Chapter 24: Chapter 23 - Nonagram
Karma Uzumaki's POV
Frey and Karion stepped down and become Milim's subordinates.
Finally, this will actually be a banquet.
Or so I thought...
「Hahaha. All right! Then today onwards, Karion and Frey are no longer demon lords. You should have served Milim from the beginning」
Guy declares so with a laugh.
Nobody presents voiced an objection.
Naturally, I too, have no objection.
Thus, Rimuru's and my Ascension as a demon lord has formally been approved.
At the same time, the three demon lords were expelled, one was given eternal death, and the other two are now direct subordinates of Milim.
The Ten Great Demon Lords is currently down to The Nine Great Demon Lords.
「I see, it's not the Ten Great Demon Lords anymore 」 Rimuru murmured.
At this, the demon lords reacted jumpily.
「Disturbing huh. For the sake of our dignity, we must think of a new name.」
Dagruel had brought up such an issue.
Eh? Is that really important?
「Fortunately, we're in the middle of the Walpurgis Banquet. All the demon lords are gathered here, so there is an abundance of wisdom floating about」
Ruminas made a serious Aizuchi.
(Door-kun: aizuchi = frequent interjections during a conversation that indicate the listener is paying attention or understands the speaker. In linguistic terms, these are a form of phatic expression.)
(No, I didn't f#ckin typed these, google go... BRRR.)
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Rimuru Tempest's POV
Oi... it doesn't matter our name is.
Besides, the humans already named us without our permission in the first place.
「Didn't the previous "Ten Great Demon Lords" took about 3 months to decide? I'm already burned out. I don't have any more energy to think~」
No no... You probably didn't think even before you burned out.
I've been thinking hard up till now! That's not what it looks like.
Or rather, why did it take 3 months to think up such a name!
Or rather, what I really want to say is...demon lords seem to have a lot of free time...
What I heard, is that during those 3 months the name "Ten Great Demon Lords" had already taken root amongst the humans.
In the end, it was decided to go with that name, but the needed assent wasn't obtained.
「Calm down you lot. It's times like these where we need to cooperate and get over it!」
These are the words of Guy.
「Eh? Nine Great...」
And, he silenced his surrounding with a wordless, oppressive silence.
「That's right. Now, it's as Guy said! Give it your all everyone! 」 Ramiris restated.
「Wait, I'm in this too? 」 karma suddenly stated.
「Umu? What do you possibly mean? 」 dragule asked.
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There was a slight pause before...
「I'm just a passing through demon lord.
I would probably travel here and there, and even go out from this world.
I won't be that much active dattebane, I don't even have land or country to rule」 Karma said in a bored manner.
out from this world??!! what??!
「Isn't that alright? I freeloaded at dragule's place. Not to mention, you Clayman'se Clayman's territory」 Dino said
OI! none of you going to question that!?
「building a country huh... well I guess I could give it a try...」 karma murmured.
It was then, when I saw Guy grow a smirk of mischief.
「Great! Then Clayman's territory will be given to you! 」
Such line came out from Guy as the whole room got silent indicating that there's no room for objection as karma glared at guy before staying in silence.
「Hey! We still have to decide our names!!!」 Ramisis shouted.
「Is that name really important? Rather... what are we? Power rangers??」 karma asked in confusion.
「Of course!!! It will drive those stupid humans away!!!」 Ramiris shouted.
Power rangers!!??
Ugh... As I thought... karma you're...
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Apparently, not all of the demon lords were convinced.
And just to make things worse...
「Wahahahaha! I'm leaving it all to you guys! 」
「I have no interest in this matter. I leave it to you」
Immediately, a few people had already started to interfere with the already fragmented cooperation between demon lords.
As expected of demon lords.
I thought it would be impossible to cooperate in the first place, and it seems like it really is.
Furthermore, when the atmosphere was about to get even more awkward,
「Oh, if that's the case, then this is the specialty of my friend Rimuru! 」
Behind my back, Veldora had said such a thing when he began to get bored.
Tsk, and I thought he would be fine as long as he keeps reading manga when such an event occurs.
Reading the mood, he turns his head back to his manga.
However, there was someone who nodded in response to Veldora's words.
「That reminds me, it was you who named my subordinate! 」 It's Ramiris.
"It's not even your servant" is what I wanted to say, but now's not the time for this.
But this person... I caught a glimpse of her intentions showing, only to disappear right after.
If you don't insert the interlocking nails, it'll soon be too late.
Well, I don't really mind...but it's up to Baretta's intentions.
Looking around, the demon lord's expectation-filled gazes are now all focused on me.
「maa~ you did name every single monster subordinates you have...」
Karma rubbed his chin.
