Me, Rimuru, and Milim were sitting down in front of our home just looking at what was Tempest's first Autumn.

Rimuru: Clear skies and stout horses.

Milim: What's that mean?

Jasper: Horses fatten up in the fall, because that's when the best harvest is available.

Milim: These horses of yours must be some real gluttons.

She said before taking up a bowl and began eating, I thought her belly was starting to stick out a bit.

Jasper: Well, we should get ready to harvest!

Later

Rimuru: It's commonly said the one can only afford manners once there basic needs are met. When the people's bellies are full, they're minds can relax and the nation can be at it's best with no unnecessary disputes.

Jasper: That's how we want us to be, Autumn is the season of bounty. But, it's also an important preparation time for Winter. 

Both: So, let's all work together to get these crops harvested today!

Everyone: Right!

Jasper: Ok! Next, we have a special guests-

Treyni: I've been waiting for this day since the Spring... Potatoes! Today we're gonna be digging up sweet Potatoes!

Everyone: Yeah!

Rimuru: A few other things too... next-

Milim: Listen everyone! Get out there and get harvesting so you can feed us all the tasty snacks!

Treyni: POTATOES!!

Everyone: YEAH!!

Milim: MY BELLY!!

Everyone: YEAH!!

So we all go to work right away, starting with assigning groups to which harvest. Just like before, the Goblin Lord Ririna who I had assign as our production supervisor had once again taking control of this operation.

There were 3 reasons I put her in the position. 1: She's once of prettiest people here which was less a reason and more just a bonus for me. 2: She's very responsible, diligent and hard working. And 3: ...

Jasper: I think Gobta and his friends are slacking off again...

Ririna instantly heard my mumble and turned to glare at the lazing off Gobta and his misfits. She loudly smacked her board to get there attention.

Ririna: Yo, yo, yo! You bunch of slackers! Do you plan on helping or not!? Cause you if all keep slacking off like this, then we're gonna lose all the good daylight!

She grabbed Gobta by his nose and one of his friends by the hair before pulling them up.

Ririna: Think of the consequences. Do you guys really wanna look like a bunch of lazy jackasses in front of both Prince Jasper and Lord Rimuru! Do you want me to fold you and chop you and feed you to these fields, huh do yah!? Wouldn't it be great to eat something you busted you're asses off for... Well, wouldn't it?

Gobta: Yeah, sorry!

As they ran off, she picked up her board and wiped the dirt before smiling at us.

Ririna: The works coming along nicely!

Rimuru: I see...

Rigurd: I see you haven't changed a bit since the old days.

Jasper: This is why she's one of my favorite Goblins.

Meanwhile

Milim and Shion appeared to be having a standoff in the middle of a sweet potato field.

Shion: I'll show no mercy on this day... and that applies to you as well Lady Milim.

Milim: Those sure are some big fighting words, you sure one-horn?

Shion: The names Shion!

Milim: Right, right...

Jasper: Um, what are you two doing?

Milim: Hey Cuz!

Shion: Nice to see Prince Jasper, I am simply about to show my superiority over Lady Milim at this moment.

Milim: Yeah right! I am clearly better, right Jasper?

Oh, I see what's going on...

Jasper: Whatever, either way you'll both be second fiddle to me.

Both: ...Is that so?

Suddenly, the clouds darkened as the three powerhouses gave each other intense glares.

Milim: My skills are legend, I've been called the best among the ten great Demon Lords... at Harvesting.

Shion: Oh? Well luckily I'm known as the legendary Ogre Goddess, known through out the forests... for Harvesting!

Jasper: Heh, my power is incomparable for I was made the Guardian of the Jura forest... for Harvesting! 

Three: Let's go/It's on/Bring it!

The three immediately went to work pulling out as many sweet potatoes as possible, particularly trying to locate the larger ones.

Milim: As the best of the ten great Demon Lords, defeat is impossible!

Shion: Please allow me to show you, why everyone calls me a total legend!

Jasper: I am one of the founders of this nation and this forests Guardian, my victory is assured!

Rimuru: ...Is this really how you three wanna do this? I mean, it's efficient, but...

Meanwhile

Treyni: My, what an excellent hole.

Rigurd: NO! I CAN'T ALLOW A DRYAD TO DEMEAN HERSELF BY DIGGING POTATOES!!

Treyni: It's alright, in fact Dryads are actually born from potatoes.

Everyone there stared at her in horror.

