Yo! The name’s "Kayakuda ○n"! Nice to meet ya!

...Wait, maybe "Gouzouin Tondemaru" has more impact...?

Huh? What am I doing?

I’m just trying to come up with a cool, powerful-sounding name.

Because, y’know... I’m currently a slime.

...

No, it’s not like I wanted to become a slime, okay!?

I just woke up as one!

I’m serious!

I’ve calmed down a bit now, so I was just trying to think of an intimidating name for myself.

My real name? Hiroki Yabe, 28 years old. Four years since entering society, working like a corporate slave.

...And no, I didn’t fail my university entrance exams twice! I actually graduated from grad school, okay? For real!

...Well, actually...

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"Nn...? Nnn?"

What the— my body... won’t move?

Huh...? What happened to me?

I remember... I was sitting at my desk at the company, facing my PC...

"Oh, I must’ve dozed off. That explains why I can’t move my body~ Happens all the time~ ...Wait, like hell it does!!!!!"

Everything around me is pitch black, and I can’t move at all...

Well, my hands and feet don’t move, but if I try really hard, it feels like my whole body can wriggle a little. Let’s see... if I do this here, and that there...

...Wait a second. I’M A SLIME!!!!!

But my mind is going wild—in a good way!

"IT’S FINALLY HERE! Thank you, Goddess of Light Novels!!!!!!"

Kuhahaha! I didn’t call myself the Light Novel Great Demon King of Kita-Senju for nothing! (Self-proclaimed)

My shabby 6-tatami apartment’s north-facing wall is completely covered with the biggest pre-built bookshelves I could buy from the home center.

The shelves are packed full of light novels! Of course, I also have all the manga adaptations!

What? The window faces north? There’s no way I could afford an apartment with a south-facing window. That’s way too luxurious for me.

On the very top shelf in the center sits my most revered sacred light novel.

Its title: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime!

Thank you, Fuse-sensei!!!!!!

That’s right! Reincarnating as a slime means becoming a Great Demon Lord, getting hugged by beautiful elf sages, turning into a dungeon boss monster — the ultimate symbol of super cheat abilities!

Finally, it’s my turn to go wild in another world with cheat skills and live a harem life!!!!!

...

...Or so I thought at one point!

Nope! Not even close! There are no cheat skills!!!!

In fact, I don’t even have any skills at all?!

After struggling for a while, I somehow managed to wriggle and squish around,

but other than that... I can’t do anything!

"Status Open!"

"Skill Activate!"

"Gimme a Gift!!"

"Fireball!"

"O dark waves of the abyss..." — nah, that one’s getting too chuuni.

No matter what I try... nothing happens.

This is seriously bad! Yabe-chan is in deep trouble!

(Yeah, that’s the self-deprecating joke I always use... Don’t give me that look.)

Slimes are the weakest mobs that get killed first in any fantasy game.

If someone finds me like this, it’s instant Game Over. Or in real life — or rather, slime life — it’s straight-up the end.

What the hell am I supposed to do...?