Chapter 5
Slurp, Slurp,
Slurp
Translator : PolterGlast
I am actually a slime.
That's a lie. I'm human.
Before I knew it, over
ten slimes had gathered, wobbling around. One would appear, and then they'd
bump into each other and split. And then they'd increase in number. By making
full use of my cleaning skill + illusion skill, they mistook me for a cleaning
slime. The level of my illusion skill had also risen to 2 without me noticing.
And after I became
able to float about ten centimeters off the ground by using my flight skill and
illusion skill, I realized that skills were like addition. I 【believed I could fly】. And then I could fly. Since the flight skill was
just Lv. 1, I should only be slightly floating off the ground, but by adding
the illusion skill, I floated a little more.
What I considered
fortunate here was that it was addition. If it had been multiplication, 1
multiplied by 1 is still 1, so I would have crashed into the ground the moment
I fell off the cliff and my life would have ended.
The slimes were
currently wriggling around beneath me.
"Slurp, slurp,
slurp, slurp."
"No way. Their
cries are awful. No way."
The trembling cries
that I hadn't noticed when it was just one slime became somewhat understandable
when there were ten of them. No, there were twelve of them now without me
realizing. Since they thought of me as a comrade, they acted together with me.
At first, they were just lined up next to me, but as their numbers increased,
they let me ride on top of them. I just sat there in a formal kneeling position,
and they steadily moved through the forest. They seemed to have an instinct to
stick together after splitting, and after lifting me up, they seemed to be
saying, "Huh? This one doesn't stick. That's strange," as they
wobbled the core in their bellies, but I decided to just go along with them as
they continued to move forward, thinking, "Oh well."
"Slurp, slurp,
slurp, slurp."
Not a single weed
remained where they passed. They were the forest's cleaners, swallowing even
monster droppings. "Slurrrrp." Honestly, they were starting to seem a
little cute.
My level wasn't high
enough to completely transform my appearance, but I seemed to be able to change
the perception of the surrounding monsters. Since there were many low-level
monsters in this forest to begin with, it was safe to explore the surroundings
even with just slimes, and cleaning slimes were apparently valued as cleaners
and weren't targeted by monsters because they had no meat and weren't tasty.
【Acquired Tamer Skill】
Moreover, I had
acquired some skill. Ever since the window display appeared, I had been
particularly conscious of the existence of skills, and my senses were different
from how they had been in my previous life. Maybe my innate talent was becoming
easier to bloom. As expected of the game's most terrifying witch.
"But I was really
lucky..."
I slowly moved through
the forest, getting further away from the village. I repeatedly thought about
how lucky I had been. Maybe it was because the cleaning slimes never had
trouble finding food wherever they were, but they didn't seem to have a
specific nest, so meeting them was a miracle. It was like a fateful encounter.
While I thought that, I also felt like I was probably following a different
route than Eldorado in the game. However, now that my memories of being a
Japanese person who had lived peacefully had returned, I didn't think I could
become a woman as full of vitality as she was.
Therefore, what I
aimed for was a steady, slow life.
Demons, humans,
revenge, and such difficult things made me sigh just thinking about them. So,
what I cared about was having delicious food tomorrow. After tomorrow was the
day after tomorrow, and after that was the day after that. Living peacefully
day by day. So first of all.
"Let's just keep
running away!"
"Heave-ho!"
I thrust out one hand. "Slurrrrp slurrrrp," the transparent slimes
under my feet continued to slurp. They were squishy and cool, which felt nice.
The path they took as they moved freely was sparkling clean. They also seemed
to be taking in food, which I envied. First, secure a safe place. Next, food.
In that case.
"Let's aim for
the city!"
I pictured the map of
Cloudy Country in my head. The village where Eldorado was born was located at
the edge of the leaf-shaped country. From there, it would be an unimaginable
distance for a child's legs, but for the slimes' legs, it was only a few days
away to the city. It was a place that had also been a setting in the game.
Calculating backwards from the game's history, I couldn't say for sure that it
was completely safe, but the disturbances that had occurred in the past should
have caused relatively little damage to the citizens.
I didn't think a child
could live alone in the forest forever. My eye color had changed to the red of
a demon, but if I made good use of my skills, I might be able to live among
humans.
When I muttered that I
would abandon the name Eldorado, I was actually very apprehensive. When I asked
the small girl in my heart, who had completely become me, she quietly nodded. I
won't become a villain in a game. I don't know anything about saints. I'll just
live a peaceful life. I'll become an adult.
"Let's go!"
The hand I thrust out
was still very short.
If the bread tomorrow
is delicious, that's all I need. I turned on the tamer skill I had just
acquired. It seemed that by using the illusion skill, I could use multiple
skills simultaneously. I looked at the explanation.
【Can become friends with animals and monsters. Maybe】
"Couldn't you be
a little more clear?" I thought, but it was only Lv. 1, so maybe it
couldn't be helped. Maybe it was because of the +1 from the addition effect,
but the cleaning slimes started moving more energetically. "Ohh."
They had been moving wherever they wanted without a fixed direction, but now I
could change their destination if I asked.
"This is
wonderful!" I thought, as I increased the number of slimes and continued
on. I steadily moved forward. I couldn't say at all that the future was bright.
The sky was heavily clouded and looked like it was about to cry, but it would
definitely not rain.
It's okay, I can move
forward.
***
Recently, strange
reports have been coming in. The slimes around the city have suddenly
disappeared. Slimes themselves are weak monsters, but they breed quickly and
are excellent practice targets for adventurers and soldiers with insufficient
experience, and their core can be crushed and drunk as moisture. Since they are
also traded on the market as a beverage with a long shelf life, it was
desirable to secure them regularly if possible.
Such voices from the
citizens first reached the church, and if they could be confirmed there, things
would be simple, but there were few priests with military power, and they
couldn't possibly go directly. In that case, they would want to rely on
adventurers, but the profits were small and the experience points from slimes
were not rewarding. No one would take the job.
Therefore, it was not
difficult to imagine that it would eventually be passed on to the knighthood,
but the content was vague, with no clear objective for completing the request.
In the end, the task
was passed down to the lowest ranks.
There was a young man
with black hair. He had a sullen, displeased look, but his nose was remarkably
well-shaped. Then, he roughly rubbed his nose with one hand. The handsome young
man's beauty was ruined.
"Lotus, you're
the one going? That's too bad. It's the southern forest, right?"
"Yeah. They want
me to investigate the cause of the slime decrease. I don't know, that's just how
it is."
"They should just
leave it to the scholars," sighed a
man, no more than 20 years old, who could hardly be described as a young man or
a boy. He was dressed lightly for travel, but he firmly carried two swords at
his waist. "That's for sure," seeing his colleague cracking a joke,
he let out a slight smile. He was a man whose smile was hard to notice unless
you looked closely, but strangely, he was well-liked.
"Well, I'll just go quickly and come back. There's probably nothing there anyway."
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