Is it wrong for slimes to be in dungeons? (revised)

Chapter 21: A Place to Return to

"...sure." I nodded after a moment.

She leads me to the couch in the living room and motions for me to sit.

I silently comply, and she leaves the room for a moment.

I stared across the room and a nervous feeling began to swirl in my stomach. There were plenty of things I could imagine this talk would be about. None of them were good.

As I waited I could the tensions beginning to rise within me.

What did she want to speak about? There were too many answers.

What if she forces me to go? A very real possibility considering the circumstances.

Is she mad? She has to be... right? I could understand why she would be. At least from her point of view, I had put both her and Sophia in a great amount of danger.

I paused, what would I do if things went south with Amaterasu here? At this point the only people I could really turn to would be...Loki familia, but well to say they were still on edge about me would be an understatement. Going from my enemy to friend, back to my enemy, and back to a friend obviously led them to be cautious of me. Getting yanked around so often certainly left a good amount of them highly suspicious of me and doubtful of how much I could be trusted.

With all that in mind where did that leave me? Well, I suppose I technically didn't need to sleep or eat or anything so technically I could just live without a place to return to, but something about that just felt incredibly lonely...

I remember the feelings I felt when I was forced to run away from the Loki familia initially. No one to turn to, no one to confide in, all alone.

And as I tried to imagine this a hollow feeling filled my body. As though the very emotion I should feel was missing.

Right, my soul, I was forced to acknowledge the unpleasant truth of my situation. I was shattered. Incomplete, I needed to regain my soul before things would progress in any direction. Forget having nowhere to return to and no one to confide in, as I currently was confiding in someone was something I was incapable of.

Until my soul is complete I can't feel full emotions and with that being the case I would never be capable of expressing them.

It had certainly gotten better from my days in the dungeon, but I had yet to complete myself.

Until I did I would be stuck like this. Unable to fully understand my own emotions. My lips parted as I sucked in a breath.

How am I going to deal with this? My thoughts began to swirl before I was interrupted by a child's voice.

"Why so serious? Something on your mind?" Amaterasu was walking down the stairs with two drinks in one hand and a sandwich in the other.

"Water?" she offered. I nodded and she placed the cup in front of me. "Sorry I've never brewed tea before, I usually leave it to Sophia, so you're stuck with this for now," she shrugged.

"It's fine," I say. Technically I didn't need to drink, so this was just a formality but I took it nonetheless.

She jumped up into a chair across from me before opening her mouth to speak.

"So, mind explaining what happened exactly?" she asked.

"..." I silently stared down at the water before taking a sip. "After Sophia took me to the dungeon-"

"I'm not worried about that." she cut me off before I could finish. I stayed silent. "Why did you suddenly turn into that...thing. And why did your aura start leaking?" she asked. "Those questions are far more important."