[Zhongyingmei] It's not a slime!

Ruby was carried out of the training room by Jason in a dejected manner.

"Hey, come again." Ruby fluttered her short legs and arms in a particularly unconvinced manner.

"I've already beaten you dozens of times." Jason said blankly, "I'm going to sweat if I hit you again, I just took a shower."

Ruby: ...

Cooperating with you and me for a long time without sweating!

——Slightly harmful, but extremely insulting.

It's not that she hasn't tried to use her own body to transform into various alien weapons, but her combat awareness is indeed too poor, and Jason can always see through it at a glance.

As soon as she raised her hand, Jason knew she was going to reach out her claws.

She turned to one side, and Jason knew the tentacles were coming.

As soon as she bent her knees, Jason was ready to dominate the air.

...The gap in combat awareness is too terrifying. Without fighting desperately, Ruby can only defend passively.

Even with her strength, she can easily tear the human body in half.

But Jason just had a way of making it impossible for her to touch him.

Jason carried Ruby to the bathroom and put her in the bathtub: "You know how to take a bath yourself?"

Ruby: ...

Although she didn't know why the symbiote took a bath, she still nodded.

Jason found a few clean towels from the cabinet and put them aside, then laid out a soft carpet thoughtfully, and stuffed the non-slip mat under Ruby's feet before turning on the hot water.

"Then wash yourself, don't wash for too long, find a place to sleep after washing, I'll rest first." He left the bathroom while talking, and closed the bathroom door.

Ruby stood in the ankle-deep warm water, a little dazed.

Ruby: "...for the first time."

System: "What?"

Ruby: "The first time someone asked me to take a shower..."

System: "...Then shouldn't you reflect on why you never take a bath?"

Ruby: "I'm a sterile symbiont! Why do I need a shower!"

Even the clothes on her body are part of her body, okay?It's like she didn't even wear clothes!

But looking at the steaming hot water, Ruby still couldn't resist the temptation, and fell into the bathtub with a plop, letting the warm water slowly flow over her cheeks, submerging her below.

Very comfortable.

Really comfortable.

It's like returning to the original place where life was born, with only warm and soft water swimming around.

She didn't need to breathe, so she just lay there quietly, as if asleep.

Ruby: ...why didn't I try to take a bath sooner?This is too comfortable, I have to find a way to take a sauna.

System: Do you want to try smoking and drinking to burn your head again in the future?

Ruby: ...

……

Jason stood outside the bathroom door and waited.

He originally wanted to go to the bedroom and fall asleep by himself, but as soon as he sat on the bed, he got up again and walked back to the bathroom impatiently.

"Kids are trouble," he muttered.

— completely forgetting that this is not a child at all.

As a result, I waited for almost half an hour.

Holding a book of poems to relieve boredom, Jason, who had forgotten the time while reading it, suddenly looked up and found that half an hour had passed.

Jason:  …

Is this how girls bathe?terrible.

He patted the bathroom door: "Hey, Ruby, haven't you finished washing yet?"

It was as quiet as a chicken inside.

Jason tapped on the door again: "Ruby?"

There was no movement.

Jason felt something was wrong now.

"Ruby? I came in?"

No one cares about him.

Jason quickly opened the bathroom door, only to find that Ruby was no longer in the bathroom.

He walked quickly to the bathtub, looked in, and was so frightened that he almost had a cardiac arrest.

Calm water.

The water temperature with residual heat remaining.

Girl sinking in water drops with closed eyes.

The girl didn't even take off her clothes, she just lay quietly in the water, her face so peaceful that she seemed to be asleep.

This really scared Jason, he quickly picked Ruby out of the water, put it on a soft towel, and went to listen to her heartbeat without saying a word.

Jason: ...No, no heartbeat!

Ruby was sleeping drowsily, but suddenly felt someone fished her out of the water, and woke up with a jerk.

Then she saw Jason frantically trying to give her CPR, his hands already on her chest.

Ruby: "...Jason?"

Jason's movements froze. He looked at Ruby who had opened her ruby-like eyes, and a question mark seemed to appear slowly above his head.

There were so many questions I wanted to ask, that I couldn't even ask any of them.

Finally, Jason blurted out the least important question: "You... how did you take so long to wash!?"

Ruby was puzzled: "Didn't you let me find a place to sleep by myself...?"

Jason got angry: "That's not to let you sleep in the water, and exercising lung capacity is not such an exercise... Wait, you don't need oxygen?"

Ruby nodded.

Jason: "..."

So there's no heartbeat either?

What a strange creature this child is!

……

In the end, Ruby who proposed to spend a night in the hot spring was violently suppressed by Jason.

He angrily threw Ruby into the bed, helped her cover the quilt with an unhappy face, drew the curtains, and then stormed back to another room.

He didn't know what he was angry about.

It wasn't until he was lying on the bed and thinking about today's experience that he suddenly realized a problem.

