114, No Time to Explain, Get in the Car!

"So, what exactly are these so-called Hunters..." Rimuru watched the seemingly endless stream of Sequence 6 Transcendents pouring out on the screen, raising an eyebrow. "I noticed it earlier. These things are like a virus..."

"However, we are the virus." At that, Great Sage instantly generated an information-state chain filled with garbled code before Rimuru. Every symbol within it felt familiar to him; they represented knowledge he could not comprehend—"The Hunters appear to be an immune system unique to this Hakoniwa world."

"Got it. A firewall."

"You could understand it that way... They are like an orderly security force, with different levels of tolerance for every individual. In other words, as long as you do not dance on their heads, they generally will not mobilize... Hmm... Like a wanted-star rating in a game? Once you reach three stars, the Hunters will be triggered. At five stars, you will practically face the entire world's pursuit."

"So unless you have cheat-code-level strength capable of directly smashing through this world, I would not recommend getting carried away and going all out."

"...Wait, I have a question. Do these Hunters have intelligence?"

"According to my analysis, they do... More precisely, they are also a genuinely existing faction... Much like our NPCs, they can be replaced."

"??? Holy shit!"

"But they have the most restrictions instead... If our restriction is that crossing the line causes us to be targeted by Hunters, then the restriction on becoming a Hunter might be..."

"They cannot attack people who obey the law?" Rimuru's eyes lit up, and he suddenly smiled. "No, perhaps they can act, but not only would they fail to receive support from their own kind, they would also be treated as traitors or punished in some way?!"

"That's a good one."

"A restriction called justice."

"So,