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The idea that just occurred to me was an aggressive move.

Rather than moving by blending in with Earl Timoti's soldiers like this. It would be better for us to move aggressively by utilizing the abilities of the stealth slime herd that was currently trying to get an apology from me.

This unmissable opportunity made me want to maximize the abilities of the stealth slime herd that was feeling guilty after disappointing me.

"Everyone, listen carefully to the order I'm going to give," I said to the stealth slime herd that was bowing its head towards me and kneeling.

The order I was going to give would be simple and would not require their slightly weak abilities to maintain their human form.

"While we're moving out of this former iron mine to Earl Timoti's residence, I want all of you to take precautions against someone who is stalking us," I said in a commanding tone that made Sirius' body tremble.

"If you encounter an enemy like an animal that is being controlled by the enemy like before, then you have the right to carry out an immediate execution."

"But if you find an ally with the same color uniform as the one I'm wearing, then watch their movements. If they do something suspicious then you have the access to just silence them and don't kill them until we have reached a safe area according to the command I gave."

"Do you all understand?"

I gave a slightly longer and more detailed order than usual.

With the disappearance of Aiko who served as the leader of the stealth slime herd who could think using normal human logic, now I had to deal with a herd of stealth slimes who had to get detailed orders before they did something crazy by attacking anyone without caring about their status as enemies, friends, or spies.

"W-We understand, Supreme Commander," with the answer given by Sirius, I gave her a sharp glare.

Her body trembled when she received a sharp gaze from me.

Her great fear of me had made her look like a stealth slime who was forced to submit to me after making several small mistakes that sacrificed Aiko.

If Sirius were a human, she would probably be depressed and stressed after someone was sacrificed because of her mistake. However, since Aiko is a stealth slime who can still regenerate, Sirius shouldn't have to feel guilty like this.

I immediately went to Sirius who was kneeling and bowing her head towards me.

With the sound of footsteps coming towards her, I wanted to give her encouragement and tell her that this was a great opportunity to get the apology I received.

After my body was close to Sirius, I gave her a caress of her hair. A soft strand of hair began to be felt by the palm of my hand.

"You don't need to feel guilty like that," I said in a soft tone and made sure that some of the other stealth slimes heard my soft words as I stroked her hair.

"After completing this task perfectly, I will give you my precious time to hear your apology. Whether I accept it or not, make sure you have words that make me accept your apology," by giving words like this, I seemed to open a curtain of opportunity to make Sirius apologize to me.

My words made Sirius feel calmer and heard the screams of her voice calling Aiko.

[ Aiko!! The Supreme Commander will give her free time to listen to my apology after this escort mission is over! ]

[ Can you teach me the words of apology to convey to the Supreme Commander? ]

"Haaahh ..." I smiled after hearing Sirius's panicked words in the Soul Tame communication channel.

The support given by the other stealth slimes had made Sirius get words of apology ready to be said to me after her escort duty was over.

After feeling enough in stroking Sirius' hair, I started walking back towards Earl Timoti who was waiting for me.

It seemed that the order I had given to the stealth slime herd had delayed the departure schedule of Earl Timoti's troops.

"Sorry to keep you waiting again, Earl Timoti," I said, feeling awkward after the departure schedule was delayed by the order I gave to the stealth slime herd.

Swiipp ...

By giving a hand signal to Sirius, I wanted their duties as escorts to begin.

The hand swing that I gave as a signal was well understood by Sirius until they moved again and disappeared suddenly like stealth slime moving in the darkness.

"Seeing their movements like that never ceases to amaze me even though I see it every day," said Earl Timoti who was amazed at the disappearing movements shown by the stealth slime herd.

As stealth slimes that move without being noticed by people, they would be failed stealth slimes if their movements were easily noticed by people.

I trained them to hunt the Golden King Bear herd to go unnoticed by people.

It would be a waste of training if they were easily found by people.

"Do you want to control the stealth slime herd too, Earl Timoti?" I said to Earl Timoti with the aim of breaking this awkward atmosphere after the sudden appearance of the stealth slime herd.

The awkwardness was given after they found out that I didn't come alone.

Several of Earl Timoti's soldiers showed pale facial expressions and cold sweat after seeing the appearance of the stealth slime herd.

In that awkwardness, I heard some small whispers from Earl Timoti's troops.

"Seriously, such a beautiful woman is a slime? I almost fell in love with a slime!" whispered one of Earl Timoti's soldiers which managed to be heard into my ear.

