The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 45: The Right Size

(Fourth Opening Theme: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime OP2-Meguru Mono Performed by Takuma Terashima)

The group couldn't believe that the Captains had been of the same size as they were. Though they were confused about the predicament, they were grateful just to see a couple of friendly faces, despite the slight disadvantage they put themselves in. They managed to calmly catch up to the Captains on what had happened and needless to say... Captain Yami of the Black Bulls was pissed.

    "..You seriously couldn't have seen THAT coming?" Yami asked before turning to Pluck, "Especially you Sword Boy! You sleep with your eyes open, for crying out loud!"

    "It was foggy. How could I see?" Pluck asked.

    "DO I NEED TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU HOW YOU COULD HAVE?!" Yami shouted.

    "This guy here is seriously a Captain?" Carver said, "With the way he's shouting at you Pluck, I'd swear he was the Pixie's dad."

    "Please don't remind me." Pluck groaned.

    "Wait--He sleeps with his eyes open?" Robin asked, "What kind of a sane man does that?!"

    "You think the Stuck Up is sane?" Feodora asked as she made a face.

    "More importantly, how did you guys find us?" Molly asked, "You're magic should've been affected when you shrunk right?"

    "You couldn't have sensed us could you?" Yuno said.

    "I got my own tricks, let's put it like that." Yami replied as he still looked pissed.

    "KEKE--" Jack said, "--So they really are little people running around in the walls and underneath us?" He soon got the kitchen knife and held it up towards Molly and Robin as he said, "Give me one good reason not to slice you all up for invasion of privacy?!"

    "Okay whoa there!" Molly said.

    "Don't kill us!" Robin pleaded.

    "Wait Captain Jack!" Asta soon said, "They're not our enemies, they're our friends!"

    "Yeah!" Noelle added, "They were helping us get back here when the others were carried off by a possum like we told you!"

    "It's true!" Sachiko said.

    "They got our family too!" Molly added, "We were going to go on a rescue mission to save them!"

    "With her in tow?!" Jack gestured to Prism who still looked to be sleeping; more of the black veins appeared.

    "Okay to be fair--" Molly said, "--We couldn't just leave her alone."

    "And if she ended up dying on your watch what then?" Jack said as Molly and Robin had gotten more nervous.

    "Wait--" Feodora said as she noticed his tone, "--Are you THAT worried about Prism's wellbeing?"

    SMACK--Went Jack's hand on Feodora's head startling the group; the force of it however made her crash to the ground hard.

"Okay--" Feodora groaned, "--That came out of nowhere."

    Yami told Jack as he gave him a look, "Could you NOT go and kill my squad? That's my job."

    "YOU'RE WHAT?!" Robin exclaimed out of confusion.

    "He--Didn't deny it." Noelle thought as she had a look of her own.