"Am I really going to die like this? Alone and pathetic and a giant virgin?" Issei's first thoughts as he lay dying was that he was a virgin, how if he knew that this was his last day he would have done anything to lose his V-card before now. Who was he kidding, he had tried before now and it was all for naught. "To be honest, I know I've lived a crappy life. Next time around I'm going to try really hard to be a better person." He vowed that upon awakening in his next life, he would do everything in his power to lose his virginity so that he wouldn't die a virgin again.

[Confirmation Complete. Acquiring skill [Predator]… Successful]

Crimson red covered his hand. Blood. His Blood. His hand began to tremble as his body started to go into shock. What kind of messed up way to die was this? Here he was, gaping hole in his chest. Courtesy of his girlfriend, or should he call her his former girlfriend now? She had stabbed him after all. It hurt so much.

[Confirmation complete. Acquiring [Pain Invalidation]… Successful]

Weird thing was, that wasn't the weirdest thing about her. She may have stabbed him, and sure she was a bitch for doing so, but she had stabbed him with some mysterious spear of crimson light.

[Confirmation complete. Acquiring [Piercing Resistance]… Successful. Acquiring [Physical Damage Resistance]… Successful. Acquiring [Holy Magic Resistance]… Successful]

Right after growing a pair of black wings. Now that he thought about it, they weren't devil wings as he originally first thought upon seeing them. They were more angelic than anything, however they had been pitch black, not pure white as one would expect from an angel.

Even though here he lay in a pool of his own blood, which continued to grow with each passing moment as he bled out. This sucked, how much blood could a human lose before they died?

[Confirmation Complete. Making a body that doesn't require blood… Successful]

Whatever the hell that voice was it needed to piss off, he was trying to have his last thoughts here! Now where was he… oh right, even though his ridiculously cute girlfriend had stabbed him, he couldn't come to hate Yuuma. The time that they spent with each other was quite frankly some of the best days of his life. It may have been short lived, but he loved Yuuma Amano. His first and considering his current predicament, his last love.

"Shit." Issei gasped out, his hand collapsing down to his side splattering in blood pool around him. His chest burned as it heaved trying to take in air but with his current punctured lung, that wasn't going to happen.

[Confirmation complete. Acquiring [Heat Resistance]… Successful]

Tears welled in the corners of his eyes, he didn't want to die, there was so much he wanted to do. Everything hurt so much, he just wanted the pain to stop. The burning in his chest stopped any his body began to feel cold.

[Confirmation complete. Acquiring [Pain Invalidation]… Successful. Confirmation Complete. Acquired [Cold Resistance]… Successful. Because of the acquisition of both [Heat Resistance] and [Cold Resistance], the skill will evolve into [Thermal Change Resistance]]

Maybe dying young would be a blessing for Issei? It meant that he wouldn't grow into a Magician at the age of 30 or a Sage as a virgin at the age of 40. Knowing how his luck had planned out for him in his 17 years, he no doubt end up as a great Sage, so dying now was probably saving him a lifetime of disappointment.

[Confirmed. Acquiring Extra Skill [Sage]…. Success. Continuing, evolving Extra Skill [Sage] into Unique Skill [Great Sage]…. Success]

Issei grimaced as he looked up at the afternoon sky above and as the remainder of his strength began to leave him and his vision began to darken, for a split second he thought he saw a crimson light and for figure of a woman appear with wings. Had Yuuma come back for him? Then his mind went dark as his consciousness left him.

The young devil heiress stepped from the magic circle, slightly bewildered at the sudden summoning. She herself, was rarely summoned out of the blue like this. She turned finding herself in a familiar park and the scent of blood was thick in the air. It didn't take her long to locate the source.

Rias Gremory didn't know Issei Hyoudou, not personally but his reputation was known throughout Kuoh Academy. Walking to his side, a small frown on her face as she felt the lingering traces of tainted Holy Magic as she knelt down beside him.

"A Fallen Angel did this." She mused to herself placing a hand over the gaping wound, feeling the remnants of the spear of light that had preicer his chest. Taking in Issei's face, his eyes closed the last remnants of life about to leave him. He had no idea why this had even happened to him. What had the Fallen Angels seen that made them want to kill him?

