Disclaimer : KonoSuba is owned by Akatsuki Natsume, I don't own anything about it and only using it as a material of my fanfic.

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Chapter 10 : Neu Feind

"HAAAAAAAH!?"

In response to Aqua's loud outburst, Luna-san winced a little bit.

Why did this happen?

Let me explain it to you, it all started in the morning when we report our finding yesterday(but omitting the fact that Wiz-san is a lich for obvious reason) and ask for compensation. Although our reports are very informative, it still doesn't change the fact that we failed our quest. That's fine and all since the information we provided is good enough to balance out the penalty for failing a quest and some kind adventurers who saw the Crimson Magic Clan girl's safe return gave us some of their money to console us. Not a problem at all.

Really.

At least not until Luna-san suddenly dropped the news that the carriage carrying our money was attacked by strong monsters in the forest on its way here. The people who delivers it suffered some casualties in their ranks, but managed to arrive here safely and currently being treated. The money on the other hand, was scattered everywhere in the forest since they opted to throw it away so that those who are injured could be carried with the carriage instead.

I couldn't blame them, life is more important than money after all. But, the real problem lies in...

"What do you mean the capital won't recompense us from this!? How am I going to party if it's like this!?"

"I'm sorry, Aqua-san. But it's the capital decision, we can't exactly go against that despite how unfair it is. They also demand compensation for the death of some of their knights who were killed and for not giving them any information about the sudden increase of powerful monsters earlier too." Luna said dejectedly while bowing down in front of Aqua. Not that you need to apologize that profusely.

What a bunch of A-holes.

Well, I shouldn't expect much from the kingdom from now on, should I?

Of course I also didn't forget to follow up regarding the fact that they're demanding recompense which Luna-san answered satisfactorily with the fact that a local noble would bear that burden instead since it's happening in his jurisdiction. By the way, said noble name is Ignis. I wonder what kind of person he is. Though, Aqua's dissatisfaction only increased further and lash out on Luna, threatening to drown this city with her spell that could extinguish a forest fire and left it ruined for a while. Sheesh, can't you a little bit more patient than this?

In response to her outburst, I immediately apologize to Luna-san before dragging Aqua back to a corner. Seriously though, I'm afraid she'll really do it if she's pissed enough. While she's a stupid goddess, I have to admit that in terms of power, she REALLY is one and her stupidity could lead to bad things happening if she's really serious about it. Maybe this is what people of old times in my world's myth felt when they're in an era where gods and goddesses could interact with them.

"Hey Aqua, don't say scary things like that. While I know that the capital is in the wrong here, we can't exactly do anything about it. Threatening them would only paint us in a bad way."

"But Kazuma-"

While trying to pacify this goddess, I didn't realize a presence closing unto us before its directly behind us and interjects.

"Heh, isn't it simple, the course of action you should take."

Since when did he appear from behind!? I didn't notice his presence.

"Who are you?" Aqua asked quizzically.

"Who am I isn't important, but if you want to call me, just call me wanderer K." The man replied while taking a seat nearby us.

What's up with his way of talking?

This guy is suspicious, is he a thief or rogue considering his attire consisting of ragged robe and wide brimmed hat that covers half of his face.

"Sorry, but I overheard what you two are talking earlier. First, I would like to say thank you for protecting this town as I have a goal to achieve here, which won't happen if this town got destroyed. Second, I am impressed to meet a goddess from one of the major religion in this world."

W-What!?

Since the beginning of our journey, nobody took Aqua's nonchalant declaration of being a goddess, just how this man could say that? Is he a gullible person or could he tell that Aqua really is a goddess or is he just a plain stupid guy?

"Hey Kazuma, someone finally recognize my grandeur as a goddess! Yes, I am Aqua, the godde- Guh!"

"Sorry mister wanderer K-san, but you got the wrong person. She's just a chuuni claiming to be a goddess, nothing more, nothing less." I interrupted while covering Aqua's mouth to prevent her blabbering from going further and further.

