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Chapter 23: Farewell (1)
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Jessie could not simply accept Rufus Ludendion’s words.
“That can’t be true! Alexander II will want to keep living with me! You don’t know anything! You’re stupid, Father!”
With tears in her eyes, Jessie hugged the slime and left the office.
“Ah, Miss!”
Nina hurried after Jessie, while Rufus, left behind in the office...
“Ghhhhh! My angel! She called me stupid! Ah, ahhhh!”
He clutched his chest in agony.
‘If it hurts you that much, why did you say it, my lord?’
Albert quietly sighed to himself.
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Shut away in her room with tears in her eyes, Jessie wanted to deny what her father had said that day.
That the slime wanted to go outside.
That it wanted to leave her side.
That letting it go would be better.
She wanted to shout that it couldn’t possibly be true and keep denying it, but Jessie was not stupid.
If anything, because she had watched the slime all this time, Jessie knew.
How curious the slime was, and how much it wanted to see all sorts of different sights.
Even when she read it new books, the slime was happiest when she read books with pictures of scenery it had never seen before.
Besides, how happy had the slime been during their first inspection?
But as their inspections became more frequent, the slime began looking beyond the territory.
It overlapped with the way it looked out the window while inside the estate.
Jessie could easily guess that the slime now wanted to see a wider world beyond the estate and its territory.
Even so, Jessie had ignored it.
She had pretended not to know.
Because she did not want to say goodbye.
At first, she had brought it home because it was strange and cute, but the slime was now practically family to Jessie.
It felt less like having a pet and more like gaining a cute little sibling.
Nina, whom she already considered family, was like an older sister.
Her older brother was currently studying hard at the academy.
Then there were the Count and Countess, who loved her.
But for Jessie, the youngest child, the slime was the first being that felt like a younger sibling she needed to care for.
That was why she had grown so attached to it and did not want to part with it.
“Alexander II...”
Jessie placed the slime on the bed and asked,
“Do you want to go outside?”
‘Outside? I want to go!’
Boing! The slime hopped once.
“You want to see more things out there, right? Like the scenery in the books.”
‘Yeah! I want to see! I want to see lots of things! I want to know!’
Boing! Boing! The slime hopped twice, as though strongly agreeing.
‘Just as I thought...’
Jessie accepted the slime’s feelings, which she had tried so hard to ignore until now.
Even so, she could not help feeling regretful, so she asked the slime,
“Do you want to see those things even if it means saying goodbye to me?”
‘Saying goodbye to Jessie?’
The slime already knew the concept of parting.
It had experienced meeting Nellin and then parting from her.
At the time, it could not clearly understand that meeting and parting, but after Jessie had read it many books, the slime came to properly understand what parting meant.
Parting.
Not seeing someone for a long time.
Or never seeing them again.
Being separated from Jessie, who gave it food.
Saying goodbye to Jessie, who taught it so many things.
‘That... would be sad.’
Rather than hopping right away, the slime leaned forward.
But its desire to satisfy its curiosity, the strongest feeling it had held from the very beginning, could not be suppressed.
Its desire to see and know more clashed with the sadness of saying goodbye to Jessie.
The slime looked dejected.
Just seeing that comforted Jessie.
The slime was sad about parting with her.
That was proof that it liked her that much.
“Thank you, Alexander II.”
Jessie gently hugged the slime.
‘Jessie?’
“I’d be sad to part with you too, Alexander II. I want you to stay. But that... wouldn’t be for your sake, would it?”
Jessie had read countless folktales, biographies, and legends.
Among them were many stories about families who kindly sent off protagonists leaving on adventures to become warriors, heroes, or pursue their dreams.
And Jessie thought that such a time had come for her too.
But not all those stories ended with the person leaving and never returning.
There were also stories of them returning to their family after accomplishing great deeds, overcoming crises, or finding treasure.
So, hoping that she could reunite with the slime someday, Jessie hugged it and said,
“We’ll definitely see each other again, Alexander II.”
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The next day.
Jessie left the territory with Nina and Pin.
Inside the carriage, Nina asked Jessie with a worried expression.
“Miss, are you really all right?”
“I’m all right, Nina.”
“You’re crying.”
“I’m! All right! Alexander II wants to see a wider world!”
Nina could not help but be surprised to see Jessie willing to let the slime go despite her teary eyes.
She never expected Jessie to have matured this much.
The young miss who had always whined and stubbornly insisted that she wanted to see Nellin had become a proper young lady, able to accept parting and think of someone else.
‘It is a little strange that someone else is a slime.’
Nina looked at the slime.
A monster Jessie had brought into the estate a month ago through sheer stubbornness.
But now, Nina also knew that the slime was not an ordinary slime.
A slime that was friendly with people, enjoyed food, and was strangely good at massages.
Nina had grown fond of it too, though not as much as Jessie had, so she felt sad as well.
Stroking the slime sitting on Jessie’s lap, Nina said,
“You have to live well out there too, all right?”
“Can Alexander II really live well?”
“Miss?”
“But Alexander II is a slime.”
Jessie hugged the slime.
“It’s incredibly cute, quivers well, jumps well, and eats well, but it’s still a slime. What if another monster hurts it?”
