Chapter 4

Another Lemon chapter!

a bit fluff for Megumin too.

I suck in writing romance, I have to admit it.

And that lemon part too, I had to revise it several times after I played some eroge lol.

It was a bit later after the defeat of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer. News of the Sword Prince defeating the Mobile Fortress all alone was quickly spreading like fire. The rumor had mentioned that while mages slowed down the Mobile Fortress' movements, the Sword Prince summoned a sword larger than the Destroyer itself, not only one, but he summoned two of it in that one battle.

Another rumor also mentioned that the Sword Prince showed up suddenly in the Royal Capital when the devil Vanir was about to raid it in the evening. The devil mentioned was promptly killed with a single sword that caused an explosion much more destructive than any of detonation and explosion magic ever recorded in history.

Defeating the Destroyer was the third biggest achievement the Sword Prince managed to achieve after killing Beldia and Vanir. Some on humanity's side weren't so happy with the news since they were secretly working with the Demon King to win this war. Therefore, one of them decided to make a move at that time. They would do anything to prevent the so-called Sword Prince from defeating another General before winning the war.

Unbeknownst to the adventurer, one of the nobles who had been enslaving a devil near the Town of Axel decided to make his move on this chance.

"Vanir was killed you say?" A voice rang inside a throne room.

"Y-yes, my King. It happened on the evening when he went to the royal capital to demoralize the kingdom." answered the woman kneeling on one knee.

"Hm...curious... First, Beldia near the town of Axel, and now Vanir at the royal capital...that Vanir who was supposed to be even better than me..."

All of the sudden, the door leading to the throne room was slammed open.

"M-My Demon King!"

The Demon King stood up from his seat, alarmed by his panicking General.

"What is it Sylvia? It is rare for you to be like this."

The woman called Sylvia immediately kneeled next to the woman dressed like a priest before their king.

"It's related to one of the problems that we had been cautious of, the Destroyer."

The Demon King arched a brow at his General. "What of it? Don't tell me that it's heading here now?"

"N-no, my king..."

"Then what is it? Hurry and out with it."

Sylvia gulped. "The Destroyer had been defeated by the one who killed Beldia a few days ago."

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"...say it again?"

"The Destroyer was defeated by the one who killed Beldia, the one who was called the Sword Prince."

"...and when did this happen?"

"This afternoon, my King."

The Demon King fell back to his seat and sighed exhaustedly.

"After Vanir, then it's the Destroyer...a magnificent achievement one after another...in a short time too..."

Sylvia raised her head to look up at the Demon King.

"W-what was it about Vanir?"

"...he was killed by the Sword Prince the night he went to demoralize the Kingdom of Belzerg."

Sylvia's jaw dropped at that before the king sighed again.

"For now, Sylvia, head to the meddlesome Crimson Demon's village and raze it down to the ground...since you have high magic resistance, I'm sure you would be fine against those Crimson Demons..."

"Y-Yes, My King!" Sylvia stood up and left the throne room quickly.

"As for you, Seresdina... how is my daughter at the frontline?" the demon king turned to the other General who was still on her knee.

"She is doing fine and we've been making quite progress in our quest."

The Demon King nodded. "What about Hans and Wolbach?"

"Yesterday, I heard they were heading to Alcanretia."

"...the town of the Axis cult... they are quite a meddlesome even if they were only normal folks..."

"I agree..."

The Demon King sighed.

"Then, I order you to relay the news about Beldia and Vanir's death to my daughter...after that, you'll be heading to the town of Axel to gather information about this Sword Prince... be wary of him and do not kill him without my instruction...try to have him under your 'control' instead... he'll be much more of use then."

"Yes, My King."

Seresdina then stood up before casting Teleport magic to go where the daughter was.

After she left, the Demon King sagged lifelessly on his seat.

"Maybe I really should just retire from my position... I can't see any way to defeat someone who could kill Vanir and the Destroyer so easily..."

The Demon King mused, unaware of Sylvia's impending failure. Even while she possessed amazing magic resistance against the Crimson Demons, the same could not be said for her followers.

