A Husk

"You're not going to teach me anymore?" the princess asked with a blank look. "Are you not going to visit me anymore?"

"I will have to leave this country in a week," Ning said. "But that doesn't mean I won't come to visit you. It will just be… a little longer each time."

The princess wasn't exactly sad, but she was still feeling bad about the news.

"Your teacher has his own life, Janice," the king said. "He will now go and teach other students just like you."

"Is that so?" the princess asked.

Ning nodded. 

"Okay," the princess said. "But you have to fulfill your promise first."

"My promise?" Ning asked.

"You said I could meet with slimy today," she said.

Ning sighed and chuckled a bit. "Okay, I will go get him. You go stay in your room."

Ning left the palace and disappeared into the night. When he reappeared, he was on the island with the beasts and saw the slime speak with the beasts.