Chương 228: First Encounter with the Villainous Big Boss!

Ingurasia Kingdom, Free Academy.

Since their chance encounter at the tavern, Rimuru has told Yosei about their purpose in coming to the Kingdom of Ingrasia.

"So, in other words, the fellow villager you mentioned named Izawa Shizue ultimately refused to assimilate with the high-ranking fire spirit, did not want to become a demon, and thus died of old age as a human?"

"A truly admirable person. To transmigrate to this other world, possess such immense power, yet maintain such a pure heart—there must be very few like that."

When she was still a young girl, she was summoned to another world. If she were a normal person, in a place without laws and with great power, she would probably indulge her various desires, if not act recklessly.

But Shizue Izawa, until the moment of her death, her greatest wish was still simply to return to her hometown.

And he always adhered to his identity as a human being, and took exceptional care of the students who were also transmigrated.

"Right, right, you also think Miss Jing is a remarkable person, don't you?"

I learned from Miss Jing's memories that in the Kingdom of Ingurasia, there were several children from a free academy who had been waiting for her.

So, besides discussing trade matters, one of my purposes was to come and see these children.

The Ingrasia Kingdom is an organization formed by adventurers who help each other. To put it simply, it's similar to an "adventurer's guild".

Before heading to the Freedom Academy to meet the students, Yosei and Rimuru first met the leader of the Freedom Guild, a black-haired boy named Yuuki Kagurazaka who was also from another world.

Yuuki Kagurazaka is not only Shizuka's student, but also the leader of the Free Group.

At first, upon hearing that Shizu was killed by Rimuru, the other party showed great anger and even wanted to fight.

However, after Rimuru explained the reason, the other party eventually returned to his gentle and polite demeanor, and his attitude towards Rimuru and Yosuke changed drastically.

Rimuru was quite happy to see fellow countrymen besides Yosei and Shizuka, and gave them a lot of comics as a gift.

"Mr. Yangcheng, like Mr. Rimuru, was reincarnated into this other world due to a sudden accident?"

It's really strange. Although there are many other worlds in this world, most people are actually summoned here by others.

It's extremely rare for people like you to be directly reincarnated into this world after death.

Since Rimuru and Yuuki were having a very pleasant conversation, while Yosei remained silent, Yuuki couldn't help but steer the conversation towards Yosei.

Yuuki had already learned quite a bit about Rimuru through various channels.

Compared to Rimuru, Yang Cheng rarely ventured into the Jura Forest. Up until now, he only knew that Rimuru possessed strength comparable to Tia and Fordman, but knew nothing else about him, not even what race he was.

Yuuki didn't know why Yangcheng had come here with Rimuru, but he thought that he might be able to use the fact that they were "fellow countrymen from another world" to get some useful information from Yangcheng.

"As a modern person who transmigrated to another world, I neither became a hero nor a demon king who established a territory."

Even unlike most isekai (another world) novels and anime protagonists who have women on both sides, Mr. Yuuki lives a life of leisure in a place like this. He is truly a rare find.

Even Rimuru, who's genderless, is interested in beautiful older women.

Upon hearing Yang Cheng's words, Yu Shu's expression froze for a moment, then he smiled bitterly and said, "After all, like Teacher Jing, I don't have any ambitions."

And now that Ms. Jing has passed away, I think I should carry on her legacy.

After some discussion, Yuuki, as the leader of the Free Group, finally told Rimuru that he would come forward to explain to more adventurers that the monsters in the Monster Federation were harmless and to encourage more merchants to trade there.

Just as Yang Cheng and Rimuru stepped out of the room, Yuuki, who had been smiling, suddenly turned gloomy.

"That slime was just as foolish and naive as the intelligence report suggested. On the other hand, Yang Cheng was very cautious. I talked to him for a long time, but not only did I not get anything out of him, I might even have become suspicious of him."

Tell Kleiman to be careful. It's okay if his plan fails, just don't expose us.

"Our strength is still insufficient; it's not yet time to completely break ties with those demon kings."

Upon hearing Yuuki's words, Cagalli, the blonde fairy girl who had been standing behind him, also spoke up: "Are we just going to let them go like this?"

According to the information provided by Kleiman and his team, the slime and Yang Cheng, for some unknown reason, are improving their strength at an extremely rapid pace.

If we allow them and their forces to continue growing, they'll eventually become an obstacle for us, won't they?"

Yuuki originally intended to use that slime as a pawn, making it a tool to weaken other demon lords and the Western Holy Order.

After all, the other party had only recently arrived in this other world and appeared to be innocent and foolish, making it easy to manipulate them.

However, considering that Yang Cheng had been staying by Rimuru's side all along, and that he might be exposed prematurely if the other party noticed something, Yuuki had to abandon his original idea.

"I heard that the Kingdom of Falmus has successfully summoned several heroes from another world?"

King Edmaris of the Kingdom of Falmus was greedy and ignorant. If he had known that a demonic federation had appeared in the Jura Forest, established by monsters, he would have been terrified.

"And there are also all sorts of priceless weapons and equipment, rare high-level potions, and various valuable local specialties there. I think the other party would be very interested, right?"

As soon as Yuuki finished speaking, Cagalli understood what he wanted to do, so she turned around and went out to take care of it.

Rimuru asked the Freedom Guild to help promote the Demon Kingdom Federation, and he did so, but the King of the Kingdom of Falmus was greedy, which had nothing to do with Yuuki.

"Yuki is really a good guy. I didn't expect things to go so smoothly this time."

On the way to the Freedom Academy, Rimuru didn't forget to praise Yuuki for being humble and polite, as expected of a student taught by Shizuka, leaving Yosei speechless.

"That guy named Yuuki is no good; at the very least, he's quite hypocritical."

It's best to stay away from this kind of person, otherwise one day you might get sold out by him and still be counting the money for him.

Rimuru: "(·—·; What's wrong with him? He seemed pretty friendly to me————" Yang Cheng: "(One-one;) Would a hypocritical and cunning person wear evil on their face?" Rimuru, aren't you too trusting? Just because someone comes from another world like us doesn't mean they're a good person, does it? S