"Who’s Fileontina?"

I asked straightforwardly.

"Fileontina is my sister, Sistina’s elder sister. She’s the town’s best fortune-teller. She’s quite beautiful, like her sister."

"Sister being kidnapped... What happened?"

"Hah! The fortune-teller’s house was raided! The building is half-destroyed, and Fileontina-sama was taken! There was a note saying she was being used as a sacrifice for the ceremony on the top floor of the Devil’s Tower..."

"What!?"

"A sacrifice!? I can’t believe you’d do that..."

"""!!!"""

The Earth gag I had prepared to lighten the mood was pierced by a killing laser-beam stare.

"Don’t worry about it..."

I shrank in on myself.

"Yabe, you need to reflect."

"I’m sorry."

I got scolded by Irina too.

For Sistina-san, her sister had been kidnapped, so she must be worried sick.

Reflection time.

"We’ll send troops out to the Devil’s Tower right away. We’ll definitely rescue your sister!"

"Please... I beg of you!"

"I’m sorry, Lord Fenberg. This is an emergency. I was planning to drink slowly after this, but I can’t do that now."

"Ah, it seems something terrible has happened. If you need any advice, come to me anytime."

"Thank you."

We shook hands firmly.

"We have a reservation at the best hotel in Tarbarne. Rest well."

"Thank you. I’ll take you up on that."

After leaving the urgent Tarbal house, we headed back to the hotel.

The hotel was very luxurious, and it looked like they had prepared the best rooms for us.

...Of course, the Coluna Frontier Count family was staying in one of them.

As for me, today I was alone.

...I’m not lonely at all!

Today Irina and Sarina were in the same room, and the Frontier Count family was in a spacious luxury suite.

...So I’m definitely not lonely!

Tarbarne is the largest town in the Tarbal territory.

From here, royal capital information should come in quickly.

I had Chick Captain gather information centered on the royal capital from the 10 generals. There should be a report tonight.

I was lucky to have a single room. Before the Chick squad returned, I had something I wanted to do.

That was the slime-style transformation technique Metamorphose (disguise).

During the Labyrinth Stampede suppression in Solenarini, I had absorbed a huge number of monsters, so my swirling energy (magical power) had increased significantly.

As a result, I was able to develop an incredibly wonderful technique. It was named Metamorphose.

Changing the shape of slime cells consumes a lot of swirling energy. In the early days living by the spring, even making myself bigger or smaller consumed a lot. But now that I have plenty of energy in reserve, I can experiment more freely with changing slime cells. The technique I finally completed is Metamorphose. The goal is, of course, "human form." I can’t keep hiding in a robe forever. I might get called "take it off!" any moment (in what kind of situation!?).

Basically, it would be disrespectful not to show your face when meeting important people! And I really don’t want any audience with important people in the first place... But the King summoned me for an audience, so in this country I’m now forced to meet the most important person.

Well, that’s why showing a human form is a very important factor for living in a town. The first time I succeeded was when I shook hands with Zoria, the guild master of Solenarini’s adventurers’ guild, after the Stampede suppression. I imagined my right arm as my entire right tentacle from shoulder to fingertips.

Zoria had seen my slime body during the 8,000 monster slaughter, so she thought the slime body was just a skill and my main body was the human body.

After that, I trained while Irina was asleep at night or in the early morning when I returned to the spring.

The right side was done, so the left side was relatively easy.

Now I can control both hands. Next are feet. Since I need two feet to walk, I created both the right and left feet at the same time.

I sent foot images into the tentacle parts and changed the cells accordingly.

My Derone Mr. II body now had two legs. While training to walk and run in that state, I got caught by Logan and the others and had to shout and run away. It became quite traumatic.

And today...

I finally took off my robe.

The body I had completed was Derone Mr. II.

And I was compressing and amplifying my swirling energy.

I imagined the entire body.

The image was... "Hiroki Yabe" (Yabe Hiroki).

And the body was being built...

"Fuu~!"

The body that had been completed while still naked after removing the robe.

In other words, a mapper. Completely naked.

Of course, no one was in the room. No problem.

This world doesn’t have many mirrors. Even if there are, they’re probably dusty and hard to see clearly.

So I couldn’t check how my own face looked.

"But will I be able to show a human form like this..."

Maintaining the current appearance already consumes quite a bit of swirling energy.

This is training to keep the appearance. If I accumulate the image in the cells through constant practice, I’ll get used to being in this form. Once I reach that point, maintaining it won’t require as much concentration or energy.

"So from now on I have to train to maintain this appearance every day. Since I’m wearing a robe anyway, it doesn’t matter if I’m in Derone Mr. II or Yabe Hiroki form. I’ll be fine either way."

I thought optimistically.

Then I suddenly realized and looked down at my groin.

"..."

Nothing there.

Did the real-life Rion (from other-world stories) also flop like that?

But I’m a slime that controls images.

The time has finally come to revive! My own penis that had been flipped up to my navel!

...Yeah, I exaggerated. My penis wasn’t actually flipped up to my navel! I pumped it up a bit, but it’s fine! Because it’s just an image!

"Revive, my beloved rod!"

BOOOOM!

Finally! Finally! After a month of hardship (lol), my penis that had been flipped up to my navel had revived!

"Fuhahaha! It’s finally revived! I’ve been waiting for you, my beloved rod!"

I struck a Don stance with both hands on my hips.

My perfect image surpassed even the real thing from Earth!

"Wahaha!"

I laughed confidently.

"Yabe, let’s go shopping in town tomorrow..."

Without knocking, the door to the room suddenly opened and Irina came in while chatting.

"..."

"..."

I was standing in a Don stance. My beloved rod was still flipped up to my navel.

And Irina’s gaze shifted from my face, down, and stopped at a certain spot.

"K-Kya~aaaa!!"

Irina screamed and ran out.

Uh... what do I do...?