Slime and Dragon King's Agony

A few days later...

"Because of the lack of administrators, the Aincrad system is slowly neglected. Sure it has an automatic function, but making deals with the constellations is also an administrator's job, So I might be away for a while..."

Hiromi stated this... Currently, we're in my room, Naked.

My left side is Shiraori who is sleeping soundly, while my right side is Hiromi who explained to me about the flying tower outside the window.

Our house is surrounded by barriers, it rejected Constellations/gods foresight, and any kind of clairvoyance ability.

Well, except for Veldanava that is... since he is now my skill core.

[Urk... Let me watch something else... please!]

Ah? did you guys hear something?

[LISTEN TO ME!]

"I see... Do you need any help?" I asked Hiromi Who was still covered with the blanket.

[DON'T IGNORE ME!!!]

"No... There will be a quest soon, right? You must take care of the group chat." She smiled as she said that.

"True, then be careful I guess..."

"Heheh, have I never been careful?"

We parted ways as she teleported away after dressing up.

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Shiraori is a spiritual being too, but that doesn't mean she won't enjoy a nice sleep.

I get dressed first and went down for breakfast.

And during that time...

"Veldanava, I have a favor to ask you, actually."

[Huh? what's up? if I did what you ask would you help me disconnect my thoughts to your senses whenever you're doing.... that??]

Wow, a settled price already.

Oh well, "I want you to make Rimuru falls in love with you."

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"..."

A second passed, and then another.

[HUH!???]

You sound like you're shocked.

[Are you even listening to yourself right now!??]

Well, I can make you a body, you can use it, Rizz Rimuru up, then boom. He is under our control.

[THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE! IN THE FIRST PLACE... WHY DO YOU EVEN WANT THAT!? YOU'VE ALREADY DONE ENOUGH TO GAIN HIS FAVOR!]

Well, making him evolve wasn't exactly enough, I'm sure his newly evolved great sage will find it suspicious and will make every countermeasure possible to get in the way of my plan.

[That still doesn't answer the question. Firstly, out of tons of lists you have... WHY CHOOSE ME!?? YOU KNOW I CAN'T DO THAT! After all, he's my---!!!]

"I know... He's your fragmented soul."

A fragmented soul... from the story, Rudra, the chosen hero wages war with the arbitrator of the cardinal world. He traded his ultimate skill with Veldanava's 『Michael』, and use it to battle with the dream of conquering the world.

That so-called ultimate skill however, gone uncontrollable, and a constant internal battle between him and Michael, one that exhausted his physical body and forced him to reincarnate over and over, losing pieces of his soul every time due to the strain.

Those pieces ultimately either reincarnate to other worlds, or spread across the continent, empowering bystanders with a fraction of the hero's power.

The same can be said for Veldanava.

Veldanava whose divinity was stripped away from him died as a normal mortal instead. But he didn't only die, Veldanava also used the last of his energy to gift his daughter a pet dragon, Gaia, in the hopes that she wouldn't be lonely.

By that point, all of his true dragon factor has died down. Yet his soul is still one of the strongest that exist in the multiverse.

The stronger the soul, the most likely it is for them to be selected in summoning or reincarnation.

I'm pretty sure you know the rest:

After creating Gaia, his soul fractured and Rimuru happens to be a major holder of that soul.

[Wait... are you trying to make my soul return to him???]

As of now, Veldanava who retains his memories had the smallest pieces of Veldanava's True Dragon Soul fragments.

So if they were about to meet up... Veldanava is the one who will merge with him. Simply, the end product is a Rimuru with Veldanava's memories. And that was it, Veldanava's ego will be lost, Rimuru will stay as Rimuru, and I have a Rimuru who will now understand everything I said.

But... That's not my plan right now.

"No, that won't be satisfactory. Rimuru might grow stronger and smarter, but he's still and will probably always be a pacifist at heart. At least not after living long enough like an actual demon lord... if only I can make him go 'I'll leave everything to you!' That would've been easier..."

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[Wait you're not thinking---]

"Well, guess what? Rimuru might just become a female version of you, Veldanava-sama"

[Oi!!?? Don't be kidding me!!!]

"Time to get to work I guess~~"

[HEY I AM STILL YOUR CONTRACTOR! STOP IT!! DON'T EVEN GO TO THE CARDINAL WORLD YOU HEAR ME!??]

"C'mon now, you're enjoying that WUGOM manga that you read through my memories."

(A/N: WUGOM is the abbreviation for "Wake Up as Girl One Morning". It means literally the plot of an anime.)

[I READ THAT BECAUSE THERE'S COMEDY IN IT!]

"Hmm, true it does have nice comedy but hey, I've actually planned this all alone. You're too late for not noticing. Well, if you still won't do it then I'll just have to do it myself!"

[Huh?]

Suddenly, *Ring*

Veldanava went quiet.

My dimensional smartphone vibrated.

it was Rimuru who I assume to have finished his evolution.

"Y'ellow?"

[WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!?]

Thus, with a panicking and unusually high-pitched tone, Rimuru's voice ranged to my ears.