Karma??!! You too!??
Oh no... the encircling net has already been cast.
Winking to each other, Guy says...
「Today, Rimuru has been recognized as a new Demon Lord.
I think I would like to give you a wonderful privilege.
Yes! The privilege to give us a new name!
Receiving such a great honor, you will naturally accept it, will you not? 」
This is a wheedling voice.
And I remained silent, neither accepting nor rejecting,
「And besides, you are the reason why our numbers decreased. Take responsibility and think of a name already! 」
Suddenly out came an intimidating tone, what about karma though!??
This is going to be troublesome.
「I get it already. Goodness sake, don't complain if you don't like the name.」 I replied.
The demon lords, now at ease with their faces filled with smiles.
Well then, this guy has high standing.
There are nine demon lords, Nine Great Demon Lords is probably fine, but I have a feeling this wouldn't do.
Earlier, Ramiris think Nine Great Demon Lords is fine right?
I was about to say it, but the intimidating glares from my surroundings made me forget all about it.
Rejected.
Now what...
「hmm~ does anyone know 'star' and 'nine' in other languages???」 I asked.
The room got more silent. until...
「Etto... if I'm not wrong... For the 'star'...
In Portuguese, it was 『Estrela』
In Romanian, it was 『Stea』
And in Latin, it was... 『stella』」
karma murmured while his hands were on his chin.
As I thought... he might be from earth!!
I need to ask him later!
I thought staring at him.
「What is it? 」 he turns his head to me.
「wha-no! Nothing! You know a lot, huh...」 I stated as I turned away...
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Karma Uzumaki's POV
「what about... Nine-star demon lord」(Rimuru)
「you're not going to use my translations huh...」(Karma)
「well, all of them were too long, so...」(Rimuru)
「Well then, for short why not "Kyuukakukei". It means "Nine corners form". Even though I translate it from the word "Nonagram"...」 (karma)
「Iye iye! (No no) "Kyuukakukei" is too long! I would at least pick "octagram" Since it sounds cool, but that's means "8 corners form"!!! "Nonagram" sounds weird! 」 (Rimuru)
「Haaaaa!?? That's why I stated "kyuukakukei"! Rather, calling ourselves "nine-star demon lords" everywhere we goes made my tongue cramped it would sleep on its work time! 」
I exclaimed, turning my head to him.
「It may not sleep if you don't use it to shout so much!!!
And also... if otherworlders know Japanese, they would've found out what it means immediately!
And would probably laugh at it!!」
Rimuru countered, we both has our "game-on" faces staring at each other.
We banter each other as I could hear... "Wow, look at them go..." from the demon lords' directions.
Surprisingly, this felt good.
Our banter felt so... nostalgic.
Even though we're arguing, I can see rimuru smirking as I feel my lips corners go up too.
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「Stelar! It means has the shape of a star! 」
「I know what it means! It's too long! 」
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「Nonagram」
It sounds weird.
But that's what we decided on after an episode of our banter.
Both of us have an inner disagreement, but...
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Rimuru Tempest's POV
「It's decided. A splendid name」
「Don't think you have won yet, a new era is upon us! 」
「I thought so! If it's Rimuru, I believed she can do it! 」
「As expected indeed! Bwahahaha! 」
「Hmph, I'll acknowledge this, just a little. 」
「In just an hour! Wow. The last one took three months! 」
There weren't any objections.
That's great.
Even if anyone objects, I'm going to make that person think of a name instead.
And besides, I just heard it.
'What have you lot been doing in those three months'
I thought while I saw karma's huge sweatdropped, Thinking the same thing as me, probably.
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Karma Uzumaki's POV
Currently, I'm "cleaning" out my territory.
I met Clayman's subordinates and teach them some lessons.
They're just low-class devils and some of them are controlled with Puppeteer too.
But due to Clayman's death, the skill broke.
All the dolls made by Clayman are now empty.
No souls and everything has gone. Some others were reported KIA, for example... adalman, and yamza.
Maa~ In reality, changed side to Tempest
But here's the thing about his territory... there's no single citizen.
Everything was run by dolls and slaves.
Man, this is scary... I can no longer see this anymore...
So after freeing the slaves which are low leveled majins and monsters... I blew off the territory...
What?
There's no single living organism there, so why not hit them with a Kamehameha?
Dolls are scarier than real ghosts, Especially when they move without consent.
I don't wanna see Clayman's scary dolls ever again.
Waters from the sea starts filing the MASSIVE crater I made.
Let's change its landscapes, shall we?
First, I will change it to a flat landscape... and then, I would just go and put 2 mountains facing the sunset.
Behind it will be my country.
What kind of country am I making you asked?
