Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Evolution (2)

The slime recognizes the nutrients entering its body as taste. Therefore, it could not help but be surprised while absorbing the rabbit.

Because it was similar to the ‘taste’ felt when absorbing the deer’s blood and the ‘taste’ felt when eating jerky.

Thanks to the same ‘taste’, the slime was able to recognize that the rabbit is meat.

However.

‘Not jerky!’

No matter how fresh the rabbit is, it could not be said to be the same as jerky.

That was natural because jerky was food made by cooking and sprinkling seasonings.

Since both are meat, the nutrients would naturally be similar. But in terms of taste, there was a clear difference.

▷You lied!

▶??? Lied?

▶What is the lie?

▷Rabbit meat is right! Not rabbit jerky!

▶Ack lmao

▶Not jerky lmao

[Noblesse Fire]▶It distinguishes that?

[Squishy Queen]▶What do you guys think of a slime! Of course it can distinguish that much!

▷You lied! Bad!

When the taste of the jerky it expected did not come after eating new meat, the slime cast the angry poyong! poyong!

[Free Spirit]▶Jerky is also made from meat! Still, wasn’t it delicious?

According to what the joker learned, most monsters eat even uncooked meat deliciously.

Therefore, he guessed that the slime would also eat the rabbit deliciously.

▷Delicious! But not jerky!

Even if acknowledging it is delicious, it is not the taste of the jerky it hoped for. The slime’s anger did not easily subside.

▷You said meat is jerky! Not rabbit jerky!

[Yarn Lady]▶What to do! Angry Squishy-nim is also cute~.

▶Auntie, what is not cute in your eyes?

[Yarn Lady]▶Who is auntie!

▶lmao

▶If you give birth to a kid, you’re an auntie~

▶fr lmao

‘Hmm, how do I soothe this anger?’

The joker who was in his workshop thought for a moment about how to soothe the slime’s anger and suddenly came up with one idea.

That was diverting the slime’s interest elsewhere.

[Free Spirit]▶Squishy-nim! My explanation was insufficient! Sorry!

▷Meat! Not jerky!

[Free Spirit]▶ㅇㅇ meat is not jerky. I was wrong. Still, since the meat was delicious, don’t you want to eat more?

▷I want to eat!

[Free Spirit]▶Then next time try catching other animals besides rabbits! Surely it will be more delicious than rabbits and you can eat more!

▷Other animals?

[Free Spirit]▶There are deer or wild boars!

‘Deer!’

The slime immediately reacted to the choices the joker proposed.

Especially the taste of the deer’s blood that it ate for the first time, it still remembers even now.

Not as much as jerky, but that taste that gives vitality to the body.

What taste would it be if it eats everything including the body like the rabbit?

The anger flew somewhere, and curiosity about the deer’s taste bloomed in the slime.

▷Deer! I want to eat!

[Free Spirit]▶Then look for it!

▷Yeah!

[Noblesse Fire]▶It passes over this?

▶Still a kid lmao

[Just Ram and See]▶Being fooled is only for a while anyway. Even if the head grows a little, it immediately notices and looks with distrustful eyes...

▶Not curious about your family matters.

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“Huu, avoided being hated by Squishy.”

The joker sighing and relieved in the cavity.

The slime was still showing a pure tendency so far.

However, the joker knows.

That one must not look down on that purity and continue playing pranks or lying. The ill feelings created that way had no choice but to last really long.

Like remembering and holding onto the pranks done thinking a child would soon forget even after growing up.

Because the joker also still cannot forget the pranks suffered in his still pure childhood.

‘Still, with this I made Squishy continue to have interest in animal meat. Then next...’

The joker thought he should inform what to be careful of when meeting humans.

Unlike monsters living on the magic continent, the slime is still very weak.

It is at a level where it can catch about a rabbit. But if it meets humans or other monsters, it will be attacked with a high probability.

So he will advise to avoid humans as much as possible.

‘That curiosity-filled Squishy won’t stay still.’

Looking at the reaction when first encountering Nellin, one could know. When seeing humans for the first time, it will approach out of curiosity again.

Even if the slime has the power to protect itself and win against humans attacking it.

‘Eating people must absolutely be stopped.’

After becoming a lich, the joker thought there was no need to care about the ethics of the human world or anything.

Actually, even seeing the scene of monsters killing and eating humans in some broadcasts, the joker was not unpleasant.

From the beginning, there was no way the joker who was betrayed by humans and driven into a corner and became a lich would take the humans’ side.

However.

Even if not an ethical problem, the moment the slime eats humans, it will be put in danger.

If the rumor of the slime eating humans spreads? A slime subjugation request might be issued.

If a person lost to a slime and died.

Well, how pathetic to die to a slime? would be the reaction.

If the slime ate a person.

That slime is a harmful slime!

Saying so, those trying to subjugate right away would flock in crowds.

Above all.

‘Nellin would be sad.’

The joker thought that if the slime that made a reunion promise, the slime that she judged as weak and harmless, became a cannibal monster that eats people, Nellin would be sad.

He doesn’t care what happens to other humans, but he had no intention of leaving alone the past colleague being sad or the reunion promise being defiled.

‘Of course, it’s not something to worry about right now.’

The slime continuing to advance after coming out of the elf village.

However, from the elf village to the village where people live takes more than a week even by carriage.

So there was no worry of the slime currently wandering the elf forest meeting people.

On the broadcast screen, the slime jumping poyong! poyong! while using Detection to find deer was visible.

The slime jumping energetically with its soft body is cute, but continuing to watch only this broadcast was boring. As a broadcast veteran, one cannot be buried in one broadcast.

