▶ ? Squishy, why are you sucking human blood?
▶ Did it suddenly acquire a taste for humans?
Since the action was done without any warning, most viewers couldn’t imdiately understand the sli’s behavior.
However, one viewer who was very knowledgeable about poison—Arachne, the Thread-Lady—was different.
[Thread-Lady] ▶ Isn’t Squishy perhaps detoxifying?
▶ Detoxifying? Doesn’t Squishy already have a detox skill?
[Thread-Lady] ▶ There was a detoxification fluid creation skill in the store last ti. It seems like it bought and is using that.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Wait, did it waste points on a skill like that?
▶ Ahahaha, of course it has to show off to the human who feeds it hahaha.
▶ So true hahaha.
[Squishy Queen] ▶ Do you think my kin would buy a skill for such pathetic reasons, you fools!!!
"Se, Saintess!"
The clergy looked at Alia in confusion.
He wanted to remove it right away, but since the sli was being carried around by the saintess, he couldn’t touch it carelessly.
"Jiggly, don’t massage that person right now!"
Seeing the sli trembling, Alia thought it was trying to massage the sick person.
Though the sentint was admirable, it would only add to their pain.
She hurriedly reached out and pulled the sli away from the patient.
During that brief mont, the sli had absorbed both the blood and the poison within it.
‘Detoxification Fluid Creation!’
It imdiately created a substance capable of neutralizing poison.
As mana was consud, detox fluid ford inside the sli.
And then—
Pfft!
The sli spat the detox fluid at the bite-marked calf.
“Jiggly?!"
A completely unfamiliar action until now.
Seeing the sli suddenly spit a mysterious fluid at the patient, Alia panicked.
“W-We need to wipe it off quickly!”
Worried that the monster’s bodily fluid could worsen the wound, the clergy rushed to wipe it off.
It was then.
“Could you please wait a mont?”
Paulen stopped the clergy.
“Paladin Paulen?”
“Paulen?"
Judging from the sli’s behavior up until now...?
If the sli had never shown anything unusual, Paulen wouldn’t have stopped him.
But the sli had already revealed many unexpected abilities.
It could understand human speech, possessed strength suspected to have defeated a lesser troll, and even had the ability to emit light.
So it wasn’t surprising to think it might show another unexpected side.
And then—
“Ugh, uugh! Huh? Mmm?"
The groans of the patient who had been enduring the pain began to subside.
“The pain... is easing. Saintess, the pain is fading.”
“Huh? Really?"
“How could that be...?”
Alia blinked, staring at the fluid on the wound in disbelief.
The fluid the sli had spat was gradually being absorbed into the wound.
“No way... Jiggly, did you do that?"
‘Yes!’
Shiver
Pfft!
The trembling sli once again spat detox fluid onto the patient’s wound.
This ti, the clergy didn’t try to wipe it off and simply watched.
A mont later—
“It doesn’t hurt. It doesn’t hurt anymore!”
As the pain caused by the Stone Snake’s venom disappeared, the patient cried out in gratitude.
Though the paralysis hadn’t fully healed, the pain was gone and he had recovered enough to sit up by himself.
“I can’t believe this..."
Even the clergy couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
The antidote for the Stone Snake’s venom was difficult to manufacture, and the ingredients were hard to obtain.
Yet this complicated poison was being neutralized by the mysterious fluid from a sli.
‘Is it because it’s a sli chosen by the Saintess? Yes! There’s no way the Saintess would keep an ordinary sli!’
“As expected of the Saintess!"
“Huh?”
Alia looked confused at the sudden praise.
In the anti—
“As expected from the sli chosen by the Saintess."
“Yeah, from the beginning I could tell that sli wasn’t normal!”
The patients who had been treated by Alia interpreted the clergy’s words however they liked and began cheering.
“Saintess, could you co this way? We have another patient suffering from poison.”
A nun caring for another poisoned patient even ca to Alia for help with the sli.
“Ah, okay.”
It was a bewildering situation, but Alia believed that saving people ca first.
After that, the sli played a major role inside the clinic alongside Alia.
Alia healed patients with physical wounds using holy magic, while the sli spat out substances to detoxify poisoned patients.
To an outside observer, the sli simply appeared to be resting on top of the wounds, sucking out the blood and producing detox substances.
However, the conditions of the patients suffering from poison quickly improved, and they imdiately expressed their gratitude to Alia.
“Thank you, Saintess.”
“No, it wasn’t . It was Jiggly.”
“I see. Thank you, sli.”
Brrrr!
Words of gratitude directed at it made the sli happy.
Of course, that wasn’t the only good thing for the sli.
It absorbed small amounts of poison from the patients' blood.
By generating detox substances, the sli gained immunity to those poisons.
Additionally, the information about those poisons was stored inside the sli’s body, and if it were to acquire a poison generation skill, it would be able to reproduce the toxins it had once neutralized.
However, the sli hadn't thought that far; it was simply happy to be praised.
***
After leaving the clinic, Alia had lunch at the grand cathedral as it was ti.
