Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Bear-san, Reading The Blank Notebook

“Then what about your village?” (Mia)

Ah, right, there was such a setting.

“…………”

“…………”

Fina and I turned to Kagali-san.

Kagali-san was the one who told a lie, so we’ll just leave the consequences of her actions later to Kagali-san alone.

“…Let’s put that aside. More importantly, let’s take a look at the notebook.” (Kagali)

Kagali-san thought for a while but gave up immediately and turned her eyes to the notebook to deceive Mia.

She escaped…

Well, certainly, there is a better time to clear Mia’s misunderstandings.

Mia didn’t seem convinced either, but since she mistakenly thought Kagali-san was a princess, she couldn’t question her.

Since it would be troublesome if it bounced at me, I turned my attention to the notebook and decided to read it, as Kagali-san said.

“I’m going to write down the events that took place in this town, just in case.”

“We were doing slime research.”

“Slime has the property of being able to live anywhere, and it changes its body into something that’s suitable for that environment.”

“Oh, just like what Kagali-san said earlier.” (Yuna)

Kagali-san raised her nose at my words.

“On the other hand, however, we found out that it can decompose whatever it takes into its body, clean it even, and spit it out.”

So does that mean it purifies impurities?

I imagine slime taking objects into that jelly-like body and dissolving everything.

“Is that what slime is?” (Yuna)

I asked Kagali-san, who is familiar with slimes.

“I’ve heard that a swamp that used to be poisonous became clean after the slimes appeared a long time ago.” (Kagali)

“Long time ago, just how old are you?” (Mia)

Mia whispered.

Since Kagali-san may be a princess, Mia can’t make strong tsukkomi.

Without minding it, I decided to continue reading the notebook.

“We started researching slime, wondering if we could use the power of that slime to clean sewage, dirty rivers, and poisoned areas.”

“I can’t believe someone would think of such a stupid thing.” (Kagali)

“I think so, too.” (Mia)

Kagali-san and Mia nodded.

But, having lived in Japan, I understand.

Rivers without proper sewage treatment are the worst. Many people have died after drinking from the water source and the spread of pathogens and plagues.

It’s the right thing to do to keep it clean.

That slime was apparently studied a long time ago, so it may have been contained in the sewage system, which the researchers did not properly maintain, but rather, they just routed the sewage to the river, and it got mixed with river water.

“Even though it was a slime, there was no way to study monsters near the castle, so it was decided to do it in a small town far away, and that town was Heschlag.”

“Now we know why there was a slime underneath that town.” (Yuna)

The notebook also mentions that they were making other magic tools to fund their research.

Mysteries such as why this town was called the town of magic tools, and the story about the slime have been solved.

When I turned to the next page, the process and results of the slime research were written.

“The slime has no brain and moves by instinct. So I thought of making a magic tool to replicate the brain.”

That’s why they’re researching magic tools as well.

I’ve fought against mages who control monsters before, but the methods seem different.

“First, we examine the slime’s properties. The slime splits up when it grows large. But we also found that they attract each other. It’s a contradiction, but it seems to vary between individuals.”

“We put the slime in the sewage. The slimes take in dirty water and spit out clean water. However, not all slimes were like that. Some turned into a poisonous slime.”

Poison slime, I mean sewage slime. It’s awful. I definitely don’t want to fight that thing.

It seems Mia and Fina were also trembling.

“I created a magic tool with an imperative formula to purify the slime’s body, but it doesn’t work as ordered.”

“There’s no way you can make such a magic tool.” (Kagali)

Kagali-san was appalled.

But I know people who have risked their lives to control monsters for revenge.

If taming monsters were that easy, they wouldn’t have any trouble, even if the monsters are hostile.

It may be strange for me to say this since I am the one who is defeating the monsters, but there is a difference between subduing and subjugating.

“We have decided to collect only the ones that purify what it takes into its body, and we proceed with our research.”

“While I was in the middle of researching slime, a man named Kryna-Hark came to me, asking me where I got the information.”

“Now this is where Kryna-Hark comes in.” (Yuna)

The other notebook said that he should have followed the words of Kryna-Hark.

“I had heard the name of Kryna-Hark, but he was too young, so I couldn’t believe it at first, but when I talked to him, I knew immediately that was the real deal.”

“But I couldn’t accept the words of Kryna-Hark suggesting to stop research.”

“Kryna-Hark came to persuade me many times, but after a while, he stopped coming.”

“And, when he came back for the first time in a long time, he handed me a wand and told me to store a large amount of magic power into the wand in case something happened.”

“The wand?” (Mia)

“Wand.” (Kagali)

“You mean, that?” (Yuna)

I can only think of the wand that was in the room where the skeletal corpse was.

In the meantime, I resumed reading.