‘Have to watch another broadcast.’

First, there is nothing to worry about. The joker started touring other broadcasts.

‘Squishy Queen is starting a broadcast after a long time. I thought she would be busy watching Squishy.’

The joker entered Squishy Queen’s broadcast room.

And.

▶[Free Spirit has been kicked.]

‘!?’

He was refused at the door as soon as he entered.

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-Hmph! Where are you trying to enter, arrogant thing.

The Slime Queen kicked as soon as she saw the notification that the joker entered.

The reason was that it was impudent.

After the slime left the elf village, the Slime Queen was pondering how to lead Squishy in the future.

Even if respecting the slime’s will, presenting a better direction to a certain extent is possible!

But there was a big problem.

Because she is the highest-ranking individual of the slime, the Slime Queen instinctively knew what possibilities the monster called slime holds.

However, knowing all possibilities was the problem.

This also that also all look good so she faced the problem of not being able to grasp which direction to lead.

Therefore, the Slime Queen thought.

First, let’s leave several possibilities open!

Originally she would leave it to grow on its own according to the environment, but the same kind slime unusually had intelligence from a young age.

Then.

‘Surely the time of choice the system gives will come to the same kind as well.’

At that time, give advice in the direction the slime wants so that the choices that can be selected increase.

It was when she was making such a resolution.

When she was about to type a chat that one must not eat only poisonous grass too much, the joker uttered the words to eat meat more than poisonous grass before her!

From the Slime Queen’s standpoint, it felt like not only having the initiative taken but also the role she was going to do being taken by the joker.

Subsequently, the slime missed the rabbit, and this time even the situation where Fenrir informs the ambush method came.

The joker and Fenrir.

In the Slime Queen’s heart, the two existences established themselves as arrogant and impudent existences that took her role.

▶Squishy Queen-nim hey~

▶Turned on the broadcast after a long time.

▶Why didn’t you turn it on these days?

-Whenever I turn on the broadcast is my heart. And in the future I cannot turn on the broadcast often.

▶????

▶Why why why why why why why.

-There is a same kind to take care of. Know that.

▶Did a slime king appear nearby?

▶Oh, Squishy Queen-nim finally mating?

▶[Anonymous 4299 has been kicked.]

-Who is mating! Impudent!

▶Already kicked and speaking lmao

▶Mating crossed the line lmao

▶Ah! damn!

▶[Mating Parrot has been kicked.]

After sending out a few trolls that always enter whenever she turns on the broadcast, the Slime Queen looked at the reasons she came to turn on the broadcast after a long time.

Unlike Squishy, slimes with no ego, just moving by instinct and only following the Slime Queen’s commands.

However, not having intelligence did not mean staying still like dolls.

They just do not have intelligence enough to be selected by the system, ordinary slimes also had intelligence about the level of small animals.

There was no reaction from the Slime Queen who regularly gave them commands. Even low-intelligence slimes could know that that is strange.

Because the system window is not visible in the slimes’ vision, in their eyes the Slime Queen could only be seen blankly looking at the empty space.

Perhaps some abnormality occurred to their leader?

The slimes unconsciously worried about the Slime Queen and flocked.

The Slime Queen who can convey her will to other slimes and give commands could also feel the strong will of the same kind.

Of course, most were about hunger or questions of not understanding complicated commands.

Having such slimes holding the will of ‘worrying’ about her, the Slime Queen could not help but be surprised.

‘I only paid attention to the same kind and could not pay attention to you.’

Even if intelligence is low, her retainers and same kind living in the same cave.

At the appearance of the slimes worrying about her, the Slime Queen naturally smiled.

And the Slime Queen started the slime trick broadcast after several days.

As usual commands came down again, the worry disappeared from the slimes.

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‘Deer! Meat!’

The slime whose goal changed from rabbit to deer.

As the saying that if there is adversity, the will burns, the slime showed a more motivated appearance than when catching the rabbit.

Because it could not catch a deer for 4 days!

The deer was not an easy opponent.

Approaching carefully was good, but from the moment of body slamming, there was a problem.

Being larger in size than the rabbit was not a problem.

The slime’s body slam hit the deer’s torso directly.

But the problem was durability.

Unlike the rabbit, the deer did not collapse in one shot.

The deer that was hit by body slam was startled and ran away as is.

Even if the slime tried to chase behind, it moved quickly so it could not chase.

The chat window whose laughter burst again looking at the appearance of failing the hunt. Soon advice toward the slime flew.

▶Too bad lmao

[Just Ram and See]▶If aiming, aim for the vital point! So you can send it in one shot!

Aiming for the vital point where one can collapse the prey in one shot from an unexpected place.

And the slime, after performing that advice for several days and going through several trials and errors.

Now, it caught the best opportunity.

Confirm the deer’s position and approach.

Confirm the terrain features around.

Approach the tree near the deer without being noticed by the deer and sulkum sulkum climb up the tree.

Finally aiming for the deer’s head.

Poyong!

Launch body slam as if stomping down.

At the unexpected ambush, the deer’s head was covered by the slime as is and hit the ground.

The deer whose strength left its legs from the proper strike collapsed as is with its head stuck in the ground.

‘Deer! Caught!’

In the joy of finally succeeding in the hunt, the moment the slime was about to jump again.

The system’s voice was heard by the slime.

[Criteria experience has been met.]

[Evolution conditions have been achieved.]

[Detected multiple evolution possibilities of the target.]

[Please select the individual to evolve into.]

‘Evolution?’