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Rimuru had stopped trying a long time ago. 

All he could do now was float in this endless abyss he found himself in. How many years has it been? One Hundred…One Thousand….One million? Does it even matter anymore? What exactly did he gain from tracking time? 

He heard from Ciel that the what he called "The All" had been remade from the constant leakage of his magicules, but he wanted no part in it. He only made those around him suffer, so he would spare them from ever having to meet a shattered mirror like himself. Eventually, some beings had transcended omnipotence, so he created a group of these beings called the 'Transcendental Ten'.

Beforehand, he wanted to at least have someone manage these infinite new realities. That’s why he made copies of some ultimate skills and evolved them into Manas’. His Eldest was Azathoth, the manas created from the “God of Void” ultimate skill. His second was called Yog-Sothoth, created from the ultimate skill that Chloe had in the past. They became the gods that ruled the All from the shadows. Eventually, Azathoth had created his child who just called himself “God”. Not exactly the most creative name Rimuru had heard, but it was God’s choice to make, not his own. 

God eventually had his children, which he called the “Angels”. Once they were created, God followed a similar path to Rimuru and let his creations decide on what to make. Much to Rimuru’s surprise, they created humanity again. It looks like no matter what, humans will always exist no matter how many times reality would come back. The higher-ranking angels did everything in their power to keep the darkness out of the newly created humans. Rimuru personally did not agree with this, the humans that existed only followed rules and had only a pseudo-free will. However, one mid-ranking seraphim caught Rimuru’s attention. His name was Lucifer, and he had high hopes for humanity. Funny enough Lucifer had the closest to Rimuru’s own ideals. But the higher-ranking seraphim saw his way of thinking as dangerous and excluded him from the management of the world. For a while, that remained the status quo.  

However, one of the first humans named Lilith refused to be controlled by her fiancée Adam and ran away from the garden that they lived in. She was eventually found by Lucifer, and they fell in love. Lucifer, wanting to share true free will with humanity, gave Adam’s second wife, Eve, the apple of forbidden wisdom, which she accepted. But this one act of disobedience brought darkness into the world; the angels had mistaken this darkness for evil. For their terrible act of arrogance, Lucifer, Lilith and their followers were cast into the primordial pits of the afterlife. Afterward, Lucifer lost his hopes for humanity, forever cursed to see only the evil of humanity and none of the good. But Lilith on the other hand thrived, using her voice to unite demons across hell. Rimuru was happy to see that hell could eventually possibly be redeemed or could thrive as heaven did.  

But the angels were terrified of that, so they made a downright vile decision that once again proved to Rimuru that just because you are a being made from light doesn’t make you a good person. With Adam finally dying and becoming an angel, under the excuse of stopping overpopulation, they carried out annual exterminations, they used their holy weaponry to kill the souls of normally immortal sinners in hell. It was unforgivable in Rimuru’s eyes, but what could he do? Wouldn’t he just make the situation worse by showing up? The last thing he wanted to do was cause a war between angels and demons, but after many years of dealing with other important matters, he finally had enough. He had to stop the angels from doing what they pleased. 

Not only that but the fact that some of the sins had new lovers made this even more urgent. There were no more excuses, he had to act. 

Hell was always the same, for countless years the sins ruled as the absolute symbols of demonic power. But a new, unrivaled force was about to show itself. And the history of the infinite universes was about to change forever. 

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Rimuru floats along in the endless void that is the True Negative All, he is quite bored, no scratch that, insanely...mind-numbingly bored. Like, what is there to do in a literal void that transcends the concept of infinity an infinite amount of times? And that's honestly being generous, because it's bigger than even that.

“Man, this sucks!” Rimuru shouts in irritation at his problem, “This is even worse than when I was first reincarnated in Veldora’s cave!”

[“Master, can I make a suggestion?”] Ciel asks her Master.

“You may.”

[“What about visiting the lower planes of existences?"] ["it’s been a while since humanity was recreated by God, and this new Earth has reached the same decade when you were stabbed to death.”] Ciel asks.

“Yeah, that sounds like a cool idea.” Rimuru says closing his eyes and thinking, “But, I have to do something…I’ve been putting it off for years due to my depression.” “But I can’t afford to wait any longer.”

[“And what would that be Master?”]

“How about visiting my Great-Grandchildren in hell.” Rimuru offers, “Their probably the ones who need me the most?”

“Ciel, has anything interesting happened in Hell recently?” Rimuru asks his loyal Manas. Normally he knows everything that happens in all the infinite timelines, but he has been asleep for several millennia so he’s missed some stuff.

[“Yes!”] She answers happily, [“It seems Asmodeus-dono has gotten himself a boyfriend.”]

“Really?!” Rimuru asks in disbelief, “If I remember correctly, Asmodeus is the kid that hates love right?”

He has never met Asmodeus in person, but he has been watching the four realms since its creation. He knows a lot about the sins and their personalities.

[“Yes, he did say that master.”] Ciel confirms, [“But I have now concluded that Asmodeus-dono is a total hypocrite.”]

“Ouch…” Rimuru thinks to himself, it was kinda harsh for Ciel to say such things.

[“Also, Lucifer himself seems to have had a child.”] [“Her name is Charlie.”]

“Interesting, another family member, eh?” Rimuru thinks to himself, he wants to see how the sins have governed hell.

“Alright!” Rimuru says, “It’s settled!”

He flips up to an upright position, “Ciel, let’s go to hell!”

[“As you wish, Master.”] Ciel says.

A bright blue portal appeared before him.

Rimuru then leaves the True Negative All for the first time in...literally forever.

=Location: Hell (Pride Ring)=

The yearly extermination had just been completed; many sinners were killed by the merciless exorcists who made it their business to hunt sinners in the most terrifying way possible. Even the far more powerful Overlords sometimes fell victim to their angelic blades, arrows, and bullets. Normally it was impossible to kill these sinners since they were already dead, but these angelic weapons killed their souls. Which means, there was no afterlife for those who were struck with holy weapons.

But at the very edge of the Pride Ring, a portal appears as an unknown entity steps out from the portal. The being is the very epitome of beauty, a rather androgynous-looking humanoid. Their long, beautiful silver-blue with a tinge of purple hair is mostly hidden behind the hood of the white cloak they are wearing. They step foot on the ground. The figure’s face is also hidden by a peculiar-looking mask with a red jewel in the center.

“So, this is Hell…” Rimuru says looking around.

[“Yes master, more specifically the Pride Ring which is under Lucifer-dono’s direct command.”] Ciel confirms.

“I see, let’s go see what the Pride Ring is all about shall we?” Rimuru says.

“Ciel, are any one of the Seven Deadly Sins aware of my presence here?” Rimuru asks.

[“No Master.”] Ciel responds, [“With the magic-suppressing mask you are wearing, at first glance, you would look like an ordinary sinner.”]

Rimuru decides not to worry about it, he ends up teleporting into an alleyway in the closest city he can find in this ring.

“What City is this Ciel?” Rimuru asks.

“This is Pentagram City, the most dangerous city in the Pride Ring and arguably in all of Hell due to the fact that the majority of sinners in Pride live here.”

“Wait what?!” Rimuru shouts, “Of course, the first city I visit is the most dangerous one…”

Ciel though doesn’t seem to get Rimuru’s worry, [“No need to worry!”] [“Master is far stronger than anyone in hell, it’s not even close!”]

“That’s not the point Ciel, I don’t want to draw too much attention.” Rimuru explains, “I want to enjoy the city for a while.”

[“Understood.”]

Rimuru leaves the alleyway and starts to stroll the city, which to be honest isn’t as bad as he thought it would be. Yeah, he did see a couple of murders take place and maybe a few orgies and some cannibals eating other people but besides that was it. It wasn’t too bad for what was literally Hell.

“However,...” Rimuru says as he looks up at the massive pentagram in the sky above the city.

“No offense to Luci-chan, but maybe he could’ve come up with a more creative name...” Rimuru mutters, his facial expression changing to one of exasperation behind his mask.

After a while, it got pretty calm actually. He hasn’t witnessed a murder or any sinfulness in over 30 minutes at this point.

But that was almost instantly broken by.

*KABOOM!*

“What the hell?!” Rimuru shouts, he quickly turns in the direction of the explosion.

[“Master, a high-ranking sinner named ‘Sir Pentious’ is currently trying to take over more territory in Pentagram City.”] Ciel explains.

“Some time to have a damn gang war!” Rimuru shouts, he quickly ducks into an alleyway and climbs up a building. He was not missing this!

Once he got to the top of the building, he started observing the takeover.

“Wow, it seems like the ‘Sir Pentious’ guy is doing quite well,” Rimuru notes, his tech is no joke. It’s not near the level of tech he saw while fighting the Eastern Empire, but It’s still impressive.

However, it seems he ran into some major trouble. It seems a rival is here to stop him. He decides to listen in on the banter, extending the range of [Magic Sense]. He could use [Universal Detect], but he doesn’t need it.

“Hey, it’s been a while...Old Man.” It’s another sinner, one of equally rank to pretentious it seems.

“How about you get that tinker-toy bullshit off my turf before I smash it...!” She threatens as a piece of metal falls from the top of the ship, “More...”

“Oh?!” Pentious hisses, “You want to go missy?!”

“Well, I’m happy to oblige!”  He laughs evilly, as what seems to be his subordinates who take the shape of...eggs...all point their weapons at her.

Rimuru is having many emotions run through his head at this situation, the first at foremost being confusion. This whole scenario is like something out of a gag anime.

“Well, the current scenario is...rather interesting to say the least.” Rimuru says.

[“I agree with Master on this.”] Ciel confirms.

“I want to interfere in this little battle, it’ll help me stretch my old bones for once.” Rimuru says stretching.

[“Master doesn’t have any bones.”] [“And Master has an infinite lifespan and therefore cannot age.”] Ciel says.

“It’s just a saying Ciel.” Rimuru says.

Before he can jump in, a new person seems to have joined the fray. What seems to be an androgynous-looking spider sinner has joined the fight. He seems to be rather skilled with Tommy guns, perhaps he was a gangster in his previous life...although he says that he is a prostitute, which Rimuru doesn’t mind. Sometimes you do what you must to survive. Especially in a place as deadly as Hell.

“Well, enough of waiting let’s join this little dance.” Rimuru says, “Ciel, limit my strength to Overlord level.”

[“Understood.”]

“So...You think you’ll get into a lot of trouble for this?” Cherry Bomb asks her old friend.

“Eh, what’s one little brawl gonna do?” Angel Dust shrugs.

Little does he know that this little incident sparked another brawl in the news station between Charlie and Katie Killjoy. Which also resulted in setting Katie’s coworker Tom on fire.

“Good to know you haven’t changed.” Cherry says, “You always were my favorite guy to party with!”

“You know it, Sugar-tits.” Angel Dust responds with an evil smile.

“You ready to finish this?” Cherry Bomb asks as she pulls out a bomb from seemingly nowhere.

“Born ready, baby!” Angel Dust says loading a magazine into his tommy gun.

“Calm down, all three of you.” a voice rings out across the battlefield, “There is no need for such carnage.”

The voice is hard to locate at first, but they manage to locate the origin of the voice. There in the middle of the war zone caused by high-ranking sinners fighting was a single entity, they looked to be a human around the age of 16 or 17 with heavenly silvery-blue hair that waved in the wind. They wore a strange looking white and black outfit, over it was a white hooded cloak obscuring the rest of his silhouette. The other features of the figure were hidden behind a peculiar mask that they were wearing.

“Hm, Sir Pentious was it?” the figure questions, “You seem to be rather strong. Let me guess, you're trying to take her territory so that you can become an Overlord eventually, am I wrong?”

Sir Pentious at first seems a little taken aback by the fact this random sinner had seemed to immediately deduce his entire evil scheme just by glancing at him. But he quickly regained his dramatic personality.

“Oh, would you look at that!” He claps, “Very well deduced sinner, but what exactly are you going to do about it?” He questions as he signals to his henchman to get ready to attack.

“Don’t be mistaken.” Rimuru scoffs as he points at Sir Pentious, “Even though your soul is rather powerful, you still don’t have the necessary magical power to be recognized as an Overlord.”

“Huh?!” “How dare you!” Sir Pentious snarls, “I will show all of you, that I will be recognized as an Overlord by the V’s!”

Rimuru raises an eyebrow behind his mask at this, “The V’s?”

[“The V’s are a group of three Overlords that are a team, Master. The one who rules over electronics Vox, the one who rules over the adult film industry Valentino, and the one who rules over fashion Velvette.”]

“I see, so he wants to be recognized by those three as one of them.” Rimuru understands.

[“Indeed. Furthermore, the individual known as ‘Angel Dust’ is a popular porn star that works under Valentino.”] Ciel confirms, [“The Overlords gain their power by dealing with the sinners that sold their souls to the Overlords.”]

“Geez, that’s incredibly cruel.” Rimuru sighs, but then again what did he expect from a place such as this? He himself had already adapted to the ‘survival of the fittest’ rule, it was the main rule that governed the cardinal world where he used to live.

Oop, but it seems Sir Pentious was on the attack.

His egg-like henchmen used a variety of short and long-ranged weaponry against him. Honestly, it was kind of impressive how versatile they were. However...

“These guys...aren’t very good at fighting, aren’t they?” Rimuru wonders as he pushes one of the egg demons away.

[“Yes Master, these Egg Demons have a very weak ego and only know how to do basic fighting.”] Ciel explains.

“You have to do harder than that if you want to take me out.” Rimuru says dodging a few bullets.

“Oi, stay still you prick!” Pentious grunts firing a few more bullets at Rimuru.

“Like I said...” Rimuru begins, he suddenly vanishes.

“Huh? Where did he...?” Pentious blurts out but is cut off by Rimuru appearing right in front of Pentious.

“...You still have a long way to go.” Rimuru says before pulling out his katana and hitting Pentious with the blunt side of the sword. It sends Pentious flying 20 meters into the side of a building.

“Ouch...” Rimuru thinks to himself, “Maybe I went too hard on the poor fella.”

[“It’s all right Master, sinner are very durable since they are already dead.”] Ciel notifies, [“However, it is true that Master could easily kill a sinner if he so desired.”]

“That’s good, although that poor dude is probably gonna have a major backache after that.”

“Hey that wasn’t bad toots, what is a pretty thing like you doing down here eh?” the androgynous-looking spider demon says flirtatiously.

“...And here we go.” Rimuru rolls his eyes behind his mask. Yes, he is aware that his physical form is based on Shizu’s body, which indeed makes him look like a woman. But that still doesn’t change the fact that it pisses him off.

Rimuru looks back at Angel Dust, “You know I am a dude, right?”

Angel and Cherry look at Rimuru for a few seconds, “Good that probably will shut them up.”

“Oh my apologies handsome, I couldn’t exactly see your face due to that mask you're wearing.” Angel says as smooth as butter, he didn’t stumble for even a second.

“Are you fucking kidding me?!” Rimuru internally screams, dammit how could he forget that Angel is the star of the adult film industry, no matter what gender he is, it won’t stop this sinner from tryna hit on him.

“Look, I’m not interested.” Rimuru sighs in frustration, “If you want to know why I’m here, I’m currently looking for someone.”

“Oh yeah, and who’d that be?” Cherry asks.

“Well...” Rimuru begins, but before he can explain, a limo pulls up nearby them. Out steps a very upset looking...angel...?

“Oi, Ciel what’s the meaning of this?” Rimuru wonders, “Why is an exorcist angel doing down here in hell?”

[“This angel's name is Vaggie Master, she is a fallen exorcist angel that was cast out of heaven for sparing the life of a young sinner.”]

“The heck?!” Rimuru is taken aback. Oi Oi, that’s totally messed up!

Vaggie walks up to Angel with a furious expression on her face, “Angel...what the FUCK?!”

“Oi, don’t look at me like that!” Angel Dust retorts, “What’s wrong with a little turf war, from time to time?”

“Everything is wrong with it!” Vaggie shouts, “You made us look like fools up there!”

“Is that so, maybe that’s because what you’re trying to do IS in fact foolish.”  Angel says.

“Urgh, why you little!” Vaggie growls, she looks like she’s about to strangle Angel.

“Um, excuse me.” Rimuru interrupts.

“What?!”

“Um, I’m looking for someone.” Rimuru asks, “I was wondering if you knew where they were.”

“Who is it?”

“Charlie, Charlie Morningstar.” Rimuru says.

Suddenly faster than Vaggie can react, a certain Princess of Hell comes basically flying out of the limo.

“You want to see me?!” Charlie says with a massive smile on her face, she looks almost like a female version of her father. There is almost no Lilith in her at all.

Vaggie, however, was more cautious with his motives than Charlie was.

“Why did you want to meet her?” Vaggie wonders, narrowing her eyes at the deity.

“Oh, put those skeptical eyes away kid, I’m not here to harm anyone.” Rimuru says, “Can’t a man connect with his family once in a while, huh?”

“Wait, family?” Charlie wonders out loud.

“That’s correct, I’m Rimuru Tempest, your Great-Great-Grandfather!”

Everyone was silent for a second, until suddenly.

“WHAT?!”

Angel quickly turns towards Charlie; “Charlie sweetie, you never told me you had a great-great-grandfather!”

“I didn’t even know I had one!” Charlie nods.

“Wait a second, somethings wrong here.” Vaggie says, “Charlie’s Grandfather is God, that would mean that God is your Grandson.” “Which is impossible, since God is the oldest being in the universe!”

“...To YOUR knowledge Vaggie.” Rimuru adds, “Just because you never knew about me, doesn’t mean that I didn’t exist.”

“Wait, how did you know my name?” Vaggie questions, she was certain she never introduced herself.

“Not important!” Rimuru shuts her down.

Charlie wonders, “But if God is your Grandson, then what does that make you?”

Angel Dust snorts, “What, like God 2 or something?”

Rimuru shakes his head, “God’s true name is Nyog-Sothep, ya know, like from Lovecraftian lore?” “He is indeed powerful, but he’s not even in the top ten unfortunately." 

“And as for your question Charlie and Angel; I am beyond such silly concepts as Godly-Hood.” Rimuru smiles, “Although, you could also say that I am a God too..."

“So you were here before space and time ever existed?” Charlie wonders.

“Oh, sweetie I was here LONG before even that!” Rimuru says, “You see, all of existence itself was spawned from my magicules!”

“Magicules?” Angel questions, “It sounds as if someone combined Magic and Molecules into one word.”

“I guess you could say that.” Rimuru nods, “Although if it makes you feel better you can just call it mana since they’re basically the same thing.”

“Anyway, I want to catch up with you Charlie.” Rimuru says, “And also so you can tell me about this little ‘Hotel’ of yours.”

“Oh yeah!” Charlie says as they walk towards the limo, “I really want to tell you about it, I think I’m going to do really good with this project!”

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“I wasn’t aware that I had a great-great grandpa, Dad never said anything.” Charlie explains while the limo takes them back to what she calls the ‘Happy Hotel’,

“If you're really Charlie’s Great-Great Grandfather, then why hasn’t Lucifer told Charlie about you?” Vaggie asks.

Rimuru pauses, “Because, I never showed myself to him obviously.” “I have major self-worth issues and I was under the belief that reality would be better off without my influence.”

“Wait, so Omnipotent Femboy over here didn’t show because he was feeling blue?” Angel Dust chuckles, “Sweetie, that’s literally insane!”

“Oi, who’re you calling a femboy?!” Rimuru narrows his eyes at Angel Dust.

“Sorry kid, but your current appearance isn’t exactly the most ‘manly’.” Angel Dust smirks.

“I’m not a kid!” Rimuru shouts in a comedic fashion, “Compared to me Angel, you're still in diapers!”

Rimuru continues, “I can change how old I look at will so this form is on purpose!”

The arguing stops when Charlie claps her hands, “Well, if it all the same...I’m glad I got to meet another family member.” “Maybe I should tell Dad the next time I see him.”

“Wait a second Charlie-chan, please don’t do that.” Rimuru interrupts her mid-sentence.

“Huh?” Charlie looks at Rimuru confused, “Why not?”

“I came here so I could surprise each of the sins, if you tell your father that would be ruined.” Rimuru explains.

“Oh, I see!” Charlie smiles, “Like I surprise party, I like those!”

“I’ll visit them myself, don’t worry about it.” Rimuru says.

“Alright, Got it!” Charlie nods.

That’s not the full reason, it would be awkward if he just randomly shows up in his great-grandkids lives out of nowhere.

Eventually, they got back to the Hotel. It was a decent-sized building that could hold at least a hundred people in it. However, when they entered it, there was nobody in the building besides them.

“Huh, for such a large building it sure is empty.” Rimuru notes.

