Traveler Starting from Type-Moon, Demon Lord Rimuru! Chapter 14

"That is enough." Kuonji Alice nodded faintly and said softly, "To be able to help you, that reason is enough."

After the business was concluded, Kuonji Alice, having confirmed that Rimuru was in good condition, seemed to truly loathe London and even the Clock Tower itself. Aside from Liddell's teaching building, she was even perfunctory toward the most valued tradition of magi—visiting the administrators of the current region, the various great mage families located in London. After visiting them simply in the capacity of a robin and a familiar, she intended to return to Japan.

However, when visiting the Dean, she was urged to stay, with the hope that while maintaining the lineage of the Witch, she could help as much as possible with the survival of humanity.

The relationship between witches and humans had never been good; one could even say it was hostile. Kuonji Alice had inherited this trait well; she disliked humans quite a bit. But even so, she held a trace of respect for this mysterious Dean of the Clock Tower who had guarded it for a thousand years, and she calmly agreed: "Very well."

"I will not help humans for the sake of humanity, but I do not mind helping... humanity for the sake of Rimuru."

Chapter 020: For Aozaki Aoko, the Complex High Society

The arrival of Kuonji Alice did not cause much of a ripple in Rimuru's life; the world of the two was as calm and undisturbed as still autumn water.

On the contrary, after she left, she left behind an idiot who got along quite well with Liddell, which gave Rimuru quite a headache.

The next day.

"Hey, hey, it's so boring. Rimuru, let's go out for a stroll. It's not often we get to come to London, you know." Aozaki Aoko, bored out of her mind, chewed on a blade of foxtail grass and sprawled across the library table like a puddle of mud, speaking loudly and carelessly, drawing the attention of quite a few students.

"Keep it down, you idiot."

Rimuru helplessly closed the books that the Great Sage had finished scanning, and with a casual wave, Wuyin transformed into a soft cushion, causing a large stack of books to float gently behind him.

"Can you stop jumping around all day like a husky?"

"What kind of tone is that?" Aozaki Aoko pouted in dissatisfaction, watching Rimuru pick up a book, touch the cover, and then slide it back onto the shelf, only to immediately pick up another and place it on Wuyin. She said speechlessly, "You don't even look like you're reading. Who flips through a dozen pages a second like you..."

"This is called quantum reading." Rimuru chuckled: "Don't get it, do you?"

"...Tch." Isn't it just using magic to enhance memory for speed-reading... Aozaki Aoko sighed, thinking sourly. Even with memory enhancement, the extent of the boost is limited. Let's see how much you remember when you go back, you'll be exhausted!

At this moment, a straight figure stepped into the Great Library. After quickly browsing the catalog and stating his needs at lightning speed, just as the library's staircases began to shift between levels, the person inadvertently glanced at Rimuru, who was returning books—correspondingly, Rimuru also saw him at the same time.

"Good day, Professor Kayneth."

"Good day... Lord Rimuru... oh, I should call you Professor now." Kayneth paused slightly, his gaze sweeping over the books behind Rimuru, and he chuckled softly: "There is no need to be overly perfectionist, Professor Rimuru. While theoretical books are important, when giving lectures, one's own insights and experience are the most precious essence. You should not be lacking in either of those."

"You flatter me." Rimuru blinked his golden eyes and nodded in acknowledgment. Kayneth then turned his gaze toward the young girl behind Rimuru and narrowed his eyes slightly.

That must be the Magician Aozaki Aoko, who is known alongside Rimuru as the Blue Twins, and later jokingly referred to as the "King Bomb" twins due to the great explosion... Kayneth watched for a moment, and seeing that she had no intention of engaging with him and did not greet him, he nodded to Rimuru once more and turned to leave.

To be honest, although the two maintained a polite exchange on the surface, in reality, unless they met by accident, they would likely never interact due to their different factions—

Especially given that their personalities were worlds apart, even if they were in the same faction... Rimuru felt it would probably be the same.

So Rimuru thought that aside from academics, there was nothing else to talk about, and just as he thought this meeting should come to an end, Kayneth's voice suddenly drifted over.

"By the way, Professor Rimuru."

"Yes?"

Rimuru looked up and saw Kayneth turn his head, chuckling as he said: "Recently, a girl was born into the Archizorte family, a cadet branch of my El-Melloi lineage."

Having said this, he gave Rimuru a deep look, then turned his head back again, adding: "So, as the head of the family, I gave them a suggestion to name her..."

"Reines."

"..."

Good grief.

Rimuru looked at Kayneth's back, suddenly speechless. This Reines... is she the "Lemon Girl" from my memory?

"Tsk."

He shook his head helplessly. Clearly, his initial polite refusal still weighed on the proud Kayneth, or rather, it made him remember that name...

