Monster Livestream Star - Chapter 14

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◈ Monster Livestream Star ◈

Chapter 14: Encounter (1)

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The slime watched the snowy mountains spread across the screen and Fenrir’s figure.

-Let’s find some suitable prey first!

Fenrir moved in search of prey.

‘Wow!’

The slime marveled as it watched Fenrir move.

From a third-person view, Fenrir’s movements were incredibly fast and agile.

Even amid snowy mountains blanketed in white, Fenrir moved so quickly that Fenrir stood out clearly.

The moment Fenrir moved, the gently falling snow seemed to speed up sharply.

The snow had not become faster.

The screen was moving along with Fenrir, making it look that way.

[Malangi]▶Fast! Just Slam Into It! Fast!

-Hahahaha! Of course I’m fast! I’m a Fenrir!

[Malangi]▶Fenrir?

-My species! Malangi, you’re a slime too!

‘Ah!’

The slime now clearly understood the concepts of names and species.

[Malangi]▶Fenrir! Fast!

-That’s right! I’m fast!

Fenrir swiftly ran down the snowy mountain and entered a forested area halfway down.

Unlike the forest where the slime was, the trees on the snowy mountain did not grow densely together. They stood scattered apart from one another.

‘Wow! White trees!’

The trees covered in white snow rather than lush green leaves made the slime’s eyes shine even brighter.

-Found one! Malangi, watch closely!

While the slime was marveling at the view, Fenrir found prey suitable for a demonstration.

A boar-type monster with white fur, nicknamed a snow boar.

A White Boar entered Fenrir’s sight.

Normally, it was prey Fenrir could finish off simply by ambushing it and biting and tearing at its nape.

But the purpose of hunting this White Boar was to train the slime, so Fenrir approached it and spoke.

-I’m going to copy the movements you made! Focus!

[Malangi]▶Okay!

There would be no point in showing a good example from the start.

Fenrir thought it was most important to make Malangi realize what it had done wrong, so Fenrir began to move.

Fenrir approached the White Boar and revealed himself.

-Squeal!?

A predator had suddenly appeared.

The White Boar instinctively realized that it could not defeat Fenrir, who was far stronger than it. It turned to flee, but...

Fenrir was already standing where it had turned.

Having blocked the White Boar’s escape with overwhelming speed, Fenrir immediately copied the slime’s movements.

Fenrir ran around slowly enough for the White Boar to see Fenrir.

‘Huh?’

The slime found Fenrir’s movements strange.

Was it because Fenrir was moving slowly, unlike before?

That was not it.

The rhythm of the movements was strange.

Sometimes Fenrir moved immediately after changing direction, but other times he hesitated before moving.

The movements looked distinctly clumsy.

Even the slime, which was inexperienced at hunting, found them somehow awkward.

And the slime was not the only one who thought so.

The White Boar, which had become Fenrir’s prey, also found Fenrir’s movements strange.

The movements of a predator that should have been overwhelmingly powerful were awkward.

In other words, they looked pathetic.

They looked pathetic enough to make the White Boar wonder whether Fenrir was merely big and nothing special.

-Squeeeal!

Confidence suddenly surged within the White Boar, and it tried to attack Fenrir instead.

A charge with the tusks it was most proud of!

‘A boar dares charge at me?’

Fenrir frowned as he watched the White Boar try to ram him.

Even if Fenrir was deliberately moving badly for the slime’s special training, being looked down on by prey was bound to annoy him.

If Fenrir had a worse temper, he would have killed the prey the moment it attacked.

But Just Slam Into It had patience.

Compared to enduring Fenrir’s steadily declining standing at home, Fenrir’s children’s indifference, and Fenrir’s wife’s glare lately...

The irritation from training the slime was nothing!

Fenrir lightly dodged the White Boar’s charge and spoke to the slime.

-Malangi! What did you think of those movements just now?

[Malangi]▶Strange! Doesn’t match! Separate!

-Hahahaha! At least you have an eye for it! That’s it! What I just did was exactly how you moved!

[Malangi]▶Me?

-That’s right! You started off well too, but then your rhythm went off and you hesitated! Now then... I’ll show you how to do it properly!

Fenrir smiled at the slime, which had noticed the problem at once.

If Malangi had not understood, Fenrir would have had to repeat it several times and keep letting the White Boar look down on him.

-Move like this!

Thump!

Fenrir stepped onto the snow-covered ground and began moving again.

The directions were the same.

But his speed and rhythm were clearly different from before.

Confidently, naturally, without hesitation.

Moving in every direction as if Fenrir were everywhere at once, Fenrir demonstrated movements so dizzying that the White Boar could barely keep its senses.

‘Wooooow! Amazing!’

The slime marveled at those agile movements flowing as smoothly as water.

At the same time, a new desire bloomed within it.

‘I want to do that too!’

It wanted to move just like that.

The desire to move as fast, naturally, and skillfully as Fenrir burned within the slime.

[Malangi]▶Amazing! Amazing! Fast! Wow!

-Heh heh heh. Shall we wrap this up?

Fenrir, who had kept one eye on the chat even while moving, was satisfied by the slime’s reaction and finished the demonstration.

Unlike before, Fenrir’s movements suddenly became sharp, leaving the White Boar at a loss. Then Fenrir’s body slam struck.

Craaaash!

-Squeeeal!

Struck squarely in the body, the White Boar was violently flung away the instant it collided with Fenrir.

