Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

Upon entering the laboratory, Edel's children leave the container on their backs on a wide experimental bench as directed by Lorraine and Edel.

"There's a slime in here, right?

Lorraine says when I ask.

"Ah. That's the magic prop I provided. It can't be captured by a slime of common size on boulders, but if it's the size of something that's common in the city's sewers, it's designed so that you can't get away with it if you pack it here."

"Did Lorraine make it"

"That's right. Bring some slime to the rocks, 'cause it's gonna be hard. I thought about what was going on, so I settled into this form."

So this container is for mice only.

At this rate, I'm a little scared that I'm going to create one other piece of gear for the mouse after another.

Well, if that happens, I'm going to gain, or I'm going to gain more power.

Basically, they're from my family, Adele.

"Which..."

Open one of the containers where Lorraine said so and check the contents.

Then a slime crawled out of it and quite a small slime.

By and large... is it the size of the pinky finger earlier?

It is tens or hundredths of a size from what appears outside the city or in the labyrinth.

Naturally, the demonic stone you have is also quite small.

I wouldn't go as far as... if I didn't look in the microscope, but I wouldn't be able to see if I didn't stare often.

When it comes to why slimes like those in the city's sewers are of this size, something bigger than this, a powerful demon, is because they are detected and eliminated at a time when they are approaching the city.

If I'm so small and small, they'll miss me and get in at some point.

This "existential evolution" becomes problematic when it comes to any normal slime size, but in that case, it is immediately exorcised as soon as it is found.

If that's about it, the average copper class can defeat it enough.

The demons that live in the city's sewers are too weak to "evolve into existence" that far.

It's something that rarely happens, so there are extra few problems.

"You're a less magically biased slime, as ordered. We can move on to the experiment in no time."

"... but isn't it hard to let him hold the cup when he's so small...

"That's right. Well, I still have a lot to do... but I'm going to try it the most primitive way for now"

"What's that?

"That's..."

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"... All right, good luck! Go! There!

Lorraine is rooting for something.

Me, too.

"No! Not that way! Ok...... ok! There!"

I'm there for you, saying that.

Do what?

Speaking of, it's easy.

At the end of my gaze and Lorraine's, there's an experimental bench and a cup fixed by an instrument at the center of it.

There were two very small slimes inside that cup, each competing to intertwine.

Each other is breaking apart without trying to take in each other.

Slime is somewhat unlike goblins, orcs, etc. that have affectionate feelings for their fellow countrymen, and is a merciless demon that normally strikes, even if they encounter one another.

For this reason, if we can push ourselves into a very narrow space called the interior of the cup, it will naturally be an immediate contest.

In addition to the normal size method of fighting slime, which is simply swallowed and dissolved in the body, there are also methods of attacking acid bullets (Acid Blitz) that fly strong acidic liquids, but even slime with only a pinkie finger on a boulder is unlikely to be able to use such powerful means of attacking at all.

We've been trying to just swallow each other for a long time now.

I'm also free to just observe this situation, so me and Lorraine started betting on which one would win.

Bet which one wins by letting the demons fight each other, the so-called demon fighting is something that takes place in various places around the world, but I've never seen it because I've never actually been to the city where it's taking place.

But I actually thought it would be interesting to try even a small slime like this.

Anyway, if you're instructed by a submissive demon, a demon is something that doesn't obey people's instructions anyway, and that's why you can't read the results if you let them fight.

Behavior isn't clapping either, there's something exciting to watch.

Human-to-human fighting competitions and so on have some anticipation of what they're going to do next, which is interesting too, but it's good to say that it's another kind of fun between demons.

Even Malt could make money if he did this kind of business.

In fact, there are already vendors who used mice to play horse racing without horse racing, but there are probably not yet vendors who are letting them fight in their original sense, and if you try it, it's going to be gold.

Well, in order to actually do that, you'll have to capture demons to make them fight, which you won't see given the use of some size arenas and so on to entertain, and you'll have to catch something a little bigger in size.

That's going to be pretty tough...

Well, should I expect someone to do it sooner or later and now I decide to be satisfied with slime fighting?

"... you're about to settle"

That's what Lorraine said as she looked at the Cup Arena.

Sure, as she says, both small slimes feel pretty tired.

I don't know if the slime has it, but it feels like I said it would be more defensive if I ran out of energy first.

Lorraine is slightly reddish if you're there for her, and slightly bluish if I'm there for her.

It was thought that the shades were not attribute biases, but that the colors of what I ate would have shifted.

Whatever, because the nature of magic is the same and attributeless as far as I can feel.

Those slimes are finally coming to an end.

The movement of the blue slime stopped for a moment, and at that moment, the red slime collapsed greatly and swallowed the entire body of the blue slime.

"Ooh!

Lorraine cheered,

"... are you serious..."

I moan so sadly.

The wrapped blue slime was gradually digested and absorbed by the red slime, and no longer had any traces.

The little nucleus that should have been in the center of that body is also melted... and the magic that precipitates from it is released.

Here Lorraine becomes a serious face,

"... Lent, from here"

That's what I said.

For a moment, the precipitated magic showed a diffuse behavior around him, but at that moment, the cup spreads suspicious signs.

Then its magic reversed the direction it was headed and began to aggregate towards one point.

Of course, it is for the red slime.

Especially towards the nucleus in the center of its body.

We watched carefully.