"Talking"

'Thinking'

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『Skills, dramatic impression


I am the slime, Rimuru Tempest. I'm not a bad slime you know?! At least I know I'm not "Bad". But I don't think I could say the same with the dragon beside me.

His name is Veldora... and I was quite angry that he looked into my memories without permission.

Well, no, that's currently not the case...

You see, this guy is just so mysterious. Give me a name, healed me when I messed up, pulled out a volume of "Death Note" out of nowhere, and finally...

"Had you accepted Ifrit, you'll live longer. And you just need to negotiate with him so that he wouldn't take you forcibly. So why?"

Veldora... I know he must acquire so much wisdom due to his life span, but why...

"Do you not want to live anymore?"

Why is he being like this?

After we defeated Ifrit who takes over Shizu-san's body. We listened to her life story before Veldora asked.

"I tried. I've tried to negotiate. He wouldn't answer..." Weakly, Shizu-san answered, whilst laying on her bed.

"I see... then should we end you?" Those words stated by Veldora caught my attention. If I were to have a humanoid face, I would be my eyes would've bulged in disbelief right now.

But to my surprise, "Yes... but I have a request." Shizu-san interjected.

"Wait! Veldora, is- is this really our only option?!" I asked. Great sage stated that there is a way for Shizu-san to stay alive but... Veldora should know something more-!

"Slime-san... may I know your name?" Suddenly, Shizu-san asked.

"E- Like I said, my name is Rimuru Tem-"

"Not that, I asking your other name..."

Why is she smiling...? Veldora is right here so why do you not ask him toー

'Idiot'

!? Suddenly, came a thought transmission from Veldora, 'I don't need to read her mind to figure it out. Rimuru, Shizu-san here desires death.' That caught me off guard.

"What do you- No, Rather... Why-" I turned at Veldora while saying that loudly.

'She's waiting for your answer, Rimuru' I stared at the stern eyes of the humanoid dragon as he transmitted those thoughts inside my mind.

Right, She was asking my name...

I turned back at her before answering, "Mikami, Mikami Satoru."

After hearing that, she shifted her attention to Veldora. Veldora fell silent before answering, "Keitaro Yamada."

My reaction of course, "EH?!" was the best reaction I can produce.

But then, "Keitaro Yamada died in his previous world. His soul fragmented and its portion merged with a certain dragon. The dragon was not necessarily become the individual named Keitaro Yamada. But He inherited a portion of cloudy memories and personality of the dead human."

Those lines explain it all.

I don't need to guess to understand that. It's probably why at that time he... I could only imagine the part where got intrigued by my status as an otherworlder...

"I suppose I apologize it didn't seem to be what you expected." Shizu-san interjected, "No, thank you for telling me, Doragon-san." she smiled as she stated that.

Veldora looked away from that statement... So he's just being considerate, is what I'd like to think but... when you get another chance to live...

"Is... Is there anything I can do for you?" I asked Shizu-san. It's not that there's no way to preserve her life span. Having Veldora, a mighty ancient dragon from my point of view should be enough to find ways to let Shizu-san live longer...

But... "I loved this world... but at the same time, I hated this world..." was what Shizu-san said. She obviously, is tired of living...

"I can't ask that of you... I can't let you take such a heavy burden..." She muttered weakly.

"It's not that I don't have any regrets but... I've lived long enough. It's fine... Thank you, Slime-san." is what she said but, if that's so, then don't cry when you smile, damn it.

"No... I want to be your strength so... Please."

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"Then, I'd want to quietly slumber... In the memories you allowed me to see... Please, Eat me."

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Outside of the tent, Rigurd meets the adventurer trio and is about to enter the tent. The trio wants to check on Shizu-san, while Rigurd brought a change of clothes for her.

But the view in front of them was not what they were expecting...

"Rimuru-sama, that appearance..." (Rigurd)

"WHAAT!?" x3 (Kaval, Eren, Gido)

Yeah, I guess that's a normal reaction.

I too, will produce such an expression after knowing the fact that the blueish-silver-haired Bishoujo in front of my sight to originally be a blue blob.

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"Is that so, then Shizu-san she..." (Eren) (A/N: Again, it's a she and she's not the "TATAKAE" Eren)

"Speaking of which, are you... really Rimuru-danna?" (Gido)

"Yeah, no matter how I look at it..." (Kaval)

"How do I say it... it's somewhat like seeing a mini-Shizu-san..."

