Chapter 55: A New Routine

Chapter 55: A New Routine

“Hmm...”

Han Seori, who was looking at the screen with a serious face, unconsciously twisted the corners of her mouth upward.

“How cute...”

She felt her tired face relax and focused on the screen.

The screen showed a blob of jelly wriggling on the belly of what seemed to be a sleeping slime girl.

Tentacles made of jelly stretched out from the jelly blob and began poking the slime girl’s body here and there.

It was almost like... it was massaging the slime girl who had returned after a long job.

An impure person like Kim Cheonsu might call it a bizarre sight.

But to Han Seori, it looked infinitely heartwarming.

She watched it with a delighted face as it continued for a while, then fast-forwarded through the time.

It was a recorded video, so it wasn’t difficult. As she manipulated something, time began to pass quickly.

The slime girl was nearly motionless. As if she wasn’t just asleep but unconscious.

Nevertheless, the jelly blob sitting on top of the slime girl kept poking the slime girl’s body as if it wanted something.

...But it seemed to give up after quite some time, as it retracted its tentacles and drooped down.

Han Seori, who had been feeling the accumulated stress disappear, sighed.

‘While I was busy and couldn’t check.’

It seems like something happened.

But nothing particularly special was happening on the screen.

‘Should I fast-forward a little more?’

Just as she thought that, Han Seori’s eyes caught the slime girl starting to wriggle her body.

“Huh?”

Han Seori paused the screen, rewound to the point where the slime girl’s wriggling began, and replayed the screen.

Eventually, the slime girl, who seemed to be sleeping like the dead,

*Fwump!*

Kicked off the blanket covering her with her foot.

The jelly blob that had given up poking the slime girl and was wriggling on top of her was swept away and flew off the screen.

“Kuh-heuk.”

Han Seori burst into laughter at the cute sight she hadn’t seen before but didn’t take her eyes off the screen. Her intuition from years of observing anomalies was telling her,

Soon... she would be able to find out what had transformed that small jelly blob.

Meanwhile, the slime girl on the screen was doing something that looked like she was wildly kicking something, flailing her arms and legs. When she zoomed in on the screen... it also looked like she was laughing.T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

‘Is she sleep talking?’

It seemed highly likely since she hadn’t moved until now.

...She’s having a dream.

Well, even beasts dream, so there’s no reason an anomaly like the slime girl can’t.

Soon, the jelly blob that had flown off-screen came closer to the slime girl, wriggling its tentacles haphazardly. This time, it seemed menacing, like an angry person.

As Han Seori felt a strange feeling, the jelly blob used its tentacles to jump high,

*Splotch!*

And struck the slime girl’s belly.

...It didn’t seem to have any particular meaning.

The slime girl’s belly, which had been momentarily indented in the shape of the jelly blob, immediately popped back out.

But... the strange thing happened after that.

As soon as the small jelly blob landed on the slime girl’s belly, the slime girl’s body suddenly began to bubble. The startled jelly blob tried to escape, but its body was stuck to the slime girl and wouldn’t move.

Thinking that way, Han Seori felt a little regret but soon thought there was nothing to regret.

More importantly, the problem was the slime girl, 7496-KR.

‘It seems like... rather than digesting anomalies, she absorbs them?’

But it wasn’t intuitively clear.

What was certain was that there were always some changes after coming into contact with an anomaly.

Antennae sprouted, making a jelly blob, and this time, she transformed the jelly blob into a form similar to herself.

Plus, it was suspicious that the victims saw something similar to the slime girl in their dreams.

In addition, even if you try to erase that memory, the brain might be overloaded, and you could become an idiot.

In fact, if you combine the testimonies that have been heard so far... it seems there wouldn’t be much of a problem even if the memory of the blue “something” isn’t erased. Because the combined stories were closer to sightings of a blue “something” rather than a slime girl.

“Hmm...”

But for now, she was too busy dealing with the aftermath to take her hands off things related to the slime girl.

Even today, she had gone to bring the missed meal.

‘It’s difficult.’

But... isn’t finding that out her role?

‘For now... after taking care of the situation.’

Even if Han Seori herself didn’t go out, as the highest person in charge of the research center disappeared, the amount of work she had to take care of was like a mountain.

When everything is over... I’ll have to start researching 7496-KR again.

Thinking that, Han Seori looked at the number of documents to be approved, and her face turned black.

In the room that Han Seori left in dismay and Kim Cheonsu left pale,

I silently approached the food that had fallen from the tray and become a mess.

...Actually, appearance or texture didn’t really matter to me, so as long as it tasted good, it was fine no matter what happened to the food.

But perhaps there’s a reason why they say good-looking rice cakes taste good, too, as my appetite wasn’t really stimulated.

I fed the food to Daesik, who was patting my leg.

It wasn’t that I particularly disliked eating things that had fallen on the ground. I just didn’t have an appetite.

...Let’s say it’s because my stomach is full from eating that canned food.

As I was watching Daesik deliciously dissolve the food,

I saw Sosik sprawled on the bed, staring at me blankly.

He’s looking at me with a very hungry face.

An expression that he wants the food to be given to him quickly.

After staring for a while, I threw the food to him, and Sosik, who was wriggling his tentacles, was hit in the face with a splat and swallowed the food.

...Is that really the Sosik I knew?

Seeing him occasionally jerk makes me think it’s Sosik... but he’s become very lazy and lethargic....

It reminds me of the canned food I ate.

What the hell happened while I was sleeping?

Is this also some kind of anomaly thing?

As an ordinary person, I had no way of understanding it, so I gave up.

Like that, it had been several days of just receiving and eating the food that regularly came with the new Sosik and Daesik.

I wanted to ask for the food I really wanted to eat, but the people who came seemed to be very busy and were in a hurry to just put the food down and leave.

Not to mention Kim Cheonsu or Han Seori.

Then, one day,

Han Seori came to the room with a strange object.