Chapter 7 Part 2

- Milim -

She sat down near Silas as she looked at him evolving.

Many thoughts ran through her head.

If she had known that Clayman was going to attack Tempest, she would have blasted him right then and there.

She knew he was causing trouble for Rimuru and thus pretended to play along just to trick him together later on.

With Rimuru's strength, it shouldn't have been any problem in the first place. Especially if Sil and the Bone-guy helped.

She was sent with Frey to kill Carrion and destroy his kingdom and when she was summoned, everything had already happened. Frey had barely held her back because Clayman was working for someone and she wanted to find the identity of those behind him or Tempest could be attacked again.

Even so, looking at Sil get mad because of her, felt good.

She did hold back and while Saitama was strong and was becoming stronger very fast too, she knew that she could have defeated him if she had used her Stampede Mode and the Wrathful King Sataneel but she stopped the fight as soon as she felt Clayman running and Silas chasing behind.

And now she was worried if Sil would hate her because of it.

She shook her head and stood up, fists clenched.

"Frey, when the Dragon Faithful come, have them heal everyone in Tempest as well as help with fixing the city." She asked and Frey went aside to do so.

"Milim, hey Milim, did he wake up?" Ramiris was flying around her head.

As she was about to answer Ramiris. she sensed someone coming from a distance. The level of power made it obvious about who it was. Why was he coming here all of a sudden?

She turned back and looked towards the Bone guy who was more or less in charge due to both Rimuru and Sil being unconscious and Saitama not being interested.

"No matter what happens, don't attack. I will take care of everything."

She waited and sure enough he landed in the middle of Tempest with a huge blast, making a crater in the middle of Tempest.

"Milim, Ramiris and is that Frey? What are you all doing here?" Guy asked, surprised as he walked towards them.

The two Daemons leading the group whom Rimuru and Sil had summoned stood in front of their bodies, blocking Guy's way, making her raise an eyebrow.

These two did seem a bit odd.

"The ones becoming Demon Lords are my friends. Also, I was here first. Why are you here?"

"Me? I sensed multiple Demon Lord level beings awakening and decided to take a look, not to mention the landscape changing attack nearby. So, what is going on here? Is this one of your games?"

"Yes yes, what is going on here, Milim? Why did you suddenly call for a Walpurgis? Also, why attack and kill Carrion all of a sudden? What was that idiot Clayman doing and why are you helping him with that?"

She clicked her tongue. "Tch. I was going to expose that idiot Clayman and beat him up in the Walpurgis because he tried to control me with something. I didn't know that he was going to attack Tempest with his army. I thought they were going near Eurazania."

"C-c-control you!"

"And Frey."

"So Carrion?"

"Is alive. It was supposed to be a prank and then I would have beaten the snort out of Clayman in front of everyone."

"So where is he anyway?"

"He's dead. Sil killed him. That idiot attacked Tempest on the excuse of testing the new self proclaimed Demon Lord Rimuru but attacked Tempest behind their backs. Shuna-chan was killed and Sil got mad and killed him. Clayman was working for someone."

"Who are these Sil and Rimuru? Those two, awakening?" Guy pointed towards the two resting together.

"Umm. The slime is Rimuru and the Daemon is Sil. They are my best friends and little brother."

"Little Brother, you say?"

"Yes. I adopted."

"A slime and a Daemon. Also, why don't I remember such a Daemon? Is he one of yours?" He asked the two Daemons protecting Rimuru and Sil.

"Great Rimuru is the Master, I wish to pledge myself to." The black haired one said, with a hand over his heart. "And no. He is not one of mine."

"Neither mine but I am quite interested in him. I was summoned by him." The white haired girl said.

"Did you attack and kill Clayman?" Guy asked the woman.

"You mean the Deathman? No. We were explicitly told to leave Clayman to him. We were merely backups and didn't have the opportunity to do anything. Although, it was a beautiful sight. A world full of white." She looked up. "Just like Noir, I wouldn't mind serving him if he willed."