Indeed, for Kayneth, who succeeded in everything he did, being rejected probably counted as a failure, right?

"What's the situation?" The bored Aozaki Aoko finally seized the opportunity and dove over curiously after the man left.

"Nothing much. It's just that back then, I used the excuse that I had already taken on a student named Reines to decline his request to introduce me to students. Now, he's named a child of his relatives Reines..."

Rimuru smiled and continued searching for useful books, not taking it to heart. Thinking about it this way, Kayneth's actions were actually very much like a grade-schooler acting tsundere out of spite; it was even a little cute.

"...What kind of move is that?" Aozaki Aoko was stunned upon hearing this, showing a look of disdain: "How idiotic..."

"Don't say that just yet."

Rimuru raised an eyebrow, and while sliding a book back onto the shelf, he said softly: "He is actually expressing his stance to me for the second time, hoping to ease the friction between our factions through this relationship."

"The first time was his own family's Archibald child. After I refused, this time he switched to a child from the Archizorte family."

"Is there a difference?" Aozaki Aoko asked, struggling to understand.

"The Archizorte family is also a branch of El-Melloi. Even if it is the final cadet branch, they are still members of the El-Melloi lineage."

"If it were just out of spite, he could have just renamed his own child."

Rimuru looked at the deep-in-thought Aozaki Aoko with a smile and tapped her head: "You idiot, this is clearly a second hint that his desire to send me a student is not just his own intention, but the collective thought of the entire El-Melloi faction and all its branches."

"So, this request actually cannot be refused. After all, one has to give face to the friendship of a Twelve Lords family."

"So... so complex."

Aozaki Aoko's head was spinning... So, in her eyes, such an idiotic and simple action actually hid so many meanings and exchanges?!

Damn it, you London elites have such complicated ways of thinking. Japan is definitely better...

"Actually, it's not that complicated." Rimuru tilted his head, thinking for a moment before looking at Aozaki Aoko with an amused expression. "Even if we ignore any hidden meanings, you shouldn't call his behavior idiotic, Aoko."

"Because if all it takes is a name change to befriend me while turning a previous failure into a success, then it doesn't matter how idiotic the method might look to others."

"The reason Kayneth is called a being destined for success isn't by accident; it's because his behavioral logic itself tends toward discarding most other options for the sake of success. I have to say..."

"If the previous rejection counts as a failure... then, in the end, he still succeeded, didn't he?"

After saying this, Rimuru let out a breath, feeling a bit sentimental.

In reality, after getting to know things for a while, Rimuru truly felt that none of the professors at the Clock Tower were simple characters. Take Kayneth, for example: if not for the limitations of the era's mindset and the traditional magus concepts he was raised with, he wouldn't have been finished off by a mere Holy Grail War.

His grasp on success and his nose for opportunity were maxed out. If Rimuru didn't have the Great Sage to push his logical reasoning to an extremely high level, he would have admitted he was no match for the man.

But it was a pity.

He lost to the mindset of a traditional magus, and he lost to the "anything goes," highly modernized thinking of Emiya Kiritsugu.

"Come to think of it... perhaps Kayneth's origin is simply the word 'success'." Rimuru took one last look at Aozaki Aoko. Seeing her head spinning—clearly even more confused by his words—he sighed, feeling that she was hopeless.

To say all this to someone who isn't bright and whose magic is just pure, explosive brute force... as expected, am I the idiot here?

Chapter 021, Erol, Who Set the Mountains on Fire!

Rimuru didn't dwell on things with Aozaki Aoko for too long, because he always felt that if he stayed with her too long, he would become stupid too. So, after quickly shooing her away, he dove back into the ocean of knowledge. To him, this magical knowledge was quite interesting.

There was less than a week left until the start of the semester. At that time, besides taking care of a large group of new students who needed five years of basic education as a lecturer for general foundation subjects, he would also have to enter different departments and the Academic City to teach as a professor. He might even be chosen by students and have his own main classroom.

To be honest, Rimuru was quite excited at first, but later, when he thought about how there weren't many familiar plot characters to teach during this time period... his enthusiasm cooled down, and he became indifferent to the students' choices.

Looking at the three disciples he had already earmarked—the five-year-old silver-haired little witch Erol, the infant Reines, and... the yet-to-be-born Tohsaka Sakura.

Tsk.

Each one was more of a headache than the last.

But if you said he had no disciples? That wouldn't be right either!

Because for a personal disciple who would generally inherit their master's Magic Crest, Rimuru's students had already reached the current average limit, which was three. This meant that unless Rimuru wanted all his disciples to walk the path of creating their own factions to prevent infighting and mutual slaughter, it was best to give up the idea of taking on more disciples.

Of course, raising a personal disciple from a young age wasn't a problem, but...

Forget it, let's just look forward to the students...