Focusing deeply on him, searching through his body with magic her eyes widened at the trace of a Sacred Gear. She didn't know it's power but the Fallen Angels were cautious enough to kill him over it.

Summoning her evil pieces she looked them over, not seeing any purpose for the bishop, knight or rook she sought out her pawns. However, her eyes widened, before she could even begin to use her pawns to reincarnate him something began to happen. She had no way to explain it as Issei's body glowed an ethereal green colour as his body became more and more engulfed in light. Rushing to his side, she felt an unnatural force surrounding him.

Then just as soon as it came it was gone, completely confused by the strange event, she went to press the first pawn into Issei… only for his body to reject it. Again and again she tried but the evil piece was rejected.

"Why is this happening?" Rias asked, astonished. "Even if he's been dead for a short while, the Evil Piece should still work." But no matter what she tried, there was no longer a soul in Issei's body to revive.

Issei felt odd as he started to become self aware once more. His eyes wouldn't open and he couldn't feel his arms or legs. Most definitely something was wrong. The last memory he had was of who he assumed was Yuma coming back for him. Focusing on the now he tried to open his eyes again, but nothing however he could make things out, blurry shapes even without his sight.

The shape being that of something extremely common. Deciding a closer inspection was needed he moved forward, however it was strange he didn't have the feeling of movement but he knew he was closer to it. A rock? He found a rock? With its shape he was really hoping for something more soft and bouncy and generally connected to a woman's chest.

"Gah! Boobs are not what I need to be thinking about right now! I need to figure out where the hell I am!" He declared mentally as he began to move around a bit more until he felt the slightest bit of resistance in the direction he had before it vanished and he felt something… inside of him? Feeling the strange texture now inside of him, as weird as it was he could make out it's distinct shape. "A plant?" Only after a few moments of coming to terms that there was a plant inside of him, he didn't want to know how it got inside of him, it began to dissolve and after a few moments it was completely gone.

It was such a weird feeling to have the plant dissolve within him, yet a strange sense of it felt refreshing. But Issei was acutely aware of something. Human beings, could not absorb plants and just dissolve them. He wasn't the brightest student in Kuoh Academy but he was smart enough to get in to the Private School so give him some credit. Continuing his trek through the hazy blur of the unknown he began to become more aware of his body, or more so the lack of his human body and his new current predicament.

"I feel... bouncy." The former teen began to analyse himself while bouncing up and down, jumping from spot to spot. "Definitely bouncy, stretchy even?" He noted as he swayed his body getting a resounding jiggle in return, ah it reminded him of boobs. Maybe that's why it was so calming. "As for my actual appearance..." He began to try and process the answer that he knew was to be true. "I'm a slime!" He was ecstatic! Indeed, Issei Hyoudou had turned into a small red slime with a green center.

Instantly his mind was filled with so many wondrous images of his time in the internet with Slime in the search engine. He was also reminded of the latest episode of Kaben Rider Pinky, where the actress of the series, Momo Momozono had been attacked by a green slime. Just recalling it, made him want to try it out for himself! Oh all the perverted things he could do to a girl as a Slime!

"No! Gah! While it'd be awesome I've got to figure this out first!" He mentally shouted pushing the vivid images away, if he got the chance later he'd do it but for now he needed to figure out what was happening and how he could survive to do those awesome lewd things. "First things first… got to find a way out of this cave… is it a cave? No idea, but it's probably best to find the exit to the... maybe cave."

So Issei began to move, eating grass as he went along figuring there was no point not to… in retrospect there was no point to do it either, but it filled in some of the boredom. Honestly, it felt like a lifetime, having very minimal sight, only picking up small visuals of things before having to determine himself of what they actually were.

He had no idea how long he searched for an exit before finally giving up and deciding to focus on something else to fill in the boredom. With his limited sight he could barely make out small objects let alone find an exit, if there even was one.

"Another one bites the dust!" he hummed or at least he thought he hummed, he couldn't very well make sounds… he was in his head. "Another one bites… I know that those are the lyrics… and all, but they just disintegrate in my body." He would have frowned if he would be able to do so. How many pointless conversations had he had with himself now? He might be going insane due to boredom and isolation and when was the last time he saw boobs! He couldn't even tell how long he had been here! It wasn't a short while he knew that! He was starting to have withdrawls, it was a good thing he didn't need sleep otherwise he'd never want to wake up, for dreams would only be filled with the chests of women.

