Two weeks after the duke left, Ryouma has been spending his days hunting and taking care of the slis. One day, four people suddenly appeared before his house.
“Hey! Ryouma! Open up! It’s ! Hyuzu! We’re not enemies!” [Hyuzu]
Yelling out from in front of Ryouma’s house was none other than the person he took care of. Jill, Camil, and Zeff were with him.
The path to Ryouma’s house was blocked by a boulder, so they had to call out in a loud voice to be heard.
Only, Ryouma was actually in a thicket behind them.
“I’ll, open it, now.” [Ryouma]
“Woah!? You were outside?” [Hyuzu]
“Went out to, hunt… Why did you, co?” [Ryouma]
“I wanted to thank you again for your help last ti. We brought so gifts with us… There’s quite a bit, so we had to store them away via dinsion magic. There’s a butler who can use it in the Jamil family. He’s currently waiting for us with two other maids and Reinhart-samas’s family. They have so business in the forest, so we went together. If you’re not busy, I could bring them now.” [Hyuzu]
Ryouma beca thoughtful for a mont, and after realizing he didn’t really have any pressing matters to pursue, he decided to let Hyuzu call them over. Besides, he wasn’t really about to chase away so people who went out their way to visit him.
The four guards left to call Reinhart and his family.
anwhile, Ryouma decided to call back his slis that he sent hunting and prepared to receive guests.
30 minutes later Ryouma had finished his preparations and a horde of almost 1000 slis could be seen sunbathing in front of his house. That horde jostled about as they waited for Ryouma’s guests.
After awhile Reinhart-sama and his entourage arrived.
When the slis noticed a large group of people approaching, their bodies began to shake.
Ryouma straightened his clothes and watched the forest, and very soon he noted so people approaching.
There were 11 people all in all. There was a beautiful woman and a beautiful girl behind Reinhart, as well as a dignified muscular old man. Behind them were two maids and a butler just as Hyuzu had ntioned. The four guards, Hyuzu and Co., walked in front.
(Judging from the way they’re dressed, those people behind Reinhart-san must be his family. The butler aside, those maid outfits sure stand out. Isn’t it hard to move in them?)
“…Is it him?” [Maid 1]
“That’s a lot of slis…” [Maid 2]
“Ho? I heard he’s tad a lot of slis, but I didn’t think he would actually ta so many.” [Old Muscle Man]
“They might only be slis, but it’s still comndable to have tad so many.” [Beautiful Woman]
“Even though the more familiars one has the harder it is to ta new monsters.” [Beautiful Girl]
Reinhart’s group approached Ryouma while he wondered about the practically of maid uniforms.
When the maids saw the large group of slis, they couldn’t help but find their face cramping.
Reinhart’s whole family except for himself looked on at the large group of slis with amazent.
When they had finally arrived at the entrance of the house, the first to talk to Ryouma was Reinhart.
“Ryouma-kun, it’s been 2 weeks since our last eting. We’ve co to thank you for your help back then. We’ve brought so gifts.” [Reinhart]
“Thank you.” [Ryouma]
“Don’t sweat it, they’re just so goods we had lying around.” [Reinhart]
“Dear, before that how about introducing us?” [Beautiful Woman]
Reinhart introduced his family.
“Let introduce you. These here is my father, Reinbach, and this beautiful woman here is my wife, Elize. And this here is our lovely young daughter, Elialia.” [Reinhart]
“I’m Reinbach Jamil of the Jamil Household, the forr master of the family. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.” [Reinbach]
“I’m Elize Jamil. Thank you for helping my husband and subordinates.” [Elize]
“My na is Elialia Jamil. I’m happy to make your acquaintance.” [Elialia]
“The pleasure is mine… I am, Ryouma Takebayashi… I co from, a distant land… It’s not much, but please let offer you, my hospitality.” [Ryouma]
Though Ryouma would pause from ti to ti and could not speak straight, his words were still polite. That alone was enough to stupefy Reinhart’s family and their entourage.
“You don’t need to be so formal. Just talk to us as you normally would. To begin with, we’re the ones troubling you for coming here so suddenly.” [Reinbach]
“Thank you. Well then, please… Ah.” [Ryouma]
Ryouma was about to lead the people into his house when it suddenly occurred to him that the entrance was being blocked by all the slis, so he had to first order them to go inside.
“Seeing them in a bright place, I have to say that’s one impressive group of slis you have there. By the way, is it just or are there more of them now?” [Reinhart]
“They multiplied… After everyone left.” [Ryouma]
Ryouma’s slis current numbered as follows:
Sticky Sli x 364
Poison Sli x323
Acid Sli x211
Cleaner Sli x11
Scavenger Sli x730
Heal Sli x2 (NEW)
Skills?Heal Lv1; Increased Vitality Lv1; Photosynthesis Lv3; Digest Lv1; Absorb Lv1; Split Lv2
Frankly, after the slis multiplied Ryouma found them too nurous, and he finally had troubles feeding them.
