Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Noon. The scorching sun beat down on the earth. On the emerald green grass, a little girl, not even ten years old, skipped along, holding a slime in her arms, occasionally lowering her head to ask the slime in her arms something with a curious expression.

"Is that Sally? What's she doing there?"

On the watchtower, a young boy who was wiping his bow and arrow looked up and saw a girl in a somewhat faded long dress skipping towards him from the woods not far away, a happy smile on her thin face.

"Uncle Auster, what should we do?"

The next second, the boy turned to look at Auster, who had already stood up and was leaning on the railing. At this moment, the boy's heart was conflicted. He knew that the adventurers who had just arrived in the village were targeting Sally, and they definitely had bad intentions.

The boy hoped that Sally would approach the village and be discovered by the adventurers, who might then leave. But the guilt in his heart also made him want to stop Sally from getting closer... at least not be discovered by those adventurers before the day after tomorrow.

"...Ignore her. If Sally wants to enter the village, don't stop her."

Auster stared at Sally's slowly approaching figure. After a moment of silence, he said in a muffled voice, then turned around, sat back in his original position, picked up the clothes placed aside, and covered his head, as if he had been lying there sleeping and hadn't noticed Sally approaching the village.

"But... I understand, Uncle Auster."

The boy looked at Auster, who was lying down pretending to be asleep. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but hesitated for a few seconds, then sighed, picked up his bow and arrow, and continued to wipe them, as if he had never seen Sally either.

However, the boy's movements of wiping the bow and arrow in his hand became more and more forceful, as if he was venting something... or perhaps feeling angry because of his own weakness and powerlessness.

"Minghao, that's the village. Sally... Sally can't get close to there."

About a hundred meters away from the village, Sally stopped, holding Lu Minghao in her arms, raised her hand, pointed to the village ahead, and said to Lu Minghao. When she was first driven out of the village, Sally had considered sneaking close to the village to take a look at Grandma Oran's grave.

However, every time she got within a hundred meters, an arrow from the watchtower would shoot not far from her, indicating that the village did not welcome her to approach. After trying many times, Sally gradually gave up. At least she could still live in the woods not far outside the village, which could be considered a place very close to Grandma Oran.

"It's okay, Sally. Just walk forward, and no one will stop you again."

Lu Qiming raised his head to look in the direction of the watchtower, then reached out and touched Sally, who looked disappointed, reassuring her to continue walking forward.

"Really?"

After hearing Lu Minghao's words, Sally's big eyes suddenly looked towards the village. Tentatively, she slowly walked forward. When she reached the position where she would usually be driven away by arrows from the watchtower, Sally subconsciously hugged Lu Minghao tightly in her arms, wanting to use her body to block any arrows that might fly over.

"Ah! It really works!"

The next second, Sally realized that the arrows that usually flew over as soon as she got close to this position didn't appear. Her big purple eyes couldn't help but widen, and a smile with a hint of nostalgia appeared on her small face. Then, Sally hugged Lu Minghao and ran straight towards the village gate.

Whoosh, whoosh~

The wind raised by the running blew Sally's long black hair, and her white dress fluttered slightly. Sally looked at the approaching village, the familiar environment inside, and tears streamed down her cheeks, but the smile on her face became even brighter.

"I'm back, Grandma."

The moment she stepped into the village, Sally raised her head, her face full of tears, and looked at the wooden house in the center of the village in the distance, as if she saw the figure leaning on the old wooden door, waiting for her to come home with a kind smile.

"Mommy, it's the monster Sally!"

At this moment, at the entrance of a wooden house at the village entrance, a little boy who looked four or five years old suddenly turned around and ran home, shouting to his mother in a childish voice.

Bang!

The next second, with a bang, the wooden door was slammed shut, and the little boy's voice became weak, as if he had been muffled by something. In the distance, the other villagers also noticed Sally entering the village. One by one, they subconsciously lowered their heads and walked towards their homes.

In a short half a minute, the figures on the village road had disappeared, and the doors and windows of every household were tightly closed, and the entire village fell into silence.

Sally stared blankly at the silent village in front of her. This was completely different from what she had imagined. She had originally thought that when she stepped into the village, she would be driven out directly by the villagers as before, but now, when the villagers saw her, they all hid.

"Village Chief..."

At this time, Sally saw Village Chief Kenny in front of a wooden house in the distance. He smiled slightly at her and turned to walk into the house. The figure, which was much older, made Sally subconsciously bite her lip. In the past, besides Grandma Oran, only Village Chief Kenny in this village would not look at her with the eyes of a monster, and would occasionally give her something to eat.

Therefore, even though Kenny didn't help her when Sally was driven out of the village, Sally was still grateful to Kenny in her heart, because he was one of the few beings who had shown her kindness since she was born.

"Sally, your acquaintances have arrived."

At this moment, Lu Minghao's voice suddenly sounded in Sally's mind. As for how he did it, it was just a small trick that Lu Minghao had mastered after advancing to a middle-ranked demon. He just needed to connect his mental power with Sally.

Pa! Pa!

Two figures landed in front of Sally, with a sneer on their faces, looking at Sally with eyes like they were appraising goods.

"Isn't this our Chris's little darling? I didn't expect her to grow up so much after not seeing her for a while?"

As Jean spoke, he reached out to grab Sally's hair, wanting to see what made this half-human, half-demon monster worth so much money, enough for the nobles of other kingdoms to specify their team to capture her.

"Wait a minute, Jean. This is a valuable cargo. You don't want to injure her and make Captain Leicester angry, do you?"

Suddenly, Kison, a burly man in heavy armor beside him, stopped Jean and said to him with a cold look.

"Tch, damn monster, if you don't want to get hurt, just follow us obediently!"

Jean looked at Kison next to him, and then at Sally's thin body due to long-term malnutrition, and unhappily drew the long knife from his waist, pointing it at Sally and telling her to follow him obediently.