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Chapter 15: Encounter (2)
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While messages full of “LOL” streamed into the chat, the slime watched the goblin.
‘A goblin!’
To the slime, the goblin looked similar to an elf.
It was smaller, but its overall appearance was similar.
The slime had liked the elf who had treated it kindly. That affected its judgment.
‘I want to know!’
It wanted to know more about the creature it had encountered for the first time.
Thinking the goblin resembled an elf, the slime wanted to look at it more closely.
Boing! Boing!
The slime bounced toward the goblin.
[Free Spirit]▶??? Malangi! What are you doing? Why are you getting closer?
▷It’s not human! It won’t attack!
The slime had been warned in advance that humans might attack it.
But the very one who had given that warning said the creature in front of it was not human.
Then wouldn’t the creature before it be all right?
‘I underestimated Malangi’s innocence!’
Smack!
Kkanjuki smacked their skull with a hand made of nothing but bone.
The creature before Malangi was not the human it had been warned about.
At the same time, from the slime’s perspective, it looked like an elf.
Based on that alone, the slime had carelessly approached the goblin.
Of course, humans were what Kkanjuki thought the slime should be most wary of.
But that did not mean other creatures were safe.
Even if they were not human, some showed malice for no reason.
For example, there were monsters who broadcast themselves slaughtering others for fun.
And goblins were the kind of monsters prone to that.
Especially the highest-ranking goblins capable of broadcasting.
Goblin Kings, for instance.
A Goblin King would make content out of attacking other monsters or humans just because it was bored.
It would order others to do it, then watch from behind.
Viewers watched those broadcasts because it was funny to see goblins mindlessly overwhelm opponents with numbers, without considering the species’ inherent limits.
Of course, the whole thing usually ended with the Goblin King getting carried away, widening the raids, raising its slaughter and hunting goals, then being caught, tracked down, and exterminated.
There was little risk of being discovered when attacking unintelligent monsters. But if the victims were human and the damage grew too severe, humans would suspect a Goblin King’s involvement and investigate.
That was why Goblin Kings did not usually survive long after starting a broadcast.
Kkanjuki wondered whether to warn the slime through chat.
Then it happened.
[Jiggly Queen]▶My kin! Stop! Just because it is not human does not mean it will not attack you!
The Slime Queen immediately warned the slime.
But the slime’s head was full of curiosity about the goblin, and it did not see the chat.
In the end, the slime appeared before the goblin.
Boing!
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The goblin, which had been walking along, froze in surprise at the slime’s sudden appearance.
But the moment it confirmed that the newcomer was a slime, its tension vanished.
Then came the mockery.
The goblin giggled as it looked down at the slime.
The goblin had been assigned to an annoying patrol and was in a foul mood.
It wanted to rest comfortably in the cave, but it kept being ordered to patrol the surroundings.
Still, it could not rebel.
The instant it did, a hobgoblin stronger than it would beat it senseless.
Then, while patrolling with its irritation simmering, it encountered a slime.
A slime.
Something that looked much weaker than it.
It was smaller than the goblin, so it had to be weak.
The goblin was stronger.
The goblin was better.
So it could do whatever it wanted.
That thing was weaker than it!
With thoughts utterly befitting a goblin, it stared at the slime.
‘It’s looking at me!’
Feeling the goblin’s gaze, the slime was innocently delighted.
But the other viewers, who knew exactly what that look meant, realized it at once.
Ah, this goblin.
It was looking down on the slime because it was a slime.
▶This goblin bastard LOL. Look at it mocking Malangi the second it sees a slime LOL.
▶That classic “you’re such a loser!” look! Ahh, it really is a goblin! So funny!
▶But if Malangi and the goblin fight, who wins?
▶You think evolution’s a damn joke?
▶Malangi wins easily LOL.
▶Malangi one-shot a deer! You think a puny goblin can do anything? LOL.
▶Ah! Reverse stomp s*x!
▶Ugh, can someone get that bastard out of here?
It was painfully obvious that if the goblin attacked the slime, it would be immediately counterattacked.
The slime had become strong through Fenrir’s training.
So, to the viewers, the goblin looked like nothing more than an idiot posturing without knowing the difference in their strength.
A clown about to put on an entertaining show.
The viewers’ attention focused on how the goblin would get beaten by the slime.
And just as they expected, the goblin raised one foot.
It intended to crush the slime underfoot.
With a “Kihihihi!” the goblin brought its foot down on the slime.
An ordinary weak slime would have been seriously injured just by being stepped on.
But.
Boing!
The slime was not an ordinary slime. It was a Bounce Slime.
Its elasticity was on a completely different level from that of an ordinary slime.
The goblin stepped on the slime, but rather than crushing it, it was bounced backward by the unexpected elasticity and fell over.
Wham!
Kyaaaagh!
A powerful blow struck the back of its head. The goblin clutched its head and rolled from side to side.
▶LOL.
▶Knew that would happen LOL.
▶What a total idiot LOL.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Pffft! That is the punishment for underestimating my kin, you foolish goblin!
Not a single viewer took the goblin’s side.
‘?’
Meanwhile, the slime tilted its body after bouncing the goblin away.
It was hard for the slime to tell whether what the goblin had just done counted as an attack.
After all, it had not hurt at all!
The goblin, which had been rolling on the ground, angrily got up and glared at the slime.
A mere slime.
Just a slime.
Had hurt it.
