In any RPG games, there is no such thing as a perfect guild. Perfect as in full of party members that actually care about their teamwork and party members that don't get into fights.

Yes, there is no such thing as a normal guild. There are only guilds full of misbehaved party members that either kill their own comrades or silently take away all the guild funds all for themselves.

"...In conclusion, those who want a genuinely ideal guild, this world has no place for you."

"...Kouta Onii-san? What's with the monologue?"

"Did I say those weird lines out loud? Sorry, I'm not sure myself." I forgot she calls me by Kouta Onii-san now.

We have arrived at the guild and just like you might expect, everyone is drunk as always.

There are some people that sucked balls at playing cards and cried due to their bad luck, some others went their ways to woo the waitresses.

Well, I guess I can score a girl or two if you know what I mean, but that isn't what I came for.

As I take a sip from my glass, the beer slides down perfectly down my throat, Chris seems to look around at the hectic atmosphere.

"Say, Kouta Onii-san."

"Hmm? What is it, Chris?"

"Are the guilds in Japan like this as well?"

"There is no such thing as guilds in Japan. Other than internet cafes designed like one. But the closest thing would be pubs. You know, you might learn about some people called salarymen and sometimes they would go home tired because of demanding eyes from their peers and boss. So, what's the solution, you ask? Go to a pub, get drunk and let this beautiful thing wash away your depression and anxiety until you fell asleep before you went sober and cry yourself just to repeat the cycle of doom."

"Was that based on experience?"

"Silly you, your book didn't list me as a depressed salaryman does it?"

"I mean, you are on your third glass..."

"Ah, that's no big deal."

I stand up and bring my now emptied glass, "I'll talk to Luna-san first, you can order some food if you want."

"Yes!"

I put the empty glass I'm holding on one of the waitresses' serving tray, asking for a refill, before walking to Luna-san's counter.

"Yo, Luna-san."

"Good evening, Kouta-san. I see the quest went well? As expected of the most growing team of adventurers!"

"What does that mean? Us three barely did anything. Anyway, it was a bust."

I gave her my notes that I had written on the way to the guild, letting her examine it.

"This is... a detailed review of the quest?"

"Yeah. Sketched the things that I saw too. Goblins took the boars out. Way faster than I imagined. In my place goblins were supposed to be nocturnal, but if I guessed it right those abominations took out the boars between five in the afternoon to six in the evening. They seemed well-armed, albeit with badly designed weapons made out of a rock. Honestly, it might be my luck at work, but I don't like where this is going..."

Luna-san lets out a sigh as she puts my note aside, "I see... it is hard, the situation right now that is. There's been an uproar in the guild staff committee. It appears there's an awful looking castle being built not too far from this town. It could be..."

"...it could be one of the Generals."

"Yes, and the adventurers here are just beginners, so..."

"Oh, don't worry, there's probably a way to defeat one of them. Say, the bounty over the Generals' head must be big, huh?"

"Yes, defeating one of them will greatly help the kingdoms, after all."

I nodded, of course it would be big.

"But if the rumors were to be true, then I suppose it is logical. Low to middle leveled monsters are hiding, some of the adventurers noted." She added.

Luna-san's expression changed brightly as if she remembered something.

"Ah yes! Your subjugation rewards! Although the boars were taken out by the goblins, you did take care of them as well! 200.000 Eris for the goblins and 35.000 more for the detailed information." Luna-san said as she prepares a bag of coins.

"Oi, oi, isn't 35.000 for an information a little overboard?"

"But you even added important notes like this," she said, showing the page where I sketched one of the boars' corpse. It's one hell of a gore image you sketched there, me.

"I guess you're right. Thank you, Luna-san. Ah, by any case, any new possible members?"

"I don't think so... most turned their backs after knowing you teamed up with... Megumin-san..."

"So you knew, after all."

Not wanting to make her cry, I quickly forget ten ways to tease Luna-san as payback and go back to Chris instead.

"Chris, for the love of Minerva, what are you doing?"

In front of me is the same young girl that's actually the Goddess of Luck, sitting while drinking my glass of beer.

That's right, she's drunk at the moment.

"Wha-?! Ah, Kouta onii-*hiccup!*-san, welcome back~!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm back. Say, why are you drinking my beer?"

Still letting out hiccups that sounded like a squeaking sound of a mouse, Chris rocked her head back and forth.

"I was *hiccup!* thirsty and I don't waaaaant to call a waitress for tea so I drank yours instead!"

I just realized this girl is troublesome too!

