Subdungeon #4

 

The wizard clan is all insane.

It can’t just be prejudice.

In the world of “Nine Stars,” there is even a thesis that seriously studies this topic.

Namely, “On Magicians and Mental Illness”.

The paper concludes as follows:

Does using magic make you crazy, or does someone with a crazy mind become a magician?

This is a problem that cannot be separated into cause and effect, like ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’

Who wrote this paper?

Of course he’s a wizard.

Anyway, the polluted land is a magical realm created by the accumulated waste of such wizards’ experiments over a long period of time.

So, it may not be so strange that there are crazy erotic creatures living here.

Perhaps the distorted desires of a wizard who had been a virgin for ten thousand years have seeped into the slimes here.

Just like these guys right in front of my eyes.

“Whoa-!”

Flora’s scream echoed.

The slime that changed its form was fast and agile.

Before she could even stop herself, a mass of green mucus engulfed Flora’s body at a speed incomparable to that of before.

Wagner and Mitchell’s faces turned pale.

The power of the slime corrosion attack you fought just a moment ago must have flashed through your mind.

You might have pictured Flora’s body, her flesh melting away in an instant and her bones turning into skeletons.

But⋯

“⋯Huh?”

Flora, covered in slime, tilted her head.

Flora was fine.

No, to be precise, the slime only melted Flora’s clothes without touching a single hair.

“Hey, your clothes! Your clothes!”

“Wow! Why is it like this?”

Flora panicked as the shirt and skirt she was wearing began to melt and flow down.

The white underwear is clearly visible against the dark waterway.

Soon even that underwear will be gone⋯

“Damn it, Bear! What are you looking at!”

Mitchell suddenly got angry and covered Flora’s body.

Wagner turned his head hastily.

“Don’t worry about it. I, I didn’t see anything.”

He stutters violently.

Wagner’s ears were bright red.

“⋯That’s what Bear is like, but kid, why are you doing that?”

“It’s okay, Estelle. You can look this way.”

Flora, covering her chest with her hand, tilted her head and looked at my face.

It’s not just Wagner who has nowhere to look, it’s me too.

No, fuck.

I knew it would turn out like this.

There was a completely different level of stimulation between watching a game screen on the other side of the monitor and seeing a naked girl’s body with my own eyes.

My face keeps getting hotter.

I knew my ears would be burning red like Wagner’s right now.

“Hey, get off that slime body quickly. You can touch it with your bare hands, so hurry.”

I spoke incoherently, my gaze still fixed on the ground.

“Little one, are you weird? Are you shy?”

“Be quiet. Hurry up.”

“Hmm… The more I look at it, the cuter it gets.”

Mitchell squinted his eyes and grinned in amusement.

Do you think this situation is a joke?

The severity of the problem may be underestimated since it only melts clothes without touching the body, but erotic slime is also an extremely dangerous monster.

Why is the nickname Erotic Slime?

After the ‘Dissolution’ mode, which melts the adventurer’s clothes, comes the ‘Yurin’ mode.

I won’t go into detail about the process, but anyone who experiences this mod will suffer a huge mental shock.

The aftereffects are especially severe for female adventurers⋯

Players of “Nine Stars” described this as “party members being ruined.”

“Miss. This guy’s sticking to me too! Where the hell— won’t he turn off? Won’t he turn off?”

The slime began to crawl up Mitchell’s arm.

Look at this bitch.

That’s why I told you to get off quickly. Now you’re screwed.

“Mr. Mitchell! Your clothes!”

“Oh, crazy-”

What had happened to Flora a moment ago was repeated again, this time targeting Mitchell.

The slime that covered Mitchell’s body from top to bottom began to melt through her thin spats and bra top like ice cream.

And what’s even more terrifying is…

“Wagner, it’s stuck to you too!”

“But, but I can’t see ahead right now⋯.”

“Okay, open your eyes! Hey, you’re going inside the armor!”

Are the devil slimes not gender specific?

No, targeting Wagner isn’t just a matter of gender.

The strike zone for these slimes is too wide.

The very essence of extreme possibility.

Two erotic slimes instantly brought our party to the brink of collapse.

‘Oh, these hopeless bastards.’

In the end, I have no choice but to step forward.

I’m the only one who can act freely at the party right now.

I tried my best not to look at Wagner’s body, and I squeezed the slime away.

“Mitchell and Flora are fine, but Wagner is fucking over the line.”

