DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the franchises I mention and reference in the entirety of this fan fiction, and this goes for every other fan fiction I have on this profile as well. I'm doing this merely for entertainment purposes, and because I adore the series that I am writing a fanfiction for. All franchises/series that are stated in this fan fiction belong to their respective companies and well...someone like me would never own these great franchises.
How was that guys? Was that cool? I sounded like someone mature and important, and knew what they were talking about!
Y-You don't care...? W-Well I understand...just don't get bored of this and not read the fan fiction at all...pretty please!?
So the timing for this fanfiction...why don't we say it takes place right after the defeat of Hans? At least, I like to think that's a good starting point, at least the second season of the anime ended there. I've only read the LN up until Volume 6, so I might make several references towards Volume 5.
Also first Konosuba fanfic, and I made this because well...I wish there were more to read, and I love this series so much.
"K-Kazuma-san! Can you please turn the fireplace on...!? Aqua begged, as she watched Kazuma, Megumin, and Darkness relax on the couch listlessly watching A Certain Magical Index on their brand new television.
"Can't. Busy doing important stuff here." He responded, putting his arms behind the couch-not even trying to hide the fact that he was being lazy. It has been a year since Kazuma had met his tragic (so humorous, it's sad) death, and ended up in this new world. Throughout this time, Kazuma had been able to get better at making things from Japan, and with the help of Vanir, a former Devil King general, he was able to successfully create something that he has missed besides gaming on his P.C.
A television.
Kazuma has never been so glad to finally have built something that he can fully be proud of. Whenever he comes home from a horrible day of doing quests (and potentially dying...fifty percent of the time), he just thinks about how he can just watch anime on his new T.V until possibly 5:00am in the morning. Well, technically you could say the TV belongs to everyone, but Kazuma views it as his television because he believes he put the most effort towards it, and would beat up anyone else in the mansion if they said otherwise-specifically a certain self-proclaimed goddess.
"Busy!? W-Why the hell is watching some dumb anime important!?" Aqua retorted, by flailing her arms angrily. In response, Kazuma turned his head, swiftly.
"Dumb anime!? Of course someone with your intelligence would say something as foolish as that. A Certain Magical Index is a show filled with quality, action, and a main character with actual balls!" Kazuma snapped, as he clenched his fist triumphantly. Ironically however, up until today, Kazuma didn't give a rat's ass about A Certain Magical Index, and probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for getting his television a few days ago. Because of that, he's been willing to get into any anime due to having a prolonged time of not watching any.
He turned back to watch the screen. He, along with Megumin and Darkness were watching the last episode of season 1 of which Kamijou Touma was fighting against Sherry Cromwell, and is about to give his speech and finish her off.
Kazuma started to tear up. "I knew there was hope for main protagonists these days...Finally showing the true colors of gender equality. They grow up so fast..."
Darkness interjected. "It's quite true Aqua! This show is quite amazing! Every time the main character is about to punch a female, I imagine Kazuma and I in those respective roles and I...and I..." She was starting to blush and shake, and not in a disgusted way.
Kazuma's tears instantly dried up.
"Oi, I don't want to imagine what goes on in your head..." He said in disgust.
"Kazuma! Kazuma!"
"I'm Kazuma-" He looked at the source of the voice, which was Megumin. "-what do you want?"
"I like this show too! I really enjoy when the character Stiyl Magnus is on screen; he creates fiery like explosions, and it's awesome! Although, I don't really like it when it switches over to the science side that much...it should just be full on magic!" Megumin happily chimed in.
Kazuma stared at her with half-lidded eyes.
"Of course you would say that…"
"I can't believe I got these idiots into this show...it was definitely a mistake." It wasn't that Kazuma had a problem with watching anime with people socially. Hell, he didn't even mind watching anime with Megumin and Darkness, he would just appreciate the former not making such controversial statements, and the latter not making any statements at all.
Aqua finally couldn't take their banter anymore. "Aww, jeez, can someone just flick the fireplace switch on please? It's way too cold in here…" She said, grasping her arms in an attempt to warm herself up, and she was even wearing her warm pajamas. Not only were Kazuma and Vanir able to produce a television; they also created built in electricity within the mansion.
Now using Kazuma's tracksuit as firewood would never come up again.
