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After everyone was full Ray paid the bill and he and his companions left the restaurant, illusion magic still cast onto them.

Ray looked at his wrist, spotting his familiar time clock on it, he can't help but wonder, 'Just how much does this thing affect evolution?'

Perhaps it doesn't and it simply works as an unlimited magicule generator, and those magicules can be used to evolve skill during a racial evolution, or perhaps it strengthens the bond with time and gives the wearer extra time-related skills, who knows.

Ray moves his head to the side looking at his trusted subordinates.

"I'll be away for a bit, Yuji you are responsible for R'yleh's protection, while you two, Blanc and Moss, are responsible for keeping international affairs in check. You Cynus will follow me and remain in my shadow."

"Yes, Master!" Cynus said wiggling with his tail, the others nodded to confirm their responsibilities too.

"Now then, Sayonara!' Like that Ray left this reality in an instant, he would trust his subordinates with even his life, he doesn't have to worry about R'lyeh's safety with them watching over it.

When Ray reentered another Reality he stood on a sidewalk, humans hastily passing him regularly, going to work.

Ray used [Ouroboros] and knitted a baggy black Tuxedo with a white shirt and a black necktie underneath it.

He used [Temporal Awareness] to locate a shop that sells glasses and stole some contact lenses from there, but he made sure to gift the shop owner some luck with [Ouroboros] in return.

After Ray placed the lenses in his eyes, covering the clock symbols inside of them, he straddled around the modern city marveling at its sight and testing its various local specialties.

A few hours passed until he stopped walking around aimlessly and entered a cafe.

"A table for two, my invitee will arrive later." He said pushing some money to the reception lady, the latter blushing in front of him, every time he evolved he didn't only become stronger, he also becomes more beautiful, and at this point of time giving him less than a 9/10 would be impossible from every perspective.

"Sure." The lady stayed professional and guided Ray to a table in front of a big window, the view was quite good as you could observe massive crowds of people walking around like an anthill.

"A coffee and a Donut please." Ray took out another lump of money and handed it to the lady, this Timeline had something akin to a stock market and after Ray stole a mobile phone, in return for luck, he invested in a high-risk high reward stock, boosted it with luck from [Ouroboros] and cashed out immediatly, skills are truly op in worlds without them.

A few minutes passed as Ray began to regularly take sips from his coffee until another man entered the cafe, spotting Ray he walked over to him.

"Good morning." The stranger said

"Hello, I'm Ray," Ray responded.

"You can call me let's think about it... Jay, yeah that's good enough for a one-night stand."

"Don't let it sound like we'll have s*x."

"Ah c'mon let me have my fun."

The stranger wore a thick trenchcoat, adorned by a red scarf and red gloves he had a three-day beard and had looks on par with Ray, his face and general physique was identical to Ray's

"So with what can I help you," Ray said as Jay took his seat and ordered a sandwich.

"I want you to take care of somebody."

"Really, didn't expect that," Ray remarked sarcastically, he entered this timeline to get a job offer and in return be paid in timeclocks, something nobody would give up easily, and as such would only be sold in emergencies by those that need help in warding off strong foes.

"I want you to get rid of Rimuru, you'll receive my timeclock for it."

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Inside a rather basic-looking building made out of mostly wood and stone a feast was held, the siblings Benimaru, Shuna, Shion, and Souei were sitting at a wooden table with their leader Rimuru tempest and his new 'best friend' Milim Nava.

They discussed the versatility of sugar and honey, as Milim took more and more honey and threw it into her mouth like she was an endless abyss that awaits more and more food and shall never be sated.

Suddenly silence ensued, a man wearing a baggy tuxedo from another era entered the room from the entrance door, everybody was shocked and nobody knew who the man was.

He wore an annoyed and tired expression on his face and rubbed his eyes multiple times as he neared the table where Rimuru and co ate.

Rimuru's Great sage analyzed said individual instantly but saw no threat in the stranger and let Rimuru, its master, know as such

"Ahm, Mr. I think you have messed up somewhere and gone astray you aren't supposed to be here." After Rimuru got confirmation that the man was indeed unarmed and had strength akin to a normal human he tried to be polite and not use any sort of violence, Milim just kept eating honey.

"How dare you, disturb great Rimuru sama's meal!" One of the Kijin siblings yelled but was interrupted by the stranger.

"Indeed, I've gone astray on the path of life, but a deal's a deal." Nobody even noticed as the man rubbed his eyes one last time before they were engulfed in unmeasurable ferocity.

A sword appeared out of nowhere, formed by beautifully connecting threads of black and white color.

The sword was stabbed right through Rimuru's gut the latter falling to the ground in a puddle of silver-blue slime water.

Shion was the first to react as her bloodshot eyes firmed on the man with a tuxedo and she swung her giant sword at him, but as it seems, today was not her day and she tripped on the floor, her enormous sword avoiding the man by nanometers, the man didn't even flinch, as the voluptuous woman hit her head on the blunt edge of her sword and fell unconscious.

Next were Benimaru and Souei, the former attacking with his black flames the latter attacking with clones, sharp metal strings, and kunai, sadly both failed just as miserable as Shion and fell to the ground or hit their own clones respectively.

Shuna's mind got so mangled that she fell unconscious before anything could happen, seems like this is her lucky day as she didn't embarrass herself at all.

Milim seemed to have luck too as she grasped the newcomer's intentions as soon as he stabbed Rimuru, he didn't want to harm her new best friend and so she casually continued to maw down all the food on the table.

Ranga who lurked in Rimuru's shadow was unluckily sleeping through this whole ordeal, it seems fate was a bitch today.

"Nice to meetcha Milim." The man with a tuxedo said as he sat down and made himself a honey bread and drank a cup of water.

"Yesh Hello!" The pink-haired girl answered with a full mouth, still devouring all food in sight.

"Now don't play dead little slime, I'm merely a lawyer."

"You're saying that you are a normal lawyer?!" Rimuru screamed from the top of his lungs, he never met a foe that was so far from his reach and so he didn't know what to do, [Great Sage] also couldn't help as it can't detect anything abnormal with the man.

"Indeed and I've come here to get justice for all the victims you've created," Ray said as he took out a phone from his tuxedo pocket.

"Wait, what victims."

"That doesn't matter, now what do you have to say to your defense?"

"I don't even know what you're talking about!?"

"Does that mean, that you admit to your detestable crimes?"

"Wait, please you can take my life but please let my people survive."

Ray took a deep breath as he put the phone away and... began to laugh.

"Fufufufufufufufuffu." A few minutes passed as Ray's laughter echoed around the room until Ray composed himself again.

He wiped the tear out of his eyelids as he began explaining.

"Ok, Ok I should start to be a bit more serious now."

Finally seeing a bit of rationality in the stranger Rimuru asked with carefulness to not aggravate the stranger, "So... could you tell me who you are."

"Ahh, yes how about introductions, I forget about that often because most people already know me from my face, I'm Ray R'lyeh." Ray said, stretching his hand out.

The slime composed himself completely and transformed into his human form once again, shaking Ray's hand.

"Rimuru Tempest."

[A/N: The next day or the next two days one chanpter will be released at about this Time, btw thanks for giving me inspiration in the last update chapter, and how do you want the MC to interact with Rimuru from now on?]