Warning: A slime is off its designated floor.

The Admin frowned, glaring at the notification.

“What happened?” Emmy asked, watching him from where she was snipping lengths of wire.

“Nothing, just a slime,” he said, waving the notification away.

She looked concerned. “What about a slime?”

“One escaped. I…” He sighed. “I’ll be back in ten minutes.”

She nodded, focusing on her wire again. He teleported to his office.

The problem with having a monster that could slowly dissolve anything was they could also dissolve the ground beneath them. He’d made the ground on slime floors acid-proof after the first dozen or so times a slime had fallen into the floor below them, but on occasion one still broke through.

He summoned an iced coffee, scanning the floors for a massive hole somewhere.

There weren’t any.

He sat forwards, scanning for small holes.

None.

Wondering if the warning had been a mistake, he scanned all floors for slimes.

There was a tiny slime on Floor 93. It was in the general store.

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He pulled up a video and watched as Kimi and Y poked it with various objects. They fed it, fully aware it was alive. The slime twitched every time they spoke, moving towards the sound.

The Admin was about to decide this was fine when they pulled four vials out of their inventories, each containing a tiny slime. Wonderful; they had one of each subtype.

“Nope.” He pulled them and the slimes into the Void and joined them.

Kimi grinned at him. “Hi!”

Y bowed slightly. “Hello.”

“What are you doing?” the Admin asked flatly.

Kimi snickered. “Well, we were trying to see if the slimes were a liquid, and then we were going to see what would happen if we put one into the misting device, but then we realized they’re sentient.”

“Putting a sentient creature into a misting device would be unethical,” Y continued seamlessly. “There’s also the possibility that turning the slime to mist would cause each droplet to become a sentient slime, with the capacity to grow unendingly, which would be bad.”

“Mostly because Nikki would murder us.”

“So we were trying to determine what about the slime made it sentient, and how it-“

“Please stop,” the Admin said. “Just… Slimes belong on the slime floors. Can you keep them there? Please?”

“Sure.”

“Certainly.”

The Admin looked at Kimi’s grin and the complete lack of emotion on Y’s face. “Actually, no, could you leave the slimes alone?”

“Sure.”

“Certainly.”

The Admin glared at them. “Whatever you’re thinking, don’t do it,” he warned.

Y glanced at Kimi. “But I-“

She elbowed him in the ribs. “We promise to not do anything slime-related in the future.”

“Except fight them when we need to pass through their floors,” Y added.

“Thank you,” the Admin said. “Good-bye.” He sent them back to Floor 93 before they could ask about technicalities.

Sighing, he looked at the slimes. Maybe he should let them play with the slimes. They’d undoubtedly figure out something interes-

He shook his head, clearing out the insanity. After sending the slimes to Floor 95 where they belonged, he teleported back to Emmy’s place.