“Yeah...it’s empty because nobody believes in my dream.” Charlie says wearing a sad expression on her face.

“You said this hotel is meant to help sinners redeem so they can go to heaven, right?” Rimuru looks back at Charlie.

“You’re right.” Charlie sighs, “I know it sounds ridiculous but I actually beli-”

“I don’t think it’s ridiculous.” Rimuru interrupts her sad thoughts before she can finish them.

“Huh?!” Everyone in the building looks to Rimuru.

“You want to help redeem so you can avoid the extermination that just happened, that’s not childish, that’s the sign of a good ruler.” Rimuru nods, “You must care about your people, if you don’t then the little fragments of society that are in hell would fall apart into total anarchy.”

“Redemption is impossible, it has never been done toots.” Angel Dust says while pointing a popsicle at Rimuru.

“Angel, I’m going to ask you a question.” Rimuru says, “...And I want a decent answer.”

“Sure, whatever ya say sweetie.” Angel says going back to his popsicle.

“Is it because it’s impossible to be redeemed?” Rimuru begins, “Or is it because of a lack of interest?”

Angel stops licking his popsicle, “Well...I... uh...”

“Exactly.” Rimuru smirks

“Anyway, I’ll help you out with this endeavor as much as I can.” Rimuru says, “But I still need to travel and find the other sins so I can say hi.”

“So, what are you exactly going to help out with?” Charlie asks.

“Oh nothing major, I’m pretty confident in my cooking and according to Angel over there you guys don’t have any real food in this place.” Rimuru motions over to a box of popsicles, “You can’t survive off of junk food the whole time.”

Charlie smiles, “That sounds great, then you’ll be our new chef!”

 “Why did you decide to come now of all times?” Vaggie asks.

“Oh, that’s simple, there have been some interesting developments that happened here rather recently.” Rimuru says, “One of them is Charlie’s birth, but the other is that Asmodeus has bagged himself a boyfriend.”

Angel gags on his popsicle after hearing what Rimuru said, “Pardon!?”

Charlie gasps as her face lights up like a light bulb, “REALLY?!” “WHO IS IT?!”

“I believe his name was Fizzarolli.” Rimuru nods.

“You mean the face of Lord Mammon’s brand?” Vaggie raises her eyebrow, “I heard those two were seen a lot, but supposedly that’s only because they are partners.”

“Yeah, but that’s only to the public.” Rimuru agrees, “In reality, they are head over heels in love with each other.”

“Aw, that’s so cute!” Charlie squeals.

“Yes, but you all must keep this a secret, ok?” Rimuru says, from what Rimuru knows, the two are really bad at keeping their romantic relationship a secret.

As Rimuru and Charlie continue talking, someone knocks on the door. Rimuru feels an ominous presence outside the door.

“Charlie, I sense an evil presence outside that door.” Rimuru advises, “Be very careful, all right?”

“Got it.” Charlie gulps, as she walks towards the door. She opens it to reveal a weird-looking sinner wearing almost entirely red. But what unnerved Rimuru the most was the fact he wore a massive, deranged smile on his face.

“Geez, couldn’t be more intimidating if you tried...” Rimuru thinks to himself.

Charlie’s already white skin seems to pale at the sight of this sinner, but the sinner starts to speak.

“Hel-“ The demon starts to speak before Charlie slams the door on him, she looks away as if she’s desperately thinking what to do. She opens the door once more.

“-llo.” The demon ends the word as if the door wasn’t shut on him to begin with.

“Hey, Vaggie...” Charlie begins.

“Yes, sweetheart?” Vaggie responds.

“The Radio Demon is at the door...” She points to the door.

“What?!” Vaggie sits up straight.

“What should I do?!” Charlie asks Vaggie desperately for advice.

“Well, don’t let him in!” Vaggie answers.

Charlie pauses, her eyes shifting to the door as she steps away from the opening.

“She’s going to let him in.” Rimuru comments.

Vaggie sighs in exasperation. “Of course, she is.”

Sure, enough she opens the door, revealing the sinner still outside with that massive smile on his face.

“Can I speak now?” The Radio Demon asks, Rimuru realizes why this guy is called the “Radio Demon”, he always sounds like an old-time radio announcer, static and all.

“You may.” Charlie allows.

“Name’s Alastor, a pleasure to meet you!” Alastor introduced himself rather quickly, “Pardon for my sudden intrusion but I couldn’t help it after I saw your fiasco on the picture show, and I got to say what a performance!” Alastor says as a cheer plays from somewhere in the background.

“I haven’t been that entertained since the stock market crash of 1929!” Alastor chuckles, “So many many orphans.”

Suddenly, a holy spear is put up to Alastor’s neck. Vaggie was the one responsible for it.’

“Don’t move.” Vaggie demands, “You have some nerve coming here.” She growls in Spanish.

“I know your game, and I won’t let you hurt anyone here.” Vaggie threatens Alastor, although it seems not to be effective in getting rid of Alastor’s evil smile, “You arrogant, pompous, talk show shitlord!”

Alastor chuckles, “Dear, if I wanted to hurt anyone here.”

His eyes shift into what seems to be radio dials, “Ī̷̛̯̟̯̺͉̪̻̉̈́̓̀̀̕͝ ̷̮̓̑̇͋̚w̶̝͉̺̻̪̪̯͕͌̍̎ơ̷̢̛̮̱̗̗̥͕̥̘͌̒̾̉̍̑̈͒̔̕͘u̷͓̘̙̣̟̝͔̰͇̤̺̠̝͆ḻ̵̢͚͓̘̝̩̫̤̱̃͐̋͛̏̒̈́̀̓̿͂̀̚͝d̴̝̲̣̣͍̭̤̥͉̜̪̐̒͐̆̆̔̔̍͌'̸̢̢̛̺̭͍̭̘̤̩̱͖̏́̀̌͠v̴̛̦͍̄͛̃́è̸̡͖̝̙͉̠̍͌̈́̍͆̚͝ ̵̱̺͎́̎̈́̆̈́͊̃́̒͒̽̈́̏͘͝d̴̨͎̪̞̱̙̘̬̟̱̣̗̙̫͒́̄͂̒̓͆̚͝õ̶̲̝̗͙̘̻͎̝͕͙͋̈́̓̐̓̐̃̇̍̌̒͋̂̕n̴̛̖̹̯̄̃͗̑͊̚̕è̶̞̘̠̪͙͖̟̞͕͚͐̓̌̄͆̈́̔̓̽̊̂̒͌͜͝ ̶̯̋̀͗́̐́̕͝š̴̛͈̼͔̲͈̠͇̅̃̃͋̏̈͛̌̚͝ơ̷̧̡͉͕̙͍͓͒͊̿̈̔͂̌͜͠ ̵̘̇̒̐̾̆̒͒̐̾̅͘̕̕a̵̧̼̲̣̍l̶̢͚̦͚̖̻̩̺̙̓́̀̄̊̿̌̌̅̎͑̕r̷̻͙̃̎͊͒̆̇̅͑͑̌̂͌̃e̷̥̮̩̪̙͍̬̦̥͙͎̥̮̿̑̽͛̇̉̆͘͝ͅa̸̝̻͕̘͗̽̎̽͗̌̀̇̅̕̚͝d̴̢̮̫̫͂̉̂͊̎̾͘y̴͉̯̾͐̋͊̆͑̓̆̽̂̔͝.̸̧̡̺͕͇̗̱̭͛̀̆”

“Oh, [Coercion] eh?” Rimuru thinks, before gaining a smirk on his face; “This guy is pretty bold using that skill right in front of me.” 

Charlie and Vaggie stare at Alastor in a state of disbelief, “No! I’m here because I want to help!”

Charlie and Vaggie look at each other then back to Alastor, “Say what now?”

“I said I wanted to help.” Alastor chuckles, “Hello, is this thing on?” He speaks into his microphone,

Surprisingly the Microphone, speaks back; “I heard you loud and clear!” 

“Yo, did that microphone just speak?!” Rimuru wonders.

[“Yes, it did Master.”] Ciel confirms, [“It may not seem like it at first glance, but the microphone itself is a sinner.”]

“Really?”

[“Yes, He was the accomplice to Alastor back when he was a serial killer.”]

“I see, so that’s why he’s shown as Alastor’s microphone.” Rimuru thinks.

“So....Why?” Charlie wonders.

“Why what?”

“Why do you want to help me?” Charlie asks.

“Why does anyone do anything, my dear? Sheer absolute boredom!” Alastor explains.

“My work had become dull, and repetitive, and I was beginning to lose my touch!”

[“Master, I am now convinced that the individual ‘Alastor’ is lying.”] Ciel informs.

“So there is more to him wanting to help Charlie other than boredom, huh?” Rimuru thinks to himself, “What could that be.”

Upon looking closer at Alastor, he could sense mana coming from his neck.

“I see, he’s sold his soul to someone.” Rimuru thinks, “Like how Angel sold his soul to Valentino.”

[“Correct Master, normally it is Overlords who sell gain souls, but in this case, Alastor has sold his soul to another entity.”]

Charlie walks up to Rimuru, “Do you think we can trust him?”

Rimuru shakes his head, “No, but we don’t have to.” “If he wants to use us, then we’ll use him back.”

“But that sounds bad.” Charlies says.

“Not if the person you are using is trying to use you.” Rimuru says, “Trust me, we’ll pretend to trust him for now and wait to see what he does.”

“Babe, you can’t possibly make a deal with this man!” Vaggie implores, “He is pure evil, and won’t hesitate to use you."

"I agree with Vaggie, don’t make a deal with him.” Rimuru says.

“Don’t worry guys, I learned one thing from my dad.” Charlie says, “You don’t take shit from other demons.”

She walks up to Alastor, “So, your sketchy as fuck and you clearly see what I’m trying to do as a joke...”

Alastor’s grin widens slightly.

“But I don’t!” Charlie finishes, “I think all demons deserve a shot at redemption, including you.” “So I accept your offer to help, so long as there’s no ‘strings attached’ type of stuff going on.”

“So we have a deal?” Alastor puts his hand out as if to accept a shake, a surge of magical power flows around him.

[“Master, it seems that Alastor is one of the very few Overlords who has a Unique Skill.”]

“He has a Unique Skill?!” Rimuru wonders, that would explain the amount of power he has.

[“Yes, it’s the Unique Skill {Radio Master}.”] Ciel explains, [“It allows him to control the airways of radio along with being able to distort reality.”]

“Distorting reality?!” “Maybe we didn’t give him enough credit...”

[“While it is true that Alastor can distort reality, it is only to a very minor degree.”] Ciel informs, [“Even though his skill is technically at the unique level, it still cannot be compared to the unique skills the Ars Goetia and the Seven Deadly Sins hold.”]

“Um, no.” Charlie wisely sees through the trick and turns down the offer of a ‘deal’.

“Like I said, no weird strings attached...I will only accept your help that way.”

“Hm, fair enough.” Alastor despite being disappointed almost seems to respect that Charlie didn’t fall for the trap. But he probably will try to manipulate her into making a deal later on. He roams around the hotel for a second before turning to Charlie.

“So, where’s your hotel staff?”

“Well, Rimuru over here has just been hired as our new cook.” Charlie says motioning towards Rimuru.

“Hi, my name is Rimuru.” “I’m the hotel’s new cook, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“Ah yes, it’s a pleasure to meet you as well.” Alastor says shaking Rimuru’s hand.

“Anyone else?”

“Well, there’s Vaggie who’s the manager.” “And I’m the owner, but that’s all really.”

“Hm, what about you my effeminate fellow?” Alastor goes over to Angel Dust.

“I can suck your dick.” Angel says.

“Haha, no.” Alastor quickly shoots down the offer.

“Your loss.” Angel says indifferently, going back to sucking on his popsicle.

“This will not do I’m afraid.” Alastor says, “I do believe I can call in a few favors to liven this place up.”

Alastor snaps his fingers, Rimuru notices that it’s a teleportation spell. Suddenly a poof appears in the fireplace. There’s now someone inside of it, a small little demon that looks like it’s been partially cremated. Alastor walks up and picks the small demon up, eventually the dust just poofs off the demon revealing a small lady demon with one eye. She looks almost adorable.

“The little darling here is Nifty!” Alastor says.

Alastor lets her go as she quickly runs up to the group, “Hello, I’m Nifty!” “It’s nice to meet you all.”

Suddenly her cutesy attitude seems to degenerate into something far more deranged, “It’s been a while since I’ve made new friends!”

Her deranged smile quickly turns into a frown, “Why are you all women?”

“Wait, I’m not a wom-“ Rimuru was about to say before being cut off by Nifty.

“Are there any men here?!” She says, lifting up a shocked Charlie, “I’m sorry if that’s rude!”

“Oh wow, she’s pretty strong for someone her size.” Rimuru notes.

[“I don’t like this demon, Master.”] Ciel says.

“I can’t say I blame you, but she seems...mostly harmless.” Rimuru says. This demon seems to have an obsession with things being clean, so much so that it’s to the point of being an obsession. I guess that makes her their new janitor.

Suddenly another poof of green light to reveal a cat-like demon with red and black wings. But what was more shocking this that this demon an a much higher magical power than the average sinner out on the streets of Pentagram City.

“Wha-?!” The demon says surprised, “What the fuck?!”

According to Alastor, this demon's name is Husk, who just happens to be a gambling-addicted alcoholic who can be bought off with just some cheap booze.

Charlie is ecstatic with his arrival, much to Husk’s chagrin. Rimuru taps Charlie on the shoulder.

“Charlie you’re overwhelming him.”

“Oh, sorry!”

Rimuru walks up to the bar, “My name’s Rimuru, I’m the chef of this establishment, a pleasure to meet you.”

“Oh yeah, what kind of shitty chef would want to work in a place like this?” Husk says indifferently.

“HUH?!” There is no way this tsundere just insulted his cooking without even trying it. He has spent countless millennia perfecting his cooking skills so any insult to it will not go unchecked.

“Oh is that so kitty?!” Rimuru says, “I promise that you won’t think that way once you actually try it instead of being a judgmental prick!”

“Did you just call me kit-“ Husk growls out before being cut off.

“It doesn’t matter what I called you!” Rimuru says stomping off, “I’ll make us some food now, and when you do try it.”

Rimuru turns around giving an evil smile, the pupils of his glowing yellow eyes are now slitted like a lizard; “I’ll make you apologize for those little remarks.”

“Scary...” Charlie, Vaggie, and Angel think at the same time.

Suddenly Alastor breaks out into...a song and dance? These people are definitely the misfits of hell, aren’t they?

[“That is correct Master.”]

Rimuru sighs, oh well. Despite the people here being seemingly some of the worst kinds of people. Rimuru does see some potential in this group, maybe Charlie will surprise them all. But suddenly Rimuru is launched out of his thoughts by an explosion that hit the front entrance to the hotel, the door that got sent flying nailed nifty right in the face.

Rimuru and the other denizens of the hotel look outside to see a familiar massive blimp, it seems Sir Pentious has made a surprisingly quick comeback since his defeat only an hour ago. It was honestly quite commendable how fast he fixed that blimp.

“Well, Well, Well!” Sir Pentious laughs evilly, “Look who it is harboring the stripped freak!” “We meet again Alastor!”

Despite Pentious recognizing Alastor, the former doesn’t seem to at all.

“Do I know you?”

Pentious gives an insulted look, “Oh, yes you do!” “And this time I’ve got the element of...SURPRISE!”

Suddenly a massive ray gun appears from the bottom of his ship, “Haha!” “I’m SO evil!”

Alastor was about to deal with the snake issue, but Rimuru stops him.

“Sorry, but may I?” Rimuru asks, Alastor shrugs.

“Yes, you may, I would rather not deal with this myself.” Alastor says.

Rimuru turns up towards the ship that Sir Pentious is in. Suddenly his yellow eyes start to glow, and his pupils slit. Suddenly inside Rimuru hand forms a small yet dense ball of black fire surrounded by a small barrier. The next thing Pentious knows his blimp is tied up by Rimuru’s sticky steel thread, Rimuru starts to crush the ship with the thread.

{“Hell Flare, Activate.”} Rimuru mutters, before flicking the small orb of black flames towards Pentious’ ship. Suddenly a massive barrier appears around his ship.

“Oh...shit...” Pentious says, the black fireball explodes inside the barrier instantly turning Pentious and his henchmen to microscopic ashes.

Rimuru stares at the aftermath of the attack with a terrifyingly indifferent expression on his face, as Alastor smiles with sadistic glee. While Charlie, Vaggie, Angel Dust, Nifty, and Husk stare on with eyes as big as pie plates. But eventually, Alastor snaps back to reality; “Well I’m starved!” “Who wants some jambalaya?”

“Mr. Rimuru, you didn’t...you know...” Charlie starts to ask.

“Don’t worry you guys, I didn’t kill his soul.” Rimuru reassures, “He’ll re-manifest in a few days, although I heard it’s rather painful if you get disintegrated.”

“If our lad Rimuru is as good as he says he is at cooking then I have a great recipe for it that my mother used to make!” Alastor says, “In fact it nearly killed her! I guess you could say it had a kick right out of hell!”

“Yeah, I could give it a shot.” Rimuru shrugs, “Although maybe not the almost killed part.”

Charlie smiles at Vaggie as the denizens walk back to the hotel, Rimuru notices that Alastor has slightly changed the name of the hotel to “Hazbin Hotel”. These guys might be sinners, but for some reason, he sees a bright future with them. Hopefully, Charlie can convince Heaven to work alongside her.

If she has inherited even an ounce of his charisma, then convincing Heaven to rely on redemption rather than Extermination Day should be easy...

...Right?

Chapter Text

It’s been a full year since Rimuru had joined the Hazbin Hotel, and he had started to grow fond of this place which was much cleaner than before. Unfortunately, the number of people in the hotel hadn’t increased at all since he joined the project. A lot of sinners just didn’t want to put in the effort that it would take to be redeemed.

He didn’t do much during the extermination, it was Charlie’s wish to not participate in violence, so he left it at that. Although to say he did nothing wasn’t exactly true. But that’s beside the point, now that the extermination is over there are other things to worry about.

It turns out Alastor made a commercial for the Hotel that was...not exactly...appealing.

“Seriously Alastor, that was not at all what we want!” Rimuru says from the kitchen.

“Oh come on, I don’t like these pictures showing things.” Alastor says whacking the TV with his microphone; “So I had a little fun with it.”

“Oh, yeah...a little fun.” Vaggie says angrily, “Rimuru is right, this is not how we want to be represented.” “No one is going to want to visit a hotel that a powerful Overlord like yourself thinks is a waste of time.”

“To be fair, almost everything in Hell is a waste of time in my opinion.” Rimuru says walking up to the couch; “Drugs, Gambling, Drinking, you might as well be throwing your productivity in the trash.”

Angel raises his hand.

Vaggie sighs; “Yes, Angel?”

“Well, if you want to bring some more people to this hotel then may I suggest you take advantage of the talented celebrity you have right here?” Angel says pointing all four fingers at himself.

“Angel, you’re a porn star.” Vaggie says matter-of-factly.

“A famous porn star!” Angel repeats emphasizing the ‘famous’ in the sentence.

“I’ll have the horniest sinners knocking these wall’s down to get in!”

“We are not filming a porn as a commercial!” Rimuru says.

“Why not?” Angel says, “Sex sells, don’t it?” “I swear if you film me going on it with Mr. Fancy Talk Creepy Voice’ here then you’ll be rolling in participants wanting to stay at this tacky hotel.”

“HAH! Never going to happen.” Alastor says.

“Yeah, Angel I think Alastor’s an ace in the hole.” Rimuru says, “He doesn’t do all that.”

“A what-now?” Alastor says but is quickly interrupted by Rimuru.

“Well then what about you Mr. God?” “You are quite the good looker yourself you know?”

“Uh, no thanks.” Rimuru says, “I’m also basically an ace in the hole now as well, I lost my carnal desire eons ago.”

“Really?” Charlie says.

“Yeah, the reason sex exists isn’t for funsies.” Rimuru says, “Its main purpose is to make more people since humans and other physical lifeforms have a finite lifespan.” “Once you become a spiritual lifeform, your lifespan becomes infinite and there’s no more need for those instincts.”   

“Aw, you're no fun.” Angel pouts.

“Hey Angel, I appreciate you wanting to use your ‘talents’ to attract people to the hotel.” “But I don’t want to use you like that.” Charlie says.

“Oh come on baby, this body was made to be exploited.” Angel says, “I have everything!”

Angel starts listing off the properties of his body that are good for porn, on his fingers. But Rimuru notices Charlie on the phone with someone, who could that be?

[“I believe Charlie-dono is currently talking to her father.”] Ciel informs.

