- Shari -

Well, I'm glad that yesterday passed by without any greater incidents.

Right now I am wearing the new outfit we were granted.

And I need to say, they're comfortable.

None of the pressure points normal clothes have, like around the chest, waist, ass, or legs.

It's as if they're made to remain in the basic form of a human, even if they're just filled with air.

It's effortless to glue them to our bodies and doesn't require the same amount of inner adjusting to get into the right shapes.

Even the chest piece is far lighter than I would've expected a plate mail to be.

It only adds to the stability of the form.

It's more than obvious that they're custom-made for us to use, just as the swords are.

I can't even imagine how she framed the order for the master craftsmen.

I'm quite sure she didn't say: "Make loose clothes for two slimes to comfortably shape their bodies inside."

By the way, I also tried the new blades.

Different from the daggers, they're more confrontative weapons.

The kind you use to openly battle someone, instead of avoiding a hit and waiting for an opening to stab a weak point.

And what can I say, they work.

By guiding my slime inside the holes I can form a tendril that's linked to my body.

The strength I'm wielding these weapons with won't increase through this, but it basically turns the swords into living weapons.

I could probably even use the sawblade to actively cut through flesh.

Since they look nice, and have the advantage that they work without outer contact with my matter, I'm wearing them openly around my waist.

That's basically some kind of assignment from the queen.

She wants us to show ourselves before she sends us on this mission so that nobody can claim we don't exist.

We're obviously drawing attention since we look suspicious with our completely covered bodies, but as long as I have the insignia of our order we're basically free to do as we please.

Yet after a while, suddenly a servant comes running.

He seems to be out of breath, but nonetheless, he directly starts to speak.

"Honored... Ladies, the queen wishes to talk with you." (servant)

Seriously?!

How many times has it been just this week?!

It feels like we didn't do anything else recently.

As usual, we find the queen waiting for us inside her chambers in the private wing of the royals.

"Good morning. Why were we called?" (Shari)

"One of the maids didn't end her shift yesterday, and even today she is nowhere to be found. While it isn’t about an influential character, it's an issue that it happened within the palace. It might be a case of murder and, as such, has to be investigated." (Serenia)

"Why are you telling us this?" (Shari)

I don't like the tone of that and what it implies.

"Because there's a missing person case in the palace which should be quite difficult to achieve, given the current security measures. Yet a corpse is nowhere to be found. Of course, it is possible that either the maid somehow managed to sneak past all the checkpoints or the body was disposed of by utilizing a gap in measures I'm not aware of. Yet the possibility I'm most afraid of remains. Since there's no harm in asking a simple question I will just do so. Do you know anything about the fate of this maid?" (Serenia)

Is she for real?

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Asking me if we're snatching the servants as snacks when no one is looking?

"What?! Absolutely not! I don't eat humans and..." (Shari)

"Uh, that might be the one I dissolved yesterday." (Liqu)

The queen's eye twitches.

Mine too.

To be precise, my whole slime body quivers.

Just what did she say just now?

"Liqu..." (Shari)

I'm startled to my core.

She was quite well-behaved recently, so I forgot how she can be.

But now this!?!

What should I say here?

This situation is just overwhelming.

Before I can make up my mind and speak, the queen raises her hand, signaling that she's claiming the right to speak.

"For what reason did you do it?" (Serenia)

"I didn't like her." (Liqu)

Another twitch from the queen while I'm not faring any better at the oblivious statement of this slime who's just proving more and more how unpredictable she is.

This isn't good.

After everything we achieved, it's all about to collapse because this slime can't be reasonable!

"Was there any reason why 'you didn't like her'?" (Serenia)

"She said she wanted bad things to happen to Anvenia." (Liqu)

Now she's tilting her head to the side, signaling that she has no idea about the situation.

That's the reason?

Okay, this slime doesn't need much of a reason to kill someone, but I could've sworn that I told her not to do so in this environment.

"Wait, how did she know that the princess is here?" (Shari)

"Uh... I don't know? I just told her that I'm playing with a girl and she started to speak about things that would lead to her death. I didn't like it. Anvenia is nice." (Liqu)

Damn, Liqu.

What other girl, living in the inner palace, could you have been talking about?

How can she fail to understand such obvious things?

"Sigh, ferocious guard dog." (Serenia)

Huh, did she say something?

"And because of this, you dissolved the maid?" (Shari)

"Uh, I was afraid you would be angry with me that I somehow told her this. But now it's becoming a big thing anyways." (Liqu)

Right... I simply forgot that you can't apply common sense to her!

Her periods of being reasonable make this just an even bigger trap to fall into when interacting with her!

Oh, if we survive this I'm going to scold her in a way she won't ever forget!

"You utter imbecile!!!" (Serenia)

Or the queen can do it for me.

"Me?" (Liqu)

"Who else?! You were supposed to avoid contact with anyone in the palace! Half the personnel is already paid by the enemy and you fail to be wary! The conspirators are only waiting for us to act out against the servants. Accusing the servants of high treason would mean calling out all the nobles they are involved with! And we can't completely root them all out since our enemies would declare this an act of tyranny. This is why we decided to retreat and figure out who can be trusted! The only way to solve this is by getting rid of all the heads first before the body can move! Only then can we even think about going for the smaller fish too. They’ll just enlist another spy who'll be just as bad. It wasn't for you to decide to engage them!" (Serenia)

The queen is furious.

Someone who got sabotaged in her carefully laid out plans by a slime acting rogue.

But actually, that's not as bad as it could be.

It's better than being scared or apprehensive.

Fear leads to dangerous decisions.

Anger can stop fuming.

"That's too complicated for me." (Liqu)

The worst answer you could have given.

"Oh, sorry? You're stupid, is that it?! Do you have any idea how many things I have to consider? The risk I'm taking by being involved with you? And you go around devouring maids who are in contact with the enemy! They're going to look into this! Trying to figure out what she knew to end up missing! I don't even want to imagine what they might discover." (Serenia)

"Shari?" (Liqu)

Liqu looks in my direction, pleading for help.

"What do you want to hear from me? You messed up. Badly. Especially how you freely talked to someone when you should've known better." (Shari)

"And you! You know you have to watch out for her! If you're aware of what she might do, then prevent it! We need to be careful now. The situation is dire." (Serenia)

She said, "we".

This means we aren't out yet.

"Fine. I wanted to wait a bit longer, till word about your order could spread and you're fully established. It would've been beneficial for your next mission to avoid squabbles with the authorities. But it seems we don't have that kind of luxury. As it is, the best we can do is to send you away before any investigations can focus on you. The one stroke of light is that there are no traces left to find. There aren't right?" (Serenia)

"No? I completely dissolved the body and got rid of the excess." (Liqu)

"Where?" (Shari)

"Toilet?" (Liqu)

Oh my god,

I think I'm growing nauseous!

She shit her out!

I guess the queen might develop a chronically nervously twitching eye from interacting with this slime.

"That has to be good enough. If anyone would've seen the ordeal it wouldn't be so calm now. Yet the issue still stands. You have to move out to Ekoras as soon as possible. I'll prepare everything for your departure tomorrow morning. You may... say goodbye to Anvenia. She's going to ask questions otherwise." (Serenia)

Wow.

She's still letting the humans-eating monster close to her daughter.

I'm not sure if this can be considered good parenting.