Chapter 11 – The Crystallization of Beauty
<span style="font-weight:400">I shortly exin how I made the story up to stop the man from killing them. Then, I mention my n of creating a safe ce for abused members of races other than Humans to stay. I try to be brief to not overwhelm them with information.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Long story short, I’m not nning to force you into doing anything horrendous.”
<span style="font-weight:400">They both look at me with uncertainty. As expected, it’s not like they haven’t heard any lies in the past. It might take more than a few words to convince them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“By the way. Knowing that you are kinda genderless… is it fine for me to address you as girls? I don’t want to call you ‘it’ and you have this feminine appearance.”
<span style="font-weight:400">They nod in confirmation. I take off my coat. While I’m pondering what more to do or say, I notice a small puff of smoke near the thigh of the Green Slime.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ummm… Could you please… try not melting the sheets?” I try asking as politely as I can.
<span style="font-weight:400">She quickly jumps to her feet, nces over the slightly burned sheets and falls to the floor assuming a sitting-on-the-knees position in front of me, lowering her head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, hey, it’s okay. I’m not angry, ok?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I wave my hands, but it only results in her starting to tremble a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You can’t control it too well right?” She starts to frantically shake her head. “Thought so. It’s okay, idents happen—” Her head is still shaking sideways while I’m speaking.
<span style="font-weight:400">I stop for a moment and think. “No as in you can’t, or no as in no, you can? Nod for the second one.” She stops shaking and nods. “Ah. Then why did it burn?”
<span style="font-weight:400">No reaction. She just stares at the floor.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you perhaps scared or nervous?” I throw a random statement.
<span style="font-weight:400">She nods shyly.
<span style="font-weight:400">I sigh heavily, then stand up. I stop blocking my ss effects and allow them to be released a bit. I wish for its effects to be moderate and rxing or calming instead of fully arousing. Hopefully, this works. Well, I should have released it when I walked out in the public. I have no idea how random women react to the scent mentioned in the title. I might be a bit overcautious. Will it even work on Slimes?
<span style="font-weight:400">Nevertheless, I move closer to the Green Slime and sit down in front of her. She stares at me slightly confused and still expecting me to hit her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Listen. I really do not want to hurt you. I know it’s hard to believe, but please, trust me.” I do my best to sound affectionate.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I remember reading that your cores are fragile and delicate, while your bodies are highly resistant to any physical harm. But… do you still feel pain when it’s damaged?”
<span style="font-weight:400">A confirmation.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. Can you actually feel, like pressure or the touch, with it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She nods and at the same time waves her hand in the third sign we set.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t think it’s maybe or perhaps… a bit then?”
<span style="font-weight:400">A confirmation.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You must have been in a lot of pain at that idiot''s ce then…” I say with a sad sigh.
<span style="font-weight:400">At this point, the Blue Slime slowly sits on the side of the green one and we all end up on the floor. It looks a bit less scared of me than the other one.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So, umm… Yeah. You can live here now. I’ll take care of you. No more pain and abuse, okay?” I say while looking straight at them. “Speaking of which, what do you eat? You do have to eat, right?”
<span style="font-weight:400">They tilt their heads and then shake their hands.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I don’t know what they fed you back there, but if you have something you like and you notice it here, please tell me. I don’t think I’ll be able to hunt game or monsters though.” Iugh awkwardly and they nod with a bit more energy. “How long have you stayed there?”
<span style="font-weight:400">The blue one shows a number of her fingers on one hand. Nothing unusual, besides the fact that she shows eight of them…
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eight years? That long?” She nods. “Damn…”
I take a nce at her figures.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That reminds me, you have eaten Humans before, right?”
<span style="font-weight:400">They look at each other, drop their gazes and nod with uncertainty.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t worry, I’m not ming you. Can you tell me how many?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Both of them show one finger.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah. It’s the girls you look like now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Bingo.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. Did you attack them?” They shake their heads. “They attacked you then?”