-Town of Axel-

Much later in the afternoon, after Kazuma and Shirou gave out detailed findings and information on what they did to the Destroyer, the two were now standing in an alley, facing a door with a board saying 'Succubus Cafe' written on it.

The girls weren't there when they made the report, Darkness had left a message to Luna saying that she had something important to do while Aqua had not returned from the Axis church. As for Megumin and Yunyun, the two were definitely still on top of the city wall.

Therefore, it was the only chance they had to visit the store.

The two swallowed before they nodded at each other and pushed the door.

"Welcome! Moi have been waiting for the two of you!"

A devil in a mask greeted the two with open arms before Shirou and Kazuma closed the door and checked the nameplate again.

"Definitely Succubus Café…but why is that devil here?"

Kazuma rubbed his chin.

Shirou didn't say anything and pushed the door again, making sure that they were not hallucinating.

"This place is indeed the Succubus Café you two were looking for, it was just a sheer coincidence that Moi was here when you two come here."

"Uh-huh…"

"Fufufufu! What a nice emotion you let out there, virgin boy!"

"Oi! You don't need to say it that loud! Besides, Shirou here too is a virgin even if Wiz had kissed him and has a hickey on his neck!"

"What are you saying boy? Your friend over here is definitely not a virgin."

"Huh?!" Kazuma turned to the redhead who was scratching his cheek and looking away.

"This boy was literally raped by his girlfriends nights after nights back in his old world, a pretty sad story, don't you agree?"

"Dude...i-is that true?" Kazuma stared at his partner.

"Well, kind of…" the redhead sighed. "Anyway, can we get in now, Vanir?"

"Of course! Let Moi excuse Moiself! Do enjoy the view! Fuhahahahahaha!"

The devil then walked past the two youngsters toward the exit.

"So… I guess here we are?" Kazuma nervously swallowed.

Shirou nodded and the two pushed the 2nd door.

What awaited them behind the door were women walking here and there carrying a tray of drinks to small booths where male customers were writing something.

The best part of this store was, the succubus wore very revealing lingerie, only covering the important bits of their bodies.

"Holy shit…" Kazuma muttered out as his eyes darted here and there, leering at the mature-looking onee-sans and a petite succubus.

Shirou didn't say anything, but as a man, he couldn't help but be excited at the view in front of him. Sure back at his home, Rider wore skimpy outfits, but the succubus was more daring than the former.

They swallowed hard until a Succubus Receptionist came to greet the two.

"Ara~ are you two new here? Welcome~ to the Succubus Café~"

The woman with long pink hair, cyan eyes, and pointy ears said with a very seductive gesture as she pushed her boobs up with hands under them.

Unbeknownst to the two of them, the succubus in the café were secretly stealing glances at Shirou after they heard their senior greeting more guests.

Kazuma and Shirou nodded repeatedly at the Succubus Woman.

"I see~ do you know who we are and what kind of business we run?~"

The woman asked again with a sultry tone, her hands moving sensually around her slender body.

The two young men nodded readily.

"Then, please fill out the questionnaire and hand it back to us~"

The succubus handed out a piece of paper to Kazuma after she guided the two to a small table.

"What's this for…?" Kazuma asked skeptically.

"Ah~ it's about what kind of dream you want to have~ you can determine your gender, job, and more~ You can become a king, a hero, a woman, or anything. It's only a dream after all~"

As the succubus explained, her hands groped her boobs and pushed them up as if to lick them.

Kazuma and Shirou gulped as they saw how sexual the gesture was. While the two's faces were bright red, only the former had a lecherous face plastered since they entered the café while the latter tried to stay calm as much as possible.

"After you filled them out, we'll create your dream based on what is written there, do you know that some men want to be boys and get pushed down by a strong woman?~"

The woman continued as she made a small grabbing motion with her hand and put it in front of her mouth, moving it up and down as she made an "o" face.

Kazuma's last line of sanity broke off at that time and began to write the preferences he wanted to.

"Um…" Shirou raised his hand. "What about my form to fill?"

The Succubus's eyes glow at that time before she turned to Shirou seductively. Her fingers went to the redhead's chin.

