Yukino watched s Aqua and Kazuma walked home they had said their goodbyes to Hachiman and his family before they went home to change and get ready for school, yet Yukino couldn't help but notice both Kazuma's and especially Aqua's hesitation to go home.
The three of them walked to the bus stop and it picked them up like Yukino imagined it normally did, yet the moment the bus managed to drop them off at the stop they were supposed to get off at.
Both Aqua and Kazuma began to slow down.
Yukino was about to ask Kazuma what was wrong when a muscular man walked out of the apartment building, they lived in.
"Kazuma, I've been waiting for you. Yesterday a woman entered your room, I don't know who she is, but she is still inside" the man said to Kazuma.
"Thanks" Kazuma answered the man, but his voice didn't sound like the voice of the Kazuma Yukino was so use to hearing.
"Hey, can I ask you for a favor?" Kazuma said to the large man
"Sure" the man answered Kazuma.
"Can you let Yukino stay over at your place for a couple of hours?" Kazuma said to the man as he turned to look at Yukino.
Yukino wanted to argue with Kazuma, but when she saw the worried expression on his face, she instinctively turned to look at Aqua and she found her with a soft smile.
Normally Yukino would have said no to Kazuma, after all, he had asked someone to take her without asking for her approval, but something else was going on and she knew that it must have been bad because both Aqua and Kazuma were acting completely different than they usually did.
'I can just go to school" Yukino said to Kazuma and the large man who looked at each other.
"Yeah, its probably better if you do" Kazuma answered Yukino
Yukino turned around and began to walk back to the bus stop, she was already late so this time she would have to jump the wall without Kazuma and Aqua's help.
yet even as she left her friends behind, she couldn't help but worry.
'Do you need some help, I mean, I'm a big guy and I have some friends" the man began to say to Kazuma, but Kazuma stopped him from talking.
"No, this stays in the family, so you don't have to get involved," Kazuma said to the man, he used the same set of words he heard actors use in old mafia movies, hoping that his neighbor would stay away.
"I see"
"My wife, couldn't sleep or eat because of the pain, your remedies helped her"
"I watched her cry in pain every day, Aqua Kazuma, just scream and the boys will help you guys in what you need"
"No questions asked, and no one will talk about it ever again," the man said to Aqua who just closed her eyes and gave him a sad smile.
'We have to do this alone" Kazuma said to the man as they entered the building and left him behind.
The man watched the pair disappear into the building and took out his cellphone, he heard it ring once, twice, and then he heard a woman answered him.
"Is this Emilia, yes you sad to call you if Kazuma and Aqua acted suspiciously or something happened" he said to Hero Emilia.
Aqua and Kazuma walked into the same building they had walked into dozens of times before, but the hallway now seemed darker, and the stairs seemed to grow as they walked.
The feeling inside of the building had completely changed, like if some sort of cloud had covered whatever joy the building's inhabitants brought into the building and as a result, it was nothing more than a quiet empty building.
their footsteps echoed as they walked and despite the ever-growing presence of something dangerous waiting for them at the top, Kazuma and Aqua walked without missing a step.
No children were playing in the halls, no elderly passing the time, the sounds of men and women loudly talking was gone now and as they walked they finally stood in front of their room, the door itself twisted and turned as chaotic power flowed through it.
Aqua stepped in front of Kazuma and allowed her godly energy to flow, forcing the chaos into some form of order, regardless Aqua herself was a goddess of chaotic order, and as a result the chaos of her mother's godly power only calmed slightly.
Yet from the corner of her eye, Aqua could see the frightened expressions of her neighbors looking at her through slightly opened doors.
No civilization succeded without confronting chaos with order and if that didn't work it needed a different kind of chaos to alter the first chaos, so if she was going to be able to beat her mother, aqua knew she had no choice but to work together with Kazuma.
She reached out to open the door and she jumped when she found Kazuma gripping the doorknob with her.