"No, I know a goddess when I see one. Because I've met Eris-sama once in person before, one can tell that she's a genuine goddess if you look closely."

Meeting Goddess Eris in person? Even I only had a glimpse of her figure right before this useless goddess got dragged with me during the transfer into this world. How could this guy met her? A chance encounter? Actually a priest of her sect? Or he simply lied to us? These kind of questions popping up in mind as I tried to make sense about what he said.

"Just who are you?" Probably sensing my thought, Aqua perked up and asks right after hearing about Eris.

"I believe that I already told you, right? I am wanderer K. I've abandoned my real name a long time ago."

This guy is starting to get on my nerves for answering a question with vague or even nonsense answer. His attitude not helping.

"Don't worry about me spreading the fact that she's a goddess, I'm not stupid enough to cause a chaos in the town filled with beginners. Anyway, I told you that there are simpler solutions to your problem, right? Just accept it and let yourself be ruled by the capital and be their cute little puppy forever or destroy the country and rule it as its king so that you can prevent such things from happening again."

Did I hear that correctly?

"Excuse me, but did you just nonchalantly said loads of crap? Are you perhaps having a mental problem?"

"No, you are though. This world isn't so kind for you to have your way going unless you dare to defy your fate and toughen up to gain the resolve to trample everything that gets in your way."

In response to his rage-inducing answer, I stared at his figure while obviously showing my hostile intent as a response to his demeaning behavior.

Probably noticing that, he just chuckles before leaving the building. When he's about to exit the building through the door, he turns to look at us and said: "There's only two path in life when you're facing trouble: Not doing anything at let yourself be a fate's bitch or Do something till the end to destroy that gate. There's no middle ground in that. Which one are you?"

With that, the bastard leaves the building.

"What is wrong with that guy?" I muttered out loud.

"Well, his attitude isn't that good, but I think he's an okay guy for realizing my greatness!" Aqua cheerfully drops her two cents that I don't want to hear.

Not long after that, Megumin and Darkness arrived and as expected, both of them are disappointed after hearing the bad news. Though, even more so for Megumin since she planned to spend her money for upgrading her staff again to increase its specs.

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Alderp's Manor

Knock Knock

"Yes, this is Alderp-sama's home, what can I help you?" Answered a maid from the gate.

In front of her, stood a man in black garments all over that consists of wide-brimmed hat and long black coat.

"I want to meet your master."

The man stated such intention without even looking at her.

"I'm sorry, sir, but I can't allow anyone in unless they've made appointment with master." The maid said uncomfortably.

In response to that, the man just chuckles before taking off an eyepatch from his left eye, revealing a purple eye with multiple magic circles embedded in it, contrasting with his natural green eye in his right socket.

Muttering something incomprehensible to human ears, the maid's expression turned into that of a confusion before the man stares at her directly in her eyes.

"Let me meet your master."

With that simple words of command, the maid's immediately stood straight up and gesturing him to get in without a word with listless expression replacing her previously confused expression.

Meanwhile, in Alderp's room...

A fat man in his pajama can be seen looking out of his window to watch the ever so peaceful Axel town from his room while giggling to himself.

"Hah, that devil sure works great despite being a trash huh? I couldn't believe that a simple persuasion to that stupid Ignis be enough to make him pay for what should be my fine. No, I am even more surprised that the trash could make even the capital's higher ups choose such decision. With this, getting Lalatina should be a matter of time, gufufufufu..." Evilly laughs Alderp at his own musing, not noticing that an intruder just entered his mansion.

Though, that didn't last for long one of his maid opened the door to his room while bringing an unknown person wearing shady clothes before closing it, leaving the mysterious man and Alderp alone in the same room.

"Who are you!? Who allowed you in!?" He shouts out at the mysterious man to no avail as no one seems to listen to his shouting.

"Who am I doesn't matter. It's the judgement time for you, Alderp. You'll pay for your sins." The man said as he menacingly walks toward Alderp while emitting some sort of dark energy from his body.

