Suddenly, I Became a Slime Chapter 20: Do Slimes Dream of Hamburgers?

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I once again find myself captured by a woman whose na I don’t even know, returning to the sa white, claustrophobic room as before.

It feels quite strange, as it resembles the place where the MREs were made.

By the way, that ans the place with the MREs was originally doing sothing similar to what they do here, right?

It seems pretty ssed up… Was there so kind of accident?

I don’t know.

I’m not particularly eager to find out. Just thinking of that place brings back the last voice I heard, leaving feeling uneasy.

The feeling of an incomprehensible voice suddenly becoming understandable… It feels so uncomfortable that it’s hard to describe.

I understand a bit about going crazy just by reading the text.

…Perhaps it ends with vaguely understanding due to the kind of person I am.

I don’t want to rember, but once a thought sticks in my head, it doesn’t seem to want to leave anyti soon.

That thought about the MRE tornts my mind.

Why on earth am I suddenly able to understand it? As I ponder the thought, I can easily guess the reason. It isn’t certain, but almost definite.

‘It’s probably because I ate that weird lump of at.’

There is no other reason.

When I tried to focus on the canned food before, it still sounded as incomprehensible as ever.

The mont when it all started to make sense to was the mont after digesting all that at.

What the heck does this an?

Hold on a second.

The fact that I tasted MRE ans that it was distributed outside.

Is this… okay?

I give up thinking while staring at my jelly bubbling.

I’m entering a deep philosophical mont because that seems like the only thing I can do.

As I ponder, I realize I’m just a tiny sli betrayed and captured.

Although the concept of betrayal is purely subjective, by my standards, humans are naturally selfish creatures, right?

I may not be considered human at the mont, but because I was a human, it feels quite natural.

Should I be grateful for being released from the box, though?

How long has it been since I nestled in the corner with my insides bubbling?

I sit there staring into space, not even feeling the passage of ti in this silent place.

The tightly closed door suddenly opens, and this ti a new man walks in.

The man, looking very uneasy, is holding a tray, and a very familiar aroma fills the room.

My jelly bubbles following that scent, but I feign disinterest and sit there feeling numb.

As the man seems very cautious and unenthusiastic, I can be a bit rebellious.

Well, if you’re going to leave it, then just put it down and go, right?

As if he’s hearing that, the man puts down the tray and quickly leaves the room.

I wonder what I did to scare him like that.

More than that, he is soone I t for the first ti today, yet he sohow feels oddly familiar.

After racking my brain, unable to recall the man’s face, I shift my attention away from the man who fled the room.

I approach the tray on the floor.

There lies L Company’s delicious burger that I enjoyed last ti. It is generously accompanied by fries and a drink.

Well, people can sotis betray you, right?

After devouring the at and realizing so ti has passed, the sight of the burger makes my jelly bubble.

Or maybe I just have a good appetite.

Anyway, I grab the burger on the tray and devour it. The burger still tastes great, and the fries are really good.

I actually like that the fries lack a crisp. Whether soft or crispy, they are just fries to .

And as I gulp down the cola, it feels like a party is happening inside .

The fizzy sensation is more refreshing than just drinking the cola.

I am no longer bothered by vague worries about what will happen next.

Betrayal might have happened, but the burger set is worth it.

So be it.

At that mont, I was unaware of the changes that were happening in my body.

“You are not scared anymore, huh?”

“…If the Doctor had ever experinted with the sli girl, he would have ended up like , right?”

“Hmm… Is that so?”

Kim Cheonsu sighed deeply, then turned away.

“I’ll be off then.”

“Well… to think a man ended up like this…”

“It’s not like that. By the way, when will you keep your promise?”

He had a good mory.

Looking away from Kim Cheonsu’s gaze, Han Seori twirled her hair with a pen and said softly,

“We might have to wait a bit longer. Hmm… it seems moving that girl to the research institute would be for the best.”

“…You promised.”

“Yes, I did.”

As Han Seori smiled with her eyes, Kim Cheonsu scratched his head, opened the door, and left.

