Tensei Shitara Slime Datta

Chapter 269: Elegant Escape Rimuru pt9

On the way back, Marsha suddenly shouted.

"Hey! I was casually checking the bracelet just now and something crazy happened with my points! For some reason my points have increased to 44 ?!"

Their attention was drawn by his statement, everyone checking their bracelets, too.

"wo! I'm only 19 points, eh?"

"I'm 26 years old."

"I only have 15 points?"

George and the others unanimously informed each other of their points.

Following Marsha, Mondo had the highest points.

Hm? Even if we get points from our activities today, I think it's only a few points….

When I hurriedly checked my points as well, quite surprisingly, it was at 41.

And when I checked how I got those points — listed that I got about 33 points from monster subjugation and 8 points from relief action.

Oi, oi, fish are monsters too ?!

And what are these 8 points to help action? Because I made a fishing rod for each one?

Do you like 2 points for each? It's more surprising I only got 2 points for that grueling job.

But still, this is too unfair, how to get this point.

"If careful action gives 2 points — we get one point for every fish we catch ?!"

"I understand! I also caught about 24, if I remember right, so it's not wrong anymore."

"Don't air just because you won in fishing, Mondo. But that's enough. I also remember catching 17 so each fish gave 1 point."

I heard George and Mondo talking.

Oh shit .

With this, the scoring points became very easy.

I started to panic inside.

"Hahaha, this is stupid. Earning points easily, the person who set them up must be an idiot. Those Greedy Circus people are a stupid group, huh ?!"

"really? I think so too. I thought it would be very difficult ~ But this makes it a cake, right ~?"

George said with a laugh and Aina also continued with a nod.

Their words hurt my ears.

Wh why? Because I'm the one who set it up.

Just a little, no, actually, kind of embarrassing.

I have set 30 points as the graduation limit so Marsha has passed.

Mondo only needed 4 more points and even Aina who had the fewest points between them had obtained about half the required points.

<< Fufufu, exactly as calculated, yes, Rimuru-sama? >>

Ciel spoke to me happily as I sulked.

What were you talking about? - When I asked her, she replied with an atmosphere of 'I know what you are planning'.

Wh-what ?!

In other words, these groupings are not appropriate, as I thought. It seems they are just grouping the problematic ones.

Well, that's fine now but the problem is what Ciel just said.

—Different role for Marsha ... you said?

<< You will pretend not to know, so. What exactly are you planning, keeping it a secret from me? >>

Ciel replied, sounding like he was really enjoying himself.

Hahaha, it seems like he misunderstood, thinking that this is something I planned.

Needless to say, I also did not count this happening nor did I plan anything.

All of this is just a misunderstanding of Ciel but .. I guess I will use it for now.

—Fufu, as expected of Ciel. I can't hide anything from you, can I? Mondo seems like he lacks confidence, so I'm just a little help.

<< As I thought. However, it is too soft for you. To use your precious tricks you save for something like this - >>

Uh, hmm.

You know, this is not a valuable trick I ordered or anything like that.

It's something that even I don't notice, you know.

I mean, who would have thought that an E rank that gives 1 point would apply to fish as well, right?

After all, there were no fish in the labyrinth.

And even if there were, they would be man-eating fish or demon fish living in the wetlands.

Well, even I keep small insects like mosquitoes or fleas from taking effect.

Although living in the Apito region is different …

It was my fault entirely, but when Ciel-san saw it as one of my strategies, my dignity had been upheld for now.

I did think about changing the bracelet settings by using the master's command but I stopped.

If I did that, the points we got now would look strange.

Besides — even regarding the strategy of fish, since we caught this much today, surely the catch will be reduced tomorrow.

It was like a one-time bonus stage.

As Ciel said, some kind of trick.

Even if other students tried and imitated, it would not go so easily.

First of all, it is difficult to make a joran.

It may not be something that is taught to them in school and certainly not that simple so they can do it after seeing it once.

Surely no one thinks — 'oh, something like this might happen, so let me bring my fishing line'.

And, on top of that, the only reason we were able to get such a big catch was because I, as a respectable man who loved fishing, put a lot of effort into making the fishing rod using Ciel-sensei's calculation ability.

Maybe it's okay not to worry about that.

And like that, with a total catch of 123 fish, we have made a triumphant victory.