Micky went to the slime pits to watch the slimes in his melancholy. They were actually pretty docile as long as you didn’t enter within their range. He watched them waddle around in their docile mood while keeping his distance.

But one kept approaching him. He would move towards the other side of the slime not cave to watch them but it would soon find him. Then he would have to move again. He soon got ready to leave these annoying pests when he finally got a good look at it. As it drew closer he could feel a connection to it. It was distant but there was that one young slime.

But it shouldn’t be, he canceled the connection. If [Taming] [Failed] that was it. Usually, it was a permanent failure as the bridge was burned between the two individuals. It shouldn’t be possible. I mean, it wasn’t unheard of to try another taming, but it wasn’t very likely. And definitely not this. He could feel the slime as a physical thing. This was [Taming], but it should not be. Micky was confused.

So he pulled back on the connection. As he did so he used his [Charm] and then his [Hybrid Bonding +-] activated as Micky was probing deeper into the connection. Then it clicked and Micky was pulled out of his musings.

“What the he-” Micky said. Then he facepalmed. His newly [Tamed] slime just felt vindicated and crawled into his lap. Somehow he felt it was a ‘She’. Slimes were transvestites among other things but he definitely felt it was a she. He was wondering if he [Tamed] her or if she [Tamed] him at this point. Then he figured it didn’t matter because the [Bond] was a mutual type of [Taming]...

Who was he kidding of course it mattered. Because the one that did it would be shredded by Pepperoni when he got back. *Ergh* Well he would put off that ‘execution’ until he got back, haha. Too soon? He was going to miss some of the elders but the overwhelming majority he would gladly have done in himself… or not. But that didn’t change the fact that the village was better off without them. Good riddance is all he could say.

Of course, he didn’t know how to feel about the [Baron]’s kid. On one hand he was an evil prick that almost had him executed. On the other he was usually fair about things. Nope he was an evil prick and our overlord in the village since the Hendriksons’ didn’t even bother with their own estate. Oh yes, and Jimmy was apparently the son of his dad’s boss.

Micky felt a headache just thinking of politics. Now he knew why it was one of the two topics you never get into; Politics, and the [System]. Because it can only end in three ways, a big fight, everybody is pissed, and or a bigger meaner fight with someone probably [Dead]. He was talking into his own head and he was getting pissed at the other guy.

On that note, he figured it was time to bring his new girl home to meet the misses of the house. He bet his mother was going to be ‘exstatic’ and Pepperoni… ya he did not want to meet Pepperoni when he got home.

Micky’s introduction with Pepperoni went surprisingly well. When the new slime met her at first she was ready for a fight for the second lady’s position in the house. But the slime quickly submitted and asked for cuddles from her new sister. This broke Pepperoni’s heart and she quickly took in this lost kitten. She brought it into her warm embrace and started to groom her.

Somehow Micky thought the slime had won, but he couldn’t place how. No the real problem was his mother. At first she thought Pepperoni had brought a wild slime home to play with, [System] knows it wouldn’t have been the first time. But then Micky had quickly jumped in front of the broom and told his mother what happened.

Then Micky thought he should have let the poor little slime fend for itself. The slime (Which does not have eyes) Pepperoni, and his mother gave him judging gazes. He could understand the first two since they had a connection but why was his mother giving him that gaze?

She eventually succumbed and even found a new favorite lap warmer, since Pepperoni had gotten a bit big for the job. Somehow Micky felt that it was his mother that was [Taming] these pets and he was just the delivery boy.

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Now that the executions were finished and the [Baron]’s son had left the villagers had nowhere to vent their frustration. Well almost nowhere. Micky had already left for home ahead of time but something was building.

Pinky came running to Micky’s house and started banging on the door. “Micky you have to go!” he screamed. “Mickyyyy! Come on get out here now man! Mickyyyy!” he slammed on the door. Of course the door was meant to be banged on by a second promotion so all his banging didn’t do much despite the noise.

“Mickyyyy!” Micky finally opened the door. “Wha-” he didn’t get to say. “You have to go! The village is coming after you!”

“Calm down what’s happening? What do you mean?” Micky said.

“The village is coming after you, they blame you. They said you have always been an ill omen and that they should have killed you at the first Divining.” Pinky said.

“What do you mean coming after me? Are they going to throw rocks again?” Micky said.

“No this time it’s worse.” Pinky said, and as if prophetic timing Micky saw lit torches coming through the town.

“Mickyy! You have to go!” said a rushing Susan. She had just come over to find Micky and Pinky talking.

“What’s going on?” Micky said. He got out of the house to see what was happening but a posse had already cornered them. He could do nothing but wait as they boxed him in.

“Micky Anderson! You have been found guilty for heresy and we the village will see you burned!” Screamed the mob.