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--- Rimuru Tempest's POV ---

[You have received a title: Tempest Monarch]

[You have obtained job-related skill: 『Ä̶̧̡͔͎͙́̑͗̇͛ḑ̵̹̞̦̪̉̈́̌͐͝ƨ̸̡͍͈̫͎̆̃̈́̔̕o̷̝̦̬̯͓͗̆́̑͆l̴̦̯̟̠̱͗̈͋̈́̚υ̸̤̫͓̗͉̊̃̊̇͛Ɉ̶̱͈͇̼͔͂̒̈͒̔ɘ̴͖͉̗̮̣̀̌͒͌͒ ̵͎͍͕͇͚̿̈́̑͘͝ᆿ̴̧̩̩̹̩̌̇̔̿̚ɘ̵̞̖̬͈̦̓̇̑͑̚m̴̼͕̝͓͚̂̑͗̄̀ỉ̵̢̺͚͔̼̈̈́̇͝ñ̶̰̘͇̭̹̑̉̚͝ĩ̴̼̯͇̞̺́͒͒͝z̷̞̳̫̹̩̋̒̀͝͠ɒ̴̧̤͈̞̙̊̔́́͝Ɉ̷͙̩̳̪͕̏̐̈́̏̀i̴̛͕͕̻̯̣̓̑̒͝o̸̮̬̮̱̳̒̄́̓̽n̴̡̡̛͖̙̺͐̑́̚ ̷̠͉͓̺̲̇̅̐͛͌Ǝ̶̨͇̲́̑̅́͜͜͝Ẋ̸͇̝͉̖̤̀̎͊̇』]

What...?

Urk... Ahhh~ I feel great.

Upon opening my eyes, I was greeted by... Well, firstly Shuna, Shion... And then Benimaru and Milim.

"Aaah~ it feels refreshing somehow!" I couldn't help but notice something that felt different in my voice. It's higher?

I, sat up on the futon and--- wait? sat up? I can feel the soft futon where he is currently on top of, but something doesn't feel right.

My chest feels a little bit heavy...

"I feel like eating something right now, haha... Though I can't really get hungry..." my hand unconsciously ran through my hair...

Wait... Hand?

I widened my eyes for a second there, I brought my hand in front of my face to observe it. It's a hand, I'm in my human form right now?

Looking at my surroundings, Shion had stars in her eyes and Shuna who covers her red face with her sleeve, she would scold Benimaru to look away as he comply with her words with a slight blush. And Milim is... confused?

"Why did you become like that-noda?"

"huh? What are you talking about?"

Become like this? I am just executing my evolution did I not?

"What's with you guys?"

I scanned the surroundings once more before my eyes landed on the mirror that was behind Milim. The mirror stood there and showed me something very beautiful.

Hair of platinum blue, eyes that radiates gold, and a naked body of a beautiful 18 years old woman. She definitely has boobs, so it couldn't be me...

"Ah miss, you're naked..." Eh... why is she following my gestures...?

"That's... ME!???????"

«Notice: Evolution from "Slime" to "Slime Lord" completed, The EX skill, 『Absolute Feminization』 is permanently active.»

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And that's how we get to this point:

"EXPLAIN TO ME, NOW! IN LESS THAN NINE WORDS!" I demanded my answers from the admin in a private call.

And with a deadpanned tone, he responds:

[I Have no idea what you're talking about.]

That's 8 words.

"JUST TELL ME WHY I AM A FEMALE!!!!!!"

This was very unexpected.

Absolute Feminization??? WHO EVEN MAKES THIS SKILL!?? Any form that I use ends up being female! I'm not even genderless anymore! I even tried to ask my newly evolved great sage, Raphael-sensei, to fix this...

But...

«Answer: due to the intrinsic skill's subskill, 『Unregistered Administration』, the skill is unremovable from master's soul. Even if master decided to replace the material body, the possessed body's transformation is guaranteed to be negated by the skill.»

"IT'S YOU! THIS IS YOUR DOING ISN'T IT!??"

[Now now, don't panic, and don't jump to conclusions... You haven't given me any context you know? How are you female? Didn't you say you were genderless?]

A-ah... he's right. Somehow I feel like raging for some reason...

That's right, I should calm down.

"Rimuru-sama, since Benimaru has gotten out of our way, why don't we try some clothes that'll fit you... Rimuru-sama can't be naked all the time, don't you think?" That was Shuna who has a joyful smile on her face.

No no... Stay calm...

"Rimuru-sama, please try this one! I personally think it'll suit you more!" And that's Shion, holding a blue female Yukata.

Don't let it get through you...

"RIMURU!! This is great! Now we can do fashion together-nano da!!"

And of course, that last one was Milim.

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I slowly brought my phone back to my ear.

Every single response of my subordinates and probably anyone I have met in this life is going to change after all of this.

My life has been changed completely, without my consent.

"✨If it's not a good explanation I am cutting your *BLEEP* off with black flame you know~!✨"

Thus, with a tone of presumptuous-less, I say those words with a refreshing smile on my face.

Let's see what the admin's got to say.

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To be continued.