It may have been a bit misleading, but Zaydas had another reason fiving Rimuru the body of the False Supergirl, aside from the ce to earn AP, of course. That reason was the possibility of replig the False Supergirl's abilities.

  While they were enemies, replication was difficult, with a low ce of success. However, once she became part of Rimuru, he tried again and saw that all of them had at least a 40% ce of being replicated.

  'For now, I don't hem...'

  Although the ces had increased, he wasn't going to risk losing AP with such a high failure rate. At the very least, he needed a 70% ce of success.

  Since Zaydas had obtained a new set of abilities, he wasn't in a hurry.

  Zaydas started walking around the house.

  'It's pretty empty here...' Zaydas thought. 'I came unprepared this time. ime, I'll bring some things to liven up the pce a bit.'

  If there was ohing he lear INN, it was the importance of getting good mattresses and pillows. ime, he would bring some. He'd even leave at least one in his ste dimension.

  ***

  ***

  After returning, he saw that not much time had passed, only an hour and 13 minutes.

  Alo home, he first took a bath and then y on the bed with his arms and legs spread out, lost in thought.

  Nothing forces a man to face his own demons more than solitude and silence... That often makes the mind wander and think about things one would normally prefer to igo avoid getting fixated on something and overthinking.

  Zaydas also had things he didn't want to dwell on. One of them was...

  His power had reached the level of an Ultimate-Css Devil. With this power, he could be seen as one of the stro in the DxD world he came from. But was that really the case?

  Veldora. Wheried to assess him, he felt as if he were staring into a bottomless well of pure power, and that if he looked too much, he would be swallowed by it. Even after being an Ultimate-Css Devil, that feeling hadn't diminished.

  This suggests that Veldora's power is cssified at least at the level of a Super Devil. But thereihe problem that troubles him so much.

  In DxD, few have reached that level. However, in this dimension, there was a siderable number. And that's not even ting Rimuru, who would reach that level in the near future.

  But then, what was w him so much?

  If this dimension has so many powerful beings... What kind of monsters could exist in his own dimension that he has yet to discover?

  Until now, he had been ign this fact, repeating to himself: 'If you don't seek death, you won't die.'

  Yes, it's a phrase that makes a lot of sense. However, it doesn't do justice to the rules. Without knowing the true powerhouses and their goals, there was no way he could feel at ease.

  What if there was someoremely powerful with the same kind of mentality as Thanos?

  There was something else. Did his parents really just want him to have a normal life until he was 18, or was there another reason they couldn't or weren't willing to tell him?

  'Am I overthinking again? Should I just keep pretending I don't know anything and go on with my life?'

  Maybe that was the best choice.

  Many say that being afraid of what might happen makes you stop living. And clearly, he didn't want to stop living just because he was afraid something bad might happen.

  'Power... If I bee strong enough, will all this fear and insecurity disappear?'

  He didn't know the ao that either. No matter how much he had hidden it before, even when he became an Ultimate-Css Devil, he didn't feel any sense of security.

  Though it must be said that he may have bee a little arrogant...

  Arrogant because he simply brought someone from another dimension and hahem over to Rimuru without fully uanding the future implications this could have for him.

  However, he didn't want a life rets, and even if he felt he had been a bit hasty this time, he didn't regret what he had do he wouldn't do the same thing a sed time.

  'This time, I even revealed a little to Rimuru about being able to travel between worlds...'

  The only thing that forts him is Rimuru's good nature—not because of what he saw in the anime, but because he wit firsthand. Maybe that's precisely why he let his guard down and did something he normally wouldn't have done.

  "!!!"

  Jumping up, he murmured in his mind while spping his own face: 'Right! Thinking about these things won't help me at all.'

  Determined, he said: 'Great Sage, mark the DAAC dimension.'

  [Done!]

  ***

  ***

  As soon as Zaydas left, a portal opened in his room.

  From ihe portal, two individuals stepped out: a man and a woman.

  "You noticed?" the man asked.

  "He didn't go to another universe." Before the man could feel relieved, the woman added, "He went to another box. In other words, another dimension!"

  "How?"

  "If you ask me, who should I ask?"

  Immediately after, the two fell silent.

  A few seds ter, the woman looked worried as she said, "I hope this isn't reted to 'her'."

