Free Web NovelEver since becoming a slime-girl, Vieya rarely made a public mess like this. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
For some reason, the slime-girl felt unbelievably bold tonight—almost like she’d returned to that old chuunibyou era of hers when she believed herself a being who could “grasp sun and moon, step on stars, unmatched beneath heaven.”
Back then, whenever she acted, she never had to think too much—she simply crushed everything with raw stats.
Just like she crushed this entire group in front of her.
It took less than a single breath.
Aside from her, not one person in the teahouse could still stand or speak.
“Y-You terrifying witch—! You accomplice of evil, you damned witch!”
A man lay among the shattered tables and chairs, eyes bloodshot. Even with broken limbs, he glared at Vieya with hatred so intense it was almost biting.
“You’ll pay for this one day!!”
“Hmph. So what if I’m a witch?” Vieya walked up to him and slowly raised a foot. “You lot are the ones who kidnapped people inside the city. Go complain to the Tribunal’s law.”
Thud!
The slime-girl’s foot came down.
The man fainted on the spot.
After finishing that, Vieya lifted Irena by the back of her collar. “Where’s the basement?”
“T-There... behind that big screen...” Irena answered honestly.
Then—
Plop!
Irena was tossed onto the floor.
Vieya pointed toward the entrance. “I’ll handle the basement alone. You go outside and bring the knights here.”
“Me?” Irena said nervously. “What if I run into their accomplices again?”
“Use your brain. Walk on the main street where people are! Weren’t you screaming like a banshee when we were in the sky? If you see accomplices, just scream like that again.”
Vieya finished speaking and didn’t waste another second. She walked straight toward the traditional folding screen painted with mountains, rivers, and birds.
Just a bit of probing and she found the hidden mechanism.
Click.
The screen split cleanly in half, opening to reveal a pitch-black passage beyond.
Irena stared dumbly, watching the white-haired woman’s silhouette vanish into the darkness.
Her mind wavered.
To her, the smartest approach was obviously to move together—rescue Little-Fish sister, then report everything afterward. But now they were splitting up...
Irena didn’t dare complain or protest. She was terrified that scary white-haired woman would knock her flat again and publicly humiliate her butt.
After long internal struggle, she made a brave decision—for Little-Fish sister, and for the future safety of her own butt.
She would go find reinforcements who could clean up this mess afterward.
...
At the same time—
Vieya ran into several more people blocking the passage. All of them useless trash. She didn’t even need to use her Authority—her slime-girl stats alone were enough to beat them down.
“Sigh... useless slime body... With my mana storage capacity I can be considered a ninth-tier being, yet my physical stats are about the same as a human around fifth or sixth tier...”
If not for her absurd regeneration speed—capable of regenerating severed limbs in a blink, surviving getting her head blown apart or her heart destroyed—
And the fact that she could use Authority to massively boost power and recovery, making her already ridiculous regeneration even stronger, achieving a state close to [Pseudo-Immortal].
Unfortunately, using Hero Authority with a slime-girl body consumed mana at double the normal rate.
She pushed open the last door.
Two electrified forks thrust at her with a harsh whistle, left and right, sealing off every escape angle.
“Die!”
“Ah—she passed right through it!”
The man attacking with the electric forks went pale with terror. A thick, slime-slick tentacle lashed toward him, striking him across the face with a loud smack.
The force rattled his skull so badly his brain nearly splattered. His vision blackened and he collapsed unconscious.
“You witch!”
The other attacker, seeing his comrade’s fate, let out a furious shout, electricity crackling. He rammed the fork into the tentacle.
“I’ll fry you!!”
Bzzzzt!
Electric current surged violently.
Vieya frowned, spun around, and kicked him in the face. Bang! He flew backward, crashing heavily into the floor, breath weak.
“Ow... I didn’t expect that when the tentacles get shocked, I’d feel the electricity too...”
The numb slime-girl touched her poor tentacle in distress, then drew it back into her body and continued forward.
...
Elsewhere.
Irena sprinted toward the patrolling knight squad, shouting as she ran:
“Something terrible has happened!”
“Something terrible! My friend was kidnapped by a whole group of traffickers! They’re numerous, well-armed, well-prepared, and extremely dangerous!”
“Hey! Little girl there—stop shouting nonsense. Talin is a perfectly safe city, known as a civilized stronghold of the Fourth Honor Rank... Wait! You’re that missing noble magic student!”
“Yes! I’m Irena, daughter of Volkmar Os! If anything happens to the friend who was caught with me, every single one of you city-guard people will be in serious trouble!”
Facing others, Irena instantly returned to her arrogant, highborn posture.
The knights were annoyed—but they truly couldn’t afford to offend her. They could only swallow the bitter pill and fully cooperate.
Besides, the girl had indeed disappeared within their jurisdiction. But this matter was far too big for one patrol squad to handle.
They had to report it upward.
“Miss, please remain calm. This is serious—we must contact our superiors!”
“Then hurry up!”
“You heard her! The noble young lady told you to hurry! Go notify the City-Defense Commander, now!”
...
Basement.
Vieya searched room after room, but still hadn’t found the blue-haired Little-Fish girl Irena mentioned.
Suddenly—
The basement lights flickered violently, dimming and brightening, filling the cramped space with suffocating gloom.
“Trying to act spooky...” Vieya muttered.
A voice rang out from within the darkness:
“You evil witch... why are you saving that little brat? Do you know how many of my kin died in the mines run by that brat’s father?”
“Telling me that won’t help.” Vieya cracked her knuckles irritably. “Anyway, let’s fight. Whoever wins is right.”
“Hah! You unrepentant accomplice!”
A furious shout echoed. The basement lights flared bright again, and with a harsh whistle a heavy club swung toward the slime-girl.
Whoosh!
Vieya reacted instantly—fist turning into open palm, her body unmoving but her momentum unleashed first. As the attacker stepped into her range, cool slippery tentacles dropped from above!
Boom!
“Ah—!”
Stone and wall collided in a deafening impact, and the entire basement returned to normal lighting.
“Huh? What race is this... rock-man? crystal-man? electric-man?”
Vieya walked over and stood before him. “Where’s the other girl you kidnapped?”
“Heh... kill me, and you’ll never find that blue-haired human brat.”
“Tell me where the child is and I’ll let you go. The city guard are already on their way. Are you planning to let your entire operation get wiped out because of this failed attempt?” Vieya spoke calmly. “As long as you stay alive, there will be plenty more chances later.”
“...Hmph. No wonder you’re a honey-tongued witch. I almost fell for that. But unfortunately for you, I’m not the mastermind behind all of this. Hahahaha!”
The non-human man stared at the white-haired girl and burst into loud laughter. “If you’ve got complaints, go tell my boss!”
Vieya paused, spread her hands helplessly. “Then too bad. I’m just a passerby. I can’t save everyone, but I still—”
Tok.
A faint knocking echoed through the basement.
The man’s expression instantly changed.
Vieya stopped talking, realizing he had just lied.
She looked toward the source of the sound.
A length of lead-gray pipe appeared in her line of sight.
The knocking came from inside that pipe.
But this didn’t mean they’d stuffed someone into the pipe. Rather, it meant the holding area was connected to the pipe.
Vieya stood up and walked slowly toward it. She ignored the man’s hysterical screaming, placing her palm lightly on the surface.
The pipe was hard and ice-cold—sewage disposal.
The next moment, a faint, barely perceptible vibration traveled up from deep below.
Vieya withdrew her hand and looked at the non-human man, whose expression twisted with anger.
Softly, she said:
“I found her.”
