But what did Slime do wrong?

"……Hey?"

The amount of information in this sentence is so great that Rimuru blinked and spent some effort before accepting Asakura's words.

"For me?"

Rimuru was puzzled.

"But we knew before..."

never seen.

Rather, this whole world has nothing to do with him originally, whether it is Limuru to this world, or this world to him, the relationship between the two parties is extremely strange to each other.

No matter how you think about it, there is no reason for Ma Canghao to come here specifically.

Asakura looked at Limuru and laughed.

He seems to like to smile very much, and the corners of his lips are always hooked, which makes people think that he is an extremely easy-to-get-together person at first glance.

But those smiles don't really care about it, they look warm and warm like a spring breeze, but in reality, there is something colder and more piercing than Bing Leng inside.

"It's okay," he said, "You don't know me now, but that doesn't matter."

"I know you, that's all right."

Ma Canghao's thumb and forefinger rubbed each other, and a handful of flames appeared between him out of thin air, constantly dancing, showing a different kind of vigor and vitality.

Different from ordinary flames, in this tiny ray of flames, it seems that there is something else in it. It is not very dazzling, but it does exist here. .

Rimuru rubbed her eyes.

I don't know why, but he is inexplicably concerned about the things in the flame in Ma Canghao's hand.It was as if there was a voice repeating and urging in his ear all the time, requiring Limulu to figure out what it was.

Limuru's eyes could not help flickering with the dancing flames. Asakura noticed this, and couldn't help but let out a low, extremely pleasant-sounding laugh from his throat, as if he felt overwhelmed by the development of the matter. Like extremely happy.

So he stretched out his hand towards Limulu, and handed the ray of flame to Limulu's face.

"?"

Rimuru doesn't understand what Asakura's intention is for doing this.

"Don't you care?"

Asakura asked with a smile.

"So... I'll give it to you."

"Hey, hey?"

Li Mulu felt that his meeting with Ma Canghao today seemed to have used up all the surprises he had received for a year, and he didn't even know what kind of response he should make for a while. It can only make a faltering sound.

Seeing this, Ma Cang seemed to have no intention of continuing to ask for Limuru's consent, but "put" the wisp of flame on Limuru's hand with a bit of force.

--Warm.

This was Limuru's first impression.

The flame is not hot at all. Although Limuru has temperature resistance, it can be judged that the temperature of the flame that is being pressed against the fingertips is extremely suitable and the most suitable for the body. More or less Any point will appear unsatisfactory.

But under the initial warmth, I can experience some other feelings.

It is the tough gold, the vigorous wood, the soft water, the thick soil, the yin and yang five elements that make up the world, all wrapped in this small ray of flame, dancing and flowing on his fingertips .

This is really an extremely mysterious feeling, so that Limulu held the ray of flame for a while, feeling a little at a loss.

Ma Canghao suddenly laughed: "It doesn't have to be like this."

"Since it's given to you, it's yours. You can do whatever you want in the future, that's your freedom."

"Some things can't be said too much now, otherwise the sense of surprise will be lost." Asakang Hao said here, he paused for a while, and then added with a smile, "I hope it can surprise you sometime in the future." Get some help."

Hearing this, Limulu pursed her lips helplessly: "Ah, since you said that..."

Asakura took a few steps forward, lowered his head to look at the skull that Rimuru had just casually put aside—more precisely, it should be Tatsuhiko Shibusawa next to the skull—and made a slight After thinking about it, he pressed his fingers on the brow of the skull, the place where blood crystals were once inlaid.

Dazzling white light emanated from his hands, so Rimuru saw that Shibusawa Ryuhiko, who had been keeping his eyes closed all the time and looked calm, as if he had fallen into some kind of sleep, began to tremble slightly.

Then, finally, at a certain moment, the "Sleeping Beauty" who had been unconscious all this time opened her eyes.

Limulu: "emmmm..."

He turned to Ma Canghao and asked in a very tangled tone, "Why did you wake him up?"

