episode_0006

“Then I can’t just leave it alone~”

The slime girl who said that raised her hand, and at the same time, a liquid thorn rose from the ground.

It was obvious hostility. I immediately stopped the treatment and rolled forward to avoid the thorns. Where on earth did such a large slime come from? There was only me and Bartholin around?

I looked around, but Bartholin was nowhere to be seen.

…Maybe this guy? But, how?

There was no room for thought. As if a conductor was leading the performance, the thorns rose in time with the slime girl’s waving hands. Hyunho quickly moved his body, and the thorns quickly pierced the spot where he had been.

The sharp spikes that shot out missed their target and collapsed again, returning to the slime on the ground. Unlike the grenade fired by the purple slime, this was an attack that did not consume any liquid.

“Wait a minute, are you Bartholin?”

“Bartholin?”

Now that I think about it, I never said it out loud.

“The slime that played with me! I even made it merge with other slimes!”

“Ah~ That’s right.”

Having said that, Bartholin raised his hand again. Grasp! The thorn that had risen again pierced the place where I had been standing.

What, if Bartholin is right, why are you attacking me? Have you forgotten our friendship?

“Friendship? You’re going to cut me off when you go home?”

No, you were really listening.

“But it’s okay that I got stabbed or cut. It didn’t hurt. Even though my memories are mixed up from when it was a small piece, I remember that you treated me well.”

“Then! Can you please remove this thorn?”

The slime spoke in a kind voice, but did not stop attacking.

If the slime bodies spread out on the floor right now were under Bartholin’s control, I would have fallen long ago. However, all that was flying was an extremely monotonous attack, a circular pattern of thorns rising from the puddle.

I’m not just avoiding it either. When Bartholin raised his hand, when the slime puddle on the floor turned into thorns, Bartholin’s height gradually decreased. And when the thorns collapsed, he returned to his original upper body height, repeating this process. Perhaps there is a limit to the amount of liquid he can control at will. He may not be able to properly control his body because he is busy making thorns. His low level of control may be related to his simple attack with thorns.

Then, the remaining question is how to resolve it. It could be resolved by slashing it repeatedly with a sword, but there was hesitation in my heart before doing so. Was it because of my young appearance, or because of the affection I had for him while playing together, that I was reluctant to swing my sword. Couldn’t we resolve it through conversation?

“You know, Bartholin. Did you pick up something weird and eat it?”

“Something weird? Something like this?”

Bartholin lifted a piece of black stone from the floor and placed it inside his mouth. He moved the pieces inside his tongue, then opened his mouth wide and showed Hyunho the stone pieces along with the dripping liquid. It was not a very pleasant sight.

Those stone fragments were emitting the same energy as the stone that the slime shot out at the end. It seems that the stone I split flew back and got stuck in Bartholin. That stone must be the core of the slime. If I take that stone, I will return to the original Bartholin. The magic mixed in his body can be purified.

“Yeah, can you give it to me, Oppa? If only we had that stone, we could go back to how we were before.”

I was sincere. It was a short time, but when I hugged him, Bartholin responded by stretching his body. I missed Bartholin who would respond by purring when I stroked him.

…It won’t work in its current state, but if you pull out the stone, it will return to its original state.

Did my sincerity get through? Upon hearing those words, Bartholin flinched, and then stopped making thorns. Thank goodness. After all, it was possible to resolve the issue through dialogue.

I walked across the slime puddle to Bartholin. Cute little slime girl, if I had a little sister, would this be how I would feel?

“You know, oppa.”

“Yeah, Bartholin.”

Bartholin asked me again what I had said, as if to confirm it.

“Then, will you stroke me like before?”

“Of course.”

“And hug me too?”

“As much as you want.”

“Can I live with you from now on?”

“Yes. I am also a dependent, but I will somehow try to talk to the Queen and ask her to live with me. If I say I will raise her well, she will allow it.”

“Your Majesty? Gile?”

Something in what I said seemed to have offended Bartholin.

“Oh, right. There’s another woman, right? She’s going to go home and introduce me to the queen as her pet? ”

As he said this, Bartholin stretched out his arm and started the attack that had stopped.

