Why couldn’t you figure out the slime’s ecology?” [Ryouma]
“Well first of all, the slime’s living grounds are too vast, and the number of variations the slimes have are far too many. The place they’re living, the environment, and their strength. Building a hypothesis from all these is important, but because there’s too variations, there’s definitely one of them that’ll be an exception.” [Caulkins]
“Moreover, the information is just not sufficient to make a hypothesis. When researching other magical beasts, we dissect them in order to understand more. For example, just from seeing the shape of teeth it’s possible to make a conjecture on whether it’s a herbivore or a carnivore. But when slime’s die, the only thing they leave behind is their nucleus, so we can’t dissect them. And there’s also no point in dissecting their body since they’re transparent to begin with. As for the nucleus it’s brittle, so although it might have some sort of function as an organ, we don’t know. In the end we don’t know anything about their mode of life.” [Robelia]
Come to think of it, slimes do disappear when they die… Before I started taming them, I killed a lot of slimes, and each time they’d only leave behind their nucleus while the rest of their body disappeared. At the start I thought that was just how this world worked. Things would die, and without leaving a trace, just leave behind their loot. But then the other magical beasts didn’t disappear after dying… Then again, if you can’t take apart the beasts after killing them, then it won’t be possible to get meat or other ingredients. I did think it was strange, but I was too caught up in the evolutions, so I just let it pass
“When we were researching the slimes, there were plenty of times when they evolved into a different slime, but we couldn’t figure out the evolution conditions.” [Tony]
Eh? The slimes evolved, but you couldn’t figure out the conditions?
“What kind of slime did they evolve into?” [Ryouma]
“There were all sorts. The slimes evolved into a different one nearly every day.” [Robelia]
Said Robelia-san as she held her head and let out a breath of sigh. I wonder if something happened… Well I guess I’ll let it be. That aside, what’s going on? What were they feeding the slimes?
“What did you feed the slimes?” [Ryouma]
“Feed? Well we just fed it whatever we could get our hands on… right?” [Robelia]