Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
The scene today looked like they were using the small spiders as a communication device, but Kumoko looks like she already has some form of telepathy so.... I dunno. I assumed that Ariel was fighting high level stuff to level up in order to get a skill that helps resist psychic attacks.
Gilly-Gilly has telepathy, not Kumoko. She stares blankly at people or forgets she can't communicate and starts thrashing around in her expressive "talking" manner. She's started to learn the local language to a degree by hearing supplicants beg for specific things, though she can't speak it without a tongue.

And yes, she's too stupid to realize she could have learned telepathy like Oka did when she was a baby. Or however Fei got telepathy as well. Kumoko's solution is to get a humanshape, which is so much harder, haha.