  When the man heard that, he let out a light sigh.

  'She,' whom the woman referred to, was someone so powerful that even one of her simple duplicates had the strength of an Ultimate-Css Devil.

  "Were you able to track where he went?" the man asked.

  "Believe it or not, that wasn't possible." She seemed frustrated. "What he used is even more advahan my 'Interdimensional Travel' ability."

  Upon hearing that, the man fell silent once again.

  ***

  ***

  Flying over Tokyo in DAAC, Zaydas tried to imagine how strong he really was at that moment.

  For example, if he threunch with all his strength, without relying on the Power of Destru, what level of destru would it cause?

  When he imagined himself doing that... he "saw" Tokyo colpsing.

  The impact would create a fissure in the earth, while the resulting crack would begin to swallow nearby buildings and houses.

  The mere earthquake caused by the total impact of his punch would make several houses colpse.

  When he reached this uanding by visualizing it, he was a little shocked.

  'Has my strength really reached this level?'

  As unbelievable as it was, he had reached that level of power. Even so, he wouldn't be as powerful as Serafall Leviathan, for example, who is in the same rank and has the power to destroy entire isnds...

  Even though he could reach that level of destru, it would take time, and that time would be enough for someoo show up and stop him from doing it.

  While flying, a se caught his attention.

  'Is this really happening?' Zaydas frowned. But soon, his eyes gleamed slightly. 'I'm a little stressed, this will do...'

  ***

  ***

  Marin was returning from a photo shoot he sea and decided to stop by Akihabara.

  It was a holiday, so she wore a checkered button-up shirt in burnt yellow and blue, short denim shorts, and burnt yellow shoes. With a bck cap tilted on her head, she carried a burnt yellow bag on her arm.

  Distracted by her smartphone, she didn't notice when three hooligans, wearing malicious grins, surrounded her.

  "Hey, babe. How about having some tea with us?" One of them said, blushing with lust as he g her chest.

  "Damn, you're a total knockout. And judging by how you dress, you must've done a lot of that, right?" Aeased, whistling and using words with double meanings while sniffing the back of her neck.

  Marin grabbed her bag and forcefully tried to smack the pervert who had sniffed her, but she missed as the hooligan dodged, taking a few steps back while keeping his hands in his pockets.

  "Maji, this is such a pain." She said. "Who the hell even approaches someone like this nowadays? You bastards aren't afraid? Look around, the pce is full of cameras! If you try anything with me, don't think you'll get away with it!"

  "Tough girl, I like that~" The third one, who had his hair dyed blouck out his tongue, revealing a pierg with a skull-shaped metal bead, licked his lips, and then said: "But babe, you're mistaken about something. We're just asking you out, we're not f yht?"

  He extended his arm, intending to it around her neck, while the other two fshed lecherous smiles.

  This wasn't the first time they had done something like this. Evehe girls they approached said simir things, they would take pictures and threaten to expose them online, never fag any sequences afterward.

  Yes, there were cameras, but that exact fact had always saved them.

  However, before he could pce his arm around Marin, he froze as he saw his fellow hooligan punch him in the face.

  "You big idiot!" yelled the hooligan with bleached bck hair, small eyes, and a thin mustache. "Let's stop lying, I 't hide this anymore!"

  "You…!" Getting up in ahe hooligan who got punched grabbed the other by the colr and suddenly pulled him in for a kiss?!

  "Shit! I'm gonna puke!!" The third one, witnessing the se, couldn't handle su unnatural BL moment and stuck his finger down his throat.

  Marin etrified.

  'Maji? What is all this? Where are the cameras? Is this some kind of new prank? This is hirious~'

  The worst happened whehird one, who had been trying to vomit, suddenly grabbed the bloh the tongue pierg by the head and decred, "No! He's mine!"

  Immediately, their lips met, while the other, who had been interrupted, got angry but instead of fighting, pulled the other's head in and kissed him…

  Earlier, the pedestrians had ighem when they surrounded Marin and tried to make a move on her, but now, witnessing such a se, many stopped, and some even started filming.

  Zaydas, h in the air in his 'Devil' mode, ughed so much that he wiped tears from the ers of his eyes.

  "I just saw something amazing~"

  A pyful voice echoed in his ear from not too far away.

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