"Stop it! Get away! Max, kill this bastard!"

Despite all his plea, it was in vain as the mysterious man held him up by his collar and stares deeply into his eyes.

That day, the man named Alexei Barnes Alderp was gone from this world.

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Afternoon, in the forest nearby Axel

BANG!

"Yosh, that's the last of them." I said before unloading the spent cartridge of my rifle and strap it on my back.

In front of me, there's a lot of small fries enemy such as goblins, kobolds, and some small treants laying about above their own pool of blood. Not really much of a threat to normal adventurer, but could be dangerous to normal civilian who happens to go through this path.

Earlier, we took this easy quest instead of hard one because:

1. We lacked any motivation from doing anything and yet we need money to fend ourselves, so we took the easiest quest.

2. Doing hard quest would be suicidal since without a focus in doing so, we'll probably return as a history a.k.a dead.

3. I want to visit Wiz-san's place.

Going back to the town, me and Megumin decided to visit Wiz's place while Aqua and Darkness went separate ways for their own business which I probably shouldn't imagine. And Megumin isn't on my back due to her absence in participating our quest earlier no thanks to the small pathway where we fought preventing her to cast it lest she'll blew us all.

By asking the townspeople the whereabouts of this so-called Wiz's magic item shop, we managed to find her place. Though, I also feel kinda bad for her since some of those townspeople I asked commented that her shop is always in a verge of bankruptcy yet still lives on either due to some people taking pity upon her and bought some of her shady magic items or a charity from neighbors, thanking her for her help sometimes. A waste not want not situation.

Opening the door, we heard a bell ringing above us, probably for telling her a customer is coming.

In her shop, I can see a lot of strange items being displayed on the racks, tables, and floors. Some of them are generic magical items like potions, to even strange contraption that I don't know what it could be called. Aside from items, we saw Wiz sitting down on a cashier's stand and talking with a man wearing suit and strange black and white mask who held a teacup in his right hand.

"Ah, it's Kazuma-san, right? I see that you brought your friend with you." Noticing our presence, she called me out and urges us to come.

"Hmm, so this is the young man thou art talking about, no?" The man said before sipping his tea.

"Yes, he helped me yesterday to fend off some wild monsters around this town." Wiz cheerfully answered. "Ah, you two, just take a seat there. I'll prepare another cup of tea for you two." She added before going away behind the cashier stand.

"Please excuse us." I uttered before sitting beside the unknown man on my right side with Megumin on my left.

I wonder why I need to meet two weird man today? First, the guy from this morning and now, a masked man with strange way of speaking.

"So art thou the one that eliminate a lot of those weak puppies along with Moi acquaintance?"

Little puppy? Is he talking about those Rookie Killers?

"Ah, yes. If you mean those Rookie Killers, I did help Wiz-san eliminate them to prevent civilian casualties from their assault."

"Moi see... Ah, how rude this gentlemen is, Moi forgot to introduce to thou who Moi truly art." With that, he put down his teacup before standing up from his seat and perform a gentleman's bow[1]. "My name is Vanir, One of the Demon King's General, also known as Duke of Hell." Right after mentioning such title, an ominous and oppressive aura assaults my body.

W-What.

Why the hell would a big shot from demon side would come to this town full of new adventurers!? Could it be that he wants to curb humanities potential by killing prominent new adventurers before they become a great threat to them? Shit, what should I do? This situation is bad.

"Are you serious? If so, I shall eliminate you right here and now and claim the title to be the Arch-wizard who defeated a Demon King's General!"

Surprisingly, Megumin is the one who snapped out of the shock from his introduction by shouting and pointing her magic staff at his face.

"Hohoho, what an interesting fellow thou art, hmm? Art thou a Crimson Magic Clansman?" Vanir asked in interested tone while rubbing his chin.

"Yeah, my name is Megumin! I embrace the dark art and use it to vanquish dark being!"