“Lucifer, huh?” Rimuru wonders.

“Holy Shit, Grandpa, Vaggie!” Charlie calls over the corner.

Vaggie and Rimuru walk over to Charlie, “So what’s up?”

“I got good news!” Charlie says.

“I talked to my dad, and he said that the leader of the angel army wants to meet me!” Charlie says.

“Oh shit, he does?” Rimuru and Vaggie say simultaneously.

“This is my chance guys, the chance to convince heaven to use my hotel instead of the exterminations!” Charlie says.

“I’m sure some angels would like to see that...but I don’t know if this specific angel would be interested in it.” Rimuru says.

“Come on, you don’t know that...”

“Uh, I’m pretty sure I do.”

“Grandpa, angels are pure good!” Charlie says, “There should be no way they could disagree with this far more humane way of dealing with overpopulation!”

“Charlie, just because angels are entities born of light does not mean they are good people.” Rimuru explains, “Don’t you think the leader of the exterminations would be just a little bit biased?”

“That may be true, but I still need to give it a shot.”

Charlie immediately starts singing. Rimuru knows that singing is Charlie’s mechanism for coping with fear or nervousness.

She sings and dances her way through the city, before finally reaching the ambassador building for heaven. Before she enters, she notices Rimuru behind her.

“Oh, you’re coming with me?”

“Yeah, the person you’re going to meet is kind of insufferable.” Rimuru says, “I want to make sure he doesn’t try anything, the exorcists are not allowed to touch you, but I don’t trust that he will abide by that rule.”

Charlie and Rimuru enter the building, to find it incredibly empty. This was even worse than he thought, these people weren’t even trying to help the demons in hell. They seem to keep only to themselves, which was not their job, they should be helping guide sinners to salvation, not sentence them to an eternity of suffering with no way out.

“Hello?” Charlie says out loud trying to get the attention of anyone inside of the building.

“Creepy.” She mutters as she goes up to a lone desk in the middle of the hallway.

She rings the bell, and to her surprise, a scroll appears before her and she signs her name on it.

“Also creepy.”

“Huh, a scroll imbued with puppetry magic.” Rimuru nods his head. They REALLY don’t want to be down here in Hell, do they? The lack of interest in hell itself was super sickening.

Charlie and Rimuru walk down the hallway to a large meeting room that has all the lights turned off.

“Uh, hello?” “Anyone here?” Charlie calls out again.

[“Master...”] Ciel says.

“Yes, I know.”

“I know you’re here, stop being creepy.” Rimuru says.

The lights snap on to reveal the two exorcist angels, the Lieutenant of the Exorcist: Lute, and the Commander of the Angelic Legions: Adam. The greatest of creation of the angels, and the one that Nyog-Sothep had constantly bragged about to the Outer Gods.

“Wow, you are a pretty perceptive chick.” Adam says with a smirk, “Too bad you’re a demon or else I might’ve wanted to have some fun with you.”

Rimuru can’t stand this guy. Strangely enough, Adam wasn’t always like this, Rimuru believes his arrogance came from the fact of humanity’s success. He, being the first human, was credited with all their success and Lucifer was credited with all of their failures.

[“I don’t like this individual, Master.”] Ciel says, uh oh, Ciel-sensei is mad. She may seem more on the calm on the inside, but Rimuru can tell that she’s livid right now.

“Me neither Ciel, me neither...” Rimuru consoles.

“I’m a grown-ass man, dude.” Rimuru says.

This caught Adam off guard, for a second it was like Adam was questioning all of reality and his own existence. But he eventually snapped out of it.

“Ew, fuck, never mind.” Adam groans.

“Uh, hey so my name is Charlie and my dad sent me to meet with you.”

“Yeah, I know.” Adam says dismissively.

“So, I wanted to say it’s nice to meet you.”

“Oh, it’s nice to meet you too.” Adam says sticking his hand out for a friendly shake.

Charlie smiles and goes to shake, but before she can, Rimuru interrupts.

“Don’t do that Charlie, he’s not actually here.” Rimuru says, “It’s a hologram.”

Charlie looks back at Adam and notices a little glitch in the hologram.

“Huh, how the hell did you know that it was a hologram?” Adam wonders.

“Oh please, do you honestly think I’m naïve enough to think someone like YOU would ever come down to hell?” Rimuru says with an irritated tone of voice.

“Yeah, I guess you’re right.” Adam says with a shrug, “Don’t get me wrong I think Hell is metal as fuck and I vibe with that but, ugh, ew, no.”

Charlie is starting to look a little annoyed with Adam, as she should. That guy is a humongous prick, he’s lucky, if it were any other member of Octagram that survived instead of him he would already be in the forever box by now.

Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Vaggie is trying to help the hotel by creating a new commercial. But things were going, not well...

“Why would Nifty just stare at the video camera?!” Vaggie growls in irritation.

“Damn, that’s crazy.” Rimuru says, he was sitting on a sofa reading the newspaper.

“Yeah, I just wish they would put more effort into-“ Vaggie says walking past the sofa, Rimuru was sitting on.

Vaggie immediately looks back and rubs her eyes to make sure she’s not seeing things.

“Mr. Rimuru?!”

Angel and Husk look over in shock to notice that Rimuru is sure enough sitting on a couch in the middle of the common space.

“Holy shit, is that you Rimuru?”

“Yeah.”

“Why are you here?!” Vaggie says, “Didn’t you leave with Charlie to meet with the leader of the angelic legions?”

“Yeah, I did.”

“So...why are you back?”

“Oh, I’m not back.” “I’m still with Charlie, right now.” Rimuru says.

“Then how are you here?!”

“Oh, It’s a subskill known as [Parallel Existence].” Rimuru says, “I can be anywhere and everywhere I want all at once.”

“That...sounds incredibly broken.” Husk says.

“Oh, yeah it is insanely broken.” Rimuru says, “Vaggie, maybe you should take a break.” “Don’t push yourself too hard.”

Vaggie sighs, “I suppose you’re right.”

“You guys as well, you should come here.” Rimuru motions to Husk, Alastor, and Angel Dust.

Eventually, as they all sit down by the fireplace; “So I wanted to ask you all a question.”

Rimuru sips his coffee; “What do you all know about Ultimate Skills?”

Back at the Heaven diplomacy office, the conversation with Adam is still going on. Much to Rimuru and Ciel’s chagrin. The conversation has deteriorated to the point that it was just  Adam talking about all of the one-night stands he had over the past week. The Elders of Heaven let Adam get away with a lot of questionable things because of his connection to Nyog-Sothep.

“Alright, enough of your bullshit Adam, let’s just get on with the topic at hand.” Rimuru says.

“Wait, so your name is Adam?” Charlie says, “Like the first man?”

“Yeah, that’s right.” Rimuru nods.

“Oh...that explains so much.” Charlie cringes.

“Yeah, I know I fucking rock.” Adam says putting up the rock sigh with his hand.

“I wanted to talk about a solution to the shared problem of overpopulation in Hell!” Charlie says.

“Oh, that.” Adam says, “That’s not a problem, Lute how many demons did you kill this last time.”

“Over 200, sir”

“See, isn’t that badass, good job danger tits.”

“No!” Charlie says, “That is not good!” “You know those sinners are my people, right?”

“Yeah, that must fucking suck!” Adam laughs.

“These people are mortal souls, just like the ones you have up in heaven right?”

“They are not the same.” Lute says.

“Well, yeah...sure the sinners made mistakes in life, but don’t all people make mistakes?”

Lute immediately fires back, “Angels don’t make mistakes.”

“Yeah, I haven’t made a single mistake in my fucking life.” Adam says.

Rimuru snorts, “Seriously, what are you five years old?” “And you Adam, you have made more mistakes than half the people I know.”

“Yeah, sure whatever.” Adam says dismissively.

“The sinners had their chance at life, and they fucked it up.” Lute says, “Now they will burn forever because of it.”

“The only reason YOU are still here is because your father had made a pardon so that you wouldn’t get struck down by angelic steel.” “So you can probably see how insignificant you are.”

Suddenly the air pressure in the room started to increase. So much so the wall started cracking.

“Lute, you see I’m pretty chill dude.” Rimuru says.

“I let all insults towards me just pass off my shoulders as if it never happened.” “Because I don’t care about myself that much, it makes it rather easy.” Rimuru says, “It’s stupid to want to kill someone over a little insult.”

“But when you threaten my family with cosmic erasure, naturally...I get a little worked up.”

“Listen here you two, you will never...EVER threaten my family.” “Or else I will make sure that when I kill your soul, that it will be as long and as PAINFUL as possible.” Rimuru says, the pupils of his eyes shifting to that of slits.

“Woah, take a chill pill dude!” Adam says, “We won’t kill your little precious princess, alright.”

“Good, let's go Charlie... they're too closed-minded to ever listen.” Rimuru says standing up from his chair.

“Wait, Grandpa...if we just try a little harder!”

Rimuru looks back at Charlie, “Fine, but only because you insisted.”

Charlie breathes a sigh of relief. At least she managed to keep her grandpa here for support.

“Sorry, it seems my grandpa has some anger issues he needs to work out.”

Rimuru looks at Charlie exasperated, “Uh, no I do not!”

[“Yes, you do, Master.”] Ciel agrees with Charlie.

“Et tu, Ciel-sensei?!”

The conversation went even further downhill when Charlie brought up the Hazbin Hotel. So much so that Adam created a whole song about how much he disliked the idea. So much so he created an entire song on the fly, if he wasn’t such an asshole then it might’ve actually been impressive. Of course, Rimuru didn’t pay much attention to the song since it was just about Adam and Lute’s shallow and flawed perspective on the world. Hell, it was so bad even Charlie started to get mad.

“Oh, cut the crap about righteousness and all that, I know you're only doing this because you’re having fun!” Rimuru says.

“No!” Charlie says, “That can’t be true, right?”

“Sorry to disappoint you babe, but the femboy over there is 100% correct!”

The song continued on from there, it was all about how fun it is to erase human souls from existence. Again, Rimuru didn’t pay much attention.

But he definitely started paying attention when Adam said a specific line, “I know it’s only been one week but will see you in the next six months!”

“What?!” Rimuru says, “You can’t do that!”

“Uh, yeah I can.”

Adam continues the song for a few more verses before ending.

“Angels, never make mistakes.” Adam says looking at Rimuru. “And I bet you can’t name even one mistake that I have made.”

“Uh, yeah I can...”

“Oh, yeah?” Adam says walking up to Rimuru trying to intimidate him.

“Tell me, what have I done that was a mistake?” “Mister ‘tough guy’?”

Rimuru smirks; “Lilith.”

Adam’s smirk immediately falls to a shocked expression.

“You know...If you had never tried to control Lilith, she would’ve never decided to run away...” Rimuru begins; “Therefore...she would’ve never met Lucifer, and therefore Eve wouldn’t have been created.” “And THEN, that means Lucifer would’ve never had offered the Apple of Forbidden Knowledge to her, which would then mean...”

“Evil would’ve never had truly come into the world.” Rimuru finishes, “Although, it would’ve come in eventually regardless of if Luci-chan had given Eve the Apple or not, since light can’t exist without darkness.”

“But it’s almost as if...” Rimuru fakes a gasp, “That YOU were the one who tipped the dominos over and caused evil to truly infect the mortal realm!”

“You...son of a bitch.” Adam grinds his teeth.

“How dare you, demon scum talk of us angels like that!” Lute growls.

[“Master, can I kill them?”] Ciel asks.

“No!” Rimuru says, “I don’t want to kill them if I don’t have to!”

“Ooh, I bet you two want to really give me ‘what for’ for what I said, eh?” Rimuru says with a condescending yet mischievous smile; “But unfortunately, you can’t since you’re not actually here.”

“Also, don’t get it twisted.” Rimuru says, “Just because you’re being of light does not make you a good person.” “The only reason Adam is in heaven is due to the favor of the elders.”

“If it were up to me, both you and Lute belong down in the deepest darkest pits of Hell.” Rimuru glares back at Adam.

But suddenly, Rimuru’s attitude changes.

“Anyway, that was a fun chat.” Rimuru says with a smile, “Don’t know when we will see each other again...but it’ll be a blast I can tell!” “See ya.”

Rimuru and Charlie leave the embassy, on their way out they hear Adam roar in anger, much to Rimuru and Ciel’s endless amusement.

[“Well done, Master!”] Ciel says, [“You managed to shut that filthy failure up before he could try and disgrace you again!”]

“Geez, that honestly rather harsh though.” Rimuru says, “Perhaps he could be redeemed if he tried that is.”

[“I wouldn’t waste your time on him, Master.”] Ciel says, [“He’s a failure, that must be annihilated.”] [“Insulting you the greatest sin one could ever do!”]

“Calm down, Ciel...I don’t mind him insulting me.” “So don’t worry, ok?”

Charlie looks down, “That went way worse than I thought it would.”

“You know Charlie, Adam wasn’t always like that.” Rimuru says.

“Wait, really?” Charlie says sounding surprised.

“Yeah, I saw when he was first created.” Rimuru says, “He was flawed sure, but he was a very nice man.”

“He cared about any and all the creation the angels made.”  Rimuru says with a smile,

“Heh, he was almost like a Disney Princess with how many animals would surround him, he also got along well with Lucifer, they were best friends.”

Rimuru frowned, “ I wonder what went wrong...”

Charlie smiled, “I don’t know, but maybe if we work hard enough...we can change Adam back to the way he was once before!”

Rimuru smiles, “Yeah, I hope so.”

Meanwhile in an airship sent by heaven. Adam and Lute were currently investigating the disappearance with a platoon of their exorcists. Much to their horror, they found an entire platoon slaughtered with parts of their body missing, one had even been decapitated.

“We found the body, sir.” Lute says, “They have never been able to kill one of us before!”

“We should just go down there right now and destroy them all!”

Adam shushes Lute, “Calm down, we can’t have them catching on.” “But don’t worry, once we come back, there won’t be another sinner to ever do something like this ever again!”

“Do you think it was that demon named Rimuru, sir?” Lute asks.

“Nah, that femboy might’ve been rather strong and smart...but any overlord could have easily done what he did in that room.” Adam says, “Heck, even I could’ve done that.”

“There’s no way he could’ve killed an entire platoon of exorcists by himself.”

Lute nods in agreement, “Yes, and he cannot get away with what he said to us.” “Insulting an angel means immediate death.”

“That’s right, we’ll show him true power when we come back for him!”

Adam slams his fist down on the projector breaking, as his LED mask glitches into a twisted smile.

Chapter Text

It has been exactly a week since the announcement of the closer extermination day, and Hell was not doing too hot. Everyone seemed to be in a major panic, wondering why this was happening to them. Rimuru thinks he has an idea of why, but that wasn’t really important at the moment.

What was important though, is what was currently going on right on the front door.

Just a few minutes before the door incident happened, Charlie was in the common room seemingly losing her mind.

“Charlie, calm down.” Rimuru says, “I knew it wasn’t going to work because it was Adam of all people who does extermination for fun.”

“Yeah, but what happens if the extermination gets cut in half again, and again, and again?!”

“Then we will handle it.” Vaggie says.

“Seriously, you only had a 50-50 chance when you started this ‘salvation’ bullshit.” Angel says, “Now look, everyone freaking out.” “Look at what’s happening in doomsday district.”

Angel shows his phone showing panicking demons screaming about the end times.

“Not exactly the best example, those demons are always like that.” Rimuru says, “Why do you think it’s called the ‘doomsday district’?”

“Eh, fair point I guess.” Angel shrugs.

“What’s is a donkey show?” Charlie asks innocently, seeing one of the texts coming in on Angel’s phone.

“Oh! Nothing!” Angel quickly says turning off his phone; “My boss Val is also concerned about the news, you see, everyone’s going nuts.”

“Yeah, that’s right.” Vaggie says, “Their desperate, so desperate in fact that they might do anything to escape extermination day.”

Charlie gasps, “This is the perfect time to recruit more sinners for the hotel!”

“That also reminds me, I’ll be leaving for a bit today as well.” Rimuru says, “I want to visit more of hell.”

“You two really want to go out in all this?”

“I’m pretty strong, so I’ll be just fine.” Rimuru says.

“Well, sinners aren’t just going to show up at the hotels door.” Charlie says.

But the moment Charlie says that an explosion destroys the front wall of the hotel, they hear some very familiar evil laughter. They walk outside to find none other than Sir. Pentious in a massive air ship.

“Huh, that guy never learns.”

Alastor though doesn’t seem to remember Sir. Pentious at all.

“I literally attack you last week.” Pentious says.

Alastor cocks his head and narrows his eyes, trying to figure out if he’s seen him before.

“We’ve done battle like, twenty times?”

“Nope!” “Doesn’t ring a bell I’m afraid.” Alastor says, “If I can’t remember then that means you must’ve been really bad at it.”

“Silence, now prepare to face your doom!” Sir. Pentious says, “For when I’ve slain you, the almighty Vees will acknowledge me as their equal.”

“Who are the Vees?” Nifty asks.

“Nobody important.” Alastor and Rimuru say simultaneously.

Rimuru looks back towards Charlie, “Well, Alastor can handle the rest.” “So, I’ll be on my way.”

Charlie looks at Rimuru, “Wait but how are we supposed to call you?” “You don’t have a phone.”

“Don’t need one, I will know if you need me so don’t worry.” Rimuru says as he walks away, completely ignoring Sir. Pentious.

He walks down the hill of the hotel and goes back into Pentagram City, like Angel Dust had said there was a lot of destruction and panic going on within the city. It made sense since this city had the most sinners in it. He quickly summons the mask and puts it on to hide any aura he might be producing.

“Hm, well if this is the Pride Ring then the next city, I should visit would be Imp City.” Rimuru says. It too also had sinners in it, but not as many as Pentagram City. Imp City was far more peaceful with more Hellborn demons like Imp being the ones to inhabit the city.

He quickly used [Spatial Domination] to teleport to Imp City. As he expected there was far less crime here than Pentagram City. Hell, there was even a full-blown police force in the city.

However, there were some strange posters seemingly everywhere in the city. It was a business called I.M.P. which seemed to be assassins that could be hired out to take out humans in the mortal realm. He didn’t exactly like the idea of demons messing around with the fates of humans, but it was not his place to lay down the law.

“How are they getting to the mortal realm?” Rimuru wonders, “Are they using an Asmodian Tear?”

[“No, the boss of I.M.P. is using a Goetian Grimoire lent to them by Prince Stolas to get to the mortal realm illegally.”]

“Wait, what?!” Rimuru thinks, “But why would a member of the nobility of hell give a hellborn something as dangerous as a demonic magical artifact?!”

[“It seems that Prince Stolas Goetia is in love with the boss of I.M.P. Blitz.”] Ciel notifies.

“So their Yaoi, right?”

[“Yes Master, very much so.”] [“However, while the individual ‘Stolas’ has embraced his feelings towards the imp, the individual ‘Blitz’ still has problems with relationships due to hurting a bunch of people in the past, he is unable to move on.”]

“Interesting.” Rimuru says, “I should go get a drink, anywhere you would suggest Ciel?”

[“Yes, there is a bar with really good reviews a few blocks from here.”] Ciel says, [“Although, I refuse to turn off your poison resistance so you can get drunk.”]

“Yeah, I already learned my lesson on that part.” Rimuru says, “Keep my resistance on, I prefer not to get wasted.”

[“I’m proud that Master has started maturing.”] Ciel says with pride.

“Oi, I’m not a child!” Rimuru says, “Even before the end of everything I was 42 you know.”

Soon they arrived at the bar, “Hello sir, is there anything I could get you?”

The people were far more polite as well.

“Yeah, whatever you recommend is fine.”

Rimuru sat at the bar for a minute, the drinks were pretty ok. It was still nothing compared to the drinks they used to serve back in Tempest but to be fair he bet Tempest had better food than even Heaven does. At some point though, someone managed to catch the deity’s eye.

The door opened, and a taller-than-average imp was seen walking up to the counter.

“Ah, Blitz, good to see you again.” The bartender greets.

“Yeah, Yeah, I know.” Blitz says enthusiastically waving.

“Wait, Blitz?” Rimuru wonders, wasn’t that just the guy he was thinking about...how did he-

“Ciel....”

[...]

“Oi, now you’re givin’ me the silent treatment?”  

[“....I thought that master would like to meet this person.”] Ciel says quietly.

“You know, you just technically turned me into a stalker, right?”  

[“The individual Blitz will have no idea that you had just thought about him recently.”]

“It still makes it a little creepy but whatever.” Rimuru rolls his eyes. He might as well play the part since he’s here.

Blitz day was already terrible, the last assignment kicked his ass. At the very least he managed to kill the target, despite being stupid humans could be dangerous.

