Understanding of self is a weird concept, especially so for our friend Mr slime, who was currently sitting atop the head of his only ‘friend’ Lily. His current problem was that since recently he had only the desire to eat anything that would fit in his mouth, but now, there were so many new feelings and desires.
With the limited understanding he had gained, the realisation of that friend Lily was the one who saved him and kept feeding him tasty things. After he had awoken, he found friend lily also asleep, as such the only reasonable action was to find something comfortable and wait for friend lily to give more tasties. Which might have been friend Lily's head.
The other non friends took exception to this, the tall horned one ran to pull him away from friend lilly. The other non friend, a small fellow with a beard and a long stupid stick in his hand. Shouting something that seemed panic as the horned one touched him, which is often frowned upon, even for non slimes.
The liquid covering the slime's body changed, the horned one quickly took back his hand, a lack of hair on his hands but no damage to the skin, a clear threat from the slime.
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It took another hour for the lord to move lily to the couch, the slime not reacting unless hostility was shown to it or lilly.
“Well at least we know the binding rune worked, or she would have already lost her haid” The old man said, dark but true though the lord had to admit.
“You priests and your jokes” he turned to the man, Leo, a high priest that had worked for his family for years. “Can you wake her up, gently as you can”
Leo lifted his hand, mumbling something non legible, the air in the room gained a sweet scent. Lily began to stir, sitting up and wiping her eyes, she looked around the room, confusion clear on her face. Realisation hit and she reached above her head, Mr slime falling down onto her lap with a plop, she smiled and started stroking his head.
“Dad, Mr leo” she looks at the two, a stern look in her eyes “did you hurt Mr slime while I was asleep?” Her horns glowing slightly, Mr slime suddenly bounced at her stomach, calming her down. “I'll calm down,” she said, hugging it closely.
“We didn't lily, It just sat on your head the entire time.” The lord looked at the slime and Lily looked at each other. “How did the contract go? Can you understand it?”
The room went quiet as she looked at her dad “Hes my friend, It isn't like talking, more like i can sense it or feel his intent. Mainly right now he's hungry and happy I'm awake” she looks around the room again and spots the bucket in the hands of her favorite maid. “Meria, may i have that bucket please?”
“Yes, young miss”
Grabbing a stone out, she drops it onto Mr slimes head, quickly falling into its body and starts to dissolve. The slime happily jumping in return, the mana swirling around the jello inside. Grabbing the slime, she walks out of the room, a stone in each pocket and a slime on her head.
“Time for a tour Mr slime”