“(Damn those guys...)”

As I moved through the forest, I kicked aside a stone lying on the ground. It was this stone's bad time for lying around the path of mine.

Sigh...

If only I could get rid of the irritation in my heart so easily.

But I couldn't, and my mind kept spiraling with pointless thoughts.

Ugh, enough is enough! I need to stop!

It's useless to waste my thoughts on those idiot single-celled organisms!

I should focus on my future now.

“(Hmm?)”

As I thought about it, a question suddenly came to mind.

Wasn't my thinking just now being as if I wasn't a slime?

A chain of memories started coming back to me once I realized this.

Why hadn't I noticed before?

I used to have hands and feet, and my body was much larger. I didn't speak in this crazy language with only "S" and "R" sounds.

I was definitely a human...!

“(Calm down, calm down. Let’s organize what I know. Maybe then I'll understand the reason.)”

Muttering to myself to stay calm, I began to organize my memories.

Starting with my memories as a human.

I lived in a country called India, in the 21st century.

My name was Sarvesh, not this sloppy name, Slake.

I went to university, attended the lectures and on my way home, a car crashed into the sidewalk—and that’s where my memory cuts off.

“(Is this what they call reincarnation...?)”

Since I died and was reborn, it must be reincarnation, but unfortunately, I had lost my memories and recovered them just a moment ago.

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Besides, my memories right after being born as a slime were still hazy.

Whether I reincarnated according to the cycle of reincarnation, or I was transformed into a slime by some mysterious organization, or for some completely different reason, I couldn't tell.

“(Well, what’s more important now is how to survive.)”

I cut off my thoughts, feeling stuck.

Honestly, the reason I became a slime doesn’t really matter right now.

What’s important is the future.

To put it bluntly, being alone in the forest as a slime means I’m on the fast track to becoming food.

I need to figure out how to survive because I don’t want to die in this second life.

Knowing oneself is key, so let’s start by checking my status.

I've checked it many times since becoming a slime, but maybe I’ll find something new now that I’ve regained my past life’s memories.

Species: Rough Stone Slime

Beast Rank: Low [F]

Soul Accumulation Level: 1

Stats:

Health: 5/5

Mana: 1/1

Strength: 1

Toughness: 152

Magical Resistance: 4

Speed: 1

Skills:

Digestive Fluid

Self-Regeneration

Sense of Direction

Cover

Throwing

Unique Skill: Beast Harvest

The stats are still ridiculously skewed.

Everything else is so weak it makes me want to cover my eyes, but my Toughness is outstanding.

Thanks to that, I've come this far without a single injury.

There’s no change in my skills either.

Cover and Throwing were acquired through protecting my comrades and practising throwing stones.

But without any comrades around, expanding my defensive range with Cover is pointless, and with my attack power, throwing stones won’t be effective.

This is troublesome; Digestive Fluid isn’t very useful in combat either, so I should avoid fighting... Huh?

What’s this Unique Skill?

I didn't have this before.

Wait, have I ever checked my unique before...sigh, I’ll check it out for now.

You can see the details by focusing on the corresponding part of the status.

...Looking at this after regaining my memories of Earth, this system seems pretty bizarre.

Being able to see my status just by thinking about it is beyond Earth’s common sense.

Then again, being a slime is already far from common sense.

Yeah, thinking about it won’t get me anywhere.

──Back to the main point. Checking the Unique Skill, let’s see...

Unique Skill Details:

Beast Harvest

[Maximizes harvest amount.]

Hmm... Is this a farming skill?

I would have preferred a combat skill, but in a way, this might be more straightforward.

I’ll avoid fighting as much as possible and live off fruits and such, surviving in this forest through hiding and harvesting!

Defeating enemies could raise my level and make me stronger, but there's no need to be obsessed with strength.

There are plenty of herbivorous monsters, and if I join their ranks, I should be able to survive for a while.

Besides, with Beast Harvest, I might be able to cultivate crops freely.

Aiming for a slow life in the countryside! I will become the farming king! And, make a contract with mighty herbivores then, destroy that pack of slimes!

Muhahah-!

wait-what!! EHhhh!!!

──Such was my plan for my human-slime life, which crumbled just a minute later.