What is with this world?! I like it!

I laughed and clapped loudly, sitting in front of the drunk Goddess.

"Ah well, party away! Hey miss, one more glass for me!"

"And me too~!"

As the guild continues to be lively as usual, I watch in awe as the Goddess-in-incognito-more drinks more and more.

"Aaaah~~! This is the best! I haven't received this kind of sensation since ages ago!"

Her face is red and her eyes are going all over the place, chugging more and more than before.

'I guess I have a new drinking companion in this world as well.'

I light up my cigarette after ordering some food and more drinks for me and the drunk Chris.

"Say, Chris, party even harder okay?"

"You got it, Onyii-chan! Chris will *hiccup!* party hard!"

Her shout makes everyone cheer as all of them raised their own share of glasses high in the air.

We (read: Chris and co.) eat and eat, drink and drink some more until some adventurers dropped dead due to the many rounds of shots that they have drank.

Chris is so drunk; she begins to dance away with other adventurers.

Seriously, is she going to be okay?

And so, I found out that deep down her heart, Chris is still a youthful individual after all.

If you are standing outside the guild like I am now, you might see some amazing scene unfolding,

Namely, a Goddess puking out rainbows after drinking too much.

"Uuuuu... I... I feel like I violated myself and my own teachings... *Bleeeergh*... I can't be called a Goddess anymore..."

I silently patted Chris' back as she continues to puke out rainbows, it's funny how she goes drunk fast and becomes sober as fast as well.

"Now, now. It's okay to let out your party animal side once in a while, did you know one of the Greek gods, Zeus, fucks everyone and everything he sees worthy to be pierced by his thunder rod? Some Gods did more fucked up things than just being drunk."

Like, kicking away Lucifer for some reason or the other. Or the occasional backstabbing between Gods, what do I know?

"Was that supposed to cheer me up?! uuuuu... what would my followers do if they found out their Goddess went drunk so easily?"

"Wait, excuse me? Are you implying Gods in this world love to drink?"

"N-not that much, but Aqua-senpai..."

Ah, it's the deadbeat Goddess that sent that bastard Mitsurugi huh.

It is already four in the morning, and it's Sunday. Naturally, I would sleep peacefully before waking up in the afternoon to check out my mailbox, but that's not what I can do until I beat the Demon king.

"Say, Chris. In Axel town, there are churches, right?"

"Yes, one for Aqua-senpai and one for me. Ah, you can stop patting my back now. I'm fine."

I give her my handkerchief and let her wipe some of the snot from her nose.

"Today is Sunday, so why don't we check out your church?"

"Eh? But, wouldn't the priests-"

"You are not wearing your breast pads; you should be fine-!"

"GOD KICK!"

*BAM!*

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GAO JEWELS! MY JYUOHKEN! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEY'RE BREAKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Her fierce kick made me drop into the ground while holding tight of the weapon that would expand the Minazaki family that's located under my lower region.

Seriously, is she a Goddess?

"Hmph, that's your fault, Onii-san. Teasing a Goddess is a grave sin, you know?"

"Ah, it's numb. I can't feel them anymore. I can't even think of jacking off during the weekends now. I can't even procreate at this rate!"

"W-was my kick that hard? A-are you okay?!"

Tears still flowing from my eyes, I look up into the sky that slightly turns bright because of the rising sun, "Ah, yep. The nerves probably got ruined after that kick. Yeah. Won't be able to do anything with it now. I guess I'll just maintain some stable and be a farmer."

"KOUTA ONII-SAN I'M SORRY LET ME HEAL YOU!"

After taking a considerate amount of time to heal my holy sword, Chris and I decided to go to the inn.

I still need to take one step at a time slowly because my balls are still sore for a bad reason. Seriously, her kick is comparable to that of a horse.

I'm not a brony, by the way.

"Onii-san, is your... thing still hurt? I'm sorry..."

I weakly laughed, "No, it's fine... it's been a while since I felt that kind of pain" I am not a masochist.

I turned the doorknob, and the door opened.

"Ah, Kouta, Chris. Welcome back."

Here we see our little Archwizard loli friend, eating breakfast all alone.

Wait.

"Oi, that Elf lady on the first floor never told me about room service. What is this?"

As she keeps on munching frog legs that are coated in garlic sauce, she started to speak.

"Well, I just went out and asked her for breakfast. She'll put it under your tab by the way. Ah, I bought you two breakfast as well."

Well, might as well.