Watching Kim Cheonsu’s back, Han Seori smiled with a hint of bitterness, then turned her head.

Suddenly, she noticed the sli girl wriggling on the other side of the glass.

When brought back to the containnt area, the sli girl used to be stuck in a corner like a sulking child, which was perplexing.

Now she was moving around freely… it seed like her anger had been vented.

However, despite her cute appearance, what that implied was not so light-hearted.

The fact that the sli girl possessed intelligence beyond just cognitive abilities was good enough.

But in reality, her intelligence seed much higher than her appearance suggested.

Her hanging from a hook and landing on the floor… suggested she understood how it worked.

‘…Should have gone with the intelligence officer.’

What if the sli girl only disliked her?

…This didn’t feel right.

A strange attachnt ford, causing Han Seori’s thoughts to wander in a weird direction constantly.

It wasn’t a good sign, but whenever she looked at the small sli girl, her heart couldn’t help but soften.

Fortunately, what mattered was that she was able to safely bring the sli girl back to the research facility.

And as a special surveillance specin that the director couldn’t casually ddle with.

Han Seori felt proud, realizing that all the hardships she had gone through weren’t in vain.

Being able to designate the sli girl as a special surveillance specin was a rare occurrence. It was not only because of her intelligence.

It was because of the strange changes that had occurred in the sli girl.

Han Seori gazed at the sli girl behind the glass. More specifically, at the tiny blobs of jelly trailing behind her.

It looked like sothing out of a ga, resembling a ‘sli’.

After isolating her again and consistently feeding her for a few days, suddenly tiny blobs started appearing behind the sli girl.

Initially, it seed like the blobs were excreted sli, but upon observation, there were movents detected in the tiny blobs.

What was amusing was that even the sli girl seed surprised as she looked at the moving blobs with a startle.

‘…Maybe.’

Could it be a new ability she didn’t have before? Otherwise, why would the sli girl be so surprised?

Among all the things the sli girl had consud, the only suspicious thing was the ‘endlessly multiplying at blobs’.

Han Seori succeeded in emphasizing this point and placing the sli girl under special surveillance.

The director ca with a deeply furrowed face, but since this was a familiar occurrence to her, she couldn’t help but laugh.

Instead, what happened was…

Now, things had gotten bigger than just the sli girl being taken away by the director.

The fact that the sli girl consud the ‘endlessly multiplying at blobs’ and gained an ability even she didn’t know was…

…it led to the decision not to produce MREs anymore, as they concluded that undiscovered effects might be present in the chunks of at.

Since that thod was originally ant to handle the multiplying at chunks, they couldn’t stop the factory operation.

The finance team frowned upon the increasing stock of at, but wasn’t that a case of putting the cart before the horse?

Han Seori wanted to object but couldn’t find the right words.

She also knew that so of the research funding was coming from there.

Since it was she herself who brought the sli girl here in the first place, she was the one suffering losses by delving too deep.

During the subsequent eting, when the opinion that the ability to ‘multiply’ the chunks of at had been absorbed, distribution seed likely to be quickly restored.

Han Seori felt it was a bit reckless and dangerous, but she didn’t push her opinion strongly enough to dismiss the majority.

She didn’t want all the attention on her, but it seed like her ideas wouldn’t be accepted anyway.

She thought it would be better to focus on researching the sli girl than wasting energy elsewhere.

Thus, she was satisfied with assigning the sli girl to herself as originally planned.

Lost in thought, Han Seori gazed once again at the sli girl beyond the glass.

And then, she saw the sli girl holding in her hands a round, jelly-like substance that followed behind her.

The sight of her holding round chunks with both hands was quite adorable.

It gave Han Seori the feeling of a little one looking after her younger sibling, perhaps?

In the midst of it all…

…She saw the sli girl putting the squirming, jelly-like substance into herself.

Seeing that, Han Seori blinked her eyes.

And canceled her previous impressions.

Indeed, anomalies are… anomalies, she thought.

Han Seori took a deep breath, regained her composure, and began preparing to transfer the sli girl to the research lab.