A Friendly Game of Monopoly

## General Information

This is a fanfic in which instead of souls getting converted into energy or shredded into pieces and released in Rimuru all souls are kept deep in imaginary space, with Great Sage and Veldora at that moment being capable of pulling people out of there and putting them back where they are meant to be.

## Background

Veldora was finally getting bored of playing Shogi with Ifrit, he wasn't going to take it much longer being able to only do 1 thing after over 300 years of that with little changing when Ifrit joined him as well. Veldora decided to ask Great Sage, of which he know the exsistance a favor, to bring him the souls of all those currently in Rimuru's imaginary space, as Veldora was a friend to her master she (great sage) decided to comply and brought the orc disaster and Shizu into Infinite imprisonment. Ofcourse both of them were severely annoyed, they wanted to finally rest and now the storm dragon just decided on a whim to take it from them, and even worse in the case of Shizu she saw Ifrit once more. It was looking like Veldora had made a big mistake and that even though nobody could hurt eachother inside of Rimuru a fight would still break out, however it seemed like Ifrit had learned his lesson and he genuinly asked Shizu to forgive him for his deeds, telling her that he understood the meaning of friendship love and other values he never understood now and that he was truly sorry for the horrors he caused. However Shizu couldn't forgive Ifrit that easily, and right after that she punched him in the face with all the force she had, not knowing that she couldn't hurt him in this space. But Ifrit just took them, and Shizu kept punching Ifrit in pure rage for what he had done, 69 years of suffering can't be forgiven so easily after all. Veldora decided not to intervene and so did Geld, leaving Shizu and Ifrit to let loose of their grudges. Because they couldn't play any of the games Veldora had planned yet with the current situation he decided to ask Geld if he wanted to play a game of chess, after which he asked in a confused manner, what is that? After which Veldora answered in a proud voice that Ifrit had gotten used to from the storm dragon: ''Oh? You will see''.

## A Game of Chess

Veldora started by explaining the rules of chess to Geld after which he challenged him to a game. However according to Geld it was quite unfair seeing how Veldora knew more about chess and had more knowledge of it, and as such Veldora decided to give Geld A rook Bishop and Knight advantage, which was a major advantage which however did not completely decide the game in retrospect. The game started with some simple moves. E4,E5,Nf3,Nf6 and Veldora was noticing a pattern seeing that Geld was copying his moves he was going to abuse that fact. However he first wanted to complete his opening before doing so. So Bd4 Bd5 c3 and c6 after this veldora unleashed his scheme he started by playing Ng4 and geld still had not noticed what was coming so he continued to copy him, Ng4 and then Veldora released his attack, Nf7 forking the queen and the rook at this point Geld was seeing what was happening and was noticing the problem but he continued to copy Veldora with Nf2, his last fatal mistake, veldora captured the qeeun and so did Geld after which going back to F7, and capturing the rook with geld following, and so Geld did exactly what Veldora wanted as Veldora was playing as white he could keep gelds knight trapped while freeing his own and as such he had come close to equalizing the game, he was only a rook behind now, and because of veldoras superior play he managed to come out on top. After the game he showed Geld his mistakes and blunders and when he saw them he knew he had been defeated due to copying Veldoras moves. Geld and Veldora started to play more games with both of them enjoying it, Geld was starting to regret not taking the offer of Veldora in the first place seeing as there was nothing wrong with having some fun, he originally thought of himself as evil, but Veldora told Geld not to worry too much, and that he himself, storm dragon Veldora had done many worse things an that Geld would just have to ask Luminas for a good example of that if he ever got the chance, and even though Geld still felt guilty he knew he was doing it for his family and fellow orcs, a noble cause. Geld and Veldora started exchanging stories, with Geld really enjoying Veldora's backstory, how cruel it might have been at times did not matter to Geld, he actually was happy to see that he wasn't even that bad. Geld at that moment vowed to himself that if he got out of Rimuru at any point in his eternity in here that he would go and apologize to the remaining ogers and to the chief of the lizardmen tribe, those who he had caused so much terror to. And as such their games of chess continued and that all because of a certain fight going on a little distance away.

## Pain and Suffering

While Veldora and Geld were greatly enjoying themselves Ifrit and Shizu absolutely weren't having a fun time. While Ifrit was being calm and trying his best to calm down Shizu, she was enraged at the one who ruined her life, who ruined her second chance and who killed multiple people she cared about. She couldn't give up, she couldn't stop, she couldn't accept the fact that this person, no this evil spirit who destroyed everything of importance to her to still be alive and she would attempt every method she could to kill him, but nothing worked, not her sword nor her magic nothing had any effect in this realm something Ifrit had been trying to tell her from the beginning but she wouldn't listen. This went on for hours and hours, and while Veldora and Geld were still playing chess Shizu was still trying to kill Ifrit, eventually she fell to her knees crying, crying and crying for ages on end, with ifrit who now genuinly understood her and understood his mistake by her side with his arm over her shoulder. And while Ifrit was doing his best to calm Shizu down, and to make her finally let go of her hate for him and her regrets just like he had done by himself after learning from Veldora. After Shizu had pretty much cried herself into sleep, because as a soul alone sleep wasn't necessary but however she did fall asleep after this Ifrit decided to go join Veldora and Geld for a bit, who had switched to playing cards, and after a couple games he decided to ask Veldora some things about the homeworld of Rimuru and Shizu, after this Veldora asked great sage to show Ifrit the way Rimuru's world looked and how people lived, seeing this brought a tear to Ifrits eye, seeing what he and Leon had taken from Shizu by accident, however Veldora quickly got rid of that thought by showing something from Rimuru's memories, a documentary of WW2, stating ''this is the original world Shizu lived in''. After this Ifrit started to feel even worse, he thought he understood Shizu before but it seemed he only understood the tip of the iceberg. However to try to finally get Shizu to calm down he asked Veldora how he creates things by imagining it, after which he replies ''I don't know how to explain but do you need something?'' After which Ifrit asks Veldora if he could give him some Japanese food based on Rimuru's memories, after which Veldora immediatly did so. It was at that point in the middle of the night, with the day and night cycle being based on Veldora's screen to the outisde world. Ifrit decided he would accompany Shizu until she woke up from what he hoped were sweet dreams, a concept he could still only understand partially awaiting for her to wake up so they could talk it out.

## Dreams and Nightmares

During the night while the others were having conversations and playing games Shizu was having nighmares of the worst thing Ifrit had done to her, what made it even worse was that she knew full well she couldn't kill ifrit or do anything against him. She has nightmares of the firebombing, the flames consuming her, then remembering the moment Ifrit possesed her how Ifrit possesed her and burned her friend and their pet named Pizu and lastly she remembers the feeling of her mind collapsing when she was in Rimuru's village and Ifrit taking over and all the pain which came with that, how could she forgive him, after all the suffering she had brought him, however then instead of more nightmarish scenes she saw the happier moments, her talk with Rimuru, her time with her students and with the hero, having thought of all of this she felt conflicted and confused, why did Ifrit not fight back to her punches, and why did he join her when she collapsed and was crying and suffering. She just did not understand anymore, she couldn't take it anymore and suddenly the dreams ended. It was just her and her thoughts, Shizu and her mind, the soul and thoughts. She was conflicted, she did not know what action to take next, she however did start thinking about what good Ifrit had help her accomplish to do, however she couldn't come to a answer in this way, she would have to talk with her tormentor, the one who caused most of her suffering in her life which should have ended when she was 4 but continued over supernatural means.