"Gloop!" The small sli leapt around the streets as the group silently followed it from behind. Whilst doing so, the party glanced around the area, looking at the semi-circle stone structures.
"...these buildings sure are built strangely huh. The architecture is... interesting," Shinto pondered to himself as he scrutinized the structure, seeing the size and height of the building seemingly big enough to minimally fit humans. Although the houses were customized for slis, it was as if the architect considered humans in its design.
Walking on the stone paths of the sli's retreat, his eyes soon moved over towards the small litmus bugs flying around in the area. So stuck to the grey walls, so at a lamp while others were floating around on the streets. All of them lit up in a yellow hue, giving off a feeling of a moonlit night.
"Gloop! Gloop!" The sli jiggled to the side as if it was telling the group sothing.
"Bah... You know we can't understand a single thing you're saying, right?" Ethaniel scoffed.
"Gloop..." The sli continued to slightly move to the side as if wanting to show them sothing.
"Hey! Maybe it's trying to give us a tour?" Frey pointed out.
"Hah? A tour of what? What's there to see?" he raised his brow. "All I see are stone buildings, litmus bugs and slis moving about everywhere."
"Gloop! Gloop!" The sli seed to be pouting.
"...it's saying maybe you should just enjoy the scenery or sothing?" Frey muttered out. "In any case, just enjoy the scenery!"
"Why are you saying this as if you're translating whatever 'gloop' ans?" Ethaniel frowned. "I still don't understand how you are even able to understand that guy."
"It's called looking at its body language!" Frey stated.
"...ugh," Ethaniel shook his head helplessly, quickly glancing away from Frey. "Whatever you say."
"Gloop!" The sli bounced up and down.
"Man, I wish we can just understand whatever this sli is saying," Kon sighed. "Why can't any of the slis speak normal Arcos?? And why is it only the king able to do speak it?"
"Well most probably because it's the king," Shinto answered. "Though it's weird that the slis are able to understand us. Usually, there'd be a language barrier for them as well..."
"So they can understand Arcos but can't speak it?" Kon questioned.
"I guess so. But, I'm curious as to why the king knows the language when no one else speaks it here," he thought. "Could there be soone else here?"
"Soone else..." Frey muttered out as she suddenly rembered a fact. "Perhaps the old man?!"
"The old who now?" Ethaniel blinked at the statent.
"That guy I escorted here," she said. "He gave the keys to this place and then suddenly disappeared!"
"Right, the one you escorted..." Shinto nodded his head in understanding. "If things are how it seems to be, it ans that he must be here."
"Hmm... so do we find him then?" Frey tilted her head. "Maybe we can get much clearer answers from him!"
"You say as if it's so easy to find that guy," Ethaniel shrugged.
"Maybe that sli knows?" Frey turned over towards the sli as she quickly took note that the sli seed to be slightly angry.
"Gloop... Gloop! Gloop!" The sli looked to be shouting out in its language as it quickly bounced over towards the group. Soon after, it attached itself onto Shinto who was at the front of the group.
"...?!" The group opened their eyes wide in shock as they witnessed the scene before them. However, without being able to react in ti; the sli began to forcibly drag Shinto over towards a building.
"Eh?! What is this sli doing?!" Kon cried out.
"Gloop!" Heading into the building, the sli detached itself from him. Monts later, it jiggled as if pointing upfront.
"Huh...?" Shinto raised his brow in question as he moved his eyes over to where the sli was pointing towards, noticing a sli at the counter.
"Gloop?" The sli at the counter looked at Shinto seemingly with a confused expression.
"...you dragged here to the inn?" Shinto blankly stared at the sli. "You could have just moved into the building and we'd know to head inside..."
"Gloop!" The sli bounced in anger.
"I can't understand what you're saying..." he sighed. "Can you just do it through your movents?"
"Gloop..." The sli irritatedly pounced over towards the counter, quickly, it attached itself onto a small book. In the next mont, the sli dragged the book over towards Shinto. "Gloop!"
"Gloop...?" The sli by the counter continued to confusingly look at the group who had rushed in when the small sli took Shinto into the building.
"Gloop! Gloop!" The small sli seed to be explaining things to the other sli.
"...what's this book?" Shinto bent down as he took the book from the floor.
"Eh? What's that?" Kon tilted his head at the sight of the item in Shinto's hand.
"No idea, that sli just gave it to ."
"Open it! Let's see what this is all about!" Frey said excitedly.
Quickly, Shinto began to scrutinize the details of the book, opening it.
[ Gloop Gloop Gloop. ]
Gloop Gloop...
At a glance at the item given by the sli, all he saw was the writing of 'Gloop'. He felt like coughing blood upon seeing that the word filled up the entire book.
"...this," Shinto let out a tired sigh as he turned to the sli. "Is this a joke?"
"Ugh... are you making fun of us for not understanding the damn language?" Ethaniel frowned.
"Gloop?" The sli appeared to be staring at the group in bewildernt, seemingly wondering why his reaction was as so. Suddenly, upon a faint realization, the sli hurriedly leapt towards the book in Shinto's hand as it flung it across the room. "Gloop!!"
Acting flusteredly, the sli moved over towards another book as it attached itself, later bringing it to Shinto.
"Gloop... gloop..." The sli seed to be apologizing.
"...so that was the wrong book, huh?" Picking up another book that the sli gave, he began to scrutinize the details of it once again.
The mont Shinto opened the book, a bright flash of light shone out.
[ The ('Gloop' chronicles) has been opened. ]
"...!!"
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