Afterword & Acknowledgement

    Thank you for reading Fuse-sensei’s work and my translation.

    This is a revised version of the previous translation of side stories. We will include the mini side stories in vol 13.5 in the next main story volume.

    Notes

    [1] Psychidae is a cocoon like shell usually made up of wires

    [2] 極意(Gokui): Means a state of in between the limitation and beyond, not sure how to translate

    [3] There is a change of prononune from Ore to Watashi to show respect to Rimuru.

    [4] keikaku

    [5] refer to volume 5.

    [6] Or Shinigami, God of Death in Japanese.

    [7] 锏 —(Jian) Chinese sword-like mace

    [8] Wield-Sickle, a traditional Japanese weapon

    [9] A cow-deer hybrid creature (refer to volume 2), a creature in slime world

    [10] The following are “alternative narratives” in Rimuru’s head

    [11] 紅炎衆「クレナイ 」 Benimaru’s corps of soldiers

    [12] Keikaku

    [13] Ruminas addresses herself like a noble (boomer), using the pronoun of  妾 (warawa)

    [14] Explained in volume 11, Chloe coming to the world with Leon

    [15] Rimuru gets drunk in vol 8 using this knowledge.

    [16] シルベリア

    [17] ブランシエ·ナム·シルベリア Special thanks to Waoweewoo for coming up with the EN name

    [18] Blanche - French for white (feminine form)

    [19]  レチイシア

    [20]  エミリヤ

    [21] Blanc - French for white (masculine form)

    [22] ガリアス

    [23] ギイニアス·ナム·ガリアス

    [24] Commander of the Armored Corps in Eastern Empire

    [25] バンス

    [26] FYI: Negotiable – Testa, Rain, Misery; Non-negotiable – Guy, Carrera; Do whatever they want – Diablo, Ultima

    [27] Referring to the three members of the imperial army corp in E astern E mpire who “took down” Testa mentioned in empire invasion arc.