Even after confirming the fact, they're still skeptical.

"It's true... Look," saying that, I melted. My body changed into its translucent silver-blue and morphed back into a blob.

"OOOH!" "Ue..." "That's a bit amazing..."

The only girl in the group, Eren, was silent... "Did you... devoured her...? Just like how you devoured Ifrit?" I suppose she's very sad... waters gathered below her eyes, waiting to tear down.

"...That was the only way of sending her away, that I was able to do." I stated thus.

Veldora has long gone out. He said he needed to "Patrol" again. No, rather than that, I felt something weird inside the thing Great Sage called "Soul Corridor"... It was like the corridor turned dark all of a sudden, it was then when Veldora widened his eyes at me a little and frowned before leaving.

"I'm sorry I didn't talk about it beforehand with you guys, her comrades..." I apologized sternly.

But then, Kaval, the leader of their party says, "Ah, it's fine... If this is her own wish, we would be fine with it." Even if they say that... "Eren-san, I'm sorry. Perhaps you still can't get over it in your heart, right?"

But to this, she shook her head, "No, I just really wanted to at least say goodbye to her" she stated before smiling sadly. Well, they're such a good bunch of people huh...

"Shizu-san said she was really happy, to be able to meet and become comrades with you guys on her last journey..." I paused to look over their expression, then... "Though she said you guys are a bit reckless..."

My last statement caught their attention.

At first, they share each other a look, and...

"Yeahー" Gido confirmed while shifting his attention to their leader.

"Oi! don't just stare over here y'all!" Kaval exclaimed angrily.

"Well, it's you we're talking about..." Eren mutters wryly.

"Didn't you also fall into a pitfall trap earlier, Gido! I'll be damned that you're even a thief!"

"That's because Ms. Eren suddenly shoved me!"

"Oi oi, don't blame it on me! a spider suddenly appeared in front of me at that time!"

... Ahahaha, I guess this is more like them.

"That time, Shizu-san helped me get off from that spider..."

"After that Shizu-san even helped disarm the traps..."

"See?! Didn't I tell you it wasn't just me!?"

That being said, aren't these fellas a little bit too dependent on Shizu-san?

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After their banter died down, they told me that it was time for them to leave.

We requested them to keep quiet about Veldora but... Well, it's just a request. Veldora said, "Well if they can't keep a promise then they can't be trusted. But we're making a 'Request' here. If they can't hide it then I guess it can't be helped."

They did say they will "Try", but before that... "Um, Danna... can you transform into human form again?"

"Sure... that's fine." I stated whilst transforming... That did receive a question mark from me tough, so I ask: "What is itー"

"Thank you very much for everything, Shizu-san!" 3x. While bowing deeply, they stated thus.

I gaped my mouth at them, a bit dumbfounded by their actions.

"I will definitely become a party leader that won't make you worry anymore!"

"The experience of adventuring with you will be the treasure of my entire lifetime!"

Owa-! *Thud* "Thank you... I had always considered you as my older sister..."

That last part was Eren, hugging my humanoid body so suddenly whilst muttering those words...

Yare yare...

It's truly great they're the comrades of Shizu-san's last Journey...

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After all of that, I confronted Veldora. I rode Ranga, the Tempest wolf I named, to a cliff where he was standing. On the edge of that cliff stood a turdy tree where Veldora leaned to rest and avoid the sunlight.

Once I told Ranga to stop, I jump down and transformed into a human form.

"If... If only Shizu-san wanted to live... What would you have done?" I asked.

He turned his head to me for a while before replying: "I would've threatened Ifrit to quit being such an asshole and listen to his host."

T- threaten... this guy can be scary sometimes...

Though, that sounds intriguing... "I see, then... your reason to do so is...?" I mean, this guy has no gain over saving Shizu-san. Rather, at that time it was my selfish request to help the goblins and lead the dire wolves... We had simply lost our original goal of "Travelling around the world" the moment I build the village and... Because of me, he is now stuck in this place.

So, why...?

"Rimuru... you're denser than you look, aren't you?"

"Eh?!"

Huh? what?!

"Have you not seen the soul corridor yet?" He suddenly asks.