“Let me guess, the usual?” The bartender asks.

“Yeah, that works I guess.”

Blitz sits down, all he needs right now is to drink his day away. But as he’s waiting for his drink, the demon sitting next to him speaks up.

“What exactly do you plan on fixing drinking yourself away like that?” the demon says, she has a downright beautiful voice. Probably even more than Verosika somehow.

“What do you mean?”

“I’m telling you, that if you want to have a better life then you must stop pushing everyone away from you.” The masked woman says.

Blitz stands up on his chair, “I don’t know who you are but if you think you know anything about me then you’re sorely-“

“That’s a lie, and you know it.”

“What?!”

“I know everything about you, even more than you do yourself.” She says, “It’s only natural that I do, because I am connected to all.”  

“Oh yeah, then tell me one thing that I don’t-“

“You know, he really does love you.”

Blitz falls silent.

“That Prince Stolas, you’ve been meeting him every night on the full moon in exchange for that grimoire of his, correct?”

Blitz was stunned, how the hell does this person know about that deal?! Only he and Stolas knew about that deal. Oh, of course, that stupid birdbrain must’ve shared the dealings with him as court gossip to all his blue-blooded friends. Looking at the clothing of the demoness practically confirms it, it’s that high-class shit that blue bloods like to wear all the time.

As Blitz is thought that though, the masked demoness laughs.

“Now now, let’s not blame Stolas for something he didn’t do.” She says, “I never met the man before, so it’s not possible for him to have shared it with me in that so-called ‘court gossip’.”

“What the fuck?!” Blitz thinks caught off guard, “She can read my mind?!”

“Yes, I did.”

“It seems your past experiences with your ex and your former best friend turned enemy have really torn you down, eh?”

“Ah, yes...there’s also that former best friend of yours.” She says whimsically; “You think that you’re the one to blame for setting that circus of yours on fire, right?”

“Fizzarolli, Mammon’s pupil and the star of the greed ring.” “You shared an entire childhood with him, you grew up with each other at your father’s circus, you spent so much time that the deep friendship you had started growing into something...more.”

“Or...at least it did for you.” The demoness continues, “You had a huge crush on him didn’t you?” “It took you everything you had, but one day you worked up the courage to tell Fizz your feelings for him.”

“But as you were about to give your confession, you saw the card that your father gave to him.”

“I wish you were my son instead, is what it said.”  

“Something inside of you broke, your own father saw Fizz more as a son than you, his actual son.” “You tore up the letter and stormed off, in your grief, you didn’t realize that you had bumped into the wrong person.”

“The candles of Fizz’s birthday cake set fire to the tent, in which there just so happened to be many crates of dynamite.” “The explosion caused a chain reaction, destroying the entire circus.”

Blitz stays quiet, mostly out of shock. The person was giving a perfect scene-by-scene analysis of how THAT day went down. The worst day of his entire life, the day he lost everything.

“While Fizz wasn’t killed in the explosion, he lost every last one of his limbs.” She continues, “Fizz blamed you for what happened to him, so your friendship ended right there and then.”

“But that wasn’t the most important thing that you lost in that fire, was it?”

Could this demoness be referring to...no, there’s no way she could know-

“Fizz is under the belief that you ran away when he needed you the most, but that’s not true is it?” “You were trying to find help...until you noticed something, a body.”

“Shut up.” Blitz starts.

“That body was that of your-“

Blitz immediately pulls out the gun in his jacket, “SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

The demoness doesn’t even flinch or even turn to acknowledge the presence of the gun. She just casually takes another sip of her drink. But unlike her the entire bar turns to look at the disturbance, unlike a human bar they aren’t panicking at the sight of a gun but are more or less curious about how this situation will turn out.

“Tsk, hey now, look at what you’ve done.” The masked demoness says calmly, “Now you’ve got the whole bar looking at us.”

“Listen here you fucker, I don’t know how you know these things but if you say anymore, I will put a bullet right through your fucking skull!” Blitz seethes in anger.

“Let’s change that shall we?” The demoness says, picking up the small cheese knife on the table. She then drops the knife.

The moment the knife hits the table, everything seems to stop. As if someone pressed pause on a video. Blitz didn’t fail to notice the sudden change in the atmosphere.

“Wait, what the fuck?!” Blitz says looking around still pointing the gun at Rimuru.

“I said not to try anything!”

“No, you didn’t, you just said not to say another word about your past.” The demoness says smugly.

“Oh, you wanna be all funny and shit, huh?” Blitz says, “Well let’s see if you think this is funny!”

Blitz tries firing the gun, but nothing seems to happen.

“The hell?” Blitz mutters, trying to fire again. But it was no use, no matter how much he tried he couldn’t fire the gun.

The demoness shakes her head in exasperation, “It’s pointless, you can’t use weapons nor magic inside the [Suspended World].”

‘Suspended...World?” Blitz says dumbly.

The demon shakes her head, “You’re pretty dense, aren’t you?” “I stopped time itself.”

Did she actually stop time? It must be some magic spell. But he’s never heard of something like this being used, not even by the sins. It was so shocking he lowered his fire arm.

Man did Rimuru love messing with people a lot, as a being far beyond the concept of a god he naturally has the ability to stop time. Normally back in the Central World, [Time Stop] was an ability that granted a 100% chance of victory if the opponent could not move in a suspended world. But while inside you couldn’t use any type of magic, including [Haki].

But now that Rimuru was beyond normal logic and reason, he did not abide by the rules that plagued time-stop users back in the central world. He could use all skills, magic, barriers, and even haki inside a Suspended World. Hell, he could even allow certain people inside the [Suspended World] if he wants to. Perhaps he’ll use [Greater Time Stop] when visiting Fizz and Ozzie.

[“Master just wanted an excuse to stop time.”]

“Oh hush, Ciel.” Rimuru says, “Let a man have his fun.”

Rimuru continues,  “If you want to find salvation, then I suggest you get along well with Stolas.”

“Unless you want to end up dying alone and forgotten.”

Suddenly the knife that looked like it was balancing on its tip fell over making a clattering sound on the table. Blitz’s gun goes off punching through the floor, making everyone in the room groan. They really wanted to see someone get their brains blown out, didn’t they?

“Wow, that was something.” Blitz says, “Hey how did you manage to do that-“

But when Blitz turns back, the demoness seems to have vanished into thin air. The only proof that she was ever there, to begin with, was a wad of dollars. One of them had writing on them; “Drinks are on me.” :)

That was...a rather strange encounter. After a few drinks, he leaves the bar to go back to his apartment. He hopes that Loonie is doing alright.

He decided to call up Stolas, he needs to be sure.

Stolas was coincidentally also not having a good night; He got a black eye from Stella throwing a champagne bottle into his face for the fifth time in a row. It was a miracle they were still in this marriage, the only reason he was putting up with this abuse was to give Octavia a stable home life. Although sometimes he wondered if her current life was stable at all to begin with. Suddenly he was pulled out his depressing thoughts by a familiar ringtone on his mobile phone.

Blitzy was calling! He quickly accepted the call.

“Hello, Blitzy!” He says cheerfully, “What are you doing calling up this late at night?”

“Hey Stolas, you're not trying to sleep, are you?” Blitz says with a shaken tone of voice, “I need to confirm something with you.”

“Oh of course not Blitzy!” Stolas says, “I’m happy to answer any question you might have.”

“Oh, well...” Blitz says, “It’s about magic.”

Now this was interesting, “You met a magic user Blitzy?” “Those are very rare in hell; magic is something mostly only Royals can do.”

“Well, yeah...but...” Blitz says, “Stolas, is it possible for someone to stop time using magic?”

Stolas wears a shocked expression until he suddenly breaks out into a hooting laughter; “Oh goodness no Blitzy, no one in the three realms can stop time using magic!”

“If someone could then that could only mean they are a god.” Stolas says jokingly.

Stolas wasn’t being serious, but just that line alone made Blitz pale; “Oh, is that right...”

Did he just pick a fight with a....

...God?

Chapter Text

Seeing Blitz’s reaction to him knowing way too much of his life was quite entertaining. Blitz was rather hostile, but then again Rimuru couldn’t really blame him for that. It made him seriously seem like a stalker.

[“What kind of stalker would know the entire life of a person, even more than the person himself knows?”] Ciel says.

True, but that made him seem even more suspicious probably.

“So where to next Ciel-sensei?” Rimuru asks.

[“We’ll be traveling to the Lust Ring for this, Master.”] Ciel says.

“Oh, so we’re seeing Ozzie, right?” Rimuru says, “Can’t wait to see how the silly little rooster is doing!”

[“Well, that’s an interesting way of referring to Asmodeus-dono.”] Ciel says.

“Yeah, I know.” Rimuru says, “So where are we gonna see him.”

[“He is attending a special event at his club tonight.”]

“Ah, but isn’t that place hard to get into?” Rimuru says.

[“To someone like Master, sneaking in is simple!”] Ciel says with a cheery voice.

“Oi, sneaking in?!” Rimuru wonders, “Well, I guess I have no choice.”

Rimuru opens a portal to the Lust Ring, when he exits, he notices the vast change in the atmosphere. This ring is probably the part of Hell with the highest safety since Asmodeus is one of the kinder sins. Even the skies are different from Pride, they are a deep blue which emphasizes the lights of the capital city well. It was actually quite beautiful. He liked the vibe of this place better than Pride.

“Man, got to give him credit.” Rimuru says, “This place is far nicer than Pride.”

It’s not like there wasn’t any sin at all though, this is Lust after all. The sin of depravity that is known for sucking the purity out of everyone it touches. Asmodeus had a similar line of thought to his older brother Veldanava, he traded most of his power to make the ring the way he wanted it. He’s got to admire the courage Asmodeus had in doing so.

He noticed the huge tower in the center of the city, it was where Asmodeus himself lived. It seemed like a comfy place honestly.

After a few blocks of walking, he finally got to Ozzie’s, the club itself was not that big. It mirrored Asmodeus’ own line of thought. But now, how to get in?

“I’ll use Shadow Movement to get inside.” Rimuru says, “Ciel, once I’m inside activate [Unique Skill: Absolute Typicality].”

[“Understood.”]

[Absolute Typicality] was an ability that allowed him to ‘hide in plain sight’. Nobody would notice him or think of him as suspicious if this skill is used. With this, nobody would question his appearance inside the club, even if he didn’t have a partner with him.

Rimuru quickly seems to melt inside his shadow, then he reappears in an isolated part of the club. Asmodeus really spared no expense in making the place, everything was gorgeous, which was rather strange for a sin known for sexual acts.

One would think this place would be covered in many different types of bodily fluids.

“Ugh, Gross...” Rimuru cringes, “Let’s not think about that shall we?”

Like Rimuru had said to Angel Dust, as he got older, he lost his carnal desire because he was a spiritual lifeform, and he didn’t need to do sexual acts in order to have children. His body simply felt like it was no longer necessary and got rid of it.

Rimuru sat in a leaned against a wall, all the tables were taken, as expected from a place as popular as this.

“Damn, it’s loud in here.” Rimuru says, he hoped he arrived on time.

[“Don’t worry, Master.”] Ciel quells his fears, [“The show will begin soon.”]

Almost perfectly on cue with Ciel’s comment, the lights dimmed, and the demons stopped talking. The curtains open to reveal Asmodeus’ boyfriend and host of the bar, Fizzarolli.

“Hello fuckers!”

“Wow, starting off a little strong, aren’t we?” Rimuru chuckles.

“We appreciate you all coming tonight!” Fizz says putting the emphasis on ‘coming’.

This alone made Rimuru cringe, “Oh, he did NOT go there.”

“Anyway, I’m pretty sure y’all didn’t come here so you could hear me talk for fuckin’ ever, am I right?”

“So why don’t we get the fuckfest started already!”

And with those words, all hell seemed to break loose in the club. Even for him, it was hard to truly fathom all the Lust that was going on in there. Rimuru’s eyes went about as wide as pie plates.

“So this place is just a heavily glorified orgy.” Rimuru asks.

[“Seems like it Master.”] Ciel says with an indifferent voice.

Rimuru quickly dodged out of the way of some *cough*, it narrowly missed and hit the wall behind him with a splat.

“Woah!” Rimuru says, “That was close!”

Rimuru decided to quickly put up a barrier, so he didn’t get hit by anything gross while he was in the club.

“Part of me is wondering if this was a mistake...” Rimuru says, “Ugh, I should’ve expected this!”

The sexual acts went on so long that Rimuru thought it would last forever, but around 4 am in the morning, it finally came to a halt.

[“It looks like they have stopped, Master.”]

There were bodily fluids everywhere, Rimuru was probably the only person outside of Fizz who wasn’t covered in something.

“It’s too late, I think I’m traumatized already.” Rimuru says, he quickly.

[“Really?”] Ciel says, [“I was rather impressed, almost every kink known to mortal kind had been shown since this started.”]

“I don’t think that’s a good thing...” Rimuru says.

Finally, though, it was only him and Fizz in the club. Rimuru quickly activated a cloaking skill rendering him invisible.

After the bouncers confirmed that all had left the club, someone walked out from behind the curtains. It was Asmodeus in all his glory, he quickly picked up Fizz and swirled him around before kissing him.

“Ah, yes...’ We’re totally not in love’...” Rimuru says rolling his eyes.

“Nicely done, Fizzy Frog.” Asmodeus says with a smile.

“Heh, yeah, I worked pretty hard on my routine this time.” Fizz says, “I’m glad it all worked out.”

“Wait, he performed?!” Rimuru wonders, “Strange, I didn’t notice.”

[“Master was too busy avoiding bodily fluids to notice.”]

“Ah, I see...”

Asmodeus looks out over the sea of fluids across the club, “Oof, it looks like the cleaning team will be in for a shock when they come in for their shift.”

“Hey Fizz?”

“Yeah?”

“I need to talk to you for a second.”

“Alright.”

Both Fizz and Ozzie left the stage and went into one of the club's private rooms. Perfect timing! Rimuru quickly deactivates his cloaking skill and heads to a table.

[“Master, what are you doing?”] Ciel questions.

“C’mon, you’re basically me, Ciel-sensei.” Rimuru says, “You should know what I’m doing.”

Ciel sighs in response but doesn’t say anything more. It seems she has given up.

Asmodeus could see it in Fizzarolli’s eyes, the night was rough for him. He already had to do stuff for Mammon, which was already asking a lot. This night was one of the messiest yet, and Fizz went on for hours.

“Fizz, you know you didn’t need to work tonight.” Asmodeus says with a concerned tone of voice.

“I’m fine Oz, I just...”  Fizz trails off, “If I don’t work then there would be no Ozzie’s.”

“But I could’ve done the hosting tonight.” Ozzie says.

“Eh, maybe...but what’s done is done.” Fizz says, “Although I could use a bath after this.”

Asmodeus chuckles, “You’re wish is my command, your highness.”

Fizz rolls his eyes, “Oh you silly rooster, we have stuff to do first though, let’s get back to it.”

Ozzie and Fizz exit the room, but the moment they do Ozzie’s face shifts.

“Fizz, there’s someone here.” Asmodeus says.

Fizz shakes his head, “It’s probably just staff or something.”

“No, this one is a magic user.”

Fizz's heart drops, magic users are incredibly rare in Hell. Could it be an Assassin? Or maybe Royalty?

Asmodeus and Fizz cautiously walk into the main room, they see what seems to be a humanoid female with beautiful blue-silver hair, she has beautiful golden eyes. But the one thing that made Asmodeus concerned was the Japanese Katana strung across her back.

“Finally, and here I thought you’d be in there until the end of time.” The woman says, “But even if you were, I would still be here waiting for you.”

Her voice was elegant and regal, it was downright beautiful. But he couldn’t be fooled, he didn’t recognize her, she was an Assassin.

Asmodeus was about to call for the guards, but the moment he opens his mouth-

“I won’t allow that.” The woman says, snapping her fingers.

Suddenly, it seemed like the world froze. Everything stood still.

Asmodeus looked around in shock, something had happened.

“Oz, what just happened.” Fizz said shaking a little.

“I don’t know Fizz.”

“Hey, what did you just do?!” Asmodeus shouts at the woman.

“Hm, I thought you’d figure it out the moment I casted it.” The woman says, “But maybe you do know, but you don’t want to accept what you see.”

“Well, regardless of that reasoning, please allow me to show you.” She speaks.

The woman stood up and picked up a bottle of wine that was on the table she was sitting at. Then she let go of the bottle, but shockingly it froze in mid-air, it was as if someone had taken a picture of it.

Asmodeus’ eyes widened to the point of being as large as pie plates, “No, No, that cannot be!”

“Ah, now we’re getting somewhere!” The woman smiles mischievously.  

“Oz?!” Fizz asks, “What’s wrong?!”

“This shouldn’t be possible!” Asmodeus says, he seems to be going through a mental breakdown.

“Calm down!” Fizz says.

Then Asmodeus starts laughing, but not the same comforting laugh that Fizz was used to. It was more like Asmodeus went crazy.

“No way, we’re going to die!” Asmodeus laughs, “He’s going to kill us all, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

“If she’s an Assassin, then we’re totally fucked with a capital f!”  

“Oops, I think I might’ve broken him.” Rimuru says to himself.

[*Sigh*]

Oof, even Ciel seems exasperated at his actions, “Ok, I’m sorry maybe it was a bad idea.”

“Asmodeus!” Fizz says, “Calm down, you’re talking nonsense!”

Asmodeus stops his laughter and looks at Fizz, seeing the imp's frightened face, he calms down.

“Oh, I am so sorry Fizz!” Asmodeus says.

“It’s alright, I’m glad you’re ok now.” Fizz says, “So what’s the deal with the chick?”

Asmodeus takes a shaky breath; he still seems to be shaken; “I cannot beat her.”

“Oi, he’s still referring to me as a ‘her’!” Rimuru thinks to himself.

Fizz turns to Asmodeus with a shocked expression as if he heard something wrong; “Excuse me?”

“I can’t beat her.”

“You’re joking right?”

“Fizz, do I look like I’m joking?”

Fizz's face seems to pale at this, “So, then...what do we do?” He stutters out.

“Nothing, we can’t do anything.”  

Rimuru decides to stop holding them up like this and finally explains to Fizz.

“Do you want to know?” He asks Fizz.

“Well...kind of...” Fizz says wondering what could possibly have gotten Asmodeus so worked up like that.

“The reason Asmodeus-chan is so upset is simple.” Rimuru says.

“She stopped time, Froggy.”

“She did what?!” Fizz says.

Asmodeus chuckles nervously, “She stopped time with magic, an act that is so impossible it’s considered laughable.”

“That’s right, his surprise is to be expected.” Rimuru says, “The only person they know of that can use magic to stop time is Nyog’Sothep.”

“Nyog’Sothep?” Asmodeus asks.

“Oh, he never told you his real name?” Rimuru wonders, “Nyog’Sothep is God’s real name.”

“Basically, the only person who Asmodeus-chan knows who can stop time is God, so it’s understandable that he would react this way.”

“What in Lucifer's name are you?” Asmodeus stutters.

“Hm, who knows what I am?” Rimuru wonders, “I ask myself that question a lot too.”

“In the end, does it matter what I am?” Rimuru asks, “I am me, that’s all that matters.”

“And don’t worry about me being an Assassin, if I wanted you dead, you would’ve already been dead by now.”

“That’s true, to someone who could stop time even someone like me is insignificant, if he truly wanted me dead then he would’ve killed me the moment I saw him.” Asmodeus thinks to himself.

“Now, now.” Rimuru scolds, “Let’s not be self-deprecating Asmodeus-chan.”

Asmodeus looks up in shock; “He can read my mind?!”

“Of course.”

“Someone else who can stop time...” Asmodeus says, “What a terrifying person.”

“Oh, you flatter me too much.” Rimuru says, “To someone like me, stopping time is nothing but mere child's play.”

Asmodeus thought he couldn’t be more shocked, but this takes the cake; stopping time being child’s play is an incredibly absurd statement for something that was supposed to be impossible.

“Who are you?”

Rimuru chuckles, “Who me?”

“I’m Rimuru Tempest, the most powerful being in all the infinite omniverses...”

“...and I’m your great-great-grandfather.”

Suddenly, time flows once more. The wine bottle that has been suspended in time up until now hits the ground shattering into a million pieces.

Asmodeus looks around in shock, noticing that time has returned to it’s natural flow once more.

“Wait what do you mean that you’re my Great-Great-Grandfather, wouldn’t that make you my father's Grandpa?” Asmodeus says looking around, “That would be impossi-“

He turns around to look back at Rimuru, but he is shocked to notice that not only has Rimuru vanished into thin air, but that the floor is perfectly clean.