"As for you, dear customer, would you please…come with me for a while to a 'private' room?"

Shirou gave the Succubus a suspicious brow lift as if to interrogate her. Then the cogs in his brain started to turn.

It was most obviously not a coincidence that Vanir was present when he made the decision to stop by the shop. The redhead found it unsettling that the Succubus was also sneaking glances at him.

He knew those eyes, the same eyes his girlfriends always gave him every night, the eyes of a predator ready to jump their prey.

"No, I don't want to."

The redhead declined, surprising the Succubi serving them and the other guests who heard the receptionist's offer.

"Ara?" the receptionist succubi' eyes began to glow again. "I 'implore' you to come with me to the private room, dear customer~"

The woman and Shirou looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds.

"No, thanks, and please stop whatever you're doing before I do anything unsavory to this place."

The redhead smiled and the Succubi winced at his threat.

"O-oi, Shirou! What the hell are you saying?" Kazuma called out. "Everyone's looking in our direction now…"

"You can ask this woman why is she trying to charm me ever since she was done handing the form to you, Kazuma." Shirou looked at his friend before he turned back to the succubus. "And here I thought it was quid pro quo. I had a high hope too with this place after what Kazuma told me."

The redhead sighed.

"Tell me, woman, what do you plan on doing by trying to charm me?"

All the guests too stopped their writing and began to talk among themselves.

"T-the onee-san was trying to charm the Sword Prince?!"

"T-this is the first time this ever happen right!? For a succubus to charm a man?!"

"Don't you think it's bad for us to be here? I mean…sure, we should protect this place if a breakout ever happens… but since this time it's succubus onee-san's fault for trying to charm the Sword Prince…"

"Shit…please don't let anything bad happen to our only paradise!"

"…anyone want to come up and beat that Sword Prince?"

"Hell no man, I'll cheer for you if you want though…"

Seeing there was no response coming out from the succubus who was looking pale, Shirou decided to turn to the exit.

"I'll be waiting outside, Kazuma."

Kazuma anxiously nodded at his friend before Shirou began to walk toward the door passing the Succubus standing in his way until a voice called out.

"Dear customer."

Shirou glanced at the familiar voice.

"I knew this had something to do with you…" the redhead sighed. "What do you want?" Shirou crossed his arms.

"Oh, no need to be so hostile to Moi." The devil smirked. "Moi only want to provide some gift by having the succubus 'pleasure' thou. However, it looks like it backfired."

"I only come here to have the service they provide through dreams, not the real act."

"Hmph. Yes, it looks like Moi made a mistake and thought thou are the same as the monkey over there."

"Oi!" Kazuma yelled.

"However, Moi didn't order them to charm you. It was all their volition to do that, therefore, Moi hope you can forgive what they did."

Seeing the higher-ranking devil bow to the redhead surprised all the succubus in the store. A high-rank devil would never lower their heads to humans unless they were heavily indebted to them.

The succubus then began to follow what Vanir did and bowed apologetically at Shirou.

"Fine. If that's all, then I'll be leaving."

"Oya? Didn't you come here to enjoy the service, boy?"

"Not anymore, my mood plummeted when I found out a devil trying to charm me, and you can imagine if that devil tries to use my power to go to the Demon King's side."

Everyone in the room shuddered at what the redhead said. There was truth in what he had said, if the succubus intended to use his power, he could easily wipe the whole town if the charmer wanted to.

"Kukukuh. You're not wrong about that, boy." Vanir nodded. "Very well, I'll see you back at the store then."

Shirou waved his hand before he exited the door, disappointing the succubus who looked crestfallen.

"My, my, my. You girls just made Moi looks bad in front of the one Moi indebted to." Vanir said with no tone behind his voice. "Moi did tell you about the boy, but Moi never said to charm him. Disappointing."

With that said, Vanir disappeared from the room and the succubus was left with a heavy atmosphere. Even the guests decided to leave for today including Kazuma who had left earlier with Shirou.

On that night, no dreams were given to the one who had submitted the form since the succubus didn't feel like working after the only high-ranking devil manifested in this world berated them.

