So, I went back and look at some of the ideas people had for his title. I did find one I liked, which was The Void Dragon, so that will be his title from now on. It won't change his powers or affinities, just what people call him. so it's Kai, the Void Dragon / Kai, Dragon of the Void. Either one.
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It was morning, Shizu and I are walking into the Guild headquarters. When we arrived inside, the receptionist greeted us, and she seemed to recognize Shizu, because she bowed and said, "Welcome back Lady Shizue, would you like to see Mr. Kagurazaka?"
Shizu nods in reply and the receptionist uses a communication orb to tell Yuuki he has guests, and then she leads us to the elevator like device. She takes us up to his office and leaves soon after.
I sit down on a couch that is nearby, looking at all the stuff around the room, Shizu comes and sit's next to me while doing the same.
"When was the last time you saw them?" I ask her.
"It's been a few months... I'm kind of nervous, I just hope they are doing okay." She replied with a worried look on her face.
I pull her to lean against me, which she does, and just reply, "They will be fine. Afterwards, if you want, they can come to our city. I'm fine even if they live there, you will just have to teach them."
She looks up at me with shining eyes, "Really! You don't mind?"
Laughing lightly, I say, "Why would I care? I can't imagine you're not getting a little bored doing almost nothing all the time." She gives a wry smile and just nods.
The door opens and in walks a man with black hair, and black eyes. He wears white pants, and a white button up shirt, with a blue rope going across the middle of his chest. (Basically his physical appearance from the manga, and his clothes from Season 1 of the anime.)
"Shizu, I heard you-" He came into the room talking, but it seemed he realized someone else was here.
"Apologies, I didn't realize there was another person, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Yuuki Kagurazaka. I'm the Grandmaster of the adventurer's guild."
'He hides his power well, surprising.' I say to myself.
"Kai Kasani. I'm a very close friend of Shizu's. I also rule over the Great Forest of Jura."
He looks somewhat surprised, but still smiles. "It's nice to meet you. To what do I owe the pleasure?"
Shizu spoke up this time, "We need to take my students out. Kai knows a way to save them, and he said he would help me with this."
Hearing her, Yuuki's face turned serious as he faced me, "Do you really know how to save them?"
"Yes, it's rather simple, you just have to know how and have the power to do it, which I do." 'Not a lie, it only works because of gluttony and degenerate. Otherwise the kids would just have to get lucky for a spirit to choose them.'
Yuuki was quite for a minute before he sighed and smiled, "Well, I can tell you're serious, so I will grant the kids leave, though their new teacher might insist on coming with you. She's rather overprotective of them."
"New teacher? Who is it?" Shizu cut in.
"Why don't you go meet her, they are still in the same classroom, I have some work to attend to, but it was nice seeing you again, meeting you as well."
Yuuki stood up, Shizu and I did as well, and he extended his hand to me. Coating it in limitless, since I knew he has the analysis ability, which requires touch, I "Shook" his hand. His eyes narrowed slightly when he realized he couldn't touch my hand, but quickly straightened his face and smiled in front of Shizu.
"Thank you in advance if you really can save the kids, they don't deserve what happened to them."
Releasing his hand I nod, "Don't worry, they'll be fine. We should get going, I want to meet them since I haven't actually met them yet."
With that, Shizu and I left, heading towards Freedom Academy. On our way there, Shizu took her mask off and handed it to me. I look at her with a raised eyebrow, since I'm not sure why she handed it to me.
"Put it in your personal space please, I didn't bring a bag or anything, and I don't want to carry it."
I roll my eyes, "You're getting spoiled, you know that?" But I store it in my inventory nonetheless.
"It's your fault. You're the one that spoils us all the time."
We banter back and fourth the whole way there, and arrive at Freedom academy rather quickly. The outside looks very similar to schools from the early 2010s, back when I was in primary school and junior high.
We walk in and Shizu takes the lead, leading me down the hall through a few turns. Finally we arrive outside of one door and she stops, knocks on the door and waits for it to open.
"One second!" We hear a voice from inside, and it sounds familiar to me. The door opens, to reveal a beautiful blue haired woman, with yellow eyes. Seeing her, I almost have the urge to facepalm, but I resist doing it.
"Can I help you with anything?" She asks, while cocking her head to the side.
"Yes, this is my old classroom, My name is Shizu, I used to be their teacher, I came to see them again. This is Kai, a good friend of mine."
"Ohh Shizu! I've heard a lot about you from the kids! My name is Rimuru, it's nice to meet you, you too Kai." She smiled at us and let us in.
I just followed them in, still trying to figure out why she was here.
"Look who came to visit you all."
"Ms. Shizu!" They all yelled and ran up to her, giving her a hug.
"It's so good to see you all again! Well, remember how I promised to save you all?"
They all pulled back and nodded excitedly.
"Well, the time has come, allow me to introduce you to someone. This is Kai, he's a very good friend of mine, and he's going to be helping." Shizu said and pointed at me.
