Approximately a week ago.
[User 'Kazuma' dissolved to death and died.]
[User 'Kazuma' has been revived.]
Ainz: ???
Rimuru: Again?
Kazuma: FML
Kazuma: Guys, can someone come help me kill a gigantic poisonous and highly corrosive slime?
Rimuru: What did the slime do wrong to deserve death?
Kazuma: Dissolved me to death? Also, he is the Demon King Army General?
Kirito: Demon King? Sounds like a strong opponent. Omw!
[New user, 'PTSD Hero' has been added.]
Rimuru: Is this a coincidence?
Ainz: Welcome, newcomer. Please read the guide I pinned and introduce yourself.
[User 'PTSD Hero' has changed name to Natsuki Subaru.]
Subaru: What is this? Isekai Chat Group? Are you people trapped in another world like me too?
Rimuru: Pretty much. Yeah, I got reincarnated into a slime though.
Subaru: Damn… That sounds sucks.
Subaru: Anyway, what is this Chat Group for? Just chatting with fellow isekai victims?
Ainz: No. Normally we will have a Chat Group mission once in a while. But it has been a month since the last one. The admin had been offline since then too.
Ainz: However, if you need any help. Don't hesitate to ask. Especially if you need help to defeat powerful enemies.
Subaru: I see…
Subaru: I do need help. But not to defeat an enemy. I need help to make myself stronger.
Kazuma: Come to my world and become an Adventurer then. You get stronger as you defeat monsters and level up.
Rimuru: I can provide weapon and armors.
Ainz: As you can see, everyone here is eager to help.
Subaru: Thank you very much, guys.
Subaru: So anyway…
Natsuki Subaru shared his story and his experience so far in his Isekai adventure. Nothing grand. Neither is it pleasant. From dealing with the Witch Cult to politics which he found himself involved in.
Of course, at first he was hesitant to talk about his ability to 'Return By Death'. For some reason, it wouldn't trigger when he talked about it to the Chat Group. As if the Witch of Envy couldn't detect him divulging the secret.
So, Subaru then starts to share about his numerous deaths, at first in the hand of the infamous Bowel Hunter, Elsa. Then by the Cultist and then in the hand of Rem, the Oni Maid sister and many more.
Many of the members are disturbed by his story and Ainz even offers to help exterminate the Witch Cult for fun since everyone is bored anyway without a Chat Group mission even after a month had passed.
Ainz: Alright, those that want to participate can PM me. I will provide a World Travel Ticket.
After Ainz made his announcement, the Chat Group became buzzing with activities.
Tanya: I can't participate, I am in the middle of a dungeon dive.
Hajime: I am busy too, conquering dungeons.
Shiroe: As much as I wanted to participate, I am busy running the Council and dealing with the political matter of Akiba.
Kirito: I'm hunting the Demon King General Slime.
In the end, only Ainz and Rimuru participated. Perhaps for a good reason too considering how dangerous are the Archbishops.
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Tanya, as she had informed in the Chat Group, is Dungeon Diving with the members of her Familia.
Coincidentally, Ray tags along. Mostly to keep an eye on Jack who tends to get a little too trigger happy or rather, stabby happy. She might wander off accidentally and start a murder spree somewhere and traumatize some Adventurers again. Yes, again. It happened before.
Tanya stopped marching down the tunnel and called him. "Admin."
"Hmn?"
"You might want to check out the Chat Group." Tanya suggested.
Ray looked confused at first until he recalled something. "Right, today is the day a new member is joining. I put mine on silent so I didn't really notice it." He replied before he opened the Chat Group and read the chat history.
"Huh. Natsuki Subaru was the chosen one?" Ray mutters with a rare frown on his face.
"Natsuki Subaru? Is he someone special?" Tanya wonders who is the person exactly to make Ray frown as if he encountered a troublesome person.
"Special? Not really. He is just as strong as Kazuma maybe. But the threat around him is dangerous to the unprepared. But since Ainz is participating, there's nothing to worry about." Ray shrugs and closes the Chat Group.
"Are you sure, Admin?" Tanya looks unconvinced.
"Very sure. Rimuru aside, Ainz is pretty much immune to most of the dangerous abilities the Archbishops have. Also, don't forget his bullshit plot armor." Ray reassured Tanya and tell her to focus on her Dungeon Diving before he went over to check on Abby, Jack and Alice.
"Right…" Tanya mutters, still unconvinced but would let the matter go and focus on her Dungeon Dive because she wants to get stronger fast and reach higher levels to access the lower floors that have more profitable monsters to hunt.
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Natsuki Subaru, a Japanese now a foreigner in the Kingdom of Lugunica after an unfortunate incident that spirited him away on his way back from a convenience store.
At first, he thought he was going to be the protagonist with cheat abilities like those anime and manga he watched and read before. Which is correct, but not in the way he expects.
His first slap of reality is his first death after he was killed by a group of muggers in the back alley. Then the pawn shop and many more until he got at least a hundred deaths by the time he settles in at Roswaal mansion after helping the half-elf girl, Emilia retrieve something important.
Then one day a weird floating screen appeared in front of his face. The screen resembles an SNS chatting app although with minimalistic and very straightforward design. Aside from the chat group, which seems to be the main aspect of this screen, it also has daily login reward, lottery wheel, shop etc. Which made it look like a game.
Anyway, he opened the chat group without much expectations. But to his surprise, he never expected to found a Chat Group created by a god to assemble and connect fellow Isekai victims. If the words of the user named Ainz were to be believed.
Of course, Subaru still has some skepticism about the whole thing. But he also can't dismiss it as fate playing a prank on him. So, he asked for help. Whether it's true or not, he isn't in a position to make any losses.
Much to his surprise, two of the members immediately agreed and on the way to his world apparently. He wonders how they will appear.
"Barusu!" "Subaru!"
"Ram? Rem? What's with the commotion?"
"We detected an unknown intruder! Hurry and find Mistress Emilia!" Ram ordered.
Then it finally registered in his mind. Could it be that the intruders were the two chat group members that came to help him.
"Wait! Stop! Can you bring me to these intruders first? I think there is a mistake." Subaru laughed sheepishly while the pink ones narrowed her eyes at Subaru very dangerously before she stopped and sighed.
"If anything goes south, I will put the blame on you."
"Fine. Let's go, lead the way." Subaru said while hurried and typed on the Chat Group to inform the two from trying to cause any problem.
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