Outside the store, a wailing could be heard in the small alley.

It was said that the young man making that voice was groveling on the ground alongside another figure beside him.

"GODDAAAAAAAAAMMMMIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT! I SHOULD HAVE KILLED THAT DEVIL IN THE MASK!"

No one knew whom the voice was referring to, perhaps only the succubus workers knew who the voice meant.

BAD END for the Succubus and our MCs.

RESTART?

Kazuma and Shirou swallowed before they nodded at each other and pushed the door. What awaits them was not the cafe, but a small lounge with another door at the end of it.

"T-they sure do love to tease eh?" Kazuma said nervously. He had steeled his heart when he opened the door, only to find another door to open after that.

"Well, that's what makes it worth it right?"

The two then approached the second door before Kazuma inhaled and nodded at Shirou.

They pushed the door open.

And in front of them, waited a woman with pink hair, cyan eyes, and pointy ears. The woman in front of them was definitely a succubus since there was no way they could have tits that huge with no excessive fats in that slender body.

The woman wore a very revealing outfit, almost similar to lingerie, but more skimpy and only covered the most important bits of her body.

"Ara~ Dear Customers, welcome~ is this the first time you two to be here?~"

The woman asked with a sultry tone and sensual gesture as she leaned forward at the two young men.

There was no response from the two, Kazuma was absorbed by the woman's boobs that were threatening to jump out from her so-called bra and Shirou was looking around the place, especially at the other Succubus. The sweet feeling they gave out was too alluring. He also noticed several guests were writing something in small booths.

The succubus giggled sweetly at the two young men before addressing Kazuma.

"My~ dear customer, my eyes are up here, you know~"

"Y-Yes! Sorry for staring, ma'am!"

Kazuma stood up straight immediately, but it was a mistake since now the bulge in his pants was visible to the woman in front of him. Kazuma quickly bent his body a little to hide his little brother.

"My~ it seems someone is raring to go~ but please, wait until the night comes, okay?~"

The woman whispered sweetly in Kazuma's ear, making him blush furiously.

Satisfied with toying with the green-cape adventurer, the succubus winked at the red and black-attired adventurer before she urged the two to follow her to a small table.

"Do you know who we are and what kind of business we run?~"

The woman asked again with a sultry tone, her hands moving sensually around her slender body.

The two young men nodded readily.

"Then, please fill out the questionnaire and hand it back to us~"

The succubus handed out a piece of paper to Kazuma and Shirou.

"What's this for…?" Kazuma asked skeptically.

"Ah~ it's about what kind of dream you want to have~ you can determine your gender, job, and more~ You can become a king, a hero, a woman, or anything. It's only a dream after all~"

As the succubus explained, her hands groped her own boobs and pushed them up as if to lick them.

Kazuma and Shirou gulped as they saw how sexual the gesture was. While the two's faces were bright red, only the former had a lecherous face plastered since they entered the café while the latter tried to stay calm as much as possible.

"We can make dreams based on your preference after that. For example, some of our guests want to become a boy and get pushed down by a strong woman~"

Shirou shuddered at what the woman said, inviting the two's attention.

"What's wrong Shirou? Your face suddenly went pale there."

"No…I just had bad memories of being pushed down by strong women…"

"What? Isn't that the best thing? You just lay down and let the women eat you~" Kazuma said with drool on his lips.

"Not if they gang-rape you every day, Kazuma…"

"H-huh?"

"Nothing, forget what I said."

"A-Ara~ it looks like the Sword Prince had some bad memories with strong women huh~"

The succubus sweatdropped at the sudden revelation by the redhead.

"I don't mind strong women, but being forced to do that by 4 women every day dried me up…" Shirou laughed nervously.

"F-four women!? You had four girlfriends back at home!?" Kazuma yelled out, surprising the other guests. He immediately sat back down after being stared at by the others.

"Don't worry dear customer, as I said before, we can make a dream based on your preferences with no limitation~"

Shirou raised a hand.

"What about a dream featuring a divine entity?"

