Suddenly, I Became a Slime

Chapter 34: I Trusted You!!!

“Ah… I want to rest.”

Han Seori muttered blankly and stretched.

Even though the damage was less than expected, cleaning up afterwards was not an easy task, so she felt tired in many ways.

…Especially since the director contacted her with a very regretful face and probed for information, she felt twice as tired.

‘The rumours swirling around the director are really bad. His reputation is in tatters.’

She wanted to quickly catch him red-handed and send him somewhere else forever, but there were no plausible leads.

There was no trace of whether the person who had shown suspicious behaviour died in the commotion or escaped.

‘It seems that Committee Member Yoo Kangjik also thinks it’s suspicious…’

But that didn’t make him any different from Han Seori.

Rather, Yoo Kangjik, who had not been dispatched here for long, would inevitably know less than Han Seori.

So… the possibility of him asking something seemed extremely low.

But she was worried that something might really go wrong if left like this.

It was unknown whether the director was involved in this incident, and even if the director was not involved… it was just as serious.

“Hmm…”

Lost in thought, Han Seori manipulated the panel and turned on the video of the isolation room where the slime girl was quarantined.

Since her worries were only increasing, she wanted to do some healing.

Soon, the image of the slime girl began to appear on the quite large monitor.

It was very cute how she shook the slime that grew like an antenna on top of her head this way and that, as if she had something on her mind.

‘Come to think of it.’

The wreckage of 5077-KR …was quite lacking.

Muttering like that, Han Seori looked at the slime girl sitting in the middle of the isolation room, wobbling her slime as if she didn’t know anything.

‘…Did 7496-KR eat it?’

Recalling how the slime girl swallowed the horned wolf and her antenna grew, Han Seori enlarged the screen and filled it with the slime girl.

Watching the glistening slime girl with a smile on her lips, she shook her head and checked to see if there were any changes in the slime girl.

‘There doesn’t seem to be any external change.’

If there was a change… there was.

The fact that the round, slimy external entity now lives inside the doll.

‘It seems to come out when eating, though.’

It appeared to be because the doll became a safe haven in a crisis situation.

If that’s the case, even that small slime… didn’t seem to be something the slime girl made just to use as a trash can.

To put it another way… could it be said she created a family member?

‘Then is 7496-KR the mother?’

Han Seori, who had thought that far, cancelled her words with a creepy feeling down her spine. It felt somewhat dangerous.

‘What mother… they’ll be more like siblings or sisters, right?’

Anyway.

Since there didn’t seem to be much change, Han Seori reduced the screen size again and looked around the slime girl.

Then, she saw a cleanly empty tray.

Wondering what that was, Han Seori recalled the group that had come earlier to get permission to enter.

It made her laugh to see them flocking to distribute meals instead of her.

It seemed that spreading the news of the slime girl’s exploits… had quite an effect.

Until recently, she was seen as a threatening anomaly, but now her image has changed to a somewhat friendly anomaly.

…In other words, she has become an easier target once again.

And now the internal atmosphere is very chaotic.

Since new personnel need to be recruited, there is a high possibility that they will not be suspicious even if strangers come and go.

Then… won’t they try to target the appetizing-looking slime girl again?

Normally, it would be out of the question to sneak out the slime girl who became a special management target, but now, it would be much easier to sneak her out than at any other time.

‘I don’t know if the director is related to Twilight’s Call.’

Whether it was the director or Twilight’s Call, there was a good chance they would covet the slime girl.

Twilight’s Call would be crazy about an anomaly that is friendly and intelligent to humans, and the director would do it to satisfy his personal greed.

Perhaps if she hadn’t helped the slime girl escape, the slime girl might have disappeared.

It wasn’t a pleasant thing to say that there was an insider, but it seemed usable. It would be good to catch Twilight’s Call’s insider or to be evidence of the director’s corruption.

It seemed like a waste not to do this when she had thought it through this far.

But if there’s one thing that bothers her…

…Is it the fact that this plan doesn’t involve asking for the slime girl’s opinion before proceeding?

She pondered what the hell that meant, but considering that she saved her… it was natural to feel uncomfortable.

But.

She was also aware that it presented a very good opportunity.

Han Seori looked at the monitor with a deeply troubled face.

