Monster no Goshujin-sama

03. First Family

Three.

"... yes, human beings are full of crumbs"

I woke up with my own voice.

I was in a dark place. It was like a small cave there.

I can't remember before I fell asleep. What the hell was I doing?

I woke myself up with a heavy head.

Thus, for the first time, I realized that I existed other than myself.

"Ugh, wow."

It was the monster we called Slime who was beside us.

…… Ahhh!?

So I remembered everything.

He screamed, and I sat back with my head covered.

Nevertheless, it goes without saying that there is no point in such a reflection.

Wait for the ruin to come - but I leaned my neck.

……

There's no sign of slime coming at any point.

That's not supposed to happen, though.

For some reason, Slime was standing up for the occasion.

Doesn't mean you haven't noticed me.

"Why..."

And I just grabbed my hands off my head as I said, and I noticed another important thing.

"Is that it? Me, my arm on it?

If I remember correctly, I would have digested one arm into the slime in front of me before I lost my mind.

It should have been a sight often and heavily injured, or worse, not strange to have lost one arm.

But my hand is on it. According to his will, the five fingers moved freely.

On the contrary, even minor injuries are gone.

It's not just the arms.

None of the wounds in his body that were complaining of blunt pain left him.

"Why..."

To answer the question, the slime approached us.

I somehow found out that there was no hostility.

... really, why not?

I was even sure.

In the first place, if I meant to do that in the slime in front of me, I would have melted my whole body while I was unconscious - the rationale came to me, but that was not the fundamental reason I decided that there was no hostility in the slime in front of me.

In a more instinctive part, I was convinced that 'this is not the enemy'.

"Hmm?"

While confused by the inexplicable certainty within me, Slime has stretched several tentacles this way.

My tentacles touched my knee. It felt slicker than I thought, with a slight pain running. Did you scratch it when you held your head in a hurry earlier and got round, there was a small abrasion on your knee.

At the tip of my knee-jerking tentacles, a little white light was born.

"Huh!?

Light painted a complex geometry.

I know it's called the Magic Formation, and I know it's been in different worlds for the past month. The cheat masters used it.

Magic light represents an attribute. White is light. Specialize in exorcism and healing.

When my tentacles were broken, my injuries were completely healed.

If this happens, I can read the circumstances.

"Hey... did you help me?

Ask, but no response. Of course. They're monsters. But whatever you think, this guy was on my side.

On my side, I was once again unsubstantiated.

After being tipped off to this point, my reason was finally figuring things out.

"... oh well"

Like exhalation, I leaked to myself.

"Is this my cheat ability?"

Three hundred of the thousand people who have transferred from different worlds have awakened to cheat abilities.

He that hath and he that hath not. I was wondering what the difference was. Totally, I can tell now that it was an off-target thought.

Maybe seven hundred students just weren't aware of their power.

Like me.

'The ability to bring a monster into the family' is something you can't possibly be aware of by pulling into a safe place.

"... Isn't that great"

In this world, thrown out so abruptly, I was reminded that I needed strength to survive.

Independent, I needed my own strength.

Because humans can't be trusted. They betray. I know that. Because even my classmates, who had lined up their desks, had snapped my abrasions and mocked them.

Survive alone.

This was a force for it.

My fellow human beings are incredible... but a family of monsters could accept me without wonder and disgust. My instincts were telling me that it was okay to do that.

Strange story. But for me, that was natural.

"Regards from now on"

I stroked Slime's body. The twitchy surface was pleasant.

"Uh... you need a name"

Seeing the look of jelly, I improvised and named it.

"You're Lily."

I named a woman somehow.

If you think about it normally, there's no way you could name a creature that doesn't exist of this gender that reminds you of a woman. So for a second, this guy is really a female, and my cheat ability may have guessed her gender.

Whatever.

"Nice to meet you. Please help me survive."

Even though I can't trust a human being, it seems that the deadly part of me that says this to a monster is broken somewhere.

But that doesn't matter. If I can survive, I don't care.

Thus have I gained strength.