"Are you still not awake, human?" Clove's voice rang out from outside the hut. "You are so weak! How can someone as weak as you consider yourself worthy of Fern?! Come out and fight me!"
Fern beside me grunted softly. She was still asleep, but she was already clinging onto me. Her tail was coiled around my waist, her arms sprawled across my chest.
"No~," she muttered in her sleep, pressing herself firmly against me, "Don't go."
"Don't even think about running from me. You can't!" Clove laughed happily, clearly enjoying this part of the day the most. "I can hear you breathing, human!"
Letting out a groan, I turned into a Blue Slime. That was a much better way to escape Fern than nearly getting my neck snapped. Because that almost happened to me. She didn't even remember holding so tightly to me, but I was nearly killed in bed. The memory made me shudder. Fortunately, I could change forms and escape Fern's deadly grip.