<span style="font-weight:400">A nod.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nothing you could have done about that I guess…” I lean back and support myself with my arms. “It would be so much easier if you were the ones who could ask questions…” I say slightly dejected.
<span style="font-weight:400">I look around to figure out something to say.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Can you taste things? Like when you ate their bodies?” They nod. “I would have brought something normal to eat for you, but sorry, I don’t have anything here yet.”
<span style="font-weight:400">They shake their heads, most likely signalling that it’s not necessary. Again silence falls. No longer being able to hold back my curiosity, I blurt out a question.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey… Would it be okay for me to touch one of you?” No response. They just simply look at me. “Figured out not…” I smile wryly.
<span style="font-weight:400">But to my surprise, the blue girl draws a bit closer to me. I look at her and she nods. She slowly reaches out for my hand and ces it over her belly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Woah… It’s so smooth… and slightly cold.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I gently move my hand grazing over her tummy and enjoy the smooth and springy sensation. It’s nothing like I ever experienced. The closest thing I can think of is ying with very soft rubber or a slightly cold jelly, but that’s still far from this heavenly sensation. Tracing with my hand to her side I squeeze it a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Can you feel that?” I ask curiously and she shakes her hand. So, at least a bit.
<span style="font-weight:400">I retract my hand and very carefully ce it on her cheek. Then, I gently brush it with my thumb.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You are quite a cutie, you know?” I say with a smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">She closes her eyes, or mimics the action, and pushes her cheek more into my hand. I reach behind her ear and caress her carved hair a bit. My hand switches to the top of her head with me patting it. She starts to visibly wobble. Something like a small ripple is travelling through the surface of her body.
<span style="font-weight:400">The green one also arrives closer to me, and I swear, it looks at me with expectant eyes. Which is hard to judge with them being one colour. I raise my other hand and very slowly approach her. Before I even confirm if she’s okay with it, she pushes her head under it by herself. I end up patting two wobbling Slime girls.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahaha. Does it feel good? I don’t mind doing it for you from now on, you know?” Iugh sincerely at the spectacle in front of me.
<span style="font-weight:400">They start wobbling even more. Now, it’s more like strong waves on the sea. I take back my hands while chuckling to myself. Just now, I notice that their cores are floating in patterns inside their bellies. One is making horizontal circles while going up and down and the other traces a number eight with its path.
<span style="font-weight:400">Slightly in awe, I subconsciously ce my hand over the Green Slime''s stomach and watch the core dance. Suddenly, my hand pierces the membrane and falls inside. I quickly nce at her face to check if I hurt her, but I’m met with a very charming smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">She must have noticed my gaze because the core slowly floats towards my hand. I turn it over and the fist-sized ballnds in my grasp. It’s hot. And pulsating. Waves of heat and mana tickle my hand. I gently brush it with my fingers, to which her whole body starts to vibrate.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, sorry. Did I squeeze it too hard?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I release the core and start slowly pulling out my hand, but she grabs it with both of hers before I finish and shakes her head. The floating ball starts circling my fingers, nudging and grazing them. I catch it again very carefully. My fingers run over some protrusion and I remember the man speaking about his safety rings. I squint my eyes to see it better.
<span style="font-weight:400">The slime’s body bes more transparent. She’s quite a perceptive one.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You can change your opacity too?” I ask and she nods.
<span style="font-weight:400">In a few seconds, she bes fully opaque, like a green statue. A momentter, her slime is barely visible; just a weak greenish tint. She then goes back to being somewhere in between. I smile at her and pull my arm back.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Would it be possible for you to move your core close to the edge and stick it out a bit?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She hesitates for a moment butplies with my request. I can now clearly see the ring with some runes on it on the half-out core.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m going to touch it for a moment, okay?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing her nod, I trace my fingers over the essory. Thanks to all the lessons from Cornelia, I can easily confirm that the man was telling the truth about its ability. I start injecting my mana into its circuits and after a few seconds, it breaks with a faint crack. It’s not some kind of a high tier artefact.
