Similar Pair

Similar Pair

After recognizing Sally, Grandma Oran began asking those around her about Sally. As she asked around, Grandma Oran learned everything about Sally. After all, Sally, with half Oni blood, was quite well-known in this small town.

However, because Sally's parents had both been members of the Adventurer's Guild, although people disliked Sally, they did not dare do much to her out of consideration for the Kingdom's laws and the Adventurer's Guild. Even the adventurers who had taken Sally's parents' inheritance only dared act after using the clumsy excuse that her parents had caused losses to their party during a mission.

At that time, Sally's parents were already dead, leaving behind only Sally—a mixed-blood whom everyone considered a bastard and a monster. The Adventurer's Guild and the city guard said nothing, since a mere monster was not worth offending that adventurer party over.

As for what came afterward, they did not dare do anything openly to Sally either. After all, the current King of the Kingdom of Falmus was an incomparably benevolent ruler, and the Adventurer's Guild also cared about its reputation. They allowed Sally to beg and wander through the town, while the other residents merely cursed and despised her.

Only five years old at the time, Sally survived on rotten food from garbage heaps and unwanted wild fruit from outside the town, relying on the powerful vitality of her half-Oni blood. That continued until Grandma Oran appeared and brought Sally back to the village where her father had been born.

However, even after returning to her father's village, Sally was still hated by the villagers and isolated by the children, all because of her half-Oni blood. Fortunately, with Grandma Oran's care, Sally gradually regained a little of the innocence that belonged to a child.

Until a year ago, the elderly Grandma Oran passed away. After her death, the villagers placed all the blame on Sally, who had half-Oni blood, believing that Grandma Oran had died because of her.

Afterward, the angry or fearful villagers forcibly dragged Sally out of Grandma Oran's home and drove her from the village. However, considering how Grandma Oran had once cared for everyone in the village, they ultimately chose not to beat Sally to death and allowed her to live in the woods outside the village.

During the year that followed, every villager chose to ignore Sally, forbidding their children from approaching the woods where she lived. Only when villagers in the watchtower occasionally intended to kill Slimes did Sally run over to stop them and save the Slimes.

To Sally, humans would reject her, fear her, and hate her, but Slimes, which did not even possess complete intelligence, would not. Moreover, because she carried some of the aura of the high-tier Monster Oni, Slimes even grew close to her.

Lonely Sally also regarded the Slimes as her friends. However, the Slimes she had saved in the past would always leave, until she met Lu Minghao, who did not leave. Unable to bear the loneliness any longer, Sally chose to bring Lu Minghao back to her home.

"Slime, why aren't you eating?"

After eating three wild fruits, Sally looked up and noticed that the several fruits placed before Lu Minghao had not been touched at all. She hurriedly leaned close to him, her little face full of concern as she asked.

Looking at the sincere worry on the little face so close to him, Lu Minghao felt something stir within his heart. Since his birth, the Monsters he had encountered either wanted to eat him or were Monsters he wanted to eat. Moreover, he saw something similar to himself in Sally before him.

He had been human in his previous life, but in this life, he was a Slime Monster. Sally, on the other hand, had half-human blood and half-Oni blood. The two of them shared a similar trait.

It'll take a few days to figure out where this place is anyway. I'll stay here for now.

After thinking it over, Lu Minghao raised his head and looked into the undisguised concern in her purple eyes. He did not speak, merely pushing the wild fruits beside him toward Sally to show that he did not need them.

After all, while he had been asleep, Manta Ray's frantic hunting had provided Lu Minghao with plenty of food. Besides, he was a Mid-tier Monster—would he lack a few wild fruits? Sally, whose face was yellow and malnourished, needed them far more. And children her age were still growing; how could what she had eaten possibly be enough?

"Slime, are these for me? Thank you!"

Sally looked at the wild fruits pushed before her, then at Lu Minghao. A broad smile appeared on her little face, and she completely forgot that she had originally picked those fruits herself as she began devouring them in large bites.

At that moment, the setting sun shone through the gaps in the wooden hut onto Sally's thin body. Her little face, stained with clear fruit juice, wore a broad smile. Across from her, a sky-blue Slime watched quietly. At that moment, it seemed as though the entire world contained only the two of them.

At night, the enormous moon in the sky illuminated the forest. A Slime moved through the trees in a certain direction, silver-white moonlight draping over its body like a thin veil. Before long, a dilapidated little wooden hut, swaying precariously, appeared ahead of him.

Creak!

The battered wooden door was pushed open. Sally, curled up on the bed, shrank further into herself. The cold night wind easily passed through her thin blanket, stealing away what little warmth she had. Her small body was curled into a ball, her arms tightly wrapped around her chest.

Yet her childish little face carried a smile, as though she were having a sweet dream.

Thump!

A sky-blue Slime jumped down from the bed, then directly merged into Lu Minghao's body. After looking around the hut, which could truly be described as bare as four walls, Lu Minghao stretched out an arm and closed the open wooden door before hopping to Sally's side.

But even with the door closed, the thin blanket still could not block the cold wind blowing endlessly through the gaps in the wooden hut. Even with the powerful vitality granted by her Oni blood, Sally was still an undernourished little girl under ten years old.

With the forest's already damp climate and the increasingly cold night wind as autumn approached, this girl with only a thin blanket would very likely catch a chill.

"Tsk!"

After hesitating for a few seconds, Lu Minghao jumped to Sally's side with a thump. Then the shadows in the wooden hut began twisting continuously, completely sealing the drafty gaps and reinforcing the little wooden hut in the process.

"Never thought I'd have a day where I became a body pillow."

After muttering that, Lu Minghao gently lay down beside Sally's frail body. Whether because the cold wind had been blocked or because she sensed something against her body, Sally unconsciously reached out and felt him. The smile on her little face relaxed even more, and she directly pulled Lu Minghao into her arms.

Feeling the icy touch of the little hands clutching him tightly, Lu Minghao's body began to squirm little by little until it covered all of the girl except her head. The magicules within him slowly circulated, raising his body temperature.

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