(A/N: We're still speedrunning things up here, please be patient, okay?)

Yeah, more and more things happened afterward.

Previously, I fought with King Gazel Dwargo. Only when I stopped his sword did Veldora decide to appear, with an amused expression too at that.

"You brought so many guests with you, Stalker-chan..." completely ignoring our baffled expressions from his sudden appearance, he greeted the elf from the dwarf's side. The elf with assassin attire stiffens at the sight of a smiling ancient humanoid lizard. It turns out that the elf was spying on us ever since we get kicked out from Dwargon, specifically, a member of Gazel's secret division.

So Veldora knows about that... he didn't even tell me anything yet again. "So it's true, the storm dragon Veldora..." Gazel trailed off with eyes full of wariness.

"Now that's quite cold considering how you decided to stalk us for at least a month, yet didn't make any love confession, don't you think?" Playfully, Veldora joked around.

Ignoring his last statement, Gazel says, "So was it because I threaten one of your subordinates, or because you find it amusing to test one's guts?" Yeah, I have absolutely no idea what those words mean.

"You made two errors in your judgment." (Veldora) Okay, now there's this motherf*cker, What are they even talking about at this point? "Firstly, guts is not the only thing that has the connection with one's whole personality, so being amused by looking at them is simply useless."

*Sigh* You know what? I'm not even going to ask Great Sage about what they're talking about. Since Veldora's here so I could stay back andー

"And second, Rimuru is not my subordinate."

...I didn't know why I felt kinda happy about that, but that did receive quite the attention from everyone else. Well, Veldora then smiled at Gazel's smirk, and somehow they concluded that I won the spar. We celebrated afterward. Though, I was quite dumbfounded from seeing the sight of the king and Hakurou chatted casually afterward.

During the party, I could hear Veldora chatting with the Dwarf king, "At first I was nominated as the one who takes the lead, but then I felt it kind of troublesome so I throw all the work to Rimuru. I know it'll end up as a job full of paperwork sooner or later anyway~" Veldora answered Gazel's question.

To which I interrupted with; "So you were throwing all your works at me..." I stated with a deadpan expression.

"Hey now... We end up like this because you decided to have subordinates, no? you have to take care of them tooーー"

"Ah, is that so." I deadpanned.

"Though I really wished you'd take care of me more properly..." I meant to say he shouldn't have thrown all his work at me but, *PFFT* *COUGH* Eh? I swear I heard the sound of water and loud coughing noises behind me...

Eh? "Rimuru... Your phrasing." Veldora stated in a deadpan manner.

My eyes met with my wide-eyed subordinates and some of the Pegasus Knights. "NO! THAT'S NOT IT! YOU GUYS MISUNDERSTOODー!" The misunderstanding was left uncleared.

With an unwavering smile, Shuna says: "Please do not worry, we'll just have to clear it up if something led to a misunderstanding. isn't that right, Rimuru-sama?" She expects me to say something afterward, trying to clear up the misunderstanding but well...

How do I even clear this one up... "Sigh, That doesn't really matter right now..."

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"Then, what is the name of your nation?"

Gazel asked me about the name of our country. Well, he didn't really ask me,

Veldora was actually the first one to react: "Lord of Naming, Rimuru Tempest-san, It's your time to shine!" Stop it, you clown...

This guyー forced me to take the lead in the end...

"Jura Tempest Federation." In the end, I concluded with the name of our country. The land of monsters, Jura Tempest Federation...

Well, neither mine nor Veldora's Subordinate has objections against it... So we go with it and finally, we forged an alliance. Well, just like how I work in my past life, even now I have paperwork...

Veldora that little- wait, no. that old rascalー As I thought, he would do some more things behind me even if I already become the king of our country. Well, I'm glad he did it for the sake of our newly made country, but I really wished he'd stop becoming the Danzo to our Tempest.

That, and... A few days later the dwarf king came again with the beaten-up prime minister who framed us back at dwargon. His name is Vesta, and he has taken the role of the researcher as now he tries to replicate the full potion I made.

Things have finally started to go smoothly...

However,

"I've made the portal to another world under my cave" (Veldora) See what I mean? This guy didn't even blink when stating that with a refreshing smile...

"Just howー No, never mind... " Just as I were to scold him, I stopped. Yes, never mind... because if I were to speak honestly, "Can I... join?" Hey, Veldora said it might be a portal to my world so...

"Rimuru-sama!" Ah, f*ck me, I guess...

But I guess I can't help it, we're still developing as a country after all... I need to make sure everything is okay and... right, Shizu-san's students... I need to make my move faster so I'd be able to catch up to Veldora later...

"How? I am the world's strongest! that's why! Hahahaha!" Yeah, I got a bit angry and him later until he spills it out.

After two days of me ignoring him, "Well, one is my skill, then I saw the theories from your past world, and finally, the sacred texts" Sacred texts, to him, are the alternate translation for "Manga".

How did you even make a portal to another world with just Manga...? It didn't even look like he lied...

Veldora still going to delay his departure till later since he still needed to test his inventions but...

I also want to join...

*Sigh*

At least he didn't drag Vesta into it, well... even though it was because I told Vesta himself to finish his current project first as much to his sulking face.

Well that, and at least I don't need to hear any kind of nagging about my previous boss in this world...

Still, I want to confirm if Tamura has properly dumped my PC into the bathtub...

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After that...

"Wahahaha! Nice to meet you, I am the demon lord, Milim Nava!" After landing near our newly made city like a meteor, the demon lord in front of me said those words.

That was unexpected. having a demon lord who looks like a childish kid who wears voluptuous garments landed loudly near your city, is certainly an unexpected experience indeed.

But in any case, "Since you're the strongest in this place, I thought I'd go and say Hi!"