"Moi see, Moi see. Moi hath fought with one of thy tribesmen few times before with Moi victory as always, but they're a rather 'unique' bunch to fought. Though unfortunate, Moi hath a more pressing matter to attend to, so Moi will take thine offers later... For now."

Without anything to say other than that, he sit back and disperse his threatening aura from earlier, releasing both tensed atmosphere and my body.

"Huh!? What's that!? Then, it's more of a reason to fight! I know you're up to no good if fighting us wasn't in your interest!" Megumin retort while pointing at him.

Hey, stop that, we're going to be killed if we recklessly attack him. Or so I wanted to yell at her, but Vanir immediately shows her with one palm raised, signaling her to stop.

"Doth not worry, Moi, Vanir, The Demon General and Duke of Hell, hereby swore that Moi shalt be killed should Moi harbor hostile intent or acting in a way that threatens this town." He chants while a spinning and glowing magic circle appeared below his seat and burst into purplish light after he's done chanting. "There, art thou happy, with this oath, should Moi break what's Moi forbidden to, Moi shalt be killed by Moi own magic. In the first place, what art thou expect for a Duke of Hell like Moi doing in this town full of fledglings who couldn't pose a challenge to Moi?"

Geh, it hurts being underestimated by him, but he's right. Unlike Beldia the Dullahan we've faced before, this guy seems to be the smart mage type who thinks using their brain instead of brawn. This is not the time to fight him. Especially when we don't even know what his capabilities nor have a plan to take down a demon king general level of enemy.

And of course Megumin would run her mouth for being underestimated and shouts at him, but I immediately put a stop to that unless we want to end up meeting a grim reaper. Though, I still wonder what he's doing in this town.

"Well, well, what kind of matter do you have in this town?" I asked.

"Hoho, it's none of thy business, but let's just say Moi was invited here by a certain person who said something interesting to Moi." He said before putting down his cup and stand up. "Then, Moi shalt take Moi leave."

"Oh, leaving already?" Replied Wiz who just came back with a tray filled with tea and light snacks from behind the counter.

"Ah yes, Moi greatest gratitude for serving Moi some light refreshment that Moi doesn't actually need, but Moi shalt go now to Moi business."

With that, one of the greatest threat to humanity leaves the shop.

That was strange, to say the least.

And of course after that, we immediately bombard Wiz-san with questions about Vanir to the point we could see a pair of spirals spinning in her eyes no thanks to us. Poor Wiz, we might've been too much for doing that.

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An Hour Later, Alderp's Mansion

"So, I see that you've accepted my invitation, monsieur Vanir."

A fat man muttered in deep tone while overlooking the town displayed from the window of his mansion. Though looking like an ordinary overweight person, if one possesses a magic discerning eyes, one can see some flickers surrounding the man as if he's an illusion.

In response to the man's call, another man in suit with ornate mask on his face suddenly appeared behind the overweight man's shadow while clapping his hands.

Hearing the sudden clapping behind him, the overweight man didn't even bat an eye to the person suddenly appearing out of nowhere right behind him and just chuckles before turning to face said person.

"Bravo, superb. Never once in my long life have Moi got noticed by a mere human being when Moi in stealth. Or could it be that thou art not a human being?" Vanir muttered with curiosity plastered all over his face.

It's justified. In his life as a demon king general, no, scratch that, in his life when he was still an Arch Duke of hell who loves preying on humanity's suffering from his nefarious pranks, he never once got noticed before his plan comes to fruition. The only one who would notice and even then, it's because they're too used to get pranked by him are high ranked demons of hell around his position.

So, it comes as a surprise when a mere human who didn't possess any magical talent or anything remarkable aside from being a ruler around this area to detect him like that. Although his original intention is just to surprise him before discussing things normally with this human, it seems that it could wait for this.

"What are you talking about? I am a human, monsieur Vanir."

