Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

After recognizing Sally, Grandma Oran began to inquire about Sally's information from the people around her. As she inquired, all of Sally's affairs became known to Grandma Oran. After all, Sally, with half-demon blood, was quite famous in this small town.

However, because Sally's parents were once members of the Adventurers' Guild, although they disliked Sally, they didn't do much to her out of fear of the kingdom's laws and the Adventurers' Guild. Even those adventurers who initially seized Sally's parents' inheritance only dared to act by using the clumsy excuse that Sally's parents had caused losses to the team during a mission.

At that time, because Sally's parents had already died, leaving behind Sally, a mixed-blood who was seen by everyone as a mongrel and a monster, the Adventurers' Guild and the City Guard didn't say much. After all, a mere monster wasn't worth offending that adventurer team.

As for later, they didn't dare to do anything to Sally openly. After all, the current king of the Falmouth Kingdom was an incredibly benevolent king, and the Adventurers' Guild also cared about their reputation, allowing Sally to beg and wander within the town. Other residents, upon seeing this, would at most verbally abuse and despise Sally.

At that time, Sally, only five years old, relied on the strong vitality of her half-demon bloodline to survive on rotten food from the garbage heap and wild fruits that others didn't want outside the town, until Grandma Oran appeared and brought Sally back to her father's village.

However, even after returning to her father's village, Sally was still disliked by the villagers and isolated by the children in the village because of her half-demon bloodline. Fortunately, with Grandma Oran's care, Sally gradually regained a trace of childlike innocence.

Until a year ago, the elderly Grandma Oran passed away. After Grandma Oran's death, the villagers blamed everything on Sally, who possessed half-demon blood, believing that Grandma Oran had died because of her.

Subsequently, the angry or fearful villagers forcibly dragged Sally out from Grandma Oran's house and expelled her from the village. However, considering Grandma Oran's past care for everyone in the village, the villagers ultimately didn't choose to kill Sally, and allowed her to live in the forest outside the village.

In the year since then, all the villagers had selectively ignored Sally and forbade their children from approaching the forest where Sally lived. Only occasionally, when villagers on the village watchtower intended to kill slimes, would Sally run to stop them and save the slimes.

Because, for Sally, humans would reject her, fear her, and despise her, but slimes, which didn't even have complete intelligence, wouldn't. Moreover, due to the aura of a high-level demon, the demon race, on her body, slimes would even be drawn to her.

The lonely Sally also regarded the slimes as her friends. However, the slimes she had saved in the past would all leave, until she met Lu Minghao, who didn't leave. Sally, who had long endured loneliness, chose to bring Lu Minghao back to her home.

"Slime, why aren't you eating?"

After eating three wild fruits, Sally looked up and realized that the wild fruits placed in front of Lu Minghao hadn't been touched at all. She quickly moved closer to Lu Minghao, her little face full of worry as she asked.

Looking at the sincere worry on the little face so close to her, Lu Minghao felt a stir in his heart. Since his birth, Lu Minghao had only faced demons who wanted to eat him or demons he wanted to eat. Moreover, Lu Minghao saw something similar to himself in Sally.

His previous life was as a human, and this life he was a demon slime. Moreover, Sally in front of him had half-human blood and half-demon blood. There were common similarities between the two of them.

'Anyway, it will take a few days to figure out where this is. Let's just stay here for now.'

Lu Minghao thought for a moment, then looked up at the undisguised concern in the purple pupils in front of him. He didn't speak, but pushed the few wild fruits beside him in front of Sally, indicating that he didn't need them.

After all, during his previous dormancy, Lu Minghao had obtained a large amount of food thanks to the devil fish's frenzied hunting. Besides, he, Lu Minghao, was a mid-level demon, so he wasn't lacking this wild fruit. Sally, whose face was full of a sickly complexion, needed these even more. Moreover, a child of this age was growing, so how could what she ate be enough?

"Slime, are you giving this to me? Thank you!"

Sally looked at the wild fruits that had been pushed in front of her, then looked at Lu Minghao, a big smile appearing on her little face, completely forgetting that she had originally picked these wild fruits. She ate them in big mouthfuls.

At this moment, the setting sun shone through the cracks in the wooden house onto Sally's thin body. Her small face, covered in transparent fruit juice, wore a big smile, and opposite her, a sky-blue slime quietly watched her. At this moment, the whole world seemed to be left with only them.

.....

At night, the huge moon in the sky illuminated the forest. A slime was advancing towards a certain direction in the forest. The silvery-white moonlight was like a thin veil draped over its body. Before long, a rickety, dilapidated wooden house appeared in front of it.

Squeak!

The dilapidated wooden door was pushed open. Sally, curled up on the bed, shrank her body. The cold night wind easily penetrated her thin quilt, taking away what little heat there was. Her small body curled into a ball, her hands tightly wrapped around her chest.

However, a smile hung on her tender little face, as if she was having a good dream.

Pa!

A sky-blue slime jumped off the bed, then directly merged into Lu Minghao's body. After looking around the small house, which could be described as having bare walls, Lu Minghao stretched out his arm, closed the opened wooden door, and jumped to Sally's side.

But even if the door was closed, the thin quilt still couldn't block the continuous cold wind blowing in from the cracks in the wooden house. Even with the strong vitality of her demon bloodline, Sally was still an undernourished little girl under the age of ten.

And the humid climate in the forest and the increasingly cold night wind approaching autumn meant that this young girl with only a thin quilt was very likely to catch a cold.

"Tch!"

After hesitating for a few seconds, Lu Minghao jumped to Sally's side with a 'pa'. Then, the shadows in the wooden house began to twist continuously, completely sealing the drafty cracks and reinforcing the small wooden house.

"I never thought I'd become a body pillow one day."

After muttering a sentence, Lu Minghao gently lay beside Sally's thin body. And whether it was because the cold wind was blocked or because she felt something foreign on her body, Sally subconsciously reached out and touched Lu Minghao, then the smile on her little face became more relaxed, and she directly hugged Lu Minghao in her arms.

Feeling the cold touch from the small hands that were tightly hugging him, Lu Minghao's body began to wriggle little by little, eventually covering the girl completely except for her head. The magic power in his body circulated slowly, raising his body temperature.