Haruna's mind: So... Prince Jasper was right, she's a cannibal!?

Jasper: ACHOO!!

Rimuru: You alright?

Jasper: I don't know why, but I think I was just proven right on something important...

Later

Rigur: We've return! The expedition team has brought back provisions.

Rimuru: Excellent work!

Shuna: Wow, what a bountiful harvest!

Gobta: Yes, and we owe it all to the star wolves keen noses.

While inspecting the food, Rimuru found something that he got very excited about.

Rimuru: The shape... the color... the aroma... We've got a huge bounty of the incredibly rare Matsutake! WAY TO GO EVERYONE!!

Gobta: Yeah, but those things grow all over the place... there not rare at all.

Rigur: We actually just pick them along the way...

Benimaru: Most likely, they won't even taste good.

Seeing Rimuru in an embarrassing spot yet again, it was up to the older sibling to salvage the situation.

Jasper: Oh you see, Rimuru is not native to the forests of Jura. From where he comes from these mushrooms are not only rare, but when found can be made into a delicacy that many in his home seriously crave. Thus, is sudden excitement.

Benimaru: I see, that explains quite a bit.

Shuna: Then feel free to take as much as you like, Lord Rimuru.

As everyone else was talking about the other fruits and vegetables gathered, Rimuru was drawing a mushroom in the ground out of disappointment.

Later

Jasper and Souka went into the woods to gather some chestnuts. Jasper had also decided to attack her into a surprise sparring session, since he wanted to train her in more direct combat when she wasn't working with Souei's group the Dark Shadow.

Souka's mind: When it comes to sparring with Prince Jasper, I can't lower my guard down for even a moment. It's almost like training with master Souei...!

Jasper's saber quickly struck from the side before it was revealed it be a feint and it quickly came from above, luckily Souka manage to dodge in time.

Jasper: Nicely done Souka!

She saw a dagger flying towards her which she nimbly sidestepped allowing it to hit a tree behind her.

Souka's mind: That attack was easy... too easy.

Jasper: Unfortunately, there is one thing you have yet to deal with...

Souka: Huh?

She then heard the tree behind her shake, and when she looked up...

WHAM!!!

A large chestnut fell and knocked her to the ground.

Souka: Oww....

Jasper: Always expect the unexpected.

Jasper knelt down and rubbed her head.

Jasper: Did it hurt you badly?

Souka regained more of her sense, and realized Jasper was petting her making her blush.

Souka: N-No, my Prince...

This made him smile, before...

Milim: HEY JASPER!! IF YOU DON'T GET OVER HERE SOON, THEN I'LL CLAIME VICTORY!!!

Shion: PLEASE, AS IF YOU COULD HOPE TO DEFEAT ME!!!

Souka was confused before looking back to Jasper... only to see he had vanished.

Jasper: SINCE WHEN DID WE ALLOW HEAD STARTS YOU CHEATERS!?

She just stared in the direction she heard his yell, before giggling to herself at his strangeness.

Meanwhile

A few minutes later, the 3 stooges had manage to gather just about every sweet potatoes they could find.

Milim: Hey, one horn!

Shion: It's Shion...

Milim: Yeah that! What do you think of this!?

She held out a rather big sweet potato.

Shion: Heh, is that really the best you could do?

Shion then held up a larger sweet potato.

Milim: What!? Where the heck did you find such a massive sweet potato!?

Shion: Heheheh, Let's see... was it over here or over there?

Jasper: I think you two are getting ahead of yourselves!

They looked over to see Jasper with a much bigger sweet potato.

Milim: W-What!?

Shion: H-How...!?

Jasper: I guess this just proves I'm the superior potato harvester. 

Milim glared at him, before noticing a rather big lump in the ground.

Milim: No one will know how a battle will end... not until, it's finally over!

She dash forwards and grabbed it, only to reveal an absolutely massive sweet potato. Shocking both Shion and Jasper.

Shion: N-No... that's impossible...!

Jasper: W-What... what kind of dark sorcery is this!?

Milim: I love the shape, it's so profound and elegant... don't you agree?

Shion fell to the ground in tears, while I was stuck with trying to figure out the mystery behind why that sweet potato looked a lot like Rimuru.

Later

Everyone then gathered up to prepare a fire to roast the sweet potatoes.

Gobya: My lords, I think the fire is ready to roast!

Rimuru: Alright, Milim give me the potato you wanna roast.

