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◈ Monster Livestream Star ◈
Chapter 6: Elf (1)
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The slime bounced its soft body as it crossed through the brush.
‘I want to see it!’
What could it have sensed?
The slime was excited to see something new.
The viewers were also curious about what the slime would encounter for the first time.
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶What will Malangi encounter, I wonder?
[Noblesse Fire]▶What could there be in a forest like that besides animals?
▶Asshole humans are animals too, yeah.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Just not humans! Absolutely not!
Everyone reacted differently. Some felt no sense of danger, some were already imagining the worst, and some worried about everything.
The slime continued toward the life form it had sensed with its Perception skill.
At last, it came face-to-face with it.
‘Wow!’
Everything was fascinating to the slime because it was seeing it for the first time.
A deer appeared before its eyes.
▶A wild deer appeared!
[Noblesse Fire]▶Ah, what a letdown.
▶But isn’t even a deer dangerous for a slime?
[Just Slam Into It]▶With the Body Slam I taught it, a deer would go down in one hit!
‘Deer? A deer!’
Now that it had started paying attention to the chat, the slime read the messages and realized that the creature before it was called a deer.
‘I want to look more!’
Boing! Boing!
The slime bounced toward the deer.
The deer had been eating grass with its head lowered when it spotted the round, pale-green slime approaching.
Seeing a monster come toward it, the deer stopped eating and stared at the slime.
Deer were near the bottom of the wild food chain.
Not only humans but monsters hunted them.
That was why wild animals had highly developed instincts for recognizing who was and was not a threat to their survival.
The deer had those instincts too.
If its opponent had been a goblin, it would have turned and kicked it with its hind legs the moment it approached.
If it had been a human or a monster like an orc, it would have fled at once.
But...
‘Wooooow...!’
The slime approaching the deer held not the slightest hostility or bloodlust.
Boing, boing, it bounced over, then suddenly stopped nearby without moving.
The deer lowered its guard, bent its neck again, and resumed eating grass.
Meanwhile, the slime found the deer eating grass new and fascinating. At the same time, it felt a sense of kinship with it.
Apparently, it did not want to experience that intense feeling alone, because it even wrote about it in chat.
▷It’s eating! Grass! It’s eating it!
▶Yeah, it’s a deer eating grass.
▶What’s going on? Why isn’t the deer running away?
▶They usually bolt as soon as they see anything.
▷I want to eat too!
As if copying the deer, the slime absorbed the grass directly beneath it.
▶Where did the heated duel with the deer go?
▶A mukbang suddenly started.
▶Ah! S*x!
▶I’ve never seen an animal not run away when there’s a monster beside it.
Normally, when monsters encountered animals, hunting was a given.
And normally, animals were too busy running away.
The viewers were bewildered by the sight of them peacefully eating grass together, contrary to all common sense.
[Threadwork Madam]▶Aww! So cute~
Of course, some only focused on the slime’s cuteness.
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‘So soft and squishy~ Watching it eat grass is so cute~ Just like my babies~.’
On a continent different from Dersia, where the slime was.
Deep in a lush forest on Monstopia, the so-called Monster Continent, where powerful monsters mainly lived.
There was a monster with the upper body of a mature human woman and the lower body of a giant spider.
An Arachne.
A top-tier spider-type monster.
Username: Threadwork Madam.
She watched the slime’s stream with a broad smile.
Several spider-shaped monsters crawled toward the Arachne along strands of web.
They were all monsters she had given birth to.
“Oh my, what is it, my babies? Are you hungry? Just wait a moment.”
Smiling like a mother, the Arachne controlled her threads and brought one of the prey she had wrapped up and stored for her young.
The prey wrapped in webbing was a gigantic bear-shaped monster, large enough to easily destroy an entire village.
A Red Moon Bear.
But on Monstopia, the Monster Continent, it was merely a monster that easily became prey.
When the Arachne set the prey down before her young, dozens of small spider monsters rushed at it all at once.
“Aww~ Even the way you eat is so cute, my babies~.”
To the Arachne, the slime eating grass and her young eating the Red Moon Bear were both simply adorable sights of creatures eating their food.
‘The monsters who stream are all grown up and twisted in one way or another, so they aren’t cute~. But Malangi is really special. Hehe, I can’t wait to see how it grows.’
With such expectations, the Arachne continued watching Malangi’s stream.
On the screen, the deer had finished eating grass, raised its head, and run elsewhere, with the slime chasing after it.
‘Aww! Even the way it chases after it is cute~.’
Boing, boing, the slime bounced after the deer.
It was the kind of sight that made anyone smile just by watching it, but the mood did not last long.
Thunk!
An arrow flew from somewhere and embedded itself in the deer’s torso.
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The scenery outside the cave was incredibly interesting, fascinating, and surprising to the slime.
Of all those things, the most fascinating was the deer.
It moved around and ate grass like the slime did, but it was bigger than the slime. Naturally, the slime was interested in it.
That was why, when the deer moved, the slime followed it.
‘Deer!’
Where was the deer going?
What was it going to do next?
Without any such specific thoughts, the slime simply followed the moving deer.
Even following the deer and watching it was fun for the slime.
[Noblesse Fire]▶Why is it following that thing?
[Gothic Luxury Bone]▶It must be curious because it is the first animal Malangi has seen.
[Just Slam Into It]▶Why isn’t it slamming into it? It’s the perfect target!
▶Tsk, tsk. Typical wolf personality.
▶How can you say that about such a cute little deer?
▶Deer for lunch today.
▶Hmm... Nice view of that deer’s ass.
▶Dude?
While idle chatter passed through the chat...