"Well I mean...I don't mind getting up-" Just as Megumin was about to get up, Kazuma rested his left arm down to prevent Megumin from getting up.
"Don't Megumin! It's a trap! You shouldn't stoop down to Aqua's level of laziness!" He pleaded.
"But Kazuma, I actually don't mind turning on the fire-" Kazuma put his finger to her lips, in order to cease her talking.
"Don't you get it!? This is a tough time in poor Aqua's life…" He put his arm to his eyes, to prevent Megumin from seeing himself crying, despite how obvious it was.
"Can't you see?" He sniffed. "She has to overcome this cruel hurdle all by herself, without anyone's help. Don't you see how tragic it is? She has to prove to us that she can walk five steps to the fireplace switch and flick it on, in order to gain the heat, she so desperately desires."
The story was so sad and filled with pity, that it was even starting to get Megumin to cry.
"I-I can't believe it...I-I'm sorry Kazuma, I feel so selfish...I was going to flick that switch for her...without even realizing the full truth…" She sobbed. Kazuma, out of sympathy rubbed her back, as he knows how scary the truth can be sometimes.
"That's right, you amazing arch-wizard who should really excel in some other magic spell besides explosion magic which is preventing you from being the only other competent member of the party besides myself."
Megumin thought it would be best to ignore Kazuma's words, after the word "wizard".
Kazuma continued. "You're not that selfish to want to tarnish Aqua's supposed status as a goddess right?"
Megumin shook her head in disgust. "N-Never! I would never want to do that! Although...I have my doubts about it-"
"Of course you do! You're smar-I mean…" Kazuma clears his throat. "So it's important that we don't help her at all."
They both nodded, and they looked over to Aqua.
"I'm sorry Aqua, for everything…" Megumin apologized. Aqua, in response, stomped her foot five times on the ground.
"Y-You guys are totally ganging up on me! Me! A beautiful and amazing goddess!" Aqua accused.
Never in his life has Kazuma wanted to laugh so hard at such a claim.
"Umm well, I could go and turn on the fireplace. I feel like this would solve everyone's problem." Darkness suggested.
Kazuma, Megumin and Aqua both glared at her.
"You stay out of this Lalatina!" They all said in unison. In response Darkness's face became flustered out of the embarrassment of her real name.
"S-Stop it! Y-You know how much I hate that name!" She cried.
"Fine...I'll do it...sheesh…" Clearly irritated, Aqua angrily walked over to the fireplace. As she was doing that, she could clearly hear both Kazuma and Megumin chuckle to themselves, and when she looked over to them, they immediately went back to their faces of empathy.
"That's it Aqua! Flick that switch!" He cheered.
"We believe in you!" Megumin added. Kazuma gave Megumin a thumbs up and she returned with one as well. It was nice for a change to have Megumin on his side to gang up on Aqua after all the times Aqua had teased him. Especially regarding the "Excalibur" incident, of which Kazuma still hasn't gotten his revenge for.
If he was going to live with these girls for potentially the rest of his life, he has to at least get on one of them on his side. And who else, but the most level headed person of the party? Trying to form a bond with Aqua and Darkness would prove be a bit more difficult-more so the former than the latter.
"Ugh…" As she flicked on the fireplace, which honestly took way longer of a process than it should, the doorbell had rung.
"I'll go get it!" Darkness quickly got up to go get the door, as clearly she was the only one who was willing to do it.
It was quite the sight to see Darkness the only one on the ball here.
"Good even...ing?" When she opened the door, Darkness didn't see anyone outside the mansion at all, despite the doorbell being rung. It was quite the rainy day; showers have been going on ever since this morning, which is why Kazuma and his party had decided to not go out today to see if there was any quests in the guild to do. Although, it was less likely to happen even if it wasn't showering due to Kazuma and Aqua's insistence on staying in their 'safe haven' all-day.
"That's strange…" Darkness looked back and forth, and still saw no trace of a person ever being there.
"The doorbell rung, but no one is outside? The "Hey it's me" scam isn't in place here right? I'm positive I heard it ru-" Darkness interrupted herself when she looked down at her feet, and what she found was a package. She found it strange, because she doesn't believe anyone in the mansion had ordered anything, at least she knew that she hadn't ordered anything.
