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56 Mutant Slime
When I survey the forest trees standing closely to each other from the edge of the village, a green stone was lying down on a tree root about two trees away.
[What a relief, it"s over there.]
I rush over towards the stone and take it. When I got hold of it, it was a necklace int the shape of an acorn and there"s no mistake that it"s the one I got form Ciel .
This time, in order not to easily drop it, I wear it inside my clothes.
[With this, it"s set. Now then, let"s go bac…. wait, huh?]
When I turned back, the village which was supposed to be there vanished.
The light green mist also come out, it looks like I lost my way back.
[You"ve gotta be kidding me…? Even though it was just right there.]
Even when I try walking towards the vicinity where the village was at, there was only the forest that spreads there.
[What on earth should I do…. Oiii~ Aleph! Ciel, Ragna! Dy!!]
When I tried calling everyone"s name, only one person showed up.
[Rei, what are you doing in a place like this?]
[Dy! I"m glad, but weren"t you supposed to be inside?]
[Because my real body is in that bangle, I will come out from the bracelet once I dive into the darkness.]
It looks like he disappeared from the living room because he got tired of listening to them.
Although he"s being fickle like usual, I only appreciate it this time.
[Was that so? Hey, do you know the way back?]
[I know where the barrier is located. I do know, but the village will be damaged if I break it.]
[You can"t do that.]
[If you give me half a day, I might be able to resolve it.]
If we stand here for half a day, isn"t it a flag that we will surely be discovered and get scolded?
Haa… But there"s really nothing else we can do either, it looks like we can only wait for Aleph and the rest to notice and look for me.
It"s fortunate that as long as I have this necklace, Ciel will be able to find me.
[It"s been a long time since we"ve been alone together. Although it has been lively lately, it"s also nice to have silence once in a while, isn"t it?]
In a fairytale-like forest, Dy is in a good mood with a smile forming in his nicely-shaped lips.
[That"s right, Dy usually prefers the quiet, huh?]
[Not at all! Because the bustling liveliness is enjoyable, isn"t it? It"s fun teasing Swordsman-kun and s.h.i.+-chan, the lizard is easy to talk to, Rei is also delicious and adorable and I feel comfortable when I"m near you.]
Dy narrows his eyes like a cat and rubbed his cheek with mine.
U~n, I feel like I"m being treated as a pet after all.
[I really like the position where I"m in right now. Isn"t Rei the same?]
[Yeah, although it started as me going with the flow in the beginning, now I feel empty if Aleph, Ciel, Ragna, and Dy aren"t around.]
[Isn"t that where you say that you like everybody?]
[That"s, I do. Yeah, you"re right…. I love everybody.]
It"s embarra.s.sing to say things like this, but I tried saying it since there"s only Dy here.
My chest felt warm and I"m a little happy.
When I look down to where the necklace is around out of embarra.s.sment, it was s.h.i.+ning faintly.
[Huh?]
[What"s wrong?]
[It looks like there"s an enemy nearby… Where is it?]
When I cautiously and uneasily concentrate between the trees, a round object bounced towards my feet.
[Eh, what"s this, a slime?]
A peach colored monster about the the size of my head goes *puyopuyo* as it bounces.
Just when I was losing interest towards its really harmless appearance, it stuck into my foot.
[Uwah, stop it.]
Its stickiness is like jelly and it feels gross.
When I tried to shake it off as it tries to creep up, even when I try to shake my leg or sc.r.a.pe it against the tree trunk to get it off, it"s completely inseparable.
I tried shooting it with magic if removing it physically didn"t work, but fire made the temperature rise and it was hot for me too. Earth, wind, and darkness didn"t work either, and it only became bigger when I used water magic on it.
It melted my clothes as it gradually crawled up and wrapped around my bare fet.
My skin feels a p.r.i.c.kling pain,
and I could feel it trying to insert a poison or something as it wriggles.
[Dy! Do something about this guy!]
[That"s going to be troublesome, its minute feelers gets into your body, but if you"re fine having your foot burnt and regenerated later then I can do something about it.]
Absolutely not, that sound terribly painful!
I appraise the monster in order to somehow break the deadlock.
Pale Slime (Mutant)
Monster
6 years old
Lv 23
HP 1025/1147
MP 46/52
Magic Attribute: Earth
Skill: Stealth, Metamorphosis, Division, Powerful Cohesion, Dissolution, Paralysis Poison Refinement
t.i.tle: Gross Eater
It would have been easier if I can find its weakness through Appraisal, but I guess it"s not going to be that simple.
Dy tries throwing stones at it, but all of it just enters and stays inside its body and doesn"t do much damage.
It feels like I will melt first before its HP runs out.
Looking at its jiggling form every time he throws a stone at it, ‘This guy is funny", he said while grinning.
Nono, this isn"t the time for that, is it!?
I tried pus.h.i.+ng it with my hands to hold back its progress, but it ended up capturing my wrist instead.
[GYAA~!! I can"t pull it back, I can"t move!]
I"m gradually becoming unable to move. Because he has the Paralysis Poison Refinement skill, it looks like that works as an anesthesia.
My body is numb and I can"t stand anymore. This is bad.
[Should we burn it, after all?]
[Rejected!]
I"m in an unprecedented pinch.
[Rei!]
Aleph and Ragna gallantly appeared in turn. Ciel also arrived after the quick-footed duo a bit later.
Everyone is so cool, there"s also the glittering mist"s effect which makes them unnecessarily look sparkly.
[I"ll save you right now.]
[Wait, Aleph, you must not cut it!]
Ciel"s still voice shouted from behind but he didn"t make it in time, and Aleph who came to fight cut the slime into two with his sword.
The part of the peach colored slime that was cut wiggled around and divided into two.
The newly born slime clings to my body.
[Uwa~!! It increased!]
[It will only propagate if you cut it, the way to defeat it is special. Diremolo! Please cooperate with me.]
[Sure, what should I do?]
[Please put in earth magic on the water magic that I will cast, you can do it, can"t you?]
[Of course. Let"s do it immediately.]
The slime grows bigger and bigger as Ciel flushed is with a water current, but its body becomes muddy when Dy"s earth magic combines with it in there.
The slime writhed in agony, it fell to the ground while scattering bodily fluids.
Ukyaa~, even I got covered in the fluids that it scattered.
Ciel immediately follows up with with fire magic on the slime that fell to the ground. As it raised a voiceless cry, the slime"s body vanished without a trace.