He finds a note on his sleeve that read; “I’m sorry for scaring you so badly.”  “I cleaned up the mess from tonight as an apology, give your cleaners a day off will ya?”

-Rimuru

Asmodeus stares at the note, the floor is covered in bodily fluids that hadn’t been cleaned up, but now suddenly Ozzie’s is back to being clean again? If Rimuru really was his father’s grandpa, then being able to do something like this would be understandable.

Suddenly Fizz speaks up; “THAT WAS A GUY?!”

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Rimuru thought Hell was a rather interesting realm, its chaotic nature reminded him of his old ‘Chaos Creator’ title. Although despite Guy’s constant whining about him breaking the balance of the world, he didn’t really think he did that much.

If anything Rimuru believes he fixed the balance of the world, his three primordial servants had messed with a bunch of people’s territory until he got them. Like how Carrera kept throwing nuclear strike magic at Leon’s city. Or how Ultima kept messing with Luminous Valentine.

Currently, he was outside the building where the overlords were meeting, Ciel had recommended he join the meeting in secret. So he quickly put on a cloaking skill and walked into the elevator into the building where the overlords would be, this time he didn’t put on the mask.

He actually never needed the mask to completely suppress his presence anymore, he only wore it as a precaution when coming into hell.

He quickly found the room where the overlords were meeting and walked into the room. This cloaking ability was reinforced by the effects of an Ultimate Skill so there was no way an Overlord could see through it. Well, it’s not like he needed Ultimate Skills anymore since his very existence had infinitely transcended the Ultimate level, but it was satisfying to use Ultimate Skills. Even if it didn’t, nobody in Hell has reached the Ultimate level yet. Not even the Seven Deadly Sins.

[“Nyog’Sothep had believed that Ultimate Skills were too powerful and shouldn’t be used by anyone.”] Ciel informs, [“That’s why he placed a limit on his creations, only allowing them to reach the Unique level.”]

After a few minutes of waiting, the one holding the meeting walked into the room.

“Greetings Hell’s sovereign Overlords, I have invited you all here because you represent the controlling powers of our city.” The overlord known as Carmilla Carmine says.

“Disregarding Luci-chan, I guess that’s true.” Rimuru thinks, but this woman is pretty strong for an Overlord.

Name: Carmilla Carmine

EP: 55,450

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic

Unique Skill [Deadeye] (Subskills: Magic Perception, Haki, Critical Point, Danger Pinpoint)

Intrinsic Skill: Self-Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Demonic Attack Resistance.

“An Overlord with a Unique Skill, eh?” Rimuru says, “That’s impressive.”

However despite her higher-than-average power for an Overlord, it seems she still fell short of demon royalty.

[“While it is true that Carmilla Carmine has a Unique Skill, it still doesn’t compare to the Unique Skills that the higher-ranking nobles and sins have.”] Ciel elaborates.

That’s right, each of the sins was born with their Unique Skills. And their skills were what you’d probably expect. But if that’s the case, why was Asmodeus considered the weakest sin when his skill was quite powerful?

Name: Asmodeus

EP: 105,670

Species: Fallen (Cherubim Class)

Blessing: Singularity’s Absolute Protection

Demon Lord Seed

Magic: Dark Magic, Elemental Magic, Hypnosis Magic.

Unique Skill [Lust] (Subskills: Magical Perception, Haki, Ultra-Speed Regeneration, Life and Death Manipulation, Embrace Drain, Kiss of Love, Spatial Motion, Shapeshift, True Demonic Form)

Intrinsic Skill: Immortality

Resistances: Holy-Demonic Attack Resistance, Fire Resistance, Mental-Attack Resistance.

It was true that out of all the Sins that Asmodeus had the lowest magicule count, but existence value alone doesn’t determine one’s power. It’s how you use your power that matters. Life and Death Manipulation in [Lust] are not nearly as powerful as the [Lord of Lust] Life and Death Domination, but it’s still quite powerful for a Unique Skill. Hell, one could even argue that it’s one of the strongest non-ultimate sin skills.

[“It is likely that Asmodeus-dono hasn’t mastered the use of Unique Skill [Lust], since he seems to be unable to use [Life and Death Manipulation], or [Kiss of Love].”] Ciel says.

Ah, so that’s why.

Now focusing back on the conversation at hand, it seems the angels get more and more brutal each extermination which is getting rid of the souls the Overlords own. Therefore they wanted to figure out how to protect their ‘interest’ in order to stay in business.

“Geez, that’s rather harsh.” Rimuru says.

But as Carmilla was about to continue the discussion, someone bursts into the room as if they own the place. It’s the youngest Overlord in hell, Velvette.

“C’mon Vox, I have it covered.” Velvette says, “Are you doubting me?” “Me?”

“Yeah, that’s what I thought.” She says, then side eyes the other Overlords and giggles, “Yes I know, their all a joke.”

“Wow, she’s either really brave to say that or really stupid.” Rimuru says, especially since she’s not all that strong.

[“I see you noticed it too Master, the individual Velvette isn’t in possession of a Unique Skill.”] Ciel confirms, [“The individual Carmilla Carmine has triple the amount of magicules that the individual Velvette has, and she also has full mastery over her Unique Skill.”]

Name: Velvette

EP: 1,850

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic

 Extra Skill [Matter Creation]

Intrinsic Skills: Self-Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Demonic Attack Resistance

Nope, this is too much. Rimuru starts laughing loudly.

“Oh my god!” Rimuru says wheezing, “She’s so weak it’s actually comedic!”

[“Correct!”] Ciel giggles, [“I too find this very amusing, Master!”]

“Save this for later!” Rimuru laughs.

[“Of course!”] Ciel beams.

“Alright, I’ll be back soon.” “Kisses darling!” She says before hanging up.

“Nice to see you here Velvette, are your...’colleagues’ going to join us?” Carmilla says, despite her effort to stay professional Rimuru could sense the apprehension in her voice.

“Nope!” Velvette says, “They’ve got better things to do than hear some old wind bag act like she’s tough shit!”

Carmilla narrows her eyes at this comment in irritation, but on the contrary, this makes Rimuru laugh even harder at the irony.

“I’m here to represent!” Velvette says pulling up her phone and putting a poop filter on Carmilla.

Rimuru finally get’s done with laughing his ass off and stands up, “Oh boy, that’s the best laugh I had in eons.”

Focusing on the conversation, it looks like one of the exorcists had been decapitated by someone. Or that what he would’ve said if he was dumber. It was obviously Carmilla who did it, since she rules over the Angelic Weaponry industry.

“Hey Ciel, what about old dude over there?” Rimuru says, “He’s pretty strong too.”

He too had noticed that Carmilla was the one who had killed the Angel. He was rather perceptive.

Name: Zestial Morde

EP: 60,230

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic, Dark Magic

Unique Skill [Widowmaker] (Subskills: Magic Perception, Haki, Capture, Detain, Drain, Command)

Intrinsic Skills: Self Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Demonic Attack Resistance, Cold Resistance

“Oh wow, he’s really strong.” Rimuru says, “He has the most magicules out of everyone in the room.”

Indeed, the man seems to even surpass Alastor in that regard.

Name: Alastor

EP: 30,560 (Restrained)

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic, Dark Magic

Unique Skill [Radio Master] (Subskills: Magic Perception, Haki, Matter Creation, Arms of the Depths, Body Double, Ranged Barrier, Radio Wave Manipulation)

Intrinsic Skill: Self Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Demonic Attack Resistance, Mental Attack Resistance

His EP has been severely restrained, and he can’t use the full power of his Unique Skill. It must’ve been because he sold his soul and lost the majority of his power.

After that the meeting devolved into a shouting/singing match between Velvette and Carmilla, so he decided to leave. What should he do now, maybe he should check on the members of the hotel. He wanted to see how Angel Dust was treated at his work. And honestly, he probably didn’t like what he was going to see.

After a short teleport inside V’s tower, he noticed Angel in the middle of a shoot. And what he noticed made him sick to his stomach.

“Oh good lord...” Rimuru says holding his mouth in shock.

[“Master, I sense distress and displeasure coming from the individual Angel Dust.”] Ciel says.

In the middle of his shoots, it seems Angel Dust is singing a song called Poison. Rimuru secretly followed Angel Dust around his work, watching every single thing he did. He even watched Angel Dust finish the end of his song, his voice breaking as he sang through his tears about how much he hated being under Valentino’s bootheel.

Rimuru could barely restrain himself, anymore anger and his aura would start pouring out of his body. Even a little aura would erase the entire Omniverse. He slowly found his way outside of the building, shadow covering his eyes. He remembers the EP of all three Overlords.

[“Master, I believe Valentino also made a move on Charlie-dono.”] Ciel says.

That was the end of the line for Rimuru, he needed to punish this arrogant filth.

Name: Valentino

EP: 1,450

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic

Extra Skill [Matter Creation], Extra Skill [Seduction]

Intrinsic Skill: Self-Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Demonic Attack Resistance

Name: Vox

EP: 3,400

Species: Demonoid (Sinner)

Magic: Elemental Magic, Dark Magic

Extra Skill [Electrokinetic], Extra Skill [Matter Creation].

Intrinsic Skill: Self-Regeneration, Save Memory

Resistances: Electric Attack Resistance

Rimuru was disgusted, not only were they the worst, but they were also incredibly weak. They don’t deserve to live, but despite that, Rimuru has no plans to kill them. After all, if Angel Dust wants to truly escape Valentino and his influence, then Angel must overcome him with his own two hands.

Rimuru teleports outside the city.

But that doesn’t mean Rimuru will let them go. Rimuru opens his eyes, his pupils slit.

Rimuru clenches his teeth as his voice grows distorted and eldritch, “Ỷ̴̛̱̖͌̄̄͝o̵̧̯̺̹̒̽̑̀͐͊̏͒͛̾̔̕u̵̧͔̞̽̐̑́̾̈̏́̃̾͒̓͗͘͝ ̸͍̈́͛́̂͝ḑ̴͇̹̝̰̙͘͜͜ą̶̢̫̳̟͔͙̣̼͊̀̂͛͊͘m̵̬̫͉̞̻̘̦͉͍̩̞̓̓͑̿̈́̑̽͗̅́̚͝ṅ̶̩͆̑̀̌̇͗̒̂͒̎͛͘͠ ̶̯̜̰̪̜͇̣̦̘̣̀̊͌̿̀͌͗̾́̑̆̐̍̋̃͜ĭ̶̩͈̜͚̗͖͍͍̖̫̣̰̺͜ͅn̴̫̘̣̲̱̘̻̱̝̣̱̼͗̋̏̔͑̔̈́̆̂̕ͅs̵̡͍̣̞̦̺̣̰̩̗̹̪̭͚͓̉͗̒̿̄̇̐ȩ̸̧̛̬͔̜͎̗̮̭̖̭̬̐̅̍͠c̶̘̗̬͈̙͎̭̎͐̈̇̋͒͂̑͂̀͆̅͘̚͜͝ţ̵͔͙̮̖̯̥̠̂̽̌̏͛͂̌̀ͅs̸̳̳̠̦͓̪̣̜̘̥̭̟̓͆̒̅͘͘ͅ!̸̢̹͇̖̯̗͚̝͈̭̈͋̃̊̄̑̃̅ ̸̢̹̗̺̪̯̲̫̤͉͛͑̾̆̄̂̽͜͠" "̷͍̫̥͈̊̅̋͗̽̉̄̎̔̽͋͐̏̋͠S̵̡̫͕̱͎̲̗̺̩̬̦̥̳̼̔͊̑͜͝o̸͖͑̑̏̀̏͐͘͘ ̸̲̉̿̀̌̐͒̑͠y̴̪̹̗̝̰̖̒̄͛̾͑͑̐̚͜͝o̸̧̱̤̬͕̞̹̭̠͆̊̔̌̑̏͊͌̀̄̔̿͘̚͝u̴̗̼̞̪̥͍̘͓͔̼̅̇͌͠ ̵̜͉̹̲̪̬̜̘͂̏̌̆́͝t̷̛̻̣̥̬̰̣̥͐̽̀̓͂́̑͒̍̈́̒̽̃͑ḧ̴͕̩̥͔͇͈̳̤͇̮̻́͒̀͋͑͛̀̔ȉ̵̧͎̦͈̖̝͍̫͕͉̘͓̗̫̄̄̓͜n̷̲̦̣̲͔̩̪͇̣̞̭̻͙͗͋̈́ͅk̸̛͔̪̪̫͓͔͎̱͕͉͔̳̼̺̦̀̊ ̴̨̱̓͋̅͒̋̽͒̒y̴̲̗̙̠̖̬̰͒̏́̍̾́̐̒̕ȏ̸̮͔̹̙̘̈͂̃u̷̫̣̣̎̾̕͘'̴̠̹̦̂̑̔͌̏̔̍̿̋̓̔͜ŗ̴̟̼͔̞̭͕̩̦̃͛̋̈͂̈́̈̏̈́̄́̀̃͠ě̷͓͚̗̘̺̼͉͓͎̗͕̣̳̀͋̈̋̐̐̿̑̎͐̐̚͠ ̶̺͈̗̺͊̂͒͑͠ṯ̵̨̝̹̯̣̗̲̬̦̜̇̅́̆̓͂̌̐͗̓͘͜͜͝͝͠͝ͅͅh̸̖̳͈̩̠̤̦̍͌̽̌̃͒́͝͝ḛ̷̩͔̟̮͙̄̾̀̏͆̃͒̽́͘ ̴͖̤͓̦̻̝̗̤̯̈́͆̿̎s̴̡̛͕̣̫̮̟͕̭͇̺̫̝̯͕̈̎̾̇̇̚ͅh̴̡̠͈̣̿̓͗̾̔̃́̑́̈́͗͝į̵̛̙̤͖̪̾̏̂͐̒͒̍͋̀̾̓̚͝͠t̸̲̝̺̥̹̤͚̙͇̼̝̣̉̒̍̕͜,̷̧̛͕̖̙̩͎̩̱̭͇̒̽̉͑ ̵̟̝̺̥̏̃̈́̐̋̂̋̈́̒̿̋̊͜͝͠ḧ̶̪̪͔͖̗̺̩̺́̋̈͒͂̂̓̽͗̔̕̕͜͝ư̵̡̢̫͔̳̯̲͓̊̏̓͆̊̀͊̑͊h̸̠̹̓̂̈́̋͆̂̀̿̂̓̈́̚͘͠?̸̛̥̠̻̍̋͒̔͒̐̔̕͘!̶̢͇̘͚͓̼͇̟͍͓͎̓"̸̹̪̬͕̖͖̦͇̋̓̌̑̂̓ ̸̢̗̣͖̝̟̽̋͐͐̈́̑̈́͘

Rimuru pulls out his Legendary Grade Katana, he wasn’t going to waste his real swords on someone like them.

"̵̡̧̛͎̬͙̱̙̘̯̩̎̌̾̏̒̆͑̃͜͝ͅY̴̟͉̭̌͆̈́̈͑̈́̀͗͑O̴͉̓̽͘Ữ̴͇̮͔̑̋͒͗̎̿͗͋̚ ̶̥͚̭͚͖̗̳̖̾̈́͛͝ͅͅẂ̴̧̛̯͔͙̣̙̫̙̹̐͗̏́̆̆͌̐̕O̴̡̡̟̗̓́͗́̉͌̏̈́̈͋̎̾N̴̡̰͈͙̬̹͔̣̯̻͆̔̆̆ͅ'̵̮͍̮̪̥̻̼̪̟̲̽̓͆́́T̴͕̟̫͂̓́̈̇̐͋́̓͝͠ ̸̛̳͈̼̺̼̙̼̀͜G̴̢̨̜͍̱̼͑̈̎̆͛̆͆̉ͅÉ̶̘̥̹͕̠͎̗̝͆̉͝ͅT̸̼̗̠͖̯͎̫̩̝͎̹͒̔̈ ̵͉͙̱̻̥̯̄̇̆̓̾͛͜͠A̷͙̩̿̿͂̓̈́̓̓̀̾̚̚Ẉ̴̖̬͚̤͉̰̻͉͓̻͚̬͔̾͂̔̇̈́̆͆͆͆͜͝͝A̷̢̨͙̮͇̮͍͙͔͍͕͍̙͇̎͗̈́̈́͋͌͂͠͝ͅY̴̬̬͈͙̗̭̤̝̦̫̣̳͇̊͂͒͂̃̉͊̎͒͝ͅͅ ̴̭̈̒̿͑̽̆́̉͌̑͊̈́̆͠W̸̡̫͓̤̺͗Ì̵̝̈̍̆̇͂͋T̷̡̟̠̪̣̣̱̻̖͗̋͋͒̐̌͑̈́̉͐̒͒͋͐͝H̶̢̰͉̫̝͍̙̭̫͙͈̬̟̥͇͊̍̂͑͗̽͗̀̈́̓͘͘͝ ̵̡͇̮͙̰͕̫̦͈̲̘̲̌̎̏̌T̷͖͎͈̖͓̫̲̟̞̬̙͕͑̊̆Ḩ̶̞͈̳͙̹̩͙͓͚̈́͜͜ͅI̶͉̯͉͋̉̾̉̓̓̅̀̀Ś̷͍̳̳̮̲̱̲̘͔͗́̑̅̕͘ ̵̧̨̛͍̲̦͓̘̩̩̹͎̟̿͗͆̈́̋͜I̸̹̠͔͙̮̬̥̙̝̹̾̄̈́̕N̴̡̡̖̯̙̟̥̰̦̜̗͖͓̫̊̈́͋͛̊̂̂͊̑͛͌̀̽̕͝ͅŚ̵̝̘̖̬͙̺̙̼͛U̷̱̤̬͖̘͓͉͛͊͊͆̂̋̄̆͆̐́̎̉̓͝Ļ̵̖̞̬͍̮͆̽̓̒̄̈͝Ţ̵͇̫͎̲͚̪͍̺̱̖̭̝̏̃̓͌͑̀̔͜͝ͅ"̵̻̮̞͓͎̯͍͇̬̃͂͂̎̎̆̒̈́̒͛̓̕͘͘Rimuru shouts.

Rimuru raises his katana in the air.

“[KURAIJIN]!” Rimuru roars, as black thunder pours out of his sword.

Suddenly, the clouds above V’s tower split open revealing a giant purple magic circle. The magic circle was so big everyone in Pentagram City saw it.

Valentino was in his private lounge, he really wanted to just go to Angel had drag his ass back to the studio so he could remind him who owns him. But as he was consumed by his thought, he noticed that the outside had suddenly became purple.

“What the hell?” he said looking out the window.

Meanwhile down with Vox and Velvette, since they are away from windows they don’t notice the change. Well, until it’s too late.

Suddenly, a massive lightning bolt shoots out of the magic circle.

“Oh fu-“ Valentino barely manages to shoutout before the entire tower, and all the guilty demons in it are annihilated. Those that are innocent are spared from annihilation because Rimuru put a barrier around them. The blast radius was a major part of pentagram city, and yet most demons were unharmed by the blast, Rimuru wouldn’t punish those that had nothing to do with the crime after all.

Rimuru had just wiped a massive part of Pentagram City off the map with one move.

Rimuru, satisfied with the destruction he caused the little bugs, puts away his sword.

“You little bugs are lucky; I didn’t kill your souls so you will regenerate after a little while.” Rimuru says, before looking back at the place where V’s Tower once stood. His eyes still slit like a lizard, glowing in the dark like some beast stalking it’s prey.

“Know your place, f̷̡̨͎̹̤̠͕̫̭̺̖̱̰̉̄͊͒̊ͅö̵̭̝̱̼̙̰̰͍̙̩̝͕̭͒́̍̄̃̈́̔̽̐̎̒̈́͜͝ͅǫ̵̨̨̥͎̹̜̭͕̙̭͖̀̑̓͠l̷̛͎͕̿͛̈́̾͊̒͒̌̓̋͌̐̆̕s̶̡̹̰̪͉̻̤̥͉̳̣̺͒̿̀̏” Rimuru says coldly, the last part being eldritch in nature.

Chapter Text

“Breaking News!” Katie Killjoy says with the same old unnerving smile she always has, “The tower of the infamous Overlord Group, the V’s, has been completely fucking annihilated by some unknown spell!”

“At 12:45 am, reports of a big ass magic circle above the V’s tower started coming in.” “A few seconds later and a massive lightning bolt wiped the tower and a large portion of Pentagram City off the face of existence.” Katie explains.

“Investigations on who or what could’ve launched this powerful magic spell is still on going.” Tom Trench says, “Some theorized that the V’s had upset one of Hell’s royalty, which lead to the recent incident.” “However, this investigation is still on going.”

