The hero's gender is yet to be determined after rebirth.

Sylph glanced at Melanie still drawing a face on Bulbo under the table, then quietly leaned closer to Lorenwei and whispered, "What? Feeling sorry for him?"

"...Would it make you angry if I said a little?" Lorenwei asked cautiously.

Sylph pouted: "Idiot, what you said has already made me angry."

Lorenwei sighed, "That's just how it is."

"..." Sylph withdrew her gaze from Lorenvie and sighed, "Really, I don't care anymore. Tell me if you want, I won't stop you."

"Really?" Lorenwei's eyes lit up.

“You…” Sylph turned around and angrily tapped Lorenvi on the head, “How can you be so happy?”

Lorenwei retorted, feeling wronged: "Huh? Can't I even be happy?"

"No way! I hate it! No way!" Sylph stormed off in a huff.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Lorenwei looked at Kurara on the balcony, then at the departing figure of Sylph, unsure of which way to go.

Meilan crawled out from under the table: "Hey? Where's Sylph?"

Lorenwei hesitated for a moment: "Uh, she went to rest."

"Really, you left too early! We haven't had enough to eat yet!" Meilan felt that she was still hungry.

She was busy feeding the Slime King before, so she didn't eat as much as usual.

“These dishes are getting a bit cold. Don’t eat too much and you’ll really gain weight. If you’re still not satisfied, how about…” Lorenwei looked at the table, thought for a moment, and said, “I’ll grill a chicken carcass for you! It’s a super classic appetizer.”

Lorenwei picked up two chicken skeletons from the table, cut off the meat with a knife and fork, and used magic to rekindle the fire. Then, she used spatial displacement to take out seasonings such as cumin, chili, and soy sauce, and started grilling a classic appetizer: cumin chicken skeletons.

The enticing aroma returns.

On the 阳台… …

"Loren, what are you busy with? We haven't seen each other in so long..." Kurara stood on the balcony, looking lost and forlorn.

In the bedroom...

"Couldn't you have come over and talked to me? What an idiot..." Sylph sulked to herself in the room.

Beside the training ground...

"Hahaha! Chicken bones are really fun to eat, and they smell delicious! Come on, let's drink to this!" Meilan raised her glass and clinked it with Lorenwei's.

As the moonlight deepened, they began gnawing on chicken bones at the dining table and started drinking wine...

Chapter 159 Meilan couldn't keep the secret; her lips were indeed soft.

"Hahaha! Fifteen or twenty is so much fun!" Meilan's loud laughter was particularly clear in the night, startling countless birds that were roosting there.

Lorenwei doesn't need to worry, her little bird has already flown away~

"You lost! You drink!" Lorenwei's face reeked of alcohol.

Meilan looked at her two clean, white hands and laughed heartily: "You guessed right!"

She grabbed the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

The wine cup was small, about an ounce, and the wine was not the medium-strength wine that Burbo drank, but rice wine.

Although there's no rule against minors drinking alcohol in this world, Lorenwei still doesn't intend to let Meilan drink strong liquor, so the rice wine they're playing drinking games with is only about 3% alcohol.

I've known for a while that you like to slap people. Lorenwei thought smugly.

The finger-guessing game of Fifteen or Twenty is different from the finger-guessing game of Five. Lorenwei was afraid that she would lead Meilan astray, so she taught her a relatively gentle game.

Meilan had never played this kind of game before, and she was really happy. She even released the Slime King.

King Slime ate all the vegetarian food on the table, then happily kept the two company. When Melanie won, Puyo would sway back and forth excitedly. When Melanie lost, it would wilt.

Later, both of them got tired and sat back on the pink Slime King, using it as a water sofa.

"Hahaha! The two happiest things since coming to the academy are meeting Loren and you," Meilan said, gazing at the starry sky. She clearly couldn't hold her liquor; even a little rice wine made her face flush.

Lorenwei blushed slightly, rested her head on her hands, and looked up at the starry sky, saying, "I'm so happy to see such a beautiful starry sky again."

"See it again?" Meilan didn't understand.

Lorenwei changed the subject: "Hahaha, this is a very happy situation. I'm even happier with so many beautiful women with me."

At this point, Lorenwei glanced at Meilan and suddenly realized that Meilan looked especially beautiful tonight.

I can't quite put my finger on what's different about her. Her figure isn't as exaggerated as Kurara's, her temperament isn't as ethereal as Silph's, and her facial features aren't as pretty as mine, but I just find her very attractive.

Lorenwei stared at Meilan, somewhat lost in thought.

Unbeknownst to her, Meilan was a high-ranking demon, with succubus blood in her lineage. Although the High Magic Anthropomorphic Accumulation Technique prevented her from revealing her demonic identity, it was a night when demons were at their strongest, and she was also intoxicated, which allowed Meilan's allure to subtly emerge.

Meilan, oblivious to Lorenwei's gaze, continued, "Haha, I never imagined I'd be studying with you all. It's really strange, all these different races together..."

Lorenvi's heart skipped a beat, and she barely managed to regain her composure before asking, "Race? Don't we have Sylph, who is an elf?"

For a moment, Lorenwei thought that Meilan was alluding to the Sevi race. However, the Sevi race was just a bloodline characteristic, not a simple racial distinction like humans, demons, or elves.

“Ah… this…” Meilan hesitated.

Suddenly, she took a deep breath, her gaze no longer fixed on the sky, but fixed intently on Lorenvi: "Lorenvi, let me ask you something. What do you think about the various races in the world... uh... um..."

Before she could finish speaking, she didn't dare to open her mouth again.