Moreover, he also started to worry about the longterm effects of the slis on the ecosystem. For the anti, Ryouma decided to just feed the slis enough to sustain them, not feeding them a al more to et evolution conditions or increase their numbers.
If that didn’t work Ryouma had prepared himself to thin out the slis, but fortunately, he found a new goblin village two weeks ago, which he wiped out.
The goblin village didn’t just provide Ryouma with food, it also gave him an unexpected boon, for when Ryouma tried to heal the slis injured during the battle, two of the slis evolved into heal slis, a new kind of sli that could use healing magic.
Seeing a new kind of sli appear lit Ryouma’s fire once more, but fortunately, he managed to hold himself back after considering the circumstances.
“Can all that actually fit inside?” [Reinhart]
“It’ll be… fine…” [Ryouma]
“What do you an?” [Reinhart]
“This.” [Ryouma]
As Reinhart asked that question, Ryouma gave a command to the slis.
Space was certainly an issue after the slis multiplied, but three days after the fact, that issue was coincidentally solved. And the solution ca from a re question.
When the slis had grown too nurous to fit in their room, they started to spill into Ryouma’s bedroom, and so, wondering what to do, Ryouma muttered to himself.
Can’t these slis fuse or sothing? You know like Do*kue?
In that instant, the slis vigorously shook, and those of the sa type fused together to form one sli.
Panicked, Ryouma quickly checked their status.
Big Sticky Sli?x1
Skills
Sticky Liquid Lv5
Hardening Liquid Lv4
Sticky String Shot Lv3
Physical Attack Resist Lv1
Enlarge Lv2
Shrink Lv4
Jump Lv2
Digest Lv3
Absorb Lv3
Big Poison Slix1
Skills
Produce Poison Lv4
Poison Resist Lv4
Produce Paralyzing Agent Lv4
Physical Attack Resist Lv1
Enlarge Lv2
Shrink Lv4
Jump Lv2
Digest Lv3
Absorb Lv3
Big Acid Sli?x1
Skills
Produce Acid Lv5
Acid Resist Lv4
Physical Attack Resist Lv1
Enlarge Lv2
Shrink Lv4
Jump Lv2
Digest Lv4
Absorb Lv3
Huge Scavenger Sli?x1
Skills
Disease Resist Lv5
Poison Resist Lv5
Lead Belly Lv6
Clean Lv6
Deodorize Lv6
Deodorizing Liquid Lv4
Stench Lv5
Produce Fertilizer Lv4
Physical Attack resist Lv2
Enlarge Lv3
Shrink Lv5
JumpLv2
Digest Lv6
Absorb Lv3
To Ryouma’s good fortune, the combined slis had an ability called ‘Shrink’, which allowed them to shrink their normally humongous bodies.
The bigger sli variants ate several tis more than their smaller counterparts but effectively consud less when compared to the food consumption of a hundred slis. To put things into perspective, the bigger variants consud about 20 to 50 percent less than their uncombined form. In other words, the issue of space and food had been largely dealt with.
Seeing how the slis had a solution for the very problem that was bothering him, Ryouma couldn’t help but wonder if this was so sort of self-defense chanism that the slis had to keep them from endangering themselves from eating up all the food or other overpopulation issues.
There needed to be at least 100 slis to form a big sli and they all had to be of the sa type. Upon fusion the slis lose the ‘Split’ skill, responsible for sli reproduction.
It was a mystery where all the mass goes upon invoking ‘Shrink’, but in any case, Ryouma was happy to see the space and food problem solved.
Ryouma figured showing to be easier than explaining, so he ordered the slis to fuse.
When they fused in front of Reinhart and the others, they couldn’t help but open their eyes wide in shock, many of them speechless as they stared at the big slis.
“Big Sli!?” [Reinhart]
“Impossible!?” [Reinbach]
“No, there’s no doubt about it. This is definitely a big sli? You managed to ta a big sli?” [Elize]
“…Is that, strange?” [Ryouma]
“No one has ever managed to ta a big sli before.” [Elize]
“Eh?” [Ryouma]
This ti around the one to be shocked was Ryouma.
When Reinbach noticed that, he explained.
“The contract doesn’t work on big slis. Many have tried, and so still do from ti to ti, but no one has ever succeeded.” [Reinbach]
“But, of course… Contract… aningless.” [Ryouma]
All eyes gathered on Ryouma as he explained.
“Big sli is… a gathering of many, slis; therefore, contract conditions can’t, be t.
The contract, only works on one monster. Contracting, several at the sa ti, is impossible.
Contracting one out of, one hundred, is also impossible.
Because there, is only one nucleus… So, the contract won’t, work.
I succeeded, because I contracted, many slis individually, and then gathered them together.” [Ryouma]
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