As Ranryo arrives with Migeru, Ranga isn't too far behind. Ranga looks at Ranryo, noticing his evolution into a rogue. Not exactly being fond of what that means but knowing he can't do anything he just chooses to ignore it. They each place their masters into a respective throne and watch as they glow from they're evolutions.
As the evolution process reaches the later stages some of the weaker Hobgoblins begin to collapse. The stronger subordinates of the two Slimes run over to see if they're okay.
Benimaru checks an unconscious Hobgoblin and says, "He's okay! How are the others?"
Gobzi says, "This lady is fine as well."
Souei comments, "It seems it may have something to do with the evolution of our lords." Suddenly, The Voice of the World announces something that confirms their suspicions.
{As an added bonus of the evolution into True Demon Lords. All entities linked to the newly evolved Demon Lords shall receive a gift.}
The first of the stronger monsters in Tempest, Kevin, collapses soon after. This is followed by some of the surviving Goblin Riders. It spreads to the rest as most of the monsters drop to their knees. Souei and Benimaru, being the last two standing, only remaining awake due to their roles as the protectors of each of their lords respectively, manage to stay awake long enough to watch as the two unconscious Slimes in their thrones float up and manifest as two glowing angelic beings. One with red eyes, light blue hair and white clothing, the other with gold eyes, dark blue hair and black clothing. The first to speak is the gold eyed being, "Notice- In the name of [Solomon], I command Ultimate Skill [Alpha King Saul] to perform an absolute subjugation of all nearby willing entities." A golden flash blasts outwards causing Myulan to collapse like the nearby monsters.
Youm catches her and looks over her. She's completely fine, just unconscious. This, [Solomon], did something.
[Solomon] turns and looks at Souei and Benimaru, then turns back to look at the red eyed being. As [Solomon] walks away looking at Myulan who has also been affected, the red eyed being speaks, "Notice- The process of evolution to True Demon Lords has almost been completed. You may rest now. Leave the rest to us."
Collapsing soon after, the red eyed being walks to the center of the mass of dead bodies to join the other.
[Solomon] states, "Notice- All souls have been located. Preparing to perform the Revival Ritual."
As [Solomon] says this, the red eyed being looks up, "Notice- In the name of [Raphael], I command Ultimate Skill [Gluttonous King Beelzebuth] to consume all Magicules within the barrier." A huge purple vortex appears consuming all Magicules within the barrier.
After the absorption of all Magicules and souls [Solomon] says, "Notice- To help in the absorption of all souls the sins of Ultimate Skill [Selfish King Judas] have been activated." With this final notice [Solomon] begins the performance of the revival ritual.
As this starts [Raphael] adds, "Notice- To provide the needed Magicules the virtues of Ultimate Skill [Selfless King Yeshua] have been activated." With this final notice [Raphael] joins in with [Solomon] on the performance of the revival.
Halfway through the revival, the primordial of black Noir finally appears with two Archdemons and an unconscious child in hand. In awe he proclaims, "How magnificent!" He watches as the two entities move a massive swarm of purple balls of light and place them in their respective bodies. Finally, with the ritual complete and their job complete the two revert into their previous round balloon-like states and fall down to be caught by the black primordial.
In a conceptual reality existing in the minds of two really special Slimes exists a void. A void with no matter inside, simply being inhabited by two individuals. These two individuals walked up to each other and manifested a table between the two. Sitting down they simply stared at each other with no words, at least for now.
They had just reappeared after performing the revival ritual and had decided a more direct communication method would be better than sending messages through a link. Manifesting as blue haired feminine humanoids they prepared to relay messages between their masters.
One with piercing red mechanical eyes and light blue hair wearing white. And one with brilliant gold mechanical eyes and dark blue hair wearing black, the two sat down. The first meeting of the Knowledge Kings finally took place.
I wake up after my evolution on something soft. Wait, where am I? I jiggle around as I get a hold of where I am. Using my newfound skill [Universal Detect] I realize I'm on someone's lap. Shuna's lap.
"Aaah! I told you I don't want you to..." She hugs me. "Uh, I guess it's not too bad..." I look for Rimuru, "So, where's Rimuru?"
Shuna happily says, "He's with Shion! We're completely alone together!"
"Ahaha! Okay, um, so where are they?"
She looks in and points to where Shion should be, "I believe they should be over there."
"Great! Uh, so yeah, nice to talk to you...alone. Uh, I'll be going now!" As I try to jump out of her grasp I get caught mid jump by Shuna.
"Oh, now Lord Migeru! You just woke up! Don't you think you shouldn't overexert yourself! You might hurt yourself!" Bullshit! You know I don't feel pain! "Uh, no th..."
"Lord Migeru!," her face darkens, "You might hurt yourself! Don't you think I should take you?"
"Uh, uh!" Help me! I know you're there. I don't know what to call you, uh, [Great Sage]'s evolution. Help me get out of this! I get a response in what I swear is a slightly irritated tone.
{Correction- I'm [Solomon]. The Unique Skill [Great Sage] has evolved into the Ultimate Skill [Intellectual King Solomon] after fusing [Genius] aspects into it. I have now been given the ability to answer a wider array of questions.}
Great! So how do I escape?
{Answer- No answer can be given.}
You're useless!
{...}
So, basically what's happening is Shuna has for some reason been noticeably more attracted to me than Rimuru. I guess it has something to do with me being the one that named her. So she would get jealous of Shion always carrying Rimuru and other things like that because I would always say no. I guess when she saw me unconscious she couldn't resist. And here I am, in the arms of a girl with the eyes of a serial killer with no escape. "Dammit all! Fine! Take me to Rimuru."
"I'm glad you understand Lord Migeru! I'm glad you understand that your safety is always my top priority!" Let's go with that.