Turning back to look at the curious demon king general, his flickering body burst into dark mist to reveal that a white haired man with heterochromic eyes of green and purple wearing a simple shirt and pants stood while spreading both hands open.

Seeing that, Vanir rubbed his chin with interest before walking closer to him.

"Hou? Illusion Magic? Or could it be that it's a body modification magic?"

"Hmph, it's just an illusion magic with very powerful effect, body modification magic will only bring demerit to me for copying that trash's form. Anyway, let's talk about why I invite you here, monsieur Vanir. Please take a seat." He said before sitting down on an ornate chair with various engravings.

As indicated by the man, Vanir easily agreed to it and sat on the ornate chair across him.

"I see that you are still looking for your missing friend, am I correct? Ah, sorry that I forgot to offer you some refreshment. Not that you'd need it considering what you are."

"Hou? So thou knew about it huh? Moi dear, just from whom did thou hear such thing?"

Right after that, a pressure immediately emitted from Vanir's whole body against the man sitting across him.

'Just who is this person.' That kind of thought is what filled Vanir's mind right now. The only people who knew about the circumstances of his missing 'friend' are only his fellow Arch Duke of Hell and it was to be kept secret to avoid chaos that would erupt upon his territory during his absence from arrogant demons. If this man spread such things...

In face of such pressure, the man only chuckles instead of cowering in fear. And-

BANG!

A loud noise erupted from the man as a smoke rises from his right hand that held a small strange object pointed at Vanir. And Vanir-

"Guh, bastard, what art thou planning to do?" He groaned while clutching his holed chest.

"Don't be so melodramatic, you possess a lot of spare life in stock, right? Besides, I know that your real body isn't here. Also, I didn't invite you here to fight, I have no such intention."

With that, the man spun the object before putting it back into the 'sheath' located on his left hip.

"Coming from someone who took one of Moi lives easily, art thou a fool?"

With that, his body turned into dust, leaving only the mask before said mask floats and Vanir reappeared from that.

"No, I'm just proving that I'm not a mere human who could be a plaything for you. Although, I don't mind a business-like relationship between us."

"Fuhahahahaha, interesting! Truly wonderful! Never once hath Moi seen such person like thou. Fine, I'll listen to what you want to say for piquing Moi interest this far!"

"Glad you'd listen. Then, do you believe in time travel?"

And with that, the townspeople wouldn't know that their days will never be the same again since that day.

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Few Weeks Later

"Ah, I can't believe we made it out alive through winter with our scarce amount of money..." I muttered out loud while downing a glass full of Neroid Swish in one go to finish my breakfast.

Truly, never would I have imagined that I would survive the whole winter by living in the low cost inn that doubles as what my world would call 'love hotel'. Listening to moanings and all that every night in few weeks, the temptation is too much for the virgin me to held it in my pants. I even thought about hiring some prostitute to take a release, but I don't think I could do that with our amount of budget and would worsen my relation with my party member which I don't really give much of a damn, but need.

A-Ah~ They'll probably said things like-

'Kukuku, weak, how weak, for a member of my party to be losing against the temptation of flesh, what a fool!'

'Ha~ Ha~ Ha~ If you got a time to do that, why wouldn't you come and punish me instead!'

'Hee~ Yowazuma[1], congratulation on losing your virginity(lol) to a mere prostitute, you must've felt great right? Also despite having many beautiful party member and choose to lose it with prostitute, that's rich considering you always told me not to splurge on my spending.'

I really don't want to be lectured by morons, especially the last one or else I'd lose face. And thus, I could only use my [God Hand] to release 'it' [2] and managed to endure it.

"I'm sleepy, I'm bored, I want to held a party..."

Like a zombie from famous movie, Aqua enters the bar with gait.

Ah yeah, she haven't held any party for these few weeks due to our low savings. It's amazing that she could endure this much without loaning some money from bandits or loan sharks to party. Well, probably because I told her that our prize money would probably never come.

