That Time I Got Reencarnated as a Demon Lord (English)

33 - PROFANO!!! P2

An anxious feeling rose within me, but I stayed calm as I walked toward the Tempest house. I could have run towards the house, maybe even using my speed boost magic to get there faster, but I felt like that wasn't the best option.

The feeling of uselessness prevented me from going any faster.

Over the course of a few days I watched as Rimuru learned all my spells with more than absurd speed, making all my effort and my Extra Skill [Wizard] seem little less than a joke.

That's talent.

Of course, Rimuru still has an excellent skill that helped him, that's obvious just by looking at it, although I'm not so sure to what extent that skill helped him. But to do what I've seen him do sometimes... it couldn't just be a skill.

Rimuru, himself, is a phenomenal individual.

The kind of individual who would make the impossible possible, if only for the ones he loves.

And that's why I don't want to be there when Shizu...

I don't know what exactly prompted the connection between these two. That sentence that Rimuru said... I'm not sure if it was a coincidence, the fact that Rimuru had said an original sentence from Dragon Quest, a game I beat in a week, but that awakened something inside Shizu, so I imagine she... also played.

At that moment, strange as it may seem, it was like a flame ignited between the two.

It pissed me off a bit, maybe because of the questions that crept up on me, questions that weren't answered, but none of that really matters right now.

Rimuru doesn't want to see Shizu die. That's something I can tell just by his tone of voice in the message, Rimuru is as determined that she survives as he is determined to be a Demon Lord. And I know that, even if he is weak, even if this weakness of his had to last due to his race, Rimuru will achieve this power.

But being a Demon Lord and having the power to raise the dead, those are two very different things.

They are on totally different levels.

Shizu will die. This is a fact. All calculations were made by my [Wizard] from the time I saw her for the first time, defining her as a threat because of the Superior Spirit that the woman has inside her body. Saving her would require too great a miracle, even for Rimuru's current state.

This loss... I wonder what it would do to Rimuru.

Rimuru has been trying to improve so people don't die. The fight against Treyni has left him with a trauma that cannot be easily healed, a fear of death that only a person who has faced death himself can understand.

I understand.

After being run over, in my final moments, I felt something similar. There was a certain peace mixed in, but I was still too scared. I was afraid of dying... of meeting Satoru-kun in the afterlife and not having lived a life that he, the person who saved my life, thought was worth sacrificing.

I didn't want him to think his death was in vain.

That's why I can't imagine what Shizu's death will do to Rimuru.

As much as it is a superficial connection, almost unimportant and that didn't have the chance to deepen, Shizu's death will affect Rimuru's heart. Will he get more lost in his quest for power? Or will Rimuru give up, thinking he has no way of achieving power?

In either case, it would be the end of our time together.

I care about Rimuru. He's irritating, an unacknowledged pervert who sometimes acts without thinking, and a person who has horrible plans for the future, even if he doesn't realize it himself. Still, his heart manages to be pure, and he somehow manages to care for everyone around him in his own way.