The Mexican standoff gone silently, tensions where high and no one moved after Alice asked her question, Lime was getting antsy with this, but didn't move neither lower her guard against the queen slime and the monster lord, as she kept healing her friends inside her

"Well I'm waiting Erubetie" Alice crossed her arms and just stared at yet another troublesome heavenly knight while giving a side glance to the trio and the powerful slime girl.

"I was doing my job as a heavenly knight dolling punishment to these scum-" Erubetie began explaining before getting interrupted with an attack from Lime

"They are not scum you sea sludge!" Lime's eyes flashes crimson once again and was ready to resume the fight before Alice exerted her pressure making the girl shiver with fear, her eyes turned blue once more.

"...I punished them after mistakenly thinking they were cheating behind Lime's back and even though I was ready to stop when they said they were in a special relationship, when the human began insulting our species bounding traditions passed down by our ancestor, I lost control and snapped"

Erubetie felt ashamed, not because of what she did, but because she was found out, and being hated by another slime girl was doing a number on her, remembering how the human said he wouldn't ever want Lime to feel this emotion, only dug the nail further, as she just did that and possibly destroyed Lime's innocence from today onwards.

Alice looked once again at the Lime and how worried she was while doing her best to heal the still passed out, half digested human and spider inside her, before unwittingly making a comment that would only escalate things for the worst.

"So you told her that slimes bond with their mates by absorbing them... Did you forget that the minds of human males aren't compatible with slime colonies and will be lost? Oh f-"

Faster than anyone could react Lime attacked Erubetie once again, now armed with Roman's blade

"Gyah!" Erubetie's scream of pain was genuine as the multiple elements infused in the weapon made a mess in her body

"Blast ye scurvy slime sow! Ye be nothin' but a foul concoction o' goo and wretchedness!" Lime's pirate talk inflicted mental damage on everyone, but her weapons damaged Erubetie far more.

"Wait, Lime don't let anger blind you!" Luka exclaimed trying to stop things from escalating even more, after the fiasco that was Plansect, his words came from experience, but the stare Lime gave to the boy made him flinch from the sheer emotions behind it.

"Luka you stay out of this! You still have a debt to pay me after I'm done with this evil woman!" Lime's scathing answer stopped him on his tracks

Lime pressed on, pulling out Hime's weapons as she made more arms to wield them, the Slime queen who gone on the defensive still unwilling to fight the slime girl she wronged suffered attack after attack.

"You dare act like this in the front of the monster lord!?" Alice once again exerted her pressure, Lime flinched again but her emotions made her press onwards to Erubetie, Monster Lord orders meant nothing to the girl who wanted avenge the ones she loved.

(Dammit!) Alice tried actually do her job after Luka made her feel inadequate at Plansect, but failed miserably all because of one slip of the tongue.

"Lime doesn't care about Monster Lords, this evil barnacle infested gooey wench tried to kill my beloved friends! my subordinates, the love of Lime's life! Worse she tried to make me kill him! Lime wants her core mounted at my captain's cabin wall!"

Lime's once happy, innocent blue eyes were gone and just like Erubetie's they became blood crimson.

"But Lime is a pirate with honor, different from you sneaky, treacherous goop, so defend yourself now Erubetie, Lime won't accept you looking down upon us after what you did!"

Erubetie was pained by this but had no choice, she would use the full power of a Slime Queen except her final option to stop the girl's rampage, after all she knew from experience what one does to protect and avenge those important to them and the crimes she did against Lime were unforgivable.

"Very well..." Erubetie sent a tidal wave of digestive slime against the girl who countered with one herself, the splash zone between the two attacks began melting the plant life around them before being reabsorbed by their bodies as the battlefield around the spring's pond was covered.

Luka avoided danger by a hair and jumped back to a safe place with Alice before questioning the purple echidna

"Alice shouldn't we be stopping them?! They're going too far! Aren't monsters supposed to fight with pleasure?"

"What you expect me to do Luka!? I tried to do my job and solve things peacefully just to screw everything with that comment, no wonder my subordinates aren't following my orders and the monsters found loopholes to attack humans, even after i ordered them not to! And monsters only use pleasure against humans, when 2 monsters have a bloody feud they fight with intent to kill!"