“That’s right Tom.” Katie says cracking her neck in an unnatural way, “The V’s are expected to make a full recovery, as they remanifested just this morning.”

Katie then for some reason took her mug of boiling hot coffee and smashed it into Tom’s face, making him cry out in pain.

“Now on to the next segment-“

Vaggie turns off the TV, “What the hell happened yesterday?”

Angel Dust shrugged, “Well, my workplace got completely destroyed.” “I’m glad I left early, or else I would’ve been caught up in it.”

Charlie walks into the room, “Yeah, I saw it yesterday from my room.” “Whoever casted that spell was crazy strong.”

Vaggie nods, “But who could it have been.”

Charlie looks over, “I think it was my grandfather.”

Angel Dust looks at Charlie as if she had grown two head, “Uh, pardon?”

“Yeah, perhaps he had learned what Valentino did to me yesterday.” Charlie says, “You know, the whole licking me thing.”

Angel Dust laughs, “Toots, that’s impossible.” “There’s no way that femboy could’ve killed three Overlords with one spell.”

“But he is my grandfather.”

“You really believe that nonsense.” Angel Dust says raising an eyebrow, “He may be a bit strong, but I doubt he’s your grandfather.”

“C’mon Angel, there’s no way he’d lie about that.”

“Sweetie, we’re in hell.” Angel says, “People lie all the time, that Femboy is not your grandfather.”

“...Because if he was, that’d mean he’s stronger than God, which we all know is impossible.”

Husk is sitting at the bar listening in on the conversation washing a beer glass slowly, “Tch, Angel...you’re so naïve.”

“I’m completely certain that Rimuru had destroyed the V’s tower, there’s no way it could’ve been anyone else.” Husk thinks to himself.

Husk is a Former Overlord, and therefore has the ability to sense the magic power within all people with his Unique Skill [Gambler], therefore...

“When I first met the guy, I knew something was off about him.” Husk thinks, “All beings have at least a small magical presence, even if they can’t use magic.” “That includes humans.”

“However, I couldn’t sense any magical power from Rimuru, but he is still able to use magic.” Husk continues, remembering the time Rimuru destroyed Sir Pentious’ ship. “It was unnerving, as if I was staring into a void.”

Everything from his aloof mannerisms to the way he spoke was odd, but Husk could see through it. In reality, Rimuru had one thing that an idiot wouldn’t have, absolute confidence. It was as if he was certain that nobody in this world could even touch him. It was almost like he didn’t fear anything, which is weird for someone in hell. All people are afraid of at least one thing in hell, even his boss Alastor feared something.

But not Rimuru...

Husk is certain that Rimuru is at least Demon Royalty level, if not even higher.

“I haven’t been this curious about someone ever since my human life.” Husk thinks,

“Who even is that guy?”

Meanwhile with the person in question, he is still comedically furious from what he witnessed yesterday.

“Those little bugs think they’re the greatest and most powerful overlords ever?!” Rimuru fumes as he walks through Pentagram City, “What a joke!”

[“Master...”] Ciel says.

Rimuru takes a deep breath, “Sorry Ciel, I think I acted too rashly.” “I should’ve done it differently.”

[“No, I understand why you did what you did, Master.”] Ciel says, [“They did indeed deserved it.”]

Rimuru sighs, “Ok, where too next?”

[“I recommend the Gluttony Ring, where Queen Beelzebub resides.”]

“So we’re going to see Bee, eh?” Rimuru says, “She’s probably one of the nicer sins, along with Oz and Luci.”

[“Yes, she is currently holding a party at her mansion.”] Ciel says.

“Ok, I guess I’ll use Origin Skill [God of Creation Ahura Mazda] to forge an invite.” Rimuru says.

[“I wonder why the Master insists on using skills?”] Ciel wonders.

“Yes, I know my power infinitely transcends the concept of skills, so I don’t need them anymore.” Rimuru says, “But using skills is fun.”

[“I suppose it is fun to use them.”] Ciel says.

“Says the skill maniac, Ciel-sensei...” Rimuru smiles.

[“Heh.”]

“Someone’s proud of themselves...” Rimuru says.

Rimuru then teleports himself to the Gluttony Ring, and finds the line into Bee’s party.

“The one thing I like the best about Bee is how inclusive she is.” Rimuru thinks to himself, “Bee is a very good prince of hell, even to the lower stationed demons like Imp’s and Hellhounds.”

Rimuru notices a lot of Imp’s in line with invitations, but the vast majority of the demons in line are Hellhounds. Hellhounds are in Rimuru’s opinion the most mistreated of hell’s demons, Demon Royalty like the Ars Goetia treat them as nothing more than pets. Hell, even some Imp’s treat Hellhounds like pets!

Bee, however, does not. Which is why Rimuru likes her so much.

After a short wait, Rimuru gives his forged invitation to the guard. The guard does check for forgeries, but Ciel was perfect with her forgery and there were no differences found in the letter. And so, he was let into the party without issue.

Rimuru was in awe at the inside of Bee’s mansion, it had a beautiful honey-comb structure. She had some good taste. She always went by the name Bee as a nickname, so therefore most of her things were Bee related.

Eventually, Rimuru found himself in a sea of demons surrounding main part of the building. Bee wasn’t just a proprietor of her sin, but also a musician as well. This is what Rimuru wanted Asmodeus to realize, that he was more than just his sin. This is where Bee probably was going to throw this party. However, someone of interest caught Rimuru’s eye. One hell hound out of the bunch, Rimuru definitely recognized.

“Oi, Ciel-sensei...” Rimuru says, “Isn’t that Blitz’s adoptive daughter?”

[“Indeed, that individual is Loona.”] Ciel says.

“Interesting, she doesn’t strike me as the type to come to this sort of party.”

[“I surmise that the only reason she came to this party is because she has a crush on Bee’s boyfriend; Vortex.”]

“Oops, Oops...That’s not good.” Rimuru says, “Beelzebub might be one of the nicer sins, but she is also rather unpredictable.”

[“Indeed, but the individual Loona has a strong soul for someone of her species.”] Ciel says, [“That is rare since demons usually have a weak soul and meager ego, but hers is definitely on the stronger side.”]

“Oh, that’s impressive.” Rimuru says, “I wonder how strong she could get in the future.”

He just really wishes she wouldn’t waste her talents on being a hitman, it seems wasteful. He is all too aware of I.M.P.’s little excursions on earth, and he intends to stop them at some point. He understands that they need jobs, but messing with the balance of Earth is not something that they should do. It’d be one thing if they were doing nothing but going on a harmless vacation, but this is not right.

Suddenly, Rimuru hears a very familiar voice. It was Beelzebub addressing the crowd, with the same party-girl type speech he remembers back when she was in heaven.

“Haha!” Beelzebub laughs, “How are my dirty bitches doing to-night!”

Oop, it looked like the song was about to begin. Rimuru quickly grabs a cup of beelze-juice, this will help him fit in with the crowd.

“Are you all ready to party with the queen bee of glu-tto-ny?!”  Beelzebub says.

“Hell yeah, ‘cause the honey is flowing tonight and this bitch about to get fucking wild!” Beelzebub shouts.

“Let’s get it started, ow!”

A song slowly fades in, as Beelzebub begins her song. It was a catchy toon, one mostly about cotton candy and honey, I mean ‘Cotton Candy’ was the song’s name after all. She used her magic to do stuff like create food on the spot or enlarge it. She was definitely doing a really good job at spreading her sin, he was proud of her. While she continued with her performance, Rimuru did an analysis of her.

Name: Beelzebub

EP: 430,230

Race: Fallen (Seraph Class)

Blessing: Gift of Gluttony, Singularity’s Absolute Protection

Demon Lord Seed

Unique Skill [Gluttony] (Subskills: Predation, Stomach, Mimicry, Isolation, Corrosion, Receive, Provide)

Extra Skill [Matter Creation]

Intrinsic Skill: Ultra-Speed Regeneration, Immortality

Resistances: Holy-Demonic Attack Resistance, Natural Effects Resistance, Thermal Fluctuation Resistance.

Quite the impressive show from Beelzebub, she had the second highest EP of all the Seven Deadly Sins, and she had good resistances too. But the one thing that caught his eye, was a very familiar ability. Rimuru’s face flips into a sad expression.

“Unique Skill [Gluttony]...” Rimuru mutters, he should’ve known that Bee would have that skill.

[“Master...”] Ciel says with concern.

The previous owner of that skill was Rimuru himself, in fact it wouldn’t be incorrect to say Rimuru was the very first Sin of Gluttony. Well, he still has [Gluttony], because he has all skills. But it’s outgrown its use long ago. It reminded him of the good old days, back when he still had the Jura-Tempest Federation. Back when he still had all his friends...

A shadow covers Rimuru eyes, but eventually he shakes it off; “Well, at the very least...I’m glad Beelzebub has that skill, I know she’ll use it well.”

Eventually Beelzebub’s song ends, and he notices her fly down to Tex.

“Ok, so how am I going to mess with my cute little great-great granddaughter today!” Rimuru says with a comedically evil smile.

[“Master.”] Ciel sighs, [“Are you planning to stop time again?”]

“Nah, that’s getting way too old!” Rimuru says, “And besides, I probably shouldn’t have done that...you saw how he reacted...”

Yep, the man was petrified. He went too far with that little prank.

“Hmm....” Rimuru thinks to himself, then he snaps his finger; “Ah-Ha! That will do!”

[*sigh*]

“Did you just sigh...?”

[“Negative, I have no record of such an event.”]

“Liar...”

[....]

Meanwhile down with Tex, Loona, and Bee. They are currently talking, Beelzebub seems to really like Loona, however it seems that appreciation is one-sided as Loona seems not amused by Bee. Maybe to the point that she might even be willing to start a fight. But before their conversation can go on any further, Bee feels a small hand tug on her clothing. All three look down to notice a humanoid demon that is about 3’3”, she has beautiful blue-silverish hair and big golden eyes.

“Um...” The little girl stutters, “Are you Lady Beelzebub, nanodesu?”

Loona and Tex look down, what is a child doing in a party like this?!

However, for some reason a chill went down their spine and their fur started standing up on its own. It’s like their instincts are begging them to get as far away from this little girl...no...far away from this THING...as quickly as possible. She may seem harmless, but there is no way that she’s just a normal hellborn demon.

Suddenly, the thing looked up at Vortex and Loona and gave a cheerful smile. Immediately, the moment that the three made eye contact, Loona and Vortex felt their heart drop and went pale.

“Why...Why does it feel like my life...no...my existence is in immediate danger!?” Loona thinks to herself.

Meanwhile...

[“Master...”] Ciel says.

“Yeah, what?” Rimuru thinks to Ciel, not changing his expression.

[“Really?”]

“What?!” Rimuru thinks, “This seemed like a fun way to do things!”

“Bee is known for her love of cute things and will ignore any and all red flags about me if I am deemed adorable, if I use Milim’s ability “Absolute Cuteness” then she will no doubt want to take me home with her!”

[“That’s not even a real skill, Master.”] Ciel sighs, [“All you did was use [Universal Shapeshift] to make yourself smaller and exaggerate all your features to make yourself look as adorable as possible.”]

“Well, of course it’s not a real skill.” Rimuru says, “This whole thing is a gamble, if Bee’s mind labels me as adorable then I’ve won.” “But if I’m found out...”

Vortex and Loona look rather confused, “Hey, what is a kid doing in a party like thi-“

“Oi, don’t bring up the details Vortex!” Rimuru inwardly scolds Vortex for bringing up that.

Vortex was about to say but what shoved out of the way by Beelzebub, “I sure am!” “You’re so adorable, I want to take you home!”

“Ah, thank you, nanodesu!” Rimuru says with a big smile.

“Hell Yeah!” Rimuru thinks to himself, “I’ve won!”

“So, is there anything that you’d like from me cutie pie?”

“Uhm....Can I...” Rimuru stutters and adds a shy blush to his face trying to seem shy to make himself even more appealing.

“Can I...have an autograph please, nanodesu?!” Rimuru says bowing 90 degrees.

["You are pure evil, Master."]

"Oh hush it you!"

“Ok, I tried adding a blush to my face and stuttering in order to make myself seem shy...” Rimuru thinks to himself, “Now to see how effective it was...”

And like Rimuru had thought, it was super effective.

“Aw, of course you can sweetheart!” Bee squeals picking up Rimuru who giggles in response.

“Sorry Tex, I gotta get this cutie an autograph!” Bee says, “I’ll be right back!”

“Wait Bee-“ Vortex says, Rimuru takes notice of his appearance

Looking at his appearance, his fur is sticking up on end and his heartbeat is getting louder, he’s also pale as a ghost as well. He even is shaking and seems to be on the verge of tears from just being in his mere presence. Yep, Hellhounds instincts are no joke. He seemed completely harmless, and yet Loona and Vortex could tell that something was wrong with him. Loona also looks like she’s about to shit herself as well.

“Oh?” Rimuru thinks with an inward smirk, “It seems you’ve noticed something off about me, impressive!

“However, it’s too late you fool!” He says comedically like an anime villain, “Now that I’ve made Bee think I’m adorable, she will ignore any and all red flags about me!”

“Although it’s strange, why are they that scared of me?” Rimuru thinks to himself, “Maybe it’s just their instincts.”

Right after Bee had left the room they were in. Vortex and Bee turned to each other slowly.

“Uh, Tex...what the hell was that?” Loona stutters out.

“I...I don’t know...” Vortex says still pale.

“That thing, it wasn’t a demon, was it?” Loona asks.

Vortex takes a deep breath to calm himself down, “I’ve meet the other sins before, and yet I didn’t feel like my life was in danger being in their presence.” “

“Do you think Beelzebub will be ok?”

Vortex shakes his head, “I don’t know...because...”

“...I think that thing is even stronger than Bee.”

Chapter Text

Beelzebub led Rimuru into a room with a few posters and other collectables. She quickly pulls out a couple of items and signs them.

“You didn’t seem to bring anything to sign, so I’ll give you this.” Beelzebub says with a smile.

Rimuru looks up at her; “Incredible, she was so thoughtful that she even gave me more stuff.”

Well, he was happy to have more of Bee’s stuff. After all, it was his job as a grandfather to be his granddaughter’s biggest cheerleader.

“Are you sure?” Rimuru says, “It seems rather valuable...”

“Nah, it’s cool!” Beelzebub says with a smile and wave of her hand, “Besides, I always like it when my fans smile!”

Rimuru gains a bright smile, the bible describes Beelzebub as one of the evilest arch-demons that rules over hell. Second only to Lucifer. However, he doesn’t care about that book, Beelzebub is a good person. Sure, she had her faults, but who doesn’t?

“Thank you miss!” Rimuru says.

He turns towards the door to leave, but he stops right before leaving.

“You know, Miss Beelzebub?’

“Yeah?”

Suddenly his voice that he had been purposely been in a high pitch drops back down to his normal speak; “No matter what anyone in heaven says, or what the humans think about you...”

Beelzebub quickly notices the change in Rimuru’s demeanor, the once little girl that the most innocent eyes she had ever seen and been replaced with ones of elegant maturity.

“I just want you to know...” Rimuru grows in size until he’s in his normal size.

“...that me and your father are proud of you.”  Rimuru says before he slowly disappears.

Leaving Beelzebub sitting awkwardly in silence, until she says with a smile; “Well...that happened!”

Meanwhile back at the Hotel.

“Uh, Charlie, are you doing, ok?”  Angel Dust asks.

“No!” Charlie says with an unhinged smile, the bags over her eyes clearly showing she’s had little sleep; “I’m trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, I know redemption is possible, but I don’t know what I’m missing.”

She then breaks out into an unhinged laughter that makes the entire hotel shake, as her horns grow out briefly.

“Well, in that case...how about we...”

“No...” Charlie says, knowing what her girlfriend is about to suggest.

“Call your....”

“Don’t say it please!”

“...Father!”

“Ugh!” Charlie says.

Husk catches on to Charlie’s unenthusiastic reaction to her father, to which he gains a sly smile.

“Wait, Charlie...do you have daddy issues?” Husk snickers.

“No!” Charlie says waving her hands in denial, “We’ve just never been close, and once mom and dad split...we just kinda...drifted away from each other.”

Husk then turns back to Angel, “You see, daddy issues.”

But right after Husk says that sentence, Rimuru appears out of thin air right next to Husk; “So we calling Luci-chan now?”

This startles everyone in the room, especially Husk who screeches like a cat and jumps up about a thousand feet into the air and lands on all four of his limbs with his tail and fur spiking out like some sort of puffer fish.

“Grandpa?!” Charlie shouts in shock, “Good Satan, you scared ever loving heaven out of us!”

“Sorry, Charlie.” Rimuru says, then turns to Husk; “Also, nice reaction Husk...I’ll tease you about it later.”

Husk realizes the position he is in and quickly straightens himself out, trying to cover the blush on his face with his hat; “I’ll kill you for this later, Tempest!”

“Yeah, sure you will.” Rimuru says playfully rolling his eyes.

“I actually came here to enlist Luci-chan to help us.” Rimuru says, “Come on Charlie, he’s the best option we have to get heaven to listen to us!”

“Yeah, but...he’s lost his dreams.” Charlie says, “He probably won’t support mine...”

“Yeah, but if he does then it’s not because he thinks it impossible.” Rimuru says, “He has his own reasons, and he cares about you a lot more then you think he does!”

Charlie looks back to her grandfather, “Are you sure?”

“Yep, positive.”

“Ok then, I’ll call him.”

Charlie pulls out her phone and taps Lucifers’ number in. Next thing Rimuru hears is Lucifer saying in an all-too cheerful voice.

“Hey bitch!”

Rimuru facepalms himself so hard that he falls over backward with a thud, as Charlie looks on awkwardly.

“Good lord, it’s far worse than I expected...” Rimuru mutters in exasperation.

[“Indeed, it seems Lucifer-dono’s depression has gotten worse from when we last saw him, which is causing him to lose more control of himself.”] Ciel says, [“I theorize that it’s because of Lilith’s disappearance seven years ago.”]

“Sorry Charlie, just please bear with him for a second...”

Charlie nods, “Hey dad, I just wanted to call to ask something.”

Charlie spends a few minutes on the phone before closing it, “Well, my dad is coming to the Hotel, but he hasn’t said if will support it or not.”

“I guess we have to prepare for him, don’t we?” Rimuru says, the moment he does the silence that fills the room turns into an unbridled chaos.

In a few minutes, the biggest shit show of a reception was created. The banners said stuff like ‘It’s a Boy’ and ‘Welcome Daddy’ the latter Rimuru was certain Angel Dust had made, his subordinates could’ve done a lot better a lot faster.

“My subordinates...” Rimuru closes his eyes and put his hands in a praying gesture, “I’m sorry I took you all for granted!”

Rimuru then decides that he would make something, since this was going to be the first time he saw Luci-chan in person after all. He gets into the kitchen and starts preparing a lavish feast. After an hour, Lucifer busts through the door and immediately hugs Charlie.

“Charlie!” Lucifer says, “I’ve missed you SO much!”

“Hey Dad, it’s nice to see you too.” Charlie awkwardly smiles.

Rimuru notices Lucifer walking through the door, but he also notices that Alastor is not too very fond of his great-grandson. It was rather strange.

“I’d like to introduce you too our residents.” Charlie says, “Sir Pentious...”

Sir Pentious suddenly salutes; “Your majesty!” before faceplanting in some of the cookies he made.

“Husk.”

“Hey, it’s nice to meet you I guess...” Husk says in his usual monotone voice.

“Angel Dust.”

“Heya short king~” Angel says seductively.

“And Nifty!”

“Hello Bad Boy!” Nifty says climbing up on to Lucifer.

“Don’t worry Dad, we’re eighty percent sure that she’s harmless!” Charlie chuckles nervously.

Charlie suddenly turns towards Alastor who narrows his eyes at the King of Hell.

“And this is Alastor!”

For some reason that Rimuru has yet to understand, these two really don’t like each other for some reason. So much so that they start roasting each other out of nowhere, but before it could escalate Lucifer immediately changes to subject to wanting to meet more residents. Charlie decides to introduce her girlfriend Vaggie.

“Dad, this right here is my girlfriend Vaggie!”

Lucifer seems rather surprised, but he quickly shows his support...in strange way though; “Oh my golly!” “You like girls, so do I, we have so much in common!”

“Put her here Maggie.” Lucifer says pulling Vaggie into a hug.

“Oi, Oi, there’s no way the kid got Vaggie’s name wrong!” Rimuru shakes his head from a distance.

Lucifer quickly notices the large amount of food on the table, “You hired a chef here too?”

“Yeah, I’ll introduce him in a second.” Charlie nods.