What was his original plan for tonight?It seems to be going to teach a small gang leader...?

Jason who completely put this matter behind him: ...

All, all blame the old bat!

I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad!

……

Early the next morning, Ruby was woken up by Jason.

Ruby poked out a small furry head from under the bed, rubbed her eyes, yawned, and asked Jason with tears in her eyes, "What are you doing, what time is it..."

It's not even light yet.

Ruby glanced at the clock on the bedside table and vaguely saw five o'clock written on it.

Ruby: "..."

Waking people up at five o'clock is something that people can do!

Jason, already fully dressed and energetic: "Don't you want to stay here?"

Ruby said, "...huh?"

Jason: "I've made up my mind. It's fine to stay, but you can't live here for nothing, so you have to practice your fighting skills with me in the future."

To be honest, he has always had a vague liking for this child, so much so that he actually doesn't want to send her away that much.

Plus, he did appreciate the kid's strength.

With just a little instruction in fighting techniques, she'd be a very good fighter.

Ruby: "...?"

Why does she need to practice fighting skills? She is just an all-round enhancement support!

So Ruby stared at Jason for a second with unrequited eyes, and then—

She lay back.

He even turned over, facing Jason with the back of his head, and rolled up a small quilt to make it more tightly wrapped.

Jason:  …

Jason's blood pressure was full on the spot.

He immediately pulled the huddled Ruby out of the bed, took her directly into the bathroom, and wiped her face with a towel soaked in cold water.

Ruby: "Uh...uhhh!?"

Ruby, who was shivering from the cold, woke up instantly, looked at Jason blankly, and then Jason covered his face with a towel.

"Are you awake?" Jason asked.

Ruby: "...Abusing, abusing children!"

Jason was expressionless: "Are you a child?"

Ruby was shivering from the cold, but her tone was still righteous: "Why am I not?!"

Jason: "Children are not as thick-skinned as you."

Ruby: "..."

Ruby made a decisive decision and turned her body into the size of a palm with a snap.Jason didn't notice for a while, and let Ruby run out of his grasp.

Ruby landed on the ground, with short legs, like a little hamster, and ran away without a trace.

Jason:  …

Early in the morning, Jason, whose blood pressure was pumped up by the brat, held down the pulsating blood vessels on his forehead, rushed into the room and threw the quilt straight away.

Ruby lay on the soft pillow, her whole body was almost buried in it, and she slept soundly.

Without further ado, Jason stretched out his hand to grab it. Ruby reacted very quickly, woke up at the speed of light, and used the small tentacles as a hook to directly ascend to the sky on the spot, which made Jason catch nothing.

"Okay, hide and seek, right?" Jason grinned and suddenly became a little excited.

He grabbed a noose from his waist and threw it straight at Ruby who had already run to the bookshelf.

Ruby quickly pulled out an unknown book and blocked it like a shield. As a result, the book was directly knocked into the air and fell to the ground with a slap.

The two took a closer look, and it turned out to be a copy of "Pride and Prejudice".

Ruby's eyes lit up: "Jason, do you like love stories?"

Jason kicked on the desk with his bare feet, stepped on the wall and ran a few steps, using his strength to make a leap, he almost caught Ruby who was hiding on the top of the bookshelf.

Ruby quickly jumped off the bookshelf and said while running, "I can recommend it to you!"

"No need." Jason gritted his teeth and said.

The two chased after each other, from the room to the training room, with sparks and lightning along the way, bumping and knocking over countless furniture.

"I have good literary taste, trust me." Ruby said seriously.

"Really? I don't believe it." Jason said while thinking about how to catch Ruby, who was as slippery as a loach.

"Hey, let me recite poems for you." Ruby said while opening the collection of Borges poems that had been saved in the system.

Then she read the poem.

"What can I use to keep..."

As a result, she hadn't read a few words before she was suddenly found a loophole. Jason, who suddenly exploded in speed, jumped in front of her eyes and slapped her body.

Jason obviously didn't expect to succeed, and he didn't have time to take back his strength, so he watched Ruby the hamster flying out with a dazed expression, bounced on the wooden floor several times like a jelly, and then seemed to melt away The same collapsed on the ground.

Jason:  …

Ruby: ...

Jason hurried forward to pick up Ruby, poked her little face with his finger: "Hey, are you okay?"

Ruby: "..."

She suddenly made up her mind, so she lay half dead in Jason's hands, and said tremblingly, "I...I can't do it anymore, I'm seriously injured, I need treatment..."

Jason looked at her like this, and was a little anxious at first, but now he is completely calm, and just watched the showman's performance with a blank face: "Oh, then how do you need treatment?"

Ruby said weakly: "Just give me ten pieces of strawberry cream cake..."

Jason said coldly: "Like desserts? Well, if you don't train well and still annoy me here, desserts will be permanently removed from our diet."

Ruby, who was slashed on seven inches with a precise knife: ...