Well, as much as I already know what's my specialty... let's make a hidden ninja village!!
DING*
≪would you like to buy skill 『Mokuton』? ≫
YES!
DING*
≪Skill 『Mokuton』 has been acquired≫
Now then... let's start, shall we?
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There we go... my hidden village is now surrounded by mountain craters and greeneries.
With simple fuinjutsu, it'll make it hidden for good.
But now I need citizens.
Where could I find them?
Sigh... I'll decide that later, I guess...
After scrolling so much in the market, I bought 『Chakra Fruit』 from the item store and eat it.
BUT!
I don't want to be overpowered too much myself... or else I would get nerf stupidly like that imagine breaker by the system!
So...
I will eat it, but I will not draw power from this thing.
In other words, I'll put this in Imaginary space.
But I do scan it and reject all the energy that will change my looks.
Like, having stupidly pale skin, horns, or... having a third eye.
I scanned it as I found Rinnegan particles in it.
Well, NOPE. Two eyes' enough for me thank you very much.
I could just use null energy to replace the chakra needed to change the landscape.
Trees appeared as I used mokuton powered by null energy.
I made a cave with two ends on the mountains.
It will be our escape route as this is a ninja village after all.
Trees have rooted and formed a forest.
I went too far though... it kinda formed like the forest of death now...
Eh, that won't matter!
I call zel who's 'farming' ghost inside my ID.
Yes, I managed to give him 『Create ID』.
But of course, he can only enter some IDs.
I told zel about protected space and other stuff too.
But I didn't get to give him 『Escape ID』 yet, so I let him Hiraishined to me every time he finishes.
Now that I think about it, this 『Gamer system』is absolutely different from Jihan's system...
After my harvest festival, no notifs about quests are announced.
I am worried that I can't do gacha anymore...
「You have called, my liege? 」 Zel said while appearing in a blue flash.
「Ah yes... let's go to tempest. You need to take a break, and so do I.」
「a break, my liege? 」
「Yes」
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「And, your reason for being here is...」 Rimuru said.
「We came to play」 I said flatly.
Rimuru blinked.
「don't you have a territory to manage?」 He asked.
「It was on hold, you see... that Claywho guy's kingdom is a western-style kingdom, moreover... there are no living beings there.
Only dolls and some of the 10 people clay who controlled.
I killed them because they keep on badmouthing me」
「okay... but that doesn't explain why you're still here」
「Well... 」 I paused.
「I obliterated it, Jistav is no more, every single building and landscape turned to dust」
Rimuru spits some of his tea surprised.
「YOU WHAT?!」
「Hey chill, I'm not going to call myself a king anyway.
Being called a "ruler" is enough. So, I've been going around changing jistav's landscape for this couple of months」
I said flatly.
There was a slight pause before...
「...is that even possible???」(Rimuru)
「I can make trees go crazy. If you ever try to visit, you'll see trees tall as skyscrapers. My village will be in the middle. 」(Karma)
「A village...」 rimuru repeated in a disbelieving tone.
「yup, a "hidden" ninja village. By the way...」 I paused looking at rimuru's office corner.
「You had improved, but you forget to animate that pot of plant behind you, souei. 」
I said to souei that I caught from flaring my chakra rather than universal detect.
That was a lie, that pot of plant was actually my henged bunshin.
Souei has improved but without knowledge of chakra, to me, it's just child's play.
「eh? 」 Rimuru turns his head to the corner.
Souei appeared as he turns his body around.
He saw a small pot of green plants on the table.
He took the plants and observe them.
「Well of course, if the bait is obvious. Don't take it」
I said as the plant dispersed in white smokes.
Souei flinched as he turns his body to stare at me.
「Anyway, I'll be around if you need me. That's why ciao-ssu」 I said leaving.
「wait! 」 I stopped and turn around.
「You're considered a guest. You're an important guy now, I need to know where you live at least. 」
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「can't I just come back to that inn I've rented 2 months ago??」
「Absolutely not!!
That inn was blown off and we didn't get to fix it yet!
Not to mention, I won't allow you to 'rent' an inn, you're also a demon lord you know!
Also, there's a probability that the Western church will announce war so I won't say this is an ideal place to stay...」
He said, somewhat sadly.
「sigh... Then, where will you be letting me stay? Your house???」 I asked flatly.
In my response, Rimuru freeze.
Was he really that stressed with paperwork?
I should probably complete that Mana Bunshin I ever made.
Analyzing Kage bunshin was hard enough before, but now I could probably do it.
「F-Fine! I-if you insist, I'll let you stay at my home! 」
You sound like a tsundere, and that cute face doesn't change anything either.
Rimuru... what's up with you actually... I tilted my head at this.
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To be Continued.
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