Gensokyo, I am a slime, everyone loves me

Flanked from left and right, invincible!

"Huh? What is this?"

Suddenly, Reimu noticed the commotion on Bai Luo's side, turned her head to look, and was stunned in place.

Bai Luo... turned into two?

The others also cast their gazes over, and upon seeing the divided Bai Luo, they similarly showed expressions of astonishment.

Marisa rubbed her eyes in disbelief, and after confirming she wasn't mistaken, she ran forward, examined one of the Bai Luos up close. Seeing no abnormality, she decisively reached out—

"Eh! Eek... Hiss..."

Marisa covered her head, only to see the Bai Luo in front of her staring at her with a straight face.

"What are you doing!"

"I saw you turn into two, so I wanted to see what was going on."

Marisa looked wronged.

Bai Luo rolled his eyes at her: "This is my clone. I have something to do this afternoon, so I'll leave a clone to help you."

"A clone?"

Hearing this, Marisa rubbed her head and quickly went to the other Bai Luo. Even Reimu, Shanghai, and Penglai gathered around curiously.

The four of them got close to the clone, as if looking at some rare item.

Just as one of them couldn't help but want to reach out and touch it to see if it was no different from a real person, the clone suddenly stepped back and said indifferently:

"Please stay away from me."

The voice was female, but like a machine.

The four were startled by the clone's sudden reaction and looked towards Bai Luo in unison.

"This is my ability—Great Sage. Now the clone is controlled by her."

An ability?

Great Sage?

Everyone was momentarily stunned, even Alice was frozen. They had thought it was just a simple cloning ability or something similar, but now it seemed to be more than that.

"Does she have her own consciousness?"

Alice asked cautiously, and Bai Luo saw through her thoughts and explained:

"Great Sage is just one of my abilities, similar to artificial intelligence. I didn't create it."

Bai Luo's explanation made Alice understand and she said no more. However, Bai Luo still noticed the disappointment in her eyes.

"Don't be so sad. After I evolve into a Demon Lord, although I can't freely create souls, I can still help Shanghai and Penglai have their own voices."

Chapter Forty-Three: The Slime That Wants To Become A Demon Lord

Demon Lord?

Everyone was startled, their gazes all falling on Bai Luo. This word, everyone had heard of it more or less.

Whether in folk tales or mythological novels, a Demon Lord is used to describe a villain with extremely powerful strength.

"Is the Demon Lord you're talking about the kind with terrifying strength, capable of destroying heaven and earth, intending to destroy the world?"

Marisa couldn't hold back and asked curiously.

"I'm not an evil Slime, why would I destroy the world?"

Bai Luo rolled his eyes at her helplessly, then explained: "This Demon Lord of mine is just a title. After evolving into a Demon Lord, both the cells of my body and my soul will receive a comprehensive upgrade."

Listening to Bai Luo's description, Marisa's eyes sparkled. Evolving into a Demon Lord or something similar was simply too cool.

"Then after becoming a Demon Lord, will you gain any powerful abilities?"

"I don't know the specifics, but my original abilities should all evolve. According to Great Sage's calculations, my magic power alone can increase by at least ten times, and my strength is expected to be more than a hundred times what it was before evolving."

"That's too cool!"

Marisa was extremely excited. Her magic power increasing by more than ten times was something she couldn't even imagine.

With her current magic power reserves, even if she used her Hakkero at maximum power, she would be completely drained after firing at most ten shots, her legs turning weak and unable to walk.

If her magic power could double, what incident couldn't she resolve?

It wasn't just Marisa; the others were also incredibly shocked. Even the knowledgeable Alice had wide eyes at this moment.

According to Bai Luo's statement, solving Shanghai and Penglai's problem was indeed not difficult.

Thinking of this, her eyes burst with hope, and she quickly asked:

"Then how long will it take to become a Demon Lord, and what conditions are needed? Do you need my help?"

"Nothing is needed now. Just wait for the evolution value to increase naturally, by next year at the latest."

Bai Luo looked at Shanghai and Penglai and said with a smile: "At that time, I'll trouble you to be my test subjects!"

"I still have things to do, so I won't disturb your work."

With that, as a purple light flashed, Bai Luo disappeared from the spot.

...

"Since Zi Daren isn't home, let's eat fried tofu today!"

Yakumo Ran returned to her room with the fried tofu. Just as she sat down and ate a few pieces, pattering footsteps came from the courtyard.

She put down her fork and walked out of the room in confusion.

"Ran!"

Just out of the room, a small figure pounced over, tears welling up: "Happy Hut was blown up again."

"Blown up again? Who was it?"

Yakumo Ran looked bewildered. Wasn't it just rebuilt? How could it be gone again so soon?

"It was that scoundrel Marisa again. That guy got poisoned by eating mushrooms, had hallucinations, and was firing Magic Cannons everywhere. If I hadn't reacted quickly, I would probably have been buried underneath too."

"...."

