Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken novel Chapter 213

The battle between Leon and Kazaream continued for a full day and night.

He was not simply calling himself Great Demon Lord for nothing, as Kazaream possessed an overwhelming amount of energy incomparable to what he had before.

Even after fighting a lengthy battle, he showed no sign of exhaustion.

Meanwhile, Leon and Mizari were also the same, but even though they were fighting together, they were still toyed with by Kazaream.

The only reason why Leon was able to continue fighting was because Kazaream was going easy on him; Leon noticed this and ground his teeth.

"Will I meet my doom here?" Leon asked himself.

If that were inevitable, then so be it. Until Now, he had lived by crushing the weak.

Of course, when he thought about it as his own turn finally coming up, he could accept it obediently.

...No. Would that really be fine for him?

He spared no sacrifice when it came to his search for Chloe.

He even learned summoning magic himself, and had summoned several people in his selfishness.

One of them was Claude, and another was the burned girl.

Claude vowed his vengeance against Leon, challenging him countless times, yet before they knew it, his attempts at revenge had ceased, and the two came to recognize each other.

Leon believed himself to be selfish and cared not for others' expectations. That was natural.

He might not have been able to survive in this harsh world otherwise, finding and protecting that girl could be said to be his only reason for living, yet that seemed a dream within a dream.

Therefore, he thought, it can't be helped that he would be resented, and so he continued to cruelly cut down the weak.

That was Leon's way of life, the true reason why he couldn't be a Hero even though he had awakened as a Hero.

A human is a creature who has a hard time understanding another person's mind. They live without showing anyone their own mind. Therefore, there was no one with the desire to understand Leon's feelings, even if he wished for it.

A person like Claude is an exception among the exceptions.

Ergo, he thought that for people whom he summoned selfishly had every right to enact revenge against him.

He saw the Silver Knight Alrose fall down from the corner of his eye.

Moderate Clown Troupe is a gathering of hedonists. They fight against anyone by request without any principle.

Kazaream gathered such people, possibly in part due him been warped by defeat in his fight against Leon.

It reached the point where he showed an obstinate obsession for Leon and lined up his subordinates for varied harassment.

The reason why Clayman acted hostile toward Leon could be traced back to Kazaream's obsession.

Regardless of their appearance, these were once Kazaream's companions. They wouldn't be weak.

No one would think that the devil called Footman with a body that fat could be toying around with Alrose and his quick movement.

Alrose's swordsmanship was top class, but because he's a master of proper swordsmanship, he's weak against irregular attacks.

His weakness was seen through in no time and he received a blow.

If he hadn't gained the power of the Demon Duke class, he would be dead because of the blow just now.

Thanks to the fact that he became a half spiritual lifeform, even if he received injuries to the extent of having a part of his body blown off, it would recover in an instant. But, he might not able to continue this for a long time.

It's clear that Footman surpassed him in ability.

The combination of Yellow Knight Kizna and White Knight Maetel fought well against the girl-like devil called Tear.

So, it may be said that they're putting up a good fight. Because they are still alive.

In ability, Tear surpasses the two overwhelmingly. If Tear fought them individually, she could have reaped their lives immediately.

The pair was somehow still alive thanks to the demon's power they gained and their combination.

Maetel can't master the demon's power In the first place.

As she was a user of Holy Magic, her affinity with the demonic attribute was terrible.

Various applications were possible depending on the usage method, but unfortunately she didn't have enough experience.

Thanks to the defensive power of Kizna, they feel like they can get over Tear's attack somehow by being devoted to a defensive fight.

It seemed that it was a matter of time before it be broken.

And the biggest problem was Laplace.

He's strong, too strong.

He's undoubtedly the strongest class.

Although he doesn't seem to possess any Ultimate Skill, it won't be weird if he will master the ability once he acquired it.

He's still having some leeway even when the strongest knight among Leon's subordinate, the Black Knight Claude and the Red Knight be his opponent at the same time.

ŒHah. Give up, that feint is obvious.

ŒWhoops, danger danger. That juist now almost hit me. But, bad luck!

ŒOh, oh my? Maybe, it already ended?

He cracks jokes with such feeling, doing an easy attack while provoking Claude and Fran repeatedly.

As one would expect, the two people didn't get provoked.

But, as Laplace's aim was to make fun of the two, there's no sign that he would stop his provocation.