Lucifer quickly picks up a gyoza Rimuru made, and takes a bite.

Suddenly his face drops into a stupefied expression, it was as if he saw the truth to all things that will ever be.

“Oh my Satan...” Lucifer says breathlessly, before immediately chowing down on the gyoza as if it was his last meal.

“This is incredible!” Lucifer says, “It tastes better than any food I’ve ever had before!”

“Heck, even Heaven’s food cannot compare!”

Everyone understands what Lucifer is talking about, Rimuru’s food is literally the best. Lucifer finally pauses after eating almost the entire plate of gyoza and sighs; “That was awesome..”

“Thanks for the compliment, your majesty.” Rimuru says walking up and placing a tray of ramen noodles on the table; “Everyone eat as much as you’d like today!”

Most of the people in the room cheer in happiness, especially Angel Dust who was practically drooling; “Sweet, I can’t wait!”

"Your cooking is the best, Mr. Rimuru." Vaggie says with a smile.

"Aw, thanks for the compliment!" Rimuru says with a smile, "Charlie definitely picked good with you." 

But one person didn’t pay much attention to the food, it was Lucifer, who was busy staring a hole into Rimuru. Rimuru notices this and looks back at Lucifer, he gives a smile.

“Is there something wrong, your majesty?” Rimuru asks still with the same smile on his face.

Lucifer doesn’t answer, and Rimuru starts to see a few beads of sweat appear on his face. Lucifer then quickly walks over to Charlie.

“Excuse me, Charlie?”

“Yes Dad?”

“Can you come with me for a second?” Lucifer says, briefly glancing back cautiously at Rimuru.

“Yeah, sure...” Charlie says.

They quickly move to another part of the hotel. Lucifer brought Charlie behind the wall, and checked once with sight and magic to make sure they weren't being followed.

“What’s wrong Dad?”

“Sweetie...” Lucifer begins, “What is that thing doing in the hotel?”

“Uh, what ‘thing’ are you referring to?” Charlie asks.

“The one with the blue-silver hair.”

“Oh you mean Rimuru?” Charlie says, “He’s the chef I was talking about.”

Lucifer lets out a large sigh, “Charlie, that thing......is not something you should be trifling with.”

“He is powerful...beyond powerful...” Lucifer continues, “But even I don’t know how powerful it is, I can’t sense anything from it.”

“Well, when he first showed up...he said that he was my great-great-grandfather.” Charlie says.

Lucifer eyes widen, “He said he was family...?!”

“Yeah.”

Lucifer shakes his head, “Family or not...that thing is an abomination....”

“What do you mean by that?”

Lucifer looks back over his shoulder, “It’s the emotions he invokes...”

“When I laid my eyes on him, I couldn’t sense anything...it was as if he wasn’t even there....like he didn’t even exist.”

“...But also, I felt a sense of warmth and comfort I haven’t felt in years, it was the same feeling you’d get from being in your mother’s arms after a nightmare...”

Lucifer breathes a shaky sigh, as more sweat starts to pour down his face. It seems he was hiding his true feelings to appear strong in front of Rimuru.

“And yet...”

“...At the same time, I felt an unfathomable primal TERROR and FEAR!” Lucifer says as the atmosphere around them gets heavier.

“It was as if I was staring at the most horrific and evil monster to ever exist right in it’s eyes.”

“I don’t know or sense anything about it, and yet I’m 100% certain that thing only sees us as nothing more than fictional beings, little sub-atomic particles that it could wipe from all existence without even thinking about it.” Lucifer seems to begin to have a panic attack.

“The THING you saw in there is highly likely only an avatar of an unfathomable and incomprehensible entity that exists outside the bounds of our plane of reality, it is only there so it can interact with lower planes of existence.”

“That THING is something that should never be touched or provoked...” “IT’S entire EXISTENCE TRANSCENDS EVERYTHING and ANYTHING, even someone as powerful as father cannot compare to that THING...” Lucifer rambles as he starts to shake. He was having a mental breakdown, as if he was going crazy.

“Dad...?” Charlie says frightened by Lucifer’s mental breakdown.

Lucifer finally catches his breath, seemingly calming down; “Never in my years have I ever thought I’d meet an entity beyond my father...but I suppose I’ll have to rewrite what I thought was impossible.”

“But seriously, Charlie...we must treat that THING with respect and caution...or else, it could mean the end of us all...” Lucifer says, as Charlie nods.

Suddenly Rimuru walks out from behind the wall with a normal expression on his face; “Ah, there you guys are!”

The moment Lucifer heard Rimuru’s voice he lets out a high-pitched scream, a scream that probably shouldn't come out of a grown mans mouth.

"Uh, is there something wrong?" Rimuru says with a confused face.

"Oh, no..." Charlie says, "It's nothing gramps, you just startled Dad for a second."

"Oh oops, I'm sorry for startling you Luci-chan." Rimuru says.

"Oh, no it's fine!" Lucifer says quickly as if he was desperately trying not to make Rimuru mad. 

Rimuru looks at Lucifer for a second with a raised eyebrow before shrugging and motioning to the dinning area, “You guys’ better hurry up with your discussion, or else Angel is going to eat you out of house and home.”

Charlie nods, and walks over to Rimuru...with some hesitation in her step.

As she looked toward Rimuru, who looks back with a smile that quickly shifts into a concern expression; “Are you ok, Charlie?” “You seem paler then usual, did something bad happen?”

“Oh, no...it’s nothing...”

"Huh, if you say so." 

Charlie looks back at her Grandfather, who she is now seeing in a different light.

Who was this man that calls himself her grandfather?!

Chapter Text

Rimuru has no idea why Lucifer had dragged Charlie away like that. But what he did notice is how Lucifer looked at him with borderline terror in his eyes.

“What’s up with him?” Rimuru wonders, “Why does he seem so frightened of me?”

[“Most likely, he understands more of the Master's true nature.”] Ciel says, [“You are something that cannot be fathomed by any entity, living or not living and therefore he is scared of you.”]

“I see...” Rimuru says sadly, he hates that his own family is terrified of him. Sure, he did prank some of them, but he assumed that if they got to know him that they’d be understanding and accept him.

“Doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen though...” Rimuru mutters, of course, they wouldn’t accept him, he technically isn’t even a living thing anymore. It wouldn’t be wrong to say he didn’t survive the end of all.

But before Rimuru could fall deeper into his depressed thoughts, Ciel interrupted him.

[“Master, it seems like Fizzarolli and Blitz have been kidnapped.”]

“Wait, what?!” Rimuru internally shouts, “How in the world did that happen?!”

Rimuru quickly used a skill to investigate the past, he noticed that Fizz and Blitz started a fight when Fizz mentioned his horns being bigger than Blitz’s. Seems like that cut pretty damn deep since Blitz did not take that sitting down.

“Those two dumbasses really started a fight in the middle of Greed?!” Rimuru facepalms, Fizz is a celebrity so drawing attention to himself by starting a fight in a city literally called ‘Ransom’ was a terrible idea.

[“The leader of that same gang is the father of Moxxie, his name is Crimson.”] Ciel explains, [“It seemed he hired the same assassin that tried to kill Stolas and is now planning on holding him hostage to get ransom money out of Asmodeus.”]

“Eh?!” Rimuru wonders, “Are they stupid?!” “Asmodeus is one of my Grandchildren and a member of the Seven Deadly Sins, that’s practically a death sentence!”

[“It seems they are under the false assumption that Asmodeus is the weakest and most helpless member of the sins, despite the fact that Asmodeus is stronger than Belphegor and Mammon.”] Ciel says, [“It seems the people of hell incorrectly believe the amount of magicules one has determines how strong they are, despite it only being a measurement of energy.”]

“That’s right, magical energy isn’t the same as overall power.” Rimuru nods, “Older Arch-Demons back during the Forgotten Time, had the same amount of magicules as New Arch-Demons....and yet their strength was on completely different levels.”

“That’s because the Older Arch-Demons had better energy control than their younger counterparts, which caused a gap in strength.”

“So, how are we gonna do this?” Rimuru wonders, “It seems they are currently in an old, abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of the Greed Ring.”

Rimuru walks up to Charlie, “Hey, Charlie?”

“Uh, yeah...what’s up?”

“It seems Asmodeus’ boyfriend and Stolas’ boyfriend have gotten into a bit of trouble.” Rimuru explains, “I’m gonna go rescue them, I’ll be back in a jiffy.”

“Ok, be careful.”

“No need to worry, I don’t need to be careful.” Rimuru smiles, as he vanishes using [Space-Time Domination].

“Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit!” Blitz exclaims as he and Fizz crawl along selves, trying to escape Crimson's mafia.

“Is this what I get for giving that shit bag of a dad advice on marriage!” Blitz growls remembering when he exposed Moxxie's Ex-Boyfriend as a scam artist.

“Would it kill you to be more subtle?!” Fizz groans.

“Says the man who started a fight in the middle of Ransom.” Blitz shoots back, quickly dodging a knife that was thrown at him.

“You left me for dead you prick!” Fizz growls, “I trusted you; you were my best friend!”

“I did try to save you, Fizz!” Blitz says emotionally, “I know I fucked up, and it’s true that I’m the reason you lost all of your limbs!”

“I didn’t mean to cause that fire.” Blitz says.

Fizz's face softens up at that, “But if you did, then why didn’t you visit me at the hospital?”

“Because he told me that you didn’t want to see me.” Blitz says a matter-of-factly.

“I never told them that!” Fizz says.

“Bullshit, you didn’t?”

“No, I seriously didn’t!” Fizz says, “And I wasn’t even told that you came to see me!”

Suddenly, something clicked for the two, realizing that this was all a misunderstanding; “Ohhhh....”

“Ohhhh...WOAH!”  “Christ on a stick!” Blitz exclaims quickly noticing a Mafia Member try to kill Fizz, as Blitz proceeds to quickly shoot his face off.

“We’re trying to have an emotional moment here!” Fizz says.

Fizz and Blitz proceed to come up with a plan, Fizz will use his flexibility to help Blitz quickly take out Mafia members. And this seems to work for a short period of time, but they start to run out of places to run.

“Well, it has been fun...Blitz.” Striker says walking up to the two, “But it’s time for me to put you two down, because I’m about to break you like a horse!”

“Oh, don’t you dare talk sexy to me!” Blitz says.

“You’re still on the horse thing?!” Fizz exclaims.

But as Striker and the Mafia train their weapons on them, suddenly a magic circle appears right before Fizz and Blitz. And out of it pops a very exasperated masked Rimuru.

“Huh, you are...” Blitz says, recognizing the entity from the bar.

“Geez, can’t you two stay out of trouble?” Rimuru groans, “Ozzy-chan was right to worry about you, Fizzarolli-kun.”

“Wait, aren’t you that femboy who called himself Oz’s Great Grandfather?” Fizz says, sweating a little.

“He’s WHO’S Grandfather?!” Blitz exclaims.

“Oi, I’m not a femboy!” Rimuru says, “I’m sexless!”

“Wait, if you're sexless, does that mean...?” Fizz thinks, as he suddenly realizes what that means, “Oh...you poor soul...”

“I don’t like what you're insinuating, Fizz.” Rimuru groans.

“Hey, who are you?!” Striker asks, “We’re the in hell did you come from?!”

Rimuru doesn’t even turn to acknowledge Strikers’ existence, as he kneels down to confirm that Blitz and Fizz are ok; “Anyway, are you guys ok?”

“Yeah, I’m my right arm is a bit banged up...but I’m fine other than that.” Fizz nods.

“As good as I could be.” Blitz nods.

This action of ignoring his presence enrages the assassin, “YOU ARROGANT PIECE OF SHIT!” “HOW DARE YOU IGNORE ME, BLUE BLOOD!”

He quickly raises his gun to fire at Rimuru, firing a few shots at the deity. But Rimuru sticks out a single index finger, and he uses it to deflect each bullet.

“How rude, did your parents ever tell you to not interrupt people when they're speaking?” Rimuru asks.

Striker realizes his mistake, “Right, I forgot regular bullets don’t work on blue bloods.” He growls.

“Oh?” Rimuru wonders, “What makes you think I’m a ‘Blue Blood’?”

“That outfit you're wearing.” Striker says, “Only a disgusting blue blood could wear something that fancy.”

“Ah, I see...” Rimuru says, noticing that Striker has switched weapons, “Ah, that’s a weapon inducing with angelic power right?”

“That’s right, and guess what that means?” Striker grins evilly.

“It means you can kill the Royalty of Hell that are not the Sins since they are vulnerable to the holy attribute.”

“You hit it right on the mark there, partner.” Striker says twirling the gun around, “You won’t be able to shrug off these bullets, this time you’ll die!”

“Is that so?” Rimuru says, “We’ll see about that.”

Striker notices the weird, unsettling calmness that surrounds Rimuru, but he quickly shrugs off any doubt.

“Die, filthy Blue Blood!” Striker says, shooting the heavenly weapon at Rimuru.

The bullets all hit Rimuru in a few spots, mostly where his vitals would be if he were a normal demon. Rimuru had to give him credit, he was a good shot.

“Hah, you're dead!” Striker laughs evilly.

But unfortunately for Striker...Rimuru was no ordinary demon.

Rimuru doesn’t fall over, or even seem to acknowledge the fact he got shot. In fact, there is no blood whatsoever, just holes in Rimuru’s body.

Striker stops his laughing and looks at Rimuru in shock.

“Not a bad shot, but unfortunately...Angelic Weapons have no effect on me.” Rimuru says as the holes in his body disappear.

“What?!” Striker shouts in fear, “That’s impossible, the holy bullets should have stopped your demonic powers from working!”

“You’re right, but I’m not a demon...and even if I was, no matter what, I will be the exception to any rule.” Rimuru says, “I have had enough of this. First, you try to hurt Stolas and now Fizz?”

“I can’t let your actions slide.” Rimuru says, “You will all die, here and now.

“You are just like the rest of those Blue Bloods!” Striker stutters out in fear and anger, “Treating us as if we’re worth nothing, as if we don’t mean anything!”

“It’s not about Rich and Poor, Royalty or the Common Man...” Rimuru says, “You cannot use your own suffering as an excuse to make others suffer, you will always pay for your actions.”

“And now, your time to pay has come.”

He quickly glances at Fizz and Blitz; “Stay close to me you two.”

The two imps nod timidly, shifting closer to Rimuru.

"But as a reward for impressing me, I'll grant you this." 

Rimuru holds up a single finger, and when he does a small fireball appears in it. It's incredibly tiny, barely even visible on the tip of his finger.

"This attack is nothing, it's so weak that even the term 'child's play' loses meaning." Rimuru says, "Even infinitesimal doesn't cut it."  

The mafia members instantly realize how dangerous the fireball Rimuru created on his fingertips is. Even though they couldn't sense the magic Rimuru summoned, the sight of the magic had Elicited some sort of primordial instinct deep within the depths of their very souls, an immensurable, unfathomable fear that made them tremble. They quickly try to run away, it's only natural that they did, I mean it's similar to how an animal would react to such an overwhelming difference in power, even Striker and Crimson who Rimuru didn’t even notice until now felt nothing but despair before a power that no amount of dirty play could ever bring it down.

Crimson looks on in partial fear and awe, he stops running, probably because he realizes the futility of it. However, his sense of soul-shattering fear was slowly replaced with awe and admiration. Almost as if his fear came full circle into acceptance.

"Magnificent..." He utters, "So this is the pinnacle of magical prowess..."

"It's so..."

“They're wasting their time, this magic is [Nuclear Strike Magic: Nuclear Flame], it will completely annihilate everything in a 100 km radius.” Rimuru thinks to himself, “How truly utterly useless.”

“[Divine Judgment]” Rimuru whispers.

He drops the small ball of fire; it slowly floats to the ground. Now he had to protect Fizz and Blitz, he’d be completely fine even without a barrier. This magic could never harm him, but the imps were a different story.

“Activate [Lord of Covenant Uriel], [Absolute Guard].”

Now an invisible shield of light covers Rimuru, Fizz, and Blitz.

The fire finally reaches the ground, at first...nothing seems to happen.

“Uh, well...that was anti-clim-“ Blitz was about to say, but then suddenly.

Everything went white.

"Beautiful..." a silent finish to Crimson's sentence rolls out of his now non-existent mouth. 

A massive explosion rocked the entire Greed Ring, the Nuclear Strike Magic Rimuru had unleashed had wiped the 100 kilometers out from the warehouse from this plane of existence. It was unlike anything the citizens of Greed had ever seen before, as a massive shockwave tore through the city, knocking people over. It seems Rimuru had teleported the location of the warehouse to far enough away that the citizens of Greed were not hurt.

At the Lust Ring, Asmodeus was busy trying to sign the documents to get his beloved Fizzy back. But then both he and Stolas felt an unbelievable magical explosion in the Greed Ring. It was as if someone gave a Hydrogen Bomb crack and steroids all at the same time.

Suddenly an earthquake started, and it wasn’t a small one at that. It was a massive Earthquake that cracked the ground of the Lust Ring.

“What was that!?” Stolas exclaims, “I have never felt a force like this before!”

Asmodeus thinks he knows who it is, there could only be one person who could manage such a feat. HIM.

Suddenly, there was a scream. It was a silent scream of many voices, yet so loud it felt as if it pierced through both Stolas' and Asmodeus' very being itself. It was as if the very beings of the demons killed by Rimuru were slowly wiped from existence.

Asmodeus and Stolas go pale, if it's truly who they think it is...

Then he is infinitely more powerful than Asmodeus' assumed he was, it was almost as if Rimuru's very presence alone could wipe the two of them from existence without any effort.

Suddenly the shaking stops, and there’s knocking on the door. And out walks a masked Rimuru, holding a traumatized Fizz in his arms.

“I believe this belongs to you?” Rimuru says.

All the fear Oz feels in Rimuru’s presence instantly fades upon seeing his beloved.

“Fizzy!” Oz says running over to Fizz.

Fizz finally snaps out of his trance-like state, and he runs into Oz’s arms.

“Ozzie!”

Then Asmodeus starts shamelessly swinging Fizz around, before cuddling him in his arms.

Rimuru takes off his mask and rolls his eyes, “Oh brother, what was that about them not being a couple?”

“Anyway, you two.” Rimuru addresses them, “You got lucky this time, but you need to never send Fizz outside without bodyguards ok?”

Oz nods, “Yeah, that’s a good idea.”

Rimuru nods, “Good, anyway...my work here is done.”

“They probably don’t want me here anyway...” Rimuru depressingly thinks.

Rimuru begins to leave, but Asmodeus runs up to him.

“Wait!”

Rimuru turns around, “Yeah, what’s up?”

“...Thank you for saving Fizz...” Asmodeus says, “I owe you one.”

Rimuru’s eyes widen briefly, before a smile appears on his face.

“No, you don’t owe me anything.” Rimuru says, before turning around and smiling.

“Just looking out for my family.”

And just like that, Rimuru vanishes as quickly as he appeared.

-Meanwhile, back at I.M.P.-

Moxxie looks around at the sorry state of the office, “Geez, what a time for a supposedly non-existent phenomenon to happen...”

“Oh, calm down Mox.” His wife, Millie says, “It could’ve been much worse.”

Loona rolls her eyes, “Yeah right, this place was already a shit show, but now it’s even shitter.”

Blitz then enters the room.

“Sir, thank goodness...after that hell quake hit, we were concerned for your safety...” Moxxie says, suddenly noticing his bosses’ emotions.

Blitz's face was completely pale, and he was trekking something into the building too. It looks like shit and piss, heck there are even stains in his pants.

“Uh sir, what happened?”

Blitz snaps out of it, “Moxxie, we need to make a blacklist of people we should NEVER fuck with.” “And we’re putting the blue-haired femboy on the top of that list.”

"Huh, surely your mistaken Sir..." Moxxie says, "Surely he can't be THAT powerful, right?" "...At least not on the level of a sin."

"That thing is too fucking unreasonable..." Blitz thinks to himself.

Being embraced by Rimuru's magic was an experience for Blitz. One he and Fizz would never forget, because it showed them at least part of the truth of Rimuru's power. He had learned that Rimuru was beyond everything, there is nothing in any plane of existence that could dare stand up to this monster, he doesn't know how much of Rimuru's power he knows about...But it was enough to get Blitz to understand that no entity could ever even hold a candle to Rimuru.

That is because...