Normally when it comes to packages being delivered here in Axel, a person would be here to deliver the package, and make sure the package was received-never has someone came here, and simply left the package on the doorstep, without making sure the package was even received.
Of course, there is the possibility of Kazuma secretly ordering something for the benefit of satisfying his manly urges, but if that were the case then he would've offered to get the package first, and make sure no one else saw it. And she knows Megumin and Aqua wouldn't have ordered something in secret, obviously they would have mentioned something, given their more open personalities in contrast to Kazuma.
"Hmm…" She with all her might lifted up the package; it wasn't as heavy as she was expecting, and closed the door with her foot. She walked back into the living room, and found that Aqua had taken her spot on the couch; sitting with her legs crossed, watching whatever anime Kazuma had decided to put on next.
"I wanna watch Noragami!" Aqua declared. "I want to watch an actual cool and hot god, fight monsters, instead of a dumb shut in pedo-NEET, who keeps calling me useless!"
"So, Megumin, what do you want to watch? I can see you probably into the shoujo genre or something like that." Kazuma asked, completely ignoring Aqua's statement. He would retort back, but she wasn't worth the effort.
"Waahh! Kazuma-sama, I'm sorry! I went too far! I really wanna watch something!" She sobbed, grasping onto Kazuma's tracksuit; causing her tears to fall all over him.
"Stop it! Stop it! Alright fine, you win! Stop crying on my tracksuit! We'll watch whatever the hell you just said!" Kazuma cried out.
"Yay! Thank you hiki-NEE-I mean Kazuma!" Aqua yanked the T.V. remote out of Kazuma's hands, and due to Aqua's crying he was forced to grab his tracksuit and shake off all the tears that she had gotten on him. For someone who had only cried for about 30 seconds, she somehow produced a massive amount of tears. Then again, she was a goddess of water, so it makes some amount of sense-some of the tears had accidentally got onto Megumin, causing her to do the same process.
"Eww...how could Kazuma get his tears on me?" Megumin complained.
"My tears!? You know full well that Aqua was the one crying! And besides, don't blame me! I couldn't help it!" He objected.
"W-Well, I-I'm glad they have made up, I think?" Darkness wondered just how fast Aqua had went from being mad at Kazuma and Megumin to actually getting over it, in the matter of two minutes. Did it have to do with her leaving? Was the reason they were resorted into conflict was because of her presence? Her very existence is the reason that she causes fights among friends?
"K-Kazuma! Kazuma! Kazuma! I need you to let me sit down in my seat, so you and Aqua can fight again!" Darkness requested, shaking nervously with a blushing face. Kazuma looked behind the couch, and gave her a skeptical look.
"W-What? You want us to fight? I mean, considering it's her, it's inevitable but...what's gotten into you?" Kazuma wasn't exactly sure what she was thinking about, and frankly he was both curious and uneasy.
"Ah, Darkness, who was at the door?" Megumin asked. After hearing Megumin's words, Darkness quickly got out of her perverted state.
"Umm, surprisingly there was no one at the door when I checked." Darkness answered.
"What? Are you positive?"
"Yes I am. Actually, the only thing I found at the door was a pack-"
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" Aqua quickly pounced off the couch, and staggeredly jetted towards Darkness, and snatched the package out of her hands. Aqua squeezed the package hard; trying to insinuate that it was her, and hers alone.
Both Kazuma and Megumin, rotated their bodies, facing the couch; to look behind and gaze at Aqua, in perplexity and amazement.
"S-She's very possessive when she wants to be." Megumin commented.
"...we've lived with her for almost a year, and it's taken you this long to realize this?" Kazuma responded.
"Oh Darkness! Thank you so much for the gift! You were always my favorite!" Aqua thanked, as she even rubbed her face against the package, with full on blush marks.
"U-Uh actually Aqua, there is no designated name on the package, nor a designated sender either."
"W-What!? There's no way!" Aqua frantically checked all over the package, and Darkness was right, there was no indication of anyone's name on the package.
"So wait, that's suspicious right? Very, very suspicious. First of all, there was no one at the door, and now we have a package with no name on it, be it the recipient or sender?" Megumin queried, as generally this was very concerning. Was someone perhaps stalking them, or was this the work of the Demon King's army?