Luka wasn't expecting this outburst from the normally composed monster lord.

"If you want to play hero again like you did in Plansect, be my guest you idiot, but this time how you plan to bring a peaceful solution to things after that girl just found out not only Erubetie tried to kill her beloved ones in cold blood, but also tried to convince her to eat and kill the human she wanted to be with?"

Luka had no answer for that, as once again this wasn't a black or white scenario, he would be a hypocrite to force his solution against the slime girl and also would be one if he tries to defend Erubetie, so he could only watch and hope no one died in front of him again today.

Erubetie made 10 clones and solidified the slime in her arms turning them into a variety of weapons all dripping with digestive juices before attacking the girl

"I can do the same!"

Lime answered in kind and her clones attacked using the many synthesized weapons Roman and Hime carried, while her main body used the most powerful ones, the two squirmed and groaned inside Lime's main body with the commotion happening outside, worrying her and adding even more fuel to her fire.

The gooey armies clashed, slimy hammer against axe, sword against slimy spear, slimy whip vs whip, Halberds, Katanas and many other weapons attacked one another with their only objective being to hurt their enemies.

"Auuugh" "gah" "ouchiee"

The casualties of both armies pilled up as the slime girls competed to end one another, Erubetie refilled her energy reserves by eating Lime's clones but Lime dealt far more damage than what Erubetie could heal by using weapons infused with elements instead of just her natural skills.

"Pierce!"

Erubetie's body bubbles up and dozens of slime spears were throw like missiles towards Lime who also sent her own to against the heavenly knight, while parrying the rest with her weapons.

"Smash!"

Erubetie forms a whirlpool with rampaging tentacles slamming them against Lime, the slime girl adopts a stance taught by the spider princess and in one move that brought so many curses from Cervantes as they kept cutting the ship's mast with it, every tentacle was cut in half.

"Ship's mast cutting form, Cervantes despair!"

Fwisshh clink

"So cool!" Luka was awed by the skill and the naming, he wondered if he could do it with angel halo.

"Idiot it's no time to be admiring her silly naming conventions, and the demon swordsmen skills have cooler names"

Still Alice had to give it to the little slime girl, she was holding herself very well against Erubetie even while having to worry about her passengers.

"Cut!"

Erubetie's made tentacles that looked like blades and sent them at Lime like the vine attack of a very angry Alraune, lashing her from every angle.

"Fall already! 8 legged slime dance!"

Lime countered it using the spider princess dance of death, combining offense and defense most attacks were parried and destroyed, she didn't care for the sizzling burn of those that got past her defense and the pain of Erubetie's acid trying to melt her, yet the view was gruesome even if she was made of slime.

"Take this! Final boomerang!"

The final weapon of destruction was throw at Erubetie, the slime queen shrunk into the ground to avoid it before reforming, Lime took this chance to press on without leaving any openings to for her hated enemy to counterattack, Erubetie was locked in the defensive completely before her instincts screamed danger and the woman disengaged.

(That weapon is dangerous i need to get out!)

Lime's main body left Roman and Hime with one of her clones, before dashing towards the retreating woman with a flash from Roman's sword preparing another ship mast cut, as the final Boomerang came back even faster for a pincer attack.

(Run away! duck! avoid! don't let her touch us! Kill the upstart! I don't want to die! Help us Erubetie!)

Erubetie's inner voices gone into a panic sensing the danger, she quickly build a digestive slime dome that exploded outwards, to stop the attacks and possibly damage the weapons to give herself a breather but weapons forged by Micaela wouldn't ever lose to something like that.

Fshhh crack crack crack crack

Against the element of ice her defenses were useless and her slime became solid, if someone was to look from above they would find a beautiful blooming flower of frozen slime for a moment before-

fsshhhhh shatter shatter BOOM

The element of fire interacted with the frozen slime next, and sheer cold with extreme hotness turned her defenses into a giant steam explosion

"aaAAAhhhHHHHH!"

Clumps of Erubetie's main body splattered all over now completely useless, many voices inside her were silenced, gone with the death of her pieces, the woman fell to the ground sobbing as Lime slowly approached.

Luka was one step from jumping over to defend Erubetie now that Lime has won but still seemed to want more, but Alice held him back, as he looked at her with a betrayed expression, he winced seeing how she was taking it harder than him.