"What the point of all of this… all those light novels and anime made the whole, reincarnated thing a whole awesome thing! Harems and babes as far as the eye can see, godly power for no reason! Come on! Why did I get the ass end of all that!" He cried as he absorbed another plant, almost by habit now."Why the hell am I even doing this? Am I collecting them? Where would they even be?"

[Answer.] The sudden female voice made him jump in fright as he quickly looked around but nothing. [It is stored in the stomach of your unique skill: Predator.] The voice finished its answer. Issei hesitated for a moment, coming to recognise the voice that had been present during his last thoughts after Yuuma stabbing him.

"Who or what are you?" Issei asked. He figured that there was too much of a coincidence for it to suddenly pop up now, not to be something of importance.

[Answer- This is an effect of the Unique Skill [Great Sage]. For the sake of quickly utilizing your skills, a response function has been added]

"Finally! Now we're getting somewhere." Issei mused, so this definitely would be like one of the numbers Isekai tropes out there, he had skills and he had been reincarnated as a slime. But where the hell were the babes that undoubtedly fell head over heels at first sight! Who the hell, apart from a pervert, would do it with a slime!? "Focus!" Shaking his body he pondered on what the voice had said.

"Skills, which means it's game like right? Predator and Great Sage." He mused. "Uh… lady voice, whoever you are. Explain Predator."

[Predator explanation:

Predation: To absorb the target into the body. However, if the target is conscious, the success rate greatly decreases. The affected targets include organic matter, inorganic matter, skills, and magic.

Analysis: The absorbed target is studied and analyzed. Craftable items can then be produced. Should many items gather, a duplicate can be produced. In the case of successful skill or magic analysis, the same technique can be acquired.

Stomach: The target can be stored. Items produced can also be stored. There is no storage time limit.

Mimicry: Replicate the target's appearance. The skills and abilities used by the target can also be used. However, this depends on the successful analysis and acquisition of relative information regarding the target.

Isolation: Materials harmful or unnecessary for analysis can also be stored. They will be used to replace magic energy.

These are the abilities of the unique Skill, Predator]

"Wait isn't that seriously overpowered for a mob monster like a slime!?" His slime body trembled in excitement somewhat, since wasting so much time since awakening as a Slime he was finally getting somewhere and he was now discovering that he was probably the most badass slime in the history of slimes. Slimes from all over would bow down before him and all the lady slimes would beg to be with him... was there even such a thing as a lady slime?

[Inquiry: Would you like to analyse the flowers in your storage?] Issei stopped his train of thought, was this lady voice trying to get him to focus?

"Yes, do that…" He replied sheepishly.

[Analysis has been completed:

Hipokte Grass: Used to create ointment. Only grows in areas with abundant magic essence.

If grass's sap is combined with magic essence, a restorative medicine can be created.

If the grass is ground up and combined with magic essence, an ointment to stop bleeding can be created.]

"Man, who thought all that grass would be kickass healing herbs." Issei mused before deciding to test out this Great Sage Skill. "Hey, how long has it been since I woke up as a Slime?"

[Answer: 90 days, 7 hours, 34 minutes, and 52 seconds.]

The moment the answer was given, Issei felt defeated on a whole new level. Ninety days, equivalent to three months. This was insane and he hadn't slept a wink at all and hadn't eaten a bite, apparently he wasn't eating the grass. But he didn't let it get to him, this was his life now and he wasn't about to get beat down before it truly began. Issei Hyoudou was no quitter, he had a virginity to lose.

"Do I have any other skills?"

[Answer: Yes, one skill.]

"Oh, oh what is it!?"

[Answer: Unique Skill: Boost.] Issei had to think back for a moment, he didn't recall that skill being blasted out what he was doing like Predator and Great Sage… so what was it? [Error: Unknown Skill's abilities. Suggestion: [Predator]'s Analyze can be chained together with [Great Sage]'s Parallel Calculation to analyze, need to enable it? YES/NO]

[Better than not knowing, Yes.]

[Analyse in progress.]

"While you do that I'm going to find something to do, let me know when it's done!"

