Vampire and slime back in time [Rimuru X Luminous]

CH 1| Catastrophic failure and a unique restart.

A.N\ yes. I did just call the first chapter unique, cuz it is.

~Rimurus's POV~

As we were dealing with Chronoa in Luminous's castle, trying to survive as long as possible. trying to figure a way to calm her down, if not then defeat her before she destroys everything. 

Leon, who was helping me with her, as it his limits. and Luminous (should I change her name to Ruminas?)  is barely alive after her battle with Garnbell, seemed to has regain some of her energy.

'nice! we might get some support from Luminous! hold on a bit longer Leon!'

after I thought of that, I saw Leon flaying, to then slam the wall, shattering it and making the whole building crumble. then, he fell to the ground. completely knocked out.

'Shit! if we don't deal with her now, we won't be able to stop her! Raphael-sensei, did you figure out a way to calm her down?'

<<Affirmative. by entering her consciousness we can forcibly separate the individual Chronoa from the individual Chloe. to do that, individual Rimuru must temporarily seal/contain their magicule output to remove the chance of individual Chronoa fleeing after being separated. after that individual Rimuru need to forcibly open a soul corridor via something of great emotional importance to them to create a vulnerability and enter their consciousness.>>

A.N\ I don't remember what exactly happen and what did Raphael say, but am 99% sure it wasn't the above. anyway, it works for the plot so whatever.

'uhhh...'

<<....You need to make her wear individual Shizu's mask and being in touch with it while it's on her face>>

'ah, wait, didn't your way of talking change a bit? and why did you sound annoyed?'

<<No. it's you're imagination>>

'No am sur it wa-'

I was cut off by Chornoa's attack, which I barely dogged. 'now's not the time to get distracted. what's important is, we have a way to stop her'

"Hey! Luminous! can you hold her down for a second? I think I have a way to calm her down!" A.N\ just so you know, I use '!' when the characters are screaming/being loud

"Are you sure? I won't be able to hold her for long. and if you failed, all of us are doomed!"

"what can we do!? we have no other choices, so we have to gamble everything on this!"

A.N\ when characters talk, they would have their names before their dialogue. except in casses where it's very obvious who's talking like now.

Luminous just nodded. and after I blocked a side slash from Chronoa, Luminous came from behind her and hugged her. which gave me enough time to bring out the mask from my [imaginary space] and jumped straight forward at Chronoa, with the mask at the tip of my fingers, aimed to her face.

but when I thought that I placed it on her face, nothing happen. I instantly noticed that was because she was moving her head around, resisting Luminous's grip, which lead to the mask being misplaced.

just when I thought that we have failed, Luminous placed her hand over mine's and corrected the mask's placement.

'Raphael-sensei, now!!'

<<Connecting to individual Chronoa's consciousness>>

~Luminous's POV~

after when Leon got knocked down, Rimuru said that he have a way to calm her down. I didn't believe it at first, but I remembered that it's Rimuru, who can just ignore logic (as in all that he did up until now is out of logic).