<span style="font-weight:400">I gently remove the two pieces from her body. “We don’t need that here. Feeling better now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She takes back her core inside and spins it around a bit. With a euphoric expression, she jumps at the other girl and starts hugging her while wobbling up and down. The Blue Slime tries to peel her off but manages to only deform her body in weird angles. She makes enough space to see me again.
<span style="font-weight:400">In an instant, she literallyunches her core out of her body, straight my way. With an utterly shocked expression, I frantically catch it with both hands and cover it with my own body to assure that it won’t drop onto the ground. In the meanwhile, her slime stters onto the green girl and the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey! Don’t surprise me like that! What if I didn’t catch it!” I speak to the orb in my hands. “Besides! Doesn’t that hurt your body?”
<span style="font-weight:400">The other girl imitates a giggling motion and signs ‘a bit’. I release a sigh at her carelessness. Then, I repeat the procedure with the ring. After breaking it, I ce the core back in the puddle of blue slime and she slowly reforms back.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You really scared me, you know?” I say while rubbing my forehead. “I guess you are a bit less nervous now, huh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">They both nod enthusiastically.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s great.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I stand up and so do they. I give them a few more pats. Then I freeze.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wait. I never asked about your names. Do you actually have them?” I ask.
<span style="font-weight:400">They tilt their heads, look at each other and shake them sideways.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Huh. It would be much easier for me if you did. Do you mind if I give you them? It doesn’t have to be forever, just as long as you stay here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">They nod even more vigorously.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Okay… Hmmm…” I ponder for a moment.
<span style="font-weight:400">「<i><span style="font-weight:400">Should I just name them after some of my favourite characters? Or should Ie up with something original...</i><span style="font-weight:400">」
<span style="font-weight:400">I nce over them, and suddenly, the phrase ‘crystallization of beauty’ appears in my mind when I think about their beautiful, semi-transparent bodies. When they be more opaque, it’s like they are carved from a huge gem.
<span style="font-weight:400">「<i><span style="font-weight:400">A gem… A crystal… Hmmmm… Sapphire? Emerald?</i><span style="font-weight:400">」
<span style="font-weight:400">“What do you think about Safi and Emi?” I point at the Blue Slime and then at the green one. “You are like those exquisite and elegant statues made out of emerald and sapphire.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Their cheeks get a bit more opaque. And wide smiles appear on their faces.
<span style="font-weight:400">「<i><span style="font-weight:400">Did I just make a Slime blush?</i><span style="font-weight:400">」
<span style="font-weight:400">Emi starts wobbling and jumps at me with a radiant expression. Her jelly-like body ms against mine like raging sea waves against a breakwater, but thanks to her springy characteristics, I manage not to fall. She starts nuzzling her face against my chest while her core dances happily all around her body.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahaha, easy now, Emi! I’m d you like it.” I embrace her soft and chilly body with one hand and pat her head with the other.
<span style="font-weight:400">Safies closer and tries to peel her off me this time, with a visible pout. Emi shows a smug smile and doesn’t back off. I’m watching as the two of them shift, entangle, stretch and reform. Truly a peculiar sight.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Okay, okay! Enough fighting.” I gently bonk both their heads and they finally release me. “I’m enjoying having fun with you, but I still have a lot to do.”
<span style="font-weight:400">They look at me curiously.
<span style="font-weight:400">“This ce isn’t your typical mansion. I can’t live off my benefactor forever. That’s why, there will be a business here. And I need to prepare a lot of stuff, like hire someone to cook, to clean, to take care of the whole ce, manage clients, and a lot of other stuff.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I list some things, more so I just don’t forget them. They nod along the way.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So yeah. You can stay and live here, but the fact that it will be a brothel at certain times of the day doesn’t change. Ah. But it’s not like you would understand what a brothel is.”