As time passed, Issei began to eat more and more grass, he figured why not they were valuable as a healing medicine and he found out from Great Sage that he could make the healing potion within himself. But he also had another dish on the menu, Magistone ore. He consumed every one he saw or could find. Figuring the more the better and he seemed to have an unreachable limit to the amount he could store within his predator skill.

Then his first hurdle as a slime came full force. Issei's body suddenly felt heavy and suddenly felt light….. It fell into a very unstable state. At first he panicked, what else was he to do? Blind with minimal sight and now all these strange things were happening all at once, it was like puberty all over again!

"Wait, is this… water?"

During the ninety days since awakening as a slime he had never come into contact with any body of water, the feeling wasn't anything like it was as a human. His entire body wasn't a solid, it was a liquid gel like substance. So to feel water all around was just weird.

Issei could feel his body continuously sinking without any hesitance or stopping and since he had no boyance he wasn't going to float back to the surface anytime soon.

What Issei soon came to realise was that he wasn't going to drown at the bottom of the lake. Considering that he'd been under here for a considerable amount of time already with no shortage of breath… not that he was breathing to begin with he discovered.

"Well.. a life in a puddle of water doesn't seem fantastic… unless there's some smoking hot mermaids down here! Not that I can see them anyway." His vision since falling into the water had just worsened. "Gotta be a way to get back to the surface." Issei tried to blow but only ended up sucking water into his body, and then it clicked. If he could use some kind of propulsion… "No harm in trying."

Issei began to use his Predator ability and swallowed mass amounts of water, filling only ten percent of his stomach sack and then released it all at once. Probably should have done it in small increments… His body was jettisoned through the water at high speeds. He breached the surface, the speed didn't lesson as his body voided all of the water he had swallowed and skimmed him across the water's surface.

"GAHHHHHH."

[Acquired Skill: Hydraulic Propulsion]

The moment he was gifted the new skill, his body crashed into something hard object and bounced back. He had fully been expecting severe pain to shoot through his body, thinking he was going to experience the same pain as he had with being stabbed but there was nothing, no pain and in truth he didn't feel anything.

[Answer. Since [Pain Invalidation] was acquired, feelings of pain were completely blocked. Also according to [Physical Damage Resistance], the damaged was reduced. The current bodily damage is ten percent, [Slime]'s intrinsic skill [Self Regeneration] was activated. Enable the Unique Skill [Predator]'s support effects? YES/NO]

"No pain is good, but it also doesn't really allow me to tell my own physical limits." Deciding to activate the support effects, he immediately felt the part of his body that had been cut away return to its natural state making him whole again. "Probably best I be a bit more careful."

"Can you hear me small one?" the voice was loud and booming, it filled him with a sense of dread. "Can you hear me, small one?" It repeated as Issei tried to look around, but nothing.

"Probably just another voice in my head... I'm already talking with one of them, maybe it's best I don't encourage my schizophrenia."

"Oi! You should be able to hear? Hurry up and answer me already!" Issei whirled again, this time he didn't think it was in his head. Whoever was speaking was an actual physical being. First contact!

"I'm a freaking slime what do you expect!? I can't hum let alone talk! Ya Jackass!"

"Hoho. You actually dare to call me such. You really have some guts! And I had thought that I shouldn't be rude to a guest which I haven't had in a long time, but it seems that you have a death wish!"

"Eh you can hear my thoughts!?" Issei began to panic slightly. Years upon years of groveling as a pervert might come in handy here! "Sorry! I didn't know how to reply, and I only randomly spoke out the thoughts in my heart just now. I'm really sorry! By the way, I'm in a state whereby I can't see anything, not even your appearance."

"This is telepathy." He spoke again. "But, it seems you're also blind to your surroundings."

"Yeah, just keep rubbing it in." Issei mumbled.

"Small one, I will give you sight."

"Seriously you can do that?!" The teen was excited, for one reason only. The biggest downfall of being blind was the fact of never being able to see boobs again.

"Correct, but there are conditions."

"Whatever they are I'll do it!? Let me see again!"

"Let me tell you them first!" The being roared before seemingly clearing his throat as Issei went stiff at the power behind the voice, whatever the hell the thing was, it was strong. "Eh hem. One, You must not fear me when you see me, and two you must come back and talk to me." Silence reigned for a few seconds before Issei spoke.