Seeing the slime girl lying down with the moving doll filled her with a sense of cuteness, but she couldn’t help but sigh, wondering if it was really okay to do this.

Looking at the squirming slime girl on the monitor.

She pondered… and pondered again.

Being popular is also… such a tiring thing.

Ever since some time ago, when people flocked to give me chicken, other people have also often come to see me. No, quite a lot, in fact.

Although I don’t know their names, there is no reason to refuse since they show favour to me and give me snacks.

…Anyway, even if I say I don’t like it, they’ll come regardless, so voicing my opinion doesn’t seem to have much meaning.

Maybe that’s why various things have piled up in my room?

Things were left by those who approached me, tapping my slime with trembling hands and smiling with satisfaction.

In other words, it can be said to be a tribute to those who have fallen for my appearance, right?

…The word ‘tribute’ is a bit strange, but no more suitable word comes to mind.

‘Offering’ has a bit of… an odd nuance.

There is also the word ‘gift’, but for some reason, I prefer ‘tribute’ more.

Anyway.

Since I don’t know what changes occurred after eating the guardian totem, their visits are quite welcome to me.

Daesik is also happy to be able to eat the packaging of various things due to the sudden increase in food.

I don’t have any doubts that he is really happy.

However, it is a bit unfortunate that Han Seori’s visits have become less frequent.

I already know she is a busy person of high status, but still.

I finally got to live the life of Bill Gates, which I had always wanted.

Somehow, being the slime feels bitter.

Then.

The anomaly occurs at a time when people’s footsteps in the corridor become less frequent.

I don’t know the exact time, but judging by the fact that people’s visits have stopped, it must be around late at night.

Bored because no one is coming, I am touching the things people left behind.

Then, my proud knowledge pouch starts to twitch. Wondering what it is, I blink my slime, but there is no particular change.

Then. Suddenly, white smoke spews out from the toy I am touching.

…At first, I thought I had touched something wrong.

But when I think about it, it doesn’t seem to be a toy that could produce this kind of smoke.

It’s not a car, and there’s no chimney or anything like that.

In the blink of an eye, my room is filled with smoke.

Thinking ‘whatever’, I throw it into the corner, and Alice (aka Daesik), feeling uneasy, clings to my leg.

Holding the guy who has become much more timid after the guardian totem incident in my arms, I wait for the smoke to settle.

Then, I hear the sound of the door opening and someone’s footsteps.

It seems that someone has come to solve this stupid situation.

Since it’s a stupid structure without even ventilation, this kind of annoying thing happens.

Soon, the silhouette looking around seems to have found me, and it quickly approaches me.

As I approach with a happy heart, I see a familiar-looking object in the hand of the figure hidden in the mist.

Ah.

In a moment.

My body is trapped somewhere. It becomes similar to when I first came here.

…This time, Daesik, who is with me, is also trapped.

Wondering what the hell this is all of a sudden, I look at the person who used the object, but I can’t see anything due to the thick smoke.

What?

Are they going to put me in another room until the smoke disappears?

Well… even in my eyes, this thick smoke is unusual.

When I look with my expanded vision, I see the smoke that fills my room spreading outside. Still, the smoke continues to spread without any sign of decreasing.

By then, I also felt something strange.

If they are going to move me to another room and solve this… shouldn’t they get out of here before that smoke spreads outside?

But the person holding me doesn’t do that.

Rather, they seem to be waiting calmly, as if waiting for the smoke to spread.

Shaking my slime with suspicion, I feel Alice being squeezed by the pressure.

And.

As if they don’t like me moving, my vision suddenly darkens.

It’s not because of the fog, but it seems that my container has been put into something.

Soon, I felt my slime swaying.

The feeling of moving, step by step.

Considering all those things together.

It seems I’m being kidnapped again.

After much consideration, I come to that conclusion.

…What the hell is going on?

I don’t know who it is, but… if you take me, s-something big will happen! I e-even slept in the same room and! Received snacks from a person of high status here!

I try to escape by jiggling my slime, but it seems difficult due to lack of space.

If I hadn’t let my guard down, this wouldn’t have happened.

…It seems I trusted people too much.

*Wobble*, *wobble*.

Feeling my slime being shaken.

Somehow, I miss Han Seori.