Well, I did. But what does it has anything to do with- Wait... it wasn't Veldora, it's...

*Pat* a hand was placed on top of my head.

"I'm not blaming you. I don't really care about our goal, I just don't want you to get sad, Rimuru." He stated as his closed-eye smile was illuminated by the lights of the red sunset.

Uwaa... this scene almost makes me want to puke. Sure he does give off the vibes of a reliable older brother if someone were to see us like this... but being patted on the head while knowing the fact I am a 30 years old salaryman inside the appearance of a silver-haired bishoujo does not make it feel better seeing the one who's doing the comforting pats is an ikemen teen.

Calm down there... the fella is 2000 years old ancient dragon. Wha- that sounds like a soul beast from a certain Chinese version of Mangaー Wait, NO! I'm getting off track here...

Okay... Yup, this dragon is at least 1970 years older than me... just- think of him as some elderly or something...

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I CAN'T IMAGINE IT

"O-oi... Rimuru, you okay...?/Milord!" Veldora and Ranga reacted respectively upon seeing me who has my knees fall to the ground.

"Yeah..." What is even our relationship at this point... Having the same "Tempest" family name seems to be pointless...

Suddenly, a question appeared on my mind, "But then, how did you even know about what Shizu-san wants? At that time she only told us about her life story and you justー"

"Rimuru..." He calls my name. "Shizu... She's tired. The moment I reminded her of a way she could use to solve her problems, She narrowed her eyes in sadness. Even if Ifrit does not talk to her, she could always think of him as a curse. Yet her eyes keep switching between having the desire to rest, or to live."

He then looks at me sternly. "People live to save themselves. You should know about that, Right? After all... you've died once already." I perk up on that as he continues his words,

"I will never let you feel that again, so don't worry about it."

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That reminds me... What Shizu-san was worried about were; a group of students of her, a man, and a woman... Back when I was recruiting Kaijin and his brothers, an elf asked me if I wanted to try doing "Fortune-telling" and... their face matches perfectly with those who appear in the crystal ball.

There's Shizu, a group of kids, a Japanese man in a white uniform, and... a Japanese woman in a templar outfit, it has the church's attribute and all... Though it left me confused a little. At the end of the fortune-telling, the crystal ball lights up and shows another figure to be classified as my "Fated person".

A figure in black, covering his body parts full of bandages while his face smiles proudly on a kid with a whiskers-like birthmark on his cheeks...

That man... He kinda reminds me of Veldora.

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Our Village was destroyed by Ifrit a few days ago, so now we have tents lying around. I sat inside a tent, as I stared at the dragon who was currently chewing some skewers until a while ago. Besides him is the Goblina (Female Goblin) who served more skewers and a cup of water in front of Veldora.

Just a while ago Veldora acted cool, smiling with an "It's okay" radiating from his face. A very comforting demeanor that'll make it looks like he's very reliable. However...

"So, yeah... I was planning to travel to the other worlds." With a blank and nonchalant face, Veldora stated thus.

"NO, NO, NO! WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH 『✨I just don't want you to get sad, Rimuru✨』 OR MAYBE, 『✨People live to save themselves✨』 JUST A WHILE AGO?! AND YOU WERE LOOKING SO COOL WHEN STATING THOSE WORDS!"

This guy, seriouslyー

"Well, it's not as if I'm not going to come back. Nor does it have anything to do with my goals... I mean, I don't really have the talent to lead our new village and I think you're enough to protect it. Some of our subordinates were named by none other than myself after all..."

You overestimated my power, Ossan!

"Besides... you would probably think the same thing sooner or later." His statement caught my attention, "What do you mean?"

"'When Rigurd and the others have no longer needed me maybe I'll go and travel around the world', Didn't that come across your mind?" (Veldora)

"No, I mean- that's more of a future retirement plan..." (Rimuru)

"Then I shall retire I guess, supplying a whole forest and cave with Magicules for 300 years is hard work you know?" (Veldora)

"Isn't that because you're trapped?! Rather, why are we talking these things like we're in some sort of a company?!" (Rimuru)

"Boo! I worked for 300 years but I get no vacation at all! Rimuru you're a bad employer! I want my maternity leave!" (Veldora)

"Since when I was your employer!? Wait- no! Maternity leave?! You're a male!"(Rimuru)

"Haruna, Listen to this... Rimuru is being mean to me..." Suddenly, Veldora whined beside the female Hobgoblin who's giving him snacks lately. The Goblina smiled softly and patted Veldora's back, seemingly comforting him while saying "There there".

