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

Slime-chan and her friends - 01

I think... therefore I exist.

That was the first thing that popped into my mind. In a dark world, where nothing could be seen or heard, where nothing seemed to exist, this simple and complex idea popped into my head and changed my reality.

I was real. I am real.

And then PA ! Information.

Something "touched" me. I couldn't tell what that something was just by touching it, but a part of me just knew there was something there. Something I had never felt before... why I didn't exist before, but I exist now.

And if I exist now, then I have to decide what I'm going to call this thing.

Let's see... This is "rough" and "porous"... It's quite strange, actually, but how do I know what's normal if I still barely know anything? I thought like this, trying to find a meaning for everything I felt. "Words", or who knows what they meant, just popped into my mind, and I just felt like that was the right thing to think about everything. Let's call it... floor! And the floor is made of stone!

Suddenly, the feeling changed. A couple of soft things grabbed my body, pulling me off the ground. A calming feeling spread through my body the moment these things touched me, and a mystical feeling was inside my mind.

I don't know what that is, but that seemed to have "will". It could move, unlike the ground.

That too "existed". Something that "exists" and has "will".

Something that has "life".

Did this have something to do with my existence? I wasn't sure, but it didn't seem like it was against my existence. Also, I feel like it was similar to me somehow, like the same energy that was inside him was in me too.

I tried to focus on the energy I and the thing holding me in its "arms" had. It was hard to feel, but I still struggled, trying to find the trigger for the sensation. The energy seemed to increase for a moment, and gradually that energy became clearer and clearer in my mind.

<<Extra Skill [Magic Perception] has been acquired.>>

Words. The moment those words sounded out the feeling I was feeling became even clearer than before. Now, unlike before, I felt a silhouette form in front of me, holding me in its "arms". The silhouette was taking a clear shape in front of me, but there was nothing definite about it.

It was difficult to understand.

There was also something different from the "image" forming in front of me, something traveling all over the place, like waves. It reacted with the thing holding me, the ground, and all the other "alive" things I felt around me. And even as I concentrated on that thing, a "noise" popped into my head.

For now, I'll call this annoying thing "sound".

Still, the sound wasn't all bad. There was something "soft" about the sound the thing holding me was making that was calming, just like the other things around me. It was like something natural, and I felt so calm listening to this noise that I didn't even care about all the noise that came with it.

And then, a voice rang in my head.

<< I don't think you want to miss this moment. So... let me help you, my child.>>

As soon as I heard it "inside" my "head", among my "thoughts", with the same calm "voice" that I heard among the noises, "information" began to be processed faster inside me.

The world around me took on color.

The ground below me appeared definitely, just as I felt it, with a "grayish" color. The thing that was holding me also appeared, its "brown" skin and "white" and "silver" hair, with a pair of "red" colored "eyes". The aura around the thing holding me also clearly appeared to me, much more reassuring than before.

Once that happened I was also able to see farther than I thought existed.

The world was so beautiful.

I saw the other "alive" things that were around me, three in total, with different shapes than mine, and of course, I saw him .

The moment I saw him I knew there was something about him that was different from everything else around me. His aura, more calming than anything else in the environment, all while he was apparently focusing on something that wasn't me or the other living things around him.

Still, I felt at peace, just by his presence.

He is my father - this thought popped into my head.

I don't know what "dad" meant, but I hope it's a good thing.

When my "father" finally paid attention to me I could no longer hold back the desire that had suddenly been born inside me. Following an impulse, I, as well as the other living things around me, simply jumped towards my - or maybe our - father.

He was stunned for a moment, and as a result he couldn't stand up.

Even so, the aura around the father remained the same. He didn't seem angry or sad about what we did, whatever those things were, he just looked confused - like he didn't know what was going on or was surprised by our reaction.

And then, after he seemed to accept all of that, he started to say something.

I didn't understand the exact meaning behind whatever he was saying, but I was able to understand a thing or two. One of the things I understood was when he talked to me and—

"Surai. That will be your name."

— he gave me a name.