บท 41: Partying! Liar!?
Zooming in on a certain Holy Church in the night, a silver-haired woman with different colored eyes can be seen on a throne.
A gray-haired man in a bishop outfit was kneeling in front of her.
"You're saying The 10 Great Saints including Hinata have gone missing!?" Demon Lord Luminous banged her fist against the armrest.
"Y-yes my lady." Roy avoided his master's gaze and continued to look down while kneeling.
"*Sigh* What were they doing?" Luminous calmed down and rubbed her temples annoyingly.
"They went to attack a new monster nation called Tempest, but we lost communication with them as soon as they entered the Jura forest, they still haven't contacted us and it's been a day." Roy explained.
"Are you implying a new nation defeated The Great Saints?" Luminous continued to rub her temples.
"Why did they even attack this new nation?" Luminous questioned.
"It seems Hinata was provoked and when the rest heard about Falmuth going to attack, they thought it would be a good idea to join in on exterminating the monster nation." Roy responded.
"Idiots. Well at least Hinata's alive, I can feel her connection to me still active, even though it's weak." Luminous stated while looking at Roy from her throne.
"That's good to hear." Roy muttered downcasted while looking up at Luminous.
"Why do you seem to feel discontent that she's alive?" Luminous looked at Roy suspiciously.
"It's not that I'm not satisfied, it's rather I know your probably going to try and save her now." Roy seemed hesitant about saying more.
"What are you not telling me? Spit it out." Luminous frowned.
"Well, they fought the Eastern Empire and came out on top." Roy responded with a frown.
"What!? How many soldiers did they have!?" Luminous's eyes widened in surprise.
"That's the thing.... Uhm, there were only two individuals who mainly defeated the Eastern Empire."
"That's not all, we received news that Veldora the Storm Dragon, Demon Lord Milim, all primordials excluding Rain and Misery, and multiple other Demon Lord individuals reside in this monster nation." Roy dropped the bomb.
The reason even Roy knew this was that before the war even started, Lucifer purposely told Souei and all his allies to spread whatever happens in the war so they won't be trifled with. He also decided to tell them to spout bullshit about their being multiple Demon Lord-level beings.
"That fucking lizard piece of shit is back!? He's also a resident of that nation!?" Luminous furiously stood up while her purple aura was exploding out of her in waves.
Roy had a strained expression as he withstood Luminous's aura.
Noticing Roy's strained figure kneeling, Luminous's sucked in her aura and sat back down with a huff.
"I imagine the two individuals who defeated the Empire were Milim and Veldora?" Luminous questioned, calming down again.
"Actually it was the kings of the monster nation, Lucifer and Rimuru Tempest." Roy explained.
Luminous's expression hardened.
"I see why you were hesitant to tell me this. If I were to try and rescue Hinata from this situation I could very well die, even I am not strong enough to deal with these many powerful individuals nonetheless one of them." Luminous nodded with a bitter smile.
"I've also heard of the primordials from Guy, Leon, and Dagruel, they say they are very troublesome. Which most likely means they're probably stronger than me if even Guys says that." Luminous's expression continued to harden.
The thing that Luminous misinterpreted was that Guy and the rest meant that the primordials were utterly annoying individuals, rather than being powerful, their ability to be obnoxious was uncanny.
"I still need to go regardless." Luminous suddenly stood up.
"I shall go with-"
"No, you will be staying here just in case. I won't hear any of it." Luminous cut off Roy and walked off to get her weapon.
Roy simply sighed.
"As you wish."
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Rimuru teleported Lucifer and him to the main celebration area, the center of a Tempest, there was a fountain in the center and dozens of wooden tables spread out.
Lanterns of light filled with Magicules were spread out on each side of the stone pathway.
Once they appeared in front of the celebration area, Lucifer brought his arm out toward Rimuru.
Rimuru looked at Lucifer questioningly until a look of realization went across his face.