Even if it didn't disturb the two's feelings nor hindering the two's thoughts, Laplace's disturbing words seem to show an effect.

In addition to it, Laplace's attack is not out of the ordinary, but the damage seems to be gradually accumulated, it could be perceived from the movement of Claude and Fran which gradually became duller.

With an opponent as troublesome as the devil Laplace, Leon should be the one to fight such a powerful enemy.

It might be said that the situation was very bad.

Putting such a situation in his view, Leon continues asking himself.

Claude came to follow Leon, the number of his companions also begun to increase, and before he noticed, Leon became a Demon Lord.

He united the oppressed demi-humans, small and weak demon race[1] and created a place for them to live in peace inside the Great Jura Forest.

This was because taking control of a domain by force was easy to establish a new country,

His purpose was to gather information.

He only wanted people who could investigate information to become his hands and feet.

He protects them with his strength and they work for Leon to realize his wish.

On such give and take relationship, a subordinate-superior relationship was run.

He built a castle on the territory of the Demon Lords and based in there. And then he sent his subordinates to various places and collected information about Chloe.

It was at that time that he repulsed Kazaream. If he thinks about it, that was the start of their connection.

The situation won't be like this if he dealt the decisive blow properly at that time.

It was the same when he fought Yuuki, Leon ridiculed his naïveness.

He discovered a new continent afterwards and spent his time to build the current El Dorado. When he found Chloe, he wanted to prepare a country where she'll be able to live in peace.

Therefore, it was necessary to protect the people who lived in the country.

Leon gradually came to think about the people who follow him and the people under his protection, not just about himself.

He can't jeopardize the country which he created with so much effort.

For such reason, he decided to appropriate Kazaream's castle inside the Great Jura Forest as his cover.

He can't help but to use it as his first castle was destroyed in his battle with Kazaream, but unexpectedly it wasn't bad.

It was really suitable as a test site where he test out various magic, Leon performed various experiments in this castle.

Because the Great Jura Forest became a sanctuary where people who feared Veldora won't dare to enter, it was helpful to avert the other demon lord's eyes from him.

And, it was in this castle where he did his last summon.

The girl who summoned to answer Leon's request was suffering major burns and dying.

He was able to save her life with recovery magic. However, she will only die because she was too young to have safely crossed the word boundary and her magic essence went amok.

Then it would be better for him to let her die this way, but it might be better to make her suffering prolonged. Thinking so, Leon takes an interest in the girl.

But,

Œelp, please help......

The girl said so, Leon saw the strong Will to not give up in her eyes and extended his hand to the girl.

And then he noticed her high compatibility to flame and recalled the existence of the high-ranking spirit that's Ifrit.

There's perhaps a possibility of compatibility, but if it fails Ifrit will disappear too.

But

Because he only took it from Ramiris in a fit of anger before, it won't be painful to lose it.

The girl survived splendidly.

Then, against himself, who summoned her into this world without permission, the girl has the right for revenge.

If the girl named Shizue Izawa was going to kill him, he would accept it directly from the front.

At the time the strongest and the famous Hero attacked, it was for such reason that he left without hesitating.

As he might be defeated by the Hero.

But, the Hero will surely save the girl who is a former human. He had such prediction.

After all, unlike the failure the likes of him, who was only strong, she was called as the "True Hero", the strongest title in the history.

If he thought about it, if he had met the Hero there, he might have been able to realize that she was Chloe.

But, it didn't happen.

Ironically, one came from the other side, while the other one missed the other by running away.

(What am I really trying to do.....)

Leon blows out a sigh.

Kazaream's attack is harsh without cutting any corners. It would be naïve for him to think that he can deal with it while he's in deep thoughts.

However, even so......

ŒLeon-oniichan, you had searched for me this whole time right.

Ehehe. You see, I've always want to meet you too.]

He was finally able to meet her the other day.

With Chloe, whom he searched all this time.

She seemed to be fine. But, because of the curse, she doesn't seem to be able to act freely currently.

Still,

ŒYou see, Rimuru-Sensei had promised me that he would surely save me.

I believe in Sensei.

The Sensei who received Shizu-Sensei, Shizu-San's feelings and saved us!

Chloe said so with straight eyes.

The girl whom Leon saved whimsically seemed to follow a strange fate and ended up as Chloe's teacher.

On the contrary, she met Demon Lord Rimuru and led him to Chloe.

It will be an unbelievable story to say that all of it is by coincidence.