“What the hell is going on?!” he screamed back.

“Shut up and die you piece of shit! Nothing has gone right since you came! My wife left me after I started drinking again! My dog died! I stepped in shit 20 years ago! It’s all your fault!” Someone said.

“That happened before he was born you senile coot! Micky has done nothing to this village!” Screamed back Susan.

“Hasn’t there been enough bloodshed? Haven’t you seen enough good people die already?!” Even Pinky unusually grew a spine and stood up for Micky. Of course Micky’s family also stood behind him as well as Susan’s next door.

“He saved my son I sure as hell ain’t going to let you do this to him!” Said Pinky’s Mom.

“Mom, that was me saving him. You got it all backwards.” Pinky said revoking his backbone.

“Shush dear, the way I see it he saved you, not just in the [Dungeon] but also from that terrible Bob boy. He’s the one that got you into this mess in the first place. All of it.” Mrs. Williams said.

This of course, did not deter the angry mob with torches and pointy implements. They walked closer, ready to set fire to the whole lot of em’. And they wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer no matter what. They wanted blood, and they shall have blood.

“Shut the fuck up!” Screamed someone behind the mob. “You fuckers dare to talk about shit while the real grieving parties are at home shedding their tears in peace?!” A drunk Mathew said as he pushed the mob apart. The places he pushed smashed aside like tail grass on a game trail. You could see the path forming behind him, and it did not close. [Guard]s might be a second promotional [Class] but they were a dedicated combat class that none of these villagers could fight against.

“You dare talk about this shit in front of us? Hu?! Do ya?! Do you want to be the one roasting over an open fire, strung up by your chestnuts?!” Mathew spewed, barely coherent.

“Come on say it! Say it was his fault! It was my fault! It was her fault! She is [Dead] and her last wish was not for you dumb fucks to do this shit. So naturally what is the first thing you do? This shit right here. Well fight me!” Mathew said.

“I’m not going to fight you [Guard] now move. He will die today by our hand!” Said a self-righteous asshole, and one of the main leaders in this whole endeavor.

“Then fight me! Come on! I’m not even a guard anymore I quit when that asshole wanted to make me force my own cousin to [Dead]. So don’t be afraid! If you’ve got the balls then man up! And you big tits, I know you want a piece of this! Show em that your tits aren’t just for show!” Mathew said.

“We won’t fight a grieving man. Now let us kill the fucker that started this so we can all live in peace.” Said big Tits.

“You just don’t get it do you? None of you get it? This shit is on you! Now move, die, or get to fighting me! Come on!” Mathew said.

“Come on let’s go home.” Said a reasonable person as he shoved the ball-less asshole down.

“Come on, we can finish this, he is right there! We can stall Mathew long enough to get him! Don’t wuss out now!” Said the scaredy-cat ball-less asshole that would not give his mouth a rest.

“It’s over, I just.. I just want to put this behind me. I knew Carl well, too well. He was a good man. He didn’t deserve this. None of us deserved this. How can this happen? Stupid [Monsters], stupid [Slime]s, stupid [Monster Raid]. ” Cried what was likely Micky’s Dad’s Boss’s Mistress the big tit’ed woman, she likely would have an angry mob of her own to contend with after this. In the form of one Micky’s Dad’s Boss’s Wife.

“No! No! Don’t leave! We can do this! We can finish him! If we just work together we can win! Just follow me! I can lead us to victory! I’m the hero! I can win! Just a little more! Just follow me for a little more! And that [Demon King]’s spawn will die like the evil that he is!” Screamed Ball-less that didn’t take the hint.

“No, I won’t lose this! I’m the hero! I’m the [Hero]!” Screamed Ball-less as he grew a pair. Unfortunately, he should have left them at home for a better time, because he ran screaming straight into Mathew’s fist.

“I hate to say this kid but they were right about something, I think it is time you leave. Something broke in this village, and I’m not sure it can be fixed. They are just going to come back. If not these assholes then some other ones. And this time I don’t think I can stop em’.

Actually, I won’t be here to stop em’. I’m leaving this village. Goin’ to become a [Mercenary] at the guild. Something I shoulda done a long time ago. I’m not cut out for [Justice] and [Fairness]. I couldn’t even save my own family with em’.

No offense but I shoulda’ whipped your ass instead of breaking my nephew’s. But I couldn’t and the little ass berry deserved it. So I don’t regret that… but I couldn’t even save her you know? She was all the family I know of. The rest are scattered to the winds.

If you want to leave with me I’m leaving tomorrow with a few of the other persecuted. I don’t think… I don’t think they would survive in this village anymore.” Said Mathew. It was a bit long winded but nobody had the heart to interrupt him.