- Suzuki Satoru -
He closed the door to his room and slumped on his bed.
How did this happen?
How did he get stuck here?
All he wanted to do was spend the last hours and give Yggdrasil a well deserved goodbye and then maybe go and live in Mikami's world which seemed still livable.
Everything was planned. Mikami even found out where they could get some fake documents and in return, he could sell the technologies to make money for themselves.
It was the perfect plan.
Even Silas supported them.
Alas.
During the last hour of his time he reminisced about everything in the game. He even took some liberties with changing the programming of some of the characters.
Albedo….
A green light surrounded him and he calmed down.
But he was not a selfish guy. He even made some maids for his bros at the restaurant and was going to show them the videos to let them bask in the glory of A VMMO's maids created by some of the most brilliant minds in the world, his guildmates.
Mikami liked the cheerful and calm types so he programmed Aureole Omega and Lupusregina Beta for him. Saitama was becoming more robotic and he wanted to tease him with CZ2128 Delta. And for the man who made his exit plan viable in the first place, he changed Yuri Alpha and Narberal Gamma because he remembered him wanting to hire waitresses for his restaurant.
While he couldn't give him waitresses, a promotion video was good enough, right?
Otakus would totally swarm the place once such a video went online.
*Sigh*.
Now though, even if he could give him the waitresses he wanted, he had no way to get back. Life took away from him when everything started to look better.
Was he really going to lose everything again?
Dammit!
He punched the wall in frustration and one of the cupboards moved revealing a door on the other side.
….
….
This door?
Wasn't this?
Then the thought struck him. Wasn't Silas' Restaurant connected to many other worlds? Did it mean that he could go back?
He quickly went ahead but paused in his step.
His current form would draw too many eyes. He remembered how scared people were the last time a dragon had peeked inside.
He needed something more….normal. After thinking of something, he created a full plate armour with Greater Item Creation Skill to cover his entire body and used Perfect Warrior to completely drain his mana away in case it had clues that could give away his new status as undead before he has a chance to explain himself.
Checking himself in the mirror once more, he seemed alright for now. Maybe, he could pretend to be cosplaying so he can explain everything first?
Yes.
Sounds like a good plan.
Just in case, he informed the residents of Nazarick to not enter his room unless permitted.
- Mikami Satoru -
He put the stone on the grave and markedit with her name.
Shizue Izawa.
The face of her smiling in her last moments appeared in front of his eyes.
Too bad monsters can't cry or at least Slimes couldn't.
The last few months of his life had been full of ups and downs.
One day he was planning to start a Game Company with Suzuki and the next thing he knows, he gets stabbed and becomes a slime.
He did find some friends in this place but damn if he didn't miss his life back there. Especially now that he was feeling this pit in his stomach.
A glass of sake with some fried tempura would be just the thing he needed to drown his sorrows in. Maybe play some games with Saitama and Suzuki….
He wondered how his friends were doing. Did they miss him?
Suzuki would be so disappointed.
They had planned so much to get him out of that world of his.
But as the saying goes, the best laid plans of men and mice….
Maybe he can do the same with Silas or Hayato. Their worlds were not that developed as well.
Saitama on the other hand….his friend seemed as if he was losing his emotions bit by bit. Would he be alright?
There was also Shizuka-chan….the drunk homeroom teacher. She was quite cute too. He had promised to meet her again….
Did she ever come back to the Restaurant and ask about him?
And Silas….
Sigh.
Why were all the good things in his life being lost one after another?
He mimicked Shizue-san's face in a form comfortable for him and returned back to the village.
"Rimuru-sama, Rimuru-sama. T-t-there's something in your hut!" Gobta came running as soon as he reached close to the village?
Something in his hut? Did someone attack when he was not present?
He picked Gobta and flew as fast as he could towards the hut which was in the middle of the village. If there was something in his hut, it could be a danger to the entire village.
On reaching outside the hut, he saw several people gathered around it, some had makeshift weapons in their hands.
They all saw him and quickly kneeled.
Rigurd at the forefront kneeled and apologised.
Sigh… these goblins or rather Hobgoblins were too serious. They needed to chill a bit.
"Wait here for me. I will check inside."
He walked directly into the hut and what he saw there made him rub his eyes in surprise. To verify that he was not dreaming, he tried pinching himself.
No pain.
Ah….it was a dream.
"Notice. You have Pain Immunity."
Eh….Great Sage-san?
"So this is not a dream?"
"Notice. This is not a dream."
Wow, Great Sage-san confirmed then it must be real but seriously….
Was that?
No way.
But then again, Silas' Restaurant could connect to any world.
Did it?
He walked shakily towards the door and touched the familiar handle but stopped.
He needed to take care of the crowd gathered outside.
He quickly went and addressed the ones gathered outside.
"Don't worry. This is something that was planned recently by me. Carry on with your own work. I will be out for a while. Oh and ask the dwarves to build a wall and a stronger house around and do not touch this door."
"Hai, Rimuru-sama." The Hobgoblins saluted.
- Interlude - Rin Tohsaka -
One and a half months….
A month and half had passed since the Matou family had suddenly disappeared.
The mundane authorities didn't even find the destruction until half a month had passed, probably because of the bounded field put in place, the whole place looked like it had been run over by some kind of natural disaster.
Kirei and her were the first ones to investigate. Someone had put some kind of bounded field over the area and had been staying there for a while.
The field only broke after they left and they were aware of the whole incident later.
In fact it was a combination of many barriers of different kinds, one of them being the usual one which the Matous used and two other unrecognised barriers.
The place looked like it had first been destroyed and then some kind of ritual was done there.
There were traces of some unknown curses and the worst part was that….they looked old….years even decades old so it was something which the Matou was doing.
Suddenly, the entire investigation took a turn.
Was the place destroyed by an outsider or just due to some failed experiment?
The curses tainting the place was so bad that it had started affecting the surroundings. The entire place was tainted with extreme malice as if the air itself was tinged with the essence of curses.
The most horrifying fact was that the curses were extremely similar to the ones during the Fuyuki Fire which she had to report.
Both the Clocktower and the Church came down upon the place almost instantly, investigating the whole thing minutely.
Still, even with so many investigations, no results were achieved.
They couldn't figure out who was behind the attack or even how they achieved it. All valuables from the house were missing. Every tome, every magical object….everything.
If she was truthful, she didn't care about anything that happens to that creep bastard Shinji or the old skeleton of the Zouken family but she was worried about Sakura.
There were no bodies found on the site but neither Shinji nor Sakura had returned to the school even after a month.
Just where had they disappeared?
She was awakened from her thoughts by the bell ringing and went down to check.
On opening the door she didn't find anyone except a package and a letter on top. She went outside and found no one.
Carefully checking the whole package for any spells, she found none and brought it inside
She opened the letter first.
"Hmm, no name."
'This is a small gift to prepare you for what's about to come in a year. Use it well. A lot depends on it'
A year?
What is going to come up in a year?
Suddenly she remembered.
The Grail War.
She quickly opened the package and her eyes opened wide….
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Author's Note:
I am back with some more Restaurant shenanigans.
Silas finally found out about his heritage and awakened his Innate Cursed Technique.
We will explore more about it in the next chapter.
The story is finally approaching the place the snippet had started at.
And someone's searching for Silas in the background.
Guess who it could be?
Anyways, I will drop another chapter of this next.
Enjoy the new chapter,
Good Day, Peace Out.