Kagali-san was appalled.
But I know people who have risked their lives to control monsters for revenge.
If taming monsters were that easy, they wouldn’t have any trouble, even if the monsters are hostile.
It may be strange for me to say this since I am the one who is defeating the monsters, but there is a difference between subduing and subjugating.
“We have decided to collect only the ones that purify what it takes into its body, and we proceed with our research.”
“While I was in the middle of researching slime, a man named Kryna-Hark came to me, asking me where I got the information.”
“Now this is where Kryna-Hark comes in.” (Yuna)
The other notebook said that he should have followed the words of Kryna-Hark.
“I had heard the name of Kryna-Hark, but he was too young, so I couldn’t believe it at first, but when I talked to him, I knew immediately that was the real deal.”
“But I couldn’t accept the words of Kryna-Hark suggesting to stop research.”
“Kryna-Hark came to persuade me many times, but after a while, he stopped coming.”
“And, when he came back for the first time in a long time, he handed me a wand and told me to store a large amount of magic power into the wand in case something happened.”
“The wand?” (Mia)
“Wand.” (Kagali)
“You mean, that?” (Yuna)
I can only think of the wand that was in the room where the skeletal corpse was.
In the meantime, I resumed reading.
“Kryna-Hark handed over the wand to me and left, never to appear again.”
The same line was written in the previous notebook.
“And now, several years have passed since Kryna-Hark left.”
“The slime cleans sewage. The completion of our research is near. The question is how much and how big can it clean. We’ll find out by using the large amount of sewage that lies beneath this town.”
Could it be that they were storing sewage in that large cistern?
“And finally we succeed. The slime moves according to our instructions.”
“With this, polluted rivers can be revived. It should be useful in many ways.”
“However, the slime is multiplying beyond our expectations.”
“It takes in dirty water and grows. And not just the dirty water, it absorbs everything.”
“It was not a success. That magic tool was a failure. The slime recognized us, the people, as objects to be purified.”
That means it recognized people as trash.
It may not be wrong for the slime to recognize those who pollute nature as objects of purification.
“My fellow researchers were gobbled up by the slime.”
“We have to stop the slime. The only possibility to stop the slime is to destroy the magic tool we have created. That formula is the source of the misconception. If we destroy the magic tool, there’s a possibility to stop the slime.”
“We tried every way we could to break the magic tool in the slime, but all the magic was absorbed and every weapon was dissolved.”
“Those who were in the laboratory used every means at their disposal to strike at the magic tool inside the slime’s body, but they couldn’t reach it.”
“The slime grew larger and larger, and the magic tool inside the slime’s body moved deeper and deeper out of reach, making the magic tool impossible to break.”
“Doesn’t that magic tool dissolve inside the slime’s body?” (Mia)
“Well, since they’re going to put it in the slime’s body, they had to design it so it won’t happen.” (Kagali)
Kagali-san answers Mia’s question.
“If we make a weapon out of that insoluble material.” (Mia)
“Well, we could have checked, but it might be in an out-of-reach place by now.” (Yuna)
“Besides, it seems that the researchers were absorbed into the body of the slime before they could create such a weapon in the first place.” (Kagali)
Mia closed her mouth as if she was satisfied with our explanation.
“And then the slime started coming through the sewers and attacking people in town.”
“The slime doesn’t stop. It’s swallowing up more and more of the town’s inhabitants.”
“It’s a nightmare. If this is a dream, please wake me up.”
“How stupid.” (Kagali)
“I guess that’s what you get for trying to control monsters.” (Yuna)
“No one can be saved.”
“I, too, was also busy running away.”
“At that time, I was reminded of Kryna-Hark’s words.”
“The wand.”