Silence!

Current Young Slime just stared at the kid plainly.

Future Slime#47 stared back, then said quietly, "Would you change your mind if you knew… Mama Slime and Elder Slime would die again—or rather, they died because of you?"

"What do you mean… died?" Present Slime#47 asked flatly. "Even if they die, once the timeline starts, they reset, don't they?"

Thud!

Future Slime#47 rolled closer to the blue jelly blob and shook his head. "No."

He paused, then sighed deeply. "All timelines are separate worlds—and real."

He continued solemnly, "Those numbers you see when you start a timeline represent a separate world. That number is the ID of that timeline, and you enter each timeline as their hope."

He glanced at Young Slime, whose eyes widened in shock.

"Do you remember Saint King Haruka?" Future Slime#47 asked, voice sharpening as he pointed at Present Young Slime. "How had she held on to hope while passing her last power to you?"

Current Slime#47 jolted upright. "What do you mean?"

"Remember how Saint King Haruka felt when she gave you her power?" Future Slime asked.

Present Blue Jelly Blob recalled Haruka's lost smile—and her hope—as she gave him that power.

"No… no!" he yelled. "Lie! I can rewrite history with the power of the time loop! She even warned me about Hero King Samuel because of it!"

"Rewrite…" Future Slime mocked. "Yes, you rewrite history—but only for yourself."

He pointed at Current Young Slime, whose eyes enlarged in utter shock.

"Saint King Haruka's fallen body, and that world… timeline 78521452224.23 still exists out there—corrupted by the eldritch."

"What are you saying?!" Blue Slime yelled. His hands trembled. 'It's fake… he's lying,' he told himself. 'This is a trick.' But he knew his future self wasn't lying.

"You really think a time loop is just a reset?" Future Slime stared deeply at him. "I think it's time to tell you the truth. It would be too late if you found it yourself."

"What truth?" Current Slime#47 asked, recalling the deaths of Mama Slime, Elder Slime, and countless slime companions—along with his own.

"Time loop functioning," Future Slime said slowly, "It takes you to the past. But from that past, you create a new timeline. As for the timeline you left behind… it doesn't wipe out."

Blue Jelly Blob's body wobbled, "Those timelines…"

"Yes. They still exist," the shadow said bitterly. "You used Saint King Haruka's power to save yourself… while she hoped you would protect another world. But you failed even that."

"No…" Blue Slime muttered, wobbling nonstop.

Future Slime nodded. "Yes, those worlds are real. In one of those, you even killed Elder Slime and Mama Slime when you got corrupted by the octopus."

Blue Slime stared at his palms, trembling crazily. 'No… no… I thought the world would reset with the time loop.'

"Remember how Elder Slime gazed at you like a chosen one?" the kid asked quietly. "In those worlds, you failed to protect them…"

"That cannot be true…" Blue Slime barked, voice cracking. 'I failed not once but… almost two hundred times.'

He remembered Mama Slime's warm hugs.

Every time a loop began, he woke in her embrace.

Then Mama Slime's deaths flashed across his mind—one by one.

Killed by the slime farm kid. Killed by the baron's soldiers. Killed by the third young lord of the Baron household.

His core ached as he recalled the day he became a tentacle slime—when he killed Mama Slime and the others.

Then Elder Slime's deaths played in front of him.

He remembered the old slime running away in fear when he was corrupted—and how Elder Slime had been confident using eldritch rituals.

'Because of me… everyone died multiple times,' he recalled resentfully, remembering how they stood before him to buy him time to escape.

'Not once… but many times.' They died before he did in fights against the baron's soldiers.

"They didn't even question me," he muttered, eyes wet. They followed his commands with smiles—even when they knew it was guaranteed death.

"You knew you would come back via the loop," Future Slime said sharply. "But they… they just followed you."

"What do I do…?" Blue Slime turned to his future self, tears flowing freely now. He knew his future self wasn't lying; He knew himself too well.

He had endured everything with the thought, 'I'll save them in the next loop.'

But the ones he wanted to save were already dead.

"Get stronger," the kid barked. "You can revive them… How?.... A god."

"Yes… god." Current Slime nodded, voice shaking. "Then I can do it?"

"Yes, through time power, you can enter parallel timelines and revive them," the shadow encouraged. "And remember—from now on, you're not living not just for yourself, but for the world as well."

He paused, voice heavy. "You are brought as the savior of worlds. Remember: if you die or get corrupted, every world will end up like Saint King Haruka's."

Blue Jelly nodded heavily.

'I have to save Mama Slime and the others…' Hope returned—no, responsibility dragged him back up.

He had to resurrect Mama Slime and Elder Slime from those first timelines.

They gave their lives for him. 'It's my duty to bring them back.'

"Good." The kid nodded, watching his younger self regain resolve.

Then he said solemnly, "Now I'll tell you what just happened."

Blue Jelly wiped his tears and looked at his future self seriously.

The shadow began, "Your half of the soul, which was—"

"So my soul was suppressed by golden chains… the sealed artifact's seal," Current Slime#47 muttered grimly.

He was about to ask, "And what about soul—"

But the shadow cut him off, "Your soul essence is leaking through the cracks," he explained. "That's why you cannot live for much longer."

"Yes… That's why I'm tired," Current Slime confirmed. "But I have to repay them."

Shadow nodded, "Good. Remember: you have to learn sealing magic and a passive soul-defense skill—the quicker the better."

He sternly added, "Always reinforce the seal on the sealed artifact once in a while."

"Okay…" Current Slime nodded, setting new goals. "Sealing magic. And a passive soul-defense skill."

"Next, about loops—" Shadow began.

"Every loop is a world," Blue Slime cut in. "So I won't purposely die."

Shadow's eyes twitched. "No… It's not that."

He sighed. "You cannot loop much anyway. It's not that loops stopped functioning—you can die at moment."

End of the chapter…

End of Arc 3 — Truth

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