On the other side, Rimuru, who had just received a skewer of grilled meat from Shuna, was about to take a bite.
Suddenly, a chill ran down her spine, making her alert. She looked around.
'What a strange feeling…'
'I get the sense someone is plotting something behind my back.'
"Rimuru-san, your grilled mushrooms are ready too."
"Oh oh!"
Interrupted by Shuna, Rimuru looked at the two fragrant skewers of delicious food in her hands.
"I don't care anymore!"
"Whatever it is, it can wait until I finish eating!"
And so, Rimuru began her final carnival before being crushed by a mountain of overtime.
The next day, everyone in the city heard Rimuru's furious roar: "Rin, you old scoundrel! I will never forgive you!!!"
Unfortunately, at that time, Rin had already left the Cardinal World.
His destination was none other than the first Isekai he had crossed into.
"If nothing unexpected happened, Rimuru should've gone berserk by now."
Rin thought of the documents, nearly enough to fill a whole room, submitted by Treyni and the other ministers.
At that, Rin snorted.
"Only a ghost would sit in an office and deal with that!"
Rin was extremely thankful now that he had brought Rimuru out from the Sealed Cave.
"As long as that Slime doesn't die, I will never work!"
This was the confidence of a slacker boss, proudly slacking while his underlings worked insane overtime.
Rimuru, invincible!
Ogerpon followed Rin into this world.
She tugged on Rin's sleeve and asked, "Won't this be too much?"
"Don't worry, Ogerpon."
"You have to believe in Rimuru's strength!"
Rin said casually, "She's not the kind of woman who will be defeated by paperwork!"
"I feel like when you go back, that girl's going to come hunt you down."
Also accompanying them was Velzard, whom Rin had promised a long time ago.
Dragon God-chan was somewhat helpless about Rin's slacking and refusal to work.
However, she too was not someone who could sit still.
Office work and the like…
Yeah, that was perfect for Rimuru.
As for them…
"So this is the Otherworld?"
"Hmm, the laws here are clearly different from ours."
Velzard analyzed the laws of the Konosuba World while sensing the strength of this world.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
Seeing this, Rin quickly pulled Velzard back with a worried expression.
"You have to be careful. This world is quite fragile to us."
"I can tell."
"The power level of this world is roughly equal to a low-level Chaos World."
"Hm…"
"In that case, I really need to suppress a large portion of my power."
As she spoke, Velzard followed Rin and Ogerpon's example and retracted most of her power back into her body.
She did her best not to let her aura leak out, to avoid causing damage to this world.
"How is it?"
"Not bad."
Looking at Velzard, who had suppressed her aura to a level comparable to Rin's, Rin nodded in satisfaction.
The Konosuba World was, overall, a peaceful one.
In Rin's opinion, this place was like the countryside.
Coming here was like going on a relaxing farm stay to heal the body and mind.
"So?"
Velzard asked, "Why did you come to such a weak world?"
"First of all, I need to clarify one thing. The Konosuba Universe is not weak."
Yes, the Konosuba Universe.
If you only looked at the Konosuba World, then yes, it was indeed very weak.
But if you included Aqua's reincarnation system and the gods of the Celestial Realm, it became hard to judge.
With Rin's current strength, he wasn't afraid of the so-called Celestial Realm or its gods.
But he also had no reason to provoke unknown powers.
"Second!"
Rin looked toward the distant Axel.
"I came here to conduct an experiment…"
"Experiment?"
"Yeah."
Rin said, "You know that my Void God has the ability to traverse and devour worlds."
"But ultimately, what exactly is being devoured when you devour a world?"
"Is it the planets in the universe, or the energy within them?"
"No. Neither."
Rin directly revealed the answer. "It's laws."
For Rin, who had already reached the level of a Genesis Dragon God, creating resources out of nothing was not difficult.
What he couldn't create were unique laws.
"This world has a system called 'experience points'."
"I can simulate similar data processing in Eden, exchanging magicules for experience points."
"But, that's only a simulation."
Hearing Rin's explanation, Velzard began to understand. "You mean, even if a wish can make anything happen, it's still ultimately just an illusion."
"Exactly."
Rin said, "The experience points simulated with magicules are still magicules. A new law—'experience'—hasn't truly been born."
Indeed, conceptually there was no real difference between the two.
But different is still different.
"Simulation is using my existing laws to achieve the desired result."
"But devouring worlds gives me new laws."
This was what Rin wanted to try after returning to the Konosuba World.
"I plan to try introducing the laws of the Konosuba World into our world."
Introducing laws didn't necessarily mean devouring the entire Konosuba World.
Simply put, what Rin wanted were samples of the Konosuba laws.
As long as he could obtain enough samples, he could allow the Void Universe to evolve and become more complete.
"How do you do it?"
This plan benefited Rin, so Velzard naturally supported it unconditionally.
"Do I need to go fight the gods of this world to create a chance for you?"
"You see, there you go again."
Rin shook his head.
"No need for all that trouble."
"Then?"
"Just open a small opening in this world."
It was just like how air contained almost all components of the atmosphere.
Rin didn't need to devour the whole world.
He only needed to let the 'air' of the Konosuba Universe, which contained its laws, flow into the Void Universe.
"A small opening?"
Velzard blinked, clearly not understanding how that would work.
"Let's choose here."
Rin didn't explain directly, but instead led Ogerpon and Velzard toward the northwest corner of Axel City.
(To be continued.)