"Talking"

'Thinking'

'Character having Flashbacks'

[Typing]

《Robotic impression》

『Skills, dramatic impression』

Dramatic impressions


20 years ago...

(Dimension 1, Central World)

"Starting from today, I am Veldora Tempest! and you shall be Rimuru Tempest!"

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The body needs a core and a soul to experience this phenomenon called "life".

While the core is generally called the "Nucleic heart", the soul itself is much more complex than it held a huge amount of energy to be harvested.

Of course, that doesn't mean it was that easy to convert souls into Magicules or a based form of any kind of energy.

Also, there's this thing called "soul fragmentation".

When an individual reincarnates over and over, the soul gradually fragmented into pieces and maybe reincarnated into different kinds of individuals.

As for me, Veldora Tempest, who divided himself into two and kept my consciousness independent, in order to escape from the Infinite prison; the other half of myself should probably reincarnate somewhere.

Well, not really "Divided". I just forcefully fragmented my soul along with my spiritual body, ultimately sealing the "Infinite prison" inside the other soul fragments in order to escape.

Simply put, I didn't "Break free" from the infinite prison. Rather, I simply throw a "substitution no Jutsu", (if I were to say it in the terms of a manga from Rimuru's memories) and run away smugly.

But now I'm more interested in the problem I have at hand.

When I gave Rimuru his name, I purposely shoved a portion of the infinite prison inside his body knowing the fact he has the ability to store things.

But then, what is this... "connection" I'm feeling right now?

《Answer: Soul corridor has been established. You can now transfer Magicules freely between the linked individuals.》 And my unique skill, 『Answerer』 responded.

I was fascinated by what would happen if linked the use of names closely... a "soul corridor" huh...? Intriguing...

Currently, I have the appearance of a black-haired teen with a muscular build, two streaks of black lightning-like tattoos came down from my eyes to my cheeks. Though, I've been thinking of changing my hair color to a blonde...

I wore simple clothing as I still haven't known the current fashion trends in the world.

Well, the goblins only wear some rags... Is that really the current trend in this world?

No no, I could at least consider all races have different kinds of trends...

So anyway...

"You idiot... Didn't I tell you not to name anyone randomly?"

"Uuu..."

Let's do this again, I am Veldora, Veldora Tempest... and currently, I am scolding while healing a sworn slimy friend of mine.

"It's really uncomfortable..." The slime whined at its melting state.

"Hold on there, I am healing you..." I stated thus as I transferred more and more Magicules through the soul corridor I had formed with him.

This is my friend. Rimuru Tempest the slime, he's not a bad slime you know? Yes, reference intended. He has lived quite a peaceful life before getting stabbed in the back and died and finally reincarnated into this world.

By the way, I took a peek at his memories through the soul corridor a bit while giving my Magicules to heal him.

Well, he still ends up sleeping after solidifying back into a sphere...

You see, gaining a "Name" means the monster becomes a Named Monster and obtains a higher status, becomes much stronger than before, even evolving at times.

Since naming a monster requires Magicules, most individuals refrain from doing so, as most of the time, the magic energy lost due to naming will stay permanently lost leading to a permanent decrease in the Namer's total magic capacity.

And this slime here just starts naming goblins here and there without even stopping for a second.

"V-Veldora-sama... May we know what happened with Rimuru-sama right now?" The old goblin now named Rigurd asked me.

"Um? ah, he's currently in a sleeping state due to him giving you all too much Magicules." I pick Rimuru up with my hands and commanded the named monsters: "You folks, you can do whatever you want until Rimuru wakes up. But no fighting each other. Understood?"

"Yes, our Lord!"

Haah~ we were talking about adventuring the world together, but now Rimuru ended up leading some village.

Seriously, you're such a troublesome slime...

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It has been days after our meeting.

We've gotten out after avoiding some adventures, and shutting down the dispute between goblins and dire wolfs, finally naming all of them.

Deary, I guess I can't blame Rimuru for having such human common sense... (He neither has one too -Author)

Anyways, after two days... yes, two days. He finally woke up.

I could finally be free from being the one in command after two days... Well, even though I was just lazing around...

Well that and...

"Hooh~ this is an interesting manga..." I currently mused to myself as I read a volume of "Death Note" from Rimuru's memories through the soul corridor.

Being able to kill someone by merely stating the full name of the victim inside a book?

That's an interesting concept.

That being said, I tried messing around with the soul corridor a bit and found out that I could actually replicate some of Rimuru's skills and utilize them.

