Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

"Hey ~ Veldera, you just said you were sealed, right?"

Looking at Veldera, who was as excited as a child in front of him, Rimuru deeply sighed. The domineering and ferocious image of Veldera from before had completely changed in his mind, turning into a lonely and chuuni dragon.

"Good question! That was three hundred years ago. I accidentally burned a city to ashes. Then, someone came to讨伐me. I underestimated them a bit at the time. Even so, I used my true abilities midway, but I still lost."

Hearing Rimuru inquire about his affairs, the storm dragon Veldera revealed a hint of pride and self-satisfaction on his face. Even when talking about his defeat, he still crossed his dragon claws at his waist, raised his head high, and looked like 'I am the strongest'.

"Veldera, you look so strong. Was your opponent that powerful?"

Rimuru looked at Veldera's proud face. Although he didn't understand why he was defeated and sealed here, he could still show a proud and self-satisfied expression. However, Rimuru had never doubted the power of the storm dragon in front of him. Ever since obtaining 【Magic Perception】, Rimuru, who could see magic essence, had clearly seen that the magic essence permeating the air was flowing out of Veldera's body.

"Yes, very powerful. It was a human hero who received 【Blessing】, who defeated me with the unique skill 【Absolute Severance】, and then sealed me with 【Infinite Prison】."

Veldera recalled the human hero who had defeated him in his mind. It could be said that he was the strongest human he had ever encountered.

"Is this glowing thing 【Infinite Prison】?"

Rimuru looked at the circular glowing body that surrounded Veldera, and asked curiously.

"That's right, that hero called himself [Summoner]."

Veldera nodded and stretched out his dragon claw to stroke 【Infinite Prison】, which had trapped him for three hundred years. Even he couldn't break it from the inside. Moreover, because of the power of 【Infinite Prison】, the amount of magic essence in his body had been flowing out continuously for hundreds of years, and the amount of magic essence in his body had dropped to the limit.

If this continued, in less than a hundred years, he would die in 【Infinite Prison】.

"[Summoner]? Is it different from people from other worlds?"

After hearing the new title of [Summoner], Rimuru instinctively felt that it was an existence similar to himself, and instinctively began to ask questions.

"Well, that is an existence summoned from another world by more than thirty magicians through a ritual lasting several days, and the summoner is also the most powerful 'weapon'."

"Weapon?"

Veldera looked at Rimuru, who didn't understand, slowly closed his eyes, and continued to speak.

"The weapon of the summoner. In order to prevent the summoner from disobeying orders, the summoner will use magic to engrave a curse in its soul."

"What! Isn't it too much to do this?"

Opposite him, upon hearing that [Summoners] were being used as weapons and controlled by engraving curses in their souls, Rimuru directly jumped up and down in anger. For him, who used to be an ordinary member of society, this kind of thing was simply too much... Although he was completely unaware that he, who had been a member of society, was actually similar to a [Summoner], being exploited every day, and at most had a little more freedom than the [Summoner].

"Too much? Although I don't know what your original world was like, in this world, the law of the jungle is the absolute truth. Everything of the weak can only be dominated by the strong, and only the strong can have everything."

Veldera was slightly stunned when he heard Rimuru's words, and his eyes became serious as he looked at Rimuru, telling the most essential truth of this world.

"Is that so... Then you were sealed by the hero and have been staying here?"

After hearing Veldera's words, Rimuru fell silent. After a few seconds, Rimuru raised his head, looked at Veldera, and continued to ask.

"That's right, it's really boring."

After saying that, Veldera's entire dragon became lost. For three hundred years, he had been alone in the cave, without any life to communicate with. Facing the dark cave and the silent rocks every day had long made his heart extremely lonely.

'I'm already quite lonely after not having a lover for thirty-seven years. How lonely must it be to be alone for three hundred years...'

Looking at the lost Veldera, Rimuru couldn't help but think of his lonely life in his previous life. That kind of loneliness, the feeling of having no one to confide in, instantly made him feel sorry for Veldera in front of him.

"Okay! Then, will you be my friend?"

The next second, Rimuru jumped forward and looked at the storm dragon Veldera in front of him and asked. Since he had been lonely for three hundred years, then as long as he became his friend, then he would no longer be lonely.

"What! You, a slime, want to be friends with the storm dragon feared by people... become friends with me?"

The moment he heard Rimuru's words, Veldera raised his head and looked at Rimuru in disbelief. You must know that as a disaster-class powerhouse, he, known as the storm dragon, had always been feared by all beings. Now, a slime actually wants to be his friend.

"If you don't... if you don't want to, then forget it."

Looking at the excited Veldera, Rimuru thought that he disliked him for being just a mere slime, and quickly said that it was okay if he didn't want to.

"I... idiot! I didn't say I didn't want to!"

Looking at the nervous Rimuru, Veldera threw his head to the side, and his originally majestic voice became shy and awkward. How could he not want to? This was the first being since he was born who wanted to be his friend.

Even if it was a slime, he didn't care at all!

"Is that so? Then how about it?"

"If you insist... I can consider it."

"Yeah, I insist, it's decided. If you don't want to, we'll break up, and I won't come again."

Looking at Veldera's coy appearance in front of him, Rimuru couldn't help but complain in his heart, 'Tsundere'. But he was already familiar with how to deal with tsundere, after all, he didn't play so many dating games for nothing.

And just as Rimuru had expected, the tsundere dragon opposite him agreed to this matter as soon as he finished speaking.

"Then, from now on, we are friends!"

Inside the dark cave, Rimuru stretched out his sky-blue arm and gently touched the dragon claw. From then on, the weakest monster, Rimuru, and the strongest monster, the disaster-class storm dragon, forged their friendship.

"Speaking of which, it's too pitiful for a friend to be sealed here alone for three hundred years."

The next second, Rimuru looked at 【Infinite Prison】 sealing Veldera. After all, they were friends now, how could Rimuru let him continue to be sealed here alone.

"You..."

Opposite him, after hearing the concern from his friend, Veldera's originally majestic dragon eyes became watery, and he looked at Rimuru with emotion.

'Staring at me with such watery eyes, it would be fine if it was a cute girl, but a dragon is really...'

Looking at Veldera's watery eyes, Rimuru couldn't help but start complaining in his heart. After all, it was too strange for a dragon to look at him with that kind of eyes!