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Chapter 2: Birth (2)
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“Ugh, I’m bored.”
A woman with soft, pale-pink skin sat in a cave, resting her chin on one hand.
She looked somewhat humanoid, but no one could possibly mistake her for a human.
She had merely copied the shape. Her entire body was covered in pale pink.
Several slimes surrounded her.
The slimes merely stayed put, brrr, brrr, swaying their bodies instead of going out to find food.
That was because the woman had ordered them not to move.
She was the highest-ranking slime.
The Slime Queen.
Her streaming handle was Jiggly Queen.
A translucent chat window floated in Jiggly Queen’s vision.
▶Show us that thing! The slime tower!
▶How many floors are you trying for today?
▶Oh, Queen! Show us your soft, supple body!
▶[Deep Seeker has been kicked.]
▶You should know when to quit LOL
▶There’s no such thing as a normal slime freak anyway, yeah.
▶[Anonymous 321 has been kicked.]
The Slime Queen commanded the slimes waiting around her.
“Stack yourselves.”
With a casual wave of her hand, the slimes all moved at once.
Each slime jumped on top of the slime beside it.
▶Oh! An eight-floor slime tower in one go!
▶Ah, it’s art. Art, no matter how often I see it.
▶Now this is what I’m talking about~
‘Art, my ass. What kind of Slime Queen can’t control slimes?’
To viewers, watching slimes, whose only means of attack was body-slamming, perform tricks under orders was a rare and amazing sight no matter how many times they saw it.
But even their amazed reactions bored the Slime Queen.
Slimes were monsters that found it extremely difficult to gain intelligence.
So, when the Slime Queen became intelligent enough to stream, there had not been a single member of her kind around her whom she could speak with.
All she had were small kin who obeyed the words of their superior.
No matter that they were kin, they only followed commands rather than communicating. There was no way that could relieve her boredom.
The Slime Queen could wipe out an entire kingdom in a single day if she wished.
But unless someone attacked her first, she had no hobby like slaughtering others and causing chaos.
So, the Slime Queen had begun streaming.
At first, it was interesting enough to ease her boredom.
She started with simple conversations, daily stories, complaints, arguing with toxic troublemakers, and learning how to kick those troublemakers quickly. Eventually, her stream concept had changed to ordering slimes to perform tricks.
But now, even streaming itself was starting to bore her.
She had become too used to the life of a streamer.
People still reacted, so she kept it going without much thought. But without new stimulation, she was in a state where she might silently disappear at any time.
Then it happened.
▶[Free Spirit has donated 100 coins.]
[Free Spirit]▶Jiggly Queen, may I ask a question?
A viewer appeared with a donation and a question.
‘Hm?’
“It’s Kkanjuki.”
Kkanjuki.
The person behind the handle Free Spirit enjoyed going from stream to stream and playfully pestering people.
Kkanjuki was annoying, but not unpleasant enough to be kicked. Every streamer found Kkanjuki a nuisance, but no one went as far as banning them.
‘They probably came to ask another pointless question.’
Thinking she would answer briefly and then ignore them, the Slime Queen spoke.
“What are you curious about?”
[Free Spirit]▶Do slimes have eyes?
“What?”
The Slime Queen tilted her head at the absurd question.
“What kind of question is that? What do you mean, do we have eyes?”
[Free Spirit]▶I mean, can you see objects directly? You don’t have eyes or anything, but can you see in front of you?
“Of course I can see. Is that even a question? Can’t you see this tower?”
The Slime Queen pointed at the slimes stacked into a tower under her command.
“Even if I commanded them, how could they do this if they couldn’t see?”
[Free Spirit]▶???? Then are there slimes that can’t see?
“Slimes that can’t see? There are no such slimes. Even if there were, they would only be slimes that had just been born.”
[Free Spirit]▶Oh. So a tiny little slime really wouldn’t be able to see?
‘What’s a tiny little slime?’
“If you mean a newborn slime, then yes. Why are you asking that? No, don’t tell me. You asked as a joke anyway. Ugh.”
Questions like this had once felt fresh, but now they were only bothersome.
The Slime Queen was about to ignore Kkanjuki and end her stream.
“That is all for today’s stream. I may open another if I feel like it.”
▶Already over?
▶One more! One more!
▶Admit you’re a lazy streamer?
▶Jiggly Queen, could you step on a slime and show us, in third person, the look you give something so insignificant?
▶[Aspiring Slave Gentleman has been kicked.]
▶Pervert bastard out LOL
[Free Spirit]▶Ah, wait, wait, wait! Hold on, Jiggly Queen! I have genuinely interesting news!
‘Interesting news?’
Afraid that the Slime Queen would end the stream without even caring, Kkanjuki hurriedly typed the next message.
[Free Spirit]▶A tiny little slime is streaming right now!!!
“What?”
Thinking they had caught her interest, Kkanjuki quickly typed.
[Free Spirit]▶A slime that can’t even see the chat is streaming in third person right now! Yeah!
[Free Spirit]▶That’s why I asked you!
▶A slime is streaming?
▶Don’t talk nonsense.
▶This one does talk nonsense sometimes, yeah.
The viewers in the Slime Queen’s stream only half believed Kkanjuki.
Using the Slime Queen’s own comparison, it would mean a monster that had just been born possessed enough intelligence to stream.
‘That is impossible. But could it really be...?’
If Kkanjuki was telling the truth...
‘Has a member of my kind who can properly converse finally appeared?’