"I was also fascinated by their beauty, who would have thought that slimes could be that beautiful!" replied Earl Timoti's soldier who seemed to be discussing the same thing.

"Yes! You also know that their bodies are also very proportional like women who live healthily without being overweight."

"Heh! Besides their bodies being proportional. Their breast size is also close to the word perfect. Although I don't know if this is the real size of their breasts or not because their main body is slime."

"Could it be that their breast size is based on the size of their slime ball?"

"That's... Quite an interesting question. Is the size of their breasts in human form proportional to the size of their slimeball body?"

"Should we research this further when we have the chance to see their body changes?"

"Hoho... I like research that will brighten up our lives who have difficulty finding a partner to marry."

"..."

I stood still after hearing the conversation through whispers like that.

I don't know what happened to Earl Timoti's troops, it seems like they have love problems that make their lives difficult without marriage.

Their whispered conversations like that made me want to immediately get out of this former iron mine after giving orders to the stealth slime herd.

I had high hopes for Sirius to carry out this task well.

Having anger in my heart felt painful and uncomfortable. I needed to keep my promise to give some of my free time to listen to Sirius' apology whose body exploded and splashed her slime mucus until it hit my face.

That disgusting slime mucus.

For some reason, I still felt disgusted and disliked the shape of that dirty slime.

If the Goddess of Destruction doesn't like slime mucus, then there's nothing wrong if I don't like slime mucus too, right?

A feeling of hatred that was slapped by reality when they were bound by my Soul Tame magic spell.

On the one hand, they were too useful with their stealth abilities while on the other hand, they had disgusting, sticky, and dirty slime.

Just imagining their disgusting slime made my body shiver.

Brrttt...

"Huuhh..." imagining the disgusting stealth slime, my body felt goosebumps until it shook.

That made Mio curious and asked me.

"Lily-sama, does it feel cold that Lily-sama's body is shaking like that?" Mio asked with her face full of worry towards me.

"I'm fine, Mio. Just worried if the stealth slime herd doesn't do their job well after I harshly punished Aiko," I replied to trick my disgust that was imagining the sticky slime from the slime's body.

"I seem to understand Lily-sama's worries. It's like Lily-sama is hoping for success and making the stealth slime named Sirius get free time to apologize to Lily-sama personally," said Mio who seemed to know the kind me in her eyes.

I may look kind in Mio's eyes, but my goal is to feel the comfort of a heart that doesn't want to hate something for a long time.

It just makes me feel uncomfortable with the wound that keeps getting in the way.

"Yes, that's it," I replied with a small laugh and hoped that Sirius would do her job well this time.

"I also don't want to make that cute and adorable stealth slime feel guilty after what she did to me," I continued to say to make Mio stop being curious about my next action to Sirius.

While I was chatting with Mio, Earl Timoti seemed like he wanted to say something to me.

"Um, Lily-sama."

With that gentle word, a woman we met earlier had brought my horse and Mio's horse.

"Sorry to interrupt your important conversation, but this is the right time to leave after Lily-sama's stealth slime herd has dispersed," said Earl Timoti while showing his serious face.

"Un!!" I nodded and approached my horse which had calmed down from its fear of the darkness of the former iron mine.

Pulling the reins of my horse, I tried to climb onto the saddle that was on my horse.

"Did you wait for a long time?" I asked my horse who seemed bored of waiting like this.

"NYYIIIEEGGHH!!"

The answer given by my horse was still the same and I didn't understand the words at all. So I felt that it was a positive answer given by my horse.

"I also feel bored when I don't move," I answered by guessing the answer given by my horse earlier.

Based on the signal given by Earl Timoti, we started moving towards the iron mine exit.

Several reports from the stealth slime herd that had spread out began to arrive.

It filled my head with voices that were reporting the current conditions.

Several stealth slime herds had managed to find a way out and shared their route with me.

"Hmm... quite an interesting route," I muttered as I sat on the saddle and was next to Earl Timoti who acted as a guide in the front row.

Thanks to Earl Timoti's quick preparation and direction, his troops moved at a fast tempo. It was in line with my plan to move aggressively without caring about anything.

Such a quick movement would make enemies or allies think twice when facing Earl Timoti's troops.

Whether this would raise great suspicion or not, at least it would make Earl Timoti's border feel hotter as a region full of conflict.