"...For god's sake..." This guy, "Why are you always being so out of character in the worst kind of timing...?"

This fella pulls a volume of one piece out of nowhere before he turns his head to me, "Not really, I just wanted to try doing that 'Manzai' I saw from your memories. Gotta say, you sure are natural at this. It's like you're a built-in Tsukkomi." While Veldora's stating that, Haruna the female goblin left the tent.

"THAT'S THE REASON?! NO- Rather, DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO GET OFF FROM MY MEMORIES!?"

(A/N: Manzai is a traditional style of comedy in Japanese culture comparable to double-act comedy or stand-up comedy. Manzai usually involves two performers —a straight man (Tsukkomi) and a funny man (Boke) —trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns, and other verbal gags.)

"Hey, don't shout now... You're going to make a scene, We don't want to bother Rigurd-kun and the others now do we?" (Veldora)

"I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT FROM YOU, BOKE!"

"Oooh~ You're starting to get it! that's a nice tsukkomi reaction of you!"

I'm not reacting, I am actually cursing you for real, Boke Ossan...

(A/N: "Boke" can also be interpreted as; stupid, unaware, or clueless. Ossan simply means "old man")

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"So, aren't you going to give me an explanation?" (Rimuru)

"Ah? I want to find your past world, try some cream-muru puff, explore some more, and come back here. I thought it was quite clear though?" (Veldora)

"Haaa..." How many times do I have to sigh today?

"What's up?"

"Nothing, when are you going?"

"Well..." He smiled before continuing, "Next year."

*Sigh* This guy, seriously...

At least he didn't tell me this right before going like Tamura did...


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(A/N: We're speedrunning from here on out, so be prepared. Ok?)

Many things happened afterward.

Firstly, I found out Veldora has been keeping his tab on places in the Jura forest. Doing it behind my back once more, he protected a village of ogres that was on a brink of destruction.

It was said some of the Ogres managed to escape, while those who were holding back against the enemy force, which are the Orcs.

The surviving Ogres then pledged their loyalty to Veldora and... He gave them names. Well, He always told me not to recklessly name someone or something, but I guess it's fine for him as he is a strong ancient dragon.

As a result, we have 20 Ogres living inside our village with us.

Though, afterward... "Show me your real form, Majin!" Even though I met some of the surviving Ogres, I got accused instead.

Well, It was just a misunderstanding. Rather, we housed 20 Ogres of their kind in our village but no matter how hard I see it, these fellas seem to have some sort of hate against Shizu-san's mask.

"You seem to disguise your appearance by suppressing your aura, but our eyes shan't be fooled!" The red Ogre shouted.

Well, after beating them up, the Ogre mage with pink hair tries to stop them.

Haaa... Finally, a civilized person.

I cleared up the misunderstanding afterward, letting them check on Shizu-san's mask just before Veldora appeared.

"Iyaaah~ I was on an interesting part you see~? These guys are not so strong to actually damage you so I decided to sit back and watch~" ?This guyー

"You areー The storm dragon, Veldora-sama!?" Ah, I've seen this reaction before...

In the end, I end up naming them all after knowing the fact their brethren are living inside our village. Benimaru, Shuna, Hakuro, Souei, Shion, and finally the most average-looking one, Kurobe. Umu umu... I feel some level of kinship given my past life. Ah, they evolved into an Oni (Kijin) in the end.

Later on, it becomes clear that Veldora has been in contact with a beautiful dryad named Treyni. That Lizard... he keeps doing things behind my back.

The Dryads seemed to come to a conclusion that an Orc Lord has awakened. Thus, they reported it to Veldora, who's practically the "Owner" of this huge garden named "Jura forest", and hoped that Veldora will fend them off.

"Umu, just leave it to me." Well, even though Veldora said that he just told them that I'll deal with the Orcs... Eh... why?

There's also the Lizardman whom we were trying to befriend... even though there was a bit of trouble due to the envoy's, uhh... shortcomings... Before we formed an alliance, that is.

