Suddenly, I Became a Slime Chapter 35: Not Worth Pondering Over

The tedious travel seed to have no end in sight.

The journey from the canned food location to our current shelter took much longer than my trip to the canned food location in the first place.

At first, I ambitiously tried to morize the route by wriggling my jelly, but my determination soon scattered.

It was too much information for my small jelly to absorb.

I’m not sure if I could have rembered it even in my human body, but now it seems unlikely.

After living a life receiving plenty of offerings… no, tributes, my desire to return to how things were has faded quite a bit.

Just as I was thinking it might be fine to live like this, getting kidnapped again felt rather odd.

Anyway, as I’m swaying my jelly while heading to a different place, I can’t help but think misfortune is deeply intertwined with my fate.

Even when I was human, I preferred poking around for interesting things rather than being cooped up at ho.

Seeing myself wandering around even after becoming like this, while I never seriously believed in things like fortune-telling, there might be sothing to it.

Although I felt good that I was still myself, even in this body.

This ti, I have a bad feeling about it.

I’ve already experienced being kidnapped, and now I’m not alone since Daesik is in my embrace, so the situation seed better.

Co to think of it, my ahoge… no, the knowledge pouch that was twitching earlier now drooped lifelessly.

Perhaps this is the reason.

I couldn’t find the changes that occurred after digesting the guardian totem. Maybe this is the answer?

My guess is that it might be the ability to detect threats.

It twitched before that suspicious person entered, so it seed like a reasonable assumption.

Saying it like this makes feel a bit odd as if I’ve completely left my humanity behind, but it’s also kind of fun.

They say if you give up, you’ll be at ease.

As the thought of returning to being human fades, I find myself enjoying this body.

Or maybe it’s just because it’s dark all around, making think too much.

Anyway.

Is Daesik okay?

Even I struggled to move my jelly, so I can only imagine how tough it must be for the kid buried inside a doll. He seems to have changed a bit after the bad experience he had recently.

It’s enough to make wonder if he’s assimilated with the doll’s appearance.

Co to think of it, the only thing he’s seen outside is the doll, so it might be natural.

If he took after , he wouldn’t act like that.

In the anti, I could feel the air subtly changing.

Until now, we have been outside, but now it seems we’ve entered a building.

If you ask how I can tell the difference, I’ll say it’s because I can.

I don’t know, it’s just a feeling. How do you explain that?

It’s like asking how you make your heart beat.

Anyway.

I heard muttering voices from quite close by.

I couldn’t make out what they were saying, but it seed the culprit wasn’t alone.

Then.

The cloth lifted slightly, and a pair of eyes appeared in the darkness.

And seeing that, my jelly trembled.

Eyes filled with greed that I’ve never seen before in my life. It was an unpleasant feeling.

I was taken aback to receive such a greedy gaze.

It sent shivers down my spine to have those eyes, brimming with avarice, directed at . To not even see as a fellow human being—

Ah, I’m not human right now.

But still, isn’t this a bit much?

I’d prefer eyes that saw as sothing beneath them.

Those eyes, which seed sowhat familiar, disappeared as quickly as they ca, seemingly satisfied with my appearance.

I could feel my tensed jelly relax.

It might be odd, coming from a forr human.

But humans really do seem to be the scariest.

As the cloth closed, I heard muttering again, and my jelly began to slosh as we started moving once more.

Even though my jelly had relaxed, if I had a heart, it would probably be pounding wildly.

aning I still hadn’t fully cald down.

As I was curled up like that, suddenly, it felt like the sky flipped upside down, and my body spilled out.

*Thud!*

I heard a sound, followed by a woman’s voice.

“Huh? Where did this doll co from?”

But the voice didn’t continue. The woman, as if checking if I was alright, quickly put into a strange contraption.

I, who had been huddled up, was imdiately sucked in.

But Daesik inside the doll was left outside.

Having suddenly beco separated, I felt a bit anxious about the doll that was in my embrace disappearing.

For better or worse, the woman, who had been looking back and forth between the doll and , smiled sowhat contentedly, placed the doll on top of my head, or rather, on top of whatever was confining , and leisurely left.

Since Daesik didn’t move, she must have thought it was just a hobby of mine or sothing.

