hugged, and a different kind of warmth surged from her heart. She still didn't know what this feeling was called, but she just felt that the embrace with the residual warmth of flesh and blood was so worthy of nostalgia.
Then with this nameless emotion, she ate the remaining part of her mother.
Everything is taken for granted and should not come as a surprise. She will eventually leave the dark lair and move towards the wider world. Then she will leave her mother - and she will only stay here
It's just a waste. To leave, she needs more nutrients to turn into strength. After absorbing the remaining demonic power, she could transform into a human. Although she still looked unreliable, she finally got out of the nest on two legs.
She makes a living by seducing human children. Find a cave similar to the place where you were born, set up your own net, and then disguise yourself as a human to get close to the children who left home. This disguise can only last for a day at most, and the few demonic powers will soon fade away as night falls, revealing her original inhuman and terrifying appearance. She played and played with them, and when it got dark she took them back to where she lived—and then ate them. .
Not every child is so easy to deceive. When they are a little older, they will have scheming ideas and will even run back to inform the adults. At that time, she had to move away and find her next place to live. Children who have the ability to leave the house and move around, but who are not clever enough not to be deceived by her, are generally between three and eight years old, and her image therefore does not exceed this age. Children are always full of spirituality, which made her grow a lot.
But that alone was not enough for her. If you want to live a better life, you must imitate humans skillfully. Just focusing on children is not a long-term solution. We need to learn more from normal people. Because there are too many humans, they are everywhere... We should find a way to sneak in and survive. Otherwise you will be killed. She knew how those adults dealt with monsters, either skillfully or brutally. Even if they can't defeat those big demons, the terrifying number of humans is enough to swamp them and make them fall apart. She felt that killing monsters by humans was more terrifying than killing monsters. They would even make the corpses of monsters into various things for trading and showing off. Monsters are not so cruel.
Then she came up with a brilliant idea.
First eat the children of adults and then pretend to be children. Learn how to be a child, learn how to play the role of an adult, and when you really can't pretend anymore or are too hungry, you can eat even the adults. Since the demon power is strong, it can last longer. This is really a good way to have both worlds, and she can always feel happy about how smart she is.
She thought so, and she did it, many times. But she couldn't hold on for long because she couldn't help but reveal her flaws. Either there was some expert in subjugating demons nearby, so she had no choice but to run away as soon as possible. After doing this for many years, she already knew how to be a child. When to act coquettishly is more lovable, how to pretend to be pitiful to win sympathy... She knows the time, method, and different techniques for different people. She thought that she was already very good at being a child, but she could never find the first feeling - the first feeling of being in the arms of her mother's remains.
The embrace of human beings is certainly beautiful. Soft, warm and filled with the aroma of food. Maybe because they are not their mothers after all, or maybe they are living mothers. She also tried to take them away and bring them back to the nest, waiting for them to rot quietly before getting into the cold embrace again. That feeling of nostalgia came back, but it couldn't last long. Even if she resists hunger, the body will soon decompose.
Those children...those happy children, they said, grew up with their mother's love. She had never been able to feel this emotion because it wouldn't be long before these women screamed at her extra eyes or limbs. The scream was so harsh that it gave her a headache and would cause more trouble. Taking action before attracting more people is an effective way to quiet them down quickly. Then they died, never making unpalatable meals, never giving warm hugs, never whispering in their ears every night.
Living mothers cannot accept her for long, and dead mothers cannot love her for long.
Until one day, she met such a mother.
She is invisible.
The better news is that she has no husband and is living alone with her daughter. In other words, wandering. Her daughter was as big as she is now and in her prime. A woman's daughter is her crutch, her eye, her hope. She just deceived a girl who was fetching water at first, until at night, a somewhat crazy woman appeared by the river. The woman called out a name, which was not very nice, not on the level of someone from a wealthy family. Then she knew that Bai
The girl God ate was her child. Zhu Tong thought that this was another good opportunity, so he transformed into the girl, put on the clothes she had worn, and approached the crazy woman.
The woman was defenseless and didn't even notice that the child in front of her was a monster. Zhu Tong was ecstatic when she realized she was blind, and she didn't even need to expend a little extra strength to maintain her human appearance. This was the perfect learning opportunity for her to better understand how a human mother is a mother. The boring life of the past could finally be over, she thought. The new life can last for a long, long time. As long as she is willing, it can even last until she completes her human life.
She naturally becomes a woman's new crutch, new eyes, and new hope.
