"Why do you always refer to yourself as 'this one,' Hamsuke?"
In the forest, outside a massive cave, Naiyuan and Herohero had returned to their normal sizes and were sitting on the ground.
Naiyuan had an arm around each of them, with Aura and Mare lying in his embrace, presenting an unmistakably affectionate father-and-children scene.
They no longer kept up their disguises and had directly returned to their original appearances, maintaining their Dragonoid and Human Form Slime appearances.
Momonga had also dropped his disguise and returned to being an Undead Archmage. With Mare's Magic Isolation Barrier around them, there was no need for them to keep pretending.
Hamsuke, whom they had just subdued, was currently trembling in a corner. Her heart was filled with sorrow. What kind of monsters were her Lords?
A dragon, a pile of tentacled monsters, and now an Undead... Her life as a hamster seemed shrouded in darkness. At this rate, she would not even be surprised if she got eaten someday.
At Naiyuan's question, Hamsuke was so frightened that she nearly jumped.
Although he looked harmless enough now, she still remembered the way he had reasoned with her earlier.
"This one is this one! I have always been this way, Lord!"
Hamsuke trotted over to Naiyuan. Her two big eyes were watery, making her look quite adorable.
"Since this one was born, this one has always referred to herself this way."
"Oh? You were born that way?"
Naiyuan examined the hamster before him. He felt that she was probably not a native species of this world. After all, according to the information they had obtained, this species did not exist in this world.
However, since the author from his previous life had never made it clear, Naiyuan could not be certain.
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