"I am not clinging to your arm." Rimuru defiantly looked in the opposite direction but snuck a glance toward Lucifer.
"Come on." Lucifer smiled at Rimuru's behavior.
Rimuru noticed Lucifer's genuine smile and looked at his outreached arm.
"Fine, I guess couples do this regularly?" Rimuru reluctantly locked her right arm with Lucifer's left arm and leaned in with a slight smile on her face.
"I think so." Lucifer chuckled.
"Lord Lucifer! Lord Rimuru!"
After someone finally noticed them, Shuna and Shion walked up to them.
"Umu, this is interesting." Shuna covered her mouth with her clothes as she stared at the physical intimacy between her lords.
Shion momentarily frowned but ignored the feeling and smiled.
"Lord Lucifer! Lord Rimuru! We have prepared your seats and food, please come sit, the others are arriving now!" Shion exclaimed.
Lucifer noticed that slight emotion but decided to ignore it for now.
"Thanks." Rimuru's grip had tightened on Lucifer's arm.
'This is no time to be shy.' Rimuru's eyes hardened with resolve.
Once Rimuru and Lucifer sat down, they recognized the people on the long brown table.
Veldora, Diablo, Benimaru, Gabiru, Testarossa, Carrera, Ultima, Guy, and everyone else had arrived.
'Why is Guy still here? He probably wants something, hopefully, he waits until tomorrow.' Lucifer narrowed his eyes at Guy but inwardly shook his head.
They were all conversing with each other or bantering.
"To Lord Rimuru and to Lord Lucifer!!" Benimaru raised his pint of beer once noticing them.
"To our Lords!"
"To our Lords!"
The surrounding wooden bench tables filled with Tempest citizens also raised their pints before chugging it all down.
Lucifer and Rimuru just chuckled and thanked them.
Shion and Shuna eventually also sat down with them once bringing the food.
Everyone looked at their plate full of delicious-looking golden food.
"Shuna did you make this?" Benimaru questioned.
"Actually it was Shion, I barely did anything, she's become a good cook." Shuna replied with a smile.
Shion herself just puffed her chest and smiled proudly.
"Really!?" Benimaru trusted Shuna so he tried the food and his eye's widened.
"This is amazing!" Benimaru remarked.
Once Benimaru said that everyone else started to try the food including Lucifer and Rimuru.
Everyone else agreed with Benimaru's remarks and also complimented Shion.
"So you've followed my teachings young padawan?" Lucifer suddenly spoke in a sage tone toward Shion.
Rimuru raised his brow beside Lucifer while eating his food.
"Of course master." Shion nodded eagerly.
"I see, may the force be with you because this food is heavenly." Lucifer nodded in a sage manner before going back to eating his food.
"Thank you!" Shion smiled brightly at the comment and continued eating.
After a few hours, most of them have gotten drunk and were dancing crazy while others were telling stories.
"Y-you knoww when I was young *hiccup* I destroyed the w-world b-by accident." Benimaru drunkenly spoke to Lucifer who was directly opposite of him.
"I see, so how was this possible?" Lucifer was quite sober because he could handle his alcohol quite well.
"Y-yahhh thattt *hiccup* s-sounds ridiculous." Rimuru was also drunk, she would lean on Lucifer or try to kiss him at times which Lucifer would ignore.
It seemed she turned off her poison resistance in order to have some fun.
"W-welll here'ss the thing-g, I t-thought I f-fartedd but it-t was a-actually an e-explosive poop and the w-world e-exploded but I recreated th-e world w-with my heavenly powers and that's w-why we l-live now.*Slam*" Benimaru drunkenly explained before his head fell down on the table, falling asleep.
"Lworddd Luciferr! Ahhh,*Sniffle* I love you b-but you d-don't love mee! Waaaa!" Shion was drunkenly crying, while speaking of her grievances to Shuna who was sober, trying to calm down Shion.
"Shion calm down."
Lucifer looked down on his left arm and noticed Rimuru in her casual pants and shirt trying to lean in for a kiss.
