Note: This was partially inspired by the Island Life mod in the Arma series (Which is sort of GTA in a more military environment). It's also been a while since I've written anything on this account (and my first time handling a KonoSuba type of storyline), so bear with me as my writing can be quite rusty (feel free to review, flame, etc).

I've also made Kazuma act more 'normal' in this fic, as he knows that he's in a more 'real-world' environment than he was in the original KonoSuba universe, and so that it would fit the story better. Other characters will be tweaked a bit as well to fit into this alternate universe but I'll try to keep as much of the original universe quirkiness as much as I can.

Also, standard disclaimers apply: I do not own KonoSuba, Arma or the Island Life mod, so you can't arrest me an sell my organs for the upcoming lawsuit

"Satou Kazuma-san. Unfortunately, you have just passed away moments ago, and you are now in the afterlife." A female voice said in a calm manner.

The last moments for Kazuma was rather strange. He just remembered a girl, a truck and falling over. He felt pain and that was the end of it, with a weird sensation of ascending towards somewhere else.

Feeling himself, he determined that he was sitting in a chair, wearing a white t-shirt and khaki shorts, reminiscent of his clothing just moments before his 'ascension'. But the weird part would be the room he was in, a seemingly infinite void of stars and space floating around his view in a seemingly ideal mirage of the night sky with a checkered floor of the immediate vicinity.

Yet what stood out the most was directly in front of him: A girl sitting on a throne. While he could get on about appearances and such, the short story would be that she had the beauty to put the idols and models on earth to shame. Her outfit, figure, facial features and hair were all flawless, fitting that of royalty or those beauty magazines. What stood out was the blue- her hair, outfit and eyes were all different shades of it, yet none of it seemed out of place, unlike some poorly done cosplayers Kazuma remembered.

"So, I'm dead, huh?" the young man asked.

"Yes"

He chuckled. While he felt like he should be distressed about his death, some surreal part about it made him think that he could care less. Sure, he was gone in his world, and his parents were probably distraught about his passing and such. Yet he was indirectly happy about it- he had just finished high school, and was in the middle of a sump, being torn on the decision of continuing his education into the postsecondary for the hopes of a better future, or just headed to work straight away. As such, most of his days leading up was spent gaming with friends until morning, or just toiling around in manga and fiction without much to do either way hoping for that motivation spark to light up.

"So this is it, huh? Waiting here, being passed for judgement before being sent to heaven or hell-"

"That's where you're wrong," the girl remarked, standing up from her throne, "I am Aqua, goddess of water. I am here to help people like you who have passed away at an early age onto the next phase."

"Next phase?" Kazuma thought out loud.

"Basically you could be sent to heaven, or be re-born," Aqua explained, "But don't think that heaven is some desirable place to be. You just bask in the sun all day like an old man, without anything to do- there's nothing sexual there either, considering how you don't even have a body."

'That sounds more like hell than heaven to me,' Kazuma thought in disgust. While he was never one to have many friends or excessive ambitions (even sexual for that matter), doing absolutely nothing for all of eternity was definitely going to be a big no in his books.

"And if I'm re-born there's no guarantee that I'll be in a better position right?"

"Um-hm," Aqua nodded.

'So basically a huge gamble of uncertain odds, and starting over?'

"There is a third option," Aqua remarked.

"Huh?"

"You play games, right?" The goddess asked.

"Yes" Kazuma remarked. He had been gaming with his few friends in highschool and online friends in online RPGs or just open world games quite frequently after graduation, up until his untimely demise.

"And you like adventures, right?"

"…sure," the boy nodded slowly. Either way, he's clear with the fact that he's not going with the other options.

"Well you're in luck," Aqua remarked, and a light shone down from above her "There's a world that's not unlike your own that needs saving. It has been ravaged by war and unrest for over half a decade, and its citizens are living in fear and despair! You'll be sent down there with all of your previous world knowledge, so its like packing up and starting a new life!"

"So basically you're just sending people out to have a painful death somewhere down the line again," Kazuma deadpanned.

"Not quite," Aqua corrected, the spotlight above her going out, "You will be granted one power, or item of your choosing to help you with your journey."

At this, Aqua leaned against Kazuma and whispered in his ear, "Keep in mind that the powers may not work in the sense you're expecting fantasy magic. This is closer to the real world, after all."

And with that, the goddess tossed the boy a pack of cards as she got back to her seat.

"Wait, what about the languages of this new world? How would I know how to communicate?"

"Don't worry too much about that, we're gods and we can just cram all the necessary knowledge into your head before we send you down there," Aqua explained, pulling out her handbook from the table next to her throne, "Sure there's a chance that you just get vaporized, but don't worry about that stuff, it's rare."