As we joined Megumin by sitting down on the carpeted floor, I began to talk while grabbing a piece of frog leg. Mine's deep-fried so it shouldn't be that bad.

"Say, do you know about the rumors that have been circling around? Itadakimasu." I began the conversation, and take a bite off the leg. Chewy, and surprisingly juicy too.

"Rumors? I-itadakimasu." Chris answered, eating her own share.

"*munch* yeah, about the uh... what do you call one again? Generals of the Demon King?"

"Ah, I don't think so. Most of the time I just hang out at the guild trying to ask people to invite me." The wizard answered.

Wait a minute, that's pretty sad! Thank god she stayed with us now.

I still don't like her chuuni vibes, however.

"The Demon King's underlings, huh? We should be ready, then" Chris commented.

"Yeah, and knowing the guild won't have any low or middle-ranked monsters to be killed because of one General makes it hard. Let's try our best tomorrow to scout some party members. A team that consisted of one supporter and two attackers that can't do much because of limited mana or a one-shot ticket won't do much on harder quests. I'd say... how about we try scouting someone with defense-related class? Like a Knight, for example," I proposed.

And by the way, this frog is actually tasty. My friend back in Japan was right, after all!

"A Knight... Ah! Kouta Onii-san! Let us go to the Eris church now!"

I took a sip from my cup of coffee, "You seem excited. I mean sure, but I need to wash my face first. Ah, and I guess I can buy some new clothes, I don't want to damage my jacket and jeans any further."

"Actually, I believe there is a knight that loved to visit the church..."

"?" I look at her smiling face in confusion, "Well, let me wash my face first. Ah, Megumin, can you check out the guild for some quests? Don't bring me some dumb subjugation quests though."

"You got it, but let's finish this breakfast first."

Chris and I only looked at Megumin as she wolfed down her share of food.

"Haha, I guess she's right. Gotta build some energy."

"Yes!"

After finishing my breakfast, I went to the bathroom first.

Chris and Megumin are talking about something that I don't clearly understand so I'll let them be.

I look at the reflection in the mirror.

"Hmm... I really should get a haircut, but I don't know if barbers are a thing in this kind of age."

I combed my hair down with my hand, "huh, some of them still have that hair dye that I used back then."

It's kind of dumb seeing the few strands of red hair when the majority of my hair is black.

Deciding to not think about it anymore, I quickly wash my face with the flowing tap water.

"Alright, even if the Goddess is beside me, I had to clean my face when visiting her main domain at the very least."

I left the bathroom after looking at the mirror one more time.

"Alright, are we ready to go?"

"Yes!" / "Yeah. I'll find ourselves a good quest." Replied the both of them.

As I look upon their smiling faces, something crossed my mind.

Will the author really be fine with all these line breaks?

"Well, it appears the author will be fine after all. And now we're walking towards the church."

"The author?"

"Forgive my tendency to break the fourth wall, dear sis of mine."

As I was saying, the two of us are currently walking towards the church dedicated to the Goddess of Luck, Eris.

I found out just now that there are two main religions in this world. Namely, the Eris Cult, a cult –as the name suggests—that dedicated their life to Eris. And there's the Axis Cult, a group of people that dedicated their life to Aqua, the Goddess of Water.

I need to find out more about these cultists, they seem fun. Especially the Axis guys, they seem to be the party animal kind of people, which I really like.

"Say, Chris. What happens when someone that doesn't believe in both of these religions enters one of their churches?"

"Are you saying you don't believe in me?"

"Well no, I just don't like wasting my life dedicating myself to some omnipotent beings high above the skies and whatnot. My life is short enough as it is, so I'd rather do something meaningful towards the world in a whole sense of things."

Chris ponders a bit, "well, I don't think my people would mind. Aqua-senpai's followers, however..."

She shivers a bit before looking away, "They tend to get... carried away..."

Ah. Another group of nutjobs then.

"Well, even I know some priests are dirty little boys deep in their hearts. And considering you are walking slower than before I assume we have reached our destination?"

"Well, it's five minutes more of walking." Chris laughed.

Just like what she said earlier, we arrived at the Eris church five minutes after.

The building is elegant, and the colors matched with Chris' attire.

Deep blue, so deep like the vast ocean. Light blue on some areas just like the beautiful sky that protects all of us from the sun's UV rays. And of course, the white, red and golden strokes of colors that beautifully blends in.

"I kinda like this church, respect to the one that made it for you."

"Thank you, Kouta Onii-san. Well, let's go!"

"Well, after you."