"Uhm…I'm sorry, but for Gods and alike, we are not able to do that since they will immediately find out about it..."

The succubus bowed deeply at the redhead.

"A goddess? Don't tell me you're going for Aqua?" Kazuma grinned as he filled out his form.

"Nope, I'm going for Eris-sama." Shirou grinned back at the surprised adventurer before asking. "Who are you aiming for?"

"No one specific, but she has to be an onee-san type, kind, a bit perverted is good, but big tits is a must~"

"What about Darkness?"

Kazuma deadpanned at his partner.

"Dude…you're ruining the mood here… she's not a bit perverted, but a super pervert… can't you see that my little Kazuma here shrinks down instantly because of what you just said!?" Kazuma pointed at his pants.

"Sorry, sorry, I thought you'd be fine with Darkness since she had everything in all your preferences." The redhead chuckled.

Kazuma pondered a bit. Shirou wasn't wrong, Darkness had shown that she cared about her friends including the people of this town when Destroyer came.

Maybe, if she could tone down her fetish, she would be an ideal one.

"You know, I guess you're right." Kazuma sneered. "Tone her fetish down a bit and I'm gonna have so much fun tonight~"

"Just don't forget to differentiate dreams and reality, Kazuma. If you incidentally did anything perverted to Lalatina in reality, you might be beheaded—no, scratch that, I'm sure Darkness will love it."

"…dude…don't tempt me to try it…"

"…I won't help you if you get arrested for doing a perverted act…"

"You're the one who gave me the idea…"

"…I guess, I did huh?"

Kazuma nodded, and before long, he had finished writing his form and Shirou managed to find a loophole to have a dream about the Goddess he favored.

The two gave the forms back to the Succubus and after a while, the woman nodded at Shirou's request prompting him to raise a fist in a victory pose.

"Then, please wait until night when our attendant come to you~ oh, and please do not consume any alcohol since if you're too drunk, you can't get our dreams~"

"Got it~" Kazuma answered excitedly.

"Right, before we leave, do you have a name for us to use to call you?" Shirou asked.

"We succubus do have names, but our real names couldn't be uttered in human tongue, therefore you may call me Allysa~"

The two nodded and they finally left the store.

Back at the guild, Kazuma and Shirou saw Megumin sitting by herself with no sign of Yunyun, Aqua, or Darkness. The former could have returned to Wiz's store while the latter two were still busy with whatever they were doing.

It was already quite late in the afternoon when Kazuma and Shirou finished their business. The two then joined Megumin at her table. At first, Shirou sat next to Kazuma, but the latter pushed him off the seat and told him to sit next to Megumin.

"So, what are we going to do now? We don't know if Darkness will be returning here since she had been quite busy after we defeated the Destroyer…and Aqua is still at the Axis Church, probably…"

Kazuma said as he ordered alcoholic drinks while Shirou ordered himself an orange juice, the same as Megumin.

"Hm, what about we have Shirou here tell us about Vanir and Wiz? He did promise to tell us about it when everything's over."

Megumin suggested as she drank her juice.

"Oh, right. Can you tell us about the two?"

"Sure, for Wiz, she said that she was in the ranks to make sure the barrier around the castle stays up as I told you before. She doesn't have any bounty on her head or anything since people knew her as the famous adventurer, 'Ice Witch'."

"Ice witch, I heard her title several times before. It was said that she was very competitive and strong-willed unlike now."

Megumin mused.

"I met her the day when we first rented the room at the inn which I hadn't had the chance to sleep in yet." Shirou chuckled.

"Wait, what?! Where did you sleep then?" Kazuma asked.

"I'll get to that part soon." Shirou made a small laugh before continuing. "That night, I had something to do with Luna, and after I escorted her back to her home—"

"WAIT!" Kazuma cried out." Luna? Our blonde receptionist over there!?" He pointed with his eyes and Shirou turned to see the woman waving at them. He waved back at the blonde woman.

Megumin however, wasn't happy about it. The redhead didn't mention Luna in the morning when they had breakfast together. She pinched the redhead's left arm after that, getting a small yelp from Shirou.