"Heh! Never thought I would see a day when both Noir and Blanc wished to pledge loyalties to someone, and a Daemon at that. Not even a Primordial. Although, there seems to be something unusual with his awakening so I can understand the intrigue."

Noir, Blanc?

Milim remembered hearing those names from somewhere but couldn't remember where.

"Silas is a Devil though." Ramiris said with a hand on her waist?

"A what?"

"Silas is not from this world. He is a Devil from a different world." She explained.

"Oh. A different world, you say?" Guy replied, intrigued.

This led to them explaining everything.

Even those two Daemons were listening to everything.

Guy asked some questions to others and then decided to sit and wait till the two woke up from awakening.

"So, tell me about this new world?" He asked in the meantime.

"Eh, I have only been to Sil's world. It was amazing. So many things to do. So many tasty things to eat, not as good as Silas' food but still good. And so many interesting places to go. Oh oh and games. We had so much fun."

"Umm umm. I even saw and met Spirits from another world. In fact, my best contractor yet, Orihime, is from a very interesting world. I plan to go there someday. She has a contract with Six different spirits. All those spirits are born from her. So amazing. Even Lavinia has a contract with two Elemental Lord level spirits bound to her soul. The new worlds are so interesting."

"Heh. Now you are making me interested too. By the way, did you find who was behind Clayman?"

"No. He had some help from someone from the empire. I know this much but there were others too."

"Empire? Is Rudra playing his games again? Also, wasn't this Veldora's area? Where did he go?"

"Who knows?"

They talked around while the rest were busy fixing everything.

Eight hours later, both Rimuru and Sil woke up.

- Silas -

I opened my eyes to Shuna and Lavinia's faces.

Shuna was giving me a lap pillow and Lavinia was sitting beside me.

Yes. This scene was right.

"Welcome back, Sil-kun."

"Welcome back, Silas-sama."

Both of them greeted me and I wanted to just lay there in peace. But there were things to do.

I got up and hugged both Lavinia and Shuna first.

We don't realise how dear someone is to us until we lose them.

They didn't stop me either.

I saw that Orihime was fidgeting on the side, probably feeling left out. She was the newest member of my restaurant. The two girls realised it too and pulled her in for a group hug.

With this done, I left to face others.

"So this happened. I didn't know, okay." Milim was frantically explaining herself and all I felt was a headache.

Dammit, I could have taken my time to torture Clayman.

"Do you know what mistake you made in the whole thing, Milim?"

"Eh?"

I went forward and hugged her. "You put yourself in danger. There was a chance, however small, that he could have actually controlled you and that… would have been a problem." I didn't even know what to say. In her own assessment, she wasn't quite wrong. And yet I don't want to just let it go so that she pulls another stunt like this later on and puts herself in danger. So a punishment is needed. "And for that… no desserts for a month."

"WHAT! NO! SIL! That's horrible. I don't… no, I won't do it again, okay?"

"Nope. Punishment for mischief needs to be delivered."

"B-but…"

"Say anything more and I will increase it to two months with no games." I added making her shut up instantly. Although that didn't stop her from pouting.

"Hahahaha I never thought I would see the day that someone could reign in Milim. This alone makes up for this trip. But… I still need to ask you some questions."

I looked up at the guy with red hair standing beside Demon Lord Frey.

"He is Guy Crimson. A Demon Lord with Milim and me." Ramiris explained and I nodded to him.

"Quite a mess you all caused here. I can understand you killing Clayman. The idiot bit off more than he could chew. I would have done the same. But… why did you freeze the entire city, not to mention bring winter to half the continent?"

Half the continent?

I didn't think it would affect that large of an area.

Do I regret it?

I thought and didn't feel anything.

Considering it was all Clayman's territory, I didn't feel anything.

"Clayman was hiding in the city." I replied.

"And?" He prodded me further.

"I wasn't in the mood to play hide and seek."

….

….

We stared for a few seconds at each other before he cracked.

"Pfft, hahahahaha! That's the best reply I have heard in a while. Yes, yes. This is a good reply." he started laughing again.

I was gawking at him at this point.

