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Chapter 5: Skill (3)

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[Just Slam Into It]▶Hahaha! Good! Those are very fine eyes. I can see your determination!

▶A slime has eyes now? lol

[Just Slam Into It]▶I can see Malangi's mind's eye!

▶"Mind's eye," my ass.

▶Was this guy always like this? He seems a little out of it today.

▶Come to think of it, didn't he confidently say he'd teach his sons skills?

The Bone Dragon recalled Just Slam Into It boldly declaring on stream that he would give his children a gifted education.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Don't even bring up my kids, fuck.

▶Ah.

▶Ah.

▶Ah.

▶This wolf gets bullied by his own family lol

▶Dad... You smell like an old man. Go away....

[Just Slam Into It]▶Shut up!

[Threadwork Madam]▶Oh my, are you worried about family discord? Shall I counsel you? I'm veeeery close with my children.

[Just Slam Into It]▶You shut up too!!!

▶Heeeng, Mama... I wanna get along with you toooo...

▶"Mama," my ass.

▶But does warmth even feel good? Never felt it before.

Fenrir ignored the comments directed at him.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Malangi! Now, on to Body Slam training!

▷Yeah! I want to learn!

Just Slam Into It was the username.

Fenrir, also known as the legendary wolf, very much liked the slime's eagerness.

Seeing that enthusiasm, he could ignore the trolls no matter how much shit they stirred up.

But he could not ignore old wounds.

'Haah, if only my own kids were like this...'

Fenrir suddenly recalled his children's reactions when he had offered to teach them Body Slam himself.

-Too much trouble.

-Do we have to learn every little thing like that? Can't we just go bite stuff?

-Mom! What's for dinner?!

His children found it bothersome, saw no need to learn it, and went beyond that to simply ignore him.

'I spoiled them too much.'

When he could not take it anymore and tried to force them to learn...

-You! Why do you keep getting on the kids' case? If they need it, they'll learn on their own!

His wife would step in and scold him instead.

'Urgh...!'

He could not vent the loneliness of his lofty self, rejected by his children and scolded by his wife, on a livestream.

-Are you crazy?! What are you saying on stream?!

Riiip!

-Yelp!

If he complained like that, his wife would obviously find out right away and rake his back with her claws.

'No, this isn't the time to be thinking about that!'

His children had rejected him so often that Fenrir now wanted to pass down his most confident skill, Body Slam, even to a slime.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Good! Malangi, you haven't learned a skill yet, right?

▷Yeah!

[Just Slam Into It]▶Then we'll start by learning Body Slam! Charge into the wall right now! Slam into it first! Body Slam is an extremely easy skill to learn just by doing that!

▷Okay!

▶Seriously, I think even I could teach that much.

▶How to learn Body Slam: Charge! Charge! Charge!

▶That really is all there is to it, yeah.

▶It'd be fucking hilarious if it died charging into the wall lol

▶Ugh, can somebody get rid of that mood-killing asshole?

▶222222[1]

▶Aka, ah, fuck, I'm late.

As Fenrir instructed, the slime jumped toward the wall and slammed its body against it.

Boing! Boing! Boing!

The soft, slightly springy slime bounced back from the wall.

But even after being bounced away, it did not stop and kept slamming into the wall.

'This is fun!'

After doing it several times, the slime began to enjoy Body Slamming the wall.

▷It's fun! This is fun!

[Threadwork Madam]▶Aaaaaah! So cuuuute!

▶lol It keeps going boing boing lol

▶Shouldn't it normally go thud, thud, thud? lol

▶Isn't that Squishy Slam instead of Body Slam? lol

[Noblesse Fire]▶Tch. Is that supposed to be cute?

▶Your emotions are dried up.

▶Ah, it says it's having fun.

▶For real lol.

▶Having fun is valid.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What would a lizard holed up indoors know?

[Noblesse Fire]▶You denture-wearing bastard, now you're butting into other people's conversations and talking shit too!!!!

▶The old men are fighting again lol.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Exactly! What is supposedly cute about it? It looks admirable, working so hard!

▶She seems less like a Slime Queen and more like Slime Mama???

[Jiggly Queen]▶Who are you calling Mama?!

▶Heeeng, Mama, gimme some boobie....

▶It's admirable and cute.

[Just Slam Into It]▶You found it fun! Excellent!

