Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Elf (4)

“Hand it over here! I will dispose of it!”

“Grandma, why suddenly! What did this slime do.”

“Doesn't it understand words!”

“What about that!”

Nellin could not understand the elder's attitude of suddenly scolding and trying to eliminate the slime.

Meanwhile, the elder looked at her who does not understand and continues to resist and hit her forehead tak!

“No, being a great hero, you don't even know that?”

“What does being a great hero have to do with this!”

“It has intelligence! A monster! Doesn't Nellin-nim know better how dangerous a monster with intelligence is!”

The story that among monsters, individuals with particularly strong power have intelligence has existed from long ago.

Actually, among the monsters Nellin faced, the monsters that inflicted numerous damages on the elves showed appearances of having emotions and acting and seeming to use their heads when fighting.

Therefore, in the elder's eyes, the slime that understands Nellin's words looked dangerous.

Though it is still a young individual so it is not a direct threat, if left like this, it might someday become a threat to the elves.

“That calamity that Nellin-nim and your colleagues defeated. The black dragon also had intelligence, didn't it! But already a slime with intelligence! How can one say it's not dangerous!”

▶Who is the black dragon?

▶Doesn't the old man know?

[Noblesse Fire]▶Isn't it that guy. The stupid guy who set up doing human massacre broadcasts and rather got done in.

▶ㅇㅇ I also remember.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Until the end, there is not even a bit of regret in my life! and lost its life, right?

▶What is that again lmao

▶Sometimes one head-gone guy appears.

▶There are also guys who go crazy saying they are human lmao

“No, is that black dragon the same as this guy? This guy is a slime. What danger is there.”

[Squishy Queen]▶This elf guy! How dare ignore a member of my kind!

“Don't you know that such carelessness later causes a big calamity! No matter how much a slime, it might grow to the extent of rivaling a calamity!”

[Squishy Queen]▶Yes, speaking well!

Nellin listened to the elder's words and embraced the slime more strongly.

‘Soft!’

When Nellin tightly embraced, the slime rejoicing at the new sensation and trembling burrur.

It reflexively embraced, but no matter how much it thought, this soft slime did not look threatening. Nellin who was staring at the slime looked at the elder and asked.

“This guy?”

A voice of question containing sincerity.

The viewers who saw that appearance burst into laughter.

▶lmao

▶Can't believe it lmao

▶2222222.

[Squishy Queen]▶How dare look down on a member of my kind! Arrogant!

[Yarn Lady]▶Cute Squishy-nim becoming strong is hard to imagine~.

[Just Ram and See]▶Don't worry! If you do body slam well, you can become the best!

▶Don't you think about racial differences?

Nellin lifted the embraced slime with one hand, then stroked the slime with the other hand and said.

“Grandma, I'm stronger than grandma and have more fighting experience, you know? In my eyes, this guy is not a threat to me at all. It's unnecessary worry. Can't you trust my sense?”

The elder found it difficult to refute those words.

She can nag any number of times, but if pushing with combat experience, that was also not easy.

It was because of the worry that if she refutes these words for no reason, it might become a protest against Nellin's dignity as a great hero.

“Haa, even if that slime is not threatening! Anyway, we cannot have a monster in the village!”

“It's not dangerous at all. Can't I just raise it? Well, if it becomes dangerous, I can just dispose of it myself...”

“Nellin-nim!”

“Got it, got it. Just sending it out of the village is fine, right.”

Nellin judged that she could no longer bend the elder's stubbornness.

+++

Nellin moved outside the village holding the slime.

“Sigh, sorry. The grandma absolutely doesn't listen to people's words when she's like that.”

She thought about secretly hiding and raising it, but if caught later, it was obvious that the elder would make a fuss.

If weighing the wondrous slime that understands words and the elder who has lived together for a long time, Nellin had no choice but to choose the latter.

Even so, sending the slime outside like this did not make her heart comfortable.

Before saying farewell to the slime, Nellin stopped by the butcher shop again and bought additional jerky.

Soon after, Nellin who passed the village main gate and came out to the forest.

She put the slime down and put down all the jerky bought at the butcher shop.

“The jerky was delicious, right? Eat a lot.”

‘Jerky!’

Rejoicing at seeing the jerky, the slime absorbed the jerky placed in front one after another.

At the taste that does not get boring no matter how many times it eats, the slime trembled burrur.

“It's only this cute. The grandma worries a lot too.”

She placed her hand on the head of the trembling slime and stroked it.

There is no conviction that if sent to the wild like this, it will survive.

No matter how much intelligence it has to understand words, it is a slime, the weakest among monsters.

But.

“If there is a connection, let's see again. Then I'll give more delicious things.”

‘More delicious things!’

At the words more delicious things, the slime reacted and jumped in place.

“As expected, it understands words, right?”

Nellin stood up from the squatting posture and said to the slime.

“Take care.”

Waving her hand lightly, Nellin turned around and returned to the village.

The slime that finished eating the jerky looked at Nellin's back returning to the village.

‘Elf!’

The slime that heard Nellin's farewell but could not properly understand because its language ability is still insufficient tried to follow her poyong!

It was then.

▶[Free Spirit has donated 5 coins]

▶[Message: Squishy-nim! You must not chase!]

Free Spirit who had no words continuously since entering the village.

The so-called joker donated and stopped the slime.

▷Why?

[Free Spirit]▶If you go, it's dangerous. You must not go to the elf village!

[Noblesse Fire]▶Wasn't listening to words because eating jerky.