"Dude, you work fast…"

Shirou furrowed his brows at his partner.

"Anyway! After I escorted Luna, I ended up near a cemetery and that's when I saw Wiz sending the souls of the dead to the afterlife. The feeling he gave out was really strong for me not to notice, that's—"

This time, Megumin was the one who stopped him.

"Feeling? What do you mean by feeling? Are you saying that your feeling for her is too strong that you can feel her nearby even though you didn't know her at that time?"

Kazuma and Shirou moved farther from the girl who was muttering darkly.

"N-no, no, it's not like that!" Shirou reassured Megumin. "It's just, how do I explain it I wonder…" Shirou scratched his cheek and at the same time, their drinks come to their table.

After taking a sip, he began to explain to Megumin and Kazuma.

"I can't really explain it clearly, but to simplify it, I'm very sensitive to disturbance and abnormalities in the air, a very strong one if I have to say…"

"What do you mean?" Megumin asked again.

"Hmm, for example, when Wiz guided those souls to the afterlife using her magic, the feeling that I got, or let's just call it a smell, for now, it was rotten flesh combined with something sweet."

"…You're kidding right?" Kazuma asked.

"No, for another example, Megumin gave me this smell of smog and fire with a little bit of Christmas and Easter."

"Christmas and Easter?" Megumin repeated while tilting her head to the side cutesy.

"That means, something indefinable, dear Megumin." The redhead smiled. " I don't know either, but that was the feeling you gave out."

"O-oh…" Megumin then smelled herself.

"It's not a smell, so you don't have to worry about your—"

Megumin smacked the redhead's head before he finished what he was about to say.

"Hey, hey, Shirou, what about the Onee-san?" Kazuma whispered with a grin.

"Ether, a very strong, intoxicating, and narcotic scent."

"Is it that bad or…"

"It doesn't really affect your mind or anything, but can you imagine if you smell something too sweet and you get lightheaded? It's almost the same."

"What are you talking about?" Megumin asked.

"N-nothing…" Kazuma coughed. "Now, back to Wiz, why did you say that she gave you a rotten flesh feeling?"

"Because she's a Lich."

"Huh?" Megumin and Kazuma blinked.

"Yup, a very strong one to boot. Luckily she told me that she doesn't have any intention to do any harm to Axel or I might have accidentally killed her…"

"…dude… I don't know whether you're cursed or what to meet powerful things in this Town of beginning…"

"I know right…"

"W-wait Shirou…are you saying that Wiz is not a human?" Megumin whispered closely.

"Yup, Vanir told me that he taught Wiz the way to become a Lich for her to defeat Beldia and had the Dullahan remove the curse from her friends…"

"So…she threw away her human body to save her friends from a curse huh…"

The trio went silent at that.

"She's a good woman, you don't need to be wary of her…although the magic tools she sells were kind of dangerous because of the drawbacks…"

"That staff you got for Megumin is from Wiz too right? Are you sure it's not dangerous?"

Kazuma pointed at the manatite staff leaning on the wall beside Megumin.

"No, I had made sure with Wiz that it doesn't have any drawbacks. And even if there is, do you think I'll give Megumin such a dangerous thing?"

The Arch Wizard looked down sheepishly at her drink from hearing Shirou's statement.

"So, what are the other things that you bought from Wiz?"

"A portable magic stove so that I can cook everywhere. It doesn't use oil anything to turn on."

"And the drawbacks?"

"It attracts monsters on the same level of Rookie Killers and One Shot Bears immediately."

"…are you nuts!?"

Shirou raised a hand.

"Listen, I can seal their movements, then have you all hit them once before either I or Megumin killed them."

Kazuma blinked wondrously.

"Wow…" Kazuma stared at his friend with his jaw half-dropped. "I forget that you can do that…"

The redhead shrugged.

"Moving on, at the night we got to know each other and talked for a few hours, and after Wiz was done with the routine she did, I had her lead me back to the guild since I didn't remember the way I came from. It was pretty late at night and she offered me to sleep in her house since I didn't know where our inn was." The redhead ended with a dry laugh.