"N-No way, this can't possibly be anything bad right? If this was sent to me, then this must be important!" Aqua claimed; still insistent on the package being hers.
"What does Kazuma think about this?" Megumin asked, looking at her fellow couch friend.
"Hmm...what does Kazuma think about this? Wait, hold on, I'm Kazuma-what makes you think I know anything about it?" Kazuma wondered.
"Well, usually when it comes to being cautious of our safety, you're usually the main one to propose what we should do. You tend to be very smart about these kind of things." Megumin complimented.
Kazuma surprisingly showed a genuine blush at that comment. "W-What!? Don't be an idiot! S-Sure I may be highly intelligent in comparison to the rest of you but…" As Kazuma was fidgeting with his words, the three girls of the party all started laughing at his expense.
"W-What the hell is so funny? Stop laughing or I'll kill you all!" Kazuma threatened with a red face; clearly not being serious.
Darkness giggled. "Kazuma may be willing to perform savage and lewd acts on us, but when it comes to actual praise, he doesn't know how to function."
"How cute, he's just like a child." Aqua teased.
"S-Shut up, I don't want to hear anything about being a child from you! And what do you mean I perform savage and lewd acts!? Stop ruining my reputation ever further!" Kazuma scolded.
"But seriously, Kazuma, really, what do you think about this? Could it be a trap?" Megumin asked.
"Most likely. Honestly, everything Megumin had said earlier about this situation, is probably what I would've said. Who knows? That package could easily have a bomb inside." Kazuma considered.
"B-B-B-Bomb!?" Aqua stuttered loudly, and immediately like her life depended on it; placed it down on the floor gently, and scattered to the other side of the living room.
"A bomb huh-" Darkness started to vibrate, while blushing. "-hey Kazuma...you don't suppose if we were to open it, it would destroy most of my armor right? That would be amazing right?!"
"O-Oi! It won't just do that you know!" Kazuma yelled.
"K-Kazuma-san! Open it for us! I'm sure nothing bad will happen, and even if you did...you can count on me to save you!" Aqua declared, with a high amount of confidence. Kazuma, upon instinct, clutches the back of the couch, and prepared to rant.
"What the hell!? "Count on me." my ass, no way in hell I'm opening it! Don't use me as some damn guinea pig!" Kazuma argued.
"D-Don't worry! If something happens to you, I can just resurrect you! Simple as that."
"I don't appreciate the fact that you just see me life as expendable as some piece of chewing gum!" Kazuma said.
Aqua looked over to the side, with a nervous smile; scratching her cheek. "Well I mean...you technically have died 4 times already so…"
"Also, I've been wondering this for a while, why is it always me? It could be Megumin or Darkness who could be sacrificed too! Your power of resurrection isn't just limited to me." Kazuma brought up.
"Well, we can't really refute that…" Megumin admitted. He did have a point there; if something were to happen to either her or Darkness, Aqua could just as easily revive them, like she does with Kazuma.
"I especially think Darkness would want to die!" Kazuma called out.
"A-Ahh!" Darkness moaned. "As expected of Kazuma, he would definitely enjoy seeing me hurt, and with my clothes being blown off too!"
"First off-when the hell did I say that? Secondly, what the hell do you people see me as!? You all think I'm some ravaged beast who has no sense of mercy at all! And I didn't even mean it like that-I only said that because if Darkness were to die, she would be able to meet up with Eris-sama."
"Ugh...why would she want to meet up with her? She's already friends with the Goddess Of Water."
"Self-proclaimed." Kazuma taunted internally.
"R-Really? You mean every time Kazuma died, he met up with Eris-sama?" Darkness interjected.
"You didn't know? I could've swore I told everyone that at some point. At least, I'm pretty sure Aqua would've mentioned it."
"So, if Kazuma were to slowly take my clothes off-"
"Wait, what-"
"-and stab me in the heart with his Chunchunmaru-"
"Don't call it that."
"But that's it's name." Megumin added.
"No. Shut up."
"-I could meet up with Eris-sama!?" Darkness asked.
"Why do keep saying such perverted things about me!? The more you say it, the more I am thinking about doing it! And I will!" Kazuma yelled.
"Just shut up Kazuma, and open the damn box!" Aqua snapped.
"Even if I do open it, what if it just doesn't kill me? It could potentially kill all of us, including Aqua! Then there would be no way for any of us to come back!"
