The royal family members, who never imagined there would be a slime, looked dumbfounded, comparing Kousuke and the slime.
Even though Kousuke noticed their gazes, he beckoned Sura and spoke.
“Tell them I don’t intend to subjugate it.”
Sura, who understood Kousuke’s words perfectly, approached the slime with a soft, squishy sound and attempted some form of contact.
Kousuke didn’t quite grasp the specifics, but it reminded him of a scene he often saw in the fields of his new base, so he vaguely understood they were communicating.
Of course, since he couldn’t confirm it directly, it was purely speculation.
While Sura was doing that, Kousuke decided to check the slime’s status while he had the chance.
Upon seeing the details, he could only say one thing.
“…No, this is amazing.”
Kousuke’s surprised exclamation drew intrigued gazes from Floria and Silvia.
“Did you find something?”
“Did I find something? Well…”
Kousuke paused for a moment at Floria’s question and then re-examined the slime’s status.
The skills this slime possessed were an unprecedented combination for a wild slime.
After all, it had almost no offensive skills, but several for self-defense, and a long list of what could be called recovery skills.
Even Kousuke, who was accustomed to seeing evolved slimes, had rarely encountered such a composition.
If he had to infer anything from this, it was that the slime before him had clearly not survived in the wild.
Looking at its skill composition, Kousuke had a rough idea of how this slime came to be and let out a sigh of admiration.
Seeing this, Floria asked again.
“Can you finally tell us?”
“Ah, yes. But it’s still just a guess, okay?”
Kousuke said to Floria, then turned his gaze towards King Maxim.
He had just remembered that this was also an explanation for the King.
Receiving Kousuke’s gaze, King Maxim, who had remained surprised, nodded without a word.
Kousuke took this as his assent and, after glancing at the slime once, continued addressing King Maxim.
“This slime, I suspect, has likely survived by repeatedly reproducing within this room and its surroundings.”
“What!?”
At Kousuke’s words, the royal family members exclaimed in surprise, while Floria and Silvia looked somewhat as if they had expected it.
Seeing Floria’s expression at that moment, Leonard interjected with a surprised look.
“Hey, Floria, why do you look so unsurprised!?”
“Don’t make such a fuss, Leonard. There’s a sick person here.”
To Floria’s calm reply, Leonard was about to say something else.
However, as if remembering the situation, his face seemed to tighten as if he were at a loss for words.
Instead, King Maxim, the person directly involved, said to Floria.
“Well, I am surprised too…”
To King Maxim, Floria replied with a sigh.
“Your Majesty, I apologize for contradicting you, but if you are surprised by something like this, you cannot stay by the side of an Avatar.”
Hearing this, Kousuke thought to himself, “Isn’t that incorrect!?” but wisely kept it to himself.
This was because he saw Silvia, standing next to Floria, give a small nod.
Kousuke felt a subtle gaze from the royal family, so he pretended not to notice and gave an ostentatious cough.
“Ahem. Regardless, the skills this slime possesses are impossible for a creature that has lived a normal life. …Unless perhaps it was parasitic to other creatures.”
For example, if it had attached itself to a powerful monster like Nana, even a slime without offensive skills could survive.
However, that wouldn’t explain why only the slime was present here.
Therefore, the explanation that it had lived in this room from the beginning and reproduced over generations was, at least for Kousuke, easier to understand.
This was the story Kousuke was thinking of.
First, by some chance, a very ordinary slime came to live in this room.
Slimes themselves can survive with water and a little nutrition.
Extremely speaking, the spilled drinks from the King who lived here for generations, or the maid serving the King, would be enough.
Additionally, next to the room where Kousuke and the others were, there was a room where maids prepared drinks for the King.
It would be entirely possible for the slime to move to that room and replenish its moisture without being noticed by humans.
Having secured a stable (?), Kousuke’s next step was to reproduce, that is, to split.
However, the problem here was that as it continued to split, it would eventually be noticed by people entering and leaving the room.
Therefore, it naturally understood that it was best for only one slime to remain in the room.
As it continued to split, it learned recovery skills.
In this regard, the fact that successive Kings had lived and slept in this room was crucial.
When a King slept in a room, it meant that in case of injury or illness, recovery would be attempted in this room.
This would involve doctors and wizards using recovery magic or administering medicine.
Kousuke’s current theory was that successive slimes had observed these things repeatedly, and their skills had gradually increased.
Kousuke paused for a moment after explaining all that and looked around.
“Well, what I’ve just said is purely speculative, but… isn’t it something significant?”
To Kousuke’s question, King Maxim let out a deep sigh of admiration and nodded.
“Indeed. That is correct.”
Although he didn’t know how it came to inhabit this place in the past, it was certain that a slime with special skills was right before him.
What to do with this slime in the future was not Kousuke’s decision, but that of the future King of the Florece Kingdom.
He didn’t know how many years had passed for this slime to be born, but it could be considered a rare existence for a slime born in nature.
It was not like the Slime Island in the tower, where the environment was deliberately prepared to create conditions for slime evolution.
It was an extremely rare existence for everyone, including Kousuke.
However, after all, a slime was still a slime.
No matter how rare its existence, how to assign value to it was both the privilege and the duty of the person who found it.
The slime in this room seemed to be more a part of the room than a person, so Kousuke had no intention of asserting his rights as the discoverer.
For Kousuke, while it was certainly a rare slime, slimes with similar skills, albeit with different compositions, were abundant on Slime Island.
If King Maxim were to consider eliminating this slime, he would likely use the absolute power of an Avatar to secure it, but Kousuke was confident that this would not happen.
Wasn’t that a bit forceful? lol
Well, please consider it a slime born out of miracles.
By the way, this slime has the characteristic of being as fast at escaping as slimes in a certain game.
