Chapter 32: End of the Incident

Chapter 32: End of the Incident

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I thought it was really going to take my life.

If you think about it, it had already taken my “life” in a sense, but it was still... no, it was a situation where my jelly couldn’t help but tremble.

As a person who used to be human, my head was cut off. How many people wouldn’t be surprised by that?

I don’t know if it’s unfortunate or fortunate, but even though my head was cut off, I didn’t die.

If I could make a sound, I might have made silly noises like *gasp*, *cough*, *hack*!

Anyway.

As I gathered my thoughts, I could feel the taste of the “guardian totem” entering my body and melting very slowly.

The taste... wasn’t very good.

It tasted like sucking on raw wood covered in fine dust. No, let me correct that. It tasted even more horrible than that.

It was so bad that I felt sorry for comparing it to the branches I had curiously tasted in my childhood.

I guess I should say I’m fortunate that I didn’t have to try to find a similar taste?

It was a taste from the afterlife that I had never tasted in this world.

While I was wrinkling my jelly with distaste.

The guardian totem, stuck in the wreckage of the vehicle, seemed to be tightly stuck. It wriggled, trying to get out, but couldn’t move.

Seeing the guardian totem bubbling with its face buried in my body, I felt very good.

Ha, serves you right.

I gave my head and took a head, so, at a glance, it might seem like we’re even, but since my head and arms are as good as new, I can say that I got a one-sided benefit.

...I don’t know what would have happened if the small and precious part had been cut off, but for now, I was the winner.

As I was savouring the joy of victory.

*Kwajik*! *Weee-eee-eee*!

I heard a terrifying sound that was hard to hear from all around.

“Kill it! This bastard!”

“Huh!? It’s really getting stuck!”

“It’s splitting! It’s splitting!”

And I also heard the angry voices of some enraged people.

Hearing those angry voices, my jelly trembled. From what I heard, it didn’t seem like they were talking to me, but...

What on earth is happening outside right now?

*Kwajik*! *Crunch*! *Crack, crack, crack*!!

I heard a brutal sound, and the guardian totem’s body began to tilt more and more.

Before long, I heard the sound of thick wood shattering, and the movement of the guardian totem wriggling inside my body ceased.

Even after that, I occasionally heard angry voices and the sound of wood being shattered.

As the movement stopped, the guardian totem’s head began to be digested very quickly. As I melted it, I looked outside through the split gap.

Then I saw people who looked familiar, with very angry faces, cutting the thing that used to be a guardian totem as if they were doing a violence experiment.

Seeing that sight, which even felt hateful, I couldn’t muster the courage to go outside.

I thought that those flames might spread to me as well.

From their perspective, there might not be much difference between me and that guardian totem...?

Suddenly, I wanted to see Han Seori.

Come to think of it, she seemed to be hurt, so I wonder if she’s okay.

As I was watching them turn the guardian totem into kindling. From a bit far away, I heard footsteps that felt urgent.

Without realizing it, I hid deep inside the vehicle.

Meanwhile.

I felt the footsteps that were a bit far away, getting closer and closer. I couldn’t count the exact number, but it seemed to be quite a lot.

Among them, I felt a somewhat different sound lingering near the entrance of the container.

I returned to the place from which I had emerged. In the middle of the clear traces of the guardian totem’s rampage, unlike a little earlier, the corridor was full of people.

It was questionable where they had popped out from to that extent.

...Their gazes differed only by a degree from those who had shattered the guardian totem, and didn’t feel particularly different.

For no reason, I held Han Seori tighter and swayed.

I suddenly remembered that I had left Daesik behind.

...Will he be okay?

I don’t know. But considering the sights I had seen so far... it didn’t seem very likely.

Thinking that he might have disappeared, I felt regretful for always giving him garbage.

Is this why they say to treat others well while they’re around?

There was no mistake in the old saying that you only realize the preciousness after losing it.

Daesik... you must miss me.

Somehow, I felt solemn.

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Han Seori felt pity as she looked at the slime girl trembling in her arms.

How scared must she have been to come into her arms so meekly like this?

Not only did they say they had to shoot in that situation, but they also acted threateningly, wielding axes as if to intimidate her.

She sighed inwardly.

It wasn’t that she didn’t understand their position.

‘They must have gone mad after losing their colleagues.’

Still, shouldn’t they separate public and private matters?

It was thanks to the slime girl that the damage didn’t increase further.

‘Well, there are still more people who don’t know.’

...It will probably get a bit better once people get to know her.

Han Seori, who had moved her steps with the slime girl, arrived at the isolation room where the slime girl had originally been isolated.

“Oh my... this place is broken too.”

Han Seori frowned.

There were mountains of things to do after isolating the slime girl.

‘I wonder if there’s a vacant place right now.’

It seemed like there would be no space for the time being due to the rampage of the guardian totem.

But isolating her with just any anomaly didn’t seem right, as Han Seori knew there would be people who would object to that. So she shook her head, dismissing the idea.

‘Should I just... keep carrying her around like this?’

As Han Seori was wondering while holding the slime girl, she suddenly noticed that the slime girl’s condition was strange.

Wondering why, Han Seori tilted her head and realized that the small slime blob that always accompanied the slime girl was nowhere to be seen.

Inside the broken isolation room, only the toys that had been put in for the slime girl were scattered here and there.

‘...Is she sad about losing a friend?’

You’re no different from people.

Feeling compassion, Han Seori patted the slime girl and noticed the blonde doll that the slime girl always carried with her.

It’s fortunate that at least that remains.

Sighing in relief, Han Seori approached the doll to give it to the slime girl.

At that moment.

*Rustle*.

At the sudden sound, Han Seori stopped in her tracks.

It seemed like something was left inside the isolation room.

If it was a hostile anomaly, it could be dangerous, so Han Seori tensed her body and examined the inside of the isolation room.

Eventually.

She saw the blonde doll slowly pushing itself up from the floor, its small body rising to a standing position.