The four of them, then had a moment of silence after that sudden realization.
"...I can't believe we didn't take that into consideration." Megumin looked to the side with a nervous smile; completely embarrassed of the massive oversight they had looked over.
"So, let's just pick that package up; launch it outside, and forget that all of this ever happened!" Kazuma announced.
And with that he walked over to the package to pick it up, but Darkness stood in his way.
"Oi...what the hell do you think you are doing? Get out of my way."
"I'm sorry Kazuma, but I am not going to let you get rid of this."
Kazuma could feel a vein about to burst. "Why not?! If we keep this thing around, then surely something troublesome is going to happen!"
"But Kazuma...it is my duty as the crusader of the group to protect the party. So it is my job to see for myself whatever that package is safe or not. I will not let any of my fellow party members be exposed to any danger."
Kazuma wasn't buying what she was saying for a second.
"I-It's true! I am doing this for the safety of us all...I have to make sure I stand guard against the terrifying horrors that are in that thing."
Even Megumin and Aqua weren't buying it.
"U-Umm...well…" As soon as she said those words, Darkness quickly snatched the package, and proceeded to break for it.
"H-Hey! Come back here you perv!" Kazuma jetted after her, leaving Aqua and Megumin a bit stunned.
"W-We should help Kazuma right?" Megumin wondered.
"Nah...he can take care of himself." Aqua said.
Surprisingly Kazuma was able to catch up to Darkness, and to stop her from advancing, he grabbed her shoulders to stop her movement. It was easier said than done, as Darkness was clearly resisting.
"Stop fidgeting and just drop the damn package Darkness!" Kazuma shouted.
"But don't you see Kazuma!? Don't you want to find out what's inside this package!? Aren't you curious to see what twisted and disgusting thing could come out, and plant itself all over my body!? Doesn't that get you curious? Don't you want to see the development!" Darkness proclaimed.
Kazuma started to blush. "S-S-Stop tempting me! And no, I still don't want to! Because once that happens, we are going to have to kill it afterwards, and I am seriously not in the mood!"
"But Kazuma! The possibilities are endless! I could seriously be done for if a bunch of monsters jump out of that thing and proceed to scratch off my clothing, and bite at me until night's end! And then, as the lewd man he is, Kazuma will then stare in delight as he watches this unfold!"
"Stop it! There is no way you are going to convince me to do this! And why is it that every time you fantasize about being attacked you include me in it!" Kazuma barked.
"But I...but I…" She was breathing strangely, and had quite the red face. She was seriously getting turned-on by what thing could come and attack her from within that package.
"Listen Darkness, if you don't drop the package right now, then I will do something to you that will be far worse than what this package could ever attempt to accomplish, and I can assure you I will enjoy every single minute of it!"
Darkness immediately started to imagine the amount of situations Kazuma was willing to put her in-which made her feel more horny.
"A-Ah...Kazuma is willing to do something even far more terrible than what the package will do? J-Just what is he planning to-n-no...I mustn't give in...I mustn't..."
"You say that...but you stopped resisting once I said it." Kazuma thought to himself.
"Could it be...is Kazuma willing to...is he going to…"
"Eh?"
"He's going to show me his excalibur?!" It was as if a dam had broken, and once that was said she had fainted, and fell onto the ground with a thud. She was breathing heavily, with a smile on her face as she was resting on the floor with her hand grasping her chest.
And he looked down at the fallen girl, and while he was irritated with her before, but her resting smile, made him somehow smile as well.
"...I can't believe I'm saying this but...why is her being a masochist both horrible but slightly endearing? On second thought...no scratch that last part."
Kazuma glanced over to his other two party members.
"Umm...I could use some assistance, this pervert over here fainted." Kazuma requested.
Megumin and Aqua both came over to take Darkness away from then waited for her to wake up-which took about thirty minutes.
"W-What happened?" Darkness asked.
"U-Umm..well Kazuma and us have all agreed to get rid of the package and since it's three against one..." Megumin trailed on.
"I-I see...well I won't cause anymore trouble…" Darkness said, a bit sad about not being able to see what was in there.
"Sorry about that Darkness." Aqua apologized.