'Accept? Or no accept?' Lucifer was conflicted inside, he didn't wanna take advantage but who would find out?
As soon as he was about to decide, someone shouted his name.
"Lword Lucifer!!" A child-like voice full of emotion screamed Lucifer's name from behind.
Turning around, Lucifer recognized the child, it was Goby from a few weeks ago, the one he gave his pen to.
"Goby hows it goin-"
"Where's my father!?"
Lucifer was about to happily greet Goby but she cut him off.
Rimuru drunkenly looked at the child, while everyone else curiously looked at the child for the sudden show of disrespect.
"What do you mean?" Lucifer questioned with narrowed eyes.
"He said he was going to go fight in the army that you secretly took!! But he never came back!" Goby exclaimed.
All the surrounding chatter was completely silenced, even the drunken sleeping Benimaru brought his head up, staring at the child seriously.
Lucifer himself had an unreadable expression, he silently stared at Goby.
"Didn't you say you would protect everyone!? You are a liar! My mom's suffering because of you! I lost my dad because of you! Everything is your fault!" Tears filled her eyes as she furiously pointed at Lucifer.
"Listen Goby-"
"No, I won't listen! You even went behind Lord Rimuru's back and did all this! And now your partying!? Is my dad's life so meaningless!?" Tears started to pour out of Goby's eyes as she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Everyone quickly sobered up and stared at the child with downcast expressions, no one spoke a word but just silently waited for Lucifer to say something.
Rimuru somewhat sobered up and squeezed Lucifer's arm in assurance that she was there for him.
"Please forgive her!" Suddenly a goblin who looked eerily similar to Goby ran in front of her and went down on her knees.
Lucifer recognized her as Goby's mom but she looked eerily pale and her bright features from before were now sunken, even though it hadn't been long.
Lucifer simply glanced at the worried Shuna behind him.
Shuna understood his glance and went up to the lady.
"Please get up, Lord Lucifer is not mad. He will talk to you later, please get some good rest." Shuna hurriedly picked up the pale lady.
The mother nodded thankfully.
Grabbing Goby's hand she forcefully pulled her away.
"It's all your fault! Everything is your fault!" Goby continued to scream the same thing while being dragged her mother.
"Everythin-"
Eventually, she was too far to be heard, once she was gone, the once bright atmosphere was gloomy.
"Everyone I think it's good if we all head home for today, tomorrow we can clean up." Shuna was the first to speak.
Everyone nodded in agreement, and they all started to walk away while bowing to Lucifer and Rimuru who just smiled and waved them off.
Eventually, Lucifer, Rimuru, Benimaru, Shuna, Shion, and Souei started to walk home together, since they lived close on the same path they walked together.
"Are you okay?" Shion also sobered up quite quickly and asked Lucifer while they were walking.
"I'll be fine." Lucifer smiled while scratching the back of his neck.
Eventually, they said goodbye and split up paths, it became only Rimuru and Lucifer since they lived across the street from each other.
They just walked in silence, once they reached their houses, Lucifer was about to say bye until Rimuru didn't let go of him.
"Just follow." Rimuru muttered under her slightly drunken breath.
Lucifer complied since he didn't really care currently.
Rimuru took Lucifer into her bedroom.
Poof!
A puff of smoke appeared on Rimuru, once it disappeared, Rimuru with a red face could be seen in an open jacket with only panties and a bra on.
But the biggest difference was the well-endowed chest and backside.
Lucifer's eye's widened.
"Wai-"
Rimuru ignored Lucifer's plea and drunkenly walked toward Lucifer, pushing him against the wall, she smirked.
"I thought maybe you'd need some cheering up after such an incident." Rimuru drunkenly spoke while tipping up closer to Lucifer's face.
Lucifer was about to push her away but stopped.
"Maybe your right." Lucifer whispered before leaning down into the kiss.
Before they knew it, their lips pressed against one another and they started to make out.
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