• To the Human Countries
Having become an established nation, Tempest began engaging in all sorts of diplomatic activities.
With the Beast Kingdom Eurazania, they exchanged envoys and were acknowledged by the Three Beastketeers as a nation worthy of forming diplomatic ties.
During a diplomatic visit to the Dwarven Kingdom, they concluded beneficial negotiations such as technology exchanges. Rimuru even delivered an address to the leadership, expressing his intention to build friendly relations that transcended race.
Although King Gazel harshly criticized him—saying Rimuru was too humble and appealed too much to emotion…
While Rimuru was spending busy days like this, he began repeatedly dreaming of unknown children together with Shizu.
It felt like Shizu, whom he had once consumed, was trying to convey something to him. Feeling this way, Rimuru decided to visit the country where Shizu once lived.
Asking Kabal’s group to guide him, Rimuru first visited the Kingdom of Blumund.
There, besides signing a contract for selling healing potions, he concluded agreements with the upper leadership regarding mutual security and passage permits.
He also attempted to gain an identity as a human by registering as an adventurer in the Free Guild, but… during the practical test, he showed off a bit too much ability, plunging the onlookers into an uproar.
—A little comic mishap.
Leaving Blumund, Rimuru finally headed for the main goal of his journey: the western advanced nation where Shizu had lived—the Kingdom of Ingrasia.
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• The Birth of “Teacher Rimuru”
Awaiting Rimuru in the capital of Ingrasia was a boy named Yuuki Kagurazaka, the Grandmaster of the Free Guild and Shizu’s former student.
Like Rimuru, Yuuki was also originally from Japan, and his casual personality made it easy for the two to hit it off. Rimuru confided in him about his dreams and learned in detail about the children Shizu had worried for.
According to Yuuki, the children were “Summoned Ones” who had been called into this world in an incomplete state.
But because their young bodies couldn’t control the magicules swirling inside them, they were fated to die within a few years.
Shizu’s wish must have been to save them.
Thus, with Yuuki entrusting the children to him, Rimuru became the instructor at the school they attended… but…
The children were extremely rebellious when he met them.
Apparently, after Shizu left on her journey, they had become uncontrollable, and no other teacher could handle them.
Fortunately, Rimuru was not just an ordinary human.
He first demonstrated his true ability to the children, then sincerely promised he would definitely save their lives, eventually managing to win their trust.
However—Shizu herself had been a child when she came to this world. So why was she able to survive?
Rimuru suddenly realized: perhaps Demon Lord Leon had embedded Ifrit within her. This hypothesis matched the opinion of the “Great Sage.”
Why Leon did such a thing was unknown, but if a child housed a high-level spirit, they should be able to control the magicules in their body.
Rimuru came to that conclusion.
While working as an instructor, Rimuru looked for the dwelling place of spirits.
During that time, an incident occurred where a Sky Dragon attacked the capital, and Rimuru met Myormile, a major merchant from the Kingdom of Blumund.
This fortunate encounter eventually led Rimuru to learn that the entrance to a place called the “Dwelling of Spirits” existed in the Republic of Ulgracia. Once he learned that, he took the children and headed there at once.
Entering the labyrinth that led to the Spirit’s Dwelling—home of the small Demon Lord Ramiris—the group proceeded.
Someone mischievously teased Rimuru’s group and unleashed a guardian golem on them, but Rimuru swiftly crushed it.
The astonished figure who appeared was a tiny fairy—Ramiris.
Though her appearance and personality seemed like that of a child, Ramiris was actually one of the Demon Lords and had once been the Queen of Spirits. She was also said to be a guide of the Holy One.
With her help, the children safely reached the place of spirit summoning. They each housed a high-level spirit within them and succeeded in controlling their internal magicules.
However, only Chloe’s spirit summoning resulted in an unexpected event.
Instead of a high-level spirit, a mysterious entity—unknown even to Ramiris—descended.
The female-shaped being tried to touch Rimuru affectionately for some reason, but aside from the fact that she was a spiritual lifeform with immense energy, nothing else was known.
By the time Ramiris shouted a warning, it was too late—the woman had already possessed Chloe.
Even when Rimuru analyzed Chloe with “Great Sage,” no reaction appeared, leaving him increasingly troubled.
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The Children’s Contracted Spirits
Gale: Pseudo-High-Level Spirit “Earth”
Alice: Pseudo-High-Level Spirit “Air”
Kenya: Spirit of Light
Ryota: Pseudo-High-Level Spirit “Water & Wind”
Chloe: The mental entity of a black-silver-haired woman
Pseudo-High-Level Spirits:
Low-level spirits that Rimuru consumed and remade into pseudo-high-level spirits.
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CHLOE:
“Teacher Rimuru is gentle, beautiful, strong, and I love him sooo much!
Saying goodbye was really lonely… sniff.”