"Are they really apologizing because they can't let a masochist get what she wants?" Kazuma clearly knew Aqua wasn't bright but he wasn't sure if this was just to piss him off, or if she was really that stupid.
The four of them stood there for a while, and without further ado, each of the members of the party simultaneously went over to the box and each helped pick a corner of it up-despite the fact that the package was easy enough for just one person to carry, and they all walked over to the door. Kazuma was the one to open the door, and they all stood outside the mansion.
"Ready?" Kazuma asked. All of them are nodded.
"1...2...3!" With all of their combined strength-may it be trivial, they all threw the package, surprisingly far, and it landed outside the mansion's gate. It actually landed perfectly-it didn't land upside down; accidentally spilling whatever contents it held.
Kazuma and his party looked over into the gloomy sight of the rain pouring down onto the package. They believed they made the right decision of not opening that package; who knows what could've come out of that thing. It could be precisely what they had said-a bomb-of which could have kill them all in one fell swoop. Perhaps some deadly creature could've come out of there and attempt to kill them all as well. The possibilities of whatever dangerous thing that could've been in that package, are endless-and they made the smart move of playing it safe, and removing it from their possession.
In the end, they avoided any negative thing that could've come out of that package.
Any negative thing…
Negative…
As the four of them stared at the presently soggy package-there was a sudden question that had rose into their minds, that made them question their recent actions.
What if...they were completely wrong about this?
What if…there wasn't actually a bomb in there?
What if...there wasn't anything dangerous at all?
What if...in that package...there was actually something really amazing in there, and they are making the poor choice of abandoning it. After all, they simply assumed that something bad would happen if they opened it-they actually have no real way of confirming whether or not there is something good or bad in that package.
They could be potentially throwing away some mystical genie, that grants them an infinite amount of wishes. And here they are; about to go inside their mansion, while someone else could easily pick up that package, and take whatever amazing thing that is inside it.
They believe what they had done was the smart choice, but their curiosity of whatever is inside that thing, would surely overwhelm them.
"Oi, guys." Kazuma whispered.
"Y-Yeah?" The three of them responded in unison.
"On the count of three, let's run over to that package, and we take it back inside." Kazuma suggested with a smirk, and with a thumbs up.
"Sounds good to me." Said Aqua, giving a thumbs up.
"I agree." Said Megumin, also giving a thumbs up.
"Okay, I'm glad that's all settled. What do you think Darkness-Darkness?"
The three of them had saw that Darkness had vanished.
"Where did she…?" As they looked around, the three of them saw that Darkness was already running towards the package.
"I'm on it Kazuma! I can't wait to see what's inside that precious package! Could it be a tentacle-beast readying to do unknown horrors to me? Or is it slime that's willing to come onto me?! I'm getting excited just thinking about it!" She cried, as she jetted towards the package, and once she saw it, she picked it up and lifted it in the air.
"I did it Kazuma! I obtained it!" Darkness cheered.
"Great job, now hurry back inside!" Once he said that, he, Aqua and Megumin all ran inside the house, followed by Darkness, and she slammed the door, out of anticipation of what the package awaited her.
Subsequently, Kazuma actually checked outside the door to see if anyone had seen the series of events that had happened, and luckily it seemed like no one was watching, so he closed the door again.
-KONOSUBA!-
After all that had happened, it was currently 8:00 p.m. It had been two hours since they had encountered the mysterious package that had appeared at their door. All four of them gathered in a circle, and it was Kazuma who had declared that he would be the one to open the package.
They were all sweating profusely, as potentially opening this box could lead to something extremely dangerous. Out of all them, Darkness was sweating the most, but that was for an entirely different reason.
Kazuma, slowly, tore off the tape that was constricting the package, and all that was left was to take the cover off, and reveal the contents of the package.
He rested his hand on the package, and he was very anxious when it came to opening it.
"G-Go ahead Kazuma, open the package, after all, what is there to lose?" Aqua pointed out. In response, Kazuma, Megumin and Darkness all responded in this order:
"Our lives."
"Our mansion."
"W-What could be inside there? I'm very, very curious!"
Aqua blinked once. "A-Ah...right."
With clammy hands, Kazuma shut his eyes; turned away from the box, and very slowly took the package's top off. Both Megumin and Aqua also shut their eyes in terror of what their impending doom will be. Meanwhile, Darkness was staring at the package with clenched fists, and a nervous smile while blushing.
