To Get Stronger, I’m Forced to Grind Their Affection

Chapter 17

The next day.

"Yaaah!"

Ailuka leaped high into the air, raising her longsword above her head before slashing downward.

Her target was something resembling jelly but standing three meters tall—a Large Slime.

This was just an ordinary slime.

——

Slime

Level: 8

Strength: 70

Intelligence: 0Agility: 50

Burst: 10

Description: Renowned for its physical defense, with astonishing physical defense among creatures of the same level. It also secretes mucus to interfere with attacks. Additionally, some enjoy swallowing humans into their bodies for strange play, regardless of gender.

...

Speaking of which, this defensive power was truly terrifying, especially because of its body's special properties—blunt weapons and similar strikes were easily deflected.

However, this posed no threat to Ailuka.

Ailuka's sword slashed down, directly splitting the slime in half and completely destroying its core.

"Ora!"

Ailuka shouted as she finished off the enemy.

"By the way, what kind of strange battle cry is that? Be careful or you'll attract creatures called 'JoJo fans.'"

Luolin commented from the sidelines.

The battle wasn't over yet, because what Ailuka had just defeated was only one of them—there was another one nearby.

When it lunged toward Ailuka, she dodged to the side.

Watching Ailuka raise her longsword high, Luolin knew the battle was about to end...

That should have been the case, but for some reason, Ailuka stopped.

"What the hell is she doing?"

Luolin looked at her in confusion. Before Luolin could figure it out, Ailuka made her move—she turned and ran, and moreover, she was running toward Luolin.

Behind her, the slime revealed its ferocious face, lunging forward frantically.

Luolin jumped in fright and began retreating as well.

"What are you doing?!"

"Don't just stand there watching! Quick, this enemy is yours to deal with!"

Ailuka shouted as she ran.

"Are you insane?! Just finish it off yourself if you can. Besides, I'm only level 6—you want me to fight above my level?!"

"Didn't you defeat that level-ten-something Goblin Chief before?"

"That was with buffs!"

After running for a short distance, Luolin finally stopped. Continuing to run would definitely result in being caught—despite its large size, this thing's movement speed was not slow.

"I'll settle accounts with you later!"

Luolin was already planning to pin this girl down on the bed tonight and rack up some resentment points. Earlier, he had volunteered to sleep on the floor to gain favorability, but neither favorability nor resentment points increased—she just accepted it as a matter of course.

"Hmph, I'm doing this for your own good. If you don't fight, you'll never level up, right? You don't expect me to be your grinding tool forever, do you?"

Ailuka stood behind Luolin, crossing her arms and turning her head away as she spoke.

'You two better think of something fast. Besides brute force, is there any way to deal with this giant jelly?'

Luolin didn't possess Ailuka's astonishing strength.

[The enemy is too weak, not interested. Good luck.]

'Your mom....'

[Master, didn't you buy a new skill from that guy's shop before?]

Oh right!

Only then did Luolin remember that he had indeed spent several hundred resentment points to buy a skill.

Thinking about this made Luolin angry, because that damned resentment system had actually tricked him, saying something about randomly drawing skills from cards, and how drawing once could turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.

Believe his nonsense!

What Luolin ended up with was just a [Throw] skill.

That's right, just a skill for throwing things, tossing stones and whatnot—were they treating him like a goblin or something?

But at this point, this was the only skill Luolin could try.

Luolin picked up a pebble from the ground.

'Throw!'

A green light flashed in his hand, finally carried away by the pebble as it shot out, trailing a green afterglow.

The pebble hit the slime's body with perfect accuracy, however... it had no effect whatsoever.

The large slime stopped, seemingly unaware of what had happened.

The scene became awkward.

'Bro... bro, feeling good?'

Luolin asked somewhat awkwardly.

'Hahahaha!! I'm dying of laughter!!'

Ailuka was laughing so hard behind him that she couldn't control herself, completely disregarding Luolin's darkened expression.

After the slime's moment of confusion, it began advancing at an even faster speed, lunging directly at Luolin. A large mouth opened on its body, as if it wanted to devour Luolin.

Luolin's gaze swept around, searching for other things that could serve as ammunition.

Finally, Luolin's gaze passed over other objects and landed on Ailuka, who was doubled over with laughter.

Laugh, keep laughing?

Luolin quietly lifted her up directly.

'Eh!? Eh!! What are you doing? Put me down!'

Luolin's sudden action also made Ailuka somewhat flustered;

at this moment, her innate brute strength seemed to have lost its effect.

Then, her body began to emit a green glow.

'This, could this be....'

Luolin exerted a bit of force and threw Ailuka into the air.

'Throw you, Rem! Oh wait, throw you, Ailuka!!'

'Ah!!'

Ailuka screamed, desperately pressing down on her skirt that Newton was blowing up, while her body rapidly flew out.