He held the slime like a rag with one hand and slashed it with the frost sword in the other.

I could feel that there was more emotion in those hands than usual.

It’s not that I have any affection for Wagner.

This feeling was pure anger when I accidentally saw a hateful picture someone posted on the Internet.

“Don’t show me dirty things.”

“That, that’s too harsh, Estelle⋯.”

“I didn’t say that to you, so don’t worry about it.”

“But… it’s dirty….”

Wagner, who had become sullen and seemed to have lost his will to fight, lowered his head and buried his face in his knees.

Anyway, I killed one slime.

Meanwhile, the slime that was melting Mitchell’s clothes changed its target and rushed towards me.

‘fast.’

A speed that Estelle’s physical abilities cannot avoid.

I don’t know if it’ll be different if I call upon the power stored in the reliquary, but since I can’t use this ability often, I have to save it.

But it’s still okay.

If you don’t stick around long enough, at best your clothes will just melt and it’ll be over.

It may not be very pleasant, but…

Instead, I will give you my clothes and take his life.

‘Since everyone else is naked anyway, it would be polite to take off a layer of clothing too.’

Okay, come here.

Strip off as much as you want, you obscene slime.

I knew that would happen, so I changed into some shabby clothes that I wouldn’t mind melting.

I opened my arms and greeted the slime.

A sticky, squishy sensation that immediately spreads across my body.

That’s what it felt like.

It’s much more unpleasant than I thought.

“uh.”

But the slime didn’t melt my clothes.

The slime that had been stuck to my body for a moment tilted its head towards what appeared to be my face, then immediately flew away from me.

“What are you?”

The slime sways its body left and right.

Then it transformed its body and pointed the tip of its tentacles at me, forming an X shape.

“What does that mean? You hate me?”

The slime drew an O shape.

Why can’t we communicate?

No, but rather, you’re after Mitchell, Flora, and even Wagner. Why don’t you like me?

As if to answer my question, the slime made a motion as if it was measuring me from head to toe with its tentacles.

“My height?”

O shape again.

“Why am I so tall?”

He pointed to the floor with his tentacles. Then he shook his palms.

“You don’t like it because I’m short?”

Nod nod.

“You crazy bastard. You even stripped Wagner, and now you say you don’t like me because I’m a kid? Does that make any sense?”

My voice trembled as I spoke, as I was so dumbfounded.

Because it’s like slime with unnecessarily strict review standards.

Why do I get angry before I feel relieved that it didn’t come off?

I’m angry.

It pisses me off that I got rejected by Slime because I’m a petite girl.

And it makes me even more angry to see myself getting upset over something like this.

“Just die, you little shit.”

Crunch.

I slashed at the slime in one go, filled with anger.

“Wow- Whee. Kid, you really hit me hard just now-”

Mitchell came over to tell me a joke, but when he saw my stern face, he swallowed his words.

Mitchell cleared his throat and patted my shoulder.

“⋯It’s okay. You’re cute enough. You’re the cutest girl I’ve ever seen. Seriously. They’re the ones who are weird.”

“⋯.”

“You’ll grow taller soon. You’re at the peak of your growth, right?”

“⋯I don’t know.”

Mitchell’s comfort, with her slender and superior body, was of no comfort to me whatsoever.

Perhaps Mitchell would never understand.

The feeling of having to live my whole life as a little girl.

I feel sad that if I had been just 5cm taller, I wouldn’t have been treated like this.

What the fuck.

***

After the frantic battle.

The group took off their clothes, which had all melted into rags, and changed into the clothes I had given them.

“Wow—my gloves didn’t melt. Imperial gloves are definitely better.”

Flora said, waving her gloved hands innocently.

Even though she is half naked, she is not embarrassed at all.

He asked if I was the little girl he brought to the bathhouse. She was so shameless.

“Senior, put on your clothes first. Put on your clothes first.”

“Oh, thank you. Miss Estelle, you’re so well-prepared. If it weren’t for you, I’d probably be naked the entire expedition—”

“Okay, stop talking and put some clothes on!”

“Hey, what’s the big deal? We’re both girls-“

Flora put her hands on her hips and laughed.

Well, if you have the visuals of a pretty girl like Flora, you would be overflowing with confidence even when naked⋯

The problem is that I, the one watching, feel embarrassed.

Meanwhile, Wagner and Mitchell…

“Gomtang, if you look this way, I’ll kill you, really?”

“You should be careful.”

