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Chapter 45: Slime Exercise (2)
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“Of course Trembly isn’t an ordinary slime!”
Amelia spoke, sounding a little upset at Paulen’s words.
What part of a slime that could understand human speech was ordinary?
Paulen had suddenly launched the slime high into the air, and Amelia had briefly lost her composure.
“No, Amelia. Look here. This crack.”
“A crack? Huh? When did that happen?”
“Haha, this little one did it.”
As if it still struck him as absurd, Paulen chuckled and pointed his thumb at the slime.
“Trembly did that?”
“Yes. Its attack had quite some force behind it. It could take down an ordinary animal in one hit, at least.”
“Trembly did?”
Amelia looked back and forth between the slime and Paulen doubtfully.
Boing! Boing!
‘Let’s do it again!’
While the two spoke, the slime bounced around, wanting to be launched again because it had enjoyed it.
“Yes. Otherwise, do you think I would have redirected the impact and bounced it away? I’ll show you again.”
Paulen walked over to the rack, exchanged his shield for a new wooden one, and stood before the slime.
“Come on, Trembly! Do that again!”
‘Again!’
Boiiing!
The slime immediately used Bounce Tackle.
And unlike the first time.
Thwack!
Paulen received the slime’s tackle head-on.
Unlike before, he had not been caught off guard. He also dispersed the impact from Bounce Tackle immediately, so the wooden shield did not crack this time, even without bouncing the slime away.
“Did you see?”
“...”
Even when Paulen asked if she had seen, Amelia could not tell the difference.
No matter how skillfully Paulen distributed the force, it looked as if he had simply blocked it.
Still, Amelia had no reason to think Paulen would lie to her, so she answered honestly.
“I’m not sure.”
“...Well, I suppose it looks the same from the outside.”
Meanwhile.
Boing! Boing!
‘Different! This is different! Higher! Throw me higher!’
The slime bounced in a circle around Paulen.
“Hm? What is it?”
When Paulen focused his attention on it.
Boiiing!
The slime jumped a little higher than Paulen’s height to express what it wanted.
‘Higher! Higher!’
“Hmm, do you want me to launch you higher?”
‘Yeah!’
Brrrrrr!
The slime stopped bouncing and trembled in place, as if to say he had the right answer.
‘It must have found that fun. Well, all right.’
There were other ways to prove that the slime was much stronger than expected, so Paulen decided to play with it for now.
After all, they had come to the training ground because the slime was bored.
“Come at me again! I’ll send you up this time.”
‘Up!’
Boiiing!
The slime used Bounce Tackle on Paulen again.
Each time it struck the wooden shield, Paulen redirected the impact and launched the slime upward.
Boing! Boing!
‘This is fun!’
Each time, the slime happily soared high into the air and landed safely.
‘Should I test something else?’
Paulen continued observing as he received Bounce Tackle again and again.
Like its regular tackle, Bounce Tackle displayed a consistent level of power.
That meant the slime likely had an even stronger attack.
His assumption that the slime had defeated a Lesser Troll was gradually becoming certainty.
And after testing its attack power, it was time to check its agility.
“Trembly! Let’s play differently this time.”
‘Differently?’
“I’ll swing my sword, so try to dodge it. All right?”
‘Dodging!’
Boing!
The slime bounced in place as if to say it understood.
As soon as Paulen saw that signal, he approached the slime and swung his sword.
“Paulen! Wait!”
Amelia worried that the slime might get badly hurt if Paulen’s sword struck it.
But before ten seconds had passed, she realized her concern was unnecessary.
Boing! Boing! Boing!
‘It dodges well?’
Paulen was not swinging in earnest, so his attacks could not be called swift or fierce.
But he was not just waving his sword around carelessly, either. He was swinging precisely at the slime.
The slime cleverly dodged every swing, bouncing out of the way.
“I’m speeding up, Trembly!”
To see where the slime’s limits lay, Paulen gradually swung faster.
▶Oh, lol. Faster and faster.
▶Hang in there, Malangi!
[Just Slam Into It]▶Hmph! You think Malangi can’t dodge something this slow?!
▶The first-person intensity is no joke lolllll.
The slime was thrilled by the dodging game, and the viewers were having fun watching the sword-dodging stream from both third-person and first-person perspectives.
The speed kept rising.
It was becoming fast enough that even Amelia wondered if it was too much.
‘At this rate, it’s more agile than most C-rank monsters. But it doesn’t seem to have met an opponent faster than itself.’
Paulen grinned and changed his swordplay.
The moment the slime jumped to dodge one swing.
He suddenly sped up and struck the slime with the flat of his blade while it was still in the air, as if pushing it away.
The slime flew backward.
Boing! Boing!
It only stopped after bouncing twice.
‘I got hit!’
▶What was that just now?
▶He hit Malangi quickly while it was in the air, yeah.
▶That acceleration came out of nowhere.
[Just Slam Into]▶Tsk, tsk. You should twist your body to dodge at times like that!
▶Does a slime even have a body it can twist?
▶No idea?
“Hahaha! How was that? That surprised you, right?”
‘Yeah! Let’s do it again!’
Boing! Boing! Boing!
The slime quickly came back to Paulen and bounced around him.
From the slime’s reaction, Paulen could tell it posed no threat to humans.
