▶ ? Squishy, why are you sucking human blood?
▶ Did it suddenly acquire a taste for humans?
Since the action was done without any warning, most viewers couldn’t immediately understand the slime’s behavior.
However, one viewer who was very knowledgeable about poison—Arachne, the Thread-Lady—was different.
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Isn’t Squishy perhaps detoxifying?
▶ Detoxifying? Doesn’t Squishy already have a detox skill?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ There was a detoxification fluid creation skill in the store last time. It seems like it bought and is using that.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Wait, did it waste points on a skill like that?
▶ Ahahaha, of course it has to show off to the human who feeds it hahaha.
▶ So true hahaha.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Do you think my kin would buy a skill for such pathetic reasons, you fools!!!
"Se, Saintess!"
The clergy looked at Amelia in confusion.
He wanted to remove it right away, but since the slime was being carried around by the saintess, he couldn’t touch it carelessly.
"Jiggly, don’t massage that person right now!"
Seeing the slime trembling, Amelia thought it was trying to massage the sick person.
Though the sentiment was admirable, it would only add to their pain.
She hurriedly reached out and pulled the slime away from the patient.
During that brief moment, the slime had absorbed both the blood and the poison within it.
‘Detoxification Fluid Creation!’
It immediately created a substance capable of neutralizing poison.
As mana was consumed, detox fluid formed inside the slime.
And then—
Pfft!
The slime spat the detox fluid at the bite-marked calf.
“Jiggly?!"
A completely unfamiliar action until now.
Seeing the slime suddenly spit a mysterious fluid at the patient, Amelia panicked.
“W-We need to wipe it off quickly!”
Worried that the monster’s bodily fluid could worsen the wound, the clergy rushed to wipe it off.
It was then.
“Could you please wait a moment?”
Paulen stopped the clergy.
“Paladin Paulen?”
“Paulen?"
Judging from the slime’s behavior up until now...?
If the slime had never shown anything unusual, Paulen wouldn’t have stopped him.
But the slime had already revealed many unexpected abilities.
It could understand human speech, possessed strength suspected to have defeated a lesser troll, and even had the ability to emit light.
So it wasn’t surprising to think it might show another unexpected side.
And then—
“Ugh, uugh! Huh? Mmm?"
The groans of the patient who had been enduring the pain began to subside.
“The pain... is easing. Saintess, the pain is fading.”
“Huh? Really?"
“How could that be...?”
Amelia blinked, staring at the fluid on the wound in disbelief.
The fluid the slime had spat was gradually being absorbed into the wound.
“No way... Jiggly, did you do that?"
‘Yes!’
Shiver
Pfft!
The trembling slime once again spat detox fluid onto the patient’s wound.
This time, the clergy didn’t try to wipe it off and simply watched.
A moment later—
“It doesn’t hurt. It doesn’t hurt anymore!”
As the pain caused by the Stone Snake’s venom disappeared, the patient cried out in gratitude.
Though the paralysis hadn’t fully healed, the pain was gone and he had recovered enough to sit up by himself.
“I can’t believe this..."
Even the clergy couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
The antidote for the Stone Snake’s venom was difficult to manufacture, and the ingredients were hard to obtain.
Yet this complicated poison was being neutralized by the mysterious fluid from a slime.
‘Is it because it’s a slime chosen by the Saintess? Yes! There’s no way the Saintess would keep an ordinary slime!’
“As expected of the Saintess!"
“Huh?”
Amelia looked confused at the sudden praise.
In the meantime—
“As expected from the slime chosen by the Saintess."
“Yeah, from the beginning I could tell that slime wasn’t normal!”
The patients who had been treated by Amelia interpreted the clergy’s words however they liked and began cheering.
“Saintess, could you come this way? We have another patient suffering from poison.”
A nun caring for another poisoned patient even came to Amelia for help with the slime.
“Ah, okay.”
It was a bewildering situation, but Amelia believed that saving people came first.
After that, the slime played a major role inside the clinic alongside Amelia.
Amelia healed patients with physical wounds using holy magic, while the slime spat out substances to detoxify poisoned patients.
To an outside observer, the slime simply appeared to be resting on top of the wounds, sucking out the blood and producing detox substances.
However, the conditions of the patients suffering from poison quickly improved, and they immediately expressed their gratitude to Amelia.
“Thank you, Saintess.”
“No, it wasn’t me. It was Jiggly.”
“I see. Thank you, slime.”
Brrrr!
Words of gratitude directed at it made the slime happy.
Of course, that wasn’t the only good thing for the slime.
It absorbed small amounts of poison from the patients' blood.
By generating detox substances, the slime gained immunity to those poisons.
Additionally, the information about those poisons was stored inside the slime’s body, and if it were to acquire a poison generation skill, it would be able to reproduce the toxins it had once neutralized.
However, the slime hadn't thought that far; it was simply happy to be praised.
***
After leaving the clinic, Amelia had lunch at the grand cathedral as it was time.