No, I don’t know about Mayhen, I haven’t even heard the Queen’s name yet!

Hyunho felt aggrieved and swatted away the slime thorns flying towards his shoulder.

That’s not entirely wrong, but that’s not what I meant. I said that because if you take the stone out, it will return to its original state.

There was no time to clear up the misunderstanding, so I had no choice. As I reached out for the stone, thinking I should take it by force, something grabbed my ankle and pulled me down.

“Ugh!”

The thing that grabbed my ankle was a slime hand that rose from the floor. I had to be careful because I walked into the puddle myself. It was a very unfavorable environment where attacks could come from anywhere on the floor. I jumped far away to avoid the spikes that were created where I fell.

Bartholin looked very angry at my slip of the tongue.

“Then the opposite is okay too? My brother will become my pet. We’ll build a house in a cave and live together happily. Unlike my brother, I won’t even look around.”

Bartholin’s body was swirling as if it were expressing his angry emotions. The stone fragments in his mouth had moved to his chest and were bubbling and boiling. They were breaking down, producing bubbles like effervescent vitamins dropped into water.

‘Are you absorbing?’

Bartholin’s body grew larger as the stone fragments on his body grew smaller, drawing liquid from the slime pool on the floor.

That was bad news. The more liquids he could control, the more difficult the battle would be. Hyunho advanced toward the main body, determined to finish it quickly.

At the same time, Bartholin made hands and arms out of his body and the floor as if to stop me, and he approached me. Some he cut with his sword, and some he struck with his hands and feet.

By the time it reached the body, absorption was quite advanced.

First of all, my small body that was barely able to reach my knees had grown to the size of my waist. The amount of liquid that made up my body had also increased, so now I looked like an upper grade elementary school student.

“Got it!”

I said so and reached out to the stone on my chest. At the same time, Bartholin also created an arm from his chest and grabbed my hand. However, this level of resistance could be pushed through with force. When I applied force, it could not maintain its shape and was crushed.

At that moment, Bartholin, who intuitively felt that he could not stop the hand, blew up his own body. At the same time, stone fragments were shot out in all directions.

The pieces that had shot out were stuck in the slime puddle one by one. Of the twelve pieces that had shot out, one of them was caught in my hand without going any further.

“Oppa.””Oppa.” “Oppa.” “Oppa.” “Oppa.”

And from the scattered pieces, tiny maidens rose up, just like the ones we saw at the beginning. Eleven. One Bartholin in the form of a maiden rose up from each piece. We must retrieve all eleven of them.

From now on, it was a battle of speed. Bartholin in that state did not have enough strength to stop my movements. It was right to break through quickly even if I got hurt a little.

Thinking so, I rushed to the nearest Bartholin in the form of a young girl. Thorns and hands reached out to me from all sides, but I swung my sword without paying attention. And I snatched the stone from the body that was cut in half. Ten were left.

The other ten Bartholins grew little by little, but they grew faster than before. More, faster. Pushing their bodies to their limits, they swung their swords with their right hands and snatched stones from Bartholin’s torn body with their left hands.

That leaves six. Bartholin, who had taken on the appearance of a middle school student, seemed to have changed his strategy and focused on the hand holding the sword.

However, I can give you as many swords as you want. Thinking so, I threw my sword. The sword flew around and cut down two Bartholins before sticking into the ground.

The experience of actual combat and the thrill of battle made Hyunho’s mind spin. It wasn’t just Bartholin who grew stronger as time passed. Hyunho’s body, pushed to its limits, was using its maximum performance. As Bartholin grew stronger, Hyunho’s movements also became more refined.

A stabbing with the right hand that had dropped the sword. Even if it hadn’t spread out into a solid block of iron, it was enough to pierce the slime’s body. The right hand flew out quickly and pierced Bartholin. Then, the remaining three also screamed and collapsed.

“No!””That’s too much!””How could you…”

The Bartholins left a final message as they pierced one.

