Rumplewool began rolling around the room. Shiori started moving after it, but her movements were noticeably slower than usual.

"Ugh...! This is getting in the way...!"

The cause was the wool tangling around her feet. Perhaps due to Rumplewool’s rolling, the wool that had been spread harmlessly across the ground moments before began to shake violently, entangling her feet and hindering her movement.

It could be torn apart with enough force, but it still held her back for precious seconds. Apart from the rolling Rumplewool, Shiori was having a hard time with this massive amount of wool.

"Ugh...!"

As Shiori struggled, Rumplewool bounced off the wall and rolled toward her. Seeing this, she instinctively raised her rapier and considered intercepting it, but she gave up on the idea of fighting a three‑meter mass. She managed to dodge by tearing the wool wrapped around her feet and leaping to the side.

"Phew... I wonder if this will cut... No good. It’s not working."

Watching Rumplewool roll away, Shiori tried swinging her rapier at the wool on the ground. Even when cut, the strands quickly reattached and became fluffy again. Removing them by cutting seemed impossible.

"...In that case, I have no choice but to fight in this situation."

She gave up on doing anything about the ground wool and turned her gaze back to Rumplewool rolling around the room. The wool ball rolled about, bouncing off the walls. Since she could not catch it even by running, Shiori stopped in her tracks and waited for it to come to her.

"...Right. Long‑range attacks don’t seem to work."

While waiting with nothing else to do, she tried attacking with her air gun, which allowed long‑range strikes, but the projectiles merely sank into the wool lump with a soft thud. She quickly put the air gun away and focused solely on her rapier.

"...It’s coming."

After waiting about ten seconds, Rumplewool rolled directly toward her. Seeing this, Shiori tore off the wool wrapped around her legs and waited, ready to move at any moment.

"Hah, haa...!"

The moment the distance fell below one meter, she leaped to the side to dodge while simultaneously swinging her rapier to attack Rumplewool.

"—...!"

"It worked...!?"

At that moment, Rumplewool jumped back from the spot. Shiori cried out in surprise, but the wool ball simply began rolling around the room again.

"...Huh. Did it work? Well, anyway, I’ll continue attacking like this."

Seeing that reaction, she raised a questioning voice, but since she had no other option for now, she decided to persist with the same approach and raised her rapier.

"Hmph...!"

"—...!"

"Hah...!"

"—...!"

Second hit. Third hit. Shiori steadily landed counterattacks. Each time Rumplewool was struck, it simply bounced back and did nothing else noteworthy. Then she delivered the fourth blow.

"—..."

"Hmm... Your behavior has changed."

The moment it was attacked, it bounced away—but when it landed, unlike before, it stopped moving in place instead of resuming its rolling. Seeing this, Shiori calmly held her rapier and observed. Rumplewool slowly rolled away from her... and when it returned to the center of the room, it suddenly stopped.

"...—!"

"What...!? Ah...!"

Shiori kept her eyes on the situation. From the motionless Rumplewool, tentacles made of wool suddenly sprouted and attacked her. She instinctively swung her rapier to cut them off and dodged by leaping sideways. Rumplewool began to shake violently.

"—, —!"

"What does this mean...?"

Rumplewool hopped in place, continuously producing tentacles from within its mass. Furthermore, other effects emerged: tentacles were wriggling out from the wool spread on the ground. There seemed to be dozens in total.

"Huh...!? Damn it...!"

The woolly tentacles that had sprouted began to writhe and sway, then suddenly attacked Shiori. Something wrapped around her arms and legs from behind or the side. Surprised, she quickly swung her rapier to cut them away.

"—!"

"Ah, kyaaa!?"

But then Rumplewool came rolling in. Shiori tried to dodge instinctively, but at that moment woolly tentacles wrapped around her ankles and stopped her movement. She could not dodge in time and was hit by the charge, sending her flying.

"Oh no..."

Fortunately—perhaps because it was merely a lump of wool—the charge had almost no force. Shiori took barely any damage, only being blown away from her spot.

"Ah, kya...!? Wait, wait a minute...!"

However, as soon as she got back up after being blown away, woolly tentacles began wrapping around her body one after another.

Shiori immediately swung her rapier and cut them down, but she had been blown into an area where tentacles grew abundantly. No matter how many she cut, more kept wrapping around her—an endless situation.

"Ah, ahh...!? S‑stop... uh, uhh... stop, ahh..."

They wrapped around her legs, anchoring her in place. They wrapped around the hand holding her rapier, making it impossible to swing. They wrapped around her waist, restricting her movement. Then they wrapped around her other hand as well. Finally, she was restrained to the point where she could not move at all.

"Ah, uh... uh, uh..."

Because they were made of matted wool, the tentacles themselves were soft. Even when Shiori pulled hard, they showed no sign of tearing.

"—..."

"Ah...!"

Then, Rumplewool slowly rolled toward her. Shiori’s expression hardened. Several more tentacles sprouted from the mass of Rumplewool.

"Uh... Uh, huh...!?"

"Wait, those tentacles..."

"—..."

The newly emerged tentacles were still made of wool, but their tips were shaped like penises—a more visceral appearance than the other tentacles.

"—..."

"Ah... ah, yes..."

"No way... I’m going to be violated with a wool penis...!? ♡"

As its appearance suggested, they were penises made of wool. One of them stroked her cheek, and Shiori felt it grow hot and erect despite its material. Her body, already restrained by the woolly tentacles, trembled.