That day, Kousuke, who was lazing around in the Lounge Space as usual, felt a strange sensation and involuntarily sat up.
Kouhi, who was by his side, showed an unusually surprised expression at Kousuke’s sudden movement.
“Master?”
Kouhi asked with a slightly wary look, but Kousuke didn’t have the leeway to answer.
With a sensation different from his usual five senses, Kousuke had perceived something.
It was clear from a glance that Kouhi, who was right beside him, couldn’t sense it at all, so it was obvious he was being targeted.
However, at least, he couldn’t sense any aggressive intentions in that sensation.
Of course, since this was the first time, there was a possibility that Kousuke’s senses were mistaken, but he couldn’t make a judgment now.
After a moment of hesitation, Kousuke’s dilemma was soon resolved.
This was because he remembered that the sensation he was receiving now was something he had experienced before.
“…Huh? Is it Rin?”
Rin is the king of the Slimes that reigns over Slime Island.
Kousuke blurted out a response, but an affirmative reply immediately came back.
“No, how on earth… Ah, I see. Is it an application of telepathy?”
Some of the Slimes also possess the telepathy skill that he uses to communicate with Kouhi and the Hiryu.
Naturally, Rin, who could be called the king of the Slimes, also knew the telepathy skill.
However, the telepathy skill was not supposed to be effective all the way up to the management layer.
The fact that Rin was conveying his will like this meant that he had either found a way to do so or had acquired a different skill.
Thinking this, Kousuke decided to communicate with Rin more calmly.
“So, is something the matter?”
Kousuke chose to respond with words because it was the easiest to understand.
It was easier to convey his meaning to the other party than to communicate solely through emotions.
Even so, to an outsider, he would look like a suspicious person muttering to himself.
Originally, telepathy was meant to be done at close range, like with the Hiryu, so Kousuke looked extremely suspicious at the moment.
Fortunately, since Kousuke and Kouhi were the only ones in the Lounge Space, Kousuke managed to avoid being treated as a suspicious person.
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Rin, the Shinsisuraimu, used telepathy to contact Kousuke in the management layer, requesting him to come to Slime Island.
Wondering what had happened, Kousuke tilted his head inwardly and immediately headed to Slime Island with Kouhi.
When Kousuke arrived at the summit of Rin’s island, the Master of the Slimes charged at him.
“Whoa! I get that you’re happy, but let’s calm down for now!”
Kousuke, who almost fell over, hastily braced himself and stopped Rin’s charge.
Of course, Rin wasn’t attacking Kousuke with all his might.
If Rin had gone all out, Kousuke would have been sent flying just by that.
However, before that, Kouhi would have intervened and stopped the attack.
Kouhi was now watching with a fond smile, thinking that he was doing the same thing again.
Seeing that he had stopped his charge, Rin began to jump up and down in place, as if to convey something.
“Yes, yes. I’ll listen to you properly, so let’s calm down first, okay?”
Kousuke chuckled bitterly and moved his right hand up and down towards the excited-looking Rin.
Rin, perhaps understanding what Kousuke meant by that, stopped jumping up and down.
“So? What’s the matter, really?”
Rin, the Slime, cannot speak.
Therefore, he cannot hold a clear conversation.
However, since Rin understood the meaning of Kousuke’s words, all Kousuke had to do was to interpret the meaning of Rin’s body language.
Especially with Rin, his body language was very easy to understand, making conversations easier compared to other familiars who couldn’t speak.
Fortunately, Kousuke quickly understood what Rin wanted to convey this time.
This was because, in front of Kousuke, who tilted his head, Rin suddenly began to tremble rapidly.
“Eh!? Wait a minute.”
Kousuke panicked, thinking that some kind of illness had occurred, but the reason for Rin’s trembling became clear about thirty seconds later.
After the trembling stopped, Rin suddenly grew a bump-like object towards Kousuke.
Then, the bump suddenly detached from Rin.
Kousuke’s eyes widened, seeing a sight he seemed to have seen somewhere before, and he reached out his hand towards the detached bump (?).
“Ah~. Could it be…? Is it really?”
As Kousuke received the lump (?), he said, and Rin trembled in a different way than before, looking happy.
What Kousuke was holding now was undoubtedly a new Slime, a clone of Rin.
Kousuke knew that the Slimes in this world reproduced by splitting.
However, this was actually his first time witnessing it firsthand.
Rin remembered that he had mentioned that before.
On top of that, Kousuke understood that Rin had specifically timed his call to coincide with this event.
As a precaution, Kousuke confirmed with his left eye the newly born Slime on his palm, and it was definitely a Shinsisuraimu, just like Rin.
Although its body was smaller than Rin’s, it possessed the same unfair skills.
“…You went to the trouble of showing me your division. Thank you. So, what should I do with this child?”
Kousuke asked, holding up the Slime on his hand towards Rin.
In response, Rin vigorously swayed his body from side to side.
Kousuke tilted his head, unable to understand the meaning of that alone.
Seeing that, Rin then gently nudged his body against the hand holding the Slime.
“…Are you saying you want me to hold onto this child, Master?”
Kouhi, who had been observing from behind Kousuke, said so, seeing Rin’s gesture and the current situation.
“Eh!? Really? But this child is like Rin’s offspring, isn’t it?”
Kousuke looked surprised at Kouhi’s guess, but Rin hopped up and down in response.
That was his pre-arranged gesture of affirmation.
In other words, the reason Rin called Kousuke there was not only to show him the division but also to give the divided Slime to Kousuke.
“Hmm. I see. This child, huh…”
Kousuke clasped his arms, wondering what to do, and Rin stared at him.
His gaze seemed to convey anxiety, as if he was worried he had done something unnecessary.
Noticing that, Kousuke smiled to reassure Rin.
“It’s alright. I don’t think of it as a bother. I was just thinking about where to keep this child.”
If he were to keep it on Slime Island, it would render the purpose of it being given to Kousuke meaningless.
On the other hand, he was worried about releasing it on another floor.
As Kousuke was contemplating, Kouhi gently offered advice.
“Isn’t the only option to keep it in the management layer?”
“That’s probably the only way. I’m fine with that, but what will the others say?”
Kousuke said, tilting his head, and Kouhi, unusually (?), made a bold statement.
“You don’t have to worry. They’ll probably just think it’s another one of your usual things.”
“Ugh.”
Kousuke was speechless, unable to retort to Kouhi’s firm answer.
Divided Slimes possess the same skills as their original parent.
Of course, growth-related skills may be in their preceding stages.
By the way, I’m deliberately not considering what skills the Shinsisuraimu possess right now. If they have skills like physical nullification or magic nullification in this world, they would become more than just the strongest, so it’s a dilemma lol.
