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Chapter 2 - 2 - Slime Princess ( 1 )

Upon realization that he was born to be bored to death on such an island, he decided to find things to do in the meantime and to not let himself be drawn to the idea of jumping in the sea to never be found again.

At first, he started building sand castles with his hands, but it didn't end with a famous result, especially as the waves would reach the shore and sweep away his constructions.

Of course, he could build whatever he wanted without being bothered if only he made it at the middle of the island, but he didn't want to ruin his only dry rest place by putting wet sand on it, and to be honest, the whole carrying process of water or wet sand was also too bothersome for how little he cared about the end result.

So the next thing he did when he had enough of it was to examinate his only monster and see how a slime that was made of liquid could die, but he was surprised by his recents finding, to the point that he almost wished to write those down on a journal, to also keep him somewhat busy.

As for what he found out ?

It wasn't obvious at first, but after looking for more than thirty minutes at the wiggly slime as if it was some sort of lava lamp, he found out that the creature, in fact, had an invisible core, being it's weakness after he asked more about it to the system.

What was surprising however was that the slime wasn't the only monster with a core, but every monsters had one, and as precised, it was their one and only common weakness and the only way to assure that a monster was dead was to crush it.

The second thing that he found out about the slime, was that it was in fact, not liquid, and it wouldn't die from him poking it as well, which was somewhat of a good news, but to go back on the first matter, it's texture was really strange.

It's whole body was made from the same texture, with it's extern layer which wasn't exactly hard like plastic, but wasn't completely soft either, it was still softer and more malleable than rubber, and despite being cold, it made him think about a single large and firm boob, though it would probably be heavier as there was a core inside of it.

Why probably ? Only because he didn't take the risk to lift it from the ground, and in fact, even though he poked it, he didn't push his fingers further than half an inch as he was scared that it would suddendly pop up.

" .... "

But without the ability to test things further, he was left at his beginning point, where he could only lay down and watch it like a child would watch a lava lamp, falling slowly asleep under the boredom, even with the sun at it's zenith.

And finally, he ended up getting back the hours of sleep that he missed thanks to the sun waking him up earlier.

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When it came to exist, it was already born with knowledge.

As if it was some sort of survival instinct, the creature knew what to do from the start, and even how to survive and protect itself from the predators that would come to end it's life.

It was merely the most basic knowledge, and it didn't know anything complicated besides for the fact that it had to evolve to survive longer, a long and tedious process which will require most of its essence.

But before it could start, the creature which was barely born, could hear and see, and even thought it couldn't comprehend at first what was happening around, slowly, ideas was made one after another inside it's simple mind.

" ..... "

Words that it couldn't comprehend, were emitted from the bipedal creature in front of it, which coincidentally was bound to be its enemy, but couldn't be seen as such.

Its poor knowledge was telling itself in its simple mind, that it was both a prey and a predator, yet, despite that knowledge, there was a feeling of kinship, not that they were the same, but as if they shared a deep bond together, akin to one parents and child would share, and quickly enough, the creature stopped talking and walked away.

The newborn, watching everything on that small plot on land felt a bit hurt, somehow, to be left behind, but then, it watched the process of the one that stopped getting further away.

Lowering itself, the creature that started to build something with its limbs didn't know that it was being watched by something else, or maybe it knew, but itself couldn't know as it could only stare, looking at every construction being washed away by the forces of nature.

Is it building a shelter for it to evolve in peace ?

It couldn't know, but it could tell that the creature was growing annoyed as sometime, it would step back, trying to build it a bit further from the liquid that ruined everything, but even that wouldn't help it as the same result kept repeating over and over, until it came back to itself.

At first, the bipedal sat down and looked intently at itself, showing fascination in it's eyes to the newborn every moves, as if everything it did was important to it, even though it was just going through the process of maturing itself and evolving.

Using it's natural instincts, such a thing was almost second nature, to the point where it could allow itself to be entranced in the moves of the other creature, and after some time, it finally showed a change in behavior, as it approached it's limb from it.

Thinking that it would be the end, as the predator which it couldn't see as such, decided to attack, however, it was greatly surprised, as a gentle touch caressed it.

The extensions of it's limb lightly pressed on it's external shell, as if trying to guide it to the process of maturity, or inquiring about it's current state, and while sometimes, it was afraid that the creature would press too strongly and ruin everything, it would then stop, showing a strong care and fascination towards itself.

And after a bit, as if it had obtained it's answers, or maybe that it grew tired, the creature showed a defenseless state as it layed down on the land below them, steadily looking at it with a smile on its lips.

Sometimes, it would speak to it, though it couldn't understand the words or meaning behind the sounds, it could tell from its tone alone that the creature never meant it any harm unlike what it thought at first.

Yet, slowly, while the creature was taking care of itself as it was going through the hard process of evolution, not leaving its eyes from it, it also slowly fell asleep and soon, the sound of a calm and subtle breath, going through a certain rythm was heard.

That's also when, the newborn thought about it being its caretaker, the only one beside itself on such a small land, and with the bond strenghtening and it's poor ability to think growing as it would develop itself, it thought about it.

The eyes that looked at it with such fascination and care, it didn't want to lose them.

It wanted the creature to keep looking at it the same way, but the process to change had already started and it couldn't go back, so instead, it decided to complete it another way.

To put an end to it earlier, to try and minimize the changes as much as possible, just to not disappoint the other creature, it decided to deviate from it's original evolution road, and to try to go against the natural instincts screaming inside of itself about the inconsiderate risks.

But to do such a thing wasn't easy, and it required even more efforts than it had originally thought, yet, after slowing down the process, accelerating it and taking shortcuts or change opportunities when it was possible, the newborn managed to change it's destiny.

Truly born under the night sky, a magnificent sight to behold, the creature looked down on herself to see if it was successful, and surely, there was a change compared to what she knew.

A smaller body, one without noticable imperfections, and which could be called a success compared to it's previous evolution process and her own desires.

However, upon noticing it, instead of being happy for the result obtained just by herself, she immediately turned her head towards the body of her caretaker laying on the ground, and approaching it slowly, yet awkwardly, she used remnant of knowledge that wasn't considered important for survival, and slowly lifting its upper body, she put his head on top of her newfound thighs, offering herself to be a pillow for the man.

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