<span style="font-weight:400">While I’m speaking they start nodding with increasing speed. Their faces almost lose their shape.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wait… No way… You know what a brothel is?” I ask incredulously.
<span style="font-weight:400">They nod.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What? Then about procreation?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Another one.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Even the fact that some races do it just for pleasure?”
<span style="font-weight:400">More nodding.
<span style="font-weight:400">“The hell? How do Slimes know about such things?” I voice out my surprise and disbelief. “Wait. Don’t tell me that idiot has assaulted you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">To my relief, they shake their heads. Well, it’s not like they have the particr organs to conduct such acts, but from a lot of news lines back at home, I know that Humans will always find a way to stick their <em>head</em> into anything. And somehow, they are almost always from Florida, huh.
<span style="font-weight:400">“At least. But how then?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Emi starts looking around the room for something to help her with the answer. Safi just stands in front of me with a thinking expression. After a moment, she ps her hands, making a slushy-ppy sound.
<span style="font-weight:400">She moves closer to me and grabs my hand. I look at her curiously. The core in her body starts floating up and stops in her head. She begins pointing at it with one of her hands. I look at her trying to figure out what she means.
<span style="font-weight:400">「<i><span style="font-weight:400">Something about a brain?</i><span style="font-weight:400">」
<span style="font-weight:400">I tilt my head while thinking. Noticing that it’s not working, she uses her other hand to guide mine close to her face and… chomps on it. Although without the biting part. The soft insides of her frosty and jelly mouth surround my fingers.
<span style="font-weight:400">I stare at her munching on my fingers while pointing at her head in confusion. Emi must have realized what her friend tries to do because she walks closer and starts moving her hands from shoulders to knees over the shape of her body.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brain? Body? Eat? Ah! Don’t tell me, you somehow gained this knowledge from the girls in the past?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I finally connect the dots and they start happily jumping up and down.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s unexpected. But don’t worry, I don’t n on forcing you to work like that. In the first ce, it’s not like you have a lot to work with, and I’d rather not have people sticking their dicks in some random ces around yo—”
<span style="font-weight:400">I start feeling the insides of Safi’s mouth change. It gets more textured than smooth, some parts slightly harden, most likely the gums and ‘teeth’, and a freshly formed tongue starts tickling my hand, which is still in there.
<span style="font-weight:400">She nces down and I follow her. And my eyes widen in surprise. On the tips of her previously in and round breasts, slightly darker and more opaque nipples formed, even with ares.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahaha... How many times are you two going to amaze me today...”
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking at her stomach, I notice a cute belly button forming. Slightly lower, in her translucent underbelly, I can almost clearly see a female reproductive system taking shape. Up from the ovaries to the very vaginal canal and its ending. And also part of the rectum behind.
<span style="font-weight:400">I gulp audibly. It’s kinda getting even hotter in this room. If there were any doubts before, right now, in front of me is standing a ‘real’ slime girl. With the emphasis on girl. A very charming, slightly chubby, sapphire-coloured semi-transparent girl. Which is currently joyfully licking my fingers all over.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ummm… I did not know… that you can mimic to this extent…”
<span style="font-weight:400">I sh her an awkward smile, trying not to stare at her naked body. Well, she was naked all the time, but now, it rose to another level. She finally stops ying with my fingers. Pulling my hand back, I see strings of some liquid. It’s a bit chilly.
<span style="font-weight:400">Safi steps even closer to me and pushes her bouncy chest against mine. Even through the vest, I can faintly sense her hard nipples, alongside the cool sensation of her jittery boobs. She looks at me from up close with her big eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">I shake my head to clear all the indecent images that fill my mind. I’ve seen too much Slime action back at home. I can already feel my pants getting tighter with every passing second. As if noticing it, she looks down andys her hand on my crotch. A frosty breeze envelops myher regions.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oooooohohoh…” Chills run through my whole body. “I’m d that you now trust me a little more, but you don’t have to prove your ability to do those things.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I ce my hands on her shoulders and start slowly putting some distance between us while my gaze is fixated on her enchanting blueish lips.
