Chapter 53: Don’t Tell Me…

Chapter 53: Don’t Tell Me...

*Glorp... glorp.*

I couldn’t tell how much time had passed.

However, judging by the sloshing sound still coming from inside my body, it seems digestion hasn’t been completed yet.

The indescribably bizarre taste... I can’t feel it well now. I don’t know if my sense of taste has become numb, like my nose being paralyzed.

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No matter how much I ponder, I still don’t know.

Well, although I don’t have the appearance of a human, I roughly have human consciousness, so it would be strange for me to understand those anomalies.

...I wonder if even the anomalies can’t understand each other?

If they could understand, maybe the horned wolf would have become my new friend.

The guardian totem, too, and the statue... and that monstrous cow.

How could that be possible?

As I was absently waiting, lost in thoughts that didn’t seem very nutritious,

*Squish... squish.*

I could sense the pressure on the jelly gradually weakening. Perhaps because the part that detects taste is like shutting my eyes, I was keenly aware of that subtle change.

The lumps of meat that had been proliferating as if blood was draining from my body were slowly... slowly... slowing down.

Lumps of meat that had lost strength and crumbled like minced meat fell *plop, plop* onto my body.

The thought that this tedious time is finally ending makes me feel quite good.

Eventually,

“Bothersome... ah, the end is finally approaching for me too.”

Along with a clattering metallic sound, a voice of indeterminate gender was heard. It’s a rather familiar voice I’ve been hearing since I first came here.

Surprisingly, the anomaly that I didn’t know what to call seemed to know that its death was imminent.

And as if that was the only salvation given to it... it muttered in a voice that even felt somewhat sweet.

I feel a chill at the thought I can’t understand.

Isn’t the instinct to live... the strongest for living things?

...I don’t know.

Can these things, called anomalies, even be considered living things?

Feeling my jelly getting complicated, I just gave up thinking. There’s no point in trying to understand what I can’t understand. It will only make my jelly ache.

Anyway.

The ‘canned food’ that left a curiously strange last words didn’t say anything else.

Quietly melting away inside my jelly.

It was as if my existence, a being like this, was inconsequential.

As if savoring the... ‘peace’ that will come to it.

...I felt like spitting it out for a moment. But then I thought if it sprouts up again, it might do something nasty, so I waited nicely–

No, I’m a good slime, so I waited nicely.

I wasn’t thinking that.

Not long after,

I sensed that the canned food boiling inside my body had completely melted away.

I think it muttered something at the end... but honestly, I couldn’t hear it well.

Hmm. It must have been the excuse of the loser, so there was no need to listen.

...It felt like it got some kind of mental victory, but I tried hard to ignore it.

Soon, as if a stuffed nose had cleared, the smell of raw meat wafted strongly from the surroundings.

Unable to understand what was happening, I wriggled in the darkness and went outside, and I saw the red lumps of meat that had been wriggling before were somewhat *drooping* now.

The appearance boasting vigorous vitality could no longer be seen, and it seemed to have become an ordinary lump of meat that could be seen in a butcher shop.

...Seeing it packed full of only meat with no fat at all, it didn’t seem like it would be very popular.

Is this even something that can be cleaned up?

Impressive. If it can be cleaned up, that is.

As I returned, Daesik (in the Alice) and Sosik wriggled and approached.

Somehow, the way they rubbed against me made it seem like they felt lonely while I was gone.

...It was a bit unexpected for Sosik to do that, but it’s not a bad feeling.

As I was caressing them like that, the door opened again.

I thought Han Seori had returned, but this time, Kim Cheonsu came to see me.

Somehow feeling a sense of deja vu at the sight, I frowned my jelly, and he coughed, *ahem*, and approached me, saying,

“...Thank you. I heard you helped me come to my senses.”

Hmm... has my achievement already reached the ears of this man?

Or... since Han Seori was a bit close with him, maybe he found out first.

But.

His condition was a bit strange.

A different strangeness from when he rushed to the MRE.

The ordinary man looked at me for some reason, then covered his eyes with both hands and let out a sigh.

His cheeks seem somewhat red while covering his eyes. It must be my imagination, right?

Or... was he embarrassed to be saved by me?

Eventually, the guy who sighed slapped his cheeks *smack smack*, then suddenly fell prostrate and began hitting his head on the floor.

...Has he gone crazy?

Wondering why he’s doing that, I blocked his forehead, and he muttered in a very serious voice,

“This is all because of a strange dream... that can’t be....”

He muttered something incomprehensible, then got up from his spot with a reddened forehead.

“...I’ll repay you later. For now... I have a lot to do.”

The man rambled about something I didn’t even ask, then made an ordinary man-like exit.

I shrugged my shoulders as I watched him leave.

Judging by how they’re acting, the people outside seemed likely to be busy for a while.

Then there’s nothing for me to do but roll around on the bed anyway.

As if that thought was the reason,

Or... I don’t know if the same thing that happened after eating the statue is happening,

But somehow... drowsiness suddenly came over me.

Lying on the bed, tremendous fatigue washes over me.

As my vision darkens,

I saw Daesik lying next to me.

...And.

For some reason, Sosik was on my belly.

He had no expression.

But somehow,

...it felt like he was smiling.

But I couldn’t overcome the sleep that came over me,

And fell asleep.

Don’t tell me...

We... were good together, weren’t we?

Maybe I was the only one who thought so....