"It's not over yet..." Alice also wanted to step in but found herself unable to, she clenched Luka's shoulder harder

"Get up"

Lime reached the downed woman refusing to let things end easily, motes of red began clumping around her forehead as a single core began forming.

"Those pieces were once people i bonded with, some devoured as punishment for their crimes after betraying me, others were my friends who helpless against a unfair world asked to be part of us and show everyone up to respect us even if through fear... Was my way of doing things wrong... my sisters...?" Erubetie murmured as she held the splattered unreactive clumps close to her.

"Lime believes they gone to a better place, get up"

Lime pointed her weapon against the downed queen, Erubetie knew she couldn't truly go all the way against the girl because that would endanger the spring they worked so hard to protect, still she didn't play around, Lime's victory was clean even with the handicap, so she would just accept Lime's judgment now, the remaining voices in her head silently accepted her decision maybe they would find peace at last. Erubetie's only regret now was fucking up things so hard she completely lost her chances of being friends with Lime even after waiting for so long for her.

"Lime if you keep going this way there's no turning back, Roman wouldn't want you to be a killer" Undine came out of the spring accompanied by the other slimes now that the fight was over, the spirit looked at her friend with sadness.

"Deeny? But I need to avenge them, for what she did to them, for the betrayal, look at them, if I was one moment later they would be gone!" Lime's eyes flashing between red and blue, the red core forming at her head began dispersing, neither of these things gone unnoticed by the spirit of water or the monster lord.

"You have enough power to heal them don't you and if you can't The monster lord surely can help?" Undine glanced at Alice and received a nod, the echidna wasn't ready to lose a heavenly knight today.

"But the lies she told us, she wanted me to kill them!" Lime still had her sword pointed at the Slime queen who didn't react anymore and was in peace with whatever happened from now on.

"Yes Erubetie did something wrong, something really stupid" the slime queen trembled with shame.

"But she paid for it already, you inflicted to her the same damage if not more, can't you bring yourself to forgive my friend even now?" Lime sword hand trembled not knowing what to do.

"She was just like you once upon a time you know, just a innocent happy adventurous slime girl wanting to make a name for herself, alas, she never found her own Roman and thanks to my mistakes teaching her how to become a colony type, this is the end result"

Lime looked back at her clone still caring for her friends, then at the woman at the end of her sword and shivered thinking she and her sisters could end up like Erubetie, her eyes finally gone back to deep blue.

"She was truly happy to meet you, out of all of us she was the most worried for your safety when I spoke of your journeys, when she found out you wanted to become a pirate we had to fight hard to keep her in check and let you conquer the sea, sadly she isn't good at making good first impressions, and this mess happened today, so, as someone who doesn't want to lose their friend, i ask you to forgive her"

"H-how about we add her to our crew then, let's fix her problems with humanity within the family of the jiggly pirates, once she sees our way of doing things maybe she can rehabilitate" Roman finally awake poked his head out of the clone who was happily hugging him.

"Roman!" Lime ran off towards the human jumping at him finally relieved that he was back.

"You slime girls fight really unfair, this is the second time i had my legs messed up off and was raped by a ravenous jelly... I stand by whatever my beloved ones decide" Hime awakened next and got pulled into the hug

"We always make friends of those we defeat in battle Lime, just offer a spot to Erubetie in the crew and try to rehabilitate her with your own Lime brand of friendship"

"Puru~ Okay" Lime finished the group hug and turned back to the downed slime queen who was still unresponsive holding the dead clumps

"Erubetie!"

Lime spoke with the powerful tone of a leader, making the woman finally raise her head and look at the girl, who finally was back to her happy demeanor, this change made the older slime feel happier inside for whatever it was worth, as Lime's innocence wasn't completely lost after what she did.

"From now onwards you will call me cap'n Lime welcome to the jiggly pirates, your recruitment is immediate! We will hammer into you how to be happy again! Murder isn't allowed so don't even try either consequences will happen! Roman!"

"Hai hai cap'n Lime!"

