Medical gave a pout and a squeak of denial, in an attempt to state
that she was not, in fact, trying to compete with her brother. She then
gave a few haughty squeaks about how glitter slimes were so much
prettier than opaque slimes anyway.

“Oh, these two are a couple of
little divas!” Quartz exclaimed. “Medical’s a glitter slime, so she
loves to be treated like a star, and Cat Slime… I wonder if he picked
that up from her?”

Susumu sighed. “I don’t like the sound of that…” she mumbled. “And stop calling her a replacement, would ya? At least try to treat her like a sister.”

Cat Slime rolled his eyes at Medical’s protests. He’d heard it all before, and it was just as dumb as when she first started ranting about her superiority.

Not that he was like that, of course…

He couldn’t deny that the star’s life was a good one, and he was very grateful to have a cute, marketable form. But still, he didn’t think that meant anything without loving others.

Marie hugged both of them slightly tighter. If they weren’t slimes, it would start to be uncomfortable.

“Yes, you;re both so cute! You are! You are!”

* * *

“Hey, I’m not going to do anything to her! I was just saying I think I know how to deal with this!”

Granted, it was basically depriving her of her job by relegating her to supervision, but the Repairman didn’t think of it that way. All he knew was it would keep her from taking his job.

The Repairman sighed.

“I guess you’re right. I shouldn’t hold it against the lil’ upstart too much.”

He looked back in the distance, where he could barely see the others.

“…It might be nice having another companion with me.“

Slowly, he began to move back over there. Maybe he could get a second shot at his first impression.