Though, the other reason why we could survive is also thanks to the subjugation quest for dangerous monsters appearing out of nowhere, netting us enough money to live. By now, the amount of monsters around this town is already decreased by a lot and there's no abnormal increase in them like in the beginning. Everyone speculated that those monsters were agitated or provoked to coming here, but still...

"Kazuma-san, we have a great news for you." Luna-san called after me.

Yes! Finally!

And for once, things went according to my keikaku[3] as I got my reward for slaying the demon king general Beldia. Getting 300 Million Eris sure felt unreal, but because of this, the zombie-like Aqua suddenly regains her vigor and promised to throw lots of party. Well, I hope she doesn't spend it recklessly and won't come for me with tons of debt.

After that, Megumin and Darkness came a bit late. From there, we split the bounty before saving them in the bank with me getting forty percent of it due to landing the finishing blow, Aqua getting thirty percent for her work of running around and aggro, Megumin got twenty five percent of it due to distracting Beldia while Darkness took five percent only(even then it's because we insist her to take it) because she doesn't do anything and don't deserve such reward. I feel really bad for her, but I think it's for the best or else I'd pity Beldia instead for having a moment of death right after seeing her shenanigans.

Also, there's strange thing happening from the side of government in that out of the blue, Lord Alderp the governor of this town who was renowned for being a corrupt and mean lord suddenly agreed to take the blame of failed transport instead of Lord Ignis and improved the livelihood of the townspeople. Because of this, rumors like he was saved by a goddess, punished by a goddess, given revelation from goddess, hit his head too hard, his son finally succeed in convincing him, etc spread like wildfire.

"Hey Kazuma~"

I wonder what really happened to him. Usually corrupt tyrants are really comfortable in their position or seek a better position and destroy any opposition to his rule, but for someone like him to change that quick is just- Well, I don't know the guy himself, so I can't exactly judge him correctly considering I'm a greenhorn[4] in this world.

Now, I think I should get going and find a better inn to live in.

"Kazuma!"

!?

Facing at the direction where that call came from, I saw Megumin pouting at me.

"What? It's just Megumin huh?" I muttered while scratching the back of my head.

Come to think of it, I barely accompany her in these few weeks for her explosion training. I wonder if she lost motivation due to cold or something else.

"Don't 'it's just Megumin huh?' me, Bakazuma, I've called you out but you keep spacing out like a fool!"

"Eh?"

Really? I could've swore that I'm just thinking about things for few seconds and I'm fairly reactive to people calling me out though.

"W-Well, sorry. What do you want to talk about Megumin?"

To my sheepish apology, she huffed before asking me to accompany her for upgrading her equipments.

Well, since this is still morning and all, I think it's fine before finding a better inn to live in, the one that doesn't make you feel awkward or horny because it doubles as a love hotel would be far preferable.

With that, we leave the guild while wryly smiling at Aqua who started a party with adventurers there. Meanwhile, Darkness is gone again, having some business to do with Chris she said.

The place where we are heading to is the crafting district for her to upgrade her staff further. It wasn't that far from the guild, but not exactly close either as it was close to the town's gate.

Arriving at that place, I'd expect the place to be creepy and dark and filled with strange things since it's a place for wizards to buy their equipments or upgrading it. Turns out that I'm the moron for thinking such things as the place is fairly simple store with scrolls, orbs, potions, and magical wands/staff/stave/rod lined up with a fairly young woman with sleepy expression at the counter.

And it seems that upgrading her staff doesn't take much time. Though-

"Well, I already upgraded it to my utmost capability, but I can't upgrade it any further. If you want to upgrade it further, you should go to the town with better magic blacksmithing skill." The sleepy woman said while presenting Megumin with her newly upgraded staff.

Looking at it, I don't know what to say since I'm no magic user, but it sure looks kinda gaudy with those different colored gems attached and the texture of the wood being smoother than it previously is. But apparently, Megumin was amazed and even mutters out 'Kukuku, this is just the beginning of my staff's power. In due time, my power will overshadow this staff.' Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's excited for the fact that her staff could become more powerful despite the already powerful upgrade she did to it with a rather expensive cost, or is it? Again, I don't know much about the pricing of magical staff, so I don't know. But two hundred thousand Eris sure ain't cheap to me.