The problem is; that I still won't be able to obtain the skills themselves.

So that's why...

"Oi... what the hell..?" Rimuru asked right after he woke up.

After being shocked at the sight of evolved goblins and dire wolfs, they are now "hobgoblins" and "tempest wolves" by the way, Rimuru can't help but get more dumbfounded at the sight of me casually reading an object he recognized from his previous world.

"Um? well yeah, as you can see... it's a book." Man... making these "papers" sure is hard, good thing I could replicate the effect of 『Great Sage』's subskill; 『All of creation』.

Don't even ask me about drawing the pictures... I could only color them black and white. Well not really black, I don't have those "inks" after all... Though, I do know how to replicate coals...

"Ah I see, I see, It's a book huh~✨? It's good to see you have picked up a few hobbies— WRONG! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THAT MANGA ANYWAY!?"

"Well... I looked it up from your memories, recreated it, and viola!"

"HAH!?"


-Explanation in progress, Please stand by-


"THAT'S CREEPY! STOP LOOKING INTO MY MEMORIES!"

"sure."

"Wha- really?"

"Yeah, I've seen everything anyway. For example; you bought a lot of fantasy-themed eroge in your past life. Most of them contain elf-"

"STOP STOP I'M NOT LISTENING LA LA LA LAAAAA—"


-Please stand by-


"Uuuu..." That's rare to see my slime sulked like that. Well, it's still funny but I guess I've gone a bit too far...

"The Main character sure is a hypocrite huh... trying to be god and all..."

"This is the part where you are supposed to be comforting me, ossan!"

"Hey! I'm still in my 2000s!"

"Don't say it as if you're in your 20s!"


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Well, something led to one another and...

"Veldoraaa we're going to Dwargon, you're coming?" The slime asked.

Then after pondering for a while, I reply: "I think... no. There should be someone to protect the village while you're away."

"Yeah... I think so too. Then I'll be counting on you..."

"Yeah"

Yeah, Rimuru goes to Dwargon. If I'm not wrong, it was the dwarf's kingdom?

He doesn't really need to do that as I could've dived and found out more stuff from his memories but... well, I guess he should at least go out once in a while...

For the time being, I have successfully controlled my aura into a human's wavelength.

That sure that some time but, using the new secondary energy from my pathways, I did it flawlessly.

With this, no one would think the Storm dragon Veldora exists anymore.

"Rigurd." I called the muscular hobgoblin.

"Yes, Veldora-sama?" He responded to my call.

"Could you take care of everything for a while? I have other matters to attend to."

"Certainly, Veldora-sama."

Yes, I'm doing something behind Rimuru's back.

There are only two things that intrigue me upon "watching" Rimuru's memories.

1. Entertainment.

And 2... Culinary.

Even though we spiritual beings don't need to eat nor sleep, I certainly envy those humans who get to enjoy all kinds of food.

Well, I don't know anything about it so...

'What about that black liquid they use in raw fish again?'

《Answer: Soy sauce is a thin, liquidy, Asian condiment normally made from fermented soybeans. Specific strains of fungus are grown on soybeans, and—》

STOP! We're not there yet.

I'd have to ask Rimuru about it for details later...

So anyway, I was walking around my Forrest until...

"We congratulate you for your revival, Veldora-sama" In front of stood the spiritual body of the dryads.

At that point, I folded my arms to my chest.

"Dryads... this brings back some memories... Well, I believe I deserved an apology?" Ah? "why," you ask? because these dryads have been stalking us since Rimuru and I left my cave.

"We're very sorry for being disrespectful, but seeing Veldora-sama controls his majestic aura perfectly triggered our suspicion and led us to choose a cautious approach." The dryads bowed their heads.

"Hm... If I remember correctly you are... " I tried to remember the name of the dryad bowing in front of me.

"Treyni-desu."

Right... "I give you my thanks for taking care of my garden." I stated.

"Your words are benevolent, Veldora-sama."

What a liar...

Are they even here only for this?

《Answer: No.》

Called it, I doubt they were here just to congratulate me in the first place... "So what do you want?" I asked, flatly.

Treyni replies directly: "Oh my? whatever do you mean?" with a smile the dryad stated.

"Cut the chase I knew something happened." To this, she dropped her smile and seriousness takes over her face.

"We spotted something suspicious, Veldora-sama." From then, Treyni explained to me what was going on.

Apparently, some superior Majin came to the Ogre village and haughtily thinks they could "name" them.

