Friend of the slime

15. Friend or Foe?

"Just a little more! Keep coming! There!"

I froze midair doing my best to stay in place while everyone worked fast to secure the large ceiling support beam that I held suspened above them. Who would have figured my dragon form would came in handy as a crane.

Once the beam was in place they disconnected it from the ropes and I flew back down to the ground. That had been the last beam needed for the structure and once I hit the ground I shrank back into my form with thumbs to help with the smaller things.

It hadn't been long since the village had been destroyed and although it was slow going, we were starting to get back on track.

We finally decided to call it for lunch once the sun was high in the sky and beating hard against our backs. While everyone rested and ate I decided to go find Rimuru who had dissapeared a little while ago. And oh boy, you will never guess what I found him doing. He was testing out his new body duplicate ability to admire his new humanoid form in more than a few different ways.

"Enjoying Shizu's gift I see."

"AAAAAA!" Rimuru shrieked hearing my voice appear from seemingly nowhere.  "Ugh..uhh, h..how..long have you been there?!" He asked nervously with a look of pure guilty fear on his face.

"Hmmm, I'd say just long enough." I replied smirking even more, thoroughly enjoying torturing the slime the way I was. Did that make me a bad friend, maybe. Was I going to stop?.......... Would you?

"It..it wasn't what it looked like!" Rimuru blurted out waving his hands like crazy.

"Ok?" I said, drawing out the word and tilting my head at him. "So you weren't just checking yourself out as a nude female model?"

Rimuru's entire face began to steam with how red it was and I burst out laughing. "I'm kidding! I'm kidding!"

Rimuru looked suspiciously at me. "P..promise not to tell anyone?"

I put my hand on my chin like I was considering it, my shoulders still jerking as I held in my laugh. After making him squirm a bit more I gave in.

"Ok, ok. I promise. God I miss cameras." I muttered under my breath.

"What was that?"

"Woops did I say that out loud?"

"Great Rimuru, Great Ananta! Are you both in here?" I smiled hearing Rigurd's vice on the other side of the door.

"Perfect timing my man!" I exclaimed throwing aside the cloth to greet the buff man.

Rigurd looked puzzled at my behavior and glanced behind me to see the still slightly red Rimuru behind me. "I have the report for today, but I can come back later..."

"Nope!" I interupted as Rimuru collected himself. "Now's perfect, report away!"

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"That concludes my report." Rigurd finished.

"Okay, no problems. Good work." Rimuru praised with a nod. His previous embarrassment forgotten for the moment as he went into work mode.

"Oh also." Rigurd added quickly. "Are you sure you will need no food again today?" He asked Rimuru.

"Yeah." Rimuru replied with a sad head shake. "I can't taste anything as a slime anywa...HUHHHHHH!!" He sudently gasped exidedly making me look over at him in confusion. "RIGURD!"

"Y..Yes?"

"I'm going to eat with you guys starting today!"

"Truly?!" Rigurd asked confused but more so exited to hear this.