“Eat.” As soon as it was pulled out, the slime lady, held in Haus’s hand, conveyed her desire to eat.
Her pair of round, condensed eyes were fixed intently on the three pieces of black bread on the tray.
“Go ahead.” Haus didn’t hesitate, immediately taking a piece of the pre-cut black bread and placing it on the slime lady’s face.
This was prepared for her, after all.
Today, the slime lady had performed a great service.
If she hadn’t acted as armor to protect him, Haus would surely have ended up like Jack when facing that goblin archer.
Watching the slime lady melt like flowing water, envelop the square piece of black bread, and then return to her original round shape, Haus tentatively stretched her body with both hands.
It was springy, with a texture like silicone but a feel closer to jelly.
Her surface was glossy and smooth, seemingly incapable of gathering even a speck of dust.
Haus couldn’t help but feel that this slime lady was different from other slimes.
The green slimes he had hunted earlier were not only dirty-looking but also lacked the softness and malleability of the slime lady.
Was it because of gender differences?
Haus couldn’t figure it out.
But none of that mattered.
Placing the slime lady on the table, Haus began to enjoy the hard, tasteless, and sawdust-like authentic medieval European black bread.
Of course, he wouldn’t bite into it directly.
In this world even a three-year-old knows that bread should be eaten with soup, or you’ll risk breaking your teeth.
Placing a piece of black bread into the still-steaming vegetable soup beside him, Haus took a sip of warm milk first to soothe his throat and stomach.
Hmm, fresh and mellow.
The food on this continent tasted completely different from what he had eaten in his previous life.
Only this cup of hot milk, freshly squeezed from a cow, retained the familiar, pure flavor.
After letting his stomach settle into eating mode, Haus began scooping up the black bread paste with a wooden spoon.
It had been soaked in vegetable soup until soft, mushy, and finally swallowable.
Hmm, a lump.
It was hard to believe that something that looked like rotten wood, felt like rotten wood, and even tasted like rotten wood…
wasn’t actually rotten wood.
Coarse and dry in appearance, bland and astringent in texture, and sour and bitter in taste…
After reluctantly finishing this “standard civilian meal,” Haus, now officially an adventurer, vowed never to order this stuff again.
He had money now; he was going to eat well!
Picking up the half-full cup of hot milk to cleanse his palate, Haus stared at the remaining sip of warm milk a moment later and had a sudden idea: he’d feed it to the slime lady beside him.
By now, the slime lady had already digested that piece of black bread.
Seeing Haus aim the cup toward her, the slime lady “opened” her mouth again.
“Eat.” Slowly pouring the milk down, the milky-white liquid spread across her translucent, aqua-blue body.
Watching the droplets of milk soak into her clear, soft form, some strange and inappropriate images inexplicably flashed through Haus’s mind.
“No, no, no!” Shaking his head vigorously to dispel those unsettling thoughts, Haus tried to distract himself with other ideas.
Right!
He still hadn’t given the slime lady a name!
After all this time, Haus finally remembered that the slime lady, now his contracted monster, still didn’t have a name.
He couldn’t keep calling her “slime lady,” could he?
That would be a bit weird.
After some thought, Haus came up with a name that rolled off the tongue nicely.
“I’ll call you Lilim.” As Haus spoke, he also used the Monster Girl Manual in his mind to convey the thought to the slime lady before him: Lilim would be her name from now on.
“Eat?” The slime…
no, Lilim still responded with “Eat.” No matter what Haus tried to convey to her, she seemed to only know the word “Eat,” using it to respond to everything.
Fortunately, with the help of the manual, Haus could roughly tell that Lilim seemed to accept the name.
At the same time, the floating [Monster Girl Contract Manual] in his mind slowly refreshed.
The slime entry on the first page of the Monster Codex quietly updated.
[Contracted Monster: “slime”] → [Contracted Monster: Lilim (slime)] “Lilim?” “Eat.” Having eaten enough, Haus took off his armor, stained with blood and dirt, then fetched a towel and clothes from the rack, placed them in a basin, and headed for the bathhouse.
He was going to relax properly.
Leaving the room, Haus didn’t notice that Lilim, who had been on the table digesting the last piece of black bread, suddenly hopped lightly off the table and bounced along, quietly following him.
But the door had already been locked by Haus, and the tightly shut panel instantly blocked her path, leaving Lilim stuck right in front of it.
Her watery eyes shifted slightly, and the next moment, she spat out the black bread from her stomach.
The small piece of food flew through the air and landed perfectly back on the plate on the table.
After spitting out the bread, Lilim melted back into a puddle of water.
…
“Ah, so refreshing~.” Soaking in the warm water, Haus stretched out comfortably in the bathtub, enjoying the hot bath as all the fatigue in his body dissipated at that moment.
The hot water service was the thing that most attracted Haus at the Aion Tavern.
Although a single bath cost 5 copper coins, equivalent to a day’s worth of food or half a night’s lodging, Haus didn’t mind at all.
Who could possibly refuse such warmth and relaxation?
Especially since he had just returned from an adventure in the Misty Forest, covered in blood and dirt.
A soak like this felt absolutely amazing!
Wrapped in warmth, his eyelids grew heavy.
Having just survived a life-and-death adventure, both physically and mentally exhausted, Haus leaned back in the bathtub and unknowingly fell into a deep sleep.
He was truly too tired.
In his sleep, a sudden chill gently pressed against his forehead.
This unexpected cold instantly startled Haus awake.
His eyes flew open, and he flung the unknown object off his forehead.
A blue sphere bounced back and forth between two wooden planks, eventually knocking over the screen shielding the bathtub and rebounding right into the tub.
Fortunately, most guests at the Aion Tavern were low-class commoners who usually couldn’t afford to spend copper coins on a hot bath, so the entire bathing area was exceptionally quiet.
And precisely because of this, no one noticed that a monster had quietly infiltrated the bathhouse and even intruded into Haus’s private bathing room.
“Lilim?” Once he realized the unknown creature soaking in the tub was Lilim, Haus lowered his guard.
He grabbed the towel hanging by the tub, shifting from a tense combat stance to an awkward “defensive posture.” Thankfully, no one was around.
After glancing left and right, Haus suddenly remembered something and panicked.
He quickly freed one hand, reached into the tub, and fished out Lilim, who “might dissolve in water.” Good, she hadn’t melted.
Phew~ It seemed slimes didn’t dissolve in water.