Framing the Guilty; Rimuru's Displeasure

Rayner had only just surpassed A-rank. At most, he counted as a Special A-rank, and one raised in a greenhouse at that. If Benimaru got serious, he could kill him with a single slash.

The gap in strength was simply that enormous.

And just like that, the farce came to a complete end. The enemy's two strongest generals had both been defeated outright.

Prince Elric of the Silverion Kingdom, the instigator of this incident, and Duke Gama both stared in utter disbelief.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"How could it turn out like this?!"

"I don't believe it!!!"

Elrick and Duke Gama shouted in disbelief.

How had this happened? This was not how things were supposed to unfold!... They were supposed to successfully subjugate Demon King Rimuru, then destroy the monster nation, weren't they?

Yet at that moment, Rimuru suddenly sensed murderous intent locking onto someone. This time, however, the target was not her, but Prince Elrick of the Silverion Kingdom.

Feeling the direction from which that murderous intent came, then recalling Duke Mog's cause of death, Rimuru immediately understood.

So it was... a firearm?!

In the instant Rimuru froze, a sniper hundreds of meters away had already fired the first bullet.

With the aid of "Spatial Link Magic," that shot was enough to blow Elrick's head clean off.

Yet those few brief seconds appeared extraordinarily slow in Rimuru's eyes. After all, her reaction speed and processing speed had surpassed those of ordinary people by an unknown number of times.

"Framing me, or pinning the blame on me? Whatever. I never intended to spare him anyway. But... that doesn't give rats hiding in the shadows any right to falsely accuse me."

A sharp glint flashed through Rimuru's pale golden eyes. A black vortex appeared directly before Elrick and swallowed the bullet carrying