Shitara Slime Datta Ken (WN)
Reason And Reflection

An adventurer fell in a rain of red blood.

His eyes opened wide in shock; he might not even understand what was happening to him.

「Uwahahahaha! Don't let your guard down, you fool! 」

Milim's excited voice rang out while the remaining five adventurers nervously gathered together.

However, it was futile.

「Oh the blowing wind, turning into a Tornado and slashing my enemies! Tornado Blade !! [1] 」

Huddling together is a mistake.

The Tornado Blade I threw upwards was as if sneering at the wary adventurers.

Tornado Blade is a round version of the Wind Blade magic. Despite consuming more magic power, it became possible to cut several enemies within a fixed distance at the same time. It is a convenient magic for group combat.

Milim makes a surprise attack on the first person looking for a trap. It was a quick death. And before my magic arrived, he quickly moved behind us.

Without doing a blunder, like hitting Milim, my magic is only about adventurers swarming together.

Before we could be sensed by the enemy group, I activated invisibility magic [2].

After our side started attacking, invisibility magic was canceled, but the number of enemies had already reduced by one or two people. Moreover, they had lost the attacker [3] and healer [4] from the rear support.

「That's bad, it's ScarletRed Meteor [5]! Careful!”

「Damn, Marja and Nadja were killed by magic. Jean's not breathing either! 」

「Sials, you! How dare you !! 」

They confirmed our identity now that they could see, and the front row came at us in anger, but ……

「Kuahahaha! How's na? Ve !! 」

「Oooooohoohoohoo! I can't let you through! 」(You can't pass! Lol)

Veldora and Ramiris stopped the vanguard attack in high spirits.

I could see the bright red blades above the heads of the soldiers were reduced by half when I looked at them with analysis.

「HP those guys are under half. You can face it, right? 」

Yes, the red bar above the soldier's head shows their HP \= Stamina [6].

I use this look strictly. That makes it easier to understand by making things look like a game.

Since I was already familiar with the look, it became possible to immediately confirm the situation and give the appropriate instructions.

Right now, it is a certain winning pattern.

Starting with a surprise attack, we managed to kill some enemy explorers without informing them of our presence. That way we can get the rear support members out with low HP early through magic. It would be another story if it was a stronger enemy capable of activating the barrier continuously.

However, in this case this party line-up is easily defeated, so our victory is already decided.

As expected, Veldora and Ramiris made a bloodbath of three warriors acting as vanguard.

It was an easy win.

Part of our particular winning tactic was Milim's surprise attack to kill the scouts while I finished off the rearguard with magic like before.

Oh yes, we have been hunting Adventurers indiscriminately lately, it seems like the number of people taking countermeasures has increased quite a bit.

Even though it was still not a situation where they avoided us.

Even if that happens, I'll just move on to another strategy.

We're on the 24th floor of the Labyrinth. People who are strong enough will arrive here; it's the perfect hunting ground for us.

“We succeeded! Even people like them, are no match for us. 」

「Uffuffu. Absolutely right! We are not invincible. The strongest!”

「Kuahahaha! Those are just small fries, they're not even little carrotshy from us! 」

My friends say such arrogant words.

We are a group of 4 people.

Uh, what are we doing?

Of course, we were researching how adventurers fight, we learned many things.

I operate Ghost, Wizard [7] who is well versed in magic with a body clad in a bluish-white aura.

I have learned some magic since we started, and I became able to bandage my body with Fear Aura [8].

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Veldora was a skeleton but its bones somehow turned golden by using a special alloy called Steel Metal Shining OrichalcumGod [9] which I had produced.

Orichalcum was a mixture of Demon Steel and Gold, in addition, it was a special alloy that was refined by injecting dense magic power.

Veldora began by saying that the golden skull was good, but then I made the entire golden skeleton structure.

As long as there was a core, everything seemed fine to make bones, so the conversion was done easily and a golden Skull was made.

The current strength could not compare to the previous bone strength, it became a high spec that was useless.

Milim is feared as the Red Meteor. [10]

Because he was moving at an abnormal speed, he left behind a red shadow that looked like a meteor.

As an Assassin, by his means of eliminating his presence and jumping onto the target after approaching unnoticed from the ceiling, he boasted a high murder success rate.

He threw away all abilities except agility. His fighting style that relied on speed and criticism, seemed like he had become a terrifying legend.

Ramiris is part of the Fighter faction.

He was holding an axe with all his strength as if he was mocking the helplessness of his original body.

His fighting style was all-out, making him popular as the Living ArmorMoving Heavy Armor [11] which used the Great Axe Death AxeGrim Reaper [12] crazily.

Perhaps, it was stronger than his original body ……. No, it's okay.

Such a thing doesn't matter.

Making such an impression, we have become a source of fear known as DungeonDeath Bringer of the DominatorLabyrinth’s Will [13] ”.

Since we are stronger than unskilled bosses, we are the pinnacle of evil.

This can be called a natural reaction.

As I mentioned earlier, our main goal is to research the way adventurers fight.

We didn't play at all. That point should not be misunderstood.

We strive every day and do nothing but research day after day. Such honest efforts may be useful someday.

So, we saw a rare adventurer who used an extra skill that had never been seen before, and used real magic. We have gained a lot of knowledge.

Right now I can analyze additional skills just by looking at them.

Such abilities are useful because they affect our avatars.

With a pseudo-soul as its core, the avatar created with magic power completely matched the soul of the main body. That's very comfortable.

The skills that the avatar acquired could be used by the main body. If the avatar grew to some extent, it seemed possible to use the abilities of the main body.

They seem more connected than I thought.

I continue to research with such feelings every day. We have proved various things.

… ..I'll say it one more time, we're not playing around, so please don't misunderstand.

