Monster Livestream Star - Chapter 13

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◈ Monster Livestream Star ◈

Chapter 13: Evolution (4)

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When monsters evolved, they emitted the Light of Evolution.

The moment the light shone, their bodies transformed into the form they were evolving into.

‘Amazing!’

Wrapped in light, the slime cried out inwardly at the sensation.

Its body was changing.

What else could it call that feeling but amazing?

Once the light faded, the slime wanted to inspect its changed body right away.

‘I want to see!’

It immediately used the third-person stream view to examine itself.

‘...?’

Then, seeing its reflection, the slime tilted its body.

Because almost nothing had changed!

If it had to point out one difference, its pale green body seemed glossier because it had become more elastic.

The viewers felt the same way.

▶Did it evolve?

▶Nothing changed, though?

▶No, it looks a tiny bit bouncier.

▶Bouncier?

▶Like your belly?

The Slime Queen asked the slime, which did not seem much different.

[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin! What did you choose? Speak!

▷Bounce Slime! I chose it!

[Just Slam Into It]▶Hahaha! So you chose headbutting after all, Malangi! My teachings really are the best!

[Threadwork Madam]▶It's a shame you didn't choose poison, but you're still so, so cute, Malangi!

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! Why did you choose Bounce Slime?

Relieved that Malangi had chosen Bounce Slime, Kkanjuki asked about its motivation so it could use that knowledge for the next evolution as well.

▷I wanted to jump fast! I wanted to jump lots!

▷I'll jump fast and catch deer!

▶LOL

▶It was still thinking about losing that race to the deer LOL

[Noblesse Fire]▶Hey, since you evolved, try jumping. Let's see how much faster you got.

The fire dragon did not care about its motivation at all. It simply wanted to see the changes, so it urged the slime on.

And that request happened to match what the slime had been thinking.

It had checked its appearance, but there was little outward change.

Still, it could feel that it had definitely changed.

That meant there was only one thing left to do: move and see the difference for itself!

First, the slime bounced in place as usual.

Boing! Boing!

‘Wow!’

The moment it moved, the slime clearly felt its evolution.

It could jump much higher in place.

Not only that, but the force it put into each jump had grown stronger as well.

As a result, the deer beneath it had its head driven deeper into the ground.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Malangi? The deer's head has been getting buried in the ground for a while now.

The bone dragon pointed out something the other monsters had not paid attention to at all.

‘Deer?’

Only then did the slime look down beneath itself.

‘Deer!’

The deer's head was buried so deeply in the dirt that only its antlers remained visible.

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‘Heh heh heh! This means I have even more to teach!’

Learning that the slime had evolved into a Bounce Slime made Fenrir feel as though he had seized victory.

Lately, no one in the household properly listened to him.

Not only his children, but even his spouse had lately been looking at him as though he were pathetic.

It was not that they disliked him, but neither were they proud of him. Those ambiguous looks hurt Fenrir even more.

Fortunately, whenever he watched Malangi, Fenrir could forget that pain.

‘What should I teach next? Now that it's faster, having it dart all over the place and leave its opponent completely bewildered would be good... Or it could take them out in one blow with a swift strike!’

Heh. Heh-heh. Heh-heh-heh-heh!

Fenrir's eyes reflected the slime busily absorbing the deer.

‘That's it! Eat a lot and grow more! Then I'll teach you even more ways to hunt, Malangi!’

As Fenrir grinned while considering how to tailor Malangi's training, his children watched him from behind.

-Dad is smiling creepily to himself again...

-Go talk to Dad. Ask what he's watching.

-No, what a pain. If you're curious, you go ask, big brother.

-I don't want to either. If I talk to him, he'll ask whether I want to go hunting again.

-Then just go.

-Whenever Dad goes hunting, he doesn't stop until evening. There's a stream I want to watch too!

-What are you doing? Mom told you not to whisper behind Dad's back!

Fenrir's wife appeared, scolded the children, and sent them scattering.

Then she looked at Fenrir, who was so absorbed in the stream that he did not react at all, and quietly let out a breath.

Sigh.

Unnoticed by him, Fenrir's reputation as the head of the household fell even lower.

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After evolving, the slime excitedly bounced all over the place, but it often made mistakes by failing to control its strength.

It repeatedly crashed into trees while moving about, or aimed for prey and bounced in another direction after misjudging the force in its body.

Of course, the viewers found this very amusing.

▶LOL It missed again.

▶I was like that when I evolved too LOL

▶22222

▶33333

▶It takes a while to get used to that LOL

▶Ah! Adaptation s*x!

Many viewers sympathized with its difficulty adapting after evolution, sharing their own memories.

[Threadwork Madam]▶You can do it, Malangi!

[Jiggly Queen]▶You can do it! You'll get used to it soon, my kin!

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Still, you're getting better little by little.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Don't forget your failures. Use them for your next chance!

Other viewers cheered the slime on.

And after a week of trial and error since becoming a Bounce Slime...

Boing! Boing!