Oh, goodie...

Not to mention. ogres?

"Where is that Majin now?" I asked.

"We've not spotted him yet, we figured the ogres chased him out from their village."

Well, that's interesting...

"Search him, and spy on his movement. I doubt he did these shady acts by himself. They may have a superior. Don't get caught." As commanded them, I thought: 'Now that I think of it, 『Answerer』 can be used in this kind of situation...'

"We heed your command, Veldora-sama" Treyni said as the dryads bow down their heads before dispersing into the wind and leaves.

Well, let's try asking 『Answerer』 then... 'was the suspicious Majin named?'

《Answer: Yes.》

What's his name?

《Answer: Gelmud》

Huh...

What master does he serve?

《Answer: The demon lord, Clayman

...Ah.


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Well, this is a bad start.

I asked more questions to 『Answerer』, but it just dropped my smile over time.

He improvised to create a Demon Lord, and control them into starting the war.

It seems like they're trying to take Jura forest as their territory at the end of the day.

Haaah... How troublesome.

After a few days, Rimuru got home, bringing four additional guests with him.

Four dwarfs; Kaijin who acts as the blacksmithing, Myrd the silent dwarf is in charge of the later construction team, Garm who's in charge of clothes, and finally Dord who's known for his first-rate craftsmanship.

I did get a new set of clothes afterward, although I asked for a plain shirt and pants, somehow there are now some golden decorationsー I don't even know what it's called. It ended up like that after they dropped their jaw to the ground whilst looking at my face and Rimuru's satisfied smile.

Though, after using 『Investigator』, I figured they were just shocked to know the "Storm Dragon Veldora" is in this place. What's this? they even have some bugs on their tails (Spies).

I asked 『Answerer』 afterward, but it seems like these dwarfs are being exiled from the dwarven kingdom.

And these spies are moving by the command of the dwarf's king himself.

Maa, nothing is important here and I doubt they'll attack just because of the fact that Storm Dragon Veldora is with the slime they kicked out.

So I decided not to mind their spies too much.

Well, he is not the only one who brought guests into our village.

Many more goblins also joined us and seek protection.

I helped Rimuru to name them since I know he'll just enter sleeping mode again later on.

But other than that...

*KABOOM*

Currently, I sat at the edge of a cliff as I take a look at the scene in front of me.

That sound of the explosion was generated by Rimuru who cast black lightning on Ant monsters.

I also saw four-figure of humans down there.

Black lightning huh... well, I guess I could expect that much for someone I named by myself.

Well, I guess I'll go greet the humans too.

But before that,

*SHUDDER*

I released a little bit of my aura to the surrounding areas.

*RUSTLE*

Immediately one of the trees near me shakes.

Spies can be annoying these days...

Anyway, after I get down...

"V-veldora-sama...!"

"I was just wondering where you've been..." Rimuru stated right away as he saw me appearing next to Rigurd. We're just outside the tent where the humans are in.

"I was just patrolling. But then I see brought some guest with you." I answered.

"So you were watching huh...?" Although he is a slime, I don't need to see the expression on his face when we talk, I know he's staring at me.

"What's up? something on my face?" Thus, I asked.

"No, it's nothing really... let's go greet the adventures shall we?" Adventures... huh...?

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Inside the tent, three serious faces stared daggers into the sizzling meats on top of the hot iron plate.

The slime, the girl with a mask on her face, and finally myself; looked at the trio while either sweat dropping or confused.

No one made any sound aside from the sizzling meat on the grill, well, until someone made a wrong move.

"GAAAH!" The adventurer called Eren, also a magician of the team, screamed bloody murder due to her companion swiftly taking some of the roasted meat from the grill.

"GIDO YOU BASTARD! YOU ACTUALLY DARE TO EAT MY MEAT!?" The girl shouted.

While smiling smugly, the adventurer with the "Thief" class responded, "The dining table is a battlefield, Ms. Eren."

"Fine then! I'll just eat Kaval's portion!" While saying that, the girl snatches another portion of meat from the grill.

"GAH! THE MEAT I ROASTED WITH SO MUCH EFFORT!" The guy who takes the role of "Heavy fighter" in the party named Kaval shouted.

On the other side of the huge table made of the grill, I sat next to Rimuru and the other masked girl whilst sweat dropping.

"Really... a bunch of merry fellas..." Rimuru muttered.

