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Chapter 3: Skill (1)
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The slime had been happily bouncing around when a new desire arose.
‘I want to see more!’
Not just this cave, but other places too.
It wanted to see a wider, more varied world.
The slime stopped bouncing and slowly moved forward.
▶Oh, it’s moving.
▶Hot take. It’s cute, but this POV is dizzy as hell.
▶Agreed.
▶Can’t it switch the stream to third person? I want to see it being cute again...
The viewers, warmed by the sight, watched the slime’s next move.
Among them was Jiggly Queen.
The Slime Queen sensed that something was wrong.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Wait. Why does it keep moving? At this rate, won’t it leave the cave?
▶Maybe it just wants to go outside?
▶I’m gonna be free~
▶I’m getting out of this shitty cave!
[Jiggly Queen]▶What!?
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The Slime Queen was utterly flustered.
‘Why does it already want to leave the cave!? It has such a good environment here!’
The Slime Queen was a top-tier individual.
But she had not been born a Slime Queen.
She too had started as an ordinary slime, then grown and evolved into what she was now.
And though her memories were incomplete, the Slime Queen roughly remembered the path she had taken.
That was why she knew how dangerous what the slime was trying to do was.
‘If it leaves the cave like this...!’
A fellow slime who might someday become her companion could lose its life in vain.
‘That must never happen!’
The Slime Queen hurriedly typed in chat.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Wait! Hold on! Stop! I said stop!
[Noblesse Fire]▶Why’s that squishy one losing its shit?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Hah. Does an old shut-in dragon have no manners? It’s only polite to properly call her Jiggly Queen.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Etiquette my ass.
▷I want to see more! I want to see more things!
▶I... I want to see too! I’m gonna see!
As the slime moved farther forward, the Slime Queen grew more desperate.
[Jiggly Queen]▶You mustn’t! Listen to me! I said listen!
▶Your Majesty, what’s wrong?
▶Damn, she’s really desperate lol
[Jiggly Queen]▶It’ll die if it goes out like that!
▶What?
▶???? What are you talking about???
▶What do you mean?
[Threadwork Madam]▶Oh my! What do you mean by that???
Everyone’s attention turned to Jiggly Queen’s message.
▶Die?
[Noblesse Fire]▶You mean outside the cave is dangerous? Kids need to get out there and suffer a little to grow up, yeah.
[Jiggly Queen]▶You fool! Do you think that fellow slime is like some dragon that dives into lava every day like you do!?
[Noblesse Fire]▶The fuck?
▶That boomer grandpa is kind of ignorant, yeah.
▶You can tell he’s ignorant from how he gets kicked from girls’ streams every day while backseating them, yeah.
[Jiggly Queen]▶That fellow slime was only just born! It hasn’t even properly grown yet!
[Jiggly Queen]▶Normally, it would need to eat and grow enough to at least learn Body Slam before it could even hope to survive!
▷I want to see more! I want to see more things!
[Jiggly Queen]▶Aaaah! It keeps typing in chat, but it isn’t looking at all!
The other viewers gradually began to understand the situation from the Slime Queen’s urgent reaction.
A newborn slime.
One that had only just opened its eyes.
And that slime was simply going to leave the cave?
It was obvious that even an ordinary animal, not a monster, would easily kill it.
Slimes were very weak monsters to begin with.
They appeared in great numbers, and accordingly, were the monsters that died in the greatest numbers.
But the slime currently streaming had already become a special slime that viewers cared about.
Those who had found the slime interesting, felt warmed by it, or been soothed by it did not want this strange young slime to die so early.
▶Lol, is the slime gonna die like this? Go go go go.
There were exceptions, of course: morally bankrupt troublemakers who were satisfied only when they stirred up trouble.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Then why does it want to go out?
▶The cave stinks like hell lol
▶A slime talking about smells lmao.
▶You probably smell worse, yeah.
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Hmm. It seems its intelligence developed too early, and that became the problem.
Normally, even if it gained sight, it would not have felt anything special. It would have simply searched for food nearby as usual.
