Chapter 3: Chapter 1: A new morning.

––––––[Slime's POV]––––––

It "woke up" at sunrise. Looks like it will be sunny again today.

The slime descended from the hole and looked for the plant with the mana again. It went by the entrance it used yesterday and found them still intact. He ate some, and decided to take some more and absorb them. He won't eat them yet, they are just stored within. Maybe it could give some to the girl. Will she be happy?...

...the slime felt weird. It didn't feel like this before. It doesn't know why, but it mustn't be something important.

It went out of the cave and took a walk in the forest, if you can say it like that. It came across the healing herb it took before. There aren't a lot of monsters but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Some were like itself, but they didn't absorb a lot of things like itself. There were stronger monsters too, with some things growing from their head and they had different bodies and textures too. When encountering those creatures, it was a battle to the death for creatures like it, but it always felt their mana waves more easily, so it could avoid encountering those creatures most of the time. But, as a "precaution", like those human said, he took some of that grass and made some healing liquid, and stored it.

...It doesn't know why, but when it recalls the talks between the humans, it couldn't understand what they said before. It could associate words with things, but sentences didn't mean anything to it. But now, it can understand what they said. Like before, something is weird with it. What happened? The only thing it can remember is meeting that girl. But did it change it that much? It couldn't think so. The familiar mana waves was something it though was out of the norm, but it went often at night in the village, so it may have felt her mana waves before and it just so happened that it felt them again here.

It was weird that it didn't feel the same in the village, thought. But it doesn't want to think more about it. it will meet her again anyway. Maybe it will know then?

...Let's just continue.

It went again, and came across more plants but with different mana waves each, some in groups, and some alone. It absorbed some of each, but was full after some time. Maybe it will try to grow its storage space next time. It would helpful.

Hours passed by, and the sun was near its peak. It was nearly time.

Exited, the slime "ran" as fast at it could in the direction to the village. It hopped on rocks, on trees, through grass at its most quick pace. It became pretty agile over the years, but it still couldn't compare to a human child. For the creatures similar to him at its age though, the slime was pretty quick. In mere minutes, it was already outside of the forest. The sun was shining over the green plants in the fields.

What did the humans named this again? Summer?

It didn't know much, but humans split times of "years" by "seasons" and named those. "Seasons" were associated with how high the sun could go in the sky, how much hot or cold the days and nights could be, and with the different "life cycles" of plants and animals in the wild. It always thought humans were a pretty interesting bunch. Hot or cold wasn't really a problem for it, though, so it wasn't really important to it.

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Leaving that thought aside, it found the home of the girl she pointed at yesterday pretty soon, and hid near a wood pile, waiting for the girl to come out. It could feel three mana waves in the house in front of it, with one of them being the girl. Her mana waves were the same, but the slime didn't feel the familiarity it felt yesterday. Maybe it was just a... "fluke"? Yes, that.

So, it waited, and then the sun was at its peak. And the girl came out, some bread in her hand, and walked rapidly and... silently?, in direction to the shack and the pile of wood. Then she stood there, with a little smile on her face, looking like she waited for something.

The slime, seeing this, decided to come out and went next to the girl. It brushed against her leg, and she twitched lightly, before looking below and seeing the slime. Her eyes went wide and her smile grew too.

"Hi! Nice to see you again! Thanks for coming like I asked!"

The slime, seeing her this happy, felt a weird feeling rise up inside. It felt this feeling before only just yesterday too.

What is this feeling called again? Happiness? I wonder...

–––––Author's note–––––

Hi! It's been a long time, huh? Sorry it took so long. I was pretty much in a bad spot. But I found some time to write and not being totally tired at the same time. And here we are! Finally happy(?) with something too. I plan to write more, but it won't be something daily. I also plan to be a bit more sociable, too. It's been a long time since I went on discord...

Haaaaaaaaa....

This is gonna be hard.....

Well, later!

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