She opened the two huge doors that have, what it appears to be, the logo of the Eris Cult carved on it.

"Wow. This is on par with the Notre Dame." I whistled in amusement.

"Welcome, guided ones, to the Church of Eris. I am the priest in charge of Axel Town's church, call me Helel." A man in his thirties said as he welcomed me and Chris.

But seriously? Helel?

"Let me guess. Helel Ben Shahar? The Morningstar? The One Basked in Divine Light?"

Seriously even I can't stand with all these religious names being thrown all over the place. I'm starting to feel this Fantasy World is made by some crackhead from Los Angeles. Or it could be Las Vegas.

Chris looks at me with a confused expression written all over her face, "Kouta Onii-san?"

"Ah, sorry. Helel, my name is Kouta. Minazaki Kouta. And this is my younger sister, Chris."

"...I see. Welcome, Kouta-san, and Chris-san... have I seen you somewhere?"

Ah crap, here it goes.

Some of them say that a priest that dedicated most of his life would be able to recognize his Lord easily, whether that Lord has a penis or not. And this man right here looks religious enough to make me stop my brain from making filthy lies to evade this sticky situation.

Chris averts her gaze so that hers can't meet Helel's experienced eyes, "N-no, I don't think so. My brother and I just arrived at this town days ago, so..."

Helel only stared at her and laughed afterward.

"I see, pardon me for my doings. It appears I had a false assumption. Now, what brings you two here today? Confessing your sins, perhaps?"

"Hey, I-"

As I start to retort, Helel looked at me with a simple smile. I feel like this man is dangerous, what's with dangerous priests? There are those that would molest a child and now this guy is looking through my brain or something? I mean I have some sins, but...

"We're looking for someone." Chris says, lightly tapping my arm as if to say 'Leave this to me'.

"Ah, do tell me the one you have in mind, Chris-san."

"I believe... there's a Crusader that faithfully prays to the Goddess Eris every Sunday."

Wait, where did she- oh right, because she's the actual Eris, surprise, surprise.

"Ah yes. Darkness-san is her name. She should be here anytime soon. She never comes too early nor too late I believe."

Darkness sounds like a name for someone that doesn't believe in the good side of the world. Or this girly Crusader is some twisted young maiden that's into emo names.

Oh and by the way, if by some weird twist of fate, her attacks miraculously don't hit her opponents all the time it would fit well with the Final Fantasy's Blind that can also be referred to as Darkness. You know, when your character can't hit despite the fact that they have the most overpowered gear and whatnot? Yeah, you guessed it.

God, please don't count this as me raising a negative Flag.

As the three of us are standing in the center of the church, the doors opened with quiet sound, and a sound of footsteps follows, making me and Chris look towards the source of said footsteps.

There she walks, a tall, beautiful woman aged between 17 to 20, with her long blonde hair kept in a ponytail, tied with a braid. Her red clips, secured on both sides of her bangs. Her clear blue eyes showing her excellence as a knight. Donning an armor, clad in a wonderful mix of yellow, white and black colors. On her left shoulder is a metal shoulder pad, and a cloth designed to look like that of a wing is perch on her right. And last but not least, a shining yellow gem on her chest area with a red ribbon as the finishing touch.

"Welcome, Darkness-san. Came for the usual?"

"Yes. Thank you."

Helel and the woman dubbed Darkness changed lines as she walks past us.

There, she solemnly bows in front of what appears to be a statue made for the Goddess beside me.

Wait a minute.

"Psst, your statue has quite the chest. Can I admire your statue's beauty up close?"

"Mou, again with my chest..."

Helel sighed as he sees me and Chris whispering to each other.

"So, Kouta-san. I assume you two wants to meet Darkness-san?"

"Yes, actually. See, my party is in dire need of a member with knight-like qualities, and my sister over here proposes that the two of us should come here. Apparently, my sister was right, as always."

"Brilliant. Darkness-san is a devoted follower of Eris-sama,"

"I can tell."

"and she's been praying to her weekly for a simple wish."

I look over at Chris, but her face signals that she doesn't know, or simply didn't remember.

Helel continued, "Her wish was to have a friend. She had a rough childhood, or so I heard."

Ah, this kind of trope.

Seriously, is my party going to be that one team with a bunch of characters with clashing tropes?

But considering I already have two lolis in my party...

"OUCH!"

As if able to read these thoughts of mine, Chris stomped my foot with her heels.

"Bloody hell, woman!"

"Kouta-san, words such as those are not fit to be said inside Eris-sama's church."