"That's seriously it? That's all you want? Not to be scared and come see you from time to time?" Issei inquired, seemed like an easy enough deal to him.

"You see, I was sealed here three hundred years ago, and since then I've been unbearably alone and bored." The being stated.

"When was the last time you saw boobs, here I am just ninety days in and I'm going insane, you must be livid. I think I'd cry if I didn't see boobs for hundred years."

"Bo-Boobs! I have no interest in such things!" He roared and Issei smirked to himself, he knew when someone was in denial. No matter what, boobs were always on the mind! "N-Now that we have that out of the way, let me explain on how you can see."

"Tch, and finally when I had someone I could talk to about boobs. Alright! Tell me how I can see boobs again!" There was a few moments of silence causing Issei to sweat slightly. "It's fine if you give me sight! I promise I won't do anything to the first pair of boobs I see!" Issei promised as another few moments passed before a heavy sigh was his response.

"Very well. There is something called Magic Perception; it allows you to perceive the surrounding magic essence."

"Magic Essence?"

[Answer: The world is covered with Magic Essence. For example, the body of a Slime can move because it absorbs magic essence.]

"If you are able to perceive the flow of magic essence outside of your body, then you'll get the skill. With that, you will be able to see and hear."

"Right you're talking through telepathy right now."

"Correct." The boob denialist responded. "Give it a try." Issei concentrated as best he could, reaching out with every sense that he possessed before he felt something, the shimmer before a rainbow like aura filled his vision.

[Extra Skill: Magic Perception acquired.] Great Sage announced. [In order to organize large amounts of information, suggest activating Great Sage skill at the same time] Great Sage suggested. [Activate [Magic Perception] [Yes/No]

"Yes!" Instantly Isses's world became a light with a large range of imagery, he had to wonder what would have happened if he hadn't activated the Great Sage skill alongside it, probably one nasty headache. From the rocks, to the grass, even the lake he figured he propelled from. Everything was crystal clear, even better than his former eyesight as a human. He could even hear the drops of water from the top of the cave, he had both sight and hearing back!

"Well, how is it?"

"It's totally awesome!" Issei turned to the being that had 'given' him sight. Now Issei couldn't very well called anything more than a pervert, in that sense some would call him stupidly brave for peeking at the girls of the Kendo Club knowing full well the repercussions of such a thing. But right now, he was really glad that Slime's didn't need to go to the bathroom, otherwise he would have just crapped himself.

For looming over the petite red slime was a massive, intimidating dragon; this was who he'd been talking too this entire time. Oh God, he had called a Dragon a jackass! His scales gleamed like black steel, flexible, and durable, like the scales of a fish. Issei was completely speechless. Sure, over the ninety days that he had become a slime he had figured that this was some Fantasy world with all manners of creatures, he was a slime after all. But he didn't think he'd meet a damn dragon right off the bat!

"Allow me to formally introduce myself, I am the only Storm Dragon Veldora!" He roared, god Issei had totally called this guy a pervert! "I am of the four 'Dragon Kind' of this world! Fuuu-hahahaha!" Issei was little more than a puddle of red with a green tinge. "Mmm? What's this? Didn't I tell you not to get scared upon seeing me?"

"O-of course, but I'm just a freaking slime! How'd you expect me to react!? It's my first time seeing a dragon!" The teen shouted back mentally, while his sight and hearing might have returned he didn't have the ability to talk. This took the Storm Dragon by surprise.

"Well, I guess I didn't think of it like that." Veldora stated, scratching at his chin. "I promise you that I mean you no harm little one." While continuing to ponder, as Issei tried to think what the word of a Dragon was worth, Veldora continued. "This is certainly unusual. Slimes are normally low-ranked monsters that don't think, but you have self-awareness and even an unhealthy obsession with… b-boobs!" Was that a red tinge that was covering his face?

"I'd say it's more than healthy!" Issei replied.

"But it begs the question of whether you are unique."

"I've been called many things, I don't think unique is one of them."

"In this particular case, it refers to a being with extraordinary abilities, and you're not just some simple slime."