"Vaporized?" Kazuma asked with concern.

"I said nothing," Aqua stated as she closed the handbook.

Kazuma sighed. She really wasn't going to make this easy for him, was she?

-break-

"Neh, hurry up and pick something," Aqua complained, snacking away on a bag of potato chips, "They're all the same, only basic god powers at the very most. I still have other humans to guide"

Kazuma was not sure which one to pick, as all of them seemed to be useful, just in different ways. Sure there were some utterly gamebreaking ones in there like infinite money or some ridiculously overpowered weapon, but he was always in fear of inadvertently causing something to go wrong down the line (Such as the infinite money cheat warning about 'Total Economic Collapse', or a cheat weapon warning of the possibility of it being captured by the enemy). All of them were fairly generic however, either involving some combat ability, knowledge boost, or some random ability, but nothing 'godly' or magical.

'Should probably go with a skill, and a fairly universal one at that', Kazuma thought, shuffling through the cards laid out on the floor, "Wait, what's this?"

'Engineer'

"What does this do?" He asked, holding up the card in question. It seemed to fit his criteria, if his imagination served him correctly of what engineers do in games and such.

"Ah, that boring one," Aqua waved off, "It's basically a large boost to technical knowledge, intelligence and intuition. Not too frequently picked, as it has no direct effects on combat power. Think of the Engineer from Team Fortress or something"

'It appears that the recently dead here are quite ham fisted'

"Well, grant me those abilities then," Kazuma stated, holding up the card. He was always an advocate of 'building up' before switching over to combat power, especially in strategy games.

"Consider it done," Aqua stated, snapping her fingers, "Please stand in the middle of the portal."

Kazuma complied. A blue light started to shine below him, before he started to feel weightless and started to rise.

A short moment later, he noticed that a similar portal had started to form beneath Aqua as well. Kazuma was perplexed by this, but something tells him that this was not going to end well

"H-hey, what's going on?" Aqua said panicked, "Surely this isn't some sort of a mistake? Let me down!"

"Aqua-senpai, I shall be taking over your position from now on," a third voice said.

In a golden portal and shower of sparks, a third figure descended onto the checkered floor. She appeared to be more petite than Aqua was, with blonde hair and angel wings. Despite the initial awe, Kazuma indirectly thought that the concept of angels (or at least whatever she was called) looked absolutely ridiculous in the mash up of common folklore and just blatantly unaesthetic.

"You've got to be kidding! This can't be right!" Aqua quipped as she started to rise as well.

"Heaven has determined that your management of this world has led to a sharp decline of revivals," the 'angel' explained, "Which has led to the overcrowding of other worlds under our management."

'So there are multiple universes in parallel to just shovel people around in,' Kazuma thought with amusement.

"As for you, brave adventurer," the angel turned towards Kazuma, "Should your quest to bring stability and peace to this world succeed, the gods shall grant you the power of any one wish in return!"

Kazuma's eyes widened at the terms, "Woah, really?"

"That's my line!" Aqua quipped

"Please have a safe trip, Aqua-sama!" the angel returned her attention to Aqua, "We shall send someone to pick you up should you manage to rectify the situation in this world… Also given the lack of magic in the world, you won't have any powers for the duration of your journey."

"That's not fair! I don't even have any offensive spells to boot!" Aqua wailed, waving frantically towards the angel, "Besides, I'm the most senior one in charge here! You can't just replace me like that right off the bat! Please, wait!"

"Best of luck, fellow adventurers! May you be the ones that will restore peace to this wonderful world!"

With that, a portal of light opened above both of the respective adventurers. The world got brighter and brighter for Kazuma until it went completely white, being blurred in with the cries of a goddess being forcibly thrown into the blender against her will.

-break-

Kazuma found himself outside.

It caught him off guard, and he nearly fell over. One second he was floating upwards and his world pitched to black, while the next moment he was outside standing in a field of grass. It was a clear day with few clouds, and the atmosphere felt cleaner as well.

Patting himself down, he determined that he had the same set of clothes he possessed beforehand, except items like his cellphone and wallet was gone. However, he felt an extra bundle in his left pocket within his shorts, which turned out to be a note and a bundle of what appears to be currency for his current world.

'Please head to the town hall to complete your registration as a citizen of this world. There should be a bundle of currency with this message as well.