Well, excuse me.

I decided to walk around inside the church. I'm not a big fan when it comes to Sunday prayers but churches have always sparked this fiery soul of a designer within me.

Even I can tell the materials for everything that I see here are top quality, the best around I dare say.

"Say, Helel. How many followers of Eris are there? In Axel, I mean." I decided to start another conversation.

"Around a thousand or more, I assume. I can tell because I'm the archpriest around here."

"Hmm."

"Helel-san, does the Eris cultists and the Axis cultists... you know. Do they go along fine?" Chris asks.

What makes the two of us surprised is that Helel scoffed, quite rude for a priest, no?

"Those Axis followers. I can't say anything other than I hate them for being such a group of uneducated miscreants. Faithfully following their Goddess' teachings is fine, but I wouldn't walk alongside fanatics, nay, extremists."

"Woah, are we talking about like, ISIS level of extreme or?"

"Kouta Onii-san!"

"Well, sorry."

Helel clears his throat before continuing, "But we Eris Cultists keeps our relationship nicely with the Axis fellows."

Listening to Helel's words, Chris nods happily, "That's right! Even though they're very obnoxious in some cases we must maintain a perfectly healthy relationship with the Axis people."

Wow, this is the first time I heard her talking like that. Is that some egotistical note coming from her lips?

"—and please guide me until the very last breath that I take. I shall come next Sunday, Eris-sama." Darkness said, standing up and walking towards up with a noble aura coming out of her.

Huh, she does look like a reliable knight.

"Darkness-san. This is Kouta-san and Chris-san, they have been waiting to meet you." Helel said, introducing me and Chris.

"Wonderful. It is a pleasure to meet you two. I am Darkness, an adventurer with the calling of Crusader. My family has been this kingdom's sword and shield since day one, and I intend to keep up with the tradition."

"That's oddly specific, but my name is Minazaki Kouta, and this is my little sister, Chris. See, we got this kind of—"

"Yes, your conversation was quite loud, probably because of the vacancy of the church at the moment. And Helel, I didn't think you would tell my wish that way."

Helel wants to say something but Darkness looks at me and Chris with... heavy breaths?

"T-t-to think someone would know my prayers to Eris-sama from the priest and not from myself... *huff* *huff* and f-f-for such a knight to have a wish so small...!"

She ends the line with a loud shriek of... ecstasy? Wait, what am I seeing right here?

When I look at Helel, he looked away faster than my mother driving away from Mickey D's when I asked her that I want a happy meal. Wait a minute. That reaction is unfitting for a priest!

Oh no, no, no.

I then look at Darkness, still breathing heavily with shivers running down her spine and all.

"...Alright. Say, would you like to join my party?"

"Yes! It's like hitting one bird with two stones!"

"You need to step up your word games, dear sister because you kinda put the numbers in the wrong order."

Stopping her suspicious body movements, Darkness laughed seeing my bickering with Chris and nodded.

"I believe... this is also what Eris-sama really wanted."

Oh, come now, don't give me all that faith bullshit.

Darkness raises her right hand with a genuine smile on her face, and I accept her hand with my own.

"I promise I shall be a reliable party member."

"I heard your word."

But she doesn't let go.

"Um, Darkness?"

"In fact, if you ever feel disappointed just throw me a-a-at some hole full of alligators, o-o-or lock me up in a cursed dungeon full of monsters!"

"I get it already, let go of me, dammit!"

...

"Ouch, that woman actually has some deadly grip." I cursed; my right hand Is bloody numb now.

"Um, Kouta Onii-san? Are you okay?"

"Oh, I'm fine. Say, why don't you go to the guild with Darkness first. I've got something to talk to with Helel."

"Your sins aren't that bad though?"

"It's not about- please? For your onii-san."

Thinking for a moment, Chris nods.

"Okay. But..."

"I know what you're thinking. And you can count on me that I will always count on you. But I need some indirect guidance first."

Chris doesn't reply to my reasoning and goes off to talk to Darkness, telling her that I will stay back for a while. Darkness takes a glance at me, which I responded with a nod. She nods back and left with Chris beside her.

"So, what do you want to talk about, Kouta-san?"

I turn around, walking towards him.

"Yeah, you see... about the whole me thing. I was—"

"You were reincarnated from another world when you died."

"—yes, and I kinda—"

"Broke the rules by pulling Eris-sama into this world from her safe haven, which is heaven."

"Wow, you're good" a cookie for this guy.

