[DISCONTINUED] Regrets and Wishes: To the Parallel Past

Chapter 3 - The First Battle

Hello, it's me! Finally I can write and upload this chapter. Yeah, I did say, "I might not upload any chapters," but I didn't say, "I will not upload." 

Preparing for a competition doesn't mean I can't have a spare time, so be it.

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(Rimuru's Perspective)

"Alright, your plead is granted. I will give you my protection," I declare. "Now, stop calling us 'strong ones'. My name is Rimuru. This girl here is my Partner, Ciel, and this man is Veldora."

"V-Veldora?" The elder is shocked, so is his son.

Veldora meanwhile is wearing a smug, proud face right now. He's about to open his mouth, but Ciel gives him a "signal" to shut up.

I think this isn't the right time for it yet. "I'll explain it later. But for now, we have a much more important problem to deal with. Are there any injured? If yes, take me to where they are." I change the topic.

We're guided to where the injured are (supposed to be) treated.

"We've done the best we could to heal them," says the elder with a sad tone. "But it's futile."

"Not a problem." I take a Full Potion from my pocket, which is actually a gate to [Imaginary Space]. I walk towards one of them, squat, then give him the potion to drink. A second later, all of his injuries have gone completely without a trace as if it's never been inflicted in the first place.

"They... are healed?" The witnesses are all surprised by this.

"Ciel, you give them the potions, too," I order as I walk to another one.

"Yes, Master." She also starts to give the potions to the injured.

Meanwhile, Veldora is only watching over there. But let's just ignore him for now.

All people injured have been healed completely. In short, all of their reaction when being healed are the same: surprised.

"Y-you're magnificent, Rimuru-sama, Ciel-sama." The elder is doing dogeza again followed by all witnesses.

Now, the only thing left now, is to be prepared for a battle, or even battles, that could happen at any time.

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My [Multi-dimensional Perception] detects some direwolves hiding in a radius of less than thirty meters. They are hiding in bushes, assumedly watching this village from afar.

According to my estimation, though, tonight won't be full moon yet. It should happen at least two days later.

Well, then...

I quietly cast barriers on all goblins and let loose a tiny bit of my [True Dragon's Haki]. I make it very weak, so it can only reach a radius of a few hundreds of meters.

I've gathered all goblins who can fight. "Alright. First of all, I believe you've all understood our current condition, no?"

"Yes, Sir." The elder's son, who acts as the goblins' leader, has his right hand trying to imitate a saluting-like gesture. "For a battle to decide whether we live or not, we're prepared!"

Or so he said; however, there I can see some goblins behind him have their legs shaking. Their minds might be thinking of something about being ready to die or what, but their bodies are definitely not.

I can't blame them, though. They can be said as one of the weakest races in this world. On top of that, they're going to fight against a race far superior than them. It must've put a lot of pressure on them.