[Old] That Time I Got Isekai'd Again and Met a Slime Friend

Another world? AGAIN!?

I regained consciousness in what I presumed to be one of the eggs I laid in the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Gotta be honest, I'm glad that worked; otherwise, I would be DEAD. Like SUPPER. DUPPER. DEAD.

You see, after the Demon Lord fired that abyss magic attack at me, I knew I couldn't survive, so I used the link with my eggs via Kin Control to transport my mind into one of the eggs in the great Elroe Labyrinth. This meant that I simultaneously dogged the attack AND escaped the fight with the Demon Lord. WAHAHA! I'm a genius! Too bad I wasn't able to send my parallel minds into bodies of their own, but that's neither here nor there.

I pushed against the egg I had found myself in and broke free. As I opened my eyes to the outside world, two thoughts went through my head: 1. Where am I? and 2. WHERE ARE ALL THE EGGS I LAID!?

OK calm down, there has to be a perfectly logical explanation. I use Wisdom to tell me where I am.

[Veldora's Cave]

Um, what? I try it again.

[Veldora's Cave]

Um, who's Veldora? I use wisdom on Veldora's name.

[Storm Dragon Veldora, one of the 4 True Dragons of the Cardinal World known for rampaging. This was until he got sealed in a cave by a human]

True dragons? Cardinal World? Where the hell am I? Don't tell me I've been set to ANOTHER other world!? And what's this about true dragons? Normal dragons are scary enough if Araba was anything to go off of. Then again, Araba was kind of an anomaly and was probably one of the strongest earth dragons in my previous world. That was until I killed him! Wahaha!

I used Wisdom on the words "True Dragons" and what I saw put me into a panic.

[True Dragons: there are four currently in existence. They are known for being the strongest beings in the world and consist of Star King Dragon Veldanava, Frost Dragon Velzard, Scorch Dragon Velgrynd, and Strom Dragon Veldroa]

True Dragons are the strongest things in the world!? And I'm in it's territory? I gotta get out of here lickity split if I want to live. There's just one problem. I'm weak I am still a Small Lesser Taratect, meaning I don't have enough MP to use any of my magic, meaning I'm back to square one.

Oh wait, I just remembered. When I was fighting the Demon Lord, I got a ton of EXP and levels, and at one point, I heard that I could evolve into an Arachne. I checked my stats. As I looked through them, I saw something that shouldn't be, 'Demon Lord Seed,' and something that was gone, the skill Grate Demon Lord. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Grate Demon Lord was replaced with Demon Lord Seed. I used Wisdom on it.

[Demon Lord Seed, one of the prerequisites to becoming a Demon Lord]

Oh, interesting. It seems my fantasy about being called Demon Lord Kumoko might one day come true. More importantly, I need to find a way to get enough SP to evolve into an Arachne. I don't want to evolve now and find out I didn't have enough SP to survive evolution. First, I need to get enough SP to evolve into an Arachne. Then, I need to get the heck out of here.

Then something entered my field of vision, which was pretty large if I do say so myself. It was a blue Slime. I can't eat that! No! I won't eat that! I need to find something else like Catfish or Catfish, though I highly doubt they exist in this world.

I used Wisdom on the Slime. Three things stood out to me in the results. First was their name [Rimuru Tempest] and the second, more interesting thing was their other name [Satroru Mikami] meaning that this slime was a reincarnation just like me! But the thing that stood out the most was the skill [Glottony]. The demon lord also had this skill, meaning this slime could and would eat anything and everything.

 I decided to confront it directly. But first I made a trap using my webs just in case they were hostile. 

Among the skills I saw that it had was Telepathy. So I knew that it could communicate, so I did the only thing any normal person would do, I raised my front claw and waved. I did not want to get on this Slime's bad side as it seemed pretty powerful judging by its stats and abilities. Don't get me wrong in a fight at my full strength I would win, but at the moment, that's impossible, so it's better to act friendly and potentially get a meat shield, or I guess in this case it's a slime shield, At least until I can evolve into an Arachne. Because frankly, I don't want to talk more than I need to. And hey, it might even do the talking for me.

The slime waved back. And bounced over to me. Ah shoot, I don't have any way of communicating. Not like I'm any good at it.

'Hello,' It said telepathically. 'Hello,' I thought back, huh? I can talk back. Well, that's convenient and concerning, do they hear everything I say or what? Wait does this slime know that I'm a reincarnation like them, I should ask.

'u-um... are... you... A... um.. R-reincarnation?.. um... Like me?' I asked. WOOWHO! I DID IT! Good job me I said it! A full sentence! I asked it! ME an introvert who hasn't said a word to another person in LITTARAL YEARS! After I was done celebrating my first sentence in years Rimuru responded, 'Hold the phone! You're a Reincarnation!?'

Damn it! It was a simple yes or no question. You weren't supposed to respond with another question! Waaaa! Now I have to respond. Alright me, you got this, it's a simple yes or no question so answer it like one like how a certain SOMEONE was supposed to, I'm looking at you Rimuru!

'Y-yes...' There! I did it woo! Now it's time for the rest of the conversation. Oh no.

They must have thought I was nervous because they said 'Don't worry I'm not gonna hurt you! I'm not a bad slime slerp!'

I wasn't worried about that now please answer the question! BAKA! I don't want to talk more than I have to so I replied 'Answer... Question.'

'Oh, yes, um sorry, yes I reincarnated as a slime. And you're a spider?'

DAMN IT STOP ASKING QUESTIONS! UHGG! This is a pain.

'Yes... I'm a Spider... so what?'

'Nothing, it's just kind of cool, I guess?'

'"Kinda cool"? "KINDA COOL"!? NOTHING ABOUT BEING A SPIDER IS COOL! Well except the webs those are kind of nice. BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO SURVIVE AS A SMALL LITTLE ITY BITTY SPIDER!? I NEARLY DIED ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS AND YOU SAY IT'S KIND OF COOL? YOU DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT BEING WEEK DO YOU?' I accidentally let out.

AHH, why did I do that? Now they're going to think I'm weird, and it will be harder to befriend them. Uhg.

'OK, touchy subject, sorry about that.' They apologized.

I should probably respond that this is my only chance to repair the relationship and gain a meet shield- friend to protect me from the world's dangers.

'It's... fine.' I accepted the apology.

'ANYWAY... wacha doin' here?' he says, trying to dissolve the tension.

'... Long... story...'

Man, this conversation is so exhausting, can it just end already!?

'Ooookaaay then, hey um do you wanna get out of here?' they asked.

I blink, look to where Rimuru's eyes should be, then nod my head.

'Then let's get moving! The exit isn't going to find itself'

I then started following Rimuru through the cave.