"Look, what you did is a grave sin, Kouta-san. Bringing a Goddess into the world of mortals won't do any good."

"Well, what can I say, I was too caught up with the whole process of me being killed by my own purchases."

Helel sighs, "I won't be mad at you for bringing my Goddess. But please, at least atone for this grave sin of yours by defeating the Demon king. For her sake and this world."

I can't reply back to the man's plea. Sure, I know it was a dick move to drag Chris down with me, but...

I let out a weak laugh, "I'm a bad brother."

"You are, but you can fix the things you ruined. Starting by defeating one of the Generals."

Wait, what?

"One of the Generals?"

The priest nodded, "Yes. There is a suspicious-looking castle being built not too far from this town. It might be one of the Generals."

Hmm, what Helel said matches with what Luna-san told me last night.

"I'll give it a shot. And are you really... you know?"

Helel nods, "Yes. I am one of the angels under Eris-sama's command. Although, my brothers call me Lucifer."

"I see. I'll keep this a secret from Chris then. I mean, that's if the form I'm looking at the moment is merely a disguise" so that's why there's a giant hole on his back. I mean I'm fine with people wearing clothes without protecting their backs, its quite the sight, actually.

"Yes, this is merely a disguise to blend in. But one more thing."

He looks at my right leg, where my dagger is being stored in its case.

"Why do you have a Divine Relic on your hands when you chose Eris-sama back then?"

"I found it under my bed at the inn I'm currently staying. Something's wrong?"

"You don't know its true name, no?"

"What? Is this dagger a Servant or something? Pretty sure Servants takes the form of human beings, safe for Hessian Lobo and that one Hassan."

"I don't get the reference but Divine Relics, when not on their original wielder's hands, will be regular items. But that dagger of yours, it wields tremendous power, even stronger than what it looks like."

"But Chris didn't know about this dagger."

"Perhaps that weapon came from..."

I groan as I facepalmed, "the so-called deadbeat Goddess of Water."

"Precisely. But I wouldn't be too worried. You were brought here by the better Goddess."

"Wow, the better Goddess, that's a new insult line in my book."

Today I learned: even angels tend to shit on their Goddesses.

Helel chuckles, "well, even I have limited patience."

I scoffed at his response, "I mean, yeah. With your lore being the bloody fallen angel and all. I actually like you now. We probably have more in common."

"Yes, maybe you are right. Now, Kouta-san. You know what to do."

"Oh, that I know. I need to buy new clothes, for Christ's sake. See you around, Lightbringer."

"Wait, what—"

Leaving the dumbstruck angel behind, I leave the church with a far more open mind.

I guess visiting the church is a good thing, after all.

...

I am currently in a clothing store.

"Well, these aren't half bad."

I whistled happily as I pose in front of the mirror.

I decided to get myself a large, navy blue jacket/cloak with its sleeves long on the right hand and short on the left. It has two pockets on its left and right side, giving me some callback to my favorite jacket.

I am also wearing a black vest that you would normally wear to attend important meetings or parties underneath said jacket/cloth mix. A black and white necktie that I wear is loosely hanging simply because I find neckties as my mortal enemy (but still a good addition nonetheless), and as a finishing touch, a pair of black jeans with white stripes running on both sides.

"How do you like them, esteemed customer?"

"They're great, actually. Reminded me of my favorite alter ego."

"Alter ego?"

"Anyway, how much was it again?"

Paying the cost, I left the store and walk towards the guild.

...

As I arrived at the guild, everyone looked at me and my new attire, it's always good to be some black diamond in the house.

"Ah, you three are here as I expected."

Chris, Megumin, and the newly added to the party Darkness looks at me as I called them.

"Wow, look who's ready to crash in some noble's party," Megumin said, looking at my head to toe.

"Those look good on you, Kouta Onii-san. What's with the loose tie, though?"

"I can't tie my tie. I've been trying for twelve years, never goes well" I almost killed myself in front of my classmates once.

"Well anyway, I found something. Here you go"

I take the quest paper from Megumin and look at it.

"It says 'our teacher is sick so our music choir can't do practice for the Harvest festival soon. Looking for someone that can teach kids around 14 to 15 years old music for a week'. Megumin we're here to kill monsters and do some cool stuff, not sitting in a circle with kids all around us."

Darkness comments, "As much as I want to get beat- I mean, as much as I want to subjugate strong monsters, there are only monsters that are strong enough to be a hassle."

"Hold on, are you gonna say you want monsters to beat you up?"

"Nothing of the sort."

Is this girl secretly a masochist?!