Had humiliated it.
Even a goblin with poor intelligence that could not judge an opponent’s strength knew this much.
If it stepped on the slime again, it would fall over.
The goblin struck the slime with a suitably sized wooden stick it held in its hand.
By goblin standards, it put force into the blow.
But.
Boing!
The strike bounced away due to the Bounce Slime’s elasticity. Like before, it could not inflict any real injury on the slime.
Kyaaaagh!
Furious, the goblin kept striking with the stick.
Boing! Boing! Boing!
The slime’s body rippled each time the stick came down.
To a third party, it was nothing less than a comedy routine.
▶LOL.
▶It never learns LOL.
▶Typical goblin-level intelligence, yeah.
[Threadwork Madam]▶Eek! Malangi is cute even when all wobbly~
[Jiggly Queen]▶Why are you just taking it, my kin! Can you not punish that insolent thing at once!
[Just Slam Into It]▶Yeah! Slam into it! Slam into it already!
▶Teach it a lesson, go go go go!
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And no matter how much of a slime it was.
No matter how it took no damage at all.
After being hit over and over like this, the slime understood that the goblin was attacking it.
‘Goblin! It attacks me! Bad!’
The slime knew what attacking meant.
An act meant to hurt someone.
And the goblin was trying to hurt it.
Again and again!
The slime clearly remembered the pain it had felt when it ate poisonous grass.
It was a sensation it never wanted to feel again.
The slime grew angry at the goblin trying to hurt it.
It moved away from the goblin that kept striking it, putting some distance between them.
Keeeeek!
Thinking the slime was being insolent by running away while it was attacking, the goblin chased after it.
Boing!
The slime that had retreated moved before the goblin could even pursue it.
Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!
The slime darted all around the goblin.
It was recreating the movements Fenrir had shown it three days earlier.
The goblin could not follow the wildly moving slime with its eyes.
It tried desperately to track the slime’s movements, but the speedy slime only made its vision spin.
The moment the goblin was left dazed by the frantic movements.
Booooing!
The slime did not miss its chance and delivered a Bounce Tackle to the goblin’s side.
Craaaack!
Kyaaaagh!
The instant it was struck, the goblin’s waist bent into an L shape, and the sound of ribs breaking rang out.
That was not the end.
The Bounce Tackle had enough power to send a deer, far heavier than the goblin, flying upward.
Hit head-on by it, the goblin flew into a tree.
Its L-shaped body hit the tree, its waist bending back like a bow.
Crack!
Its spine broke.
The sight was funny, but it also looked painful enough to make viewers groan.
▶That definitely broke something.
▶A puny goblin lost to a slime, huh? Such a loser, huh?
▶Goblins, sign this right now! Goblins are weaker than slimes!
[Just Slam Into It]▶Kahahaha! Good! You did exactly what I taught you! Well done, Malangi!
[Jiggly Queen]▶What? When did you ever teach it something like that!
[Threadwork Madam]▶Malangi, that was so cool~
As viewers mocked the goblin defeated by the slime and praised the victorious slime, Kkanjuki saw the result positively.
‘Now Malangi must understand that it should not carelessly approach every creature it sees for the first time.’
Kkanjuki figured the slime would be more careful when it encountered humans now.
[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! Got it? Even if it is not human, do not go straight up to something just because it is interesting! You could get attacked!
▷Yep! I won’t get close right away! I’ll watch from far away!
▶LOL, observing first is important, yeah.
▶Can’t you just charge right in?
▶Going in without holding back is more fun LOL.
Having defeated the bad goblin that had attacked it, the slime had learned a new lesson.
That meant all that remained was to absorb the defeated goblin.
But the slime did not even approach the dead goblin. It simply kept bouncing toward the edge of the forest.
▶??? You’re not eating the goblin?
At an anonymous viewer’s question, the slime immediately typed in chat.
▷Goblin bad! Don’t like! Won’t eat!
▶Goblins are not worth eating anyway LOL.
▶It is better not to eat them.
▶Goblins are always dirty.
▶Does that even matter to a slime?
▶What do you want it to do LOL? It said it hates them LOL.
It was the moment the slime developed food preferences.
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Two days after its encounter with the goblin.
As it headed out of the forest while defeating any goblins it met along the way, the slime finally saw scenery other than dense trees.
‘Wooooow!’
A grassland so broad that it was impossible to see where it ended, and a road maintained by human hands for easy travel.
There were no other notable features, but to the slime, which had seen nothing but forest scenery to the point of boredom, it was an awe-inspiring sight.
▷Out of forest! Excited!
[Free Spirit]▶Grats grats grats grats.
[Noblesse Fire]▶So is that forest we have been staring at forever finally over?
▶You have not even shown up for a week, old fart, and you are calling it boring?
[Noblesse Fire]▶Do you think I have nothing to do but camp in this channel?
▶Old fart is busy giving unsolicited advice in reverse-scale reveal streams every day, yeah.
The Fire Dragon had been backseating for decades. Naturally, it had also been kicked out for decades. That was why the Fire Dragon’s infamy was widespread across every broadcast.
▶LOL.
▶Doesn’t that ever get old? LOL.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Hey! Where do you live! Where do you live, damn it!
▶Not telling~
The slime trembled all over, expressing its joy at seeing something other than the forest.
And even greater joy was approaching the delighted slime.
Clop clop.
In the distance, a carriage was coming down the road.
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