"I am, or well I used to be human." This took the dragon by surprise. "But, I was killed, and the next thing I know, I woke up like this."

"In that case, you were reincarnated." Veldora mused.

"That's the only conclusion I can think of." Issei nodded. "No real other way to explain how I became like this." Veldora nodded. "Does this happen often?" Issei asked.

"Hard to say, but there are other types of circumstance. Where there are those that are summoned to this world, called Otherworlders and those of this world reincarnating. I've never heard of someone from another world reincarnating into this one."

"First time for everything, and I'm sure I'm not the only one just the only one you've met."

"A possibility but still, you're the first I've heard about."

"I wonder if it's possible to find some of these otherworlders? Maybe figure out if there is a way back home? Do I even want to go back? Life as a Slime hasn't been so bad yet… but no boobs yet either, I'm starting to miss Katase and Murayama's beatings…, no risk without reward."

"Oh, you're leaving already." Was that Dragon giving him the puppy dog eyes! Seriously it only worked for girls, and unless this giant ass Lizard turned into a beautiful buxom babe, hell he'd even settle for a Loli right now but there was no way it was working as he was now! But damn if he didn't feel bad, the guy had been on his own for three hundred years.

"I'll stay a bit longer." Stupid pouting Dragon, there were boobs out there to see!

"Please do!" Veldora really had been alone for a long time. "Stay as long as you want!"

"So uh… you were sealed here?" With nothing else to talk about, Issei decided to ask.

"I'm glad you asked." Veldora's story sounded as surreal as could be. Apparently, he 'accidentally' turned an entire town to ash, and how someone came to slay him. In Veldora's words a 'beautiful Hero'. Somehow, Veldora underestimated his opponent before going all out, but he still lost.

"It was because you were distracted because of Boobs! I totally understand! What else could distract you?"

"I was not!

Apparently, the Hero had been blessed with divine protection. The hero overpowered Veldora with her unique skill, Absolute Severance, before sealing him with Unlimited Imprisonment. Veldora proceeded to explain what a summon was, and needless to say Issei was grateful to be reincarnated as a Slime. To be ripped from their home against their will, bound to someone you don't know, and then used as a weapon. It seemed Social Darwinism was a big thing here.

It would have been a pain in the ass if he were summoned like that. Although maybe if the Summoner was a lady with epic proportions he'd take the risk. Issei was beginning to enjoy talking with Veldora, considering he had nobody but Great Sage to talk to and she was as big as a stuck in the mud as could be.

"So, you've been here in this cave ever since the hero sealed you?" Issei asked.

"Yes, and I've been so very, very bored." The former human couldn't exactly blame him, he's only been in this cave for ninety days and he could at least move around.

"Well it might be a bit late, but my name's Issei, friends call me Ise." Veldora blinked momentarily and tilting his head.

"You have a name?" He was honestly surprised that the small slime had a name.

"Well, it's the one I had as a human, so I figured I'd just keep using it. It'd be weird not to, you know." He explained. "Is it weird?"

"No, it's not weird it's just names mean something here." Veldora stated. "Wait… friends? Are you saying that we're friends!?"

"Is that a bad thing!?" Fearing he had pissed the dragon off he backed up slightly.

"A mere Slime proposes friendship with me, the fearsome Storm Dragon!?" He exclaimed. Issei blinked and then a smirk came to his face, this was way too predictable. He would have rather it been a female Tsundere, but hey might as well make the most of it.

"Well if you don't want to-" Issei began to turn to leave however Veldora shouted at him once more.

"Fool! No one said I didn't want to!" Veldora shouted, clearly frustrated and embarrassed at the same time as Issei turned back to face him.

"So, what do you say?"

"Well...if you insist...I guess that I'm willing to think about it." This would be the time Issei realised just how much of Tsunderes were a pain in the ass. Issei stared up at Veldora causing him to shift uncomfortably before finally barking out. "Alright, I'll be your friend. You'd best be grateful!" Veldora said, he really wasn't going to let this chance slip by. Issei jumped closer to the Dragon and rose up a tendril from his small body.

"Put it there pal!" Was that a tear in the dragon's eye Issei witnessed? Well before Veldora reached down with a claw, touching his outstretched tendril. Veldora the Storm Dragon, and Issei Hyoudou were now friends.