She stands up holding me. It is strange because I haven't really experienced it much before. As she holds me my squishy body wraps around her arms because of how soft it is. It's strange and I don't like it so I tense myself up to keep a more solid round shape.
As she gets a good hold of my body her psychotic smile goes away and is replaced with one of pure bliss. Okay, this is weird but at least I don't feel like I'm being kidnapped by a slasher villain. As she walks out I sink into her chest. I don't like this.
I have more pride than Rimuru, it's not even close so as I see the Hobgoblins looking at me and Shuna I feel like I want to shrink until there's nothing left. It's really fucking embarrassing to me. Dammit!
Opening the door to the house where Shuna believes Rimuru is, I watch as the revived Hobgoblins praise him for the miracle we performed. When I show up the crowd of Hobgoblins gets even louder.
As Rimuru turns to look at me, in a surprised tone, he asks, "You let her carry you?"
"Do I have a choice?"
Rimuru looks up to see Shuna who had regained her murderous smile after Rimuru asked that question. Nervously he says, "I see."
In walk Benimaru and Souei with various reports on what is currently happening outside of the Twin Capitals. However, there is one thing Benimaru wants to do before that. He leans over and whispers, "Do you remember the password?"
Rimuru naively says, "Yes."
"Well then, to confirm your sanity I shall ask now. Shion's cooking..."
Shion, who was talking to Shuna about permission to hold me, turns around immediately and asks, "What about my cooking?" Rimuru immediately shivers.
{Notice- Ultimate Skill [Saul], subskill [Tempest Link] has been activated.}
[Alpha King Saul] is one of my new Ultimate Skills. I already know this because thanks to one of the effects of [Solomon] I have managed to gain all the needed basic knowledge on all of my new skills. With this I don't need to actually learn what I can do over time, very useful.
While the skills are strong I do got to say, I'm a bit insulted at the names. Is The Voice of the World calling me selfish with [Judas]? That's rude.
Going back to the matter at hand through my new [Tempest Link] Rimuru asks, "What do we do!?"
"I have a plan, just follow my lead."
"Uh, I'll trust you."
"Good."
{Notice- Ultimate Skill [Saul], subskill [Tempest Link] has been deactivated.}
Benimaru looks at us with an evil grin as Rimuru is visibly terrified. I answer, "Right, the one YOU came up with? The one where you said Shion's cooking tastes like shit?" Shion gets visibly furious after this.
Benimaru's face drops as he yells, "Wait, no! Shion! I didn't..."
I continue, "Isn't that right Rimuru?"
"Yup, that's what he said."
Rivaling Shuna's smile in malevolence she says, "I see! If you find my cooking that bad why not try it again!? Maybe you'll change your mind!" She walks over to Benimaru and grabs him, dragging him by the legs when he escapes her grip on his wrist. "Souei! Help me! Please, Souei! Augh!"
Cool as a cucumber, no reaction, no worry for his friend. Nothing. He simply says, "You have brought this upon yourself," then vanishes into thin air. I read between those lines however. What he actually said was, "You're on your own. I'm not risking my own life for yours." Benimaru is dragged out by his legs as he desperately claws on the surroundings to resist, leaving scratches on the floor and walls. Its no use however and Shion walks out with her struggling victim.
As soon as she leaves Souei comes back and comes to me with updates. I stop him however and say, "Wait for a little bit. At least for now let's just enjoy the fact that everything went well. I haven't relaxed very much lately so I would prefer this day off. I know there's going to be a celebration so let's just enjoy that." He looks at me before saying, "I understand" and teleporting away.
Deciding to walk away, I'm stopped by a group of Hobgoblins offering their thanks. I guess I'll be here a while.
Getting fed up faster than Rimuru, I leave not too long after. I like having my ego fed as much as the next guy but I don't like being around big crowds very often. After a while I just decide it's enough. Rimuru can handle them.
I walk out and look around, "What the hell?" I knew there was going to be a festival but over the course of 15 minutes they managed to get all the decorations up. This is ridiculous, where do they even keep all these decorations?
Distracted by the scene I get captured by Shion who squishes me, commenting that I'm a different consistency than Rimuru. How does she even know that? She hugs me for a few minutes before picking me up, walking towards a table and placing me on a chair. Turning into my human form I turn and see Benimaru and Rimuru on the chairs next to me. I see what's going on.
Both of them have pale and terrified expressions. Rimuru yells at Benimaru, "Why do we have to do this!?"
"Because I can't handle this alone!"
He steps off the chair, "Screw this, I'm leaving!"
He grabs him, "Please! Don't leave me here alone!"
"You have Migeru!"
He points at me. "He won't comfort me! Look at him!" They both look at my calm emotionless face.
"That's not my prob..."
Shion shows up with a pot of what I can only assume to be various types of wet monster feces, serves it on some plates and puts them in front of us. She happily chirps, "Enjoy!" Benimaru and Rimuru look like they lost their will to live as soon as they see the "food."
Knowing it shouldn't be that bad I pick up the spoon and eat some of it. The texture is awful, I gotta say, but the taste. "Holy shit! This tastes incredible."
On the other side of the Twin Capitals Shuna grasps her chest, "Something very wrong just happened!" She runs into the kitchen feeling the urge to one-up someone. Who she wants to one-up, she doesn't know.
Benimaru and Rimuru turn to me, "Eeeh!?" They watch in utter disbelief as I start eating the food with a smile on my face.
Looking at the food they hesitatingly try the food and look at the food like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. "How!?"
Shion crosses her arms and overconfidently proclaims, "Its my Unique Skill [Master Chef]! I wanted to be a good chef so Lord Rimuru's gift gave me this skill!"
The two turn to each other and smile in relief, "We're not going to die!" I watch this all go down with an emotionless face similar to Souei's.. It's a big contrast now that I think about it.