Chris claps her hand happily, "Well, why don't we take it? I'm sure it will be fun! And those kids are training hard for the harvest celebration, we should help them!"

Hmm...

"What's the harvest about?"

"It's... better if you find out later, Kouta" Darkness replied.

I sighed, "Well, I guess let's be a teacher for one day. Thank god I got three degrees in front of my name that puts professors to shame."

"Which turns out to be fake, right?"

Megumin and Darkness blankly stares at me, "Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..."

"I-I did it for professional work, okay?! But, let's go teach them how to be Mozart-tier musicians!"

As the three ladies before me cheered, I start to think.

Is the author gonna do a time skip again?

"Bloody hell, how many times have we skipped time? We're not Diavolo and King Crimson."

"You sure love saying weird lines, Kouta Onii-san. But we are here."

Lux Ante school, weird choice for a name.

"Right, let's go then."

The school, as much to my surprise, looks like any junior high school you would find in Japan. What do you mean this town is based on the medieval ages?

Megumin smiles as we look around the building, "It's been a while since I visit a school like this. My magic school back in my village is ten times cooler though."

"I can imagine that; I've been wanting to study in some magic school. My choice back then was either Hogwarts or Mysteria."

"Weird names."

Like you're one to talk.

I wanted to say that in a straight-man manner but I feel like she'll pounce on me and will choke me to death.

Darkness sighs, "I wish I enrolled in a public school. My father didn't let me, and I was tutored by a private teacher of my family."

"My condolences."

As we talk among each other, a girl around 15 to 16 years old came towards us.

"Um, are you the ones that accepted our request?"

I nod, showing her the quest paper, "Yes, I believe so. Minazaki Kouta. The girls behind me are Chris, Megumin, and Darkness."

"I see! Thank you for accepting our request! As the paper suggests, our teacher, Ellen-sensei couldn't come because she got a sudden illness, so it would be great if you could be her replacement!"

"Of course. And you are...?"

"Oh, right! I'm Lopez, nice meeting you!"

Before I can say "likewise", Lopez hugged me tightly.

"Hnng—!" god what's with little girls and their brute force here?!

And what's worse, I can totally sense Chris' intense stare aimed at my back!

"Oh, I'm sorry! It's kinda my thing, well my family's way to greet a new person! And I've never seen your face in this town, so..."

"I- *haa* I get it, so let's meet the kids."

"Gladly!"

She leads us to the second floor, a large door with a sign that reads "Music club" could be seen.

She opens the sliding door and with a smile, she says: "Welcome to the club!"

"Oh, my God" I can't believe this.

A piano that's oh so elegant is placed on the center of the room. Its color reminded me of the piano that I always played with one the pub that I always visited with my friends in Japan. Guitars, both acoustic and electric are placed on the walls, all of them shining in all their glory. Violins can be seen hanging on the walls as well, some rival the Bloody Rose my friend Otoya always bragged about in terms of quality. Other musical instruments like clarinets, drums and many more are present as well.

"Lopez? Is this the ones that replace Ellen-sensei?"

One of the kids asks Lopez, there are around seventeen of them, so eighteen if I count Lopez in as well.

"Yep! These Onii-chans will help us practice for the harvest festival!"

The kids cheer, well they are also around Lopez's age so there's that.

"Say, am I really the only one in the room to not know about this harvest festival or whatever?"

Megumin and Darkness hold their laugh as I put a confused face. Damn them! I should kick them into a room full of rats later.

"Kouta-san, the harvest festival is actually three weeks from now, but we are preparing for the cabbage hunt!"

...Cabbage hunt?

"What, they don't want to be harvested by you know, us plucking them off the ground?"

"Uh, no. They'll fly away to a desolate place once they are ready to be harvested, they don't want to be food for humans so they chose to die the hard way."

That's ridiculous!

Lopez continues her explanation, "I know, I know. But it's fun and mildly dangerous, so the adventurers here are always ready to fight them. That includes you guys as well."

I look at Chris, signaling if she knew about all of this.

The girl only replied with a slight smile.

I feel like I'm getting played around.

"...Well never mind that, then. So, these are all the members, including you?"

Lopez nodded, "Yeah. We sometimes do charity performances as well for orphanages, and we do some performance tour kind of deal by playing music while walking around the town. It's pretty fun. I'll be graduating next year so I really hoped we can pull this year's celebration beautifully."

"Well, I guess we can't do this half-willingly, right? Kouta Onii-san?"