It’s a bit embarrassing to think that way. But it wasn’t just embarrassing, so I was relieved.

One thing is that Daesik is outside. And the other is that the woman didn’t seem to be aware of Daesik’s existence inside Alice.

So, first of all, whatever was covering the box I was trapped in must have disappeared.

I decided to take a look around. It’s hard to say I did it calmly when my jelly was trembling, but I tried my best.

Alice’s hem visible above my line of sight was a bit of a hindrance, but it wasn’t a big problem.

And so, what I saw was…

How should I put it?

It was similar to where I originally was, but the facilities seed sowhat shabby.

It was quite different from the space, which was so clean that it felt obsessive. It’s like the difference between a luxury hotel and a motel in a back alley.

Basic cleaning was done, but that was it.

At this rate, the room I lived in when I was human would be better.

It also seed a bit gloomy.

I thought to myself, these guys really aren’t the proper sort.

Putting that aside.

So… what now.

Seeing as they brought to such a shabby place, it seed to be a different group from the one that first took , Han Seori’s group. The fact that they didn’t know about Daesik inside Alice made it more likely.

If life here wasn’t bad… I might not have thought about going back.

But….

Considering the facilities and the greedy gaze that looked at earlier.

I think it’s better to get out of here.

I looked around again.

Then I felt a bit puzzled. If it were , I would have installed caras to monitor sothing like myself, but I couldn’t see anything like that.

Well, it’s not like I’m complaining.

It was a good thing for .

Unlike where I originally stayed, there were many holes to escape through here.

Having made up my mind, I tapped Daesik’s bottom, which was sitting dazedly above my line of sight. To be precise, I tapped the lid of whatever was holding .

After a few taps, Daesik ca down to the floor and pointed his eye sockets at .

As if he was looking at .

Would it be an exaggeration to say I felt so strange emotion from those eye sockets?

Anyway.

As I looked at him with eyes, saying to take out, the kid just stared at blankly.

For a while… quite a while.

Then, as if he finally understood, he leisurely ca over and tipped over whatever I was in.

It didn’t open completely, but there was a gap for to get out, so I oozed out like a real sli.

And… after only my upper body had escaped.

Holding back tears… no, jelly. I closed the lid with my hand, severing my lower body.

It couldn’t be helped.

Not knowing when soone might co in to check, I had to leave sothing similar inside, right?

As I got out, my line of sight lowered slightly.

I was suddenly scared that I might have cut off too much, but it seed necessary to avoid being caught.

After coming out, I straightened the strange box and carefully locked it.

Then I gestured to Daesik, who was standing there blankly.

Um… when I waved my hand roughly telling him to co out of there quickly, sohow he understood and ca out of Alice with his jelly drooping.

I tried to put Daesik on top of my head, but I felt the knowledge pouch twitching.

If I had to specify the direction, it was pointing to my side… to the wall. It was sowhat strange that it was pointing to the wall, not the entrance where people co and go.

Why the heck was it moving?

I couldn’t figure it out, so for now, I put Daesik on my head and lifted Alice…

And placed her on top of whatever was confining .

Just like how that woman had put her down earlier.

That ant.

Alice could no longer be with us.

It couldn’t be helped.

It would be too strange if a doll that was there suddenly disappeared. Then, there would be no reason for to leave a piece of my body behind.

Daesik, on top of my head, must have sensed the farewell, as he kept wriggling, so I tried my best to comfort him.

We can always buy another doll…

I also felt a bit strange leaving her behind when the ti actually ca.

Anyway.

Not knowing how much ti we had, it seed we needed to move quickly.

Daesik and I, leaving Alice behind, headed towards the ventilation duct I had seen from the inside.

At first, I wondered if we could climb up, but making my body sticky made it easier than eating cake.

It was like becoming the hero in a red skintight suit.

As we sneakily entered the ventilation duct, dust got into my body.

The environnt really wasn’t that good.

I want to go back quickly.

As Daesik and I were about to head towards the exit.

The knowledge pouch on my head kept twitching.

This ti… it was pointing diagonally downward, not to the side.

In other words, I am assuming there are similar rooms lined up where I am.

I thought there might be sothing in the room next door.

I wondered what that had to do with , but the knowledge pouch’s constant reaction bothered .

I curled up my jelly for a mont, lost in thought.