It's hard to get here.

In the beginning, we were defeated by the adventurers upstairs.

Also, an unpleasant situation where we were annihilated by the traps from our own labyrinth occurred.

Angry, it's a good idea to prepare a magic item that will prevent the labyrinth's trap from being activated.

Ramiris was the one who triggered the trap, but the one who was swallowed by him was Veldora.

I was floating in the air and Milim was stuck to the ceiling. Since he had never fallen into a trap, Ramiris was careless.

But, Ramiris ……

“What are you doing, falling into your own trap?” I think everyone wants a tsukkomi.

We spent hard times with that kind of feeling.

The adventurer in front of me that I just defeated turned into a particle of light and disappeared.

This is a familiar sight.

One time we became arrogant and tried to defeat the 30th floor boss.

The boss was Gozurl whose power was sealed by a magic item.

As a result, we suffered a crushing defeat.

With our current capabilities, Gozurl is a huge barrier on our journey.

No, it's wrong, it's not training but learning.

It's not playing.

Really, please don't be wrong!

「It was an easy win.」

The three people nodded at my opinion.

All right, let's continue at this speed! As I was thinking that, I received a message from the clone of my emergency communications duty in the office.

What the hell is going on?

That's what I thought when I received the message that 『Hinata and Demon King Ruminas seemed to have talked about the alliance』.

Apparently, this is not the time I learned (play).

Because of how else, I activated the pseudo-avatar soul Auto Mode, and we decided to go back to the office.

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When we returned to the office, Ruminas and Hinata were already waiting.

With them was a woman I had seen before. Former Demon King Frey sat on a chair.

He glanced at me as I entered the room, then he looked at Veldora, his gaze stopping at the incoming Milim.

And then a sweet smile appeared on his face.

Why yes? I feel that smile is so unpleasant.

「Ah, Milim. You were here?

By the way, what happened to the homework I gave you?

The guards fell and rolled on the bamboo mat, but you can give an explanation of what happened, right? 」

Horrifically.

Although I was not involved, for some reason I felt an unbearable sensation.

Yes, a friend had to play after finishing his homework, but in reality the homework was completely untouched. I happened to catch a scene similar to the time the lie was exposed to the parents, making them angry …….

It feels like nostalgia.

“Wah! Fr, Frey !! That's not. There's a good explanation! 」

Milim became confused as soon as his eyes met Frey's.

This .... So it's over, Milim.

Even though I said it boldly, the matter had nothing to do with Me, right, for us to do it?

「Haha, Milim. If you have a job, you better come back.

Since you're delaying something, you'll need to get your work done quickly! 」

「Yes, as he said. Sorry to get you involved with our long research.

Even though you should have told us that you have a job to do.

But, it seems we should pay attention to that. Let's apologize! 」

「I, correct! Just like he said. Don't be protected by the law, if you tell us about it, we won't arrest you! 」

As expected.

Veldora and Ramiris who read the situation supported my words.

We hereby establish our ignorance, and furthermore, it declares that we are unrelated.

Although I saw the watery Milim’seyes, I'm sorry it seems there is no way to help you.

Surrender and tie yourself with a rope [14].

So, Milim is captured by Frey.

「This, this is different. Listen to the story, Frey! 」

So Milim yelled to the end, but failed before Frey's iron smile. The fight was in vain.

Unfortunately Milim was captured and taken away like a cat [15] back to his own country.

Phew, that's scary.

I thought I'd be dragged into it, but it looks like I can get through it safely somehow. When I thought so,

「By the way Rimuru-sama, What have you been doing all this time?」

Shuna stood behind me without any presence, and asked me a sharp question.

I felt a sweat that could not flow appearing on my forehead.

No, we're safe, it's okay.

We never played. Yes, research! Because we are researching.

「It looks like we have become a hindrance to you. Let's do some magic research in my room.

Since magic is deep, it gives me wisdom 」

Veldora turned her back with the favorite bookManga in her hand while saying such a thing.

Is he going to run away !?

When I'm gonna hold him, then,

「Then, I have to accompany you too?」

Ramiris betrayed me too and left, escaping with Veldora.

How cruel!

However, this time was not the time to think about those cruel friends.

I think it's a little weak to keep insisting that this is research.

Hinata and Ruminas stared at me with eyes full of suspicion, it seemed like a bad reason would destroy me.

As I release Veldora and Ramiris, My brain cells operate at full power in search of optimal solutions.

It's no use, good ideas won't come. Because it's like this, I'm leaving with my last choice.

（Raphael! Help me find a good reason to get through this situation safely!）

Yes, the crystallization of My wisdom, SenseiRaphael should be my ally.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

“Lavatan. Explanation no need》

Whahuh? No need for explanation !?

What does that mean… ..

「Ah, are you here? I've been looking for you, Danna !? 」

A nostalgic presence, it was Fuze.

I see, that's what it means!

「Oh, Fuze-kun. The matter I asked you, how is the investigation? *

Let's listen inside. 」

That's a gift.

Looks like I can survive because I used Fuze to investigate Yuuki.

Nevertheless, as expected of Raphael.

Is this time and Fuze's arrival predicted? You didn't say it. Still not possible.

But there is no doubt that I have been saved. I'm glad I didn't carelessly make a weird excuse.

I entered the room and invited Fuze in.

Then I absorbed my communication task clone, and sat down on the chair.

I can fool him somehow.

「Confidential investigation right? As expected of Rimuru-sama! 」

So Shuna nodded with a satisfied smile.

The crisis has passed.

However, to not forget this lesson, I vowed to stop playing too much.

Because I feel guilty, I'm confused.

You have to do things that make sense.

I contemplate in my mind to be careful from now on.