Rimuru raised his hand, "I have an idea, why don't you have them separated by force?"
"That's an idiotic idea but thanks for playing nonetheless." I scolded Rimuru for that asanine suggestion.
Shion and Diablo both glared at me with the intention to kill, "Lord Simon, I might respect you a lot but I will not stand for any slander against Lord Rimuru. Our lord Rimuru is the most capable and you shut him down without evens knowing what he's suggestion truly was!"
"Calm down Shion cause I'm aware of what Rimuru wanted to do. He wanted to use the unique skill he got from Shizu, Degenerate, to forcefully separate the Manas from me. Is that right?" I said the last part while looking at Rimuru.
" Well, isn't that… a worthwhile suggestion?" Rimuru's words stammered as he helplessly spoke out for himself.
" It's a worthwhile suggestion for anything but Manas, but I guess it's my fault for not explaining in full. I told you that they are digital lifeforms and are made of information particles. Now tell me, who here knows what Information particles are?"
There were only a few who raised their hands, " Allow me to explain then. Information particles are the smallest particles and are contained within all matter in the world, including souls and even skills. Their mass is as close to zero as it gets. They are unaffected by space and time and are thus able to transfer information in any situation with zero time difference."
" Digital natures are a type of spiritual life-forms that are capable of temporarily existing purely in information form."
" Now Manas are a type of Digital lifeform. They have incredible computational power, giving them the innate ability to freely manipulate infons and exist purely in information form. They do not have their own soul and need a host to house their ego to maintain their existence."
Everyone was struggling to digest what I was saying, not because I was terrible at explaining but because this seemed like really sensitive information, like national security level secret.
" Currently, there are eight beings in this very room who are digital lifeforms. Those are Diablo, Kevin, Yuura, Dino, Luminous, Veldora, Velzard and me." I rapid fired the list of digital lifeforms, " But as your friend, I'll humor you for now. Come and try to forcebly separate the Manas from me."
I said as I closed my eyes and focused and the moment I did, my aura slowly began to flow out of me, not rapidly but still overwhelmingly. Then the aura receeded the same as it came out.
" Apologies, I just had to remove the limiters from my body so that there isn't obstructions preventing Rimuru." I said as some of the saints recover from the strain that was just put on them. Evens Rimuru and Luminous had to catch their breath.
Rimuru stepped forward and put his hand on my chest, he began to focus on trying to locate and separate the Manas.
Rimuru's eyes opened to see darkness, everywhere he went there was nothing. Then he saw a pink light and from it arose what could only be described as a giant statue of a pink haired goddess holding out her hands.
The statues hands had chains being held from its fingers and on the other hand of the chains was a figure sitting down on the ground looking disheveled and abused yet this figure had a very chilling smile, one filled with undisguised, unfathomable hatred.
The figure lifted it's head to look at me and I got a clear view of their face, 'He… looks just like Simon.'
"So close yet so far little slime." The voice of the imprisoned Simon came out very calmly but dripping with hatred yet that hatred had no anger in it.
Before Rimuru could respond back, the figure spoke again, "Apologies little Slime, I'd love to humor you some more but you are a threat and I will not allow you to affect me or this body in the slightest."
Suddenly Rimuru felt a violent force eject him from the space as he woke up back to Eden and crashing into a wall.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" My scream combined with Rimuru crashing into a wall caused everyone to become startled.
Suddenly, a flood of black energy materialised from my body as it began enlarging and whipping around to destroy everything in sight.
The energy immediately caused immense damage to everyone but before they could do something to defend themselves, the black energy became infected with a bright pink hue as it suddenly dissipated and my figure was revealed.
The completely recovered Rimuru approached as my eyes were dead and colourless as I began crying blood. My body suddenly fell over in an inanimate fashion. There was screaming as people tried desperately to make sure that I was ok.
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"What is this place?" I said as I looked at the horizon. This place was unfamiliar to me and yet I feel like I've been here before.
" Wait a second." I looked around this modern house with curiosity, this place had broken drywall and unfinished paint jobs with construction and painting equipment.
Suddenly a women appeared in clothes marred with paint, "Why do you look so distracted all of a sudden, is there something wrong?"
The women's worried face filled me with shock, 'Mom?'
Suddenly my body, the body I was using, moved on its own as it approached mom, "Sorry Ava, I'm just very happy right now. I have finally found proof of salvation."
"What are you…"
Before Ava could finish, I looked to the skies and said the most cryptic shit ever, "With my soul and contributions, I will be the last sacrifice towards True self and the equation will be completed."
Suddenly everything went black, and I was in my original body, more accurately, I was in my body from when I first reincarnated here, 'Goddamn I guess I did look younger from back then.'
Suddenly, the man that I had possessed earlier had manifested Infront of me with a bitter smile. The man was nearly a carbon copy of me, " Dad?"
" So you really have become the final iteration, the perfect version of us. I'm so glad knowing that you won't suffer like I did." The moment he's words finished, his body slowly began turning to dust, his smile showing great relief.
I tried to rush to him but my body froze and I suddenly began falling into the inky blackness.