Chapter 4

[DEAD OR ALIVE]

Quest: Deliver a Mysterious Box to Aki Town within a week.

Reward: 1, 000 000 Eris

Client: ?

Details:

The adventurer must use the transport provided by client when delivering the respected item. Adventurer were prohibited from opening the box without permission and any rule broken will lead to a severe punishment by the client. As soon as the quest is over where the item was safely handed to the receiver, adventurer will free to use the teleportation device or the previous transport to return home. The limit of the quest was one week.

Kazuma was annoyed. His beauty sleep was destroyed as he heard those girls desperately calling for his name. Kazuma slowly peeked from the window, filled with curiosity until he found that their carriage was fully surrounded by a group of bandits. Oi, oi, you've gotta kidding me! Why it always turn out like this?!

It was approximately 5-6 groups of bandit! Isn't this situation was bad?! Kazuma had no choice but to use his Farsight and...oh shit! There's more of them coming!

Kazuma turned right and left in desperation to find the opportunity and ideas to prevent fighting those bandits as he knew that there will be no way for him to backup his team if the battle happen. However, the lady of luck seemed to be siding him as he saw a cliff just ahead after the forest. Quickly, he asked the coachman to lead the bandits into the trap.

"Kazuma?!" Darkness who was still trying to hold those bandits saw Kazuma's shocking action quickly called his name in confusion while Aqua had misunderstood Kazuma's action and quickly assumed that he's running alone.

"Damnit, Kazuma! How dare you try to leave us like this! Come back!" But Kazuma have no time to listen her complain and kept rushing to his target. His chest has started to ache but like he has time to scream for pain!

The plan seemed to work since most of the troopes had changed their target towards him as there's no way those luxury looking carriage didn't store valuable items from the point of their view. Plus, the coachman and that boy inside the carriage looked like an easy target for those bandits to attack, especially that weak looking boy.

"That boy will definetely worth some cash! Capture him alive!" Kazuma felt like his hairs stood up just by hearing that command from the guy who looked like the bandit leader. Nonononono! He won't get captured! There's no way he will get captured by those perverts! He had seen too much hentais to know where this will go! Noooooo!

He desperately prayed to reach their destination as quick as possible and as soon he was a few metres before the target, he quickly took out his communication device that came with the carriage to contact his party. This special device enabled the user to contact other users through telepathy just by inserting a small am,ount of mana into the device. "Moshi moshi Aqua? This is Kazuma!"

"Huh, Kazuma?! What are you doing?! Come back and help us here!" The blue haired Goddess finally picked up her communication and quickly responded towards the only male in the party while still in her rage mode from Kazuma's action earlier.

"Aqua, I want you to hear this! I have no time to explain twice so hear this carefully!"

Aqua's face turned pale in instant. Was that really Kazuma? But wait, this was not a first time for him to do 'that'. It was Kazuma we're talking about. A Hikineet which had no use until it's really bad enough for him to take an action or all of them will die. No, due to the nature of his reckless strategy, which always work everytime, dying seemed the only thing he can do to save the day. But why? Usually Kazuma will only use this way when he no longer see other relevant ways to complete the mission but now? Why can't he come and give them a backup support to defeat all the obstacles in this mission and plus, it wasn't even a day had passed yet and they have to go through all of these bullshits!

"No! I can't do it! Let's give up this mission! We can find another mission!" Aqua yelled, trying to disagree with Kazuma's ridicilous plan.

"It's too late, Aqua! Even if I can't make it, it will be enough for all 3 of you to complete the mission as it didn't require for all the party members to deliever the item to client! Just go!" Kazuma exclaimed, trying to convince Aqua to follow his plan. They can't give up this mission whether they like it or not as they have no choice in their current situation. Either way, he will be killed anyway.

Aqua clenched her teeth. No! She will never bow towards this stupid plan! If this mission was to be successful, it will be when there's four of them delivering the item, TOGETHER! Though she did forgot that she can always resurrect him anyway.

Being stupid as always, and stubborn of all that, Aqua cut the communication, shocking Kazuma.

"Moshi moshi? Aqua?!" Kazuma yelled through the device yet it's no use as Aqua won't respond anymore and plus, Darkness and Megumin won't know about his plan since Aqua will definitely refuse to tell them due to her rock head.

Never once she had felt any regret due to her own action like she will soon.

The bandit troops they were fighting suddenly retreated and slowly disappeared from their sight for some reasons. It was as if they were ordered to do so. Hahaha! Did they were scared with charming Aqua-sama? The girls were relieved that everything was finally over. And now, it's time for them to get Kazuma and continue the mission.

However...

As the girls were still a few minutes away from the cliff, a bloody body of a young teen and a middle age coachman were lying on the rubbles, one of them was lifeless as a bulky man with a few underlings were standing in front of them, ready for their mission.

And the moment they reached to the scene, the body of the boy was no more, only leaving the dead coachman alone was found.