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Chapter 24: Farewell (2)
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The Slime's attack did not end with a single strike.
The moment it landed after using Bounce Tackle, it sprang toward its next target.
Boooiing!
With goblins gathered all around, finding another target was easy.
Craaaack!
“Gyaaak!?”
Another goblin was sent flying by the Slime's tackle, taking another goblin behind it along for the ride.
Their numbers had dropped from twelve to eight in an instant.
Even goblins, despite their low intelligence, could no longer think the Slime before them was an opponent they could look down on.
“Kiyaaak!”
One goblin swung the wooden club in its hand at the Slime.
Boing!
But the attack was easy enough for the Slime to dodge.
Boooiing!
It counterattacked right away. Once again, a goblin was bent at a right angle, taking another one behind it along, leaving only six.
“Ki, kik!?”
With only half their numbers remaining, the goblins realized it.
The Slime before them was a powerful monster they could not handle.
Goblins were stupid enough to hunt through strength in numbers, then mistake victory for their own strength rather than the power of their numbers.
But after seeing half their companions taken down in moments, even they could understand that they could not win.
The remaining goblins all abandoned their own kind and tried to flee.
The six goblins turned and bolted into the forest.
‘I won't let you go! I'll teach you a lesson!’
Boing! Boing!
The Slime could catch rabbits and deer that were naturally quick runners. Catching goblins fleeing in a panic was easy.
Boooiing!
Boooiing!
Boooiing!
What followed was a one-sided attack.
The Slime struck swiftly, using its elasticity.
The goblins had neither a way to block its tackles nor the toughness to withstand them.
Less than two minutes later, the Slime had defeated all twelve goblins by itself.
Pin blinked as they watched the Slime crush the goblins, then spoke.
“You... You're strong?”
Boing!
The Slime bounced as if responding to Pin's words.
“Alexander II!”
Jessie, who had been watching from Nina's arms, wriggled free and ran toward the Slime.
The Slime bounced toward Jessie as well.
Jessie opened her arms wide and hugged the Slime as it came to her.
“You were incredible, Alexander II! Amazing!”
‘Amazing!’
The Slime quivered as it understood that she was praising it.
“Kyahaha!”
After laughing happily, Jessie pulled the Slime away and looked at it.
“What a relief. Alexander II, you'll definitely be able to live well on your own.”
Jessie had been worried.
She thought the Slime might get badly hurt if it was left alone.
But after seeing what it had just done, much of that worry faded.
It had defeated twelve goblins all by itself.
“I think so too, Miss.”
Pin sheathed their sword and agreed with Jessie.
“With skills like that, there's nothing to worry about.”
“Really, Pin?”
“Yes.”
‘I never knew it was this strong. At the estate, it was just a Slime that gave good massages.’
With even a knight like Pin confirming it, Jessie felt more at ease.
She set the Slime down again.
They still needed to say the farewell that had been interrupted by the goblins.
“Alexander II, take care. See everything you want to see.”
“Miss...”
Watching Jessie properly say goodbye to the Slime, Nina felt overwhelmed with pride that the young lady she served had matured and taken another step forward.
At the same time, Nina regretted having to part with the Slime after spending a month together.
Boing!
Like Jessie, the Slime also began the farewell it had been unable to give because of the goblins.
Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!
Creating some distance, the Slime ran across the grass-covered field.
“Alexander II?”
It was not simply hopping around.
Every time it landed, it used Vibration while twisting its body from side to side and rubbing against the ground.
It repeatedly left clear marks by pressing down the grass before jumping again.
These were not random movements. It was trying to convey something.
A moment later.
“Ah...”
“No way.”
“Is this... real?”
Not only Jessie, but Nina and Pin could not believe what they were seeing.
The traces left in the grass, firmly pressed down with Vibration.
Anyone could see that they were letters.
Jessie had read books aloud to the Slime for an entire month, and through that, the Slime had come to understand human writing.
Not the chat messages it automatically understood through the system, but letters it could only know by learning them itself.
Every night, when Jessie read to it, the Slime gained new knowledge: human writing.
And with the writing it had learned.
With the new knowledge Jessie had given it.
It conveyed its feelings to her.
[See you again, Jessie!]
Boing! Boing!
The Slime bounced beside the words it had written.
Yesterday.
When it realized that it would have to part with Jessie, the Slime had been sad.
But it knew.
Where there was a farewell, there could also be another meeting.
Until now, it had simply wanted to see and learn new things.
But now, it also wished to meet again with the human it had grown close to.
That was why it left words of reunion behind.
That they would see each other again.
Jessie answered through tears.
“Yeah! We'll definitely see each other again, Alexander II!”
They made a promise to meet again.
And that was not all.
“When we meet again, tell me about the things you've seen too!”
‘Okay!’
Boing!
As if answering, the Slime leaped powerfully into the air.
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“Pin, am I hearing this correctly?”
“It is all true, Count.”
Count Ludendion thought that one surprising thing after another had happened since yesterday.
Jessie had left in tears after being told to let the Slime go, yet that evening, she had decided to release it.
