Mimi Is a Devil

There was no doubt that the slug was a Chakra creature, and among them, one of the rarest—one possessing Sage Art Chakra.

Using it as a template, Mimi could establish a series of rare Zerg, enriching her arsenal of tools.

Their primary use would still be to assist with medical treatment.

The slug itself possessed an extremely special ability, though it was not particularly eye-catching.

It was not its distinctive Medical Ninjutsu, but rather the inconspicuous wireless transmission of Chakra.

First, one thing had to be made clear: Chakra required contact for transmission.

In other words, there had to be a conductor.

Chakra itself could serve as a conductor.

The typical example was Chakra Threads. In theory, as long as there was enough Chakra, they could extend outward infinitely.

For example, the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion that cut through the moon.

The most common Chakra conductors were naturally living beings themselves.

Almost every technique relied on this property.

A Ninjutsu released in one place could not simply appear several kilometers away.

Even if it did appear several kilometers away, it would still have a trajectory.

As long as there were no obstacles blocking its path, the Great Fireball Technique could indeed fly that far.

But the slug's infinite transmission involved one slug transmitting Chakra out of thin air to another slug.

The distance crossed between them could be enormous.

Whether it involved the application of space-time techniques, quantum entanglement, or merely a concealed aerial Chakra transmission route, the effect itself was already sufficient for Mimi.

Long-distance Chakra transmission. What did that bring to mind?

An electric grid for wireless energy transmission was merely its most basic manifestation. More importantly, it could serve as nodes to expand the range of Mimi's insect swarm's command and combat operations.

Mimi had already chosen the child's name: Insect Swarm Lord.

All that remained was for the slug to submit.

"Don't come any closer!!!" Seeing Mimi twist open the bottle cap, the clever and docile slug shrieked.

"You're hungry, aren't you? I'll feed you."

The slug's resistance to physical harm made it difficult for her to die even if she wanted to.

If she could, Little Slug Sage would have slammed her head into the glass and ended it all.

"Don't come over here!!"

"I'm not some kind of devil. Be good, be good."

As she spoke, Mimi tossed in a pile of nutritious meatworms.

Chiri watched without blinking from the side.

The slug was eating. It seemed she had never seen that before.

After hesitating for a while, the slug tearfully ate several large strips.

She needed Chakra to use a technique to return home or establish contact with her main body.

Otherwise, her main body would think she had been roasted and would never imagine that she had been kidnapped.

Therefore, she needed to convert life energy into Chakra.

But in the next moment, the mass of black Kikaichū covering the bottom of the bottle surged up. They forcibly shoved her down, crawled all over her, and greedily sucked up her Chakra.

She could not even secrete mucus anymore. She had no strength left for it.

She began to sob miserably.

She was the dignified Slug Sage. When had she ever suffered such bullying?

Seriously, there was not even a single drop left!

This was truly the devil incarnate.

Chiri could not bear to watch and turned her head away.

"So scary, Mimi."

"Hm?" Mimi said. "I'm only preventing her from escaping. Without the conditions for a Sealing Technique, I can only use this crude physical sealing method."

"So this is called sealing?" Chiri muttered. Wasn't it imprisonment?

"Mimi, you really won't be discovered?" After doing something bad, Chiri felt a little uneasy.

"Relax. If they had discovered it, Tsunade would have rushed over already. Look at her silly face. Does she look like she's noticed anything?"

Mimi said it indifferently.

"Besides, if we are discovered, at worst, we can just give her back."

That did seem reasonable...

Chiri let out a relieved breath.

Realizing that kind-hearted Chiri pitied her, the dignified Little Slug Sage clung to her like a drowning person grabbing a lifeline.

"Save me! Save me! Kind Uchiha girl!"

Mimi stared at the slug with a peculiar look in her eyes.

Gradually, the strength left the slug's voice.

"Sorry, I can't." After refusing, Chiri thought about it and said seriously, "You have food and water. This is pretty good."

"Boohoo!" Little Slug Sage burst into a storm of tears.

