Suddenly, I Became a Slime

Chapter 68: Bubble Bubble

*Poke Poke*

As Han Seori poked the floating thing in the air with her finger, the poked thing spewed out mucus from its back and flapped its cute tail.

Seeing its angry appearance, Han Seori withdrew her hand and hid behind me, gently grabbing my shoulders.

…So.

A grown woman angered something. And then she hid behind me.

It was a scene that caused some cognitive dissonance, but if the angry thing floating in the air was a tiny… jelly whale, it might be somewhat understandable.

No… then she shouldn’t have messed with it in the first place, right?

Separate from that, the whale that was angrily calmed down and curled up on my palm.

The tiny whale, which seemed to have fallen asleep… was honestly a bit cute.

…Well, since none of the creatures so far have caused any harm, it’s natural for Han Seori to not think much of it.

Or.

I took in the sight of Han Seori’s head as she stood up, brushing herself off with an embarrassed smile.

Her head was wrapped in a white bandage.

It wasn’t heavily wrapped, and at a glance, it could be mistaken for a fashion choice because of how little area it covered.

…She could have injured her head, so that’s why…?

That’s probably not it, right?

Anyway.

The tiny whale making its insides bubble on my hand right now seemed to be the one I expelled from my body a bit earlier.

The one I expelled along with an anger so intense it felt strange.

That might be why it reacted so sensitively to Han Seori’s touch.

Although I didn’t intend for this to happen, it ended up resulting in the birth of a baby whale with anger issues.

I thought it was troublesome but also vaguely felt this might be right.

If it had just leaked out without transforming like this, what would have happened?

That emotion’s source might have just gone outside… and caused trouble for others.

At the smallest scale, it could have transferred to Han Seori, who came in right after I expelled it… She might have become someone unable to control her anger.

Thinking bigger, as if an anger virus spread to the whole world… something terrible could have occurred, right?

…Well, that honestly seemed like overthinking.

The world becoming endangered just by one slime, what nonsense.

I should say something that makes sense.

At most, it probably would have ended with Han Seori becoming short-tempered, right?

Shaking my head at the jelly, I set the sleeping whale on the floor and reached out to eat the food Han Seori had brought.

*Rustle.*

But something was strange.

The seafood platter that was full inside… was revealing an empty plate.

With only a few pieces left nearby.

Dumbfounded, I looked around and saw Sosik crawling up behind Han Seori’s back.

Han Seori was looking at it with a somewhat excited face.

The guy who wouldn’t stick to other people’s bodies…

Why is it doing that now?

I strode over to Han Seori’s back to see Sosik’s body hiding there.

Then.

Various seafood could be seen floating around in Sosik’s tiny body, clinging to Han Seori’s back.

How hastily did it eat that the shapes were still intact?

Sosik, who hurriedly clung to Han Seori’s shoulder with its hand,

Stopped moving as if claiming it also fell asleep, sticking tightly to Han Seori’s back like the sleeping whale on the floor.

Seeing that…

I realized I had succeeded in expelling that uncontrollable anger.

If I hadn’t expeling it successfully earlier, wouldn’t I have lunged at Han Seori’s back or whatever, opened up Sosik’s jelly, and taken out the seafood?

Seeing the bubbling jelly, I decided to forgive the guy for now.

Since I had just given him a beating by being consumed with anger.

Next, I approached Daesik behind Alice.

It was also making its jelly bubble, not having fully digested yet.

But… since it was almost done digesting,

There didn’t seem to be anything to salvage.

No, my seafood…!

Since I didn’t touch Sosik, it would be unfair to touch Daesik today.

…I decided to endure it for the sake of the two “babies” that were recently born.

That’s the adult thing to do.

Having finished digesting, Daesik went into Alice and plopped down next to the whale.

…What if it does that, and the whale wakes up and attacks?

No?

Since it’s the oldest of the three, will it easily subdue the whale?

