87: The Cookie

Years went by like a flash. With various nations allying themselves with Rudra the Eastern empire began to grow at an astonishing speed. It was now called the hope of humanity as it was now the strongest empire in the entire continent.

Even the ancient kingdom of elves which has the greatest technology couldn't contend with the eastern empire with their military might at all. After all there is no one who could beat Rudra who is equal in strength to Guy.

While the cardinal world changed entirely the same couldn't be said to the underworld. Apart from the increase in a few arch demons nothing changed. Well not surprising since most of the demons who are in the underworld are only lower class demons.

Unlike greater demons or arch demons lower class demons are quite similar to animals. They mostly rely on their instincts to survive. They, like all demons, obey the strong. So they always fight amongst each other to create their own hierarchy.

It is this cycle that allows them to grow stronger and achieve evolution to a greater demon who has intelligence. After evolution they slowly began to refine their battle techniques and fight amongst other greater demons and lower demons and consume souls to try to evolve into an arch demon.

After one is evolved into an arch demon they begin to stop listening to their instincts and use their intelligence. Some go and serve the primordials and make their own army under that primordial while some begin to follow their own paths they come across. Whether it is to become a grandmaster swordsman or a master craftsman it does not matter.

But even then their thirst for strength didn't extinguish. As the saying goes, the older the demon is the more stronger they are. For countless years they sharpen their abilities and try their best to evolve into a demon peer.

While demons lived their own lives the restaurant that was in a special dimension was bustling as ever. Although it was closed for nearly a week after Veldanava's disappearance the regulars didn't stop coming there as soon as they heard it was open for business again.

As soon as the doors were opened customers flooded the whole place. The food Ciel makes is something people would die for.

And during these past years the restaurant regulars had something else to look forward to apart from the delicious food.

" MILIM " an angry shout rang in the house as Rimuru screamed. On her hand is an empty glass bottle that had some cookie crumbs on the bottom.

A little head popped up from behind the wall. She had long pink hair that was tied into a twintail. Her blue eyes were filled with innocence like she had nothing to do with anything that's happening.

Next to her another head popped out. But unlike the last head this time it was a small dragon head. It had shining bright-blue scales that resembled Veldanava quite a bit.

Rimuru looked at the small Milim and pointed to the empty cookie bottle and demanded, " Milim what happened to the cookies I put inside this bottle. I clearly remember that it was full of cookies yesterday. "

Milim looked away and said while trying her hard to whistle," i don't know "

" Oh really now " Rimuru asked again as she put her hands on her hips. She glared at Milim making her gulp audibly. .

" It was Velgaia he ate all of it " Milim suddenly said as she pointed at her comrade. She had no remorse in betraying her partner in crime.

Velgaia was stunned as he looked at his sister/ master with shocked eyes. He then looked at Rimuru and shook its head vigorously. He tried his best to express his innocence with body languages as he could not talk yet.

Rimuru didn't even twitch as she saw the back stabbing scene. If she learned one thing in her second life is that amongst the four problem children Milim and Ramiris could be ranked the highest in their shamelessness .

Those two would have no shame as they quickly betray each other to escape from punishment after they are caught. The times Rimuru witnessed it were so numerous that Rimuru stopped giving them any chance to explain themselves.

" really then why are there cookie crumbs on your face Milim? '' Rimuru asked as she looked at Milim with a raised eyebrow.

Milim reflexively tried to clean the cookie crumbs and her hands froze as she realised that there were none on her face. She and Velgaia ate cookies during the night so there were obviously no crumbs on their faces.

" So got any more excuses? " Rimuru asked as she brought the paper fan she kept in her imaginary space.

Milim and Velgaia huddled together as they looked at Rimuru's paper fan with fear. Milim tried to negotiate as she said, " Aunt can we talk about this "

Rimuru smiled coldly and said, " Well we will talk after I am done dishing some punishment to two naughty children "

And soon a beating was delivered to the duo. It did not matter how much study their innate defences were. As soon as Rimuru's paper fan hit them they both screamed in pain.

This is the legendary punishment paper fan that was used to deliver punishment to anyone. And apart from Rimuru almost everyone in the true dragon family had tasted this fan's wrath.

It is a God level weapon that will ignore any defence until it lands on the target. Fortunately its offensive power is almost zero as it doesn't even give any red marks. But the pain is real so not many would like to taste it unless they are a group of masochists.

After ten minutes Rimuru was finished disciplining both children. So put the paper fan back into her imaginary space.

" Well I hope you would think twice before emptying the cookie bottle again " Although Rimuru said that she didn't have that much hope in it.

This isn't the first time this happened and this certainly wouldn't be the last.

"Now be a dare and help me bring these dishes to the dinner table. We need to open the restaurant soon.

" Yess " came Milim's reply as she dragged her body to the kitchen. Velgaia also flowed her as it used his two small wings to fly a little. Thankfully it had a body structure similar to an eastern dragon so it was quite light.

Looking at their departing backs Rimuru fell into deep thought, ' It's almost near Milim's birthday so I need to bake some more cookies to serve her that day. I just hope her 15 birthday wish wouldn't be too much of a troublesome thing for me to do '

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