H̷̠̠̍è̵̮ͅ ̴͈͗i̷̝̍s̴̢͙͂̐ ̷͎͝ê̵̜̱v̸̻͐͝e̶̡͎̐ȓ̴̝̐ỷ̵̳͍̒t̷͍̥̋h̶̭͆ḯ̵̫n̵̙͒͘g̷̞̤͂͘,̷̱̣̓ ̶̲̜̔͠ả̷̩̭̎n̶̩͒̌d̷̛̮ ̶̠̦́n̷͕̄̓o̶̦͎͌͠t̴͕̠̂ḣ̴̥͕í̸͙̣n̵̥͙̆͆g̸̡͈̽̕.̸̭́.̷̛̻̚.̷̺͘....

H̴̬͒̆̓e̶̥̲̾ ̷̭̈́̓͆i̵̦̓͋͑̉s̴̢̃̃ ̷͍̻͖̈́̐͛T̵̲̞̊͋r̸̹̈́̋͘u̵̯̤̚t̵̹̱͑̌̎ḩ̷̦͔̞̎͑͊,̸̦͛̋̍ͅ ̵͖̀y̴̥͋ĕ̸͚̬̬̺̊ţ̷̤̘̠̓ ̸̡̙̘̅̕ͅh̵̙͖͊͗͑͐è̸̬̹̪̐ ̷͍̹͐̒̽̈́ȋ̷̝̜͓͆̈́̕s̸̜̳̙͈͌͒́͛ ̸̛̣͚̯͌̑͜F̸̬͚̜͗a̷͈͌͊l̶̹̳͛̆s̷͚̥̅͜ẹ̸͓̒͊͛̚

Ḧ̶̠͍̙́̀̂͝ê̶̡͖̩̒͠ͅ ̵͇̰͌̈̕ī̴̺͇̭͛͊s̸̟̐͑̕͝ ̶̠̣̎̒̃a̴̳̎͋͝ ̶͕̯̘̪̓̉̏͛c̷͈̒̽̈́̊ő̴̹̔n̵̥̂͝ṫ̷͙̺̳̂̆͝r̷̲̜͌̑̈́a̶̞̯̎ď̶̹͠i̸̺͖̚̕͝c̶̛̜̳̞̮͒̈́͘t̸̘̜̔̈́̂i̴̼͊͒̀͗o̶͉͖̔̒͠͝ṇ̸͍͙͑͝,̴̖̼̠͊̀͂ ̶͇̯̂̐́̀y̸̢͎̠͔̎ȩ̸̦̼̍̒̂t̵̹̖̩͑̇̀ ̵͎̎͛ḩ̵͇̮̞̑e̴̤̰̙͝ ̴͇̔͌i̵̹͍͌͆͑͛s̸͕̯̋̔̐̒ ̷̙̉͑ḽ̷̭̭̞̒̈͌â̸̟w̸͓̅.̵͍̃͜͜.̸͈̹͋̃͝.̷̜̟̠͉͋̐̓

H̵̫͋̆e̴̳͚̿ ̶̮̭̓i̵̦̝͊͝s̴͕̹͌̕ ̶̥̀E̵̛̗̜t̷̻͛e̸̳͋͒r̸͖͛n̷̮̋ì̵͇̈́t̴̺̓͠y̶̼͝,̷̩̺͊͝ ̷̥̀̽y̷̧͝ĕ̵̻t̷̜̭̒ ̷̲̃̒E̴̱͚͛m̷̠̞̈p̶̛͜t̶͇̝̀y̶̪̪̽̾...

Ḧ̸̢̻̪̜́̇͋̓e̵̢̫̰͈̿̈́̍ ̶̥̝͈̃̃̊î̸̻̇̎s̸̻̞͔̋̚ ̶̛͉͕̬͠t̷̰͌̋̌̀h̷̯͈͎̤̾͑͛ẹ̶̥̋̀̇͒͜ ̵͎̾̽̋͝B̵̪̻̗̐̂̔̓r̵̦̠͈̣̈́̃̀̚i̶̦͌ġ̷͎͙h̸͎͉̋̚͘t̸̫͌͂̔͝ę̶̖̱͍̀̂̓͘s̶͈̟̄t̵͓̾̕ ̷̛̲̞̲̟͂̊̚L̸̰̳̊i̶͓̝̝͊̒͝g̶̠̝̼͋͒͑̈́h̸̘͝͝t̴̺̓͑̀,̶̨̜̪̝̎͆ ̸̩̅̀̀y̷̦̻̪̱̽̍ȩ̵̬̳̯͐̎t̷̡͔͙̫̍ ̸̪̂̈̑̉t̶͎͎̗͗͂h̷̗̎͗̇ͅè̸̛̞͌͊ ̷̧̎͛̄̒D̵̲̳̳̦͛ā̸͙͎̩̈́̆͗r̵̩̱͚͛k̸̡͒e̶̗̥̓́͐s̵̄̂̋͜͜͝t̸̙̭͔̔͐̀ ̴̻͊͌Ḁ̶̉͒b̴̳̚y̵͍͈̋̐͌s̶͉͎̙̬̓s̸̜͑̄.̶̨̨͔̙̊.̴̱͎̔.̸̮̊̋̔́

H̶̠̣̦̪̎̐̉ẽ̷̠̓ ̵̮͔̮̐̔̎̈́i̵͓̜̰̒͜s̷̫̘̀̈̐̍.̷̲̙͖̟̔̑͗̋.̴̬̭̻̌̽.̴̫͇͚͆.̸̨̍́͊͗

E̶̡̨̖̰͕̺̱͎̹̩̗͍̪̺̪̬̪̖̣̰̤̲̩̱̺͙͚̠̗͙̝̱̓̃̈́͆͗̏̎̚͜͜ͅR̶̡̧̛͇̻͎̠̻̝̼̹̗̞̣̫͚̬͚̝̲̈͛̆̔̈́͒̊̐̃̍̉͒̿̎͆̐̊̅̀̈́̐̒̓̄̄̂͌̓̉͑̑̿̓̐̈͑̐̔͝͝͝͝R̴̦̤͇͙̘͉̙̍͒̍̅̆̿̋̌́̾̎̈́̇͐́̇̕͠Ơ̸̡̨̡̡̧̧̢̯͇̘̥̖̣̭͉̪̠͇͚̯͕̼̳͙̝̣͙͈̰̳̻͕͚͚̮̿͛̏́͗̿̿͒̈́͒͗̈͌̀̋̕̕͘͜͝R̷̡̨̖̖̪̱̻͎̩͚͚̅̓͊̌͂̋͒̏̎̌̉̀͋͗̽̅̐̍̑̑͛͊̓̂̽̅̎̈́́̊͐̚̚̚̕͘͜

Chapter Text

With that mess out of the way, Charlie and her father had finally worked out their problems. Now they could be a family again, Rimuru was happy to see them smile as they hugged. 

He wanted to join them in the family hug, but he stopped himself. Lucifer was still scared of him; he had to wait until Lucifer got used to his presence before he tried to get closer to his estranged family. 

Even worse, his fear had seemed to have gotten to Charlie as well. Just a day ago, Charlie had looked at Rimuru without a shred of fear on her face. But whenever Rimuru tried to speak to her now, she would flinch, or Rimuru would see beads of sweat form on her face as she tried to escape the conversation with him as fast as possible. 

“Man, nothing is going my way, it seems...” Rimuru sighs, he is currently sitting on top of the roof of the Hotel, looking up at the sky. 

[“Master...”] Ciel mutters, she hated seeing her beloved master in such a position.  

“I guess this is the price I pay for having a beyond boundless power, huh?” Rimuru says. 

A beyond-boundless power has a beyond-boundless price. 

[“You could simply use your omnipotence to...”] 

“No, Ciel!” Rimuru shouts, “We’ve already had this discussion!”  

Ciel pauses, this is the first time in quite a while that her master shouted at her. 

“Mr. Rimuru!” Vaggie calls out, “Can I have a word with you?”  

Rimuru notices Vaggie’s calls and teleports down to her.  

“Yeah, what’s up, Vaggie?”  

Vaggie looks a little uncomfortable, but not about his presence, her discomfort seems to come from another reason. 

“Lord Lucifer and Charlie managed to get a courtroom discussion in heaven.” Vaggie says, “Charlie and I want you to come with us for protection, just in case things go wrong.”  

Rimuru finds this request odd; Charlie is a very optimistic person, why would she want protection in a place she thought was full of pure, good people? 

“Yeah, I’m willing to go,” Rimuru says. 

Vaggie smiles, “Thank you. Bringing you along will keep us at peace while in heaven.”  

“That’s true; I understand your hesitation to join Charlie in her meeting.” Rimuru says, “I don’t trust Sera at all, honestly.”  

He wished he could trust Sera, but he knows her true nature. As one of the Elders of Heaven, she was one of the ones who casted Lucifer out and ordered the exterminations to begin with, along with keeping it a secret from the winners in Heaven. 

He had a plan, though, just in case things go wrong. 

Rimuru joins Vaggie and Charlie down in the lobby, with the latter being as apprehensive of him as ever. 

“Well, are you guys ready to go?” Charlie asks. 

“Yep, I’m ready for Heaven, yippee.” Vaggie says nervously, trying her best to feign excitement. 

Rimuru nods, “I’m ready too.”  

Rimuru senses something, “Well, our ride is here.”  

Suddenly a beautiful golden portal opens in the lobby of the hotel, Charlie with a smile quickly shoves Vaggie through as Rimuru follows them through the portal. 

“By the way Charlie, where did you send the others?” Rimuru asks, “...And does it have something to do with the massive hole in the wall?”  

Charlie giggles nervously, “I sent Angel and the others out with his friend!”  

“You mean Cherri-Bomb?” Rimuru says as they walk towards the gates of heaven, “Is that really a good idea?” “You know how destructive she can be.” 

“I’m sure it’s fine, I paid her after all!” Charlie says. 

Rimuru grimaces, deciding to put a parallel existence down in the club that Angel and the other residents are heading. 

Eventually, the three see the gates of heaven, they are about as haughty as you can make a gate. He sees someone he recognizes from watching the mortal realm; it is Saint Peter. 

“Hello, welcome to heaven!” Saint Peter welcomes. 

“Hello!” Charlie waves back. 

“Do you have a name?” Saint Peter asks. 

“It’s Charlie.”  

Saint Peter starts flipping through the book, and then he realizes that there are about a billion different Charlies on the Earth, “Last Name?”  

“...Morningstar.” Charlie finishes. 

This last name rings a few bells as Saint Peter shifts uncomfortably, “Well..uh...” 

“We’re from Hell; we’re here for a meeting.” Rimuru specifies. 

Suddenly, a light appears from above Saint Peter, “It’s okay, Saint Peter, we can take it from here.”  

Sera and another angel float down after de-transforming from their semi-true forms. 

“Welcome, daughter of the Morningstar.” Sera says, “My name is Sera, the High Seraph.” 

“... You're gifted to be here.” she says kindly. 

“Oh, yeah...totally...” Rimuru says internally, he’s not buying this act of hers. 

The other Seraphim is someone Rimuru doesn’t recognize, however, and her kindness, unlike Sera’s, is not faked. The young seraph squeals in happiness to see the three, it was as if she was starved from new human interactions for a while. 

“Hello, my name is Emily, the other Seraphim!” Emily says, “But you can call me Em, Emmy...or whatever!”  

This makes Charlie snicker, “The name Charlie, it’s nice to meet you!”  

“Same here!”  

Emily notices Rimuru, “Are you also from Hell?” 

Rimuru shrugs, “You could say that...”  

Rimuru notices something about Emily, “Ah, so you’re Luci-chan's replacement.” “Incredible, I think you're far more bubblier than even he was back then.” 

“That’s right!” Emily nods, “Am I really?”  

“Yep.” Rimuru nods. 

Eventually, they are led through the gates of heaven, to a.....pop song? 

“Seriously, what’s with everyone in this plane of existence and musical numbers?” Rimuru groans. 

Heaven was infinitely nicer than Hell, which was to be expected. Beautiful golden skies and beautiful white and gold buildings, Winners casually walking around, chatting, or playing. Rimuru did have to admit, it was a nice break from the fiery pits of hell. 

---- 

Eventually, after this random musical number. Charlie and the others are led to a hotel room. They did many things before getting to the room, like going to ice cream stores and bowling as well. 

“Okay, I LOVE Heaven!” Charlie says, “Did you see their sprinkles, they were made out of rainbows!”  

Vaggie doesn’t seem nearly as impressed as Charlie, which is pretty understandable as she is an angel, after all. 

“Those were just ordinary rainbow sprinkles.” Vaggie deadpans. 

“Come on, Vaggie-kun.” Rimuru says with a smile, “Let her have this.”  

Vaggie gives off a small smile, “Yeah, I probably should.”  

Eventually, Charlie must leave, which leaves both Rimuru and Vaggie in the same room together. 

Eventually, they run into you know who. Rimuru hears a knock on the door. 

“Oh no....” Rimuru mutters, knowing exactly who the person behind the door is. 

“Hello, Vaggisarus!” Adam crassly calls out, “It’s been a while since I’ve seen you!”  

“What are you doing in our room, Adam?” Rimuru groans. 

“I just wanted to say hi to my girl over here.”  

“I have no idea what you're talking about.” Vaggie says, narrowing her eyes, “We’ve never met before.” 

“Oh, come on, you’d think I wouldn’t recognize one of my best girls just because you're out of uniform?” Adam says. 

“You were one of the best of us, that’s why I named you after the best thing ever...Vagi.” Adam says. 

“Wait, he named her after...” Rimuru says, “...Oh, that’s gross...that is not who someone should be named after...” 

“It’s pronounced Vaggie...” Vaggie deadpans. 

“Mhhh....” Adam says, thinking for a second, “No.”  

“I bet you didn’t expect that, did you, femboy demon?” Adam says, “I wonder how you feel about her being one of us?”  

“Oh, I knew the moment I saw her for the first time.” Rimuru says nonchalantly, “Also...I’m not a femboy.”  
 

Adam looks a bit stunned, “Wait, what?”  

“...You did?” Vaggie says, also mildly surprised by this revelation. 

“Yep, you carry an angelic weapon, and also, you reek of the holy attribute.” Rimuru says, “Anyone with the most basic of the [Analyze and Assess] skill should be able to instantly tell you’re an angel.”  

“Strange though, Charlie has the [Analyze and Assess] skill, so I don’t know why she hasn’t noticed yet.” Rimuru says. 

“Anyway, I can’t believe you managed to land Lilith’s little hottie!” Adam says, “Congrats on that, I guess?” 

“Ew, is that something you should be saying about someone who could be considered your goddaughter?” Rimuru thinks to himself as he shutters. 

“Their love is vile and blasphemous!” Lute seethes. 

“Even more ew, like girl, can you be any more unpleasant!” Rimuru rolls his eyes. 

“Hot as fuck though!” Adam unnecessarily interjects. 

“Stop it!” Rimuru shouts, raising his voice. There was only so much disgust he could stand. 

“Anyway, we want you to stop that petulant little b-” Adam says. 

Suddenly, before he can react, a blade is pointed at Adam’s throat, “What were you about to call my great-granddaughter?” Rimuru says with venom coating his voice 

“Woah there, chill out, will ya?” Adam says, somehow unconcerned, “Anyway, we want you to stop your girlfriend from ruining my fun time in that room, you hear me?” 

“Eh?” Rimuru thinks, “Why does he seem so unconcerned?”  

Ciel explains with venom in her voice, [“This disgusting, worthless failure believes that the Master cannot hurt him since he is under the false belief that angels are invincible.”] 

“He seriously thinks that?” “Angels are normally weak to demonic attributes, right?” Rimuru wonders. 

[“In some omniverses, yes.”] Ciel explains, [“But in this specific omniverse, angels are weak to the holy attribute just like demons are.”] 

“Eh?!” Rimuru wonders, “So that means their weakness is their own weapons?!” “Pft, how lame can you get?!”  

The angels from the cardinal world are completely immune to the holy attribute unless they are fallen angels, then they become vulnerable to the holy attribute. 

“If you don’t, then we will-” 

“Yeah, yeah...you’ll tell Charlie that Vaggie was an exorcist.” Rimuru says. 

“Basic threat, now get the fuck out of our room!” Rimuru shouts. 

Before Adam can finish what he was about to say, Rimuru snaps his fingers, teleporting both Adam and Lute out of the room. He then walks up and locks the door. 

“...Are you sure they won’t try again?” Vaggie asks. 

“Nope, and even if they do, I enchanted this door nob to set their hand on fire with [Black Flame], so they’ll be in a ton of pain if they do try to open that door.” Rimuru says with a smile.  

Vaggie looks upset, though. 

“Listen, Charlie probably will be upset.” Rimuru says, “You shouldn’t have kept this a secret for so long, but I know why you did.” 

Vaggie nods, “You’re right, Mr. Rimuru, I shouldn’t have.” “But I’m scared, what if she decides that she doesn’t love me anymore?”  

Rimuru smiles, “Vaggie, we both know that won’t be the case.” “Charlie WILL forgive you, but it might take some time for her to do so.” 

“We cannot listen to Adam’s demands.” Rimuru says as he begins to leave the room 

“Mr. Rimuru?” Vaggie says, “Thank you for all you’ve done for me...”  

Rimuru smiles, “Naturally!” “You’re going to be my great-granddaughter-in-law someday, so I have to look out for my family!”  

This causes Vaggie to blush; she hasn’t thought so far as marriage. 

“Wait, what?!” Vaggie stutters out as Rimuru comedically shuts the door, “Sorry, can’t hear you from behind the door!” Rimuru says with a giggle. 

Rimuru then goes to the common area of the hotel they are staying in; he then sits on one of the couches. 

“Alrighty then, let’s see what Sera and Adam are talking about,” Rimuru says to himself. Yeah, he knew about their little private meeting...and he doesn’t trust them enough to not spy on them. However, the meeting occurred in this past after Emily led them to their room.  

Fortunately for him, that was no problem. 

Rimuru pinches and pokes the air with his finger. Suddenly, everything freezes he then swipes his finger as if he was using a smartphone. Suddenly, time seems to reverse, all the way back to when Emily had led them to their room. 

“Your Highness, forgive me, but what the fuck are the hellspawn doing here?!” Lute says in a barely suppressed anger 

“Because you couldn’t keep the demons in hell in check, that’s why, and now Lucifer is involved.” Sera says with far more hostility in her voice than when they met her at the front gates. 

“Setting up an audience for his misguided daughter.” Sera grumbles. 

“I never would’ve agreed to your...” Sera says, trying her best to phrase it, “...Yearly activities, if I knew it would’ve brought trouble to our doorstep.”  

“Yearly activities, huh?” Rimuru says, “What a fun little way to refer to an unnecessary genocide.” 

Sera, Adam, and Lute wouldn’t be able to hear him with this skill, he turned back time but kept himself hidden from view. There couldn’t be two Rimurus; there is only one of him. However, his mere existence itself bent logic to his will. Therefore, Emily, Vaggie, and Charlie still believed they had walked Rimuru to his room. 

Man, sometimes he even scares himself. This power is lunacy! It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever! 

“Keeping heaven safe was my only reason for allowing it.” Sera says. 

“Oh, is that right, Sera?” Rimuru says, raising an eyebrow, “I think we both know that’s a lie.”  

“Whaddya want from me?” Adam asks, “I’m just one guy!”  

“What I want you to do...” Sera says, “...is to do whatever you need to do to keep this problem from getting any worse.”  

“Yep...I knew it...” Rimuru sighs, “Plotting against us, are we, Sera?” “How disappointing.” 

“Are we clear?” Sera says. 

“Yes, we are.” Adam nods. 

 
Rimuru sighs again, “I’m sorry, Nyog’Sothep...but I’m unsure if you can be proud of your creations anymore.”  

Rimuru then touches the air again; time freezes once more. He then swipes his finger in the opposite direction as time flies back into the present. Leaving Rimuru once again in an empty hotel lobby at night. 

“I should get back to the room,” Rimuru says as he walks back to his room. 

When he gets back, he notices that Charlie has also returned. 

“Tomorrow is the meeting.” Rimuru says, “So we should be getting some sleep, we don’t know how things will turn out tomorrow.”  

“Yeah, I guess we should get some sleep, shouldn’t we?” Charlie stutters, still seeming rather hesitant to talk to Rimuru. 

After a quick before-bed routine, both Vaggie and Charlie go to sleep by each other's side. However, Rimuru, not needing any sleep, stands on the roof of the hotel they are staying at. Staring out into the beautiful night of Heaven. 

“What would you do if you were in my place...” Rimuru sighs wistfully. 

“....Shizu-san...?”

The next day, Charlie, Vaggie, and Rimuru head to the heaven courtroom to discuss their case. But that conversation Sera had with Adam didn’t bode well for their case. 

“I hope this doesn’t go the way I think it will,” Rimuru mutters to himself. 

He can only hope that Charlie’s resolve can make it through this meeting. 

 Hopefully, unbroken...