The mont a monster acquires a skill, it naturally understands what that skill is.
And the sli imdiately understood the new skill it had acquired.
Detection is an ability that maximizes one’s senses to perceive surrounding presence and terrain.
Normally, it’s too early for a young sli to acquire such a skill.
However, because it had grown with a strong desire to see and feel the world, it was able to obtain it faster than other slis.
The sli, having acquired Detection, used the skill right away.
“Wooooow...!”
The mont it used the skill, the sli was once again moved.
A sensation different from seeing with one’s eyes.
Every sense in the sli’s body was activated, feeding it information about the world around it.
The distribution of countless moss patches, the structure of the cave it was in, and the speed of the dripping water.
It was the most necessary ability for a sli eager to learn more about the world.
Overjoyed to finally know the world it had longed to understand, the sli bounced in place.
[Thread-Lady] Oh my, did sothing good happen again?
▶The way you’re bouncing is just so kawaii (like, seriously cute)!
▶Could it be that you’ve acquired a new skill?
▶Ohh, new skill? Can’t miss that! oo
▶I also got a new skill today
▶What is it?
▶Actually nothing lol;;;
▶Ugh.
▶Aka.
▶Murasaki.
[Squishy Queen] ▶A new skill... Then you must’ve acquired Body Slam! However, just because you’ve learned a skill doesn’t an you can go outside until you’re used to it!
Two people who had been watching the sli, along with one more watching multiple screens, noticed the sli’s behavior.
At first, the sli was so busy expressing its joy that it didn’t properly read the chat and only said what it wanted.
It usually couldn’t focus unless it was a donation ssage.
But this ti, it paid attention to the chat from the start.
▷Skill! I got one!
▶It really was ㅇㅇ
[Thread-Lady] ▶Oh my! Looks like you really got a skill!
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶This ti, you’re watching the ssages properly even without a donation, Squishy.
▶Squishy seems to be growing every day oo
While heartwarming ssages filled the chat, another person joined.
Soone who had been watching the stream the whole ti entered the chat.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶Wtf, can’t you do sothing about getting kicked just for saying the truth?
▶Hello, boor grandpa.
▶This old fossil got kicked again for backseating in the rage channel lololol
▶Lmaoo is this your never-give-up spirit?
▶Honestly, I think he enjoys getting banned oo
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶Tsk tsk tsk. Bragging about getting banned, huh?
[Noblesse Fire] ▶Can’t even complain? This hollow-boned geezer’s going nuts again.
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶My bone density is very high, thank you.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶Bone density? lmao lololol
[Squishy Queen] ▶If you’re just going to chatter, both of you be gone! So! You got a skill? Was it Body Slam?
At the Sli Queen’s question, the sli answered energetically.
▷No!
[Squishy Queen] ▶No?
▷Detection! I got it!
[Squishy Queen] ▶Detection?
'It already got that? Is it possible because it’s intelligent?'
Normally, the first skills young slis acquire are either Jump or Body Slam.
Detection is a skill acquired by slis who’ve gained more experience and need more information to survive.
'As expected, it’s different from the other slis.'
It was unlike the other slis who just followed orders without will of their own.
The Sli Queen imagined a future where this grown-up sli would be her conversation partner, easing each other’s boredom.
—Hehe.
That day was still far off, but she couldn’t help being excited.
'To make that happen...'
She needed to guide this young sli down the right path.
Of course, that didn’t an forcing it to follow her will.
That would make it no different from the others.
So she intended to respect the sli’s will as much as possible.
'But I can only do that if it survives first.'
She planned to give frank advice and opinions when it ca to survival.
Just as she was thinking that—
[Thread-Lady] Huh? Squishy? Are you okay?
▶?????
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ What the—what’s wrong with it?
[Gothic Luxury Bon] ▶ Sothing feels off about this...
The strange atmosphere in the chat window caught the Sli Queen’s attention.
—Wh-what?! What happened already?!
The Sli Queen imdiately looked at the screen.
The sli was trembling.
Not from joy or excitent—sothing seed wrong.
The Sli Queen knew what that trembling ant.
It was the kind of trembling that only appeared when a sli was in serious pain—a rare occurrence.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ What is it?! Why are you in pain?! Tell !
[Noblesse Fire] What? In pain? What did it even do to be in pain?
▷It hurts...
