Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

“Sally, what do you think true fear is?”

Lu Minghao asked Sally while dispelling 'Shadow Prison.' Instantly, the four members of the Reiner Squad, who had been suspended in mid-air, crashed heavily to the ground.

The stinging pain from their wounds made them instinctively wail.

But that was all they could do.

The blood in their bodies was almost completely drained, and their limbs had turned into white bones.

They could only squirm on the ground like maggots.

“True fear?”

Sally looked at Lu Minghao with wide, curious eyes.

The praise she had just received filled her with a desire to learn.

She quickly perked up her ears, intending to learn as much as possible from Lu Minghao.

Sally was determined to become a cultured witch!

“Of course, it’s… everything you desire is right in front of you, but you can never obtain it.

You can only watch it disappear and reappear, never being able to change or escape it.

There's no help, and you're powerless to change anything.

Without hope or goals, you eventually become an empty shell, losing everything.”

Lu Minghao spoke of the most desperate and terrifying things with the gentlest words, while Sally on the side nodded excitedly, with an expression that seemed to say, 'So, that's how it can be done.' She had learned it, she had learned it.

“But, Minghao, how do you do that?”

The next second, Sally, a student who loved learning, raised her hand and looked at Lu Minghao with a curious face.

Although she already knew what true fear was, she didn't know how to create it.

“Regarding this, there are actually many ways.

For example, the simplest is death.

For some people or monsters, death is the most terrifying thing.

Or, in a battlefield where flesh and blood (meow) fly, they watch their companions' limbs being blasted (meow) off by magic, the sound of bones shattering (meow), the stench of rotting corpses (meow)…

As he spoke, Lu Minghao activated the passive effect of his 'Gluttony' talent.

A strange energy field began to emanate from his body.

Everything around them seemed to come alive.

The fresh (meow) blood on the wooden planks was wriggling (meow), and the scattered flesh (meow) grew into large mouths full of fangs.

The insects hiding in the corners of the room began to riot, their rustling sounds echoing in the air.

“Sally, remember that true fear is different for every life.

Whether it's parents or siblings dying (meow) before your very eyes, or your beloved turning into a smear on the wall, or…

“All of this is the most real despair and fear, and how to do it specifically requires you, Sally, to observe and learn.

Remember, even if we want to become great villains (meow), we must study hard and be cultured, knowledgeable, and sophisticated villains (meow).”

As he spoke, Lu Minghao looked at Reiner and the others in front of him.

Having devoured everything edible around them, the four, dominated by endless gluttony (meow) and hunger (meow), turned their attention to each other.

Their bodies twisted constantly, wriggling like maggots until they could touch each other, then they opened their mouths again…

In the dim room, chilling sounds echoed continuously.

Not far away, chunks of flesh (meow) covered in large mouths and blood (meow) transformed into blood-red tentacles (meow) filled with orifices (meow) crawled over.

Finally, a strangely shaped insect in the corner joined the feast of gluttony.

“And now, this is the ultimate fear I bestow upon them.

They will fall into madness in endless hunger and gluttony, but I will command them to never eat, only to suffer in endless hunger and gluttony… until eternity.

This is the 'Original Sin of Gluttony'.”

Lu Minghao turned to look at Sally in front of him, a monster with four heads and a body covered in large mouths and bloody tentacles appearing behind him.

The four heads were exactly the same as Lester and the others, constantly repeating:

Kill me, please kill me!

So hungry, so hungry, so hungry.

Eat, eat, eat.

“Now, Sally, do you understand?”

“Not really.”

Faced with Lu Minghao's question, a trace of struggle appeared on Sally's small face, and she finally shook her head, indicating that she didn't quite understand.

“It’s good that you don’t understand.

It proves that you still need to learn and think.”

Lu Minghao was not surprised by Sally's answer.

After all, Sally was just a child who had grown up scavenging in garbage dumps.

Although she had experienced all kinds of 'evil,' she was still just a girl under ten years old.

“Then, Minghao, who should the real fear be given to?”

At this time, Sally hugged Lu Minghao in front of her and asked with a tilted head and a struggling face.

“This, who do you say they are, Sally?”

Lu Minghao did not directly answer Sally's question, but instead pointed to the monster behind him that was gnawing on the wooden planks.

“They are the guys who killed Mom and Dad, they are enemies!”

Sally looked at the monster that was disgusting both physically and psychologically.

But no matter what they turned into, for Sally, their identity was only one: they were the enemies who killed her parents and made her live in a world full of 'evil' since she was a child.

“That’s right, they are enemies.

Sally, remember that we don’t need mercy or kindness for any enemies.

What we need is unscrupulousness, to bestow upon them true fear and death.

As for those who are not enemies, then we can still get along well, after all, I am a kind slime.”

Lu Minghao looked at Sally, who was hugging him.

Perhaps these words were too cruel for ordinary ten-year-old children, but for Sally, who was half-human and half-ghost and had lived in endless malice since she was a child, this was the reality she should and must know.

Sally could have the innocence and kindness of a child, but this was only for friends and those who were kind to her, not enemies.

Mercy to the enemy is the greatest cruelty to oneself, this is what Lu Minghao wanted to tell Sally.

“Sally knows, Sally can get along well with Grandma Oran and Grandpa Kenny, and all the enemies like Lester should be killed (meow).”

After speaking, Sally looked at Lu Minghao with wide, happy eyes, waiting for praise.

“Yes, that’s right, Sally is indeed the smartest.”

Hearing Sally's words, Lu Minghao couldn't help but smile.

Sure enough, her childhood experiences gave Sally completely different ideas from ordinary children, and they were the most suitable ideas for survival in this world.

“Oh, there is one more thing.”

The next second, Lu Minghao looked at the monster that had gnawed a large pit in the ground.

Lu Minghao was very interested in the noble who had issued the task to take Sally away, and… it had been a while since he had advanced to a mid-level monster, and it was time to harvest a wave of new nourishment.