Tensura: Rimuru Is a Girl (Translation)

Chapter 2: Prolog

My name is Mikami Satoru, and I am a muscular man who also has a beautiful girlfriend. Ah, sorry, the second part is a lie—I haven't had a girlfriend for the past 37 years of my life. But the first part is true, I have big muscles and a handsome face (or so I claim), yet for some reason, I never managed to get a girlfriend. Until one day, someone stabbed me from behind with a kitchen knife... a kitchen knife, seriously? Don't they have anything cooler? Like a modern weapon or anything else but a kitchen knife!

But what can I do, I was given a chance to live my life once again as a huma... E-Ehem, as a slime. What an unfortunate fate, do I have no luck at all in my life? Why did I have to reincarnate as a slime?

Err.... actually, it can be considered a stroke of luck because I get to experience life again. I have started to get used to living as a slime with my first friend named Veldora. A mighty, masculine, and gallant dragon... No-No, forget that, he's just a lonely tsundere dragon who has been sealed for 300 years and... has no friends at all.

Hmph... You should be grateful to me because of me. You will never know loneliness again.

I met the goblins who... can be described as pitiful? Yes, they are very pitiful. The weak can only become food for the strong in such a cruel world.

Eventually, I gained their trust and that of the direwolves who intended to attack the goblins.

Then I met Shizu-san. She truly was a strong woman, carrying burdens on her small shoulders. And here I am talking about an unfair world... Hah! Nonsense!

The children she cared for only had a little time to calm the magical energy within their bodies. Demon Lord Leon Cromwell summoned her. The hero who saved her.

I showed Shizu-san the peaceful modern life in Japan.

....

After Ifrit's rampage, Shizu-san didn't have much time left. She entrusted the children to me, and I accepted.

And... She wanted to sleep within my body, and I didn't mind. After a while, I noticed that Shizu-san had stopped breathing.

I absorbed her slowly, letting her rest in eternal peace, and without realizing it, tears streamed down my face. I was in my humanoid form, which I acquired from Shizu-san's body. Not long after, Kaval, Kido, and Eren arrived with Rigurd.

I told them the last few things about Shizu-san.

After they left to make their report, I entered a tent to check on my humanoid body because when they arrived, I didn't have a chance to think about the humanoid form I now had.

And I was utterly shocked.

"W-WHAAAT!!!!!" My eyes widened, my scream was so loud that Rigurd, who was outside, heard it.

The tent opened and Rigurd's head appeared.

"R-Rimuru-sama. A-are you?"