While thinking about that, I didn't realize someone barging into the shop until said person yelled loudly at the woman, snapping me out of my stupor.

"Owner-san! Do you have supplies of magic potions!? I need a lot of-"

Looking at the direction of that loud voice, my gaze met the person- No, the wizard girl I've encountered that night, but forgot to ask her name.

"Ah! You are!" x2

Both of us yelled at each other in unison.

"Who- Nevermind." Megumin muttered that when she saw the girl before pouting and turns to the other way to avoid the girl's gaze.

Eh? What's with her expression?

"You're Megumin, right!? It's Megumin, right!?"

Right after she heard Megumin mutters that, her surprised expression was no longer directed to me, but to Megumin. I wonder what's their relationship...

"I don't know, I don't care, my name is Megumin and I don't know who you are."

"That's cruel! It's me, Yunyun! We're a classmate and rival in magical arts!"

"I don't know, I definitely don't know anyone with the name Yunyun."

Right, she knew this Yunyun girl but pretending to not know. Just who is she until Megumin acts like this? I feel kinda bad for her.

"Hey, hey, don't be like that Megumin. She's the girl who saved Dust's party, you know?"

Megumin could only pout as I explain to her about Yunyun. Seriously, what did she or Yunyun do for her to act like a child? Talking about this and that about adventurer and all.

And finding out that surprisingly, this Megumin is actually the genius wizard of her class with Yunyun right behind her. That felt surreal considering her shenanigans and capability as a wizard who could only blow stuff up before collapsing from the aftereffect. I wonder if the school she went is a school for 'special' case or a genuine one, but I think it's the latter considering this Yunyun is comparatively saner than Megumin but can't shake the feeling that a tiny bit chance that the former isn't out of the question either, but I'd be rude to consider Yunyun as 'special' kid.

Though, the real matter is...

"Oh, I almost forgot! I have to stock up magic potions and other necessity!"

"What is it? Are you going somewhere or fighting some powerful monsters?" I asked.

"No, I'm going back to the Crimson Magic Clan's Village, my hometown. I need to assist them in combat against the incoming Mobile Fortress Destroyer whose path changed to our village."

"What!?" Megumin lets out uncharacteristically surprised shout.

And thus, not known to me that for today onward, my fate would be diverged far to what I should be.

To Be Continued...

A/N:

Told ya that I'm not dead, but too busy since I'm entering my final term in uni and need to work on my papers. Also, Fate/Grand Order stuff as usual, in NA side, the translation is getting better and I'm having a blast on its latest event that broke a lot of fourth walls courtesy of the duo Nobu and Okita. Also, hooray for me getting Okita while not rolling for Scathach cause I'm saving for Jeanne Alter to create a Buster Meta Team in the future while in JP, nothing much aside from getting Merlin in his rate up recently(few months iirc). For some German trivia, I'm kinda in a break about it since I'm busy at the moment, but I'll try to add more of it later on. For the references:

[1] A combined words of Yowai(Not Yaoi) meaning weak and Kazuma, in his imagination, being mocked by Aqua as weak or spineless.

[2] Pretty much what horny teenager does when watching porn

[3] Plan and also a meme from Death Note's MC, Kira Yagami who loves to say it to the point of being memetic(Keikaku dori = All according to plan)

[4] An inexperienced person. Pretty much what you can call newbie or rookie

For this chapter, it looks kinda rushing the timeline, but I'm trying to pace it better later on since at this kind of pace, my plot ain't gonna get going. Thank you for following and favoring my fic to the point of surpassing the number of 300 and 500 each(Jesus Christ, thanks man), I'll try my best to improve this and I'll see you all in the next chapter. Goodbye!