PS: The Chernarussian Krona has the exchange rate of roughly five yen each'

'Krona? Isn't that Czech?' Kazuma thought, remembering a travel guide of Europe he once flipped through. The bricked two storey buildings and wooden houses seemed to reinforce the idea, yet there were concrete apartment blocks further in the background, similar to what he was used to see in Japan. They appeared to be in a fairly small patch of grass in the center of town, with a T-34 tank and red star monument just in front of them, suggesting that this was a communist (or ex-communist) country. There were a few parked cars on the streets, a few of which he could recognize, but most of them he thought looked like they were straight out of an eighties movie in their body shape or just how straight up worn out they were.

Then he noticed the sobbing. It sounded like an ever familiar goddess that he just met a few short moments ago, which he just reminded himself was sent down to this world with him by the higher ups as some form of punishment for her deeds. She was hunched over just behind him, crying herself out at her predicament without care. Her goddess outfit has also been replaced with a more casual black skirt and white dress shirt, while her boots was replaced with a pair of slip on shoes and black knee socks. She still looked pretty, just more 'human' in the sense now.

'Her hair seems unchanged, oddly enough…' Kazuma noted.

Seeing her like this made Kazuma want to help her out, as he felt it was against his humanity to just leave her there. Additionally she might still have something useful to offer even without her divine powers (it was a whole new world to Kazuma after all, plus she sent people here before him), but honestly he had no idea what to do to get her on the way. Social interactions were never a strong point for the young man

"Um…" Kazuma started, about to reach for Aqua's shoulder, but she instead just jumped up and grabbed him, continuing to sob into his chest

'Geez, this is one pitiful example of a goddess' Kazuma thought as he returned the one sided hug, rubbing the back of the goddess' head. To be fair, he would be pretty upset too if he just had his divinity taken away from him in the blink of an eye as well… hey she smells kind of nice.

This continued on for a few minutes if Kazuma was to guess, and in the meantime this earned plenty of stares from the bystanders. Granted it wasn't a very busy town, but it was hard to miss the only blue haired woman crying into a guy's chest in the town center. Luckily the police hasn't been called yet, nor has the crowd considered him to be a rapist or something. Or maybe this was considered mild in this world?

"W-what are we going to do, Kazuma?" Aqua finally managed to blubber out, "Even as a goddess, I had no offensive capabilities, and now I'm not even a goddess! I don't stand a chance in this world!"

"There, there…" Kazuma reassured, vaguely remembering some lines from a movie script, "Unfortunately there's not much we can do right now, so we'll have to take it one step at a time…"

It wasn't much, but Aqua seemed to calm down a bit at the words, enough so that she would let go of him.

'That was easier than expected'

"We should get registered first," Kazuma stated, holding out the note he just read, "It's the first step of any game, and it was clearly outlined in the note given."

"Wow, you're actually reliable," Aqua sniffed, wiping away her tears, "And I thought you were just gaming all day with no life experience."

"Oi goddess, I finished highschool," Kazuma reminded in an annoyed voice, "I was merely considering my life choices before I got chucked here."

"Ok then Mr. Genius," Aqua scoffed, the traces of her weeping now all gone, "Where are we going to get registered then?"

"How about that building clearly labelled 'Town Hall'" Kazuma stated, pointing right in front of Aqua

"Huh?" the goddess looked confused directly at Kazuma, to which the boy just took her by the shoulders and rotated her into the proper direction and pointed, "Oh, there it is! I forgot that building even existed!"

"Aren't you supposed to be responsible for this world?" Kazuma questioned in an exasperated tone, "I thought you were supposed to know where things were and the state of the world so far!"

"I wouldn't know of something this lowly," Aqua remarked in a flat voice, "I'm a goddess after all, I'm above these low level concepts."

'Jeez, what a piece of work,' Kazuma facepalmed mentally, 'Then again she is fitting of a game developer in the sense that she is ignorant to the playerbase and the game in general'

"Whatever goddess, let's go" Kazuma grumbled as he headed off with Aqua in sequence.

"Hey, I know I used to be a goddess and won't be opposed to you still calling me that, but you can call me Aqua," Aqua smiled casually, "Besides, calling me goddess would look out of place in this world after all."

"And I was never planning to call you that all the time," Kazuma stated, perplexed at how airheaded this ex-goddess was. Once again, she wasn't going to make this easy for him, was she?

Closing: Not too much going on here for now, as I don't want too many scene switches to happen in one chapter. I won't make Kazuma too 'normie' here and will try to insert some KonoSuba-esque situations farther down the line. Either way it's my first time with this type of format, so once again feel free to review (or flame)

PS: I'll try to make these notes shorter (Or at the very least more to the point) next time as I know everyone hates reading these. There may be technical 'notes' later on, but those will be optional (I'll label them out if you want to skip them).