"Acting pitiful won't work. You're a famous ferocious beast of the Shinobi World. Don't disgrace everyone," Mimi said as she placed the slug on the tabletop.

"Then keep that thing away from me!" the slug shrieked.

Hm? Chiri was puzzled.

"She keeps drooling at me!!"

Mimi and Chiri turned to look at Insect Sister.

Drool poured down like a waterfall beneath her mask.

Mimi trusted Insect Sister's judgment.

So this thing was delicious?

As she looked at the Slug Sage, her gaze gradually grew strange.

Under Mimi's stare, the slug trembled.

After a long while, Mimi sighed. "What a pity. It's a species that can talk."

If it could not talk, she could eat it.

"Wipe your drool. This one can't be eaten," Mimi told Insect Sister.

Insect Sister obediently wiped away her drool.

Chiri, however, asked in confusion, "It can't be eaten? Isn't everything edible?"

She was actually a little curious about the taste. Ever since she had eaten bugs, she had felt that there was nothing she could not eat.

There was no longer anything left to fear.

"It should taste terrible—not in terms of flavor, but physically. With your appetite, you can't digest the Slug Sage."

Hearing this, the Slug Sage let out a huge sigh of relief. Right, she could not be digested. Ordinary stomach acid was nothing.

It was all that creature's terrifying manner that had scared her.

The slug glanced at Insect Sister and vaguely felt that she might actually be able to eat her.

Mimi looked at the slug, guessing what she was thinking.

"Can Insect Sister eat her?" Chiri asked curiously.

"That's right. She can eat her."

"Eh? Why?" Chiri asked.

"She can eat anything. Afterward, her stomach will hurt, and she'll roll around on the ground for a while before recovering," Mimi said.

"Then she fundamentally can't eat anything!"

"Chiri, people's constitutions are different. Don't worry about her," Mimi said.

Insect Sister was a symbiotic entity made up of two lives, but in reality, she was a symbiotic entity made up of three kinds of life.

Insect Sister's body already contained a Nest of Kikaichū.

After Mimi had added more Kikaichū to it, she had now reached her complete form.

This had given her three digestive systems and three stomachs.

One of the stomachs was used for storage, also known as the public stomach.

Its purpose was self-evident.

Another was a sorting stomach. Its function was to separate useless things, such as soil and other substances the body could not absorb.

The final stomach was the true digestive stomach.

Insect Sister was, in essence, a special mutant of the Kikaichū, so she naturally possessed the basic ability to absorb Chakra.

However, her Chakra absorption was somewhat more violent.

It was a reaction that occurred within the digestive stomach. When faced with something difficult to chew, it would directly extract its life energy.

Her digestive ability was astonishingly powerful.

"Come over here..." Mimi said to Chiri.

The two of them went to a nearby spot.

Chiri looked at the things within Mimi's field of vision.

A swarm of meatworms was crammed into a large number of basins.

They twisted incessantly as they ate.

"What are these?"

"You've eaten them before."

"Eh?"

"The larvae of the Cold Silkworm Moth."

"Oh, they're babies." Chiri asked, "Can they be eaten?"

Ah, people really did grow up~

Chiri had changed.

"They can." Mimi said with certainty, "The Ninja Game we're playing today is called Spinning Silk and Unraveling the Cocoon."

Mimi brought out a basin of snow-white Silkworm Cocoons.

"Eh? How is this a Ninja Game?"

In her impression, the Ninja Games boys played were more like hide-and-seek.

They were also quite good for physical training.

"Making ninja tools naturally counts as a Ninja Game."

Mimi said.

She handed Chiri a large basin.

This sort of delicate work was not something the bugs could help Mimi with. She needed to supervise them constantly, and it was easier to roll up her sleeves and do it herself.

Thus, Chiri stared blankly at the basin in her hands.

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Simple. Pull out the silk."

This...

The clever Chiri said, "Are you sure you're not making me work for free?"

"Don't say it out loud. Friends should leave each other a little dignity," Mimi said.

"Ah, Mimi, you're a devil!"

"Thanks for the praise."