"I don't like your tone, Chris, but you are right. Well! Can anyone tell me how you all do things here?"

The four of us, along with Lopez and the other students are currently sitting on the clean floor, forming a circle. Just like what I expected.

They all told us about various things, from how this Ellen person would introduce them to new songs and new arrangements of beautiful symphonies, and the history of the choir band club.

They mentioned someone with black hair and black eyes taught Ellen about instruments that no one has never seen before, before departing to the Belzerg kingdom to join the military force to defeat the Demon King's forces.

So, these instruments were brought by a reincarnated Japanese like me as well, huh?

"Did Ellen-sensei give any of you a new arrangement or maybe some new music?"

They all shook their heads, signaling a no.

"This is really troubling us, ya know? Ellen-sensei is a great teach, I mean... we were a bunch of dorks that couldn't even remember how to tune our guitars properly. But she... she helped us, gave us meaning to continue going to school."

Oh god, why does every musical club I meet have to involve delinquents?

"...Ryou's right. Ellen-sensei is like our own mother, and it's heartbreaking to hear she suddenly got an illness and went sick."

Oh great now they are all mumbling about how they missed her. It's not like she's dead already.

But I can relate about how sad it is to not see someone that's always supporting your back due to unknown reasons. Scratch that, they left me because of something that I did, but that's not important right now.

"Well, why don't you guys show how things are done here? Before teaching you guys, we need to see how you all play, then we can guide you on how to fix mistakes" it's time to take things into a spin.

"That's true, Kouta-san and the rest can't teach us without a test performance first!"

One of the kids raised her hand and asks, "Umm... Kouta-san? Are you good in any kinds of musical instruments?"

"Good question. I am quite skilled at everything, if anything I'm good when it comes to playing instruments but my skills aren't that perfect, either. A jack of all trades. But I play the piano, guitar, and violin the most."

Another raises his hand and asks, "Are you good at singing as well?"

"Not when I'm drunk."

The questions keep on coming and coming.

"Can you play the drums? How about the clarinet?"

"Can you reach the highest octave known to mankind?"

"Do you know how to play twinkle twinkle, little star on the violin?"

Seeing how I'm quite overwhelmed with the questions, Lopez cuts in.

"N-now, now... why don't we ask Chris nee-chan and the rest now?"

Before the kids can shower them with questions, Megumin stands up.

"MY NAME IS MEGUMIN! THE PROUD ARCHWIZARD, AND THE PROUD CRIMSON DEMON! AND I... can not... play musical instruments that well..."

"Oi."

She averts her gaze as I coldly stare at her.

...

"I-I can only play the violin... but I always broke them..."

"Oi."

Just like Megumin, Darkness looks away, blushing heavily.

"W-what about Chris nee-chan?"

Come on, Eris! Don't make the kids look at you the same way they stared at Megumin and Darkness!

"W-well... I think I can sing a bit..."

"Like brother, like sister, huh..."

"Oi. What do you mean by that? And what's with that relieved expression? You thought my sis over here can't do anything like you, huh?"

"What's that?! I'll beat you, punk!"

"Come at me, then! Pounce on me you lol—!"

Megumin shrieks like a little kitten before pouncing at me, tackling me down onto the floor as I struggle to push her away.

"Take that back! Take my status as a loli back to that mouth of yours!"

"Never! You're just a loli—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OKAY, OKAY, I SURRENDER DON'T SNAP MY NECK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

...

After successfully escaping the death bringer dubbed Megumin, I am now sitting on a wooden chair with my legs crossed, tuning an acoustic guitar.

"This fellow is well-maintained, I like it."

With my fingers, I pick the strings, letting them sing out a beautiful melody.

It's around two in the afternoon, and we decided to do our own things from this point on.

Megumin is learning how to play bass with some students, while Chris and Darkness try to write some songs together with Lopez.

The other kids are doing their daily routine, namely tuning their instruments or playing with them.

From the looks of it... They're doing a pretty good job even without us.

"...Fantastic Dreamers, huh?"

Nodding to myself, I decided to play the song she always listened to.

A song that reminded me how stupid God is.

Ah, how long has it been, I wonder?

Hello everyone, SK07 here. I don't have any excuses that I can use to explain the reason why this chapter came out... later than I expected. Real-life problems have decided to drag me down again and honestly? I was on my breaking point. Of course, no one knows about this lol. I've been doing great over these past few months, and I think it is about time to update this fic again. I appreciate the reviews, and I see there are some new followers! Thanks, everyone! Let us look forward to the future together!