"What, surprised? Did you think I was going to defend Clayman or get on your back for a city? Clayman bit off more than he could chew. In fact one of the current Demon Lords Leon also came to the position after killing off the one who went to test him. Their problem for being so weak. And as for the city… I killed two countries when I awakened as a demon lord. You were comparatively tame."

….

….

Something is seriously wrong with this guy.

"So I heard that you are from a different world." I nodded as he continued. "Since Ramiris is fine with you, I don't have any problem either… well unless you try to destroy the world… then I will have to kill you." He warned and I could feel that he was being extremely serious now.

"I don't like fighting. I would rather prefer working in my restaurant than something like that."

"Yes, I did hear about this restaurant of yours. Why don't we go there and talk about some important matters? I came here so far, I am a bit tired and hungry, you know."

You are a fucking Demon Lord. And by what my instincts tell me, you are stronger than me. How can you get tired from a simple journey…

I looked at Rimuru and he nodded. "Go on. I will take care of the city."

"No. Actually you come in too." Guy interrupted.

"Rimuru-sama, you can go in. Leave the city to us. We will take care of it till you finish your meeting." Benimaru kneeled.

We walked to the restaurant with this.

The Demon Lords as well as two of the Daemons we had summoned followed us.

What went on after that was Guy questioning us on several things, about the attack and what we had found, etc.

"Kazeram… I thought he had died." He said when I told them the name of the guy behind Clayman.

"You know him?"

"He was the guy who was killed by Leon. Still… even a Deathman like him would have needed more than a few hundred years to revive, which means someone revived him. Was it Rudra?" he whispered the last bit to himself.

"I remember Kazeram was the one who recommended Clayman to the position and they were both Deathman too. So they might be connected as well." Frey added.

I served them something to eat in the meanwhile.

Cooking after all this was… therapeutic in a way.

We talked about several things before the meeting ended.

"This cake thing is quite good."

"Right, right?" Milim tried to take a bite from Rimuru's piece but stopped after a glare from me.

"Umu, I recommend the next Walpurgis to be held here." Ramiris stood in her place and shouted with a loud voice.

"Seconded." Milim agreed.

Walpurgis?

Isn't that the meeting of the Daemon Lords?

"Heh, doesn't sound too bad. Okay, I agree."

What the fuck? Ask me first? I own this place.

Then again, a Walpurgis here means more customers. Not to mention, Rimuru will have to participate in the meeting so I can keep an eye on him.

"Sure. Just tell me a day or two in advance for the reservation. You wouldn't want my other customers to disturb the meeting, right?"

"A week or two. The meeting will be in a week or two. I will send my maids to inform you about everything." Guy replied quite casually.

"Hmm, alright. I don't see why not."

As we were about to leave, Guy turned towards me. "By the way, your Ultimate Skill: Helel. What is it? Why can't I see anything about it?"

"My what?" I asked. It took me a second and my new Skill, Dantalion's help to understand what he meant.

"I don't know. I just got this Skill." Which was true.

"It seems like an Angelic Skill and yet I haven't heard of any such Skill at all. It's generally rare, near impossible for a Daemon or a Demon Lord to get an Angelic Skill."

Helel.

I looked at Lavinia. "I am not big on mythology but do you know about this name?"

She nodded and explained. "Helel is or rather was an Archangel, the favourite son of God and the twin brother of Archangel Michael." I saw Guy narrow his eyes for a moment. "He later on rebelled against God and made the Devil Race."

"But wasn't Lucifer the creator of the Devil Race?" I asked and she nodded.

"He was also called by another name… Lucifer."

Everyone quieted down for a moment and I noticed Guy again.

At this point, I saw the widest grin on his face that night. "Lucifer, you say? Hahahaha… you are really interesting Sil. Really really interesting. I look forward to the Walpurgis." With this said, he turned around and left.

I looked at Ramiris in confusion.

"Ah Guy has an Ultimate Skill called Lucifer, Lord of Pride. I think he was just happy about the name. Don't worry, nothing will happen."

… that look didn't assure me much though.