I Got a Monster Spaceship from the Tutorial Tower - Chapter 35

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Episode 35
35
The Lost Royalty of the Slimes—Blue Slime.
It seemed she held tremendous secrets within her.
‘No matter how I look at it, she’s just a blue slime, that’s all…….’
At least, from Yeon-woo’s perspective, it was a hard truth to accept.
True, she occasionally formed bubbles, but he sensed neither great power nor skill emanating from her.
Beep.
After stepping into the Bridge.
“Wow…….”
Ha-yoon breathed out her admiration in a voice meant for no one else.
She’d seen the Space Battleship’s Bridge a few times by video feed before.
But the vast expanse—incomparably larger than Hades’ cockpit—was openness enough to inspire awe.
“This is my station. This device is called the Master Ball. If you place your hand on it, you can pilot it through will alone.”
“Pardon?”
“?”
At Ha-yoon’s tilted head before the Master Ball, Yeon-woo’s head tilted in kind.
“Where’s the speed control lever?”
“What’s that?”
“The attitude control mode buttons?”
“What are those……?”
“The weapons inspection panel, or at the very least, the weapon aiming lever—where is it?”
“There isn’t one.”
“……Sigh.”
Ha-yoon let out a deep breath, as if resigned to say no more.
The more he learned, the more the Space Battleship seemed like a cheat.
How could such a massive warship be controlled by a single device called the Master Ball?
“Mmm, on this point I must agree with Pilot Ha-yoon.”
“Gudru agrees too. Battleship piloting simple.”
Like calls to like, the kindred feel at home together.
The battleship’s other pilots also stood behind Ha-yoon this time, nodding their heads.
‘As if I can help how it was made.’
For Yeon-woo, there was no help but to feel a touch aggrieved.
Yet it was precisely because the Space Battleship’s control method was so starkly simple that Blue Slime’s role seemed all the more enigmatic.
“A Navigator doesn’t seem entirely necessary……wait?”
Splort!
Just then, the Blue Slime who had been resting quietly in Yeon-woo’s arms suddenly leaped free.
And then she engulfed the Master Ball entirely, covering it completely.
“Don’t just touch that carelessly!”
Since slimes are strongly associated with acidic images that dissolve everything they touch, Yeon-woo reached out in alarm.
What if the Master Ball dissolved?
A car without a steering wheel.
No—worse than that: a car stripped of accelerator, brake, and gear alike.
But then.
「Navigator, Blue Slime ??? is requesting Navigation authority.
Do you grant permission?」
A notification window materialized before Yeon-woo’s eyes.
It was the same format as when Hwa-ryeon had requested scrap-usage authority for repairs.
“Hmm…….”
He hesitated for a moment, weighing his options.
“I suspect you won’t regret it, Captain,” came a quiet voice from beside him.
Urelka spoke those words with a knowing tone.
The other crew members too, expressed similar intent through their eyes.
Glorp!
Blue Slime, who had all but swallowed the Master Ball, moved with vigor, as if urging him to trust her once.
‘What’s the worst that could happen?’
If something were going to go wrong, it would have already done so a hundred times over by now.
Besides, testing Blue Slime’s abilities was a hurdle he had to clear sooner or later.
He could always revoke the authority if he changed his mind.
After his brief deliberation, Yeon-woo nodded.
“Navigator, I grant Navigation authority to Blue Slime. Approved.”
The notification window appeared alongside the confirmation.
Hummmmm…….
The forgotten Royalty of the Slime race, Blue Slime, began to imprint its existence upon the world anew.
Through the Space Battleship—a vast vessel, yet still no more than a grain of sand against the cosmos.
At the same moment, Blue Slime.
Splurt!
“Gah!”
Shot a droplet of its own body directly at Yeon-woo’s right eye.
Startled, Yeon-woo squeezed his eye shut, but the azure viscous substance had already entered.
“……Huh?”
Yet there was no foreign sensation, no pain whatsoever.
Only a warmth bloomed, then faded away as naturally as if it had seeped into him.
When Yeon-woo carefully opened his eye again.
“What… what is this……?”
Everything he saw had transformed.
Or rather, the course of the Space Battleship that Blue Slime was steering.