And once Kazuma had taken the top off completely, he waited a few seconds for whatever possible thing to come out and attack them all.
As those seconds passed, absolutely nothing happened. They waited, one minute, three minutes, five minutes, and eventually the three of the four party members opened their eyes and wondered why the hell they haven't died yet.
"U-Umm...why hasn't the bomb gone off?" Aqua wondered.
"I'm not sure." Megumin asked. "Kazuma, what's in there?"
Kazuma took a peek inside the package; and what he found in there was something he was not expecting in the slightest. And in response to what he had seen, his eyes started to sparkle and a big smile appeared on his face.
"T-This is...I can't believe it! I really can't believe it!" Kazuma blurted out. Aqua and Megumin both looked at each-other with puzzled looks.
"What is it Kazuma? Is it something like a box filled with indecent p-p-panties!?" Darkness exclaimed.
"Well I mean, it's not as good as that, but it's definitely a close second! Oh man! It's been forever since I've seen one of these!" Kazuma said, spinning around; holding the box up.
Aqua marched over to the box; clearly impatient. "Just what's in there that has you happy all of the sudden?" Aqua peered over to see the contents of the box.
"A...Nintendo 64?" Aqua said.
"Yes! Of course! It's one of the best classic consoles of all time! I used to play this thing with my younger brother all of the time!"
"But why are you so excited about such an old console? I would much rather prefer something past the 2005 era." Aqua claimed.
"Oi, there's no need to hate on the classics. If it wasn't for them, your precious consoles past 2005 wouldn't even exist." Kazuma reassured her.
"As expected of a shut-in NEET, he would know about such things." Aqua insulted.
"You know what...I'm not even going to retort that." Kazuma was seemingly in a good mood. For starters, he didn't die, and he even got an N64 out of opening the package; so even insulting comments from Aqua, wasn't enough to make him mad.
"W-W-Wait hold on- Ninten...Do64? Kazuma, Aqua, do you know what this strange device is?" Megumin asked.
"Ah, I guess you and Darkness wouldn't know. This is another thing from my country, just like the television we have. It's called an Nintendo 64. It's an old console, that you connect to the television, and play games on it." Kazuma informed. The package was surprisingly filled with everything needed in order to use it; there were cords, four controllers, the console itself, and even two memory paks.
"Oooh! Games? That sounds really fun!" Megumin cheered.
"I was hoping for something indecent and dangerous to come out the package, but perhaps this isn't as bad." Darkness said, of which Kazuma didn't even want to continue on with that train of thought.
Kazuma took the console itself out, and Aqua pointed to where the console's cartridge slot was.
"See this part? It's the N64's cartridge slot; we put the cartridge inside that slot, and it runs the games that we can play. Although, do we even have any games to play? Also if we do then I get to play it first, and not Kazuma." Aqua protested.
"So, all we have to do is put that thing inside the hole right? And then once we do, something amazing will happen? Darkness smiled; albeit with a red face.
"C-Can you please stop saying suggestive things?" Kazuma cried out.
"To be honest, I feel like I have seen that thing before…" Megumin said.
"What? The Nintendo 64? But, that doesn't make any sense…"
"Y-Yeah, but I'm positive I've seen other things like this one, at least, back at my village." The fact that Megumin claimed that she had seen these consoles before was pretty suspicious, and the fact that this thing was even here at all was also suspicious, but Kazuma really didn't care about that at the moment. He looked inside the package to see if there were any cartridges.
Kazuma doesn't really remember much about when he used to have an N64, but he did remember some memorable moments he had with his brother. Together, they would take turns playing all sorts of games with each-other such as: Super Mario 64, Harvest Moon, Paper Mario, The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina of Time, and many others. The best games he used to play with his brother were definitely the ones which multiplayer was the game's main selling point. He remembered having many fun times with his brother playing Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros., and Mario Party 2. Of course, he then remembered all the times he had won-and his brother had lost, which was every single time. Kazuma was highly skilled in any type of video game, and he also had his amazing luck to boot, so there was no question that he would win easily in any video game. Which then led to his brother picking up the Nintendo 64 and then throwing it out of Kazuma's bedroom window, and he never attempted to buy a new one again.
