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It took a few days for Yuki and his friends to reach their destination while riding the carriage. "Finally, we reached the great Jura forest!" yuki said with a smile as the clean air of the forest dashed onto her refreshing face.
"Yuki-sama, where should we go now?" kayle asked as she scanned their surroundings so as not to be ambushed by monsters. In any case, the jura forest was in a very turbulent state after the disappearance of Veldora, and many monsters moved erratically thus increasing the defenses of the countries bordering the jura forest.
One such case was the Blumund kingdom which was the entrance to the western council and the country under great pressure, that was why they convinced the guild leader of the free guild in their country to send a team to investigate Veldora's disappearance, and Yuki camped right on the road they were going to go on. because they work as timers when Rimuru is about to leave the cave.
"Let's spend some time here and enjoy the beautiful scenery this place has to offer" Yuki said with a smile and Sacha nodded happily and went to prepare food while Kayle continued to observe Yuki silently.
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While Yuki enjoys her journey without a care in the world, she knows that her reputation is increasing rapidly around the world, and that is perfectly demonstrated by the rapidly increasing progress bar for its task which is already at 56%.
His path to gain fame and reputation created many enemies for him, as well as friends… One of them is the kingdom of Doran whose convoy has just returned with a disappointed face after realizing that their clarity stone has been stolen but they cannot find it no matter how much they try to find it which makes king Doran was angry and almost executed them all!
"You useless bastard, how could you lose such a valuable item without even realizing it!" king Doran shouted while smashing the table in front of him into pieces.
The minister assigned to buy the stone quickly knelt down and said, "Sorry Your Majesty, despite our best efforts, we cannot find any trace of anyone who did this ... However, some of our men returned to Sarion to investigate further and they found that a similar situation occurred in the auction house and many items were stolen which made the royal family exert all their strength in an attempt to find the culprit ... "
King Doran regained his composure a little after hearing that he was not the only victim and asked, "You said that a man by the name of Yuki who worked for the demon king Leon Cromwell caused a lot of chaos and the auction was robbed during that time right. ?"
The minister nodded with sweat pouring from his cheeks and said, "Yes Your Majesty, we believe the robbery took place at the same time, and as in our case, no trace of the culprit has been found"
Doran's eyes narrowed with a dangerous light as she ordered, "I want this man Yuki investigated as soon as possible, and if you can ... KILL HER!"
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Doran wasn't the only one who felt this way because many people were humiliated by Yuki when they tried to interfere in her fight with Elmesia, and they were the same people who sent some of their men to kill him making a grudge between them grow ... However, just as they held a grudge against him. He also held his own grudges against them, and he would make sure they would pay him with extra interest.
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Back in the woods. Yuki felt lucky because not long before they set up their camp, a group of three adventurers entered the forest and approached them, they consisted of one female and two males.
'It's hard to believe that this girl is Elmesia's cousin' Yuki thought as she observed the trio approaching them confidently without warily pointing out how inexperienced they were 'or perhaps overconfident ...' thought Yuki
"Oh, there are actually people here, maybe they know about what happened in the forest and the disappearance of Veldora" said the girl named Eren, the archduke princess Erald Grimwald wanted to stab Yuki with some ground spikes!
His party leader Kaval nodded at him and tried to approach Yuki but he was stopped by Kayle who asked, "How can we help you, gentlemen?"
Kaval replied without hiding anything, "We are adventurers from the Blumund royal branch and we were sent here by guild leader Fuze..."
Kayle couldn't help but think while listening to Kaval's story 'Is this guy an idiot? To actually trust us so easily when we have a demon among us?'
After Kaval finished speaking, Yuki gestured for Kayle to stop blocking their path and said, "I'm sorry, my friend, I, We don't understand it as much as you do because we just arrived here and we don't know much about the situation inside the forest. "
"Are you a noble of one of the kingdoms?" Eren asked curiously as he looked at the handsome face and clothes of the Yuki noble.
"The nobility is in your heart young miss" Yuki said with a wise look in her eyes, and her friends inevitably rolled their eyes at her when they saw how impressed Eren was with her words.
"It's a pity that you don't know what's going on, but you shouldn't stay here for too long, the monsters are becoming more and more active" said third-party member Gido.
"Thank you for the warning" Yuki nodded at him and was about to send them on the way but the kind-hearted Sacha saw how tired they were and decided to ask, "Would you like to join us for lunch?"
Yuki and Kayle immediately glared at him for two completely different reasons… The latter was dissatisfied with him inviting someone without Yuki's permission while the former was angry because now he wouldn't have enough to eat.