“Jiggly is more amazing the more I see it.”
While eating together, Paulen said this as he watched the slime eating on the table.
Brrrr!
The slime didn’t even hear Paulen’s compliment and was too busy enjoying its food.
Amelia silently watched the slime.
It looked like a calm and cute creature from the outside.
But today, the slime had done something unbelievable.
A slime that secretes detoxifying liquid.
She had never heard of or seen such a slime.
Utterly unbelievable events kept happening.
From Amelia’s perspective, they were all too good to be true.
‘Could it be...’
And so, the thought suddenly crossed Amelia’s mind.
‘Could Jiggly be something like an angel sent down by God?’
It was a delusion born from Amelia’s low self-esteem.
She felt unworthy, so she imagined that God had sent her an angel in the form of a slime to help her.
‘N-No way!’
Amelia shook her head to deny such a ridiculous thought.
‘Looks like Amelia’s imagining weird things again.’
It was a familiar sight for Paulen.
The next day.
Though she bravely went out to town, Amelia, who normally had low self-esteem, didn’t have the courage to go outside again so soon.
She spent the day as usual, practicing holy magic in her room.
The day after that.
“This time, I want to properly test Jiggly’s abilities.”
Paulen grinned mischievously and made a suggestion to Amelia.
“Test Jiggly’s abilities? Didn’t we already see them once?”
“That was just a preview, Amelia. Besides, Jiggly would enjoy some exercise too! It’s good for mental health!”
“Muscles!” Paulen flexed his biceps.
“But what if Jiggly gets hurt while sparring?”
“Amelia, what are you so worried about? Just trust in my strength, the strongest in the Holy City!”
“Alright, fine.”
Then, after moving to the training grounds, Paulen took out his main weapon—a large shield—from his inventory.
“You’re even bringing out the Shield of the Holy Spirit?”
“I think a wooden shield has its limits.”
‘Wow! A new shield!’
The slime locked eyes on the shield, which it was seeing for the first time.
The Shield of the Holy Spirit wasn’t just blessed—it was specially crafted for paladins with no expense spared by the church.
Even just looking at it, viewers could tell it wasn’t ordinary.
▶ That looks super tough.
▶Humans have things like that?
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Hmph! My scales are tougher than that.
▶ Why are you even boasting about scales now?
▶ Probably the only thing worth boasting about, huh?
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ N-No, they’re not!
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ Hohoho, please don’t offend the pride of this pathetic shut-in dragon.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Shut up! You rotting pile of bones with decayed scales!
Thud!
Paulen slammed the Shield of the Holy Spirit into the ground to fix it in place.
“Alright, Jiggly! Show me your strongest attack! I’ll take it all!”
Boing!
Understanding Paulen’s words, the slime hopped off Amelia’s shoulder and landed on the ground.
‘Strong one!’
Boing! Boing!
The slime bounced in place a few times like it was warming up, deep in thought.
The strongest attack it could use.
That would be a combination of two skills it used when Godrick, Skol, and Def were in danger.
Back then, it used them instinctively, but after replaying the moment in its mind several times, the slime now understood how to use them deliberately.
It gathered its body’s elasticity by infusing mana.
Then it aimed toward the shield and used Bounce Tackle.
Booking!
Closing the distance in an instant, the slime slammed into Paulen’s shield with the same force it had used to knock a lesser troll off a cliff.
THUUUUUUNG!
A sound like a giant bell echoed across the training ground.
It was the slime’s strongest strike.
But Paulen received the full impact perfectly.
The title of Paladin, the strongest holy knight in the Holy City, is only granted to those with fitting skill.
‘This is way more powerful than I expected!’
Even Paulen was impressed by the slime’s power.
It had enough force to make even Paulen, who wouldn’t flinch from a normal monster’s attack, feel a momentary numbness in his arm.
‘At this power, even a B-rank monster would be seriously hurt if hit.’
Meanwhile—
‘Huh? What? What just happened?’
Amelia blinked as she stared forward.
The slime’s strongest strike was too fast for her eyes to follow.
So what she saw was simply: the slime vanished, then a heavy thud echoed—
—and suddenly the slime was in front of the large shield.
And the one who had tackled it—
‘Wow! Amazing! So strong! Amazing!’
Boing! Boing!
The slime bounced around Paulen in admiration for blocking its attack.
“What? Why are you so excited? Are you impressed?”
Boing!
The slime bounced in place as if to say yes.
It looked like an awestruck child, and it made Paulen’s heart tickle a little.
“Hahahaha! Jiggly, do you want to become strong like me too?”
‘Yes!’
Boing!
“Then you just have to train every day like I do! If you do, you’ll get strong too! Hmph! Muscles!”
Paulen flexed again, encouraged by the slime’s enthusiasm.
Boing!
‘Muscles!’
Paulen was strong enough to block its attack without a scratch.
Paulen said he became strong through training.
And from what the slime had seen, training led to muscles.
‘I want to grow muscles too!’
A new goal had formed in the slime’s heart.