Master, I Swear I Didn’t Mean To! - Chapter 124

However, Babel’s plan went awry the moment he injected the accelerator. Of all things, the monster he released happened to be a gigantic mutant slime with paralytic poison, and the instant it was injected, it immediately paralyzed Babel and slipped out beyond the bars.

“P-Please help…”

Quick only when his own life was on the line, Babel barely managed to cast a space securing spell before even his fingertips stiffened, preventing his face from being swallowed by the slime mass, but unfortunately the air supply was woefully insufficient, and he was fated to suffocate to death before long.

And then Eki and Cassius appeared. Babel burst into tears and cried out again.

“U-Ugh, please help me.”

Eki narrowed her eyes. The moment she saw Babel’s face, she understood the situation.

Honestly, she wanted to just leave him like that, but she couldn’t watch someone die in the Thousand Tower, so she approached with a fireball at the ready. However, Cassius stopped her.

“Stand back.”

When Eki looked confused, Cassius frowned and said,

“You’ll ruin your eyes.”

“Huh? …Ah.”

This slime had liquid that melted human clothing. Eki half lidded her eyes and glanced at Babel. Sure enough, his torso, trapped inside the slime in a grotesque posture, was flushed pink.

Eki turned around just like that.

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“I’m telling you, it’s true! By coincidence! I was just passing by! And then the tower suddenly started shaking, so I came to check because I was worried about Eki, and I got caught up with the slime!”

“So you’re saying that in the middle of the night, you just happened to be passing through the empty Pinon Forest, and you happened to enter our tower using an Association seal you just happened to be carrying?”

“Th-That’s…”

It seemed Cassius had no intention of letting Babel off. He grabbed him and started shaking him down thoroughly. Naturally, Babel had no way out and was cornered, and perhaps sensing the danger, he started shrieking even at Cassius.

Eki had no desire to see Babel naked, so she just kept firing fireballs to stop the ever expanding slime. But the fairies who had followed her kept making noise at her side.

【 Looks like Cassius is really angry. He wants to tear that man named Babel limb from limb. 】

【 But why is that man’s reproductive organ so small? It looks like it’s not even half of Cassius’s. 】

【 Tys, I heard somewhere that not all men have reproductive organs of similar size. 】

【 Really? There are so many fascinating things in the world. 】

【 But it’s kind of extreme. At that size, isn’t it smaller than Eki’s quill pen? 】

“Hey, shut it. That’s information I don’t want to know.”

A pen, really. Is that even a reproductive organ? Or is it just… like a tiny bump between his legs, like a wart?

With an uncomfortable expression, Eki fired another ball of flame. Then she finally discovered the core of the gigantic slime and turned to Cassius.

He was still hurling curses at Babel. From what she could catch, it sounded like he was saying he would demand compensation for the damage done to their tower.

‘Well, the tower almost got destroyed because of this slime, so that’s only natural!’

When Babel heard the amount, his face turned stark white, and he suddenly started foaming at the mouth and collapsed.

Cassius didn’t panic. He clicked his tongue and nudged Babel with his foot. Of course, Babel didn’t get up.

“Master, just leave him. He must’ve been really shocked by the slime.”

【 I don’t think it was because of the slime. 】

Venta muttered that, but Eki brushed it off.

“Eki, I told you not to look this way.”

“Eh. It’s fine. It’s far enough that I can’t see. More importantly, I found the core. Should I destroy it right away?”

“Wait.”

Cassius summoned a rope and tightly bound Babel’s body so that not a scrap of flesh was visible, then tied it firmly. If it was tied that tightly, it seemed like blood wouldn’t circulate. Would he be okay?

Eki glanced at Babel, then turned away because the sight of his collapsed face, eyes not even closed, was too grotesque.

Her gaze landed on her master’s face. Ah. Seeing those beautiful features made the weight on her chest melt away at once.