Anime: About That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

"Acquired skill: [Magic Sense]."

"It seems I can see something. Is this magic essence?"

After receiving the notification from the voice in his head, Rimuru began to instinctively sense his surroundings. The next second, the Great Sage's notification sounded in his mind, and Rimuru discovered that the entire world had changed. The world, once blurry like looking through -8.00 diopter lenses, had become clear and visible. The air was filled with countless specks of light.

"That's right!"

The next second, as if remembering something, Rimuru bounced off in one direction with his round, elastic body. Before long, Rimuru arrived at a body of water, looking at his sky-blue, round body reflected on the surface.

"I really am a slime."

Looking at his own body in the water, Rimuru's tone was inevitably filled with disappointment. In his previous life, he was a thirty-year-old otaku who had never even held a girl's hand. He had played many games, so he naturally knew that a slime was just the lowest-level monster.

"How is it?"

"Yes, I did it. Thank you very much."

Just as Rimuru was feeling disappointed about his true form, the previous voice came from behind again. The originally dejected Rimuru quickly turned around and returned to his original position, saying with a tone full of surprise. It was good enough that he could now clearly see this world.

"Eh? Eh? Eh!!! Is... is a dragon!"

The next second, the moment Rimuru looked up, a dragon nearly a hundred meters tall, with a ferocious and domineering appearance, covered in jet-black dragon scales, appeared before his eyes. His originally round body was so frightened that it turned into a strange shape.

Suddenly, the dragon in front of Rimuru crooked a finger, signaling Rimuru to come a little closer. Seeing this, even though Rimuru was somewhat afraid and unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to slowly approach.

"Then, allow me to formally introduce myself."

"O-Okay."

"My name is Storm Dragon Veldora. I am one of the only four remaining dragon species in the world... Hmph hmph hmph... Hahahahaha!"

After Veldora finished his self-introduction, he raised his head and laughed like a chuunibyou teenager. The terrifying laughter formed tangible sound waves, and the entire cave began to shake continuously, scaring the round Rimuru on the ground until a pair of terrified, large eyes bulged out.

"Hey! Do you remember our promise?"

The next second, Storm Dragon Veldora stopped laughing, lowered his head, and looked at the slime in front of him with a somewhat awkward tone, asking in a low voice.

"O-Of course! I'm not scared at all!"

Rimuru looked at the huge, ferocious dragon head above him, his golden dragon eyes darting around as he shouted. Although he said he wasn't afraid at all, his body was trembling non-stop from fear.

"Then, I'll come find you again to chat next time!"

"Wait!"

Just as Rimuru finished greeting and was planning to take the opportunity to run away, Storm Dragon Veldora's voice directly stopped him. His golden dragon eyes were full of curiosity as he looked at the sky-blue slime in front of him.

"How rare. Slimes are originally low-level monsters without the ability to think, yet you have self-awareness. A unique individual, perhaps?"

Veldora carefully sized up the frightened slime in front of him. In this world, whether it was humans, monsters, or other species, unique individuals would be born from within their vast numbers. Not only did they all possess their own unique skills, but they also possessed potential and power far exceeding their own kind. Such beings were called unique individuals.

"Unique?"

"It refers to an individual possessing special abilities."

Looking at the clueless Rimuru, Veldora, who had been lonely for hundreds of years, began to explain.

"I don't quite understand. Actually, I was originally human. After being stabbed to death, I came to my senses and turned into this."

A question mark appeared on Rimuru's round body. Then, after thinking about it, he told Storm Dragon Veldora about how he had once been human, stabbed to death, and then came to this world.

"I see. A reincarnator, then?"

After listening to Rimuru's words, Storm Dragon Veldora, one of the only four remaining dragon species and a Calamity-class powerhouse, roughly understood Rimuru's identity.

'Reincarnation... So I really was reincarnated as a slime.'

"Your birth is very rare. Although there are occasionally people who come from another world through reincarnation, this is the first time I've seen a transmigrator. It's generally impossible to withstand crossing worlds with just a soul..."

Just as Rimuru was thinking about the matter of his reincarnation as a slime, Storm Dragon Veldora's voice rang out again, and what he said completely caught Rimuru's attention.

"So, there are people who come directly from another world without going through reincarnation?"

Rimuru looked up at Storm Dragon Veldora in front of him. Upon learning that there were otherworldly people who had reincarnated into this world, a slight change occurred in Rimuru's heart...

"Yes, these people are called 'Otherworlders'. These people seem to gain special abilities when crossing worlds. Many of the strong ones are called 'Heroes' by humans."

Storm Dragon Veldora told Rimuru all the information he knew about Otherworlders, and the way he looked at Rimuru became increasingly interested. Simply relying on his soul to reincarnate into this world, and even becoming a low-level monster slime... How interesting!

'I see, so my abilities must have come from that... And there might be Japanese people among these reincarnators.'

Rimuru lowered his head and recalled his unique skills [Great Sage] and [Predator], as well as his various resistances. They must have all been obtained when he reincarnated into this world. Moreover, what Rimuru was most concerned about was that if there were other people from another world in this world, then perhaps...

"I want to go find these Otherworlders!"

The next second, Rimuru raised his head and looked at Storm Dragon Veldora with expectation and determination in his tone, but after saying that, Rimuru's gaze towards Storm Dragon Veldora became strange.

The Storm Dragon Veldora, who had previously been ferocious and domineering, now looked like a lonely child whose only friend was about to leave him. He curled up into a ball, buried his head in his chest, and kept playing with his dragon claws, looking like he was about to die of loneliness.

"What, are you already leaving?"

He was very dejected!

Looking at Veldora's appearance, Rimuru subconsciously stretched out a round little hand and scratched the back of his head, saying with a slightly embarrassed tone.

"Then I'll stay for a while longer. I'm free anyway."

"Really? You should stay a little longer!"

Across from him, Veldora, who had just heard that Rimuru was willing to stay a little longer, instantly stopped being dejected. His tone became full of joy, and his golden dragon eyes stared at Rimuru with excitement.