Roman tried to walk but the recovery wasn't finished yet, before toppling down, the clone held him and enveloped his lower body acting like crutches walking him towards the slime queen

"Sighs, i was too harsh in my criticism towards you, for that i'm sorry, i still think your traditions are dumb and need to be revised, so let this all be water under the table shall we?" Roman held his hand towards the slime queen who just looked at it

"Well... at least we'll not try to kill one another, friendship through violence doesn't always work after all, still you can't deny it's one of the best ways of doing it this crazy world we live" He rubbed his neck and pulled a boomerang gifting it to her.

"Kuku still, we need to make our new crewmate know the pecking order"

Hime pulled out from her chest half a dozen of the biological weapons brought in port Natalia, whatever voices remained inside Erubetie's head screamed at her to run away from the spider because being forced to eat that would be a fate worse than death, the woman wanted to punch herself in the face as she almost committed suicide by eating the arachnid and poisoning herself with those things.

"Behold! The thing that hates!"

"That's just port Natalia's unfortunate mermaid dish" Luka commented relieved everything was over in a good note, not knowing why that food would be so bad, Alice slapped him in the head for that.

"Yes Luka boy, it's good you got one as a trinket to remember the evils of the world, never eat it" Roman teasingly sent him a wink.

"Ooookay? Hey are you calling me Luka boy!?" The shota hero was flustered remembering Alma Elma teasing.

(Cute)

"Anyways if you try to hurt your new friends from the jiggly pirates we will force you to eat 10 of these! Puru~" Lime's smile wasn't a smile

"I... agree with these terms... My highness, can i?"

Alice wasn't ready for the 180 turn this situation took, so she just waved her hand as confirmation, better than to have Erubetie killed.

"I hope you get better and expand you views of the world go Erubetie, but you're still a heavenly knight and must answer my summons when needed"

"As you wish, cap'n Lime i Erubetie promise to follow all your orders"

clap clap clap clap

"Now let's proceed with this ceremony"

Undine spoke with a thin smile, her friend finally would be closer to the girl she wanted to meet, she prayed for those who were lost, but that was for the better, the amalgamation of minds corrupted them long ago she could only hope they found peace at last after freeing Erubetie from their burden.

"Puru! Thanks Deeny!"

"Boomerang boomerang~ la la la~" "Puru~ Lime is so strong she defeated the queen~" "Cap'n Lime we want to be part of your crew" "Yayyy it will be fun~"

"Puru~ you're always welcome in our crew~"

The marriage was simple and Undine just asked for the vows of the couple, she even threw a bone and added spider princess to the mix before giving them her blessings, Alice also gave her blessings as the monster lord and Luka as the fake hero, by the time things ended it was night already.

"Rooooomance!"

"Puru Rooooomance~"

"Fufu Roooomance i dare say~"

Sister moon also gave her blessing by shining brightly at the recently married trio and the spring, making the entire place have this magical feeling to it, the slime girls played around with boomerangs and congratulated Lime while Slime Bess was suspiciously absent from the proceedings.

(Dammit, she'll be a problem for the spring later, better alert Deeny)

Roman asked the spirit to go talk privately and she agreed after raising a slimy brow.

"The human himself, do you want my other blessing i wonder?" Undine offered with a teasing smile

"Well.. if you're offering... But no, it's Luka who came for it, I'm just here to propel Lime to greater heights, what i want to say is, keep an eye on traitors"

"And why do you think we have traitors?" As she said it, Roman came really close to her and spoke to her ear as if worried about being listened by someone.

"Consider it knowledge of the foreseeable future, keep an eye on Slime Bess movements if possible try to move the weaker slimes to Lime's village back in Ilias continent, thanks to our actions there most people are slowly opening up to coexistence, and the village will do wonders for their mind"

"You're full of secrets but your flow doesn't lie, i'll believe in you, now let go before Lime starts thinking i took a bite of her husband fufufu"

As Roman gone back he was tackled by a jealous Lime who wanted to Puru Puru~ with him while having everyone as witness, Hime jumped in not wanting to lose after their match was interrupted earlier, Luka blushed hard but kept looking, Alice called them all perverts, the colored slimes goaded them wanting a show and Erubetie was unreadable watching the 3 happily going at it was if it was the most natural thing after everything that happened, this was peaceful if horny night at Undine's spring.

AN: so what did ya think about this resolution?