Just as the Sli Queen suspected, the sli was suffering.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Where?! Why does it hurt?!
▷Inside... it hurts...
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Inside?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Do you think it ans its core hurts?
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ Poor baby Squishy, getting sick at this age is too soon.
▶Babies shouldn’t get hurt...
▶Omo omo~
▶Wait but seriously, why is it suddenly hurting? (No clue fr)
The Sli Queen began pondering why the sli was in such pain.
'It hurts inside.'
As one viewer ntioned, slis feel pain when their core is damaged or when their soul is affected.
But there was no one in the cave besides the sli itself.
Which ant—it was likely suffering from sothing it had done to itself.
‘No way!’
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Don’t tell you’ve been using Detection continuously? If so, stop using it imdiately! That should fix it! Hurry!
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Wait, it’s hurting because of Detection?
►????
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Can Detection even cause pain?
▷It huuuurts...
There was no ti to respond to everyone’s doubts.
Thinking the sli might not be able to concentrate on chat because of the pain, the Sli Queen decided to use a donation ssage.
[Squishy Queen has donated 10 coins.]
[ssage: Stop using Detection right now! That will stop the pain!]
Shortly after the Sli Queen’s ssage was sent—
▷It doesn’t hurt! It stopped hurting when I stopped using Detection!
The sli bounced with joy at the disappearance of pain.
[Noblesse Fire] What the, ㅇㅇ it was really hurting from using Detection?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Even that weak side of yours is adorable~.
▶Auntie, don’t you feel embarrassed using words like that?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Say that again and you’re dead.
▶Oof, auntie’s triggered lolol
While so were warmly watching the sli hop around in relief, others in the chat were puzzled.
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ Hmm... Feeling pain from using Detection? That’s... unusual.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ That’s because the Detection skill a sli uses is different from that of other monsters!
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Detection is Detection. What’s different about it?
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Other monsters likely have different organs that receive stimuli.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ But slis feel everything through a single body.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ That’s why, when a sli uses Detection, it feels more and becos more sensitive to everything.
At the word “sensitive” in the Sli Queen’s explanation, a few viewers pounced like hyenas.
▶Ooooh~
▶Just how sensitive???
▶Slis are sensitive... but Sli Queen is even more sensitive... noted...
[Squishy Queen] ▶ What are you taking notes on?! If this were my room, you'd be banned on the spot!
▶Can’t do anything, huh? Not your room, so no bans either? Lololol
▶Heuuung, Squishy Queen-noona’s sensitive body...
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Even if you feel more, does it really have to hurt?
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ That part confuses too.
▶At this rate, isn’t it more of a sunfish than a sli?
Frustrated by the teasing and lack of understanding, the Sli Queen responded.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Think, will you?! The more you concentrate while using Detection, the wider the range you can sense! But you don’t usually expand it too much! And why is that?!
[Noblesse Fire] Because... there’s no real need to?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ You only need to check if the surroundings are safe, after all.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Exactly! But this one—this sli—is a bundle of curiosity!
[Squishy Queen] ▶ It doesn’t even realize the danger and wants to go outside, and now that it can learn more about the world using Detection, what do you think it did?!
As the Sli Queen explained in more detail, the viewers in the chat finally started to understand.
There is no such thing as useless information for a sli.
Rather, if it can expand its focus, it can learn more about the world even without seeing it directly.
That’s why the sli didn’t limit its range—instead, it expanded it to the maximum.
Unlike other species, which process information through specific organs, the sli receives information through its entire body, so it absorbs much more.
The wider the Detection range grew, the more overwhelming the influx of information beca, and the small sli’s body couldn’t handle it, resulting in pain.
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ Squishy, how much did you learn using Detection?
The dragon asked the sli, who was happily celebrating the end of its pain.
▷The cave! I learned about the cave! I'm happy!
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ I see. Then when did the pain start?
▷I was happy to learn about the cave! I wanted to learn more! I wanted to know about outside the cave too! But I can't go out yet!
▷So I tried to learn about outside the cave! That’s when it hurt!
In short—
Because it couldn’t leave the cave, the sli had tried to expand its Detection range beyond the cave, and that’s what caused the problem.
▶ㅇㅇ So it was pain from using Detection.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Tch, even if you don’t know anything, don’t most people stop when it starts to hurt?
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ It likely didn’t realize Detection was the cause.
