"Yoriichi, I want to take the final test."
"No." - The 609th time Yoriichio refuse this request off Rimuru.
Rimuru bites his lip while speeding up to block Yoriichi's way. He repeats every words of his request firmly, yet his tone suddenly turns soft:
"Yoi... I won't fight, won't make troubles, won't use my abilities, will remember everything you say... please let me do the final test!!"
Yoriichi sits down, asking with a serious face:
"Why do you want to become a slayer? Did someone angered you?"
"No!" - Rimuru shook his head. As long as it wasn't about Yoriichi, he would let it slide. But after sometimes, they start changing the target to him. It wasn't anything big... but...
They said Rimuru was useless and would make Yoriichi's figure bad... Rimuru would never tell Yoriichi about these stuffs so now we have a scene of Rimuru pleading Yoriichi.
"Yoi! I won't join the frontlines, I'll be in the support team. SUPPORT!!"(sorry if I translated wrong from the English version of Kny)
Supports or supporters, speaks highly, are the people who support the frontlines of the Demons layers. But to put simple, they're errands.
'No." - The 610th time getting refused.
Rimuru grinds his teeth as he jumps up, runs way. Before getting out of the door, he turns back and yells:
"I've already signed up!!! Isora's also accepted!!! You can't stop me now!!!!"
"..." Seeing Rimuru now has gone... Yoriichi suddenly knows how it's felt to have a disobedient child...
The test for supports is not as hard as the test for slayers, but it isn't easy either...
Rimuru has to go through a training program including strength training, endurance training, and flexibility training in order to participate in the emergency situation. Standing in front of the training area, Rimuru steps in with determination burning in his eyes. He will make it!!!
Later that night...
Getting impatient of waiting for Rimuru, Yoriichi went out looking for him, only to find him lifelessly lying against a tree. Yoriichi turns pale:
"Rimuru??!"
Rimuru slowly opens his eyes. After recognizing the familiar voice, he closes his eyes again. Guess karma hits hard: The people that he provoked and insulted are the examiner of the test.
Rimuru lying lifelessly in Yoriichi's arms...
Training with Yoriichi makes him very durable but those people kept on distracting him. And the result of couldn't staying concentrate is this...
From mistakes in moving, to overused strength... full of pick hollers and unfair punishment. Some even wanted to pick a fight with him.
What the heck??! Am I not the most excellent student of Yoriichi's?!
Rimuru's exhausted, lying lifelessly on Yoriichi's back... Now the strongest slayer is having to carry his excellent student back home...
He doesn't say anything, knowing that there is no use in scolding this brat... Rimuru's good in everything... if you excluded his stubbornness.
"Rimuru, why do you want to join the supporters?"
"..." - No answer...
Yoriichi thought he has slept already so he stays silence, the moonlight gently shines their way...
Yoi... I know you're worried about me... but I can't always rely on you and be called 'useless'...
They can insult him how many times they want... but if they involve Yoi... it won't be left alone...
The next day...
Rimuru stands in front of the training area. Some days later and this place will become the testing area... he can't give up here...
Even without his elemental power, his strength and reacting speed is still ways better than most of the frontlines slayers...
Can keep up with Yoriichi's training, Rimuru isn't normal from the start...
"Yo~ still taking your useless butt here?" - the laughs start filling the air. Rimuru's expression remains the same, he has expected this kind of welcome.
These are the people that would pull the higher people down below them... they won't be hesitated in using dirty tricks... Oyakata-sama's bialy treatments toward Rimuru had breed the jealous in them. But today... he will prove them wrong... prove that his power is equal to those treatments... He will break those people who dared to doubt it.
"..."
Later that afternoon... Rimuru slowly steps out of the training area, his expression remains the same as in the morning...
"..."
Like last time... Yoriichi is there, waiting for him. Rimuru smiles brightly as he saw that familiar figure:
"Yoi!! Have you been waiting long? Why didn't you call me?"
Yoriichi carefully checks Rimuru... no dirt, no wound...
Rimuru smirks, looking back at the training area:
"Wory not, I knew the limits"
"... Let's go..."
Rimuru happily nods, then they start walking back home...
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"Rimuru, are you free? I want to talk about something"
"..." - Rimuru looks at where the voice comes from in shocked, so shocked that the rice cookies in his hand falls down to the ground. He still even kept his mouth-opening position for another while...
"Rimuru...?"
Rimuru hurriedly shut his mouth, taking back his dull expression. He then immediately bow in front of that person"
"Oyakata-sama!"
Isora, seeing Rimuru's lifely expressions, can only laugh:
"Did I bother you?"
Rimuru shook his head panicky. He asks in nervous:
"Do... Do you perhaps need anything from me...?"
Rimuru says while carefully checking the surrounding... none is here excepted them...
Isora smiles and shook his head:
"I didn't let them follow me. I want to talk with you in private"
Rimuru looks at the boy's eyes... We can't disagree... that Rimuru is very good at reading others' emotions. Despite loosing his memories, this ability is still in hịm.
Rimuru immediately throws all of those manners into the trash can. He stands up, walks toward the back yard while bringing the tea and cookies with him...
Isora slowly follows him. They sit face to face with each other... like two old friends...
"Rimuru... you're different from the others... they always kneel in front of me... making it hard to talk..."
Rimuru pours some tea into Isora's cup, gently smiles:
"Then today is an exception"
The boy pauses for a bit then suddenly looks at Rimuru with a serious expression:
"Rimuru, when we're alone, can you call me by my name...? Like I call you Rimuru?"
Rimuru thought that he was going to say something serious, now laughs in relief:
"Can I, Oyakata-sama...?"
"Um..."
Rimuru thought for a while then slowly turning his face toward's Isora's... the golden pupils stare right at the yellows:
"Isora...?"
"..." - Isora's eyes sparkle, he nod happily...
"Yes! it's Isora!"
The boy who has gotten special treatments and at the same time, has carrried a very heavy responsibility since he was a little kid...
He's never had a real friend...
But since that time when the boy with silver-bluish hair appeared in his dreams... Isora, for the first time, has wished for this friendship
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none would be mad because I disappeared for 3 days, right?
hope not... my schedule in this hellhole is strict as f...