As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he's a little disappointed to find he's become a blind, boneless slime monster.Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero …
Over the course of his new life as a slime, Rimuru has overcome many trials and tribulations—aggressive neighbors, treacherous plots, deadly beasts—to build his very own nation of monsters. For a change of pace, he's decided to engage in a diplomatic tour of the nearby human kingdoms, where he might have found his most challenging adversary yet: a classroom of rowdy children! Can he live up to the memory of his long-lost friend Shizu by taking care of her former pupils?