But the wonder it felt when its view opened up had made it move without considering its own safety.
‘Wait! Now that I think about it...’
As the Slime Queen searched for a way to get the slime’s attention, she thought of one.
It was the method Kkanjuki, the smartass, had used.
She would send a donation message to draw the slime’s attention.
▶[Jiggly Queen has donated 5 coins.]
▶[Message: Stop! You must not go outside now!]
Halt!
The slime, which had been moving slowly, stopped.
▷I can’t? Why?
‘It finally reacted!’
[Jiggly Queen]▶It’s dangerous to go outside the cave now!
[Jiggly Queen]▶First, you must eat more and grow!
▷I want to see more things!
[Jiggly Queen]▶If you want to see that badly, then hurry and grow more!
▷I want to see now!
▶No brakes lol
‘Urgh... What a stubborn fellow slime. This is bad.’
It was a pure slime that had only recently been born.
It had intelligence, but no knowledge.
What was dangerous, and what it needed to distinguish before acting.
This slime did not know.
It had no experience sufficient to teach it those things.
So despite having intelligence, this pure slime did not understand danger and put its desires first.
‘What am I supposed to do...?’
Just as the Slime Queen was racking her brain,
[Free Spirit]▶Tsk, tsk, tsk. Ah, Jiggly Queen~ Do you think it’ll understand if you put it that way? You need to speak at its level in times like this~.
Kkanjuki stepped in and began demonstrating the proper approach.
▶[Free Spirit has donated 2 coins.]
▶[Message: Malangi~ Do you want to see lots more?]
▷I do!
Kkanjuki first caught the slime’s attention with a donation message.
[Free Spirit]▶You really want to see lo~ts more, huh~? But if you go outside now, you won’t get to see much.
▷I won’t?
[Free Spirit]▶Yeah, you’ll only see a li~ttle, then never see again.
▷No! I don’t want that!
[Free Spirit]▶Yeah, you don’t want that, right? So if you want to see lo~ts more, you need to eat lo~ts first and grow more.
[Free Spirit]▶Then Malangi can see lo~ts more, yeah.
Kkanjuki used the slime’s own desire to persuade it in terms it could easily understand.
[Free Spirit]▶So first, shouldn’t you eat a lot here?
▷Yeah! I’ll eat!
▶Persuaded right away lol
▶Is Free Spirit a dad? Why are they so good at this?
Kkanjuki’s persuasion immediately changed the slime’s behavior.
Instead of moving forward, the slime went to the moss nearby and absorbed it again.
Just as Kkanjuki had said, it wanted to eat more so it could see more.
And the Slime Queen, watching this sight, was deeply shocked.
‘N-No way! A fellow slime... A fellow slime listened to Free Spirit instead of me...!?’
Who was she?
The Slime Queen.
The highest-ranking kind of slime.
Unless it was the Slime King, another equally high-ranking individual, no slime could defy her command.
Yet...
That young slime had refused to yield despite her warning it first.
That much, she could understand.
‘If it is to become my future companion, it should have that much spirit.’
But being persuaded by Kkanjuki’s words was bound to be a shock.
It had stubbornly resisted her, only to listen to another monster.
She could not easily accept that.
Her trait could not have worked through chat in the first place, but as the Slime Queen, her pride was wounded. She could not simply let this pass.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Why!? I warned it about the danger too! Why did it ignore me but listen to that one!?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Hahaha, my goodness. We are seeing Jiggly Queen get jealous.
[Jiggly Queen]▶How is this jealousy!?
The Slime Queen furiously denied it in chat.
But that reaction only made more people tease her.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Free Spirit stole your fellow slime lol. Kya hahaha.
[Jiggly Queen]▶It was not stolen!
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Slime NTR[2]. What a rare treat.
[Jiggly Queen]▶What nonsense are you talking about!?
▶Slime NTR lmao
▶That fellow slime you were so obsessed with? Ah, you mean this one?
▶You bastaaaaard!
‘If they tease Jiggly Queen too much, she’ll explode.’
At the right moment, Kkanjuki spoke to Jiggly Queen so that the chat would not overheat with anger and mockery.