“Kryna-Hark handed over the wand to me and left, never to appear again.”

The same line was written in the previous notebook.

“And now, several years have passed since Kryna-Hark left.”

“The slime cleans sewage. The completion of our research is near. The question is how much and how big can it clean. We’ll find out by using the large amount of sewage that lies beneath this town.”

Could it be that they were storing sewage in that large cistern?

“And finally we succeed. The slime moves according to our instructions.”

“With this, polluted rivers can be revived. It should be useful in many ways.”

“However, the slime is multiplying beyond our expectations.”

“It takes in dirty water and grows. And not just the dirty water, it absorbs everything.”

“It was not a success. That magic tool was a failure. The slime recognized us, the people, as objects to be purified.”

That means it recognized people as trash.

It may not be wrong for the slime to recognize those who pollute nature as objects of purification.

“My fellow researchers were gobbled up by the slime.”

“We have to stop the slime. The only possibility to stop the slime is to destroy the magic tool we have created. That formula is the source of the misconception. If we destroy the magic tool, there’s a possibility to stop the slime.”

“We tried every way we could to break the magic tool in the slime, but all the magic was absorbed and every weapon was dissolved.”

“Those who were in the laboratory used every means at their disposal to strike at the magic tool inside the slime’s body, but they couldn’t reach it.”

“The slime grew larger and larger, and the magic tool inside the slime’s body moved deeper and deeper out of reach, making the magic tool impossible to break.”

“Doesn’t that magic tool dissolve inside the slime’s body?” (Mia)

“Well, since they’re going to put it in the slime’s body, they had to design it so it won’t happen.” (Kagali)

Kagali-san answers Mia’s question.

“If we make a weapon out of that insoluble material.” (Mia)

“Well, we could have checked, but it might be in an out-of-reach place by now.” (Yuna)

“Besides, it seems that the researchers were absorbed into the body of the slime before they could create such a weapon in the first place.” (Kagali)

Mia closed her mouth as if she was satisfied with our explanation.

“And then the slime started coming through the sewers and attacking people in town.”

“The slime doesn’t stop. It’s swallowing up more and more of the town’s inhabitants.”

“It’s a nightmare. If this is a dream, please wake me up.”

“How stupid.” (Kagali)

“I guess that’s what you get for trying to control monsters.” (Yuna)

“No one can be saved.”

“I, too, was also busy running away.”

“At that time, I was reminded of Kryna-Hark’s words.”

“The wand.”

“I remembered the wand that Kryna-Hark had entrusted to me.”

“From the item bag, I took out the wand.”

“Kryna-Hark told me to pour magic into this staff in case something happened.”

“I grasped the wand and began channeling magic power into it.”

“It’s not working.”

“Then I recalled the words of Kruna-Hark. If anything happens, I was told to pour all my magic power into it. So I grabbed the wand and gave it everything I’ve got.”

“A miracle happened. The slime stopped, but the price was far too great.”

“The people were swallowed by the slime, and most of them died.”

“The gigantic slime that was gobbling the town moved underground and fell silent as if it was falling asleep.”

“It seems that the staff of Kryna-Hark was the thing that nullified the effects of the magic tool. Its range was wide, extending over the entire town.”

“I’m surprised that Kryna-Hark could make something like this as if knowing that this would happen.”

“At that time, I regret that I hadn’t listened to Kruna-Hulk’s story properly.”

So this is what he was referring to in his previous notebook about Kryna-Hark.

“The utilization of the slime failed and resulted in many deaths. Furthermore, the king of this country, fearing that if the neighboring countries knew about this would create magic tools to control monsters and start a war, was forced to cover this up.”

“But since they needed a reason for the disappearance of a town, they decided that the town had been attacked by a giant monster that appeared out of nowhere and wiped it out, making it a dangerous town, and in the process, the town of Heschlag was erased from the map.”

“So that’s why there weren’t any records of this town anywhere.” (Mia)

Mia nodded approvingly.

“There are also magic tools around town that can stop the other magic tools, and it seems that the wand activated them.”

“As a surviving researcher, I have decided to remain in this town and protect the magic tools that Kryna-Hark created. That is my last role as the sole survivor.”

“In the previous notebook, the vaguely written part was about slime research.” (Yuna)

“On the one hand, he didn’t want the dirt to be known, and on the other, he wanted someone to know the truth.” (Kagali)

There was a part in the first notebook where this researcher supposedly created the knight armors to protect the magic tools of Kryna Hark.

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Author’s Note:

The blank notebook contains detailed information about the slime.

Thank you for your requests for volume 16 and the SS for the new writing and store purchase bonus.

We will close it today.

I will write it as a reference.

Thank you very much.

※ Thank you very much to all of you who have been reporting typos.

Please note that some of the kanji have not been corrected since they have been adapted to the book.

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