17 The conference...again! 2

After convincing Rimuru, Shiro looked towards the dryad and others...

"With all this being said, Tryeni-san, can I assume that you the representor of the dryads?" He asked looking at her curiously.

"Yes, but why does Shiro-san want to know that?" She was confused at this sudden question.

"I see." His playful expression turned serious. "I am planning to create a country here with all the monsters of the forest, combined. I will become a demon lord and declare the Jura forest as my territory, this should prevent other demon lords and outer forces from interfering in the forest activities. This should be possible right?, Scarlett?" 

"Yes, it is. I will support you to become demon lord, I doubt there are any foolish ones who will oppose my decision." She said with a small grin on her face.

The goblins and dwarves were shocked hearing that their leader would become a demon lord. They came at the meeting but their presence felt completely unnecessary now, all the decisions were made by their leader and they were just sitting there uselessly. 

"Nice, that should do it. Can you go and bring that orc lord here, please?" 

"Fine~" She grumbled about not wanting to work but left anyway...

After a while she reappeared again grabbing the orc lord by the collar of his armor and throwed him on the ground like a sack of potatoes, and took her seat.

'Ouch! this woman is ruthless..' Shiro mused.

"Thank you, Scarlett!" He flashed a small smile.

"Ara~, anything for my hubby!" She gave her most beautiful smile. Even Shiro was bewitched seeing this.

Heck even the others present there were looking at her dumbfoundedly, thinking if she really was a demon lord. Little did they know she might have razed them to dust if not for Shiro.

"Hai Hai, whatever you say~" Shiro sighed and dropped the matter entirely. He already had a suicidal idiot to handle, now a demon lord. 

*Sigh* He sighed again.

"My L-lord!" The orc lord kneeled and greeted Shrio while stuttering. It was pretty clear that he was scared of previous events.

"Mhm. Take a seat." Shiro looked toward a goblin present there, who nodded and went to bring another chair.

"B-but-"

"Just take the damn seat already..." Shiro said with a lazy tone, but the orc understood that he was serious.

"Y-yes my lord" He bowed and sat on the chair.

Benimaru was staring at the orc like he was going to jump on him at any moment. If stares could kill him the orc lord would have died about a thousand times already from the stares of the ogres.

"Brother..." Shuna whispered to him. He just glanced towards her but didn't say anything.

Shiro looked at this scene and sighed again. He already asked Benimaru about this, asking again would just be rubbing salt on his wound and insulting his determination. 

"Rimuru!" Shiro called the slime.

"Hmm?"

"There are two hundred thousand orcs, like I said I will provide you the food supply sufficient for a month, until then make these idiots do the labor to create shelters, they are large in number and pretty strong, so that should do the job." 

"I understand, but it is going to be damn hard to mange so much orcs." Rimuru lamented.

"Yeah...but they will be helpful in construction works and shit, it may take some time but it will be fine." Shiro gave him a wry smile and turned toward the dryad. " As I said before Tryeni-san, I want the whole Jura forest under me, but, unlike the orcs I will offer you an alliance, you will still be under us but more free. If I want I can conquer you by force but I am too lazy for that. It is not a bad proposal if I say myself."

Tryeni was surprised hearing all of this. She came here with the thought of asking for help against the orcs but that had been already solved by the person in front of her. If he had stopped all the invasion by himself then, it was but a piece of cake for him to conquer the treants, but instead he proposed them for an alliance. This was a big achievement for her already. But she still wanted to know the reason behind it, so she gathered her courage and asked..

"It would be an honor to work with you Shiro-sama, but I wonder what you are expecting from us? The treants are a weak race who cannot even move, I don't see any reason to form an alliance and not 'subdue' us?" She said mustering up a smile.

Shiro placed his elbow on the table, his fingers crossed and his chin rested at his palms. He looked at the fidgeting green haired Nordic beauty in front of him with a amused smile. He then vanished from the table and appeared behind her.

"Hmm...I don't want anything from the treants." He whispered softly into her ears. "What I want is you~".

*Puff*

Tryeni was fully red, her brain couldn't fully process what happened just now.

'W-w-what? H-he wants me? H-how is he even touching me in the first place?' Her brain was fully overloaded.

First came the anger. 'W-what does he think of me? Hmph. How can he even talk to me like that?'

Then came the denial. 'B-but he is so h-handsome....Ughh what am I thinking? He maybe handsome, but so what?'

Then came depression. 'But i-if I don't accept then he may harm the treants...'

After that came bargaining. "B-but you a-already have S-scarlett-san..." She managed to speak in a mosquito like voice. But Shiro pretended like he didn't hear anything.

"Hmm, what did you say~" Shiro asked in the same devilish voice in her ear. She couldn't even turn around due to shame. She wanted to move, but his hands were gripping both her shoulders.

Then finally came the acceptance. 

"I-I accept..." She said in a meek voice. Her face was more red than a tomato, if this were an anime perhaps we would see smoke coming out of her head.

In five seconds she literally went through the five stages of grief.

"Yoshi!" Shiro clapped. "Now then the alliance is confirmed, the dryads will provide us information about the happenings in the forest while we will provide them support and protection in any case some mishaps happen. Rimuru-kun maintain contact with the dryads alright?" He spoke as if nothing happened just now.

The ogres and dwarves along with goblins were looking at the scene with a 'O' expression on their face, seeing their lord blatantly flirting without any shame.

Shiro disappeared from Tryeni's back and appeared on his seat. Scarlett looked at him with a smile, like of a certain pink haired yandere.

"Ara~, looks like my hubby is a playboy huh.."

Now it was Shiro was sweating. 'What's with that eyes woman? I thought you were just playing.' He couldn't help but gulp seeing those possessive eyes.

He just whistled and turned toward other not saying anything.

"Now then, the goblins will be under Rigurd, the orcs will be under this dude over here." He said pointing towards the orc lord. "The ogres will be under Benimaru, the dwarves with Kaijin, and finally the dryads under Tryeni over here." He looked toward Tryeni who was still a blushing mess, and gave her a small smile.

"Shiro-sama, you haven't assigned us any tasks." Shuna who was silent, finally spoke.

"Oh ?" Shiro was going to conclude the meeting, he totally forgot about what to do with the ogres.

"Uhh...what do you want to do?" He asked, confused.

"If I may Shiro-sama, I want to create an army of monsters under me. If we are going to create a country then it certainly will need an army." He looked toward Shiro who just nodded and told him to go on.

"Haruko here, can train them, like he trained the most of us. Shuna can help with clothings, she is an expert in that. Souei is best at reconnaissance, he can train a team of assassins. In this way we can handle the military. We were mercenaries before so we are only good at this." Benimaru said with a wry smile.

Shiro nodded in affirmation. He pointed toward Shion and asked. "What about her?"

"Uhh...She...she can be your assistant my lord...yes." Benimaru said nervously while averting his eyes. Agreeing with his words all the ogres except Shion nodded collectively. A little sweat could be seen in their faces.

"I will be happy to serve you, My lord." Shion said with a bright smile beaming like the sun.

'Cool. Looks like I'll get a hot assistant.' Shiro thought to himself.

"That's fine and all, but why are you sweating?" Shiro looked at Benimaru with squinted eyes.

"I-It's n-nothing Shiro-sama!, I am feeling a little hot here...ha..haha" Benimaru replied still averting his eyes.

Shiro knew something was going on here, but he couldn't think of anything, so he just ignored it.

"Well let's conclude the meeting then." 

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(A/N: well I hope it wasn't cringe lol...okay maybe it was...but I am still thinking where to take the plot, I have bunch of ideas in my mind...let's see where this goes.

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