"You met a hot woman and managed to sleep in her house only after a few hours you knew each other…" Kazuma then held the redhead's hand with his own. "Please, master! Teach me how to do that!"

"I'm pretty sure it's not something that I can teach you, Kazuma… I just talked normally and the flow goes on…" the redhead deadpanned at his fellow Japanese.

"I believe if I met Shirou at that time, I probably would let him sleep in my house too." Megumin chipped in before the two young men turned at her. "Shirou…gives this feeling that he can be trusted you know…he is really kind…attentive…and…has a very lovable side to him…"

The three went silent at Megumin's indirect confession for the redhead. The redhead however didn't seem to notice and gave her a quick pat on the head, saying.

"Thanks, Megumin."

Kazuma deadpanned at the two before the redhead opened his mouth again.

"Then, moving on to Vanir, I don't think I have anything else to say regarding the devil. He told me he wanted to retire and I helped him escape by playing pretend with the devil."

"What do you mean by play pretend?" Megumin asked, a bit confused about Shirou's explanation.

"Well when I cornered him, I pretended to fall for his mental attack. Then, when he started to leave, I hit him with one of my swords."

The redhead made a wry laugh.

"…I hope you don't intend to let every other general you meet stay alive, Shirou…" Kazuma added.

"Of course not. Besides I don't plan on encountering any more generals right now… 3 was already enough, not including the Destroyer…" the redhead face-planted on the table.

"Somehow...I'm getting a feeling you're setting a flag for yourself right now..." Kazuma muttered.

Megumin who saw Shirou acted like that couldn't help but move her hand to pat his head.

"I guess it's been a rough three days for you huh… You did well…" Megumin said with a flustered look as she patted him.

"…" Kazuma deadpanned at the two again. "Want me to rent a room for you two?"

Megumin threw Shirou's bag to Kazuma's face.

"Speaking of which…" Shirou began tiredly. "If one-day Aqua-sama meets Vanir or Wiz, either of you needs to stop her from attacking them since it seems Goddesses despise them…"

Megumin and Kazuma nodded at him.

"And speaking of which again… should we get Aqua-sama? I need to go to Wiz's store to pick up my portable stove and probably cook there."

"Hmm… I think it's better that we leave that stupid Goddess for now since if what you said just now was true, we won't be able to eat in peace…"

"I also have something to say to Wiz…"

Megumin muttered darkly as the two young men went pale from seeing the girl's dark look.

With that, Shirou nodded before picking up his bag and heading to the receptionist to make a withdrawal to pay Wiz.

Since Luna was busy attending to other adventurers, he settled with another receptionist who was free. He still gave Luna a wave before the trio left the guild though.

Before they made their way to Wiz's store, the three had made a stop at the grocery store in the market area. Kazuma had told Shirou to make something meaty and he suggested sukiyaki for dinner and the redhead agreed to it. Megumin didn't know what Sukiyaki was, but she was very eager to eat whatever Shirou made for her.

In her mind, there was one thing that she hoped for right now. She hoped that they bought the mansion so that Shirou and her can cook together.

Arriving at Wiz's store, the shopkeeper's face turned bright red when she saw Shirou smiling at her. Megumin wasn't happy seeing that and pouted at the Lich. She immediately pulled Wiz into her room while Kazuma and Shirou could only blink at the two women.

The two young men decided to ignore it and headed for the kitchen as soon as they made sure the front door was locked.

"You are so dead, dude…" Kazuma muttered as he washed the vegetables in the sink.

"You're being too pessimistic, I'm sure it isn't anything related to me they're discussing now." The redhead answered while he cut meat thinly at a very fast pace.

Kazuma sighed at his hyper-dense friend while being awed at how fast his hands were in cutting the meat into thin pieces.

"No, you're the one who's being too optimistic here, Shirou… I'm sure they're discussing you right now…"

The redhead shrugged before he proceeded to cook while Kazuma paid attention from his side.

-Wiz's POV-

I wonder if Megumin-san wants to inquire about the kiss this afternoon.

I peeked at the young girl who had her arms crossed as she fumed at me.

