Chapter 120—Puppet
"Because… you were about to give up now," the shadow—Future Slime#47—said solemnly. "Wasn't that true?"
Current Slime#47 fell silent and sighed bitterly. "As if you don't know."
Then, in the next moment, he yelled furiously, "Why didn't you travel further back and stop Vael?"
Future Slime#47 went silent.
Silence!
Current Slime clenched his tiny fists and muttered, "If you could travel to the past, why didn't you stop it from the beginning instead of coming now—when I was about to give up?"
"Why?... Why?!" he whispered.
'It seems… I can only tell the truth, as it happened to me in my past,' Future Slime thought.
He clasped his hands behind his back and replied, "Because if I stopped Vael from fusing with you… The world would be destroyed."
"What?" Current Slime exclaimed.
His eyes turned crimson as he asked, "So I was a sacrifice…? No—we both were a sacrifice?"