Appeared before his eyes like a single stroke of azure ink—the brushwork of a master painter executing a perfect scroll of indigo.
Yeon-woo’s own Piloting skill had grown considerably; he believed he could now move the vessel smoothly without issue.
But Blue Slime’s control existed on an entirely different plane.
As if the slime itself were gliding softly through deep water.
The way it steered this colossal battleship—so smooth and fluid that one could scarcely perceive its motion at all—drew forth admiration beyond words.
Only now did Yeon-woo begin to understand what Urelka had meant by Blue Slime’s ‘natural gift for Navigation and Piloting’.
‘The philosophy is completely different.’
While Hwa-ryeon pursued acrobatic, flashy, agile flight by wringing every ounce of performance from her craft.
The slime pursued an extreme of a different kind.
It merged completely with the vessel, optimizing flight itself, moving like water—natural and seamless through space.
Through more than just what his eyes witnessed of Blue Slime’s intent, Yeon-woo felt its philosophy with his entire being.
Perhaps the way the slimes’ green mucus coated the surface of the Slime Fighter was not merely for acidic attack.
It was the manifestation of a philosophy—or perhaps an instinct—to fuse with the craft they piloted, making it one singular entity.
“Then how should I steer it?”
To Yeon-woo’s question, Urelka answered with a gentle smile.
“Just as you have been—simply as you desire.”
Yeon-woo focused his awareness on a point visible from the Bridge.
With the will to go there.
Hummmmm…….
That alone was enough.
The battleship’s course displayed in real time before his eyes shifted instantly.
The wreckage of scattered Goblin Fighters automatically evaded.
This was what one might call true Autonomous Navigation in practice.
Now, without even holding the Master Ball in his hand, Yeon-woo’s will and the Space Battleship were connected through Blue Slime.
Not merely movement—the tactical picture around the vessel that he once perceived through the Master Ball, the gun turrets’ positions, all were the same.
No—the information Yeon-woo had been receiving before now seemed crude and trivial by comparison.
His senses not only expanded far beyond before, but received information and presence with perfect precision.
The size of each object, their direction of movement, even where they had broken away from and what compounds they were made of.
Despite this flood of information pouring in all at once, it felt natural—as if Yeon-woo had always known it—and that made it all the more wondrous.
“Good heavens…….”
Ha-yoon too could not fully process what she saw and felt.
One shock after another.
It had been remarkable enough to pilot this colossal vessel with a single Master Ball.
But now Blue Slime was doing even that for him.
“……This is sufficient.”
Yeon-woo brought the Space Battleship to a halt.
Proper maneuvering would have to be tested in actual combat anyway.
For now, acclimating to these sharper and more refined sensations was enough.
Ssssshhhhh…….
The Space Battleship came to rest as smoothly as when it had departed—so gently that inertia itself went unfelt.
Only then did Blue Slime separate from the Master Ball.
No—
‘Looking closer, a layer of it is still clinging there.’
Most of the Blue Slime had separated from the Master Ball, but the thinnest, bluish membrane remained intact.
It seemed she could perform minimal operations immediately with that much.
Meanwhile.
Fwoosh!
The Blue Slime vibrated violently once, and her form transformed completely from a soccer-ball-like sphere.
About the height of a girl of twelve or so.
The blue body was strange enough, but her face looked oddly familiar.
“She looks like the Pilot, doesn’t she?”
“What?”
It would be exactly how a young Ha-yoon would look if she smiled brightly like that.
The same went for the long, trailing hair.
Ha-yoon was taken aback when the Slime suddenly copied her appearance.
But that wasn’t all.
Fwoosh!
Similar in size, but this time she took the form of Yeon-woo.
Fwoosh!
Next came Hwa-ryeon and the goblins, then Gudru and Macross, shifting through each with dizzying speed.
“That’s amazing! So cute!”
Hwa-ryeon beamed with delight at how the Blue Slime emphasized the most endearing aspects of each form, regardless of how they truly looked.
Was she showing off in her own way?
Finally, the Blue Slime transformed into the form of a girl she didn’t resemble at all.
Hair tied in two braids, a round face, and a suit-like outfit that looked like something future spacefaring people might wear.
‘Well, it’s all blue anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.’
Wherever she’d seen and copied it from, it looked quite convincing.