The slime had learned to handle its evolved body skillfully.

That changed its hunting as well.

Upon finding a deer, the slime did not hide. It charged straight at it.

Naturally, the deer fled as soon as it saw the slime, but after evolving into a Bounce Slime, the slime had become fast enough to keep up.

And on top of that...

‘Headbutt!’

Boooiing!

Though the slime called it a headbutt, it was, strictly speaking, an even springier body slam.

Using Bounce Tackle, it struck the deer's body.

Thud!

Hit squarely by the Bounce Tackle, the deer lifted slightly into the air before falling over to the side.

A tackle driven by such powerful elasticity could knock down a deer in a single blow.

Slimes were the weakest type of monster.

But after evolving just once, they became strong enough that ordinary herbivores were no match for them.

‘Deer!’

As the slime absorbed its prey, it thought about deer.

Deer had more nutrients than rabbits, and eating one made its body feel stronger.

In slime language, that meant they tasted better.

Even so, the slime felt something was missing.

‘Jerky...’

It was because of the seasoning.

The seasonings used in jerky had a very strange and stimulating flavor to the slime.

Yet it had an even greater complaint than the taste of jerky.

‘It's all the same!’

The forest containing the Elf Village was quite vast.

Even after moving through it for a week, the slime had seen nothing but the same forest scenery.

It was a forest full of trees, animals, and plants it already knew.

‘I want to see something different!’

Just as it had wanted to leave the cave, the slime was beginning to want to leave the forest and see different scenery.

Why had the slime begun to think this way?

If it had known only the forest from the start, it would not have felt this dissatisfied.

But the slime had seen it.

Scenery other than the forest.

It had happened three days earlier.

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At the time, there were few viewers watching the slime's stream.

It had been showing nothing but the slime wandering through the vast forest, so most viewers had gone to watch other streams.

There were no particular events or dangers. It was simply boring.

Fenrir had been waiting for exactly that moment.

‘Good! The others have all left too! Now I can teach it properly!’

▶[Just Slam Into It has donated 10 Coins.]

▶[Message: Hey! Malangi! I'll give you special training from now on!]

▷Special training?

[Just Slam Into It]▶Training that will make you faster and stronger!

▷Wow!

The slime did not fully understand, but it was happy to learn something new.

Then an hour passed.

Fenrir was deeply disappointed.

The new lesson was a special drill, a preliminary stage before the headbutting technique where one moved in every direction and left the opponent utterly confused.

The slime was following Fenrir's instructions, but it still felt lacking to him.

Still, explaining more through chat was impossible. Chat had its limits.

‘That's it! I can do that!’

As though struck by sudden inspiration, an idea flashed through Fenrir's mind.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Hey! Malangi! Watch my stream!

▷A stream?

[Just Slam Into It]▶I'll open my stream now! Open the stream directory and enter the room called "Headbutt Special Training"! Got it!

Leaving those words behind, Fenrir left the chat room.

‘Stream directory?’

The slime tilted its body.

The system had implanted knowledge of the stream directory in it, of course.

But it had been at least ten days since that knowledge had been implanted.

The slime had never used any other streaming functions besides keeping its first-person and third-person views open at once, watching the chat room, and typing in chat with its thoughts.

That was why it could not immediately recall how to use the stream directory.

‘I want to see the stream directory!’

[Displaying the stream directory.]

At its wish, the system responded to the slime's request.

A translucent window unfolded before it, displaying a list of streams.

‘Wow!’

Understanding that what it saw was the stream directory, the slime recalled the words Fenrir had left behind.

‘Headbutt Special Training?’

[Searching for a stream titled "Headbutt Special Training."]

[Search complete.]

When the system began its search, only one room appeared in the stream directory.

‘This one!’

As the slime focused on the Headbutt Special Training room, the system asked for confirmation.

[Would you like to watch the Headbutt Special Training stream?]

‘I want to watch!’

[Connecting to the selected stream room.]

‘Wooooow!’

The instant it entered the stream room, the slime was amazed.

That was because the screen showed nothing but things it had never seen before.

A white landscape unlike the lush green forest.

Ground covered in snow that crunched underfoot, and white snow falling from the sky.

And standing in the center of the screen in a dignified, upright pose was a huge wolf with silver fur, green eyes, and a peculiar marking on its forehead.

Just Slam Into It.

Fenrir was on screen.

[Malangi]▶Amazing! White! White! I've never seen it before!

The slime immediately expressed how it felt through chat.

-Hahaha! You came, Malangi!

Fenrir had waited in the same pose until the slime arrived, and he reacted to its chat.

Outwardly, he howled, Awoo~!, but the slime could understand Fenrir's meaning in that sound.

[Malangi]▶Just Slam Into It?

-That's right! That's me! What do you think? It's your first time seeing what I look like!

Faced with that expectation-filled question, the slime said exactly what it felt.

[Malangi]▶Amazing! Amazing! Silver? White! Green! Amazing!

Its vocabulary was limited, but its pure joy and awe came through clearly.