Hearing this, Yakumo Ran's eyelids twitched. She didn't know what to say. After thinking for a while, she decided to comfort Bai Luo: "Out with the old, in with the new. I'll go help you rebuild it later."

"No need to trouble yourself. That guy should bear the consequences, and besides, Reimu is there helping her."

Bai Luo shook his head, then said: "After it's rebuilt, just help me add a barrier to Happy Hut, so it won't be flattened again after a while."

As he spoke the latter part, his golden eyes were full of resentment.

"Okay."

Yakumo Ran nodded in agreement: "Are you coming back to live at Yakumo Residence these few days?"

Bai Luo shook his head again, his gaze turning towards the direction of the Sunflower Field: "Before Happy Hut is rebuilt, I will probably stay at Dream House."

Hearing this, Yakumo Ran suddenly stiffened and almost fell to the ground.

Dream House?

Are they already living together so quickly?

After swallowing a few times, she finally squeezed the words out of her throat: "One room?"

"Nonsense!"

Bai Luo quickly crossed his hands in front of him and glared at her angrily:

"How could we possibly sleep together? Dream House clearly has spare rooms, okay?"

Yakumo Ran smiled awkwardly and nodded, admitting her mistake.

Not staying outside anymore, the two walked into the house, but Yakumo Ran suddenly froze in place.

Bai Luo looked in the direction of her gaze in confusion, until he saw the empty fried tofu bowl on the table, only then did he understand what had happened.

A sense of deja vu.

Or rather, a feeling of familiarity.

It must have been snatched up by a certain greedy old woman again.

Thinking of this, a hint of sympathetic pity flashed in his golden eyes.

"Don't be sad, that guy is just like that."

After speaking, Bai Luo took out the fried tofu he had already prepared from his stomach pouch: "Here, I made it specially for you."

This sentence was like the sound of nature. Sunlight filtered through the window lattice and shone on that young face. Vaguely, Yakumo Ran saw a deity.

The fried tofu tasted very good, causing Yakumo Ran to squint her eyes. After eating a few pieces, she looked up again:

"Young Master Bai, I truly feel that bringing you home was the most correct thing I have done since I met Zi Daren."

"...."

Bai Luo's eyes were deep. What did she mean by bringing him home? Was she sure she was praising him?

"Young Master Bai, you eat too."

As if feeling it was a bit unfair to just let Bai Luo watch her eat, Yakumo Ran picked up a piece of fried tofu with a fork and brought it to Bai Luo's lips.

"What are you doing? I'm not a child!"

Bai Luo grumbled discontentedly, but still obediently opened his mouth and put the fried tofu into it.

"You actually ate secretly behind my back, that's too much!"

Suddenly, a dissatisfied grumbling sound rang out.

Immediately after, a gap appeared in the void, expanding to a size that allowed a person to enter and exit freely. Yakumo Yukari stepped out, her beautiful eyes sighing: "You're too biased. I've been so good to the two of you, and you didn't even bring me."

"Bring your big head, you ghost! Also, do you dare cover your conscience and repeat what you just said?"

Bai Luo retorted mercilessly.

Yakumo Ran nodded repeatedly in agreement. Clearly, Bai Luo had once again bravely and fearlessly spoken the words she had hidden in her heart.

Seeing the two, one large and one small, teaming up to bully her, Yakumo Yukari covered her chest with one hand and wiped away non-existent tears with the other:

"There's no love left. Ran used to love me very much, but now she's learned bad things from Xiao Bai Luo. Poor me, now I'm left all alone."

"Mhm mhm."

Bai Luo nodded, expressing agreement. Under Yakumo Yukari's confused gaze, he then uttered four words: "Lonely old woman."

The air seemed to freeze.

The sudden remark almost made Yakumo Ran unable to hold back. Seeing Yakumo Yukari's increasingly dark expression, she quickly changed the subject:

"The festival celebration is the day after tomorrow. Young Master Bai, would you like to go with us?"

"Celebration?" Bai Luo tilted his head.

"Yes, it's in Human Village, a festival that has existed for a long time. People usually dress up as Youkai or other non-human species."

Hearing this, Bai Luo frowned slightly, and a strange image popped into his mind. He muttered to himself: "Won't I see a lot of Purple Old Women then?"

Chapter Forty-Four: Sleeping While Holding Great Sage?

Seeing Yakumo Yukari's fists clenching and crackling, her face covered in black lines, Yakumo Ran shrank her neck and quickly explained to Bai Luo:

"Although they are dressing up as Youkai, people usually don't choose the existing Youkai forms in Fantasy Land. Instead, they dress up freely based on their own understanding of Youkai."

"Mhm."

Bai Luo responded with a sound, his gaze falling in the direction of the Sunflower Field: "I won't go with you. I'll go with A-San."

After speaking, without hesitation, he instantly teleported and disappeared from the spot.

Yakumo Yukari's eyes were subtle, inexplicably having a feeling that her Slime had been kidnapped.