Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Episode 9: Attack of the Ogres

Rimuru and the Goblins' development of their village continued to progress.

Kaijin and the three Dwarf brothers, Garm, Dord, and Myrd,

made clothing and tools and built more homes,

while the Goblin Lords under Rigurd worked out a system for ruling the village.

Everything's going great!

Even without my orders, everyone's doing their job.

Makes it easier for me!

Besides, there's something important I need to do.

Good. No one's around.

There, all fixed.

Shizu-san, I'll take good care of this keepsake of you.

Now, then...

Transform!

Mimic => Human

This Mimic works really smoothly.

An actual human body... Feels great to have this.

Vision...

Hearing...

Actually, I think I could see and hear things better as a slime.

Because of Magic Sense?

So, next...

Hey, Great Sage, since I ate Ifrit,

can I use body doubles now, too?

Answer.

Analysis Complete

All of Ifrit's skills, including Body Double, have been analyzed.

All of Ifrit's skills, including Body Double, have been analyzed.

All right, great!

I'll try it out right now.

Body Double!

Body Double

I see... It does look like Shizu-san.

No trace at all of how I looked when I was alive.

What a beautiful... boy? Girl?

Well, I need to know what sex my body is when in human form, right?

Though I can kind of already tell...

But since I didn't actually check to be sure...

My son didn't make it!

I seem rather androgynous...

In fact, I have no gender at all!

I'm sexless!

Well, I guess I had no gender as a slime, anyway.

Wait... Now that I think about it,

when I took human form earlier, I didn't see any black mist...

Answer.

Answer

When using Mimic to assume a form larger than one's own,

black mist produced by magicule consumption makes up the difference.

Black Mist

Which means... I could create an adult form, too!

All right!

Ooh! Can I make it look masculine?

Hey, he's pretty handsome!

Okay, now make it feminine!

Ooh!

Wait, stop! Stop! Go back!

I can't do that. Giving myself an adult female form

makes me look like Shizu-san, and that just feels immoral.

That concludes my report.

Okay, no problems. Good work.

Oh, also...

Are you sure you will need no food again today?

Yeah, I can't taste anything as a slime anywa—

Rigurd!

Yes?

I'm gonna eat with you guys starting today!

Truly?!

Then we must prepare a lavish feast tonight!

Yeah, do that!

Yes, sir!

That's right! Since I can mimic a human form now,

I'm gonna eat all kinds of tasty food!

I wonder what's on the menu...

Meat, maybe? There'll probably be meat.

Which means I'll want rice, too...

Do they have rice plants in this world?

I'll have to look for some eventually.

If I find any, I'll make some rice fields...

Great Rimuru!

Thanks for always getting our food for us.

Thank you, sir.

We're just on our way out to the forest.

We're having a feast tonight, so bring back some tasty prey!

Are you going to eat with us today?

Sure am!

This body has a sense of taste, after all.

If you eat a lot, I wonder if your boobs will get bigger...

I'm sorry! I'll make sure Gobta is strictly disciplined!

Anyway, I will prepare some grade-A bulldeer for the feast.

Bulldeer

Great! Thanks!

Just leave it to me.

Many magical beasts have been traveling this way from deep in the forest, lately,

so prey is abundant.

Did something happen?

No, magical beasts move from place to place as the environment changes.

I don't think it's anything serious.

You called, Master?

Ranga, go into the forest with Rigur's team.

I doubt anything will happen, but just in case.

Understood. You can count on me.

No need for reservation, Rigur. Take me along.

Wow, that was pretty cool, Ranga!

Even cooler if you weren't doing that...

I paid a visit to the cave where Veldora had been sealed.

I wanted to test out Degenerate,

the unique skill I'd received from Shizu-san,

in a place where it wouldn't disturb anyone.

Regardless of the impression given by the name "Degenerate,"

the skill was important to her, and that makes it precious.

The skill...

Degenerate

uses unification and separation to merge skills together,

evolving them into new skills.

In other words, she used it to gain a bunch of new skills.

One of them was...

What is this? It's creepy...

This is the extra skill, Black Flame.

Black Flame —

I'll have to be careful how I use this one, too.

Still...

I should really be grateful to Shizu-san.

This mask has the power to suppress magic, right?

Let's see.

How's this?

Answer.

Answer.

Aura completely erased

The faint aura you were emitting has been completely erased.

In this state, you would be perceived as a human.

Magicule Level: 0

Magicule Level: 0

Magicule Level: 0

Magicule Level: 0

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Perception: Human

Okay. I should wear this when I go to new places.

Lookin' good!

Right.

You sound unimpressed.

Great Rimuru!

Receiving Thought Communication from: Ranga.

Tempest Wolf

Thought Communication: Ranga

Tempest Wolf

Tempest Wolf

Vocal tone indicates that it is a request for aid.

Tempest Wolf

Likely a request for aid

Tempest Wolf

Tempest Wolf

I'm gonna die! I'm dead!

What happened?!

I got cut! It hurts so bad!

Calm down. It's not deep.

Who are you guys?

Wait... Great Rimuru, it's you!

You got worried and came to help?

Yeah, that's right.

You seem fine, so I guess you don't need any potion.

W-Wait! I want some!

I'm sorry I joked around like that!

Th-That helped a lot!

Ranga!

Master, forgive me.

This happened while I was here...

Come back, Rigur!

G-Great Rimuru... I am sorry.

Don't worry. Leave this to me and get some rest.

Thank you...

Ranga, what happened to the ones who've fallen?

They've been put to sleep with magic.

That pink-haired one did it.

Magic, huh?

Looks like these guys are gonna be trouble.

How humiliating. I never thought we would run into Ogres.

Ogres?

The ones in games and movies look like this...

But these don't look like that at all.

They even have armor on.

Also, those look like Japanese swords to me...

Six Ogres...

Hey, you guys.

I don't know what happened, but sorry about what my guys did.

Would you be willing to talk this out?