<span style="font-weight:400">[It’s okay if it’s for Master.]
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you, but that’s going a bit too fas—… Excuse me?” I start blinking totally dumbfounded.
<span style="font-weight:400">「<i><span style="font-weight:400">Did I just… understand her? But… I swear there was no sound...</i><span style="font-weight:400">」
<span style="font-weight:400">She tilts her head, and this time, I clearly catch her lips and tongue moving.
<span style="font-weight:400">[Master?]
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ha. Hahaha. Hahahahah!” I burst intoughter due to a sudden realization. “What the hell! I can read from lip movement? Why does it not say so in the Linguist skill! Goddammit, hahahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">I calm myself down and wipe the tears off my eyes. “This would have been so much easier! Hey, Safi, can you try saying something longer?” I ask and focus on her mouth.
<span style="font-weight:400">[I don’t know what I should say, Master. Ummm… Thank you for taking off the rings? They really hurt.]
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahaha, so it truly works! And I’m happy I could help. Emi, can you try doing the same thing like her?” I turn to the Green Slime, which has been standing near us.
<span style="font-weight:400">She opens and closes her mouth, but I can’t get any read from it. In the first ce, she is still in her less detailed, in form. Maybe that’s the reason I noticed only now?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh well, it really will help to talk with you girls. But… could you please remove your womanly parts for now? It’s quite easy for me to get distracted, haha.”
<span style="font-weight:400">[I’m afraid I can’t, Master.] Her lips move to answer my question.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What? Why? Didn’t you just form them to show me?”
<span style="font-weight:400">[Yes, but it happened because I advanced a stage. I can’t change it back now.]
<span style="font-weight:400">“Advanced a stage? Wait, as you evolved just now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">[Not exactly. We have to go through a few smaller stages before we can further evolve. I just crossed one.]
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, okay, but why now?”
<span style="font-weight:400">[Most likely it’s thanks to the energy Master leaked to my core when taking off the ring.]
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. So why does Emi not advance?” I look curiously at the other girl who assumes a sad expression. Safi pokes me and I turn back.
<span style="font-weight:400">[I think I was already close to it. She might need a bit more time.]
<span style="font-weight:400">I step closer to the dejected girl and rub her head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t worry. There’s no rush. Just make Safi trante for you for the time being. You couldmunicate somehow before, right?” I again look at the blue girl.
<span style="font-weight:400">[Yes, naturally we can since we are both Slimes.] She smiles.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Great. Oh, and I better find you some clothes. Actually... Safi, can you make yourself opaque to hide all the insides?”
<span style="font-weight:400">She nods and turns fully sapphire, but… she now looks even more erotic due to all her curves up and down there. She is now just almost like a normal Human but with blue skin.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Okaaaaaaaaaaay, that didn’t work… You can go back to your usual self if it strains you to keep this up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">[Understood, Master.] She turns back to being translucent.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why Master? I took off the rings, you are free now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">[Because Master is Master?] She tilts her head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We’ll work that outter. Anyways, you are free to explore the mansion. Just please, don’t leave it or peek outside the windows, okay?” They both nod. “I’ll go to the town for what I mentioned earlier. I’ll grab something for you to eat on the way back. Then,ter we can talk about your stay here. Got it? Perfect. Let’s—”
<span style="font-weight:400">I feel three knocks somewhere in the back of my head. I squint my eyes in confusion and turn around. Then, I realize it has to be the Notice spell.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Be right back. Someone is at the door.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I quickly walk out of the room and head to the main entrance. I can see a robed figure through the distorted ss in the doors. I push them open.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Morning Al.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh? Cornelia?!”