CHAPTER 405: SHE WHO MUST NOT BE PROVOKED [PART 1]

"Eyah?"

"Eyah?"

"Eyah?"

Dim Dim found itself surrounded by little baby slimes, who seemed to be asking what it was.

A moment later, these baby slimes nudged their cheeks against Dim Dim’s body, making the Dim Sum God giggle.

It lightly patted their heads before taking out a bamboo steamer to give them some custard buns.

Delighted, the little slimes called their friends to enjoy Dim Dim’s buffet.

"They are so cute, soft, and jiggly." Fran lightly poked the purple baby slime on her hand, making it giggle.

The other ladies also found the baby slimes endearing, so they picked up a few and started to poke their cheeks.

Even Renard couldn’t help but also join them.

A few curious baby slimes even crawled up his body. Some lightly pulled on his ear.

Others ruffled his hair or even slept on his chest by using his shirt as a blanket.

"Come here my little friends," Chuck said to the baby slimes, who seemed to be avoiding him on purpose. "Why won’t you come to me?"

When Chuck walked to a baby slime, the latter would immediately run away. Poor Chuck was left wondering why no slimes were trying to approach him!

"Do you know? Slimes can tell if someone is a bad person," Vaan, who was covered in so many baby slimes he looked like a Christmas tree, commented with a smile. "They might be aware that you’re a troublesome fellow, so they don’t want to come near you."

"Nonsense!" Chuck exclaimed before looking around for a baby slime that he might be able to befriend.

Upon scanning the surroundings, he noticed a pink baby slime sleeping peacefully on top of a small rock.

Taking that as an opportunity, he stealthily approached it before picking it up before it could run away.

The baby slime opened its eyes and looked drowsily at the person that had disturbed its sleep.

"Hello there, my adorable friend," Chuck said. "My name is Chuck. What is your name?"

The baby slime gave Chuck an annoyed glare before opening its mouth...

"Put me down, you sonnovab*tch!"

Chuck and Vaan blinked at the same time because both of them clearly heard the baby slime say something that it wasn’t supposed to!

"Um, can you repeat that, my little friend?" Chuck asked. "You just cursed me, right?"

The pink baby slime blinked innocently and tilted its body to the side.

"Eyah?"

"Don’t ’Eyah?’ me. You cursed me a while ago."

"Eyah?"

"Why you little..."

Vaan lightly patted Chuck’s shoulder to warn him against doing something he would regret later.

Chuck turned to Vaan, only to see that the baby slimes clinging to his friend’s body were all glaring in his direction.

One of them was even holding a small, round, black bomb, which was the baby slimes’ signature ability.

Blast Bomb [EX].

That was the skill that was unique to all the slimes in the world.

It was said that this skill was bestowed upon them by the Great Fairy Princess, whom all the slimes worship as their Great Deity.

There was even a saying that no Paragons, or even the Major Arcana themselves, would be spared from her wrath if they ever dared to hurt her people, namely the slimes of the world.

And in return, the slimes also did their best to not kill any creature in the world. At most, they would only retaliate in self-defense.

"I think you should put down the slime gently," Vaan suggested because a few more baby slimes that were perched on his body were now holding Blast Bombs as well.

Although Chuck believed that he could evade any attacks from the baby slimes, he still chose to heed Vaan’s words and gently place the pink baby slime on top of the rock where it had been sleeping earlier.

"Hmph... F*cker," the pink baby slime scoffed before crawling away to find a new sleeping place, away from the bad human, whom the slimes disliked very much.

Feeling heartbroken, Chuck went to find Dim Dim, who was currently feeding the baby slimes with dimsum.

"Dim Dim, the slimes are so cruel," Chuck complained. "They don’t want to be my friend."

The baby slimes that were eating peacefully earlier all moved to hide behind Dim Dim, and glared at Chuck as if he was their mortal enemy.

Dim Dim looked at Chuck, and the baby slimes behind it and asked them why they seem to hate Chuck.

"Eyah!"

"Eyah! Eyah!"

"Eyaaaaah!"

"Ei! Ei!"

The baby slimes all rushed to reply to its question. After a few moments, the little bun nodded in understanding.

"What did they say, Dim Dim?" Chuck crouched down and asked, his eyes brimming with curiosity.

"Dim Dim!"

"Huh? They are calling me a bad person?"

"Dim!"

"I’m not a bad person. Can you convince them that I’m good?"

Dim Dim blinked before turning around to look at the baby slimes hiding behind it. They all shook their heads.

Clearly, none of them wanted to get close to Chuck, who was emitting the "no-good-person-aura".

"You reap what you sow," Mary pointed out as she approached Chuck.

The young lady was being accompanied by two baby slimes.

One white and one black.

The white one was perched on Mary’s right shoulder, while the black one was perched on her left.

"That’s right, Chuck." Renard, who’d overheard that Chuck couldn’t befriend any baby slimes, decided to rub salt into his wound. "This is what you get for not being a good person."

Chuck was about to defend himself until he saw the baby slime that was resting on Renard’s head.

A moment later, the troublemaker of the academy laughed out loud as he pointed at that slime.

"Hahaha!" Chuck roared in laughter and almost doubled over. " I have always known that you’re going to wear a green hat someday. This is proof that my guess is right!"

"What are you talking about?" Renard was genuinely confused by Chuck’s outburst.

The green baby slime that was perched on top of his head also giggled as if perfectly understanding what Chuck was referring to.

Mary understood what Chuck was saying, so she looked at the laughing young man in contempt before glancing at Renard with pity.

"Don’t mind him," Mary said. "You know that he talks nonsense most of the time."

However before Renard could reply, another bout of laughter reached his ear.

This time, the one who was laughing was Alex. And he was also pointing at Renard’s head.

"I can’t!" Alex tried to stop cackling because his stomach was starting to ache from laughing. "A green hat... Pfft!"

The green baby slime felt that people were making fun of it, so it started to tear up.

"Wuwuwu!"

The slimes all turned to look at the green baby slime as it burst into tears.

When this happened, the blue baby slime on Alex’s head crawled to the side of his head and gave his ear a hard pull. His laughter instantly turned into a yelp of pain.

"F*cker," the blue baby slime said as it pulled Alex’s ear harder. "Stop laughing."

The blue baby slime on top of Alex’s head looked bigger than the other slimes.

It had crawled to the top of Alex’s head earlier and had ruffled his hair into a bird nest, amusing Latifa, Lavinia, Efa, and Lapiz.

Because of this, the young man had decided to join Chuck in making fun of Renard to vent some of his frustrations.

However, this move seemed to disgruntle the blue baby slime on top of his head, which caused it to retaliate.

After Alex asked it for forgiveness, the baby slime finally stopped pulling his ear. It then jumped to Renard’s head and gave the green baby slime a hug, coaxing it to stop crying.

Suddenly, Dim Dim, who had just been feeding the baby slimes, sensed something and looked up at the space above Renard’s head.

Its eye suddenly sparkled as it broke into a smile.

"Eiko!" Dim Dim greeted.

"Dim Dim!" Eiko replied and jumped towards her best friend.

""Yay!""

The two exchanged a high five before hugging each other.

Alex blinked once then twice before realizing something.

In the game, Dim Dim only had one best friend and that was a baby blue slime, who went by the name Eiko.

’D-Don’t tell me...’ Alex stared wide-eyed at the baby slime that was currently hugging Dim Dim.

All the players of ELO knew that this baby slime was not something that they could mess with.

A baby slime that was called the Fairy Princess, who could command legions of Undead and summon an Outer God that looked very much like Cthulhu inspired by Lovecraftian lore.