The two of them were about to turn the knob when the door opened and they were met with the warm smile of her mother.
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Kazuma couldn't move the woman in front of him was beautiful, her face was clean without any flaws, her eyes- nose - lips chin, and ears all seemed unnaturally placed.
They weren't in the wrong place far from it, but human faces have flaws, a person either has a big nose, crooked teeth, or thick eyebrows.
Yet the woman in front of him was perfect in every way.
She had a thin yet filled figure, so she wasn't skinny or fat, so he could see every curve in her body, through the clothes she wore.
Kazuma looked at the woman and she smiled at him seductively, he didn't know when but the woman had her right hand on his chin.
"Now, now boy. You're married to my daughter, but if you still want I won't be a concubine so you'll have to make her the second woman" Adrestia said to Kazuma
"Kazuma" Kazuma heard Aqua's voice and he could feel the cool nature of her powers flowing through him and his eyes widened as he realized that the woman had somehow taken control of him.
Kazuma looks around and finds himself inside his apartment, he was shocked to find not only a couch, a carpet, and a couple of new appliances inside both the kitchen and the living room.
Adrestia let out a small giggle before stepping away from Kazuma.
"First I hear that this man steals you away and takes you on an adventure around the world"
"Then when you come back, I hear that not only did you fail to finish your job successfully, but at the same time you somehow succeded"
"Normally I would have punished you for humiliating us," Adrestia said to Aqua, as she walked up to her daughter.
"All of that I could forgive," Adrestia said to Aqua, her voice could be heard outside of her room.
Yukino walked into the hallway and as she reached the floor where her room was in, she could hear Adrestias's voice.
"Give me one reason, why I shouldn't take you back and lock you away for failing us, like this!"
"I don't care for your failure, but I care for the fact that you allowed a meer peasant to speak to you in such a way" Yukino felt a chill run down her spine as she listened to Afrestias voice, it wasn't loud nor was it angry, but it felt as if it cut through her very soul.
"Mother," Aqua said to Adrestia and for a moment Yukino couldn't hear a thing
"Don't call me mother your failure"
"To think that my own daughter would allow herself to be brought so low!" Adrestia yelled and Yukino felt herself fall to her knees in terror the woman's voice alone was hurting her in a way she never thought possible.
Yukino felt a pair of hands grave he rand she found a woman with long red hair wearing a business suit holding her.
"Get her out of here," Hero Emilia said to Sato Maou
"Drain touch!" Kazuma screamed as he tried to absorb a wave of energy that Adrestia let out, it wasn't an attack, it was the woman's power simply being le out from her lack of control.
"Buff, buff" Aqua screamed as she tried to strengthen Kazuma because she couldn't directly attack her mother.
"You dare to raise your hand to me," Adrestia said to Kazuma before she turned to look at Aqua.
"To think that you wouldn't even defend yourself when your partner is in danger," Adrestia said to Aqua
"How should I punish you," Adrestia said to aqua.
"Bind" Kazuma screamed and the old wires and ropes that he brought with him when he arrived on earth.
Adrestia didn't even notice the attempt to stop her, she simply continued to walk forward.
The door to the room suddenly swung open as Emilia called upon her holy energies and attacked the goddess of chaos, yet before she could reach Adrestia the goddess simply waved her hand and threw the hero into the next room.
Kazuma summoned tinder and activated his flame skill, while at the same time combining them with the boost of power that Aqua had given him.
The resulting explosion was only contained because Adrtisa didn't want to rebuild the building after she punished Aqua.
On the first floor, Maou laid Yukino on a bench, and he could feel his magical energy grow as he felt the fear of the people inside of the building flowing through him.
He could feel himself regaining his original form until he no longer resembled his human form, he jumped onto the second floor and ran towards the Kazumas room.
"To think that my daughter could be so weak," Adrestia said to Aqua as she graved her by the throat and picked her up.
