Kazuma watched as the people around him walked around doing their morning routine, this world was similar to his earth, but it was different, here monsters were running around at night, and for some reason, he could swear that the world itself was rejecting him.
A few hours ago the sun had gone up and people had begun to walk around, but either no one noticed or just plain ignored everything that had happened last night, the attacks from the giant weren't quiet and every time it attacks it screamed, so someone must have called the police, but no police ad showed up near the area at all.
"Hey Aqua can you hear me," he called to his old friend, but no one answered him, for a brief moment he considered calling one of the other goddesses but, if Aqua didn't answer him, there was no way the others could.
He reached into his pocket and took out seven silver coins, he had at least ten gold coins left, but this was it, this was all the money he had.
He began to walk around, there had to a pawnshops or jewelry store somewhere, hell he didn't care if they underpaid him for one of the coins, just as long as he could both buy food and pay for a place to stay.
A puls of energy caught his attention as he passed by a highschool. it wasn't his problem so he decided to ignore it, but then the image of Megumin forced him to stop walking.
For a brief moment, he imagined her, pulling on his arm as she dragged him into the school to investigate what was going on, it didn't matter that the two of them were hungry and hadn't slept at all, to her this would be just another adventure.
BHe stood at the entrance of the high school and looked at it, before going to that other world, he had been so caught up in pointless things that he never went to his.
The students passed by him as he stood outside of the school, his green tracksuit, sticking out, from amongst the student's brown shirts and back pants, or black skirts that seemed to be this schools uniform.
It was better if no one saw him so he activated his Lurk Skill when no one passed him anymore and everyone had their backs turned to him and he walked into the school.
The moment he set foot into the school's grounds, he felt something pull at him like if invisible strings were trying to drain away his energy, it was a weaker version of his drain touch, but somehow Kazuma knew that this could be maintained for a long time.
His drain touch forced a person to be in contact with their target and it had limited range, whatever this was, it was being controlled by someone far away, they had to be, otherwise, there was no point in making something like this.
He began to walk around the school, looking for anything that might catch his attention, but none of his skills activated, the school seemed normal, students went to class ran around when the bell rang and went to whatever class was next, he as about to give up when he noticed that the wall next to him was pulling at him.
No wonder none of his skills had activated, there was no way they could have, someone had placed magic circles all over the place and hid them so no one could find them.
Unfortunately, he didn't have any way of removing the magic corcle, except for his drain touch, but that meant putting his energy against something that has been taking energy from the school, and Kazuma guessed everyone inside the school too, meaning that collectively every student and teacher here was a possible enemy.
There was nothing he could do here, the only thing he could do, was found who put up whatever this was and get them to remove it, but he didn't have a clue as to who it had been.
So he decided to walk away and leave the school alone.
He soon found himself walking down the street again looking for a place that could help him exchange the money from the other world to money from this world.
He didn't have to, but, in all honesty, Kazuma didn't want to steal food and sleep in places he hadn't paid for, that just brought unnecessary problems.
Finally, he found a pawnshop, and to his surprise he immediately found himself holding nine hundred thousand dollars in his hands, he put the money in his pocket and began to look for a restaurant.
He stopped when he found a liquor store and remembered the headache that was with him the entire time, back then...back then he just wanted to get rid of her, now he's trying to figure out a way to be with her again.
"Kazuma!" A voice screamed inside his head.
"Aqua is that you?" Kazuma asked the voice, not caring about the fact that the people that saw him would only see him talking to himself.
"Kazuma, listen I don't have much time, you have to win or be one of the last ones so you can come back!" Aqua screamed to him before her voice completely vanished.
Something like this had happened before, Aqua had broken heavens rules to help him before, she had allowed him to revive a lot of times and now she had told him how to get back to her, back to them, but she didn't tell him, who he had to beat or what he had to win.
In heaven the gods watched and amongst them, four goddesses, sat around a table eating snacks and watching the events unfold, each one of them had placed their bets and on how long Kazua would stay alive, surprisingly none of them believed he would make it to the end, none of them except for Aqua who bet that he would either be one of the last two standing, or would win.
The prise, Kazuma would be able to return to the point in time when he defeated the demon king and return to everyone's side.
The ruler of the gods had heard their bet and acknowledged it, he had seen Kazuma grow and learn, plus the kid amused him, so he allowed the bet to happen, after all, it wasn't normal for a mortal to have not one but four goddesses watching over him
