Day 34:

Life so far has been... not exactly what I expected. In the beginning, this was a care-free world. I more or less thought that this was going to be a peaceful life after a couple of days. Though now, I'm not so sure. Yesterday, I encountered a Demon. A savage beast that kills without mercy. They're strong. They have superhuman abilities and strength. Compared to Tempest, they are fairly weak, but that was before I came here. If that thing wasn't the strongest demon out there. I don't think I'll be able to protect them.

I sighed as I just finished writing the latest entry in my journal.

'Will I really be able to protect them?' I said as I chewed on the end of the pen. 'With my current abilities, they'll be hard to defeat. I'll still have the advantage, but what about the others?'

My eyes widened at the thought.

Will I be able to protect others? The people that can't defend themselves.

Are we all really safe?

My mind pondered on the matter for a little while until my thoughts were interrupted by a voice behind me:

"Hey, Rimuru, are you okay?"

I turned around to face Tanjiro, his eyes filled with concern and his voice laced with worry.

"You've been acting strangely every since you came home late last night, did something happen?"

I didn't know how to respond.

"No, nothing happened. I just feel like I forgot to do something." I said waving my hand and smiling at him.

I was lying.

I saw him stare at me for a second.

"Liar."

"Huh?"

"I can tell when you're lying." He said while pointing at his nose. "I can tell that you're concerned about something. I know that you don't mean any harm to us but you feel rage at something else. What is it? Can you please tell me what's bothering you so we can help you?"

I was shocked.

I sighed as I stood up, staring into his eyes.

"Me."

He simply stood there in confusion, trying to process the words that I had just said.

"I don't think I'll be able to protect people with my strength. With my weakness."

I said the last word in a disgusted tone.

'No. I'm strong, I can protect people. What would Shuna think if I gave up this easily? I'm going to slay all the demons so they can't hurt anybody anymore. I need more power.'

I simply walked out of the room leaving Tanjiro standing there.

Day 82:

I have officially adjusted to daily life. I haven't encountered another Demon since that one day. Tanjiro seems to have forgotten the conversation we had that day as well. I just returned to my previous personality because everything seemed fine. I had no other strange experiences other than that night. Maybe that was the only Demon? It's all becoming a memory what happened. I wake up, help the Kamado family, go out with Tanjiro to run errands, go back, eat Lunch, run errands, go back, eat dinner, "sleep." Just the basic peaceful life I was accustomed to before the encounter. Hopefully something like that ne-

"Rimuru-san!" I heard a voice call me.

"Can you help me with something?"

"Sure!" I responded quickly storing my journal in my stomach.

Of course, I was keeping the fact that I was a slime a secret. Imagine the surprise that I would get if they found out. Plus, this world seems to not have any monster species. Apart from the possibility of the existence of Demons, everything seems ordinary.

I turned the corner to see Hanako, on the floor fiddling with paper, clearly trying out origami.

"Hey, Rimuru-san, can you help me with this?" She said while holding up a half-way finished paper crane.

"Sure." I said while smiling.

"Ok, so after this step, you want to fold it like this, and this, and there you go!" I said while holding up a finished paper crane.

She stared at me with eyes full of awe.

"Yay! Thanks Rimuru!" She said while taking the paper crane from my hands. "Takeo! Look at this!" The girl said running over to her brother.

I felt the smile appear on my face as I got up and left the room.

'What else am I supposed to do today?'

As if on cue, Tanjiro then appeared behind me.

"Rimuru, thank goodness I found you." He sighed in relief. "We have a lot to do today. First, we have to harvest the charcoal, then we have to purchase some food items for dinner." He said in a confident tone. "I mean, of course if you want to." He said in a nervous tone.

'Ah, Tanjiro, stay exactly the way you are.'

"Sure, let's get started." I said while stretching.

"Alright then." He said while grabbing his axe. "Let's get started!" He said with a smile.

The way we would usually harvest charcoal is by rotating. Tanjiro would chop first while I would burn the wood and smother it. Then Tanjiro would burn the wood while I would chop and so on.

I was currently chopping down several wood chunks as the pile next to me would increase rapidly.

'Don't swing hard. Don't swing hard. Don't swing hard.'

I had to control my strength because I obviously didn't want to end up chopping down more than the wood chunks.

Soon enough, we had managed to complete a successful batch of charcoal.

"Alright, this is good enough for now. We can sell it in the morning." He said while smiling.

"Yep, ok then, so next thing on the agenda, we have to head into town to purchase some things for dinner." I said while piling up all the charcoal.

"Yes. We should get going after this." He responded.

After we had finished everything we began walking down to village.

"Hey. Tanjiro?"

"Yes." He responded.

"Do you think things will always be like this?"

"What do you mean?" He said carefully thinking about my question.

"This peace. Do you think that it'll always be here?"

He actually took a second to think about this for a second before he responded:

"Yes. Like I said before, I believe in good remember." He said in a calm voice. "As long as I believe in that, I will believe this peace will always be here."

Naive.

I simply sighed and followed him as we continued down the path.

'I didn't kill that demon. It's still out there. He even said it himself. We'll meet again.'

Before I knew it, we had reached the village.

At this point almost everybody knew me and Tanjiro, during our trips to purchase and sell items, we would help any villagers in need. Usually they would approach Tanjiro due to his heightened sense of smell while I would help with simple things like helping with the elderly or settling arguments.

"Good morning Tanjiro, Rimuru!"

I turned to the voice and waved in the direction the voice came from.

"Good morning!" I responded quickly and continued walking.

This sort of attention was nothing new to me so I just accepted it and continued on with my life.

Tanjiro then proceeded to pull out a small list from his haori.

"Alright, so fish, pork, and cucumber." He muttered. "Huh, strange, we usually grow cucumber. Well, alright then." He said.

"Rimuru!" He said towards me. "This way!"

I nodded and followed him.

We had just finished purchasing everything and were currently heading home.

"Busy day today." I muttered towards him.

"Yeah, tomorrow we should probably sell the charcoal we've been saving up because we're in the midst of winter. It would probably help a lot of people." He said.

I gave a small nod towards him as the Kamado household appeared in our vision

As we approached the household we saw two small figures run out the door.

"Tanjiro! Rimuru! Welcome home!" They said embracing the both of us in a hug.

"Thank you, Takeo, Shigeru." Tanjiro said with a smile.

'I hope you're right Tanjiro.'

'I want this peace to last forever.'

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Day 84:

Everything seems normal. Maybe the demon that I encountered that one time was just a dream. This just seems like a fairly normal world. Nice people, good food, and no threats. I am aware that there are bad people in the world. If there is something that you can gain any in any universe, there are going to be people that will use bad methods to obtain thing. I hope nothing bad happens soon.

I closed the journal and stored it.

I took a moment to listen to the birds chirping outside and the wind shaking the leaves.

'I will have to return to Tempest eventually but for now, this isn't bad.' I thought as a smile appeared on my face.

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