Milim: Right here! Obviously the biggest and most elegant one here.

Jasper's mind: Did Rimuru do something to that sweet potato... did Treyni!?

While I was still trying to figure one of the biggest questions I now have, Rimuru wrapped the him looking potato up with {Sticky Thread} before throwing it into the slowly burning pile of leaf's and wood.

Milim: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY FOOD!?

She grabbed Rimuru by the scruff of his coat, and began spinning him around before he turned back to his Slime form in a daze.

Rimuru: Roasted sweet potatoes... are a type of food made from slowly cooking sweet potatoes over a fire, and it makes them shockingly delicious and sweet...

After some time of singing to past the time, the potatoes were finally done and Milim became mesmerized with the taste.

Milim: Wow! What makes this so delicious!?

Shuna: Honestly nothing, all we did was just cook it.

Milim: There's no way that's all you did!

Shuna: Wanna another...?

MIlim began digging in to the food, while trying to figure out how something that was just in the dirt could suddenly become so good.

Rimuru: Geez, what kind of food did you eat before?

Shuna: She must have been raised with no love or light in her life... I can relate.

I gave Shion a weird look, before remembering something...

I remember a long time ago, I visited Milim's territory and stayed with her for days. During my time there Milim's servants the Dragon-faithful gave us food... in the form of nothing but raw vegetables... Me and Milim were trying to hold it out and not show our disgust.

Meanwhile

At the Forgotten city of Dragons, which served as the home for Milim and her Dragon-faithful. A loud crash was heard and inside were the destroyed statues the Dragon-faithful had built for two of their five gods. Milim and Jasper.

Hermes: They must've gotten angry because they hate raw vegetables... so you should probably prepare for divine punishment...

Middray: Have you gone crazy!? It's the finest piece one could ask for! Besides, if that's the case then why didn't the statues of Lady Opal, Lord Beryl, or Lady Amber collapse!?

Hermes's mind: Probably because Lord Beryl and Lady Amber don't come here often or stay long enough to eat the food... Also, nobody has seen Opal since the Demon Lord system was first established. She just suddenly vanished after Lady Milim's rampage...

Later

As the sun was setting, the harvest had been finally completed.

Rimuru: Well, I'm relieved to say that this years harvest went well. I guess we have you to thank for that Treyni.

Treyni: I only offered a bit of advise is all. To think for yourselves and learn how to plant, to support yourselves... that was the promise, wasn't it?

Jasper: You say that, but we all know you really wanted to get in on this.

Treyni: Well then, now that the harvest is complete... I don't think there's anything left for me. You'll be fine, I believe you call can take care of the rest on you're own... Master Jasper, Lord Rimuru until we meet again.

With that, she vanished leaving only her hat behind to fly in the wind.

Jasper's mind: Bit overdramatic, don't ya think?

Rimuru: You're kidding, all of a sudden you're just gone...

Huh? What is he talking about?

Hours later

We visited the snack bar Treyni ran, I mainly did this to show Rimuru that Treyni was still here. We entered and were greeted by Haruna and Treyni.

Rimuru: What!? You are still here!?

Treyni: What? I was simply frying the potato chips.

Jasper's mind: I think the sneeze from earlier was about her being a cannibal...

Jasper: I don't know why you thought she was gone... couldn't you sense her back here?

Rimuru was stuttering, trying to think of an excuse before abruptly leaving in a huff, I stayed for a bit.

I came back to the office, only to hear Rimuru pleading for forgiveness and the girls looking mad for some reason.

Rimuru: I just thought girls worried about that kind of thing. I was only trying to help okay!? OKAY!? PLEASE DON'T BE MAD!!

God... he can be so annoyingly pathetic sometimes.

Milim: I'm actually one of the lucky ones, who doesn't gain any weight.

Shion: Me too! All the nutrients go to my chest.

Souka: It takes quite a bit for a Dragonnewt to even begin gaining weight...

Shuna: I guess the league of sweets is permanently disbanded.

Jasper: What's going on...?

Dord: We put a weight machine in the girl's bathhouse... they broke it.

Jasper: I see... did you also put one in the men's room?

Rimuru: Of course!

I then gave the girls a confused but irritated look.

Jasper: If that's the case, then why are you girls getting so mad about this? It's not your being targeted here.

The girls remained quite with angry looks.

Jasper: Gonna give us the silent treatment huh?

They continued... Fine, two can play at that game.

