Possessed by the Demon Lord Dragonai of Yugna Mountain!
“Huh, where am I?”
What stretched before my eyes was an unfamiliar stone chamber. Feels less like a simple cave and more like an ancient tomb. The stone walls were unnaturally smooth, carved with precise vertical lines, and riddled with hidden passages and geometrically patterned tunnels. Most striking of all, atop a wide central chamber sat what looked like an altar—a rectangular stone slab dozens of meters across. Resting upon it was a creature whose presence here made no sense: a single peach-pink slime.
!!!
Yet no matter how I looked at it, this was no ordinary slime. Among all slimes, it was the strongest lifeform of its kind—the King Slime.
…
“Whoa!!! My first monster encounter in this world!!”
But why, of all things, did it have to be a King Slime?!
Startled, I stumbled backward and dropped into a combat stance. In truth, I had never once been in a real fight even back in the modern world. And now, right in front of me, stood a field-boss-tier slime the size of a house. This was impossible. Absolutely impossible!! Couldn’t they at least let me hunt a few small slimes first before throwing this at me? What kind of author’s prank was this?!
Th-they’re trying to film a slime humiliation scene right from the start…!!
The thing looked exactly like the kind of expert who already held a master’s degree in that particular genre. Two cute black eyes, a perfectly round body with no other distinguishable features, and a transparent, jelly-like form. Approach it carelessly and that sticky, acidic mucus would melt your entire body into a puddle. To intruders it was a creature of hellish terror. Yet to its own woman… it was endlessly warm and gentle. A romantic slime, in its own way.
Anyway.
With the current “Seira’s” setting—that every race would fall for her—I wouldn’t be eaten. But if I were once caught by the aphrodisiac corruption fluid leaking from its body, I would never escape that soft, squishy mass again. I would be trapped in what they called the “Pleasure Hell” state!!
Moreover, once this creature pulled a female body inside itself, it would never let her go until death. It would feed her through nutrient mucus, handle excretion via waste mucus, and even serve as a conversation partner. If you looked at its traits alone, it was basically the most convenient household appliance a modern person could ask for. In fact, it was the kind of otherworldly dangerous creature I had once wanted to keep at home—one that ranked in the top five of “Things I Secretly Want to Own.”
Boing—boing—!!
That dangerous creature had just launched itself from the ceiling of the stone chamber.
“Kyaaaaah…!!”
Perhaps because it was a crisis, my voice came out surprisingly deep as I kicked off the floor to flee.
* * *
Boing!!
Despite its enormous size, it should have landed with a tremendous crash. In reality, the creature was lighter than water, composed of viscous material that could float on the surface. Its landing sound was as light as a large bird taking off.
That wasn’t the problem.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble—
Boing—boing—boing—boing!!
Right now, even while charging toward me at tremendous speed, the creature still produced only those light, cheerful landing sounds. Meanwhile, I… why was I causing what felt like an earthquake capable of registering as soul-level noise pollution throughout the entire floor?
The moment I decided to run, I shot forward at light speed and slammed into the stone wall so violently that I nearly collapsed it.
Was Seira originally this strong?!
The next moment was even more shocking.
“Have you awakened, Lord Dragonai!!”
The instant I heard that name, a chill ran from the crown of my head to the tips of my toes and I froze solid.
“D… D-d-d-did you just say that again? What did you call me?”
My lips trembling, I asked the massive pink slime with a flushed face.
“Hiiiiiik!!! I-I’m sorry, Lord Dragonai!!!”
The creature suddenly began trembling in fear, addressing me by the name of this game’s true Demon King.
And that “Dragonai” was a dual-element dragon, one of the most powerful among the Elemental Dragons worshipped as godlike beings across the continent.
“What are you talking about? Why would someone that terrifying be here…?!”
“L-Lord Dragonai… you kidnapped me and used me as your pillow for hundreds of years!!!”
What kind of nonsense was that… sniff, damn it.
Until yesterday, I had merely been a translator quietly sitting in my room writing the life story of the ruined girl Seira. I hadn’t even gotten to see the sequel about Dragonai destroying the world because the author hadn’t released it yet!!
In the story, Dragonai was the Dragon Demon who, after Seira—whom he had loved with single-minded devotion—was brutally murdered, brought about the world’s destruction. The Demon King of Dragons.
First, calm down. There had to be a reason why this thing was calling me Dragonai and trembling in fear instead.
Normally, a King Slime was a field boss that even a kingdom’s subjugation force couldn’t handle, appearing only in the high-level hunting ground known as the Plateau of the Arians. Yet this creature was claiming it had spent hundreds of years flattened beneath my head as a fluffy pillow…
Mirror.
The moment I thought of a mirror, magic activated with nothing but that thought.
“Ooooooh!! To turn the very air into a mirror with voiceless casting!! As expected of Lord Dragonai!!!”
Damn, that’s broken. Even among the Archmage Council—the pinnacle of existing great mages—only about ten people could perform voiceless casting. And I had just invoked it with nothing but willpower. It felt as though all the mana and elements of nature had become my loyal attendants, waiting only for my call to manifest automatically.
Cheat. Total cheat…
The saying that dragons were the masters of all magic was no exaggeration.
But the moment I saw the perfectly formed mirror, I let out a gasp of shock.
“What the hell……”
Why was this guy so ridiculously handsome?!
* * *
In the original work, descriptions of dragons weren’t that common, but one line stood out:
【“Every woman Dragonai ever kidnapped inevitably fell in love with him. That feeling lasted a lifetime—no matter how tyrannical a dragon he was.”】
“Kuk, kukukukuk…… So appearance was the plot armor all along.”
Throughout his entire life, there had been only one woman to whom Dragonai had given his heart. And that woman possessed beauty so transcendent that even the gods would step aside and weep.
That woman was none other than Seira.
“Ahem! Now that I’ve possessed Dragonai, Seira isn’t the issue anymore.”
I was the invincible Dragonai!! In other words, no matter which woman I kidnapped—princess, queen, imperial princess, noble, or even the Pope—I would face no punishment. On the contrary, I would be worshipped.
“Kuhahahahahahahahahaha!!”
That was simply what a fantasy dragon was. A being above all humans, beneath only one—the living law, the Emperor of the Empire. And even that Emperor had to serve and revere me. Among all races, the supreme sovereign. The most excellent, the most blessed Demon Lord of Yugna Mountain.
I was Dragonai!!
* * *
Determined not to become a dark ruler even if I became a demon lord, I found the butler named Cube to be an extremely convenient fellow.
“Finally, finallyyyyy!! Have you awakened, Your Holiness Dragonai!!”
Heh, seems I’m quite popular around here. The moment I woke up, two beings radiating powerful auras were clinging to me as if they would die without me.
“Then, allow me to report.”
“I have carved every bit of moss growing in the secret passages with the phrases ‘Revere Dragonai!’, ‘Dragonai is great’, and ‘Dragonai is an XX machine.’ There are no clogged drains, and the ceiling stalactites that had fallen off after long neglect—I have replaced them all with fresh, more lascivious-looking ones……”
O-oh……!!
Word by word, I felt a slight pang of emotion at how diligently Cube had managed the mansion in my absence.
Just as that emotion welled up—
“Now then~ So why don’t you, our dear Dragonai, stretch out your legs and go back to your eternal rest.”
What was that supposed to mean~? Not hibernation, but eternal rest……?!
Just as I was about to protest, my eyelids truly began to droop, and I sank back into a deep sleep.