Episode 70


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Having already said it before, I wasn't surprised by Gobuta winning. Though I didn't foresee him winning exactly like this. Thinking about it, maybe this was the only way for Masayuki to lose, considering his unique skill that's working passively around the clock, whether he wants it or not. This certainly spared the author from coming up with a plausible way of Rimuru not losing but Masayuki not winning either, had those two fought each other.

It's quite weird Diablo, or anyone else, hadn't seemingly considered there must be something behind the petty merchants insisting on receiving dwarven coins and nothing else, not even raw gold for the same value. That's not how international merchants would behave, so the first thought should be that either they aren't merchants in the first place or they are being forced to act like that. If Diablo truly didn't see through it, he indeed has much to learn.

Otherwise the scene was pretty good, with Rimuru not bothering to have a second thought about a named primordial demon possibly going out of control. That was a good lesson for Elmesia, to make her understand just what kind of being she's dealing with. Apparently she didn't think too highly about Rimuru before. Now she knows Rimuru is extremely easy to get along with, but one shouldn't make an enemy out of him.