Is it over? Maybe the attack just now was fatal and everyone fell. Or maybe this was the main body. As I was thinking about that, I heard a voice behind me.

“Did you think it was over, oppa?”

At the same time that he said that, an attack came from behind.

The fight was over. Hyunho, who had decided that it was over, let his guard down and allowed his right hand to receive the attack that he should have avoided. In this way, one of the pieces he had just obtained through the water entered Bartholin’s body.

“I didn’t know you could fool me with this.”

“…That’s pretty cowardly.”

The fool is the one who was fooled, brother. As he said that, Bartholin seemed to have digested all the remaining pieces, and was holding onto only the piece he had taken from me. His body, too, had curves that could be called a woman’s, with parts sticking out here and there, beyond the girl’s. Now, I had to look up at Bartholin.

“Let’s have another showdown, Oppa”

Bartholin moved the stone to his chest, then pulled one hand out of his chest. The same situation as before. I immediately reached out and held my empty right hand.

Unlike before, when I could just crush the stone with my own strength, I felt resistance. However, it was still weaker than me. As I gradually brought my hand closer, blades flew from all directions.

Pick, pick, pick!

The flying blade was blocked by my left arm, leaving a shallow wound. While I was blocking the attack for a moment, the strength in my hand that seemed like it could pierce through grew stronger.

“Let’s have a fight?”

“You can use your left hand too, oppa?”

But I couldn’t open my left hand, because I knew that if I dropped even one piece I was holding, the tight balance of power would collapse.

The stone on my chest gradually got smaller and smaller, and soon it was completely absorbed. Bartholin smiled faintly and spoke.

“You know what, oppa? Right now, I’m a little stronger than you.”

It was as he said. The force applied to Hyunho’s right hand gradually grew stronger. The hand that had been holding tightly was gradually losing strength and opening up.

Bartholin and Hyunho. Both have gotten stronger as they fight, but the difference between the two is that Hyunho is gradually getting tired.

Soon, Hyunho’s wrist was bent backwards.

“Oh no!”

Hyunho, whose hand was broken, had no means of fighting back.

I fell to the floor, my whole body tied up in the slime whip that Bartholin had made. All I could do was hold my left hand tightly to keep the piece from being snatched away. Bartholin looked down at me with a triumphant expression, as if he was certain of his victory.

“Brother, please give something to eat to your cute little sister.”

Bartholin giggled and acted cute. Even though she looked like an adult woman, her face was youthful, which suited her. Her speech was cute, but her actions were rough.

Bartholin created a small tentacle and wrapped it around my left hand. Then, like a plant taking root, it spread a slime stem down my arm.

The whip and stem made of slime forcibly lifted Hyunho up. Hyunho was struggling to stand on his own. The reason he didn’t fall was because Bartholin was forcibly lifting his arms.

Bartholin put his mouth under my hand so that when I opened my hand, the pieces would fall into his mouth.

“Ugh…”

“Hurry up, Oppa. Bartholin is hungry~”

The tone was still cute, but the slime string holding his left arm was tightening and twisting as if it was going to crush his arm.

Thud thud, cheeek!

The arm, which was tightly clamped to the point where blood flow was blocked, cried out in pain. There was no choice but to open the hand. When the piece that fell from the hand entered Bartholin’s mouth, it melted with a violent sound like butter on a frying pan. It was a speed incomparable to before. It must have become that much stronger.

Bartholin released all the whips that had been holding me up. However, I had no strength to move even a single step. Leaving me behind as I collapsed, Bartholin began to suck up the slime puddle with his body. The gently curved hips and chest became particularly large.

Bartholin, who had absorbed all the slime puddles that had spread across the floor, looked around at his enlarged body as if it were a wonder. The way he was changing his hands into various shapes seemed to indicate that he could perfectly transform his body.

Hyunho, who saw his body changing at a different speed than before, made a quick decision.

‘Okay, let’s do it again. I can’t be dragged along like this.’

Thinking that way, I bit my tongue hard. A pain so intense that I forgot the pain from the wounds on my body surged through my tongue. If I continue like this until I die, I will be transported to the castle.