“Are you crazy? Why am I looking at your naked body? It’s fucking dirty, just like you said, kid. This is driving me crazy.”

“Even as you say that, it seems like you keep glancing.”

“Oh, Mr.-”

They turned their backs on each other, and neither side backed down meekly, exchanging words as they changed their clothes.

Both of their cheeks were flushed.

It seems that shame comes a little later, after the excitement of battle has died down.

‘It’s a good time.’

I stirred the soup in the pot with a ladle.

The dish I’m making now is called “Sediment Special Slime Soup.”

Just hearing the name makes it sound like waste that humans can’t eat, but it’s actually a delicacy.

Slime’s slime balls become transparent when boiled and melt into a deliciously flavorful soup.

Add the chicken stock prepared in advance, season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with parsley to finish.

When eaten with bread baked over a campfire until the crust is crispy, it rivals the sumptuous feast of a fine restaurant.

As I was squatting and concentrating on cooking, Mitchell, who had already changed his clothes, approached me.

“It smells good. What is it made of?”

“Slime.”

“Slime? Ugh… Is it okay to eat it?”

Mitchell narrowed his eyes as he accepted the bowl of soup.

“If you don’t eat quickly, I’ll eat all yours too?”

“I wonder if this is going to make me sick.”

Mitchell tilted his head and stirred his soup with a spoon.

Well, there are a lot of doubts.

Slurp—

Meanwhile, Wagner’s face brightened as he drank the soup bowl to his lips.

“That’s great.”

“It tastes even better when you dip it in bread!”

Flora also smiled brightly.

“You guys aren’t plotting something to make fun of me, are you?”

Mitchell still looked at us with suspicion, then carefully scooped up a spoonful of soup.

And then⋯

“oh.”

Mitchell’s eyebrows arched.

“Well, not bad.”

Mitchell ate with a blank expression, but he moved his spoon very quickly.

You may say that, but your body is honest, Elf-san.

It starts now.

You will never be able to escape the magic of my cooking.

Maybe one day I’ll say this.

‘Please, please cook for me – I’ve become so sick that I can’t eat anything but your cooking.’

⋯Anyway, slime soup isn’t just a dish you eat for its taste.

“I consumed the special slime soup.”

“Your acid resistance increases for a day.”

“You receive a bonus to your cooking skills. Your health and stamina will slightly increase for one day.”

A cooking bonus that can be obtained by exquisitely cooking monster ingredients.

The key to this dish is acid resistance.

If you prepare for the upcoming boss battle by preparing for acid resistance in advance, the strategy will become much easier.

“after-“

Mitchell was the first to finish his meal, as if he was hiding something from everyone.

Mitchell stretched happily, his face beaming with satisfaction.

“⋯foot.”

Suddenly Mitchell looks at us and bursts out laughing.

“Everyone’s clothes are a total mess.”

We each looked at each other.

Indeed, Mitchell’s words are true.

“Me too.”

Mitchell laughed, the sleeves of her maid’s uniform fluttering.

“That was the only one that fit. You know, in the frontier, you can’t just pick out whatever clothes you like and sleep in them.”

“I know, I know. Kid, I’m not saying anything. I’m just saying it because it’s funny. It’s the first time I’ve ever worn something like this in my life.”

“⋯I think it suits you well.”

Wagner, who had been eating his soup in silence, suddenly interrupted.

Mitchell’s eyes widened, as if he hadn’t expected such a reaction.

Honestly, I agree with Wagner. She looks like an elf maid, which is nice to see.

“What, what are you talking about, Bear? By the way, what are you wearing? Are you a real bear or something?”

“⋯It’s warm and soft, so I’m satisfied.”

The clothes Wagner is wearing are bearskin coats.

For reference, the upper and lower parts are integrated.

I honestly confess that I did not choose it with malicious intent.

That was the only one that fit my size. Seriously.

“I like my clothes too-”

Flora also spoke brightly.

Flora’s clothes are a linen shirt and skirt. Outwardly, she appears the most normal of the three.

If you just look at the appearance…

“The underwear is especially wonderful. This is the first time in my life I’ve worn such pretty underwear. What do you think?”

Phew—

As Flora lifted her skirt slightly, Wagner spurted out the soup.

Mitchell’s mouth also fell open.

A black, palm-sized lingerie with lace.

Rather than panties, they are more like pieces of cloth that resemble panties and serve a different purpose.

I secretly held my forehead.

sorry.

That was the only one that really, really fit the size.