086, Return! Team Skills!

When the first warm ray of sunlight fell on Rimuru's face, his eyelashes fluttered slightly. He opened his eyes with a hint of confusion and saw that, on the enormous bed, everyone on his team except Yuki Onna—Kihara Tsumiki, Yutong, and Ye Xiaoqian—was sprawled around in a row without the slightest regard for sleeping posture, dead to the world.

Hmm... Seeing this, the corners of Rimuru's mouth twitched helplessly beneath his still-lazy expression. If he hadn't awakened in dumpling form... he might have thought he'd done something improper while drunk.

Tilting his head slightly, he recalled yesterday... They had drunk too much... When Ito Rei and Ye Xiaoqian fought over using him as a body pillow, who had won in the end...?

Magic could easily neutralize alcohol, but without deliberately doing so, extraordinary individuals could still have a hangover just like ordinary people. Rimuru pushed himself up and looked out at the sunlit window. The scenery that had once belonged to Konoha had already turned into blue skies and white clouds drifting across the horizon.

But at the very end, just before I passed out... I clearly chose to have a cheerful farewell in that atmosphere... Right... This is the Extraordinary Space, or rather... this is where mission rewards are settled—but—

"Strange. Does the Extraordinary Space have weather this clear?"

In his memory, whether it was the Extraordinary Space or the settlement space, everything should have been filled with distortion and void, with vast darkness like the universe everywhere.

"Yawn." Ye Xiaoqian stretched and slowly opened her eyes.

With Rimuru getting up and muttering to himself, the others gradually woke as well. They were all elites of the Extraordinary Space, accustomed to shallow sleep after years of vigilance. Any slight disturbance could wake them, and Rimuru's movements had successfully roused