"Bear with it."
Rin had no choice but to comfort Milim, then take her to see Veldora and Rimuru.
Everything in the Monster Nation was incredibly new to Milim.
The newly built streets, and the various clearly divided areas: the commercial district, entertainment district, and school district.
The population of the Demon Lords Castle, after Rin's repeated subjugation of dependents, had now exceeded one million.
Most of them were beast-girls, followed by Dragonkins, half-orcs, oni, beastmen, Harpies, and so on, who came to settle here from other countries.
In short, the Demon Lords Castle was extraordinarily lively now.
"From now on, when I'm not around, Milim can come here to play."
Stepping out of the spatial passage, what greeted their eyes was a charming Japanese-style garden.
The garden was located in the oni village.
Well, calling it a village might be inaccurate.
After all, the Demon Lords Castle itself was built on the foundation of the oni village.
However, because the oni population was not large, totaling less than ten thousand, and scattered throughout the Demon Lords Castle.
The oni were highly valued by Rin, being his earliest dependents.
This gave the oni a very high status in the Monster Nation.
Of course, the oni did not disappoint Rin, repaying their master's kindness with loyalty and diligence.
"Little brother!"
"Rin."
Seeing Rin arrive with Milim, Veldora and Rimuru immediately came to greet them.
"Yo!"
Rin greeted the two and said, "You two came back really fast, and Rimuru, you've finished all your work for today, so you're this leisurely?"
"You rascal..."
As soon as work was mentioned, Rimuru gritted her teeth.
Fortunately, she was one step ahead.
"In this world, there is such a thing as Parallel Consciousness."
Rimuru naturally possessed Parallel Consciousness, and recently, she had thoroughly researched this ability.
Thus, by constantly creating clones, Rimuru successfully completed a large amount of work in a very short time, thereby freeing up time for herself to use as she pleased.
But even so, Rimuru still needed to clock in for work at fixed times every day.
After all, work was generated daily.
Rimuru couldn't finish tomorrow's work today.
Parallel Consciousness could, at most, help her clear all the accumulated documents at once.
But for every day that followed, Rimuru still had to spend one to two hours managing the affairs of the Monster Nation.
"Well, well~"
Rin smiled and waved his hand. "Isn't it because I believe in your abilities?"
"Tsk!"
Rimuru was already used to Rin's black-hearted boss rhetoric and would no longer be manipulated by him.
"Alright, let me introduce you two."
"This is Milim."
Rin patted the pink-haired girl's back, signaling her to introduce herself.
"I'm Milim!"
"Milim..."
Rimuru looked at Veldora beside her. "Isn't that your niece?"
"Ah, it's been a long time."
"Eh?"
Milim only then noticed Veldora. "It's Veldora!!"
He had transformed into a human, which made Milim fail to notice him at first. Now that she looked closely, wasn't this Veldora?
"Did you just notice?"
Veldora was a bit speechless, but this also proved that his control over his power had risen to another level.
Although they were uncle and niece, Veldora was either causing destruction or on his way to cause destruction.
This meant that the number of times they could communicate was not many.
Many times they met, they would just greet each other and then go about their own business.
Before transforming into a human, Veldora had no common language with Milim.
Compared to him, Velzard and Velgrynd had more interactions with their niece.
"It's not just me."
Veldora said, "Big Sister and Velgrynd, they're also here."
"And like you," Veldora said, "we are all Rin's people now."
"Velzard and Velgrynd are here too?!"
Milim was even more surprised. She did not expect her father to be so fierce, actually taking their whole family away at once.
"So amazing!"
"Father, you're too amazing!"
Milim's eyes glowed, and aside from Rimuru being surprised by the way she addressed Rin, Veldora was quite calm, as if he already knew.
One could only say that the corrective force of history was indeed powerful.
Once it was confirmed that Milim and Rin had a father-daughter relationship in the past, Veldora would naturally acquire that segment of memory as well.
"It's alright, it's alright."
Rin felt a bit giddy from Milim's admiring gaze, and he said, "Now, all the True Dragons in the world are gathered."
However, now they were no longer True Dragons, but Dragon Gods.
"Your power is too great."
Rin warned, "When you fight, you have to pay attention to your own power, understand?"
"Especially Milim, and you, Veldora."
Rin was not worried about Big Sister, Velgrynd, and Luo Hao at all.
More than half of the three women's power came from their own training. Even if they suddenly became stronger, they could quickly control that extra power.
Only this uncle and niece pair were purely creating miracles with brute force.
Rin was very afraid that they would accidentally shatter the Cardinal World.
"Don't look down on me, brother."
Veldora said, "I've been diligently training my control recently!"
"I, I will also work hard!"
Milim, on the other hand, had no particular affection for the Cardinal World.
But Rin had told her that if she destroyed the Cardinal World, then many fun things and delicious foods would be gone.
To avoid damaging these, Milim would also treat them carefully.
One could only say that for those who were already Dragon Gods, the Cardinal World was really no more solid than a bubble.
"Mhm."
Rin was very satisfied with their attitude, saying, "I will have Rimuru supervise you two properly."
"Eh? Me?"
Rimuru immediately had a bad feeling.
However, before she could refuse, Rin said, "The capable do more, and in the entire Monster Nation, you are the only one whose strength is closest to the Dragon God level."
"I..."
Good heavens, he was not even pretending anymore.
Before, when he assigned her tasks, he would at least offer a grand vision.
Now, he just directly assigned them!
Rin: Rimuru, you go deal with Milim and Veldora.
Rimuru: Rin, you rascal!
(To be continued.)
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