And today.
The Count had expected Jessie to return sobbing after parting with the Slime, so he had prepared to comfort his daughter as much as possible.
But when Jessie returned, her eyes were only a little red. She did not cry.
Instead, she smiled brightly and said she wanted to gather books to read to the Slime next time.
The Count worried that Jessie was clinging to a reunion that was unlikely to happen rather than accepting reality.
But Pin's report in the study afterward was truly shocking.
A group of goblins appearing as they were about to part.
The Slime easily defeating the goblins alone.
And then...
“That Slime learned letters?”
“Yes. It clearly conveyed, ‘See you again, Jessie,’ by pressing the grass in the field.”
“Huh...”
The Count already knew that the Slime had enough intelligence to understand human speech.
But learning human writing was not something that could be dismissed as merely being intelligent.
A Slime with the power to defeat twelve goblins alone, yet which had spent a month peacefully and amicably at the estate, even learning to write.
‘Did I make the wrong decision?’
Perhaps such an exceptional Slime would have been better off remaining at the estate.
But the Slime had already left.
Even if he immediately pursued it, the chances of finding it were extremely low.
It was a Slime.
No matter how intelligent it was, it was hard to imagine a monster innocently following the roads.
‘I should write a letter.’
So Count Ludendion decided to do what he could for now.
In case the Slime headed back toward the Blue Elf Forest.
And to share information about this unusual Slime.
Count Ludendion wrote down what had happened with the Slime and sent it to the Elder of the Blue Elf Forest.
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Meanwhile.
Boing! Boing! Boing!
Contrary to Count Ludendion's expectations, the Slime was traveling along the fields beside the road, bouncing along.
One thing it had learned during its month in the territory was that if it roughly followed the road, it would not get lost.
The Slime did not want the same boring scenery from its time in the Blue Elf Forest to keep going on.
So it thought following the road would let it find new villages and new living things more quickly.
Having finished saying what it wanted to tell Jessie, the Slime cheerfully set off to see new sights.
[Threadwork Madam]▶I'm glad Malangi is full of energy~.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Hmph, do you think it would get discouraged just because it parted with some human?
▶Ack, lol, that hooman gave it lots of food, lol. It's different from other hoomans, lol.
▶Hot take, but I honestly teared up at the farewell scene.
▶Same.
▶It's a little sad that we won't hear any more fun hooman stories.
At first, most viewers had been full of hatred toward humans.
But the month spent in the territory had softened much of that deep hatred.
Of course, that did not mean they would show even a hint of mercy toward humans who attacked them.
▶But why did the hooman cry at the end?
[Free Spirit]▶Because Malangi wrote its farewell in hooman letters.
▶????
▶Wait, it can write hooman letters?
▶When did it learn that?
▶Ah, the hooman kept reading books to it, remember~.
▶Then did you learn it too?
▶Why would I learn that?
▶LOL.
The viewers belatedly realized that the Slime had learned human writing and were surprised.
▶So what now?
▶Looks like nothing will happen for a while?
▶Ah, are we entering another boring stretch?
▶After a month of fun, we need some boring parts too lol.
▶Give.us.fun.content.every.day.
They regretted that there was nothing exciting happening as the Slime traveled.
[Just Slam Into It]▶Now that we're out of the humans' territory, you can learn properly! Malangi! I'll teach you a new way to hunt!
[Jiggly Queen]▶Wait! This time, I will teach my fellow kin! We cannot keep making it use nothing but crude Body Slams!
[Just Slam Into It]▶You're calling my refined hunting methods crude? Are you done talking?
[Free Spirit]▶Malangi, I'll teach you how to handle other humans when you meet them!
[Just Slam Into It]▶Why are you butting in again, Kkanjuki!
With no humans around, they also wanted to teach the Slime new things.
▷I want to learn everything! Teach me!
The Slime regretted parting with Jessie and the other humans it had grown close to, but it was not lonely.
After all, the viewers always spoke to it through the chat.
And one week after parting with Jessie.
The Slime continued traveling while learning the things some viewers taught it.
Along the way, it saw traveling merchant wagons pass along the road several times.
The Slime was happy to see new humans again, but unfortunately, the merchants and drivers riding those wagons were different from Jessie.
Even when the Slime bounced along near the road, they only thought it was a little strange and did not bother stopping.
After it happened more than three times, the Slime simply thought, ‘Wow! A wagon!’ whenever it saw one and kept bouncing along.
Instead, the ones who showed interest in the Slime were...
“Hm? What's this?”
“Boss, what is it?”
“Hey, look over here. There's some kind of Slime.”
“A Slime?”
A group dressed in ragged clothes, with hoods over their heads and blunted swords in their hands.
“A Slime traveling along the road? That's strange.”
‘Humans!’
Boing! Boing!
“Oh, this thing's really bouncing.”
“Boss! It stopped in front of us!”
“It doesn't even run away when it sees people. What a strange Slime.”
“Hmm... Could this fetch a good price?”
They were a band of bandits.
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