Suddenly the masked girl named Shizu called, "Slime-san, slime-san, You're touching the iron plate you know?" "UWAAAH!?" Rimuru... were shocked? Huh?

That's a bit confusing, does Rimuru forget he has thermal fluctuation resistance?

"I- I thought I was going to melt..." (Rimuru)

"Seeing that you haven't melted, you probably have 『Resistance』 to heat" (Shizu)

And they continue to chat.

I silently sipped my tea as I watch the adventurer trio bicker.

But suddenly, "Oh right, I forgot about... Shizu-san, this is Velー"

Ah, Rimuru wanted to introduce me, should I let the humans know though? No. That'll give them some scare which would be interesting, but if I'm right, these adventurers are here to gain info about me.

Therefore,

"Yamada." I interrupted directly whilst ignoring Rimuru's "Eh?" as I turned my head to the masked girl.

"You can just call me Yamada" I repeated while smiling.

Even though I can't see her face under the mask, I'm sure she smiled back before replying, "I am Shizu, pleased to be your acquaintance."

"Likewise," I stated.

Ignoring the constantly-turning-left-and-right Rimuru, I stand up.

"I need to continue with my patrol." Thus, I stated.

"Ah, you can just leave it to the Patrolling team-" Rimuru's call was interrupted again by me, "Rimuru, I need to patrol the village." I repeated, somehow giving the "No objections allowed" aura.

"Y-Yes, sir..."

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I have told everyone to not calls me Veldora in front of the humans. Well, the spies from Dwargon have probably found out, but I don't really care. They will only report it to their king and I don't need to hold an investigation to understand they will not spread the information around.

But the humans?

I figured those adventurers are from Blumund.

Looking at the newly released maps of the world by the dwarfs, Blumund survives by selling information to other countries, they're just a small country after all. So as you can see, No.

Though, I'd still be prepared if somehow the dwarven kingdom decided to attack later on.

Now then...

I have something else to do.

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The ice Continent is a land covered by ice where fierce blizzards reigned. Its vicinity is covered in a barrier of ice, with temperatures of -120° Celsius such that nothing could live there.

There I sat on a chair, facing the true demon lord and the figure I am familiar with as my dear sister.

"This is unexpected. We thought we'll need to wait a bit longer to meet you once more." The demon lord with red hair stated amusedly.

(Guy Crimson, Main Ability: 『Prideful King Lucifer』)

"Certainly, even if you succeed in freeing yourself... I figured you will avoid me just like old times, Yet..." These words are my sister's.

(Velzard, Main Ability: 『Patience Lord Gabriel』)

"Yeah, you can say I changed in the last 300 hundred years, Aneue..."

Yup, this is our common sense, people. 300 years are just like three years for us, spiritual beings. Meaning; that I am currently 20 years old if you were to convert my age to a human's. Well, probably...

"Fufu... if that's true then, is there something you need?" Guy asked.

I paused for a while before saying: "I'm building a country." Well, not really. Knowing Rimuru, I can't even be surprised if he had more and more monsters serving under him sooner or later.

Both, he and my sister stared at me for a second, and I cut in before he wanted to say something, "No. I am not joining your game." That's right, I am DEFINITELY not joining the game of chess Guy and his human friend, Rudra, are currently playing.

"I am building a country, do you hear me? I am NOT joining your game." I repeated.

"I don't need any demon lords securing personnel in my lands, I don't need any human saints or even heroes trying to expand their country's territory, nor do I need some War suddenly happening inside my Little-huge lovely garden." Thus, I explained.

"That's quite a troublesome request you made there... had you not suppressed your aura, you could've just sat back as it shows that they're under your protection."

"I have other matters to do."

"Really, I thought you were 'building a country'?"

"That's Rimuru's part."

"Rimuru?" Guy muttered questioningly in a low voice while raising an eyebrow before he says, "That's unfair, I'm more intrigued by whatever 'matters' you currently have now that you say it like that..." With a disappointed face, Guy crossed his arms on his chest as he let his body falls to the crystal chair's backrest.

"I was trying to go out from this world." Suddenly, I stated.

It took a while before Aneue (Velzard) responded firstly, "Out...? Veldora, are you trying to abandon your duties?"

"And what are my duties in the first place? Aneue, I don't think our older brother has told me about it in the past. Not to mention, I'm just going to explore... It's a suitable stress relief after being imprisoned for 300 years, no?" At least I'm not rampaging on other territories now.

Rather, this is exactly why I'm not joining Guy's game. If my 'duties' are playing a game of chess with countries as my pawns, I don't think I want to work for free thank you very much.

