"I've got you know. Yuuki."
**
Yuuki immediately tries to distance himself from Rimuru, to which, Rimuru doesn't let him easily do.
Yuuki continues on trying to free himself, punching, kicking, anything he could do to Rimuru to get him free. However, not a single one had any effect at all.
Rimuru on the contrary, sits and glares at Yuuki like he was looking at a defective product. It almost seemed as Rimuru hadn't noticed Yuuki was attacking at all.
"Boss!"
A clowned masked person cried out.
"Laplace!? Stay back!" Yuuki screamed.
It seems that Yuuki's companions, had noticed the sudden change of events taking place. With the first one to come out was Laplace, the others soon began to follow up as well.
"What's going on, Boss?" Tear asked.
Tear is a masked majin, a little girl dressed in clown like attire.
"Damn it, get away from here, now!"
It was impressive that Yuuki could converse with his friends, while being held down by Rimuru. Not long after, the gravity of the situation started to kick in.
Not one of them could make a single move, for Rimuru's dominant presence sealed them in place.
"Ah... what was it again, Yada yada Alliance? It seems that all of it's members, excluding the dead Clayman is here."
"What...? How do you know about the Alliance!" Laplace shouted.
"Simple, thank's to that brain dead of a demon lord, I had plenty of time to investigate all of you."
Amidst Rimuru's sentence, Yuuki tries to free himself again. But, Rimuru just slams Yuuki's head on the floor, and proceeds to stand up and step on his head to castrate him.
"Boss!"
Footman, not wanting to bear anymore, charged at Rimuru with murderous intentions.
"Are you sure, so can I take that as you're consent to death?" Rimuru asked.
Yuuki proceeds to pop his head out with all his might, trying to warn Footman was his first priority now.
"Footman, stop! Don't come near this monster!"
I'd rather kill them all right now, but I'm not so sure that a quick and easy way, such as death, would be a fitting punishment.
Oh god, I'm starting to sound like those torturous maniacs that I saw on Anime's and Manga's.
Either way, they're all stuck there, afraid to move. I might've been able to laugh, but my anger prevents me from doing so.
"Now then, might I ask you something, Yuuki?" I asked in a polite manner, but my tone was quite the polar opposite.
"Why, why did you want to capture Chloe and Shizue? Are you that foolish?"
Yuuki was a clever one, so I assumed he'd be counter attacking my words by now, but it seems I was wrong. I gotta hand it to him, he's clever enough to know he can't do anything against me.
The other fools are on the verge of crying out and lashing at me, should I intimidate them? Yes, let's do just that.
I'll release Dragon Spirit Aura, onto these guys to make them feel futility.
"Answer, me, why?"
"......."
Still giving me the silent treatment are we? Then I shall show you despair.
I lift my foot up, to which he immediately tries to escape. He rolled his body, and fired an explosive magic at me. It wasn't aimed at me specifically, but instead, he used it so he could propel himself backwards.
Once Yuuki was free, they began to flee.
"Do you honestly think you can run from me, Yuuki?"
**
"Boss, what was that!" Laplace asked.
"I don't know, but it's best if we let him handle Rimuru."
"That's impossible, our bargaining chip is already gone, why would 'he' listen to us now?"
Laplace was right, one of the reasons for capturing Chloe, was to earn the co-operation of a certain demon lord.
"Still. Chloe is what 'he' wanted, and Rimuru has her now, we could use that as an excuse for the time being."
Yuuki knew that Rimuru was powerful, perhaps even more powerful than 'him'. Even so, he decided that 'he' would fair better against Rimuru.
If Rimuru was using skill's, then perhaps Yuuki could work his way around Rimuru and fight him.
But what Rimuru displayed just now, was purely brute strength. No skill involved whatsoever. Furthermore, when he fired that explosion earlier, it wasn't an ordinary explosion just to help him escape.
That attacked was compromised of Yuuki's best technique and a huge chunk of his magicules.
Yet Rimuru took it head on, not even leaving a single scratch at all. That's why he decided to escape, but even he knew even that it was pointless too.
"Ah!"
The moment they exited the facility, Tear disappeared. Yuuki desperately tried to find her, but to no avail.
"Yuuki, listen here, I don't know what the hell crossed your dead brain. But if you try to capture my friends again..."
Rimuru appeared in the sky, holding Tear by the collar. Yuuki stiffens, thinking of ways to free Tear.
Rimuru raised his sword with swift movement at Tear, with full intentions to slice Tear's head off. But before he could make contact—
"Wait!"
Rimuru's blade stops right before Tear's neck, which sends Tear shivering in fear.
"So, want to speak up now?"
"...I was requested to capture Chloe, Shizue only got caught up in it."
Yuuki wasn't particularly acquainted with Rimuru in this timeline. On the other hand, Rimuru knew all about Yuuki's twisted personality, cunning tactics and so on.
"Is that so, then I assume, that the one who requested you to capture Chloe, was Demon Lord Leon, am I right?"
For the first time, Yuuki showed genuine concern on his face.
How did he know? Who told him that Leon was the one who requested it?
Such questions swarmed Yuuki's mind.
"If you're wondering how I know, the answer itself lies within Chloe. Other than that, I simply know everything."
"Hyaa!"
Then, as if popping out from nowhere, Kagali appeared behind Rimuru preparing a diagonal slash toward Rimuru.
"Fool! Don't—"
Rimuru decided to discard the now unconscious Tear, and threw her toward Kagali. Kagali had a sword ready to strike Rimuru, and she couldn't draw it back in time, so, the sword ended up cutting Tear.
**
I decided to throw Tear away, because of a certain upcoming problem. Seriously, I just wanted to teach Yuuki a lesson, but more trouble had to have appear, great.
But now that I think about it, why would Yuuki do this? He wasn't like this before, he'd just take advantage of other people and manipulate them when their backs are turned towards him.
He didn't actually kidnap Chloe back then, maybe that was because I was protecting them. Did he take action because I wasn't the one protecting them?
Maybe that's the case, but that doesn't mean Shizue was a failure at protecting them. I, personally think that Shizue's strength surpasses that of Benimaru's.
"What's going on, Yuuki, where's Chloe?"
"Oh. If it isn't Demon Lord Leon, well, I'm afraid to say that that person there, had taken Chloe to someplace I don't know."
Leon, who feels perplexed by his words, looked at me, surprising him as he does so.
But what I didn't expect, was the person accompanying him.
"Oh ho, so Rimuru's involved in you're situation huh, Leon. This is quite the interesting turn of events!"
"Guy..." I muttered.
Goddammit, why is everything such a hassle! I still have some anger left for Yuuki, but what would happen if the two get involved. I genuinely don't want to find out, but if a fight breaks out, god knows who'll be able to stop me.