Jasper: I see... Ranga, Souei, Rigurd, come here!

They all appeared.

Men: Yes sir?

Jasper: I have some new orders, since they're giving us the silent treatment for a stupid reason... I'm afraid we can't work with them anymore.

Girls: huh?

Jasper: Ranga, go ask Haruna and Ririna is they wanna become our new secretaries since Shion and Souka clearly don't wanna be.

Ranga left.

Shion & Souka: WHAT!?

Jasper: Rigurd, tell the girls and Dwarves to get rid of all the clothing that Shuna wanted us to wear, we won't be needing it anymore.

Rigurd left.

Shuna: H-Hold on...!

Jasper: Souei, tell Gob'ichi and the other chefs to discontinue Milim's favorite snacks, she no longer wishes to cooperate with us.

Milim: GAH!!!

Souei left.

Jasper: You girls are being unfair to us and everyone else, if this is how you're all gonna act... then why should we be fair to you? You're being so immature.

They all stood dumbfounded for a bit, before they all quickly kowtowed on the floor and apologized profusely, begging for forgiveness.

Meanwhile, Rimuru was staring at me in awe.

Rimuru (Teach me your ways!)

I gave him an annoyed look.

Jasper (All I did, was not take any of their BS. If you're gonna be at something, then at least have a good damn reason for it. Also, you got a learn to stop being so humble. Sure humility is a good thing, but there such a thing as too much. It doesn't make you look good, it just makes you look weak and a pushover.)

In that very moment, it became pretty clear who the real leader of Tempest was. That was until Jasper emitted a murderous aura.

Jasper: Also... what's this I hear about a league of sweets?

The girls looked nervous.

Jasper: You gals had a league of sweets, and not only did you not invite me... but also you disbanded it without letting me in...?

Shion: U-Uh, w-well you see...

Milim: T-There's a g-good reason!

They looked to Shuna and Souka for help... only to realize they had vanished, leaving them to their fate.

That night, Milim and Shion had to run and hide from the murderous sugar starved Nephilim chasing them through out the town.

Rimuru's mind: And he calls them immature...

Days later

Rimuru was checking out the new healing potion with Vesta and Kaijin. Meanwhile, I was wandering around town with Milim.

Jasper (How is it?)

Rimuru (We finally manage to not only establish a communication orb with Dwargon, but Vesta also manage to make a full healing potion.)

Jasper (That's great news! That would definitely give us a military advantage and also a more influence on marketing and trade, it'll practically give us some kind of monopoly!)

Rimuru (They said we should keep it relatively small, since we can't let the world rely on a full potion for every situation.)

Jasper (Hmm... I agree with that statement, given how effective and important it is. We should only use it for extreme injuries or life and death situations, plus keep it to certain amount will allow us to jock up the price if we sell them to other nations. This along with the 99% and 98% potions will definitely help us financially.)

Rimuru (Wow, you're quite the financial hoarder.)

Jasper (Wonder where I got that from?)

After our talk, we continued to wander around for a bit before we heard a commotion going on and saw a large crowd gathering up. We walked towards it and saw Rigurd speaking with 4 individuals.

{Mimir: These are Lycanthropes, they are a well known and very powerful type of Monster that consist of various types of Beastmen.}

???: I am Phobio the Black Leopard fang, one of Demon Lord Carrion's 3 Beastketeers. Of all our masters Beastketeers I'm the strongest one.

{Mimir: His wavelengths show that he is lying... about being the strongest.}

But he is the servant of a Demon Lord...

Phobio: Nice town you got here, perfect to be ruled by the beast king don't you think?

Rigurd: ...Surely you jest?

Phobio then empowered his fist and struck at Rigurd... or at least he thought. Standing between Rigurd and him was a child like figure who had taken the blow to the face instead. But, he didn't look fazed.

Phobio: What the!?

Rigurd: P-Prince Jasper!?

Jasper: Are you alright?

Rigurd: Y-Yes my lord, I'm fine but-

Jasper: That's good to hear.

I gave him a confident smile, before giving Phobio a dark look.

Phobio: W-Who the hell are you!?

Jasper: Phobio, was it...?

I grabbed him by the throat and brought him to eye level with me.

Jasper: Look, I don't care who you or you're owner is... but, there one thing I know. That you some wannabe little sh*t just wander here like you own the damn place and demand our subservience, not only that you attempted to attack one my subordinates and friends... and that I can not