Yeah, she's a kid.

Some things happened grimly afterward, my subordinate tries to get me away from the Dragonoid demon lord and she thought it was some kind of game. In the end, I promised her a sweet jar of honey.

"That's not all! I'll promise not to harm your subordinates for an entire afternoon?" I won by giving this child some sweets...

Milim is... interesting.

She acts childish and I'll probably brush off the fact that she is a demon lord if she didn't appear so suddenly like a meteor and possess a deadly aura and power reaching the level of Veldora, She asked me if I wanted to become a demon lord. Well, "No"

"But it's 'demon lord' you know? Isn't it cool? You'll get a lot of respect and stuff..."

"I said I don't wanna."

"Really? then what are you doing for fun?"

"Well, I do a lot of things."

Another remark from her make me a bit dumbfounded, "If you become a demon lord, you can boss around majins and monsters you know?"

Oh goodie, what's with this girl...?

"That sounds boring"

Suddenly, She put a shocked expression to my remark, "Ga-!? You're having more fun than a demon lord?! No fair! No fair! No fair! That's not fair!" Stop shaking me!

"Okay! fine! fine!" Are you a spoiled child?!

"Then I'll just call you Milim. And feel free to call me Rimuru, okay?" to my carefree remark, Milim frowned her eyebrows, "Fine... but only you. The others who have the privilege to call me Milim are only the demon lords you know?"

"Great. That makes us friends, no?" I ended our conversation with that.

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"We are best friends!"

'EMBARASSING!' Was the only thought I could produce as Milim hold my slime body high in the air whilst my subordinates cheered... But my suffering didn't end there...

"Wait Right there!"

A familiar figure with black hair, streaks of lightning running down his cheek, and a muscular build posed not too far behind us...

(A/N: Veldora has two streaks of black lightning-zig-zag-like marks/tattoos running down from his eyes to his cheek)

The guy wears a set of casual office; black long trousers, the same color of light blue as my hair was his shirt, and two of his upper buttons were opened revealing a part of his neck open. A pair of sunglasses were placed loosely between his eyes and nose as if it was deliberately placed to show his beautiful golden pupils to everyone else. And finally, he poses flamboyantly as he lifted his unworn blazer over his back, looking like he was making an impression of an ikemen.

Yeah, this motherf*cker is Veldora. And to say my subordinates were "Dumbfounded" was an understatement.

"Could you not touch him so casually, please? You thieving cat bunch!" This guy... I think I've seen this reference somewhere...

"Because we still have an agenda, My Rimuru-chan will have to come with me to practice VI・O・LIN~ ✨" Ah, what are you, Gojo?

"✨Let's go, Rimuru-chan, today I'll have you master 'Twinkle twinkle little star'✨" I wanted to scold him, but...

"Hora! What rights do have to call my best friend 'your Rimuru' Hah?!" STOP! PLEASE STOP! DON'T YOU SEE EVERYONE'S BAFFLED FACES OVER THERE? RATHER, DON'T UNLEASH SUCH A TERRIFYING AURA!

"A Fight between Milim-sama and Veldora-sama?" "They are fighting for Rimuru-sama" "This is bad!" Bad indeed, and I can hear your gossips, my dear people. Please... either stop or just end me here.

"Kufufu... Fuhahahaha! Kuhahahahahaha! What rights do I have? My dearest Niece... that gentle slime over there is your uncle's partner!" IF YOU'RE LAUGHING THEN AT LEAST CONTROL YOUR AURA TOO, OSSAN!

"W-what did you say!?"

"STOP! JUST STOP, BOTH OF YOU!"

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-Scolding is in progress, please stand by-

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Both True dragon and Dragonoid

"B-but I wouldn't have shouted like that if it wasn't for this lizard, Rimuru!" Milim pouted.

"And I won't act like bloody Chinese if it wasn't for this hybrid, Rimuru!" Veldora pleaded. (A/N: Uncle, hmmm...)

"ENOUGH! Milim, didn't I tell you not to cause a commotion without my permission?!" Milim fell silent to my remarks. Veldora was snickering for a bit before I calls his name, "Veldora!" I caught his attention.

"First off, stop acting like that in public." "Gah!?"

"Second, your face doesn't match your fashion" "Kuh-!"

"And lastly you're A CLOWN!" "GUHAAAAKー!"

"I know you could've sensed Milim far away even before she landed here like a meteor. Not only do you call her your 'niece' you also stated that playfully whilst ignoring the fact I, your 'supposedly' partner have not heard anything about that, even though you've peeked at my memories so nonchalantly... That's just unfair." I muttered the last part lowly,

Recovering from the imaginary arrows made from my words, Veldora looked at me with wide eyes. Just a second after that, he, again, put up a clown mask that'll fool everyone else,

"Heeeh~ since when have I been nonchalant about that? I'll have you know I was only bored in my research and was trying to see if Millim is alright and not in the bad mood, you know she could obliterate anything in a second right?" With a pout, he said those words.

"I promised I won't do that to Rimuru, you stupid lizard!"

Ignoring Milim's remark, I say: "Really? I thought a simple uncontrolled demon lord is no match for the world's strongest." He stated that the day before yesterday so I might as well turn his words back at him.

"Oh wait... no, that's Gojo! And you're not Gojo Satoru, are you? You will never be Gojo Satoru" I narrowed my eyes darkly and stated those words sternly.

'Don't impersonate one of my favorite characters you, ossan!' was the kind of face I at least thinks I made.

To my words, a sweat dropped from his head as he muttered some words confusedly: "A-ah... hai(yes)..." (Veldora)

Umu, later I forgive him after he made me a Tako-less Takoyaki.

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To be continued

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