Hwa-ryeon embraced the blue figure from behind, saying she was adorable too, and the Slime seemed happy, giggling softly.
“……Ah.”
Watching them, Yeon-woo suddenly remembered something he’d forgotten.
“Now that I think about it, the Slime doesn’t seem to have a name yet.”
Tilt?
At the mention of a name, the Slime tilted her head in confusion.
“Slimes share information by exchanging body fluid with each other. They pick up other races’ languages quickly, but…… as far as I’ve heard, they don’t have the concept of names.”
Hwa-ryeon spoke while playfully pinching and stretching the Slime’s gelatinous cheek.
It was fascinating, but that didn’t mean they could keep calling her “Slime, Slime” all the time without affection.
Especially since she was such a remarkably rare Slime.
“Hmm, what would suit her…….”
Naming was always difficult.
As Yeon-woo pondered, Macross lifted one wing sharply and called out.
“Since she’s blue, what about calling her Bluey?”
“Hmm, what would suit her…….”
“Being ignored……!”
Next was Gudru.
“Slime tasty. Eat when emergency.”
“Emergency rations?”
“Good name!”
When Gudru grinned widely, the Slime made a frightened face and retreated a few steps from him.
No matter how much he thought about it, no truly satisfying name came to mind.
Then.
“Um.”
“Yes?”
Ha-yoon, who had been quiet, raised her hand.
Everyone’s attention turned to her.
Ha-yoon offered her suggestion in a calm tone.
“What about Lapis?”
“Lapis? Like lapis lazuli?”
“Yes. Because she’s blue, and she sparkles like a jewel.”
“…….”
When Ha-yoon explained her reasoning, everyone stared blankly at her.
Ha-yoon hesitated and stepped back slightly as she added.
“Of course, since I’m an outsider, you’re welcome to choose a different name.”
“No, it’s a good one, isn’t it?”
But Yeon-woo shook his head as if that wasn’t what he meant at all.
“Since she’s royalty, jewels suit her perfectly!”
“Far better than ‘Blue’ or ‘Emergency Rations,’ certainly.”
Once Hwa-ryeon and Urelka agreed, there was nothing more to argue about.
Besides.
Sparkle!
Lapis herself seemed so delighted with the name that she bounded here and there with evident joy.
When the light from the Bridge caught her, she truly gleamed like a jewel—it was a fitting name.
“Lapis, I’m counting on you going forward?”
Sparkle, sparkle!
Hwa-ryeon bent her knees slightly to meet the slime at eye level and extended her hand; Lapis grinned brightly and took it, shaking it with enthusiasm.
A slime of royal blood, a remarkably rare species—
There was still much to learn about her, but from her demeanor alone, Yeon-woo considered her a fine addition to the crew.
And it was then that Ha-yoon approached him quietly and spoke.
“I apologize for last time. Going forward, I wanted to say… that I’d like to ask for your continued support.”
“Hmm?”
Yeon-woo tried to wave off any need for apology, but seeing Ha-yoon’s expression—relieved at last—he let a slight smile slip through instead.
“Think nothing of it. So, you’ll tackle Floor 20 with us?”
At that, Ha-yoon shook her head with sharp certainty.
“I’m afraid not.”
……
Hadn’t the conversation been flowing naturally in that direction?
As Yeon-woo’s expression turned awkward, Ha-yoon stated her reason firmly.
“Floor 20 is where I want to test my own abilities. At the very least, I’d like to challenge it alone first.”
“Ah.”
Yeon-woo nodded in understanding.
Floor 20.
Though he’d struggled considerably on Floor 19 despite himself, that place—where enemies poured out in numbers incomparable to Floor 19—
Was indeed the optimal stage for testing one’s true skill, as Ha-yoon said.
That said, most climbers still did their best to party with Pilots stronger than themselves, however they could manage.
Meanwhile.
“Oh, Captain.”
“Hmm?”
Hwa-ryeon, who had been playfully poking Lapis here and there, called out to Yeon-woo.
“Come to think of it, today’s the day we finish repairing the fighter.”
……Ah.
He’d forgotten.
Today marked exactly three days since they’d begun repairing Jin-yong’s Hexagon.
The work was nearly complete, but it hadn’t been fully finished yet.

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