[Free Spirit]▶Ah, well, even if the content is the same, the way you say it is different, right~?
[Jiggly Queen]▶The way is different!? How is it different!?
[Free Spirit]▶If you just say it’s dangerous and tell Malangi not to go, what will Malangi understand?
[Free Spirit]▶At times like this, it’s better to emphasize what Malangi wants, then clearly say that dangerous behavior will keep Malangi from getting it.
[Free Spirit]▶If Jiggly Queen had explained it like I did, Malangi would’ve understood too, yeah.
▶This is why teaching at the child’s level is important, everyone!
▶Ah, damn. It didn’t die.
▶Troll trash.
"Urgh. That smartass Kkanjuki..."
She understood Kkanjuki’s explanation, but the Slime Queen was frustrated.
"Next time... Next time, I’ll definitely make my fellow slime listen to me."
As Jiggly Queen made that vow,
the slime was eating, trusting Kkanjuki’s words that eating more would let it see more.
‘Eat more... See more things!’
As it absorbed moss, the slime looked forward to the future ahead.
Then it happened.
▶[Threadwork Madam has donated 10 coins.]
▶[Message: Malangi~ First person is nice, but I want to see third person too~.]
The slime, busy eating, reacted to the request that rang directly in its soul.
‘Third person?’
Third person meant seeing itself from a step away.
But the slime wanted others to see what it saw.
It wanted them to share this wonder.
The system sensed that desire and offered the optimal suggestion.
[Would you like to begin a simultaneous-view broadcast? The screen can be split left and right to broadcast first-person and third-person perspectives.]
‘...! I will!’
▶[You have switched to simultaneous-view broadcast mode.]
[Threadwork Madam]▶Eek! Malangi immediately granted my request. Such ama~zing sense! It’s so cute when it eats~!
[Noblesse Fire]▶Ah, fuck, the simultaneous POV is dizzy as hell.
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Is it hard to distinguish both at once because you’re getting older? Or do you perhaps have an eye disease?
[Noblesse Fire]▶Ugh, is that denture always picking fights?
[Jiggly Queen]▶Yes, keep eating like that! Do not even think of leaving the cave until you gain a new skill!
[Free Spirit]▶Jiggly Queen, Malangi is eating, so it isn’t looking anyway, yeah.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Be quiet! I can say what I want!
The slime repeated meals and rest endlessly while broadcasting both views.
The stream had almost no change in its pattern of behavior, and it gradually lost the interest of many viewers.
▶Ah, boring now.
Some grew tired of the repetitive pattern and left.
▶Going to another stream, later.
Others went to watch another broadcast.
▶Ah! S*x!
Some entered, said only what they wanted to say, and left.
The number of viewers in the slime’s stream was steadily shrinking.
"Another stream showing reverse scales[1]!? How shameless! Tsk, tsk, tsk!"
Those who remained were people with so little to do that they simply left the broadcast on while watching other streams.
"Hoho, Blizzard Troll is hard at work breaking ice again today. Oh, today is Honey Queen’s sweet honey-gathering stream. I cannot miss that."
Others had always watched several screens at once.
[Threadwork Madam]▶Eek! The little trembling is so, so cute~
Some simply enjoyed the adorable slime.
"I cannot look away. I am too worried..."
And some worried about the slime’s safety.
Without ending the broadcast, the slime moved forward while absorbing the moss in front of it.
After some time passed, its body steadily grew.
Its tiny body swelled to about the size of a soccer ball.
Other functions besides sight also began to activate. Now, even without system messages or donation messages, it could hear sounds.
And as it began to feel the sensations passing through its body more clearly,
[Skill: Perception acquired.]
the slime gained its second skill.
Footnotes:
[1] Reverse scale: In Korean dragon lore, a sensitive scale that grows in the opposite direction. Showing it is treated as embarrassingly intimate.
[2] NTR: Japanese internet shorthand for netorare, a genre about a partner being taken by someone else. The chat jokes that Free Spirit has stolen Jiggly Queen’s fellow slime.
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