“Jiggly is more amazing the more I see it.”
While eating together, Paulen said this as he watched the sli eating on the table.
Brrrr!
The sli didn’t even hear Paulen’s complint and was too busy enjoying its food.
Alia silently watched the sli.
It looked like a calm and cute creature from the outside.
But today, the sli had done sothing unbelievable.
A sli that secretes detoxifying liquid.
She had never heard of or seen such a sli.
Utterly unbelievable events kept happening.
From Alia’s perspective, they were all too good to be true.
‘Could it be...’
And so, the thought suddenly crossed Alia’s mind.
‘Could Jiggly be sothing like an angel sent down by God?’
It was a delusion born from Alia’s low self-esteem.
She felt unworthy, so she imagined that God had sent her an angel in the form of a sli to help her.
‘N-No way!’
Alia shook her head to deny such a ridiculous thought.
‘Looks like Alia’s imagining weird things again.’
It was a familiar sight for Paulen.
The next day.
Though she bravely went out to town, Alia, who normally had low self-esteem, didn’t have the courage to go outside again so soon.
She spent the day as usual, practicing holy magic in her room.
The day after that.
“This ti, I want to properly test Jiggly’s abilities.”
Paulen grinned mischievously and made a suggestion to Alia.
“Test Jiggly’s abilities? Didn’t we already see them once?”
“That was just a preview, Alia. Besides, Jiggly would enjoy so exercise too! It’s good for ntal health!”
“Muscles!” Paulen flexed his biceps.
“But what if Jiggly gets hurt while sparring?”
“Alia, what are you so worried about? Just trust in my strength, the strongest in the Holy City!”
“Alright, fine.”
Then, after moving to the training grounds, Paulen took out his main weapon—a large shield—from his inventory.
“You’re even bringing out the Shield of the Holy Spirit?”
“I think a wooden shield has its limits.”
‘Wow! A new shield!’
The sli locked eyes on the shield, which it was seeing for the first ti.
The Shield of the Holy Spirit wasn’t just blessed—it was specially crafted for paladins with no expense spared by the church.
Even just looking at it, viewers could tell it wasn’t ordinary.
▶ That looks super tough.
▶Humans have things like that?
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Hmph! My scales are tougher than that.
▶ Why are you even boasting about scales now?
▶ Probably the only thing worth boasting about, huh?
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ N-No, they’re not!
[Gothic Luxury Bone] ▶ Hohoho, please don’t offend the pride of this pathetic shut-in dragon.
[Noblesse Fire] ▶ Shut up! You rotting pile of bones with decayed scales!
Thud!
Paulen slamd the Shield of the Holy Spirit into the ground to fix it in place.
“Alright, Jiggly! Show your strongest attack! I’ll take it all!”
Boing!
Understanding Paulen’s words, the sli hopped off Alia’s shoulder and landed on the ground.
‘Strong one!’
Boing! Boing!
The sli bounced in place a few tis like it was warming up, deep in thought.
The strongest attack it could use.
That would be a combination of two skills it used when Godrick, Skol, and Def were in danger.
Back then, it used them instinctively, but after replaying the mont in its mind several tis, the sli now understood how to use them deliberately.
It gathered its body’s elasticity by infusing mana.
Then it aid toward the shield and used Bounce Tackle.
Booking!
Closing the distance in an instant, the sli slamd into Paulen’s shield with the sa force it had used to knock a lesser troll off a cliff.
THUUUUUUNG!
A sound like a giant bell echoed across the training ground.
It was the sli’s strongest strike.
But Paulen received the full impact perfectly.
The title of Paladin, the strongest holy knight in the Holy City, is only granted to those with fitting skill.
‘This is way more powerful than I expected!’
Even Paulen was impressed by the sli’s power.
It had enough force to make even Paulen, who wouldn’t flinch from a normal monster’s attack, feel a montary numbness in his arm.
‘At this power, even a B-rank monster would be seriously hurt if hit.’
anwhile—
‘Huh? What? What just happened?’
Alia blinked as she stared forward.
The sli’s strongest strike was too fast for her eyes to follow.
So what she saw was simply: the sli vanished, then a heavy thud echoed—
—and suddenly the sli was in front of the large shield.
And the one who had tackled it—
‘Wow! Amazing! So strong! Amazing!’
Boing! Boing!
The sli bounced around Paulen in admiration for blocking its attack.
“What? Why are you so excited? Are you impressed?”
Boing!
The sli bounced in place as if to say yes.
It looked like an awestruck child, and it made Paulen’s heart tickle a little.
“Hahahaha! Jiggly, do you want to beco strong like too?”
‘Yes!’
Boing!
“Then you just have to train every day like I do! If you do, you’ll get strong too! Hmph! Muscles!”
Paulen flexed again, encouraged by the sli’s enthusiasm.
Boing!
‘Muscles!’
Paulen was strong enough to block its attack without a scratch.
Paulen said he beca strong through training.
And from what the sli had seen, training led to muscles.
‘I want to grow muscles too!’
A new goal had ford in the sli’s heart.
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