Thunk!
The slime and the viewers saw the deer get hit by an arrow.
▶???
▶Huh?
▶D-Deeeeer!
‘What?’
An arrow had suddenly appeared, and the deer toppled over nearby.
The slime stopped moving, unable to understand what had just happened.
‘Deer isn’t moving! It fell down!’
The slime tried to approach the fallen deer.
But then...
▶[Jiggly Queen donated 1 coin.]
▶[Message: Hide right now! Now! Hide in the bushes or wherever! Hurry!]
The Slime Queen urgently warned the slime.
The fact that an arrow had flown in meant that whoever shot it was nearby.
To the monsters living on the Monster Continent, that might not have been much. But for the slime, it meant a direct threat to its life.
It meant there was a human nearby.
▶From healing deer content to survival instantly lol.
▶Now this is worth watching.
▶I almost said, “Run right out there!”
[Threadwork Madam]▶No, no, no! Cute Malangi, run away quickly!
[Free Spirit]▶You seriously need to watch out for asshole humans! Run!
The chat filled with messages from trolls enjoying the slime’s danger and viewers worried about the rare wholesome newbie.
Meanwhile, through its experiences so far, the slime had learned that the voice accompanying messages was not harmful to it.
‘Hide!’
Following the advice delivered in the message, the slime hid in the nearby brush.
Shortly after the slime hid...
Crunch. Crunch.
The one who had shot the arrow appeared.
The archer had long pale-green hair, blue eyes, green clothes similar in color to the forest, and pointed ears.
Considering that it held a bow in one hand, it was obvious to anyone that the prickly-ear had shot the arrow.
▶A prickly-ear!
▶Not an asshole human. A prickly-ear.
▶Not as bad as humans, but prickly-ears are assholes too, yeah.
▶Either way, if it spots you, you’re dead lol.
The elf that appeared looked down at the deer it had struck.
“That is a pretty good catch.”
The elf expertly untied the rope hanging from its waist and bound the deer’s legs.
Then it hung the deer upside down from a nearby tree and cut its throat with a dagger to drain the blood.
▶Tsk, tsk, tsk. You should eat the blood too!
▶They don’t know the fresh flavor that blood holds. Total taste amateurs.
▶What a waste of blood.
▶Now I really want deer meat.
As comments from viewers who could not understand another species’ eating habits flowed through the chat, the slime observed the bleeding deer and the elf beside it.
It had been startled when the deer was hit by the arrow and fell.
But the slime did not feel sad that the deer had been hunted.
Even if it had felt kinship because they both ate grass, the deer was a creature it had only just met!
And right now, the slime was more curious about the new creature that had appeared and what it was doing than about the fact that the deer was dead.
There was only one thing in the slime’s heart.
‘I want to know!’
It wanted to know more.
It was the very impulse it had possessed from the beginning.
And the slime had realized something in the cave.
Just Slam Into It.
It was something it had realized while learning Body Slam from Fenrir.
If you didn’t know, you could just ask!
▷What’s that?
The slime rarely used chat except when it was amazed by something, so naturally, its message drew the viewers’ attention.
▶Ah, that thing?
▶A prickly-ear. A prickly-ear.
▷Prickly-ear?
▶That’s just a nickname. Creatures like that are called elves.
▷Elf?
▶Wait! An elf is, unlike asshole humans, someone who lives longer and mostly lives in forests, and is a little less of an asshole! They mainly use arrows, handle spirits, and attack us monsters. They’re fucking...
▶Nobody asked, nerd.
[Jiggly Queen]▶Elf or prickly-ear! Either way, you must not go near it!
As various messages appeared in response to its question, the slime organized the information it had been given.
Then...
‘Elf!’
The complicated parts aside, it understood that the creature was called an elf.
The slime trembled with happiness at seeing something it had not known about once again.
Its trembling body made the brush rustle.
The sound was very faint.
“...! What was that?”
But the elf’s sensitive ears caught even that sound.
The elf quickly nocked an arrow and drew the bowstring toward the brush.
▶Ah, we’re f*cked.
▶It was short, but it was fun.
[Jiggly Queen]▶No! Run away at once!
[Just Slam Into It]▶Just slam into it! Slam it!
The chat grew taut with tension at the elf’s reaction.
Meanwhile, without even realizing it was in danger, the slime was curious about the arrow the elf had drawn.
‘Wow! What’s that?’
Things it did not know about kept appearing without end.
Unable to restrain its emotions and impulses, the slime bounced out from the brush.
Boing!
[Jiggly Queen]▶M-My fellow slime! No!
The Slime Queen was horrified by the slime suddenly jumping out of the brush.
[Just Slam Into It]▶Yes! Are you going to slam into it?!
Fenrir thought the slime had mustered its courage.
[Noblesse Fire]▶??? Why did it come out?
The fire dragon expressed genuine confusion.
Boing!
Most viewers watching the stream imagined the slime being pierced by an arrow.
But...
“A slime?”
Seeing the slime emerge from the brush, the elf instead lowered its arrow.
“It was nothing.”
If it had been a goblin, the elf would have shot it through the forehead immediately. If it had been another animal, it would have considered it extra prey and shot it.
But what had appeared was a slime.
It was not especially threatening, and hunting it would not be particularly useful.
The elf instead waved a hand dismissively at the slime and spoke.
“This is my prey. Don’t set your sights on it. Go away.”
And at that reaction...
▶LOL.
▶LOL.
▶This is fucking hilarious lol.
Footnotes:
“Prickly-ear” recreates a Korean abbreviated nickname for elves that implies a stereotypically prickly personality.
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