Pondering over what would happen was somehow fun.

One of the things that excites men is pitting things against each other, isn’t it?

In this case, it would be Daesik (IN Alice) VS baby jelly whale that can’t control its anger.

I had no intention of actually making them fight, so while just imagining it in my head,

…I felt a bit of regret.

I really didn’t want to remember the taste of whale, so it had been a very long time since I had seafood.

But in the short moment I was grasping the situation, the guys ate it all.

This is why I’ve been trying to maintain strict discipline.

It became like this again because I loosened up for a bit.

As I was waving the empty bag in regret, Han Seori, who was struggling with Sosik clinging to her back, approached me.

“I’ll buy it for you again… um, cheer up?”

It’s not that I wanted her to buy it, but still…

This makes it seem like I made her unnecessarily concerned…?

But there was no reason to refuse, so I silently waved the bag.

You guys, come quickly and wave the bag, too. If you wave this, seafood comes out.

While thinking of the same joke,

Kim Cheonsu, looking tired, opened the door and came in.

Some time later.

I couldn’t understand why we came all the way down here, but we got in the vehicle again.

This place, with a view of the sea, also seemed to be one of their secret bases, and quite a few people showed interest in me.

I didn’t really like how those wearing gowns similar to Han Seori’s were looking at me with curious eyes.

Feeling those gazes made me realize again how gentle of a person Han Seori is.

And Han Seori, who was protecting me from those gazes…

It was a bit cool.

Although she hid behind me, scared of a baby jelly whale flying in the air not long ago.

Anyway.

While eavesdropping on the conversations of those coming to see me, as it didn’t seem like we were doing anything despite staying for a long time,

It seemed there was an argument that the jelly whale was formed by eating a “sky whale”, so we should leave the jelly whale behind.

I, who was floating around hanging onto a whale, wondered what the hell they were talking about.

Han Seori seemed to be the same, as the discussion didn’t seem to progress much.

But they seemed to reach a rough agreement, as they conducted a few experiments with me, the jelly whale, Daesik, and Sosik.

There weren’t any particularly memorable experiments, so I casually spent the time.

The vehicle we took on the way back was sturdier and bigger than the one we came in.

Inside, while Han Seori and I were preparing fro the return trip, Kim Cheonsu seemed to have gone to the market, as there were loads of seafood that I couldn’t eat last time.

Feeling my jelly tingle, I silently savored the seafood.

Then, I felt one thing that was truly unsatisfactory.

Chewing.

This is really… so unsatisfactory.

Isn’t the chewy texture of raw fish also very important?

Recalling how I had made the jelly hard, I decided to try making teeth.

I didn’t intend to maintain them all the time and planned to only make them when I wanted to chew something.

I focused my mind, and with a bubbling sound, my face, or more precisely, the area around my mouth, moved little by little.

Before long,

A “mouth” made of blue color was created.

The hole that originally only spewed out jelly and was far from a mouth… became quite mouth-like in appearance.

But it’s a bit.

It might look creepy from the outside.

Since my body is transparent, might it look strange?

Anyway.

I picked up a piece of seafood and put it in my mouth.

The seafood that bubbled into my nominally existing lips soon reached my teeth.

And then.

*Chomp chomp.*

It felt like chewing underwater, but I roughly got the feeling of chewing something.

Yes.

This is it.

“Ooh…?”

Han Seori seemed to be looking at me with extremely sparkling eyes, but I deliberately pretended not to notice and diligently chewed the seafood.

Since I roughly made it after looking at Han Seori’s oral structure… it felt somewhat crude.

But for me, who was chewing for the first time in a very long while, that alone was satisfactory enough.

I can develop it more later.

While receiving the gaze of Han Seori, who was absentmindedly staring at me, it seemed we had returned to the place we originally stayed.

But the scenery…

Felt a bit unfamiliar.

The only familiar thing was the Director’s shining head, which I was seeing for the first time in a while.