RImuru's Elegant Escape Play

Chapter 9

Diablo and Souei were led to the president's office.

Diablo was deep in thought and did not even glance at the person who had guided them and bowed politely before leaving.

He understood Souei's argument. And he knew that it was right.

What Souei thought, was that if the academy was decaying, the reason must be that someone was doing it deliberately.

If that was the case, he was right to stop Diablo who was just going to purge it.

Unlike his master who wanted to save everyone, Diablo felt that it was his role to convict people. However, if there was a possibility of self-correction still left in the academy, then it was his job to watch over it.

Politics and finances, research and culture, and military defense.

They needed to nurture personnel who could be active in these fields.

And in an ideal environment where people helped each other and did not allow corruption and in-fighting.

That was the ideal the Rimuru had established.

As for the realization of this ideal society, Rimuru himself had said that it was impossible. But he had also said that the process of pursuing this ideal, and the effort put into eradicating the foundations for corruption, was his true aim.

Veldanava tried to lead people through having a Demon Lord become the enemy of humankind.

Emperor Rudra tried to make humankind unite and stop fighting by having the angels strictly monitor civilization.

As for the great Demon Lord Rimuru, who Diablo loved and respected, he wanted to decrease the corruption itself through changing the very nature of humans and increasing their ability to self-correct.

And so attempting to corrupt the academy was to go against Rimuru's aim completely. It was the actions of an enemy.

It was a challenge against Diablo.

(Hmm. I thought that it was just that the self-correction wasn't working, but there's a possibility that that isn't the case. Indeed, if that's the case, I was imprudent to try and deal with it so simply. Still, it's hard to think that there is anyone so foolish

to try and sabotage Lord Rimuru's plans...)

Diablo switched his way of thinking.

He had intended to deal with the incompetent people in Rimuru's place, but that was a mistake.

If there were people who were so foolish as to try and upset Rimuru's policy for the academy, and they were successful, then it was him who was the incompetent one.

–He would crush these enemies.

With a clear will, Diablo listened to what the president had to say.

As Diablo and Souei sat on a sofa in front of him, the president began to explain the situation.

This president was one of the early goblin members who had evolved after being named by Rimuru, so there was never any fear of betrayal. However, he was aware that he was being tested as well, and so he dripped sweat as he desperately spoke.

He seemed to be acquainted with Souei, but the fact that both Diablo and Souei had visited him, seemed to suggest to him that he had failed in some aspect, which made him very uneasy.

There was a report from the collaborator that Souei had prepared.

According to it, there was no chaos that could be observed from any awareness of rank or prejudice with the Tempest Development of Human Resources Academy.