Ch 52 – Braun’s Slice of Life Adventures With a Slime

"Well, I guess here we are bud," Braun said, the pouch of coins in his right arm disappearing into his pocket dimension after paying the fee to enter the kingdom to the guards guarding the gates outside.

*Squirms*

Glancing around the Kingdom of Laeborg with curious eyes, Braun walks around the path made of smooth stone that was nice to walk on, many trainers roam around with their monsters either in their card form or their monster form.

From wolves walking behind their trainers to birds on top of people's shoulders, whether they be native or a player, anyone could be a monster trainer as long as you have a monster card and has captured a monster.

Feeling the slime on his head looking around like a curious newborn child, his sense of hearing enhances to a ridiculous degree that he was able to hear all of the people around him in a few hundred meters and process all of their words without problem.

"Coffee is better than your tea!"

"No! Tea is better than coffee!"

"Did you hear, rumors were roaming around that Elizabeth is planning to come here after her business in the Luzar Kingdom down south? I heard that she captured an Ice Dragon to add to her Ice Monsters."

'Luzar? A kingdom down on the southernmost parts of the Eastern Continent sitting right beside an Icy Mountain, a great place for Ice Monsters to reside. Elizabeth the Ice Princess, a fearsome ice monster trainer in the Eastern Continent and have a fearsome Level 6 Ice Titan and Level 7 Ice Elemental. Hmm, I lack info in regards to the recent events in Luzar but considering winter is around in a few months, an Ice Dragon appearing isn't that far-fetched.' Braun concludes, a plan easily forming in his mind while a map forms in his mind using his ESP.

'The monster store is right around this corner.' Braun thought, glancing at the crowdy street in front of him where trainers of all sizes and fashions were running around, some were even fighting against one another in the open with their monsters, quite barbaric for what was supposed to be residents of the modern world they previously reside in.

Teleporting his body directly in front of the monster store without anyone else noticing, he puts his right hand on the metallic doorknob of the birch door and opened it with a weak push considering his absurd physical body.

Hearing the chimes of the bells prop behind the light yellow birch door, he walks through it to see what is supposed to be a general monster store.

'Healing sprays, foods for your monsters, monster cards, some refreshments, this is more modern than I initially thought.' Entering the monster store, he was greeted by a relatively fine establishment, the smell of monster food and medicine wafting through the air directly onto his supernatural senses and takes it all in, the chemical composition of the items within the store being analyzed and remade in his mind, his knowledge expanding once more to a ridiculous degree.

'Monster Cards, 10 silver coins each, a bit expensive and this is only the normal one, but it wouldn't be a problem later on.' Braun thought, grabbing 10 from the shelf holding the cards and bringing them back to the counter where a young man with disheveled brown hair, and lifeless brown eyes, wearing the uniform for the store, he seems to be a young man feeling the harsh society as a 9-5 worker.

Paying no heed to his depressing aura, Braun takes out a gold coin from his pocket and put the 10 cards onto the counter.

"So, you a player or a native?" Braun said out of nowhere while the cashier takes his gold coin.

"You a player?" the cashier inquires.

"Uh-huh, what about you?" Braun adds.

"… I don't want to talk about it," the cashier said while dropping his head low.

'Regret, sadness, anger, low self-esteem, his heart skipped a beat, so a player whose hopes and dreams were shattered, now stuck in this self-deprecating job.' Braun formulated a story in his mind in mere moments.

"So, you lost all your money or something?" Braun said.

"Yeah, now I have to work here for a few months to repay my debt, tsk, I advise you to stay away from any loan sharks even in this world, you don't want to be something like me any time soon," the cashier said while shaking his head in disappointment.

"How much was the debt anyway?" Braun asks, intrigued and curious about the man's past.

"100 gold,"

"Oh…" Braun said with a nonchalant voice.

As the cashier puts the gold coin back in storage, he gives back the 10 monster cards to Braun and watches him leave, back to loneliness and depression for him.

But out of nowhere, the man felt something bump into his shoe and looks down to see what it was, but his eyes soon widens in shock upon seeing something… shiny, something that made his heart halt for a split moment.

'A-a-a-A PLATINUM COIN?!'

As Braun walks out of the store with both of his hands in his pockets, he felt the swirl of victory gathering around him and the cashier inside the store like clockwork, the hidden laws of victory being shown to him clearly but controlling it is a whole 'nother deal he will have to take care of later.

'Hey buddy, you want to enter the card now or later?' Braun asked the slime telepathically while walking down the open street once more, his eyes darting around from one place to another like a hungry snake devouring knowledge.

'Yes!' the slime responds with a child-like voice, full of androgyny and its voice wobbly.

'Well hop right in!' Braun said, taking out one of his cards from his pocket and putting it above his head where Slime touched it with a tendril of blue slime, upon contact, the card shines a bright white light and he felt the weight on his head disappearing.

Retracting back his hand to his face, he sees the blank white card now having an oval-shaped gold outline on one of its sides and the avatar of his slime showing its blue spherical body as a still image.

Tugging at the mental connection he now holds with the slime and card, it flashes a white light once more and finds his slime on top of his hair once more, pressing on his head like a cold, slimy water balloon.