Rimuru sighed. Since he was a professor, how could he justify not having two pretty girl student assistants?

Although Liddell might be dissatisfied because of this... but! A true warrior never fears or retreats before power!

"Slimes actually don't have a gender, if you really want to..."

"Shut your mouth!"

Slimes indeed don't have a gender, but at least Rimuru believed that the essence of a person shouldn't be judged by their body, but by their soul.

"And the essence of my soul is definitely that of a straight-as-steel man!"

"But without hormone secretion... even if you mimic it, it won't get hard... right?"

"..."

Rimuru fell silent and quietly picked up a book to read.

Suddenly, he felt a bit... like crying.

In the evening, just as Rimuru finished recording knowledge and was preparing to leave, a fragrant breeze suddenly wafted over. He saw Liddell swinging her two pink pigtails as she rushed in, throwing herself beside Rimuru nervously. "It's bad, Rimuru, Aoko exploded again!"

"Exploded?" Rimuru was stunned, then said helplessly, "She's a human-shaped launcher; isn't it normal for her to explode? Just have the Dean put a Sealing Designation on her—"

Anyway, even if she blew up all of London, the world couldn't do anything to her, since she was a Magician after all...

"It's different this time." Liddell grabbed Rimuru's hand and pulled him toward the exit, rushing, "The problem is that Erol was with her when she blew up the hunting grounds!!"

"Erol?" Huh, isn't that the precious disciple I was just thinking about?

Rimuru was slightly stunned, then jumped up abruptly: "Holy crap!!"

"You tell me, who thought it was a good idea to let Aozaki Aoko babysit?! Can she even handle it?!"

"I just saw that she was bored, and Erol happened to be clamoring to go out and play..." Liddell turned her head to the side helplessly, looking aggrieved. "Who knew Aoko was so terrifying!"

The two got into a car and rushed to the scene—

"The place that was blown up is the Phantom Hunting Ground of the Gaiusling Academic City—"

"The Chimera hunting ground?" Rimuru's mouth twitched as he suddenly said, "I remember that's a Reality Marble consisting of several mountains, right?"

"...Yeah."

"Should we just not go?" Rimuru suddenly had a headache and slapped his forehead. "Setting mountains on fire leads to a prison sentence; I'm afraid if I go, I'll get a Sealing Designation too..."

Clock Tower, Department of Zoology - Department of Chimera.

Academic City is an academic hub located in the suburbs of London, where a Reality Marble covers the entire hidden world, exuding a rather natural and rustic atmosphere.

The masters of this domain are the Gaiusling family.

Compared to the Department of Botany, the Department of Chimera is responsible not only for the research of various magical beasts and Phantasmal Species along with their related magecraft, but also for providing the Clock Tower with necessary materials, as well as providing support for hunting and tracking.

It is one of the wealthiest academic cities, second only to the Department of Mineralogy.

And now, this fertile field had been blown up by someone!

Worse yet, it was blown up by the apprentice of Rimuru... the very person he had staunchly supported during the meeting!

"..." When Rimuru arrived at the scene, the Lord of Gaiusling nodded to the two of them with a dark expression, but the resentful gaze he cast made Rimuru feel a chill down his spine.

The Dean's familiar avatar had already arrived; covered in black shadows, his expression was impossible to discern, but Rimuru guessed it certainly couldn't be anything good.

At this moment, Aozaki Aoko and the silver-haired dumpling, one big and one small, were obediently hanging their heads while receiving a lecture from the Dean. Aozaki Aoko was doing fine; not only was she honestly admitting her mistake, but she was also promising to try her best to find a way to compensate for the losses of the Department of Zoology.

As for Eler, the little one was pitifully placing her small hands behind her bottom, twisting and turning with her head bowed, her eyes darting around. Suddenly, upon seeing Rimuru arrive, she immediately lifted her head and let out an excited cry: "Teacher!"

Then, she opened her little legs and scurried over, diving headfirst into Rimuru's arms and nuzzling against him.

She was clearly trying to use her cuteness to get away with it!!

Seeing this posture, Rimuru thought, she's quite experienced... is it really okay that this clearly hasn't happened just once or twice?

"..." Rimuru glanced at Liddell, who immediately turned her head away with a guilty look. Clearly, she had spoiled this little one quite a bit, which was why she had become so lawless—

"The losses of Gaiusling will be jointly covered by Tempest and Achelotte. As for Aozaki Aoko..." Rimuru sighed and spoke directly: "You should try to save some money for Aoko Aozaki's acquaintance."

"Ugh..." Upon hearing this, Aozaki Aoko widened her eyes, but seeing the Dean turn around, she quickly shrank her head back, not daring to make a sound.

"Even if the losses are covered, you cannot act recklessly. Accountability is necessary."