Through Thick and Thin | Benimaru

Extra: The Tragedy of M!

"Rimuru-sama, it's time for your inspection of the construction site." Shion said with a strained smile while looking at Shuna.

"I will take you there," Shuna insisted back with a similar smile.

To explain the current situation, Rimuru was being tugged between the two kijin, as always. Katsumi had escaped a while ago before the fighting started. Something about not wanting to be caught in the middle.

Well, this slime body does feel really nice to hug... Rimuru thought as the two female kijin continued to pull on their side. Even I hug a body double of myself sometimes. A body double! Why don't I give them each a body double of me?! Wait, maybe not... If I do that... It'd be a bigger death match than when I was naming them! I need some kind of stand-in for my slime body... A wood-carved slime! A slime sculpture! A metal slime made of metal! No, those aren't right. There's no point if it doesn't have the same feel as my body. Right... something like... One of those cushions that makes living beings sink into depravity! That might feel pretty close to the same thing. Beanbag cushions in my image! I'll call them Rimuru cushions! That sounds adorable! Like the first prize in a lottery! And the biggest one would go to whoever drew the very last lot!

Rimuru snapped out of his own thoughts to realize that the two girls on either side of him were still smiling stiffly at one another and stretching him out incredibly thin. By now, Rimuru was used this and knew he wasn't at risk of actually tearing like in the dream he had. He had double checked with Katsumi by having the girl pull him as far down the road as possible. To say the least, the girls would have to cross the entirety of town before Rimuru came even close to breaking in half.

"Uh, could you guys let go for a second?" Rimuru asked the two kijin.

"O-Of course." Both of them simultaneously released Rimuru, causing the slime to snap back into shape in between the two girls.

"I have a favor to ask of you, Shuna," Rimuru said once he landed on the ground safely.

"Of course. Ask me for anything you'd like," Shuna replied happily. As the princess and a seamstress in the town, Shuna sometimes felt like she didn't do enough for Rimuru, especially compared to the other kijin who were by his side. Therefore, she was always glad to help Rimuru out whenever he asked if it was within her power.

"There's something I want to make..." Rimuru trailed off. She probably wouldn't understand if I said 'stretchy material'... "Um, is there... some kind of cloth that's, like, really smooth and stretchy?"

"Smooth and stretchy?" Shuna echoed, rasing a finger to her face in thought. "Do you mean something like Spandex?"

"You know what that is?!" Rimuru shouted in shock.

"It was just sort of... a hunch, I guess." Shuna smiled at Rimuru.

"Women's intuition?! Shuna, you scare me!"

"That's easy," Shuna said, ignoring Rimuru's shock while Shion sat across from the pink Kijin clearly confused. "Just leave it to me, Rimuru-sama."

"Okay, so the next thing is the stuffing." Rimuru turned to Shion, who sat straighter when the slime faced her. "Shion, I need to talk to Garm."

"Of course, Rimuru-sama." Shion immediately stood up and picked the small slime up. Shuna pouted and puffed her cheeks but since Rimuru had things to do, she didn't argue with the other kijin, no matter how badly she wanted Rimuru to stay with her.

Shion walked to Garm's workshop with Rimuru held safely in her arms under her breasts. Rimuru had long ago abandoned the guilt of being pressed up against her breasts so often. Despite the fact that he was once a human man, Rimuru was technically a gender-less slime in this world. There was no moral issue with him enjoying the female body.