As their parting drew closer, Jessie’s worries only increased.
‘She really is just like the Count in this regard.’
“Don’t worry. This child is very smart. If there’s danger, it’ll surely hide well.”
“Do you think so?”
“Of course.”
“But I’m still worried...”
‘She really does resemble the Count.’
A little later, the carriage stopped.
It had stopped at the very place where Jessie and the slime had first met.
A road near the Blue Elf Forest.
Holding the slime, Jessie slowly got down from the carriage.
Then she gently set the slime on the ground.
“Alexander II...”
The slime looked up at Jessie.
‘Jessie...’
The slime understood too.
That this moment was a farewell.
And that if it showed Jessie that it wanted to stay with her longer, they could return to the estate just as they were.
But yesterday, the slime had thought about it.
It wanted to see more diverse things.
The scenery in the books Jessie had read to it.
The blazing land, the frigid land, the vast green jungle, the wide plains, the realm of crystal.
An even stronger curiosity than when it watched Fenrir’s stream had bloomed inside it.
Just as Jessie had decided to let the slime go, the slime had decided to be honest about its curiosity.
That did not mean it intended to part without a word.
The slime wanted to use the things it had learned while at Jessie’s side to convey its feelings.
Just as it was about to hop with a boing!
“Kik! Kihihihit!”
“...!”
“Miss! Step back! Nina, quickly!”
A group of goblins appeared from the Blue Elf Forest.
There were twelve of them.
Pin hurried down from the driver’s seat, stood before Jessie and Nina, and drew a sword.
There were twelve goblins.
There were many of them, but Pin could defeat them alone.
The problem was that Pin was not alone here. There were people to protect.
Even if they were only goblins, Pin could not face all twelve at once. While they fought, the other goblins could threaten Jessie and Nina.
“Miss, Nina! Get inside the carriage quickly! I’ll handle this.”
“All right, Pin! Miss, hurry!”
“Wait! Alexander II too!”
Jessie hurriedly reached toward the slime she had placed on the ground.
But...
Boing!
Rather than leaping into Jessie’s arms, the slime hopped in front of Pin.
“Huh?! Why are you going out front?”
“Alexander II! It’s dangerous!”
Pin’s startled voice and Jessie’s worried voice reached it.
Even so, the slime moved further forward.
‘Bad!’
The slime was angry.
It was angry that it had been interrupted while trying to tell Jessie how it felt.
But most of all, it was angry because those goblins were trying to attack Jessie, Nina, and Pin.
The people it liked.
While leaving the Blue Elf Forest, the slime had encountered goblins many times and defeated them many times.
And the slime had realized something.
Goblins attacked as soon as they saw someone.
So it was obvious who the goblins that had appeared now intended to attack.
Boing! Boing! Boing!
“Hey! Wait!”
The slime sped up as it moved toward the goblin group.
Startled by the slime’s sudden actions, Pin tried to stop it.
Meanwhile, the goblins sneered at the slime coming toward them.
A slime was coming.
A weak slime was coming.
Something insignificant was coming toward them.
“No! Alexander II!”
To Jessie, the slime’s actions looked like a reckless charge.
The kind and clever slime.
It looked as though it was fearlessly leaping toward the goblin group, risking danger for the people it cared about.
“No, Miss!”
Nina stopped Jessie as she tried to run toward the slime.
“Pin!”
She hurriedly called Pin’s name.
Pin made a swift decision.
Even if they ran now, they could not stop the slime before it collided with the goblins.
However, there was still some distance between them.
If Pin hurried after the slime, they could knock down a few goblins and save the slime.
The chance to retrieve it would be when the slime was struck and knocked unconscious.
‘Just don’t die in one hit!’
Pin hoped the slime was sturdy.
And then...
Something happened that neither Jessie, Nina, Pin, nor the goblins had expected.
Boooiiing!
Craaaack!
“Kkiyaaak!?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
The slime used Bounce Tackle in its anger.
Its speed was far too fast for mere goblins to react to.
The goblin struck by the slime’s Bounce Tackle had its waist bent at a right angle.
Not only that, the force sent even the goblins behind it flying.
It was even more powerful than it had been in the forest.
Even though it had not practiced tackling for a month, there was no way its mastery of Bounce Tackle had grown rusty.
More importantly...
Rather than only occasionally eating animals when it was hungry in the forest, the slime had eaten nutrient-rich food at the estate every day without missing a meal.
For living beings.
Especially monsters, high-quality nutrition was growth itself.
After acquiring Vibration, the delicate massages it gave Jessie and the servants through carefully controlled vibrations had also allowed it to control its strength more precisely than before.
The absorption of quality nutrition and more precise control of its strength.
As a result, the slime could use a tackle more powerful than it had been a month ago.
‘Bad! I’ll teach you a lesson!’
▶Oh, lol. Time to stomp some weaklings?
[Just Slam Into It]▶Kahahaha! Go! Slam them! Slam them!
[Threadwork Madam]▶Angry Malangi is cute too~.
[Noblesse Fire]▶This should be fun. It’s been a while.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Wipe them out, fellow kin!
The chat went wild at the battle unfolding for the first time in a while.
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