Johanna woke up the next morning and looked around in confusion, not remembering what had happened yesterday. She couldn't remember what happened after she left her camp, so she wondered how she got back to the camp and what had happened to her in the night. The first thing that came to her mind was the dragon egg that she had hidden from intruders, hoping that no one would find it, so she quickly walked over to the stash to find a slime eating the egg by stuffing it inside its body.
"Hey, what the fuck are you doing?"
Johanna approached the slime, which she still didn't remember, and tried to stop it from dissolving or eating up the dragon egg completely, but just as she touched the slime again, she regained her memory of the previous night. Now that she knew that he was sentient, she tried to stop him with words again, but it seemed like he was in a trance-like state, just like the day before, showing no reaction at all. Only after pulling on him, creating a tentacle again, and softly stroking it to provoke a reaction like last time did he finally start moving again.
"Johanna? Wait, didn't I... Forget it. How have you been? Did you sleep well?"
This reaction showed Johanna that he was definitely hiding something from her.
"What did you do? Why did I forget you? and why the fuck are you holding my egg?"
"Your egg?"
"Yes, my egg, now don't avoid questions and answer me." As she said that, she started to pull on his tentacle.
"Ok, just stop pulling on the tentcle; it hurts. I have to be honest; I erased your memories with the magic from the night since anybody witnessing me could lead to huge problems. And to add to that, I searched the parameter since I could feel a huge source of magical energy surging from somewhere around here and found this dragon egg laying here, so I picked it up, and that seems to..."
He now stopped speaking again and only mumbled on in silence. Now that made Johanna angry again, not only because of the things he had just told her that he did, but also because he now refused to continue explaining, and another thing, a little bit of self-criticism, was that she didn't even notice that the dragon egg was evoking that much magical power and that she didn't even notice him attacking her mentally.
"I'm going to rip your tentacle off if you don't explain the rest to me too."
He made a long, loud sigh but acceded.
"Fine, Im a magical scientist from the kingdom of Wokou and I am tasked to watch over anomalies and other powereful monsters in this giant, and dangerous forest, and since I shouldn't come here with my actual body, since that would be way to dangerous and we were developing a new technology, I tried it out to transfer my sould temporarily, into the body of a regular slime, and since it appeared to have worked, Im now here, exploring the forest, and counting up the population of powerful monster, but finding this dragon egg utterly shocked me, since I and my coworkers werent able to document a single dragon in this country so far, matter of fact on this continent, so I needed to verify this egg a bit closer, maybe I had done a mistake, but once I tried to touch it, I got suddenly beamed back into my human body, ohh and I forgot to mention, once I saw the egg, I returned to you and deleted your memeory of me, and after that I touched it."
"YOU FUCKER!"
Johanna gave him quite a hard punch since this angered her even more, which splattered his slimy body all over the place, but after that, she was able to calm herself down. While the slime researcher had to recover from the damage that he had taken, Johanna had fully calmed herself. After that, she was able to answer his question from earlier.
"Well, there are two dragon children in this forest right now, and this egg is from one of them; it is alive, but I took it away from them since they wanted it to be saved. Oh, and if you or one of your coworkers now tries to find and kill them, you dont only have a problem with two child dragons but also with me, and even if I dont look intimidating, dont underestimate me."
The scientist only gave a weak response by nodding slightly, but it seems like he had understood his situation fully and wouldn't try anything stupid since two dragons were probably already too hard to deal with for them anyway. Johanna kind of felt bad for the kids since they would still be highly sought after if this information ever were to spread, but she had high hopes for them, and they may also grow from this experience.
But one thing about all of this made Johanna curious: did she, even though she slept with the soul of a human, get the page in her encyclopedia turned green, or did the completion of her task have to be with the soul of the monster and not only with its body?