▶Goo goo, I’m a baby sli! It hurts, but I don’t know! I won’t stop using Detection!
Then, the troll popped into the chat.
▶Wait, what? Did Squishy almost die?
▶ㅇㅇ Nearly died from using Detection too much.
[Free Spirit] ▶ Lmaooo Squishy always brings unexpected fun.
▶Unexpected fun → lets your guard down → dies ㅇㅇ
▶Troll’s personality = trash lolol
[Squishy Queen] ▶ What’s so funny about this?!
‘I was worried sick!’
As the Sli Queen let out a deep sigh—
The sli typed into the chat.
▷ Curious! I’m curious! Squishy Queen, I’m curious!
‘Huh?’
Could it be? It really was a ssage directly addressing her nickna.
‘You’re curious about ?’
Hearing that the sli had curiosity toward her made the Sli Queen’s lips curl upward in a smile.
It had directly chosen to speak to her, and no one else.
‘So, you think I’m reliable, huh!’
Deep down, the Sli Queen had been bothered by the sli responding more to the troll than to her.
But that slight annoyance was completely wiped away the mont the sli addressed her directly.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ All right! What are you curious about? Ask anything!
▶My three sizes are a secret ♡
▶Because the sli’s a newbie, it’s chaos in here.
▶Fresh and chaotic—I actually like it.
▷ When can I go outside? I want to go! I want to learn more! Do I need to grow more? How much?
The sli’s questions made the Sli Queen even happier.
Because it had chosen her, not the troll.
‘Hmph! Look at that, troll! You only said what was expected from one of its kind! But in the end, it’s that the sli turns to!’
The truth was, the sli had just clicked the most recent visible nickna, but the Sli Queen had no way of knowing that.
In any case, she smiled and answered the sli’s question.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ So you’re eager to go out, huh? But you mustn’t rush. You’ve learned Detection, right?
▷Yeah! I learned it! But it hurts when I use it...
[Squishy Queen] ▶ That’s because you’re using it too broadly. If you only use it within the range you did the first ti, it won’t hurt.
▷Really?
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Really. And before you leave the cave, make sure you can at least use Body Slam proficiently.
Body Slam—the most powerful weapon available to an ordinary sli.
Just being able to perform it significantly increased one’s survival rate.
‘If it were up to , I’d let it access the Coin Shop right away and get...’
One of the features of the system—
The Coin Shop.
Coins could be earned when a monster grew significantly, defeated an enemy, or took down another monster carrying coins.
Once a certain amount of coins has been accumulated, the system unlocks the shop feature.
In the shop, one can purchase food, a once-a-day healing item, and skills that the monster’s species can learn.
If the Sli Queen were to donate enough coins to unlock the shop, the sli could imdiately acquire multiple skills.
However, the Sli Queen believed that she shouldn’t do that.
‘Just one skill—Detection—was enough to cause this whole ss.’
The sli still couldn’t distinguish what was dangerous and what it shouldn’t do.
At the very least, until it developed a proper sense of safety, the Sli Queen believed she must not allow access to the shop.
▷Body Slam! How do I use it?
Just as the Sli Queen was about to advise it to try slamming into the cave wall—
▶[User “Just Slam First” has donated 10 coins.]
▶[ssage: Ti for this Body Slam master to step in.]
A viewer who had left earlier, much like the troll, jumped back into the chat with confidence.
The nickna “Just Slam First” proudly declared:
▶Who’s this guy?
[Just Slam First]▶ I’m a grandmaster of Body Slam techniques.
▶Yeah, he’s the one who always uploads Body Slam clips ㅇㅇ
▶So you’re just a bored wolf dude lolol
▶If you’re a wolf, shouldn’t you be better at biting?
▶ㅇㅇ lolol
▶Happy, bite him!
[Just Slam First] ▶Tsk tsk tsk, you wolf-ignorant fools!
[Just Slam First] ▶Body Slam is the true specialty of a real wolf!
[Just Slam First]▶ Even that Sword Master guy who broke into my house to skin —I took him down too!
▶Nice, wreck those toxic humans.
[Just Slam First] ▶Squishy! If you want to learn the essence of Body Slam, I’ll teach you!
▶Great, now we’ve got backseat coaches too. Look at the state of this chat, sigh.
It was an unexpected offer, but for the sli, who wanted to see the outside world as soon as possible, the answer was already clear.
▷I want to learn!
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