Rimuru still remembered how much trouble Shibusawa Tatsuhiko had caused him before!I also remember that the person who seems to have murdered (?) the other party is indeed not at fault!

Right now, even if this cannot be said to be the envy of the enemies when they meet each other, it is absolutely impossible to imagine a relaxed and harmonious scene of getting along with each other.

Limuru began to wonder if Asakura had deliberately found trouble for him.

He just had this thought in his mind, and immediately saw Asakura turning his head in his direction with a half-smile, with a playful expression on his face, which made Limuru wonder if the other party knew that he was there In the bottom of my heart, I was secretly slandering him a lot.

"I'm not that boring yet."

Ma Cang said so abruptly.

Limulu was stunned for a while before he realized what Ma Canghao was referring to... It was actually a response to his previous internal complaints.

"..."

This is so embarrassing!

Li Mulu was so ashamed that he felt that he could witness Albert's toe-grabbing out of a Potala Palace!

Ma Canghao laughed out loud.

"Sure enough, no matter how many times I've heard it..."

He tilted his head, and his wine-red hair poured down from his shoulders because of his movement, like a torrent avalanching from a snow-capped mountain.Those amber eyes had a certain transparent texture under the light, and what was reflected in them at the moment were all the embarrassing smiles of the young man with water blue long hair.

"... I would think that Rimuru is really interesting."

"It's better to say that Limuru is really interesting, more interesting than all the creatures in this world."

Rimuru's eyes widened.

The other party's hint could not be said to be inconspicuous, it would be better to say that there was no intention to cover up at all from the beginning to the end, and it was almost becoming a clear statement.

"So, you can indeed hear what I'm thinking?"

Limuru asked.

"Correct."

Asakura closed his eyes and admitted without any concealment - or he was deliberately luring Limuru to discover this "fact" from the very beginning.

"How about it, will you feel scared? Will you feel sick?"

Ma Cang asked with a smile, and even the smile on his face was three points wider than before.

"Will feel that this is some kind of evil ability, or feel..."

He raised his hand and stroked slightly on his neck.

"Think I'm a monster that should be eliminated?"

Limuru scratched her hair in distress.

"Ah, this..."

"It's a [monster], it's a bit too serious, right?"

Limuru couldn't help but think, if he would be called a "monster" just because of such an ability, then what would he be regarded as a real monster?

That's totally unreasonable, okay?

Asakura listened to Rimuru's inner voice quietly, and laughed again—although Limuru really found it strange, and didn't know what he was laughing at.

"Ah, sure enough, even though a thousand years have passed, Rimuru is Rimuru, which is really great."

He laughed louder and reached out to Rimuru's cheek.

Limuru was taken aback for a moment, but did not evade.So Ma Canghao's hand touched Limulu's cheek smoothly, without staying too long, it slid to the side and landed on Limulu's earlobe.

He exerted a little force on his fingers, and Limulu felt a pain in his earlobe, as something pierced his flesh and "nailed" it there.

Ma Canghao took a step back, looked at the emerald green stud above Limulu's earlobe, and smiled with a sense of satisfaction.

"Well."

The boy looked at it with an appraising gaze, and then nodded as if confirming something.

"Sure enough, it's still more pleasing to the eye... It can be regarded as returning to the original owner."

"Um?"

Limulu stretched out her hand in confusion, and touched the extra earring above her earlobe.

"This guy."

Asakura stretched out his hand, under Rimuru's frightened gaze, he lightly rolled Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's soul into a ball, and stuffed it into Rimuru's hand.

"It can still be used for the time being. Since when we first met, your holding spirit was his words, so it is better to continue to use it now?"

In the depths of Ma Canghao's pupils, there seemed to be faintly flickering golden star patterns.

His voice became serious.

"You may encounter some unimaginable things later, but it doesn't matter, as long as you take the flame I gave you and —— your holding spirit is enough."

"After everything is over, let's have a drink together under the cherry blossom tree like before."

Asakanghao mouthed at Limuru, and silently called out a title.

"Brother".

**

so good.

After going through the ups and downs of the world and spanning thousands of years, we are finally able to meet again in this era.