‘It understands that my sword had no intent to harm it. It even thinks this is a game and wants me to do more, just like before. I really found an extraordinary slime.’
“Trembly, are you all right?”
While the slime was having fun and Paulen was relieved, Amelia approached, worried about the slime that had been sent flying.
“You’re not hurt, are you?”
“Don’t worry, Amelia. I controlled my strength properly when I sent it away.”
“What are you talking about? You hit it with a sword.”
Paulen’s strike against the slime had been incredibly fast.
Amelia had not even seen him hit it with the flat of the blade.
“I pushed it away with the flat of my sword, so don’t worry. More importantly, I was right, wasn’t I? Trembly isn’t an ordinary slime if it can move that quickly.”
“Yes, I understand. But that doesn’t change the fact that you hit Trembly, does it?”
“This is strictly a game.”
“...”
It did not look like a game to Amelia, but the slime itself was bouncing around excitedly, so she did not press the matter further.
Still.
“It could be hurt... I’ll heal you. Come here, Trembly.”
‘Healing?’
When Amelia held out her hand, the slime jumped onto it.
She stroked the slime resting on her hand with her other hand and began healing it with holy arts.
‘O God, grant this one Your healing touch.’
A soft yellow light began to flow from the hand stroking the slime.
The yellow glow enveloped the slime, healing it with its warmth.
‘Warm!’
The moment it felt warm, the slime’s body began recovering the stamina it had spent moving around.
Brrrrrr!
‘Woooow!’
The slime suddenly felt energized. It seemed amazed and pleased, trembling atop Amelia’s hand.
“Holy arts work on monsters too.”
“God’s touch is equal for all. I’m done, Trembly.”
Boing!
Once the healing was over, the slime climbed down from Amelia’s hand.
“Then play carefully, all right?”
“Understood, Amelia. Will you not heal me too?”
“There’s no way you would be tired from something like this, Paulen.”
“Hahaha! True! This is nothing! I have these muscles I train every day, after all! Biceps!”
Even as he flexed his bicep, Paulen smacked his lips in disappointment.
‘If I could, I’d test the slime’s abilities more seriously. But if I do that today, Amelia will give me an earful.’
With regret, Paulen decided to keep playing with the slime at the level he had shown so far.
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That night.
Amelia could not easily fall asleep.
The reason was that the game Paulen and the slime had played that day would not leave her mind.
‘It happened because I wasn’t confident enough.’
Because she had not been confident about taking the slime outside herself, Paulen had brought it to the training ground.
And while claiming to play with it, he had sent the slime flying with a sword and shield again and again.
Paulen said the slime had enjoyed itself, but.
To Amelia, it looked like a mischievous uncle playing dangerously rough with a niece or nephew.
‘If I keep doing nothing, I don’t know what dangerous thing Paulen might do to Trembly next.’
“Hahaha, let’s see just how well Trembly bounces!”
Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!
In Amelia’s mind, Paulen was repeatedly bouncing the slime off the floor like a basketball.
‘I can’t let that happen!’
Snap!
Amelia’s eyes flew open.
Perhaps because she had imagined something so ominous, sleep became even more impossible.
“Haah...”
With a sigh, Amelia sat up.
After getting out of bed, she turned on the lantern powered by a magic stone, filling the room with a soft light.
Amelia left her bed and took out a scripture from the study.
It was a book about God’s words and the blessings priests could use.
In other words, holy arts.
When Amelia could not sleep at night, she had a habit of reading scripture until sleep returned.
She went back to bed, leaned against the headboard, and turned the pages one by one with a soft rustle.
‘Hm?’
Boing.
Awakened by the turning pages and the lantern’s soft light, the slime moved right beside Amelia.
“Oh, sorry. Did I wake you?”
Brrr!
The slime trembled as if to say it was no big deal.
Amelia looked fondly at it, stroking the slime with one hand as she continued reading the scripture.
The lantern’s glow cast Amelia’s orange hair in a soft, dreamlike light. Then the glow gradually weakened and went out.
“Huh? Has the magic stone already run out?”
Amelia was flustered.
Other believers replaced the magic stone at the proper time, so she did not keep spare ones.
The room turned pitch-black.
And because moonlight barely reached Amelia’s room, it was even darker inside.
Amelia had thought that if she read for just ten more minutes, she would become sleepy. She could only feel disappointed.
‘It can’t be helped.’
Just as she was about to close the scripture, place it beside the bed, and lie down again.
Hummmmm!
The slime used Luminescence and gave off a soft glow.
“B-Trembly!? Y-You’re glowing!?”
Amelia’s eyes went wide, and all trace of sleep vanished.
After all, the slime was glowing.
“Trembly, how are you glowing? Are you all right?”
‘Glow! Scripture! Read!’
The slime snuggled closer to Amelia and rubbed itself against the finger of the hand that had not yet closed the book.
“Are you glowing because you want me to keep reading the scripture?”
‘Yeah!’
Brrrrrr!
“H-Hahaha...”
A hollow laugh escaped her at the incomprehensible situation.
But knowing that the slime was doing this for her warmed Amelia’s heart.
“Thank you, Trembly.”
Until her lost sleepiness returned, Amelia read the scripture for twenty minutes.
Then, hugging the slime tightly after it had kept glowing the whole time, Amelia was able to sleep peacefully.
‘Next time... I’ll definitely take you outside.’
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