Chapter 180 180 Shirou
[El's POV: ]
A small creature with a pointed tale, small hands and feet, a cute face without a mouth, and two white holes in the place of eyes appeared on her shoulders, its body was made of a slimy object so, it was easy to tell it was a unique kind of slime creature and not something simple as the others in this hall possessed.
"Muuuuu~!"
"Hahaha, yes, yes. I'm happy to see you again as well."
It hugged her as soon as it came out and she smiled as well as she felt its cool body on her cheeks.
"Cute~!"
It looked adorable! Far, far, far, far better than the version I had seen in our last turn.
"Right, Shirou, this is El, the one who defeated me, remember? And these are her friends and partners."
She introduced her little familiar to us and the little creature looked at all of us one by one, starting with Sam and Ras, and ending at my dumb Cary… and it stopped on carry.
"Muuuu? Muuuuu~! Muuuuu!"
And, without warning, it jumped down from her shoulders and went tiptoed towards Cary with its slimy, jiggly body.
"Muuuuu!"
And then, it hugged Carry, or, it would be more approved to say it spread out all over his body and tried eating him, lol.
'It was essentially a slime so, even though it had a special certain form, which it must have received after its awakening, it was still slime at the end of the day.'
Just like every other slime, this one was also prone to be attracted towards all the things that they had a proper affinity with or something that they liked innately.
Shirou was a special awakened creature with a very special kind of skill that made it as unique in this worldline as Lux. But still, it was a slime, and as their inherent nurture went, they liked spreading over things that attracted them, and here, my little Cary was something irresistibly attractive for it.
[[ Oyyy! Oy! What is this thing? Get this off me! Master! Master save me! ]]
The acids of its body should normally resolve even strong metals but it didn't work on Cary's draconian scales. They weren't something he or any kind of acidic substance in this Worldline could dissolve.
"A-ahhh, I'm sorry! He hasn't done something like this-"
"Hehehehehe, lol~."
It was funny seeing him struggling with it though, lol. It was like I was skiing a dragon wanting to get rid of a slime that was trying to eat it alive, hehe. And it seemed like Lux was worried that her familiar was doing something like that to my familiar, something it had not done before, but she did not have to worry about my little dragon.
"Kehehehehe. Good good Shirou~. Try harder~."
There was no way a little special slime could even put a little scratch on him. At least not for now though. This one will have to grow a lot before it becomes strong enough to damage the Cary of right now.
'I can't imagine how much Cary will be grown by then though, lol.'
Shirou.
A special awakened kind that should not have existed in this part of the Worldline, a being that possessed the best chances to gain divinity on its own faster than any of the familiars of the protagonists.
'A creature that should have died in a fight that broke out between a demon and an angel who had descended on this planet accidentally. The soul survivor of an incident that though was unknown in this world, was something pretty well known on the border scales of the worldline.'
People called it the [Travel agency mistake], something that used to be one of the popular memes in the lower parts of [Heaven] and [Hell].
'Welp, what happened is unrelated but, where it happened is the main thing here.'
A place that is one of the forbidden areas of this planet in the current times, a labyrinth far bigger and more dangerous than the one we had been to for the test.
It's a place that people call the 'great labyrinth'. A place filled with monsters that had existed there since ancient times and, the fight between that demon and angel took place in the deepest part of the labyrinth, which was destroyed as a result however, the damage was 'corrected' by the Voice of the world.
However, right after that correction, the energies remaining in the area that the 'correction' did not take into consideration, gathered together, and, one of the most common kinds of creatures of this worldline was born.
'Though, it was a creature that never should have existed. But, it had already come to life, even in those extreme circumstances, and, thanks to the unique adaptability of the slimes, it became a creature that could be called part of that area of the labyrinth, a place where the minimum level of the creatures was in their (400s).'
It wasn't an intelligent creature and only possessed as much intelligence as the normal slimes and high instincts that it was born with, which was the reason it was able to survive on its own in that place.
'This little creature that saw my Cary as nothing more than a lucrative source of Mana, something similar to the high-density energy crystals that it grew up eating, had instinctively known it could never defeat even the weakest of the 'magma fish' in that place. That's why, it turned to natural resources of that place, things that were full of high-density Mana, things that were similar to my Cary in this little cute one's eyes.'
"Muuuu?"
[[ Yesss you little thing! Get off of me! I'm not some kind of candy! ]]
"Kekekeke."
[[ Stop laughing you bad master! ]]
"Hahahahaha~. This is hilarious, lol~."
I couldn't stop laughing, even Ras was holding back his laughter at this sight.
Lucy was sighing with a bitter smile again with Anna in his hands, and Nes was worried about these two cuties even though they were just playing together.
"Shirou. That's… not something you eat. He's El's familiar. You should apologize to them."
Lux was shaking her head in disbelief at what had just happened.
She must be witnessing him acting like this for the first time. But this won't be the last time.
"Hehe, there's no need to apologize, but Lux-"
[ "Of course there is a need to apologise! To me at least!" ]
"Shut up Cary."
He spoke up in his Mana voice and surprised everyone once again. Dumb dragon. He was doing something unnecessary again.
[ "But master-…!" ]
"Shuuuu. I have something to ask her so just come here and shut up. You too, Shirou. Come here."
I closed his mouth, bastard was still speaking, so, I closed it tightly and hugged him with my other hand. At the same time, I also took Lux's familiar in my hand and rubbed the little thing against my cheeks.
I could feel he liked it, and, Cary quit down every time he was in my gentle embrace anyway, so, the two little ones calmed down, and I finally had a chance to talk with the two before me.
"So, Lux. I was asking, how much do you know about your familiars? You too Ras? Do you know there is only a certain kind of thing that a natural born could consume?"
They were masters of their familiars now, and the basic understanding would develop little by little.
But, there were some basic things that they should know about their cuties, things that will help them coexist with them a little better.
"Hmmm? I… I know Samsara could only eat-"
"Yes, you know nothing. And Lux? You also don't know what this little one eats either right?"
I gave the two of them a mysterious smile and, at the same time, Eva also arrived with their plates, and, at my signal, she served it before them in perfect order.
"You know what Shirou will eat?"
"How do you know what Samsara could eat? Even she herself doesn't know that."
"Haha, of course, she doesn't know. She's only a hundred and two years old. Far younger than you, Ras. Besides, this must be her first day among us humans, right?
She doesn't know because she must have never needed to. However, in this human society of ours, she will have to find the right source of sustenance soon, or else, her life force will start draining.
And Lux, you just saw how this cutie acted, didn't you? Can't you guess the reason for that already?"
My question before had surprised them but it was nothing compared to the sunrise they had when they heard my response to their own questions.
Ras was taken aback by the sudden reveal of their ages while when Lux saw that surprise on his face and tried to check his status window and failed miserably, she also knew there was something up with what I had just said.
And, then she thought back on what I had just said, and, looked at Cary closely for a moment, and only then did she realize something unprecedented…
And, the way both their eyes widened up, hehe, was a fun sight for not just me but, Lucy as well.
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