Meilan wanted to ask Lorenwei if she thought there was a hierarchy among different races. She also wanted to ask her opinion on the demon race.

But it was too obvious; she was worried about arousing suspicion. If their demonic identities were discovered, they wouldn't even be able to remain friends...

"Lanlan, you must not tell anyone about your identity!" Grandpa's words before he passed away still seemed to echo in my ears. "Not everyone can be like Grandpa and Grandma, who don't care about their demonic identity. If you tell them, even your closest relatives and friends might become your enemies."

She was already feeling the effects of the alcohol and wanted to speak, but remembering her grandfather's instructions, Meilan bit her lip and didn't dare to continue.

"What's wrong with you?" Lorenwei naturally noticed Meilan's unusual behavior.

Meilan is usually very straightforward and speaks her mind, so why is she being so hesitant today?

"Um... hahaha, if the chicken carcass we just ate had intelligence, would you still eat it?" Meilan leaned back against the slime's bouncy, soft body, asking casually as if it were nothing.

Lorenwei understood that she wasn't talking about the Sevilles. Then what could it be?

After a moment of silence, Lorenwei did not answer.

"Haha, I asked such a silly question." Meilan thought her question would be difficult for the other party to answer.

“No, no, I think... all intelligent beings deserve respect.” Lorenwei had already figured something out and quickly answered her.

She recalled that during her battle with the Ohoyo siblings, Melanie had a poor response to holy healing magic, suggesting she might be a race resistant to holy magic. Undead are vulnerable to holy damage, so it wasn't an undead; dark angels, demons, and other races resistant to holy magic were more likely possibilities.

"Do they all deserve respect?"

“Yes, I can’t really explain it, but I just feel that if chicken bones had intelligence, I wouldn’t want to eat them. Hahaha, at least they’d be spirits.” Lorenwei laughed.

Meilan was somewhat pleased to hear this: "Really? What are your thoughts on inter-racial attacks?"

"I'm the kind of lazy person who hopes for world peace. I'd prefer everyone to live a peaceful life." Lorenwei stretched. "For example, if a demon came to me to be friends, I would consider it."

"Really?" Meilan's eyes lit up.

Could she really be a demon, just as I suspected? Lorenwei wanted to laugh.

“Really, if my friend is a demon, it’s no big deal. I don’t care at all.” Lorenwei chuckled. “It’s perfectly normal for them to be friends, or even wives.”

Meilan found it hard to believe such direct words for a moment: "You wouldn't mind if your friend was a demon, no, even if your wife was a demon?"

Lorenwei nodded, thinking to herself that Meilan, being so straightforward, really couldn't hide anything. She could easily discern the secret from Meilan's reaction with just a little probing.

“Really? Then…” Meilan suddenly straightened up, raised one hand high into the air as if to announce something, “As a friend, I don’t want to hide it anymore, I’ll tell you now…”

“You don’t need to tell your friends everything.” Lorenwei grabbed her and covered Meilan’s mouth with her hand, preventing her from speaking. “Friends can have secrets too! Some secrets won’t affect the friendship if you don’t tell them.”

Meilan sobbed, "Really?"

Lorenwei felt Meilan's lips touch her palm; they were soft, tender, and incredibly cute. As expected, lips that can't keep a secret are just not tough enough.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to kiss lips like those? Lorenwei's mind started wandering...

Chapter 160 Today was indeed super fun; it's time to confront Kurara!

"You've said 'seriously' so many times tonight." Lorenwei still couldn't bear it. She hadn't confessed before, so she had already ambushed Meilan. She let go of her hand and thought for a moment. "Let me tell you a story."

Lorenwei leaned against the slime, gazing at the starry sky as she told Meilan a story.

"..." This time, Meilan looked at Lorenwei, staring at her face, her mind not on the story at all.

She said she wouldn't mind being friends with demons.

Under the moonlight, the blue-haired girl possessed a unique charm in Meilan's eyes.

Meilan was also staring blankly at Lorenwei.

"Huh? Did I tell the story badly?" Lorenwei quickly noticed that Meilan had been staring at her, as if she hadn't been listening to the story.

"Ah! No, um... could you tell it again..." Meilan realized her face was burning. She didn't know if it was because she was blushing from looking at Lorenwei, or because she was embarrassed to be caught daydreaming and not listening to the story.

"Listen carefully." Lorenvey was talking about "The Story of My Reincarnation as a Slime."

This time, Meilan didn't focus her attention on Lorenwei; she listened to the story with great interest.

“Rimuru is just so cute, but she’s a monster. But if she could be both male and female, she could be not only a friend, but also a wife.” The more Lorenvi told the story, the more she felt it was perfect for communicating with Melanie.

"Become a wife? Did a fish bite Rimuru's genitals?" Melan thought of the girl in the village who was supposed to get a wife but ended up becoming the wife herself...

"Of course not, I was just using an example. Actually, after she was reincarnated, she was a demon. Almost none of her subordinates were human, except for that adventuring team that freeloaded on food and drink."

"Humans are indeed insatiable," Meilan sighed.

"You're thinking the wrong thing... Actually, the people in this adventure team all consider Rimuru, cough, and Rimuru as friends, which is why they can eat and drink there without worry."

Meilan thought for a moment: "...That makes sense!"

Can the demon race really coexist peacefully with the human race? Meilan wondered to herself as she listened.

The story of Lorenve ended a bit after the establishment of the Demon Kingdom. "Let's stop here for today."

Actually, she was afraid the story would end abruptly, because she didn't know what would happen after that, as the series hadn't finished when she transmigrated.

Meilan gently touched the slime beneath her: "I never imagined a slime could become such a powerful being."