"You allowed a woman who was the practice girl for your mate to speak to you in such a matter"
"You spared all of those that insulted your children, in that other world"
"However," Adresta said to Aquaas she neared her daughter's face.
"The one thing I can't forgive you for is that you spared those women who gave you such filth as offerings" Adrestias voice was now filled with malice.
Adrestia raised her hand and clocked Maou's sword before throwing him at Kazuma who was chanting, however before Maou landed on Kazuma, Kazuma managed to let out a single explosion spell at its weakest level.
Adrestia instantly graved the explosion spell and held it in her hand, the spell was cutting into her hand, and Adrestia turned t look at Kazuma who was smiling.
"Explosion," Kazuma said as he detonated the spell.
"Now" Emila screamed and Maou quickly rose to his feet as the two of them charged at Adrestia before letting off their own versions of the explosion spell.
Yet when the smoke cleared Adrestia stood unmoved.
Her clothes were in tatters and her hair was slightly burned, while her hand was bleeding it was already healing.
"Your punishment was to be sent to earth until your time on it ends"
"Then let's end it now, and as punishment for humiliating us as you have you will lose your position as a goddess on earth and I will take over it"
Adrestia looked into Aqua's eyes, and showed her what she planned to do, Aqua couldn't move or a thing as her mother's powers completely overwhelmed her, it wasn't that her mother was a lot more powerful than her at the moment.
Far from it, her mother was on equal grounds to her, unfortunately, Aqua knew that her mother's experience with her powers completely dwarfed her own.
"Kazuma," Aqua thought to herself as she saw her mothers and aiming at her heart.
"Teleport" Kazuma screamed as he ran towards Aqua and graved her.
The two of them found themselves inside the throne room of the Goddes Eris, unfortunately for them, Adrestia had been brought along with them and she was still holding onto Aquas throat.
She was a second away from killing Aqua when her hand froze, something greater had taken control of the goddess.
Aqua and Kazuma found themselves standing inside of their apartment and the two of them hugged each other, neither of them knew what had happened they just knew that some miracle had happened and they were both alive.
Emilia and Maou began to repair the apartment erased the memories of the people who had seen everything.
In the realm of the gods, Adrstia smiled, her human form had been destroyed, but she now understood why her daughter chose Kazuma out of every human male on the planet.
She was now forced to wait until she could go back to earth again, she now had another plan, Aqua needed to be punished of that there was little doubt, but there are different forms of punishment.
She began to laugh even as the chains were placed on her and her throne room was locked behind the angels that had been ordered to keep watch over her.
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Yukino opened her eyes and she was surprised to see Hachiman's worried face looking down at her, she quickly got up and she was shocked to see that a lot of people were standing around her.
"Hey," Hachiman said to her, as the lights of ambulances shined behind him
"I told you, we're fine she heard Kazuma say to someone and she found him along with a man she had never seen before, Kazuma was having his hand bandaged, while the man had his entire head wrapped.
"So you don't know who broke into your apartment?" the police officer that was speaking to Kazuma asked him
"No" Aqua answered the man, but her eyes looked past the police officer and met the eyes of a large man who was wearing a white shirt.
The man closed his eyes, lowered his head, and walked away.
"Hey," Kazuma said to Hachiman as the two met each other's eyes.
"What happened," Hachiman asked Kazuma with a worried voice.
"Not much someone broke into our apartment, but Maou and I took care of it, Yukino was knocked out during the incident so we had to carry her down here"
"I guess the neighbors heard everything and called the police," Kazuma said to Hachiman.
"So are the two of you, staying here," Hachiman asked Kazuma his voice was now filled with concern for the two's safety.
"Don't worry about it, well be fine" Kazuma said to Hachima, but he stopped smiling when aqua gave him a slight shove.
"Hey Hachiman," Kazuma said to Hachiman before grabbing his hand and pulling him closer.
"Can you let Yukino stay over for a couple of days while we deal with everything?" he said to Hachiman.