"Hey kids, we'll be taking a little field trip for it, though it's safe, I can promise that."
Rimuru cuts in, "Wait, you are taking them away from here? Do I not get a say in this?" She looks a little annoyed.
"No, you're going with us." I say to her bluntly, which stuns her for a second. "Get ready kids, the headmaster already said we could take you. You get ready as well, we will be gone for about a week."
The kids nod excitedly, while Rimuru nods absentmindedly, and they all go pack a few things to take with them, but not much.
"Where are we going?" Shizu asks me while they're getting ready.
"The labyrinth of spirits."
"What's that?"
"It's where the queen of spirits resides, it's also where Ifrit came from."
Her face darkens slightly, "Why are we going there."
I sigh, "Calm down Shizu, very few spirits are like Ifrit was, most likely, superior spirits won't even choose the kids, in that case, I will use Gluttony and Degenerate to make an artificial superior spirit, which will just help them control their powers and magic. Which will keep them from dying from the excess energy. The kids aren't any different than you were, you survived due to Ifrit, so to save them is simple for me, but only because of my skills."
She nods in understanding, "Just promise me, if a superior spirit like Ifrit chooses one of them, you will stop it. I don't want one of them to go through what I did."
"Calm down, I will. Besides, so will Ramiris, the queen of spirits. She is impartial, but she isn't heartless, she will warn me if one of them is dangerous."
Shizu nods and we continue waiting for everyone to finish. The first finished were the three boys and Rimuru, lastly were the two girls. We left the city, escorting the kids, and I summon the dire wolves to start our journey.
From my shadow, six dire wolves jump out, one for each of the kids, and Ranga for Shizu and I. I hadn't really planned on Rimuru being her, so I didn't have an extra dire wolf come with me.
"I wasn't expecting an extra person, do you mind sharing the space with Shizu and I? If you do, I'm sure Alice and Chloe can share a wolf."
"No it's fine, he looks big enough for three people to fit comfortably." She wasn't wrong, Ranga was able to grow even more than when he was with Rimuru, his full size was now about the same size as a full sized pickup truck.
"All right, kids, each of you get's a wolf, they are fast, so hold on tight." They look nervous, because they know these wolves are dire wolves, and are still large, even if nothing compare to Ranga.
"Calm down, they won't hurt you. Just get on, we have a ways to go."
They all nod and start getting on one by one, which each dire wolf helps them, by lowering themselves to the ground to make it easier to climb on their backs.
Once they were all on, Shizu hops on Ranga's back, followed by myself. Once I'm up, I lean down and pull Rimuru up, putting her in front of me, while Shizu is behind me, hugging me.
The wolves start running to the south, towards the entrance to the labyrinth.
I decided to ask Rimuru a question that was bugging me, "So are you also a summoned person like the kids and Shizu, or were you born here?"
"Both I guess? I was reincarnated here, I used to live in Japan, like the kids, and I was stabbed saving my best friend. She was showing off her new boyfriend, whose a co-worker of hers, and she was about to be stabbed, I jumped in the way, and was reincarnated here as a slime." She finished her statement by turning her arm into slime and reforming it.
'Hah what. It sounds like she was a girl in her last life, unlike the original, where Rimuru was a dude.'
"That sounds rough, how did you come to freedom academy?"
"I was found by one of the professors, since I had already learned to talk, due to one of my Unique skills, I told her my story, and she took me back."
"Wait if you're a slime, how do you have a human form?" I ask her, genuinely curious, since she had to consume someone before to become a human. She also looked a little different, she didn't look like Shizu anymore, and was just a very pretty woman now.
"Transformation Magic, I just made myself look like my past life, but I couldn't change my hair color, not that I dislike the blue."
"Ahh, that makes sense. I agree though, the blue looks good on you. Well, you'll find out soon, I'm not human either."
She looks back in surprise, "You're not? What are you then?"
The wolves slow down and stop, and Shizu and I hop off. The dire wolves let everyone down, before jumping back into my shadow.
"Stand back a bit."
They all nod and get back a short distance, but Shizu pulls them much farther back, which confuses them. Once they were a good distance away, I transform into my dragon form, which scares the shit out of all of them, excluding Shizu of course.
"Come on, stop standing there." She says as she walks towards me.
I turn my claw over, allowing Shizu to pick the kids up and place them in my palm, as well as helping Rimuru climb onto it, before she jumps up, landing on my claw. Once I see all of them on, I lift them onto my back and let them get as conformable as possible.
Once they are all settled in, which takes a while since the kids are both excited and nervous, while Rimuru is both in awe and nervous. Seeing Shizu calm them down and nod to me, I cover my back and them with limitless, so the wind wouldn't affect them, and take off.
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Long chapter, also yes Rimuru is finally here! She is gender bent, though that was kind of decided from the start. So for those of you who were asking if Rimuru would be in it, here ya go.