After it went boing, boing and hit the wall around twenty times...

[Skill: You have acquired Body Slam.]

The slime acquired Body Slam.

And as proof of that...

Boooiiing!

The springiness when it hit the wall increased even further.

Overjoyed at acquiring Body Slam, the slime jumped up and down in place and reported it in chat.

▷I got it! Body Slam! I got it!

[Just Slam Into It]▶That's right! Well done! But this is only the beginning, so follow closely! I'll teach you how to slam even better!

▷Yeah!

[Just Slam Into It]▶Good answer!

▶Can't you just slam into things? Is there a way to do it better? Seriously asking.

▶You don't even know that? Well, you see...

▶You're not ready to know yet...

▶He's really excited.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶You have not spoken of your children on stream lately. Perhaps they would not give you the time of day, and you became lonely.

▶Why even mate when your kids disrespect you like that? Seriously asking.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Shut uuuuuup!!!!

▷Fun!

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'It's listening to someone else again.'

The Slime Queen had complicated feelings as she watched the slime.

She had clearly been the first to tell the slime to master Body Slam.

She had planned to teach it the method, too.

But Fenrir had interrupted while she was about to explain. That wolf was already teaching the slime.

If he had taught it some ridiculous method, she would have immediately scolded him. But Fenrir's instruction was passionate, and it was a method even the Slime Queen had to acknowledge.

In fact, he was explaining it in greater detail than she had planned to.

The Slime Queen had only intended to teach it to be careful not to bounce away too far when using Body Slam.

But Fenrir was teaching it the timing for Body Slam, reaction speed, and even evasion techniques using footwork.

So, for the slime's survival, she could not bring herself to interfere.

But that was separate from her resentment.

'For me, the Slime Queen, to fall behind in educating a slime...'

An apex entity was the strongest ruler of each species, not a teacher.

Still, it stung.

'Body Slam is only used at the beginning anyway. It is a skill that won't even be used later!'

An ordinary slime could do little more than Body Slam or absorb food.

But once it grew and evolved, it could use a wide variety of skills.

And the Slime Queen's specialty was the skills she could use after evolving into a higher-level individual.

'That's right! Once that fellow slime evolves, that will be that! Besides, using a variety of skills will be more fun than Body Slam!'

Rather than resenting what she could not teach the slime now, the Slime Queen decided to look forward to teaching it once it had grown more in the future.

'Hehe, when that time comes, my fellow slime will see just how amazing I am!'

She would make it a conversational companion, but the Slime Queen also wanted to see the slime admire her.

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Body Slam training continued for three days.

[Just Slam Into It]▶Well, this should be enough for now!

[Jiggly Queen]▶I think it is sufficient as well.

▷Wow! Then can I go outside now?

The slime rejoiced at both Fenrir's and the Slime Queen's words.

Practicing Body Slam so diligently had been fun in its own way, but what the slime had looked forward to most was permission to go outside.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Yes, you may go out now.

At least as far as the Slime Queen knew, there was no ordinary slime that could move more nimbly than this one.

Telling it not to go outside because it was still dangerous would be overprotective by anyone's standards.

And the Slime Queen also wanted the slime to go out and show her the scenery beyond the cave.

'Then I should be able to guess where my fellow slime is.'

Since becoming a Slime Queen, her range of activity had narrowed considerably. Still, she had learned the rough geography by watching other monsters' streams.

If the slime was near her home...

'When it has grown enough, it would be best for me to go and teach it myself.'

Unlike the others, the Slime Queen wanted the upper hand in their relationship by teaching the slime in person rather than through chat.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Go outside the cave now. See the world you wish to see with your own eyes.

▷Yeah!

The moment the Slime Queen gave her permission, the slime answered at once and headed toward the cave entrance it had found through Perception, going boing, boing.

After moving for around ten minutes, the slime finally made it outside the cave, which it had wanted so badly to see.

'Woooow...!'

A forest of variegated greens and browns welcomed the slime.

Unable to speak aloud because it did not yet have vocal cords, the slime shared its impressions through chat instead.

▷Amazing! Amazing! Wow! Wooooow!

[Threadwork Madam]▶Oh my, oh my. Look how happy Malangi is.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Ugh!!! The screen is shaking!!!

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶That is how happy Malangi must be.

