Chapter 0 prologue
Author: Shinkou Shotou(進行諸島)
Sent to Another World and Meeting a Slime
My name is Sano Yuji.
I’m a corporate slave who is employed at a company.
I played games as a hobby, but I have been so busy recently that I have not been able to play at all for a while.
And in spite of being so busy, my salary shows no signs of increasing.
…In other words, it’s one of those evil corporations.
It happened one midnight.
I was dealing with some work, that I had brought back home with me, when an unfamiliar window popped up on my pc screen.
The window had the following message:
You have been summoned to another world!
Press YES if you accept. If you wish to refuse, press NO.
A lack of a response will be recognized as YES.
“Hm? …What’s this? A virus?”
This message sounded like some kind of joke.
It didn’t even have the X button on the top right that would allow me to close the window.
The only buttons that existed here were the YES and NO buttons.
I was quite sure that it didn’t matter which one I clicked. Both buttons would take me to some scam site for sure.
My anti-virus software was up to date, and I was always careful to avoid suspicious URLs. So how had this happened?
In any case, there was only one thing to do.
I would find the program in the task manager and stop it.
That was the normal way.
It should have been…
“Uhh…what?”
Unfortunately, there was no virus-like program to be found.
In that case, the only thing to do…is to restart.
I clicked the mouse several times and rebooted the pc.
Thankfully, there was nothing preventing the computer from doing this, and the pc’s power was shut off just like I had ordered…but then it happened.
“No reply… You have therefore consented.”
My vision suddenly became very dark, and those words appeared in front of me.
This all happened very suddenly, and I started to panic.
I must be overworked and I’m going to faint…no, not really. I knew what it was like to collapse from being overworked, and it always ended with me losing consciousness and waking up in a hospital bed.
So that meant that… Ah, this was a dream.
Just as I came to this conclusion, something happened that made me sure that this was just a dream.
My surroundings suddenly turned to that of a forest.
This in itself was unbelievable, but then something even more unbelievable appeared in front of my eyes.
…It was a status window.
Yuji
Job: Tamer
Skill: Taming
Attributes: None
HP 10/10
MP 10/10
The Sewer Rat and the Flint
I had made a wild, fat rat as my familiar.
I shall call her Mitsuki Mouse.
There was a possibility that someone would complain about this name, but it didn’t matter to me now.
After all, the meaning behind it was ‘a beautiful moon’, nothing else.
I gave her magic power and intelligence and sent her to the surface.
According to what the dwarves told me, Sharltar had made the town on the surface his headquarters.
It was there that he tortured the captive dwarves and turned their dead into zombies.
It was horrible to think of, but it was the truth none the less.
There was a large building. A building that would have likely been the house of a chief. And from within it, came the pained cries of a dwarf.
I peeked inside and witnessed such torture that I nearly vomited.
Man or woman, it made no difference to Sharltar. Even children were nothing but objects for his experiments with necromancy.
He would bring the evil spirits of devils to dwell within the dwarves, turning them into devils. He would use the cries and screams of pain that leaked from the tortured prisoners and create cursed jewels.
To be honest, it was difficult for me to watch.
I wished I could take his head off right there, but that would hardly be possible with Mitsuki.
I held back the urge and watched this man called Sharltar.
The man who I would kill very soon.
Knowing him better would ensure that I could prevent his escape.
I see his face from afar.
His face was full of cunning, just like I had expected.
His twisted lips and slanted eyes. The swarthy skin. He reminded me of a dark elf, but he was clearly human.
“That’s a surprise.”
I muttered, and then Eve asked,
“What is a surprise?”
“His actions seemed so devil-like. And yet he is human.”
“Demon Kings have many humans as their subordinates.”
“True. Even I have a few of them.”
Hijikata Toshizou and Jeanne d’Arc came to mind.
However, they were not people to act this cruelly.
Was Sharltar really human?
As for that, Eve gave me a clear answer.
“Humans…and this is true for all monsters, but humans will at times act like devils. It has nothing to do with race. It merely means that Sharltar is pure evil.”
“Indeed.”
I thought back on the past.
War was an unending cycle back in my world.
It was the same on that planet called Earth that I had researched.
Every time it was humans that fought each other. They were constantly killing.
The Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao. The massacre at XuZhou by the hero of a chaotic age.
The killings infidels by the Crusaders.
Oda Nobunaga’s religious purges after the reformation.
If you really thought about it, there were fewer years of actual peace.
And this world was full of chaos.
It was not surprising for it to give birth to such a cold-blooded person.
And perhaps it is my fate, as a formerly human Demon Lord, to kill these devilish humans.
With that in mind, I gave Eve an order.
“We will move earlier than planned. The tunnel has not been finished yet, but we can send the decoy troops to lure Sharltar here. I will adjust things so the tunnel will be finished when they reach the empty cave.”
“Is that really possible?”
Hmm. Definitely a dream.
Something like this wouldn’t appear in reality.
Apparently, I must have fallen asleep in front of my computer.
A Tamer…I guess it was that thing where you used monsters to fight.
A monster tamer in Japanese.
Unfortunately, my job has nothing to do with taming. I’m a corporate slave.
Well then, I should wake up.
I still have work to do.
Thinking this, I tried to wake myself up…but showed no signs of being able to do so.
This…I guess I had to give up for now.
If I stayed up for three nights straight, I could still make it before the deadline.
Luckily, I had my alarm clock set to 6 AM just in case I fell asleep like this.
Staying up for three nights straight would be hard, but I had stayed up for four nights in the past, so it was possible.
As I thought about this, a circular, clear blob appeared in front of my eyes.
Not only that, but it was moving like a living creature…it was a living creature.
I had never seen such a thing before…but I had an idea of what it was called.
Because I had seen them in different games before.
It was…a slime.
Translator: I’m thinking about picking this up. Will have to translate a few chapters before I decide for sure.
Tensei Kenja no Isekai Raifu ~Daini no Shokugyo wo Ete, Sekai Saikyou ni Narimashita 転生賢者の異世界ライフ ~第二の職業を得て、世界最強になりました~ Author: Shinkou Shotou(進行諸島) Sent to Another World and Meeting a Slime PAGE 2 My name is Sano Yuji. I’m a corporate slave who is employed at a company. I played games as a hobby, but I have been so…