Then, "Please! My brother... he imprisoned our father!" Those were the words of the Lizardman chieftain's daughter. His brother, Gabil, was the envoy who was tasked with recruiting goblins from the many villages around Jura. Yeah, the same guy who was likeー "I'll give you a chance to be my subordinate!".

In the end, I send Souei, who is now turning more and more like a ninja in fights, to free the chieftain before we march on to fight the Orcs. Well, we won at the end of the day...

I ended the fight with the Orc lord- No, it was the demon lord, Geld. He evolved into a demon lord by the end of the day before I defeated him. His evolution was triggered after devouring his own Master, Gelmud, a superior Majin that was the one Veldora told us about.

Heck, Veldora could've solved everything instantly, but he's being so unreasonable.

Veldora grinned warmly and shoved a thumbs up on my face afterward... That smile didn't waver a single bit despite looking at my face popping a blue vein around the corner of my forehead.

Bad employer, he says... isn't he the lazy one here?

But anyway...

"Our chancellor shall now be Rimuru Tempest-sama" NO! THAT'S WRONG! SHOULDN'T VELDORA BE THE ONE TO LEAD THESE GUYS?!

At first, it was actually "Veldora-sama, you have been nominated as the chancellor of our alliance."

But then Veldoraー "Um? Ah, Yeah. Then as the chancellor of the Jura alliance, I, Veldora Tempest, hereby awarded Rimuru Tempest as the new chancellor. Well, see ya~ (Ja ne~)"

He then disappeared from our sights, completely ignoring the dumbfounded me and the others who winced the moment Veldora announced his surname "Tempest". Of course, he didn't forget to give us a peace sign like a certain meme before disappearing.

Veldora you giant ancient lizard rascal ass... my respect towards you has dropped to zero.

"All hail, Rimuru Tempest-sama!"

Haaah...

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In the end, I become the chancellor.

I gave the name "Abiru" to the Lizardman chieftain, and from his side, he banished his son Gabiru as a punishment for inciting a rebellion before the war with the orcs. Though, in the end, Gabiru and his followers end up here having the resolve to serve me.

There's also his sister who I named "Souka", all the lizardmen evolved into dragonnewts. Though, Souka some of them gained a humanoid form instead of dragonic scales. They also grow wings and such as now I assigned Souka and the humanoid dragonewts to work under Souei as the Shadow squad, but that's a story for another time.

The Orcs... what can I say, there's too many of them... Well, at least I know the son of demon lord Geld is now named Geld. Hey now... I know it's lazy naming, but I'd like to call this "Recycling" instead.

Veldora helped me on this one. He told me I could generate names by using my skill, 『Great Sage』... Never mind, that's not really helping at all. He did give me some Magicules while I slumber in the sleeping mode in secret though... At least I can say he was a bit worried about me.

Well, Other than that...

A huge army of Pegasus knights... they're from Dwargon, the place where I got kicked out just two months ago. And that said army landed right in front of the town we were buildin'...

Well, this is bad, if they speak ill of me, the Kijins will fly into a rage. Souei's smile looks especially scary... He's usually composed, but you don't know what he'll do once he snaps.

"I am here to ascertain the true nature of this slime here." These words are spoken by The dwar's king Gazel himself.

Well, it seems I was looked down upon...

While transforming into my human form. Firstly, I ask: "Ah, It's not as if we're in the middle of a trial so it's fine if I say something right?"

"Naturally" he stated.

"Guess I should introduce myself then, My name is Rimuru. And I am in fact, a slime. But you'd want to stop looking down on me."

Ahh... how great it would be if Veldora was here...

"Because while looking like this, I am still the Chancellor of the Great Jura Alliance." Thus I stated.

Yeah... "While looking like this," I said, urk... I'd get looked down upon no matter how they see me. First a slime, then a little girl? Oh, don't get me wrong, Shizu-san's beautiful. But I'd like it if I have a dominating look if I knew I were to lead an alliance of some sort...

Changing my human form other than this takes too much Magicules, and now with me being touted by Veldora as 『Naming Lord Rimuru Tempest』 as much as how much I hated that nickname, I'd probably die from Magicules reserve permanent reduction.

Oh, goodie...

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To be continue

(A/N: Yeah, figured the reason this fic not getting more collections is because of the lack of chapters soooooo, we're going down from 3-5k to 2-2,5K)