I'd rather go get a real job and get paid. Wait, No, that's also troublesome. If anything, I'd like to try the sweets I saw in Rimuru's memories rather than... this.

That being said, wasn't it Velgrynd-Aneue who has been abandoning her job? For an "Arbiter" such as Guy, Aneue needs to make sure Guy does not go too far with his pride. But Velgrynd-Ane?

Not to mention... Is Rudra even alright there? dying so many times while holding my Aniki, Star Dragon Veldanava's ultimate skill... Ah, I think Rimuru's human common sense is affecting me a bit too much.

"Hmph, For once; you have made a strong point. You were not given a role yet..." Aneue muttered these words.

But Guy has other plans, "That's great and all, but you're leaving the control of your own territory to this Rimuru? How very trusting of you, If I remember correctly, it was your first time having subordinates too."

That smile... I don't need to ask 『Answerer』 to know he's up to something, but I still asked.

Even so, "*Sigh*... Just why is it do you need so many pawns to play the game?" I muttered those words loudly after sighing to 『Answerer』's answer.

"Ah? so you find out? So I guess you've grown up a bit after all... Though, calling them 'Pawns' is a bit harsh don't you think? If anything, I considered them as 'colleagues' you know? " Guy stated these with a smile.

Yeah... this guy thought making Rimuru a demon lord would be a good idea. Which it is, Acquiring the title 『Demon Lord』, really helps when you decide to run a territory. But at the same time, you can't help but listen to Guy whenever he wanted to do something.

Simply put, if you're a demon lord then you can't help but become the eastern empire's enemy. Should Rimuru becomes a demon lord, Guy would still mess around Rimuru once in a while because he thinks it was too peaceful.

Rather, the same thing will happen either way. The other demon lords will probably make their move sooner or later. No, it has already started. That Gelmud guy probably...

I could guess that Clayman guy is trying to recruit someone as a demon lord. Even if one were to succeed to obtain a seed, having a subordinate who governs my garden was to be labeled as a "Self-proclaimed" demon lord is enough for him to technically became the true lord due to his subordinate becoming a demon lord.

It's like they're trying to make a puppet demon lord...

"I will let Rimuru decide that on his own." I can't force him for something like this now, can't I?

"Oh~? How thoughtful of you. You really like your subordinates very much, don't you? Well, I'd say that's a good thing." Guy stated.

That's when I stand up. "You made two errors in your assumptions."

"It's not that I have matured, it's just that I learned human's common sense from someone a little. Well, I learned something from hobgoblins and other races too." Saying that, I turned away and walked a bit farther from the chair I was sitting on.

"And Rimuru is not my subordinate."

I look back at Guy who's currently studying me with a smirk on his face and my Aneue raised an eyebrow while tilting her head a little.

"Rimuru is my partner."

And it ended with me teleporting away from the ice continent.

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Just as I spatial transferred to our village, somehow, the cold has now changed into burning flames. Uh... what?

The lights from the magic circle where I stood died down as my magic perception stabilize and gave me sights asides from my own working material eyes.

In front of me is the slime riding Ranga the tempest wolf. Not far from there, stood the adventurer trio. They're fighting... Shizu-san?

"Veldora!" In the heat of the moment, Rimuru shouted my name.

Veldora?!" Though, the trio shouted while panicking upon hearing my name instead.

"Majin? No, that spirit was rejected by its host..." I muttered those words lowly as I witness the sight of Shizu being taken over by the Spirit inside of her. This presence... Ifrit?

"It seems like Ifrit is possessing her, huh...?" I muttered.

Seriously... I only left for a while and Rimuru got involved with more troubles...

Well, I guess I'll have to wait a bit more before I could venture out from this world.

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To be continued.


A/N:

Yeah, so anyway, Tensura's Ln has not finished yet, so I'm a bit scared if I would simply mess everything up when the original ending came up. Hence I'm going with Wn's plot since it seems much safer there...

So yeah... No Michael, no Feldway. Just a good ol' velda angra mainyu and Yuuki. Though, I planned to bring the Rosso family into the story.

PS: as you can see in the chapter and volume above, we're going on a flashback right now.

PPS: I tagged "multiple MC" in this book; Naruto and Makoto(New veldora).

PPPS: We'll get back to Naruto's story after I finished 1 or 2 volumes of Makoto's(New veldora) and Rimuru's story.

PPPPS: Haha, Ps's go... BRRR