It was then Kazuma realized why he didn't have that many memories about his Nintendo 64.
"So Kazuma, do you see any games in there, that I can play first?" Aqua asked.
"Just give me a minute…" Kazuma continued to search and search for any possible game that could be in the package. There was actually a lot of bubble wrap in this package, most likely to protect the Nintendo 64; or at least, that's what he figured. Normally, you don't really see that type of thing in the console's packaging, but he didn't think much of it.
"C'mon Kazuma! Hurry up already!" Aqua urged. Kazuma was this close to simply knocking her out with his fist, but he was still in a good mood so he decided to let it go.
He sighed. "Honestly, and she called me a child earlier...wait…" Kazuma took out one of the bubble wraps that were inside the package.
"Want something to play? Here have this." Kazuma tossed it in the air, and Aqua caught it in a flash.
"W-What do you think I am? I'm a Goddess, and you expect me to enjoy popping this-" In the middle of that sentence she accidentally popped a bubble, and immediately felt excited.
She giggled, and started to blush. "Oooh! This is really fun!" And thus, Aqua, despite claiming she wasn't a child, started to pop the bubbles on the bubble wrap, in an excited fashion-not once stopping.
Kazuma clicked his tongue. "Wow, and I thought Darkness and Megumin were easy…" He continued moving the unnecessary amount of bubble wrap and other pieces of wrapping that were in the package.
He then thought back to his younger brother once more, and wonder just what he was up to now that he wasn't in his life anymore. Maybe he was happy that he didn't have to put up with a brother who just lived in self-indulgence. He could simply ask Aqua, or hell even Eris, about the future of his younger brother, but since Aqua was in the surface world along with him, it was likely that she didn't know much either, and the only way to talk to Eris would be to die, and well, that was something he wasn't too fond of doing.
He...wondered if his brother even missed him at all…
"Hey, why does Kazuma look so sad?" Megumin asked, staring at Kazuma with concern.
Kazuma noticed this, and quickly rubbed his eyes. "I-I'm fine. Perfectly fine, why don't you go and help Aqua with the bubble wrap. You are well…you know..."
"What? What are you trying to say!?" Megumin asserted.
"...oh?" After tirelessly searching, he finally found something all the way at the bottom of the package. He took it out of the package, and it was indeed a cartridge.
"Oh finally! You found a game!" Aqua made sure to pop one more bubble before pushing it onto Megumin's frail body; which caused her to yelp in surprise.
"W-Why did you give it to me?" Megumin cried out.
"Because you're well...you know…" Aqua went over to Kazuma in a hurry.
"Aqua you too? Sure, I may be the youngest one here, but that doesn't mean I like to-" Just as she was saying that, Megumin, popped a bubble off the bubble wrap, and then immediately felt a rush of euphoria.
"W-Well, I suppose popping two wouldn't hurt." She popped another one, and then began to get even more entranced in the activity.
"O-Oh my goodness! This feeling! I feel like every time I pop a bubble it feels like my explosion magic!" Megumin, completely absorbed by the bubble wrap, kept popping more and more bubbles, and chanting 'Explosion', every time she did it.
"So, Kazuma, what game did you find?" Aqua asked.
"Oh, well I didn't look at what-" He then noticed Megumin; captivated by the process of popping bubbles of the bubble wrap. Even Darkness was excited as well, as she was watching Megumin play with the bubble wrap.
"Umm, what the hell is going on over there?"
"Don't ask, just what we were you about to say?"
"Oh, I only saw the back of the cartridge. I have no idea what game this is." Kazuma then turned the cartridge around, and saw something that he had just recently thought of. It was a copy of Mario Party 2.
"Aww, that game…" Aqua said with a nervous look, and then Kazuma gave the most evil looking grin, she had ever seen from him yet.
"Oh really…" Kazuma sneered.
Oh man, just what is Kazuma planning with the copy of Mario Party 2? Will he plan to play a round of Mario Party with his friends? The answer to your question...well duh, what else do you think I would write him to do?
I'm sorry! Don't get mad at me! I'll admit it, I got a little cocky, please don't hurt me!
Also, sorry if this was too long of a chapter, I had so much I wanted to do with this intro, and wasn't sure how long I should write it out. I feel like I got everyone in character...but I'm not too sure...let me guys know if want to read more! :)