The Slime Queen immediately asked.
“Where is this stream?”
[Free Spirit]▶Go to the full list. It’s called “I Want to See”!
After checking the chat, the Slime Queen immediately opened the stream list and entered the slime’s stream.
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Unaware it had drawn the attention of many monsters, the slime kept repeating the same actions.
‘It’s dark.’
The slime, which had received some knowledge from the system, wanted to escape the darkness it felt.
And it instinctively knew that the way to escape was to eat more.
It ate and ate and ate. When it could not fit in any more, it rested before eating again.
For a newly born slime, that was the best way to grow.
Fortunately, the cave where the slime had been born contained plenty of moss to eat.
How many hours had it continued that way?
‘Huh...?’
The slime felt a change in its body.
Its whole body seemed to tremble with excitement as the pitch-black darkness gradually began to clear.
In the dim cave, drip, drip, water fell.
The slime’s vision took in the scene.
But to the slime, which had known nothing but pitch darkness until now, the dim cave was plenty bright.
‘Woooow...’
The slime was deeply moved as it saw the world with its own vision for the first time.
As though something inside were pounding, its body shook violently.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Why is it suddenly shaking?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Ho ho, even its shaking is quite adorable.
▶Blech.
▶Those curves are so delectable, damn.
▶Ugh, slime freaks are fucking disgusting.
▶Huff, huff, huff! Slime-chan! LOL
[Jiggly Queen]▶That... that’s the slime?
While the slime was overwhelmed with emotion, its newly opened vision showed it a translucent chat window.
Beside it was a screen showing the slime itself from a third-person perspective.
‘What’s this?’
The system answered the slime’s question.
[This is the chat window for the stream you are currently broadcasting. Beside it is your appearance displayed from the third-person perspective.]
‘Chat window. My appearance.’
Having received a certain amount of knowledge, the slime understood what the system meant.
The words flowing through the chat were interesting, but its own appearance drew its attention even more.
A round, light-green, soft slime.
Realizing that was what it looked like, the slime felt an emotion on an entirely different level from when it had first seen the world.
‘My body...!’
It could not contain its feelings.
Simply trembling was not enough.
The slime moved according to its emotions.
Boing!
It jumped in place.
[You have acquired the skill: Jumping.]
The slime had gained its first skill since being born.
After jumping around as much as it liked, the slime turned its attention to the chat window.
Messages were flying upward.
But rather than those messages, the slime was more interested in the space at the bottom where it could write its own.
More than reading others’ words, it wanted to convey what it was feeling right then.
[Injecting the required knowledge into the target individual.]
In addition to the concept of streaming, the system gave it knowledge of how to use chat.
Once it knew how, the slime immediately typed out its feelings.
▷I can see! I can see!
When the slime used chat for the first time, the viewers’ attention focused on it.
[Free Spirit]▶What??? It can use chat now?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Hello, Chubby. It is a pleasure to meet you.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Why did you jump earlier?
[Threadwork Madam]▶Eee! Even its jumping is so cute~
▷I can see! I can see!
▶Why does the streamer keep repeating the same thing;;;
The slime still ignored the other messages and only wrote out its feelings directly.
Messages rapidly climbed through the chat window.
There were many questions directed at the slime, but it only kept typing that it could see.
Watching the chat and trying to figure out the situation, the person known as Kkanjuki analyzed the slime’s condition.
‘If this slime really is a tiny little slime that was just born...’
Could it be overwhelmed because it had seen the world for the first time?
If its intense trembling and jumping in place were because it was moved, it all made sense.
And the stream’s title, “I Want to See,” along with the words it kept repeating now, “I can see.”
With a moment’s thought, the answer was simple and easy to understand.
‘If it is so happy that it cannot even notice other people’s chat...’
Then they only needed to attract the slime’s attention another way.
▶[Free Spirit has donated 2 coins.]
▶[Message: What do you mean, you can see?]
Kkanjuki used the public message function available with a donation.
A message sent with donated coins conveyed its meaning directly to the soul, even if the recipient had not yet developed hearing. It caught the slime’s attention.
The slime, which had been too busy expressing its emotions, finally realized that someone was reacting to them.
Just as its desire to convey its feelings grew stronger, the system detected its powerful will and made a suggestion.
[Would you like to change the streaming viewpoint to First-Person Mode?]
‘Yes!’
The stream’s third-person viewpoint changed to the slime’s own field of vision.
The moment the viewpoint changed, the slime quickly typed in chat.
▷I can see! I can see this!
▷It was dark!
▷I wanted to see!
▷Now I can see!
As it bounced in place, the first-person viewpoint shook wildly.
Short messages filled the chat.
That alone was enough for the viewers who had been watching the slime all along to understand.
This slime really had only been born recently.
It was a slime that had just seen the world for the first time.
The joy shown by an innocent, untainted intelligent slime gave monsters, who had watched only chaotic, filthy, vulgar streams overflowing with desire, a feeling they had never properly experienced before.
Warmth.
▶What is this kid... It’s too cute~!
▶Wow, fuck. I feel like I’m being purified.
▶Go ascend and die already?
▶Is it really a baby slime?
▶LOL Does a tiny little slime really have intelligence? That’s amazing!
▶Waaah! Waaah! Mom! Feed me!
▶Yes, yes, that’s right. It really was a baby slime~.
▶No, was it actually real? LOL
▷I can see! I can see!
With the excited slime adding to it, the chat window grew even livelier.
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