[Free Spirit]▶Yo yo yo, Malangi's outside now?

Kkanjuki entered the stream at just that moment.

▶It just escaped the cave, yeah.

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi! Congratulations on going outside!

▷Thank you! Thank you! I'm happy!

[Free Spirit]▶You react well even without donations, huh? Malangi! Turn around once and take a close look at the area. I'll try to figure out where you are.

▷Turn around?

Following Free Spirit's request, the slime slowly turned its body.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶Free Spirit, can you tell where Malangi is? It looks like an ordinary forest to me.

▶For real, how can you tell?

[Free Spirit]▶Uh...

[Free Spirit]▶Wow. Malangi, you're farther away than I thought.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Do you know where my fellow slime is?

The viewers focused on what Kkanjuki would say next.

[Free Spirit]▶Malangi is on the Dersia Continent right now. The trees and flowers nearby only exist on the Dersia Continent.

"W-What did you say!?"

The Slime Queen was horrified by Kkanjuki's words.

'The Dersia Continent... Isn't that another continent?!'

The Slime Queen's plan to meet the slime herself once it had grown enough had suffered a major setback.

▶Dersia lol

▶Fucking hell difficulty lol

▶Now this is what I'm talking about lol

▶Fuck, Dersia is insanely harsh for a slime.

▷Dersia Continent? What's that?

The slime immediately showed curiosity at Snarker's words.

[Free Spirit]▶That's where Malangi is right now. Still, it's not a bad place. There are lots of weak ones there.

Compared to the Monstopia Continent, where apex entities lived, the monsters of the Dersia Continent were incomparably weaker.

That was because there were fewer apex entities ruling over their species than on the Monstopia Continent. At the same time, there were also fewer monsters intelligent enough to host streams.

[Jiggly Queen]▶What do you mean it is not bad? Even those weak creatures are all stronger than my fellow slime right now!

▶For real lol.

▶A continent full of weaklings. All stronger than the slime.

▶And hateful humans run rampant there.

▶Wow... fuck.

[Free Spirit]▶That is something Malangi has to handle on its own. I do not want Malangi to die either, but there is nothing I can do about it.

▶Right, right. It has to survive on its own.

▶Life is survival of the fittest.

▶Thought this was a healing stream, but it's a survival show lol.

A monster's life was always survival of the fittest.

If the slime wanted to survive and see more of the world as it wished, it had no choice but to become stronger first.

[Free Spirit]▶So, Malangi! Sightseeing is nice, but work hard at becoming stronger too!

▷Yeah!

After answering energetically, the slime decided to be honest about its desire.

It wanted to move around more and see the world outside the cave.

Having remained inside the cave until now, the slime wanted to see more than ever before.

Going boing, boing! with excitement, the slime explored the forest filled with the unknown.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Wait! Perception! You are using Perception properly as you go, right?! You must know about danger in advance!

'Perception!'

The Slime Queen's advice came into the slime's view.

At first, it had become so excited that it expanded the range too far and suffered pain from using Perception.

It had not needed to use Sense for a while because it had been practicing Body Slam.

The slime began moving while using Perception only as far as it could without pain.

'This is amazing! Fun!'

There was the world it saw directly with its eyes while moving, and the world it perceived through Perception.

Feeling the world in both ways at once was new and enjoyable for the slime.

And it was easy to tell through the stream that the slime was having a great time.

[Threadwork Madam]▶Oh my, my, my. Malangi is sooooo cute when it is having fun.

[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶When one is that young, everything is fresh and fun.

[Noblesse Fire]▶Nothing's more fun than flying. It's GOAT.

▶Yeah, flying is fun. What fun is there in life for ground-crawling bastards?

▶Those fucking winged pests are losing their minds again.

[Jiggly Queen]▶Are you all right, fellow slime? Are there any strange creatures nearby?

As viewers commented on the slime's reactions, it sensed something new through Perception, something it had never felt before.

▷Ah! I can feel it! I can feel it!

[Free Spirit]▶What can you feel?

▶Ah! I felt it!

▷It's moving! It's different!

It was the response of a living creature that moved on its own, unlike plants such as the moss it usually ate.

▷I want to see!

Full of curiosity, the slime moved forward even faster, going boing, boing!

Footnotes:

[1] 222222: Korean chat shorthand for agreement, roughly “seconded.”

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