So that’s why Luminous mentioned Rimuru dying at some point. I’m not sure how to feel about all that time travel stuff yet. This can easily become a convoluted mess with no good explanations, but on the other hand the author was thinking about this for a while and planted some hints way back in the story, so maybe it will be fine.

I like that Veldora gets emotional after losing Rimuru, considering what an airhead he is. I was never sure if their friendship was something Veldora does on a whim, partially because Rimuru helps him in a dire situation, and partially because he found Rimuru to be more entertaining than destroying everything around, or was there something more. So it’s nice to know he actually cares.

I kinda expected they won’t kill Hinata for good, but not that Hinata sees Rimuru as a father figure.