Johanna was tired after listening to the scientist for the whole day and just wanted to sleep, but the scientist had other plans that Johanna wasn't in the mood for.
"Johanna, you know, last night felt really good, and I thought that we could maybe repeat the whole thing."
"I'm sorry, but no, maybe tomorrow or the day after."
"Oh, ok, sorry to bother you."
He didn't look satisfied with her answer, but he also didn't seem like he was sad or angry at her, not even a tiny bit, which made Johanna alarmed since she couldn't calculate his personality very well and it could be that he would try something she didn't like, for example, him raping her and then erase her memories of the event so that she couldn't remember it and the day would go on like nothing had happened. So Johanna had to prepare something so that this wouldn't happen to her tonight or any night that follows. Well, if he tried anything like that, she would personally capture him and kill him. But now that she was thinking about it, there was something she was curious about.
"Mr. Scientist, I have a question: Are the other researchers in your base able to get your soul out of the slime body, or could you stay in the slime body for the rest of its life?"
"Good question, my disciple, and no, the others wouldn't be able to pull my soul out of this body; I'm the only one who can move my own soul through bodies."
"Thank you; anyway, goodnight."
With that, Johanna had gained crucial information. Even though she didn't receive the completion of her task in the case of a slime, she could still control the slime's body, which had somehow become enslaved to her through her ability, which didn't affect the soul of the scientist. The only problem she had left now was that she couldn't block his soul from escaping the body by will. The ideal situation would be for him to be enslaved by her so that she can learn magic, and since she could just shift the slime's body into any size she needed, she could carry him in her ear and use him like an invisible wireless headphone, which couldn't be discovered and could teach her magic since he wouldn't lose his knowledge. Well, there was a problem with his soul that she didn't know how to fix.
There was a simple way, but she would have to fuck the real body of the scientist, who was somewhere completely different on this continent and was probably very well hidden, which made it impossible for her to find him in the course of a single night. But Johanna had another idea for this exact problem, but she wasn't sure if it would work out or if she would create something horrendous, so she did the best thing she knew to do: she asked the other shapeshifter, who was still impersonating her, for advice.
"Hello, can you hear me?"
"Oh, Johanna, what a surprise! Yes Ahh, I can hear you."
Johanna had to pause for a second; that was a moan right now, or did she just imagine that? Well, who knew that you could telepathically moan anyway?
"Do you by any chance know if cloning works with the shapeshifting ability?"
"Ohhh yessshh, it does work, but it will require a lot of magical energy, and you have to control every one of them individually. No, if you don't mind, I'm pretty busy."
"Yep, I can hear it. Goodbye and thanks."
Now that made everything a little bit easier, she could basically clone herself. Johanna didn't know why the shapeshifter told her that, since that made him useless, but it also seemed like he was occupied with something else. Johanna knew that this would take up a lot of magical energy, but after listening to theory lessons the whole day, she thought that she might have learned at least something. Since the scientist seems to be occupied by being in his human body right now, she could carelessly try out cloning herself.
She tried to manifest a clone out of thin air, but that, of course, didn't work since the matter she had to shapeshift had to at least have a certain density to be filled with magical energy, so shifting air didn't work, so she tried another thing. She used her shapeshifting abilities to make one of her fingers fall off and immediately regrow. She then used the finger to slowly form it into a small human figure, almost like a ferry without wings, and at the point where she gave it two eyes, her head turned mushy. Johanna collapsed, unable to process the data she was receiving from the ferry's vision, so she removed its eyes again, which removed the pain again.
The shapeshifter was right; it took more than just control and magical power; it also required her to modify her own body so that she could receive the information that her clones gave her.