93. I Am Rimuru, A Slime. Not A Bad Slime, You Know

The duel between Yugi and Kaiba attracted the attention of many people. And of course, Kujou Sara, who was the general of the Tenryou Commission, also paid attention to this matter. The Shogun's army and Kujou Sara felt that the two young men were making too much noise and wanted to interrogate them since those two identities have absolutely no history.

However, due to their arrival, and as the duel had just reached its climax, Yugi and Kaiba decided to run away as the translucent monsters also disappeared completely, which led the people who watched the duel to be dissatisfied with what the Shogun's army and Sara did just now.

Even Miko who watched on the sideline smirked.

'Those people who were depressed because of Ei's official decrees just found something that fueled their spirits, but you all ruined it.'

Miko shook her head. Then, she glanced at Ryūhei's store. She felt that those two earlier had a connection with Ryūhei. Therefore, she decided to visit him soon.

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Miko entered the store.

"Where is your boss?" Yae asked the new employee.

"Ah, Lady Yae. He's inside." The one who replied was a new employee who started working 2 days ago, Kyouta.

Initially, she wanted to ask if Ryūhei had a connection with the ones called Yugi and Kaiba. However, when she opened the door, even though she saw Ryūhei reading something like a script, she was quite surprised to see a slime leaning on top of Ryūhei's head and a creature that seemed to be reading a script with Ryūhei.

3 days ago, Ryūhei came to the shrine with the intention to get in touch with a consciousness realm. At that time, Miko asked why he didn't want to try the Anti-Raiden Shogun Training first.

"I already estimated her strength and power. It doesn't matter whether I try the anti-thingy or not."

"Estimated? How come?"

"I used my clone to confront her directly."

"Come again?"

"It's as I said. But, the thing is, her sword is kinda…erm, what should I say? Right, it had the property of ignoring defense, or perhaps ignoring any space-related defense."

"No…I mean, how can you still be relaxed? Even if it was your clone who challenged her, weren't you already known by her? Oh wait, did you use a mask or something?"

"Yup, pretty much. She destroyed my clone without seeing my face."

"No wonder."

Miko understood why Ryūhei didn't bother to try because he knew her strength already. And, it was quite a shock to her that Ryūhei had such a skill and even dared to confront the Raiden Shogun directly. Still, Ryūhei claimed that his strength was still too low for now. He also said, "If it looks like I stand no chance I'll run away and think up a new plan." Just like what he said to Zhongli the first time they met face to face. Therefore, he didn't want to act for the time being until he was sure that he could "punish" the Raiden Shogun.

However, if she remembered correctly that day, there were no creatures like these two in front of her now. Moreover, one of them seemed to contain a lot of pure Electro energy while the slime seemed to be devoid of one. Yet, she felt uneasy about the slime as if it could swallow her whole.

"Where did you find this slime?" Miko pointed at the slime.

"I brought my hands together in front of the Statue of The Seven, and this slime just fell out of the sky. And since my reflex is good enough, I caught him and decided to raise him on the spot." It was so amazing that Ryūhei came up with the nonsense while taking his two hands in front of his chest, pressing the palms together.

"..." She was speechless. When she thought about it, Ryūhei was somehow very different from the past, seeing how bold he was now. And who would believe that nonsense just now?

Miko sharpened her eyes.

"You have a nerve, little scoundrel! I'm being serious here. This slime is too dangerous!"

"I know, right!? That's why I raised him. He is Rimuru Tempest. Rimuru, say hi to her!"

"Osu! I'm Rimuru, a slime. I'm not a bad slime, you know!" Rimuru said as a part of its body shaped into a little palm waved at her.

Now, she froze.

How could she not? This was the first time in the world she saw a slime that could talk. Moreover, it has human-like intelligence.

Ryūhei was pleased when he saw her expression. It was as if he accomplished something great, making him let out a sadistic smile.

'And there's still Pikachu. I wonder what kind of expression she would make if she knew that Pikachu's lightning was almost on par with the Archon.' He couldn't help but marvel at that sight if it happened.

Eventually, Ryūhei convinced Miko that he had tamed both monsters. Although she couldn't believe it at first, she recalled that Ryūhei could even defeat Azhdaha although he got help from Morax. Thus, she believed what he said. Even though she kept her distance from the slime.

After that, both of them talked a little bit about Yugi and Kaiba who suddenly appeared. And it seemed they used cards that Ryūhei sells in his store. Kujou Sara also happened to visit while asking about that when Miko was still there. Once again, Ryūhei bullshiting about their identities, telling her that they were the card inventors or like.

At first, Kujou Sara wanted to bring him out to the police station to ask him in detail regarding the two suspicious people. However, knowing that he didn't do anything wrong and he seemed to be close with Miko, she couldn't proceed and could only listen to his explanation in the store.

Although she got an order directly from the Raiden Shogun, the order was to seize Visions, not to arrest people who had no relation with that. In addition to that, she took care of dangerous crime and rebellion. Thus, she had no reason to antagonize Ryūhei, unless the Raiden Shogun ordered her to do so.

"Then, what about the translucent monsters?" Sara asked.

"It's projection. They invented a device that could materialize monsters from the cards. However, they told me that the device was still a prototype."

Naturally Miko knew what projection was. But, she didn't expect that those youngsters had the knowledge to project monsters from cards. Genius indeed.

"So, those things aren't dangerous?"

"Well, it's called projection, what would you expect?"

After his confirmation, Sara withdrew and went back to the police station.

A moment later, people began to swarm the store, asking about the cards played by Yugi and Kaiba. They also asked how to summon the monsters just like them. However, Ryūhei asked them to be patient as the device for summoning monsters was still a prototype. He said that Kaiba would sell the device once it was perfected.

Although they were disappointed, they still bought the "gacha" cards after seeing the exciting duel.

A few hours later, Shinobu unexpectedly came with some people.

Ryūhei had a one-on-one talk with Shinobu.

In their talk, Shinobu decided to take Ryūhei's offer while asking him about the conditions. Her conditions were that she could still help the Arataki Gang in case they got into trouble and could still be involved with the Gang's operations.

Ryūhei had no problem with that. After all, he gave her a position as a manager. As long as she could handle the store, he wouldn't restrict her.

Just when she took out a contract to deal with the agreement, Ryūhei shook his head.

"Let me."

Ryūhei chanted something, and then a contract formed by energy appeared in front of her.

"This…don't tell me…" Shinobu was quite shocked.

"Yeah, it's our contract. You've been in Liyue, so you should know what this is, right?"

"How did you even learn—"

"Shhh. You can learn later if you decide to go back to Liyue with me to take your graduation certificate."

No one from Inazuma could learn Adeptus Arts. Wait no, if she remembered correctly, Onmyōdō, an art used by Onmyōji, was created by combining Adeptus Arts from Liyue and an art of transcension from a Tengu Yōkai since people in Inazuma couldn't perform Adeptus Arts.

It was amazing that she could witness a person from Inazuma learn Adeptus Arts.

Well, Ryūhei didn't bother to explain. Thus, she let her think so.

After that, Ryūhei began to interview the people she brought. Out of the 5, excluding Shinobu, only two passed.

With the arrival of new employees, especially Shinobu, he could leave this store to her for the time being and he finally could leave Inazuma City to prepare something before confronting the Raiden Shogun. But well, he still needed to tell a lot of things to Shinobu before departing.

And around 8 PM before Ryūhei closed the store, someone sneaked behind him. He looked back and saw Yoimiya walking on tiptoe who seemed to want to startle him.

"What are you doing?"

"Hehehe." She could only laugh awkwardly while scratching her hair.