As he felt 2 blue tendrils cover his eyes, he just shakes his head and lets the slime do whatever it wants considering he needs to form a bond with it and induce a Deus Ex Machina event and gain an absurd ability once more.

Walking forward with covered eyes, the slime wriggles around in excitement when he sees its master avoiding everyone else without looking at them.

'M-master! Do you hab third eye hiding from me?' the slime asked like a child.

'Hehehe, I don't have a third eye but something better!' Braun said like a big brother impressing his little brother.

'What is it! What is it!'

'It's called Extrasensory Perception, it means I could see everywhere else with my eyes closed.' Braun explains to the child-like slime.

'Oooohh! It means master has an eye that can see everything like me!' the slime said, its body squirming around while Braun continues to walk forward, to keep fighting on!

'So, you want any food to eat right now?' Braun inquires, considering Slimes don't need to eat, he just wants to know if his Slime wants to enjoy a delicious treat.

'What is that?' Slime asked, its slimy tendrils pointing at the young girl in the distance eating a cone of ice cream.

'Oh, that? That's ice cream, you want it?' Braun asked with a small smile.

'Yes!' Slime shouts, its body squirming around as if saying Braun to hurry up.

'Okay okay.' Braun said with a smile, his senses exploding into hundreds of meters and he clearly sees an ice cream shop in the distance, not surprising even in this medieval fantasy world considering supernatural abilities and monsters exist along with adventurers.

Walking towards it with his eyes still covered by the slime on top of his head, he hums a tune in his mind to entertain the slime whose body bobs up and down to the rhythm.

'Master, what are the sounds you are making?' the slime inquires, intrigued at the concept of music.

'It's called music, a form of entertainment produced by many sentient races across multiple realities if they do have the ability to hear, and a song is a musical composition consisting of many elements that you're too young to understand, maybe I'll teach you more later.' Braun said while the people around Braun looks at him, impressed at his capability to walk clearly without sight.

'Then are you uh… songing a song?' the slime.

'It's not songing, it's singing. And yes, I'm singing a song, it's called Marionette, composed by me.' Braun said, stopping his movement as he felt the earth shake in a certain way, and after calculating its source and its movements, his mind formulates a plan once more for a Deus Ex Machina event.

'Wow, the song is so good master!' the slime squirms, its body bobbing to all sides while Braun continues to walk forwards without obstruction, and within a few seconds, Braun stands in front of the ice cream shop and walks inside.

Hearing the sound of bells chiming once more, Braun enters with closed eyes and senses the area around him clearly, as if he was looking through a pair of all-seeing eyes.

Walking up to the freezer made by using what was called an Ice Crystal, he telepathically communicates with his slime to ask what it wants.

'You want chocolate? Vanilla? Strawberry?' Braun lists out some flavors for the slime to pick.

'Blueberry!' the slime shouts as its slimy tendrils point at the blueberry ice cream inside the freezer.

'Sure, I'll have chocolate for myself.' Braun said, picking both flavors and standing up with a slight creak from the wooden floor below him, the soundwaves rebounding from the walls to objects and back into his ear, his echolocation showing a new view of the area around him.

'So that's how the Ice Crystal works.' Braun thought, the air around his right arm getting colder through replicating the Ice Crystal with Psychic Force Manipulation.

Deactivating his ability, he turns his head around to the young woman over the counter and walks up to her with silent steps.

"Hello, 1 chocolate and 1 blueberry ice cream please," Braun said as he takes out 2 silver coins from his pocket dimension after putting his right hand in his pants' pocket.

Grabbing the silver coins, the cashier put them inside the drawer and nodded at him.

Walking out of the store after buying the 2 ice cream cones, he unpacks the blueberry one and gives it to the slime who squirms in excitement, watching its blue tendrils grab ahold of the ice cream cone, a new tendril forms that touch the ice cream itself.

'It's so tasty and cold!' the slime shouts in his mind, its body wriggling around while it hastily ate more of the ice cream.

'You love it?' Braun asked while opening his own.

'I love it!' the slime shouts as it ate more and more of the blue ice cream.

Chuckling, Braun puts the ice cream into his own mouth and was greeted by the familiar taste of ice cream. The contents and chemicals used to make the ice cream are analyzed through his tongue and straight into his mind as pure data.

'Oh, they're finally here.' Braun thought, hearing the commotion in the distance along with the sound of people murmuring straight into his ear, his supernatural senses grabbing ahold of the sound waves rebounding through the whole kingdom.

And just like that, he looks into the distance and sees the light blue cart of the Ice Princess Elizabeth in the distance, her majestic white steed running through the smooth street while everyone else gets out of her way, trying to not offend her in any way whatsoever.

AN: This is 2055 words, you're welcome.

You guys loving the slime? You guys want it to be with Braun for a long time? Well don't worry because it's going to be with Braun very soon kekekekeke!

Future Author here, I'm already almost done with Volume 5 and Volume 6 would be pretty fucking hard to execute now that I started to outline the volume, it would probably be more than 50 or even more than 100 chapters.

(June 14, 2022 – 192nd day of writing)