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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Knowledge and Power

It's the next day, and the perspective is with Metsuma as he wakes up from his sleep, he stretches as he awakes and yawns. He gets up and puts on the same clothes that he had worn yesterday since he had no other clothes due to them all getting destroyed during the explosion,

While brushing his teeth, he thinks to himself about Kaisen coming to his house, "Should I have asked him to help me? It could have made things so much eas-, NO, I can't involve him in my problems, that's not fair to him".

Metsuma leaves the house and starts walking towards the City's Library, still paranoid and walking across the streets cautiously, fearing that Mestra is already in the city. After some time, he reaches the City Library and sees just how big it is, "W-wow, this place is big, will I actually find the information I need, surely the librarian knows where to find the information."

Metsuma walks into the library, needing to walk up a couple hundred steps just to reach the door, he gasp for air once he reaches the top, incredibly tired, "Jeez, that was so tall, I need some water", he said while gasping for breath after each word, he entered the building, looked around for a bit and then walked up to the librarian.

"Excuse me ma'am, do you know where I could find books about Shinigami Masters and Shinigami?" he asked while waiting for an answer. The librarian stared at him for a few minutes while pressing keys on her computer, Metsuma felt awkward but just waited for a response. "I'm not sure specifically but you should look at sector 8 of the library, here's a map" she hands him a device that shows him a 3d model of the entire library, Metsuma opens the map and becomes absolutely shocked at the size of the inside and where section 8 is, "That soooo farrrrr" he thinks to himself, seeing that section 8 is so far from where he is at the moment, "Well no matter, I must do this if I am to get stronger", with his resolve, he starts following the map to section 8.

The perspective switches to Accelerant earlier in the morning as he is still running outside, now having mastery over his time manipulation and running around the area, "Oh crap, I got so focused on my experiment, I need to get back to the tank." He starts running back to the house and starts getting ready to the turn back into a slime, but the door disappears just before he can transform and a cannon appears in his face, just before it fires, he uses the new development he calls "Acceldecelerator" and speeds up time to move himself out the way fast enough. 

The girl walks out the doorway, "Who are you and WHAT did you do to MY pet?", the woman says while the cannon is revealed to be from her own doll hand. Accelerant takes notice of this and realizes that she is more than just a woman with a doll body, seeing that she clearly is weaponized, he thinks at first to tell her that he is the slime but then he realizes, "Wait, I could use this as an opportunity to see how well this new ability of mine could work in combat", now with this mindset, he remains silent. "You won't answer me? I smell the slime on you, just tell me and I'll let you go, no harm, no fuzz", she says with a serious expression on her face. Accelerant remains silent still, just hoping she will make the first move. Having run out of patience, the woman gets on her toes and jumps in the air and in the instance, her feet open from the lower part of the lower leg, which cause her to start flying as it seems she has jets inside those gaps, she flies towards Accelerant in quick motion and just barely reaching him before he dodges using his ability, Accelerant after dodging, starts going towards her preparing to strike her but her fingers from her other hand open up and start shooting out lasers of mana.

Accelerant seeing this, starts dodging them through calculating their vectors, he manages to dodge all but one that just barely touches his hair, which quickly regenerates since he is a slime after all. 

"How annoying, so you can move fast, but it seems that all you can do" the girl says while putting her feet back in place and landing on the ground, she then pulls the pin on her somewhat thick heels, which then reveal black needles that stick out from the heel below, she stands on her toes once again and gets into a fighting stance while on her toes, "Guess I'll just negate it since it seems that you surround yourself in that aura"

Accelerant hearing this news, becomes a bit concerned hearing that, he knows that he currently has the gravity distortions on the outside of his body and had intended to attempt to put them inside his body next night, but he could help but wonder, "Will this needle negate my distortions entirely or will it just piece through?" He thinks to himself while getting ready to fight, having an extremely poor combat stance. The girl jumps towards him, and he prepares to dodge again, she strikes him to the right, so he moves to the left but unfortunately, she had expected that and so her other leg extends connected by a wire on the inside towards him, unable to calculate it in time, the needle negates his gravity distortions entirely, removing his time manipulation thus, rendering him vulnerable.

The woman wraps her leg around his neck and pulls him closer to wrap her other leg around him and punches him a few times in the face. Accelerant doesn't know what to do as he usually needs time to actually use his Acceledecelerator by calculating but now in her range is unable to do anything, however, she stops and lets him go, landing on her feet, "Hold on, you're a slime?!"

She sees that his face is not so human, revealing his slime properties, Accelerant now realizing that his "cover" is exposed reveals the truth, "Yeah, I'm the slime you took in yesterday and to prove it, you gave me food through your mouth and brought me here." "Oh...come to your owner" she says with an innocent and reassuring face while gesturing to him to come closer, seemingly treating him like her pet.

"Are you treating me like your pet?" he says with a confused face, "You ARE my pet, I'm your owner and caregiver, come here kissing noises", Accelerant at first just stand there while she gestures him to get close, he eventually gives in as he finishes fixing his face and starts walking to her, hugging her, getting a good look at her, realizing that she is slightly taller than him, now knowing she is not a loli but rather looking more like someone in her late teenage to very young adult years which he thought while unfortunate not to have someone that looks his age be with him as a partner, it was fine since she was quite useful. He lays in her chest, realizing just how soft and big her chest is, while doing that, he thought about how he lost, "It seems like Acceldecelerator still needs some work and I'll need to somehow make those gravity distortions remain inside my body so that what just happened doesn't happen again" he thought to himself, not realizing that he is already in the house, the woman cuddles with him, rubbing his head as he continues thinking.

The perspective switches to Mestra as she enters into the same city that Metsuma is currently in, currently in her illusion form, she licks her nonexistent lips, "I can't wait to eat you out again, even if I don't know how your alive, all I know is that you taste absolutely fabulous.