The Fastest Evolution of the Unrivaled Slime: My Rejected Skill was a Cheat for Super Efficient Leveling, So I Trained 100 Times Faster to Become the World’s Strongest

205. The Remaining One Looked Up And Smiled

“We have to search… Slimes, find Shirayuki for me!”

He might still be nearby. Betting on that slim hope, I moved the slimes.

But even that hope was faint. Frustrated, I stomped the ground.

“Arx! More importantly, Mira-san!”

Raize grabbed Mira-san’s shoulder and shouted.

Right, Mira-san is the top priority now. I rushed to her side.

“Mira-san! Please respond!”

I summoned a healing slime and began to heal Mira-san.

But her body felt cold to the touch, with no sign of movement.

This can’t be. It’s impossible. This is Mira-san we’re talking about? Surely, with the , she’ll get up, right?

“Wake up! Mira-san! Please!”

[I killed her. She’s already dead. She won’t get up.]

Both Raize and I desperately shouted. We shook her lifeless body, urging her to wake up.

But the more we did, the more Shirayuki’s words echoed in our minds.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Raize cried out like a child. My vision was already blurred with tears.

There was so much more I wanted to learn from her. For it to end like this—

“—You’re noisy.”

That’s when it happened.

Mira-san slowly opened her eyes and sat up.

“”Mira-san!!””

“You guys made such a fuss, I had to come back… Though, there’s not much time left.”

“What do you mean…? Mira-san, you’re alive…”

“Don’t be silly. I was indeed killed by Shirayuki. The reason I can talk now is because of the , allowing me to move for just three minutes after death.”

The hope we grasped quickly faded.

Mira-san’s death was certain.—In just three minutes.

“What!? Then, if we use the to heal you now—”

“Impossible. Not even a god can bring the dead back to life.”

“Then—use that power to defeat Shirayuki, and maybe emergency treatment could still work!?”

“Maybe that could have been done. But—more than that, I wanted to talk to you guys.”

Mira-san smiled softly, her blood-stained cheeks relaxing as she looked at us.

“You will become much stronger than you are now. I wanted to tell you that.”

“Why—for something like that!?”

“It’s important. I was happy. Watching you grow stronger. You’re so different now from when we first met.”

As Mira-san clenched her hand, a rainbow-colored orb-like object appeared.

She gently handed it to me.

“I want to ask you a favor. Give this orb to that big toad. It’s a medicine I created with my skill. If he consumes it—though not everyone, some of the eaten humans can be returned.”

“Wait… Mira-san, why are you saying this now!?”

Mira-san is about to die. The time left is so little.

Even though she must be scared of dying.

“It’s fine, Arx. I received a message from Noah, the me from another world.”

Yet—why can she care so much about others and smile so brightly?

“Living isn’t just about losing something. It’s also about leaving something behind for someone else. A lonely raindrop becomes a river, then the sea, and returns to the sky. Finding meaning in that meaningless cycle is what we humans do.”

After handing me the orb, Mira-san placed her hands on mine and Raize’s heads, gently stroking them.

“Both of you, there’s no time left. Listen carefully to what I say.”

“”—Yes.””

“This is goodbye. But it’s not the end. I’ll take all your bad things with me, so you must find your own meaning in life.”

We nodded and held Mira-san’s hand.

“Mira-san—we will become stronger! We will never forget what you taught us!”

“That’s—good to hear. But you guys, if you’re going to say things like that—”

Mira-san’s hand lost its strength.

“Don’t cry.”

With those final words, Mira-san closed her eyes and fell silent.

The three minutes had passed.

“”Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!””

About an hour had passed since Lloyd’s enlargement. A short time that would normally just pass by.

But in that time, it took so much from us and left so much behind.

In the ruined capital, only our sobbing voices echoed.