Curse of Sanke (1)

"A lot of answering to do?" The old lady slime shrieked back at Shinto's sudden serious tone. "Why would I answer your questions?! It's better that you don't know about it at all, it's confidential!"

"Hmm, confidential?" Shinto tilted his head. "Well... we'll get to that later. For the time being, I just want to know some general stuff," Shinto said as he was quickly interrupted by his party members.

"Hey, master! Why does the slime seem so scared?" Frey blinked at the sight of the shivering slime. "Did you do anything?"

"...no, I didn't do anything," Shinto helplessly sighed as he showed the necklace on his neck to Frey. "In the first place... that slime's scared of this necklace; they wouldn't be this distraught if it weren't for that."