"Ehh, really? Can't we?" eren said excitedly and Yuki finally nodded reluctantly and enjoyed eating with them before they left to complete their mission.
"Sacha-chan, never invite such a person again" Yuki said seriously and Sacha's face instantly lost all color as he said, "Sorry, what's wrong?"
'No, it's not that.' Kayle thought, but she decides not to talk while seeing how Sacha seriously listens to Yuki and decides to talk to him in private before his mind ends up being marred by these demonic words.
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Not long after Kaval's entourage left, Yuki and his group started following them while keeping their distance so that they wouldn't be caught and after several hours of marching, they started to follow them, they finally approached the cave where Veldora was sealed and Yuki saw a powerful aura within.
'My prey is here' Yuki thought with a warm smile as she walked into the aura along with Kayle and Sacha who did not understand and they found a strange sight, which was a strange one, slime was talking to a group of goblins and they seemed to be afraid of him for some reason.
"Oh, what do we see here?" yuki asked while coming out of the bushes startling the goblins and slimes.
"A human being, be careful of everything" one of the goblins told the other as they picked up their weapon in haste to defend themselves.
As the lowest creatures, they are often captured by humans and used as training tools for the weakest people so they are always more afraid of humans than other animals.
"Oh, don't be afraid of my friends" Yuki said before she heard a voice coming from the purple-haired young goblin and it was directed at Rimuru "Slime-sama, please protect us"
Meanwhile, Rimuru observed the handsome Yuki and her friends and her eyes were slightly glued to the beautiful Sacha before she thought 'This guy looks really cool…' before he said, "Umm, he doesn't look evil"
"WAAA slime can talk" Sacha said in amazement and Kayle was also a little surprised by this. Meanwhile, Yuki just smiled and approached the slime before she crouched down "Ohh, you can actually talk, this is quite interesting" then Yuki pretended to look around before she said, "Let's go somewhere else to talk, monsters might come here if we stay too long" yuki said
“I-That's right..” The word purple-haired goblin agrees with what Yuki said before Rimuru said, “Mmm, I think we can go to goblin village, I am very curious about this world”
"And I'm curious about you" Yuki replied with a warm smile.
'poor slime' Kayle thought as they started walking towards the goblin village while Yuki had a little discussion with Rimuru and told her about the world and the chaos caused by Veldora's disappearance.
After some time, they reached the goblin village, and Yuki could only sigh in amazement 'A great country will be born from this pile of trash, it is really hard to imagine…'
Later, he turned his attention to the goblins staring at them warily as Rimuru's aura leaked and he was not surprised when he was approached by an old goblin who started to tell him about their predicament and asked him to save them.
"What do you think Yuki-san" asked Rimuru suddenly wanting to see what Yuki thought of goblins as inhabitants of this world.
"I don't really care whether you save them or not, I'm actually an otherworldly person and it hasn't been long since I've been summoned to this world so I'm still learning about it, although I suggest they pay for our services. … After all, life is difficult and working without results is not the right way" Yuki said while thinking 'First, let's build a good relationship with this stupid slime'
"Well, are you from another world?" rimuru said excitedly not knowing that she was slowly being brought into a terrible trap by Yuki who smiled at her and said, "Yup, I'm from a place called Japan"
'Waaa, he is actually Japanese as well!!! We need to speak in person later' Rimuru thought happy to find her compatriot before she turned to the older goblin and said, "As Yuki-san just said, we have no reason to help you unless you can give us something in return"
The goblin elder looked at Rimuru before he looked at Yuki warily and said, "Slime-sama, we are willing to give you our loyalty"
Yuki was tempted to tell her to increase her loyalty, but they were goblins and had nothing to give, so she decided to turn a blind eye once as Rimuru said, "Alright, please, I'll accept your offer"
And just as he did, the sound of a monstrous wolf howling in the distance outside the goblin village echoed the spell of impending doom if no one interfered and helped them.
The monstrous wolf had at least 100 members while this goblin tribe only had 60, not to mention it took 10 goblins just to fight one terrifying wolf, they're fucked.
'Foolish goblins, if they gather all their tribes in the forest, they can easily build a safe house for themselves' Yuki thought as she shook her head and said, "Looks like there's going to be another attack today"
"You, we must prepare first" Rimuru replied as she walked out to check on the condition of the fighting goblins and she was extremely disappointed.
'This fight will be over' he thought and decided to think of a strategy as Yuki observed it calmly.
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