Flying off with tremendous force, the White Boar broke three trees.

Naturally, by the time it sprawled on the ground, the White Boar was already dead.

-Did you see that, Malangi? Try doing it like this next time!

[Malangi]▶Okay! Just Slam Into It! Amazing!

-Hahahahahaha!

Fenrir rejoiced at the innocent slime’s cheers and admiration.

But Fenrir did not know that when Fenrir happily returned home...

Fenrir’s wife, upset that Fenrir had gone out after ignoring her words, would be waiting for Fenrir.

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Then time returned to the present.

The slime had perfectly adapted to controlling the strength in its body and had come very close to reproducing Fenrir’s movements.

With just a little more practice, it could say it had mastered them.

It had once caught only one deer out of ten attempts. Now, it caught eight out of ten.

Perhaps it had become accustomed to hunting. The slime’s dissatisfaction and desire to see new scenery kept growing.

That desire appeared in the slime’s stream title.

The slime had ended its stream once to watch Fenrir’s broadcast.

After Fenrir’s stream ended, the system asked whether it wanted to resume its own stream. Hearing that voice, the slime learned something new.

The broadcast title change function.

And the slime’s newly changed stream title was...

Not “I Want to See,” but “I Want to Leave.”

The slime’s stream had been receiving fewer visitors because it kept repeating the same patterns.

When its stream title changed after so long, it drew the attention of several viewers.

[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin! What do you mean, you want to leave?

▶Want to get kicked out of monster life? lol

[Free Spirit]▶??? What happened?

The Slime Queen, a troll, and Kkanjuki entered after reacting to the title.

▷Same!

[Jiggly Queen]▶What do you mean, same?

▷Forest! Same! Forest! Want to leave! Want to see something else!

[Free Spirit]▶You meant you wanted to leave the forest?

[Jiggly Queen]▶What? That was all?

First, the Slime Queen was relieved that it was not a serious situation.

Kkanjuki also immediately understood what was happening.

‘Well, that forest really is ridiculously huge. And there are barely any monsters around it either.’

The forest centered around the Elf Village.

Commonly called the Blue Elf Forest, it was one of the largest forests on the Dersia Continent.

Moreover, trained elves patrolled it constantly. Unless they were monsters as insignificant as a slime, monsters were attacked on sight.

That was why the monsters living in the Blue Elf Forest stayed on the distant outskirts, far from the Elf Village.

‘It’s definitely been over a week since Malangi left the elf forest...’

Kkanjuki calculated the slime’s traveling speed and the size of the elf forest, then typed in chat.

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! Don’t worry. You’ll be out of the forest soon.

▷Wow! Really?

[Free Spirit]▶Yeah. Keep going straight, and you’ll see outside the forest. But there’s something you need to watch out for.

▷Watch out?

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi, you saw elves, right?

▷Elves! I saw them!

[Free Spirit]▶Then you’ll see things called humans that look similar to elves.

▷Humans?

‘Phew, I hope Malangi listens.’

Kkanjuki could not easily guess how Malangi would react.

Malangi was so innocent, after all.

Hoping Malangi would react as expected, Kkanjuki continued typing.

[Free Spirit]▶Humans might attack you! So it’s best to avoid humans if you meet them!

[Jiggly Queen]▶Yes, that is good advice, Kkanjuki. My kin is still weak. So you should avoid humans if you encounter them!

Kkanjuki and the Slime Queen offered advice because they were worried about the slime.

But the advice did not truly sink in for the slime.

The first elf it had met had given it deer blood and jerky.

‘They look like elves? Humans! Then they’re nice!’

Malangi could not easily imagine humans, who looked similar to elves, attacking it.

▷Will they really attack?

[Free Spirit]▶They might attack. They might ignore you. But if they attack, it’s best to avoid them! Still, if you have to, you can attack them too!

Avoiding them was best, but if there was no other choice, it had to respond.

Since the slime could knock down a deer in one blow, Kkanjuki thought it could easily take down an ordinary person or a novice adventurer.

[Free Spirit]▶But there’s something you absolutely have to follow! Never forget this!

▷Something I have to follow?

Kkanjuki gave the slime advice they had wanted to give for a long time.

[Free Spirit]▶Even if you defeat them, you must not eat humans! Seriously, don’t eat them! It’ll be a huge problem!

▷Huge problem?

[Jiggly Queen]▶? Kkanjuki, why would eating humans be a huge problem?

The Slime Queen questioned Kkanjuki’s advice.

Being from the Demon Continent, where she had only encountered humans through broadcasts, the Slime Queen did not understand the situation Kkanjuki was worried about.

[Free Spirit]▶If another human sees Malangi eat a human, it’ll be a huge problem! Every human could immediately become your enemy!

[Jiggly Queen]▶What? Is that true?

▶Ah lol, shitty humans really are like that.

▶They unite like crazy over the weirdest things lol

▶Even though they’re not the ones getting eaten, if someone eats another human, they take it personally and throw a huge fucking fit, yeah.

▶They kill their own kind like mad, but throw a fit in situations like this. Selective-empathy F-type assholes, seriously fucking disgusting lol.

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Kkanjuki’s advice still did not completely sink in, but seeing the chat’s reaction made the slime decide not to do it.

‘Humans! Don’t eat! Dangerous! Huge problem!’

The slime still trusted the chat, so it decided to accept the advice.

Then, thirty minutes later.