▶Almost said can't just go? ~.

[Squishy Queen]▶Member of my kind! If you go again, you might die! Is it good even if you can't see new things!

‘Can't see new things?’

▷Not seeing! I don't like!

[Squishy Queen]▶Yes! You wouldn't like it! So go somewhere else!

Advice toward itself.

The slime felt regret at being separated from the elf that gave it delicious things.

However, it clearly remembered the words Nellin said.

If there is a connection, let's see again, then I'll give more delicious things.

The slime vaguely understood that it would not be unable to see the elf at all.

‘New things!’

The slime decided to pour interest into other things rather than regretting.

Touring this world still full of the unknown.

The slime rekindled its curiosity.

Poyong! Poyong!

Perhaps because it ate a lot of jerky, the slime moved into the forest bouncing its body even more energetically.

+++

‘Nellin... could it be that the place where Squishy was was a cave near the elf village.’

A skeleton wearing a robe was looking at the slime's broadcast moving poyong! Poyong! energetically.

Around, a place that also looks like a library with several books inserted and drawers lined up.

However, what exists in that place was only the skeleton wearing a robe.

This skeleton is the nickname Free Spirit.

The lich also called the joker.

The joker was inwardly smiling and turning his head about what additional advice to give after the slime left the cave.

Even before becoming a lich, and after, an existence like a slime was the first he saw.

The joker who almost lost his life betrayed by humans barely escaped and became a lich and first faced the concept of the system.

Perhaps thanks to that.

He who gradually became interested while looking around other monsters' broadcasts through the system.

Rather than being buried in anger and taking revenge on humans, he became more absorbed in exploring the broadcasts of various monsters with intelligence.

Monsters with intelligence no different from humans, and bizarre broadcasts that would be absurd by human standards.

Even numerous monsters' broadcasts that could be called calamities that could never be seen on the Dersia continent.

Even the appearance of the black dragon he faced in his human days was part of a human massacre show concept broadcast.

While exploring broadcasts, he calmed the anger of wanting to step forward and slaughter all humans.

But he could not erase the human hatred that arose due to betrayal.

Because of that, the joker had been living for 30 years buried in his secret workshop without going outside, touring monsters' broadcasts.

And today, through the slime's broadcast, he saw the face of Nellin who was a colleague early on after 30 years.

Surprise, gladness, longing, and an indescribable awkwardness.

In the end, the joker could not even type chat the entire time the slime was in the elf village.

‘You are still the same, Nellin...’

She who, even while being an elf, always ventilated when the party's atmosphere was bad with her easygoing personality.

She who, after defeating the black dragon, parted with a smile and made a promise to meet again someday but never met again.

Seeing her appearance that is easygoing no different from 30 years ago but too peaceful and careless after a long time, the joker felt as if the corners of his non-existent mouth were rising.

The joker recalled the words Nellin said to the slime.

‘Yes, I won't be able to meet again anyway...’

He thought that this time he wants to make the reunion promise she made with the slime come true for sure.

+++

3 days after parting at the elf village.

The slime jumped poyong poyong here and there, seeing various plants and animals and satisfying its curiosity.

In the middle of that, the slime that was absorbing green grass suddenly thought.

It wants to eat something new and delicious.

But looking around, there was no jerky.

Even if it tried to drink animal blood like the deer's blood, the slime did not know the method.

‘Delicious things...’

The slime becoming sullen.

In such a slime's vision, a purple grass growing on the ground was visible just in time.

‘New things!’

Seeing grass of a color it sees for the first time, the slime that thought a new grass taste would come absorbed the purple grass.

‘It hurts...!’

The moment it absorbed, it felt pain inside the body.

▷It hurts!

[Squishy Queen]▶No, member of my kind! Why are you like that!

[Yarn Lady]▶Oh my! Squishy-nim! Why does it hurt?

▶Ate purple grass and is like that.

▶Isn't that poisonous grass?

▶Does poison work on a slime? lmao

[Squishy Queen]▶Poison!? Member of my kind! Hurry and eat other grass! Hurry!

Following the advice, the slime ate the grass it usually eats not the purple grass, and only after 1 hour passed did the pain subside.

It was thanks to digesting the poison inside while eating nutrients.

▷Purple grass! I don't like!

It was the day the first thing the slime dislikes appeared.

But when revealing such emotions, there is always a troll that plays pranks.

▶[Anonymous 678 has donated 1 coin.]

▶[Message: If you eat once more, it won't hurt, right?]

‘It won't hurt?’

[Squishy Queen]▶Don't listen to such words, member of my kind!

[Yarn Lady]▶Why are you trying to torment cute Squishy-nim!

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Since Squishy-nim doesn't kick, we can't stop it.

After the message, chats dissuading rose right away. But the slime's gaze was already concentrated on the purple grass that hurt it.

‘Didn't know the taste!’

Thinking that because of the pain it could not properly feel the taste of the purple grass, the slime absorbed the purple grass once again.

And.

▷It hurts!

▶lmao

▶Ate that lmao

The slime felt the pain of the poisonous grass again.

But it was not the same as the first time.

[Skill: Detoxification acquired.]

‘...? It doesn't hurt!’

▷It doesn't hurt!

▶??

▶It doesn't hurt?

▷Detoxification! Obtained!

▶Did it obtain the Detoxification skill?

▶Obtained this??

Knowing that it no longer hurts even if it eats poisonous grass, the slime absorbed the purple grass once again.

▷Delicious!

The slime that tasted a new taste rejoiced and jumped poyong.