Birth of the Void King Dragon

Chapter 9: He's Officially Back

Rimuru POV

After finishing my quick chat with Ciel, I sighed slightly as I stepped forward towards the sisters kneeling in front of me. Velgrynd seemed somewhat wary and a tad fearful of my intentions. Velzard on the other hand, remained calm and collected with her eyes closed and her head bent slightly forward, as if she was simply awaiting a due punishment. Much to their surprise, I simply leaned forward and offered each of them a hand to return to their feet with a gentle smile. Velgrynd warily accepted my outstretched hand while Velzard gracefully took my hand as I helped them back up.

"If we're done with all of the unnecessary over-reactions, I think it would be best for us to get to the reason for my visit now." My words seemed to shake what little daze Guy and Rudra were in as they themselves got back on their feet. Guy instructed Misery and Rain to prepare some sweets and tea as he then directed everyone else to follow him to the balcony overlooking the winter hellscape that is the Frozen Continent. After we all arrived, I created 4 extra seats around the table that was there; offering one to each of the ladies who would be taking part in this "conference" before taking my own seat directly across from Guy. Diablo and Testarossa took their places standing directly behind my seat.

"Now then. Before we get to the reason why I'm here, let me make something perfectly clear. I have several issues that bother me to the extreme with everyone present that will be discussed after the primary discussions are over. Now before we get started, I will allow you to ask questions of me, as I'm sure you all have several dozen you'd like to ask. However, if you ask a question pertaining to our later discussion, I will simply not answer it until it is time. Do we all understand one another?" As I finished speaking, all except for Ciel and Rudra nodded their heads in agreement. Before I could even turn to address him, Rudra arrogantly spoke up.

"I understand you just defeated all of us in combat by yourself, but what gives you the right to sit there and treat us like children?!?" At his words, I could feel an intense surge of bloodlust coming from behind me and directly to my right where Ciel was sitting. Instead of immediately answering him, I held up a hand to the Primordials behind me, calming them almost immediately before they could speak out of line and escalate the situation further. I then turned towards Ciel and asked her to calm down as well with a small smile as I had something in mind to deal with this arrogant hero.

"You want to know what right I have? Michael." As I said his name, the Manas immediately manifested between my and Ciel's chairs in a kneeling position. "Yes my Lord?" I glared at Rudra, who was in complete shock at the appearance of the very skill he was constantly struggling to control. "The next time Rudra speaks out of line or disrespectfully to anyone present, I give you permission to completely shatter what's left of his soul." My cold words seemed to reverberate through the spacious room as I maintained eye contact with Rudra. "Understood Lord Rimuru." As he finished speaking, he immediately rose up and went to stand behind Rudra's seat. I could see the absolute horror at my words and the sincerity of my voice appear across Velgrynd and Rudra's faces, while Guy and Velzard just grimaced slightly.

"Does that answer your question, you arrogant High Human? I've been considered by many people as a kind, generous, and fair person; however I will not stand by silently as I'm mocked and looked down upon by someone who does not know his place." I finished speaking and Rudra just nodded silently, keeping his mouth shut tightly as to risk earning my ire any further. "Now that we have that out of the way with, I believe introductions are in order, despite you all already knowing my name; it is only proper after all." Before I could get to it though, Ciel stood up from her seat and told me to allow her to do it for me. I could only sweatdrop as I knew she was gonna go all out with my titles and everything.

To my pleasant surprise, it wasn't as grandiose as I thought she would make it. "Allow me to properly introduce my Master, the Chaos Creator Rimuru Tempest. Otherwise known as the 5th True Dragon, embodying the the concept of Void as The Void King Dragon, and the 2nd ever True Dragon Lord." As she finished speaking, she gracefully sat back down in her seat and I thanked her for the introduction. "Now with that out of the way, I will answer a few of your questions. Please keep in mind what I said earlier though." Unsurprisingly, the first question came from Guy. "If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is True Dragon Lord? And if you're the 2nd ever to be one, who would be the first?" His questions were logical and were probably the most easily answered out of anything they could've asked me.