There was around a minute she glared at me and didn't say anything.

As the older one, I decided to open my mouth first and get to the point directly.

"I like Shirou."

… No, that was not me who said that.

I looked up at the girl whose face was as red as her eyes.

"I like him ever since the day I met him."

Somehow, I can feel something inside me tighten when I hear her repeating those words and before I realize it, I have spoken what I feel about Shirou.

"I like him too."

Megumin faltered when she heard me but she quickly regained her composure before looking me in the eyes.

"I like him ever since I met him that night."

After a few seconds of staring at each other, we let out a small laugh at the same time.

"I guess it's a given if he's that kind huh…"

"Yes, and the worst thing has yet to come according to Vanir-san."

I supplied to Megumin as we began to relax.

"What do you mean?"

"Vanir-san told me that in the future, there's a possibility, someone, in a high-ranking status, perhaps a noble or royalty try to claim Shirou for themselves."

Megumin shot up from her seat after she heard me say that.

"W-What?!"

"That's the reason I was being bold this afternoon…" I fiddled with my hair as I averted my eyes from Megumin's glare.

"Shirou told me what you did to him this morning."

I looked up at Megumin urgently.

"Don't blame it on him, I was the one who pushed him to tell me the real story behind the hickey you left on his neck."

I-I-I did that to him!? O-oh, dear!

"Wiz…"

I looked at Megumin who was fidgeting now as she fiddled with her fingers in a cutesy way.

"I-I'm fine with sharing Shirou with you…"

H-Huh? I tugged my hair behind my ears and then I had Megumin repeat it one more time. I might have mistaken it in the first place, but I think I hear Megumin saying that she's fine sharing Shirou with me…

"I said I'm fine sharing Shirou with you!"

Megumin covered her face with her hat after she said that.

Looks like I didn't hear wrong. But what's with her being fine with sharing Shirou with me?

That should be my line, you know? But well, since she's fine with me, then I also have no qualms with her.

Right, maybe I should bring this up with her while we are talking about this matter.

"Um, Megumin…"

"…Yes?"

"What about Yunyun?"

It was just as I thought. Megumin froze when I mentioned Yunyun's name.

I know the two are rivals, but in this matter, if she's fine sharing Shirou with me, then she should be fine sharing him with Yunyun too, right?

"Yunyun huh…" Megumin sighed as the name came out of her small lips. "A-Are you sure that she…a-also has feelings for Shirou?"

"Um…isn't it as clear as a day already, Megumin?"

I mean…she doesn't even hide it. Even just now when we met her before finding the three of you, she was all bubbly when I asked about the new clothes.

"Uh…fine then…I guess I can tolerate Yunyun…"

I clapped my hands altogether.

"Thank you, Megumin." I said to the confused Crimson Demon girl. "I thought you would be angry with me for liking Shirou…ehehe…"

"D-Don't thank me yet! I-I mean! We don't even know if Shirou would accept us! We don't know if he's fine with multiple g-g-g-girlfriends…"

"Don't worry~" I reassured the girl. "As Vanir-san said, we can just assault Shirou if push comes to shove." I pumped my fists in the air when I said that, making the young girl in front of me blush pretty hard.

"A-A-Assault him?! D-D-D-don't you think it's a bit too fast!? H-H-He even still thinks of me as a little girl…no wait! Why I'm following you! Are you not afraid that Shirou will reject us?!"

"Fufufu, don't worry. If Shirou doesn't like me, do you think I would be able to do that to him this morning?"

The girl seemed to be astonished by what I had just said.

"W-W-Wiz… d-d-do you think…he will want me?"

"Of course he will, you are cute Megumin." I giggled at the suddenly pessimistic girl. "Tell me, did he ever tell you cute or something like that?"

Megumin blushed before she answered me.

"T-There were several times… he did tell me that…and I think he did it unconsciously… not like when other guys flirted on purpose…"

"That settles it then!"

"And… h-h-he also got hard…when I teased him…"

I quirked a brow at what the girl had just said.

"W-W-what did you do to him?" I asked, a little curious at what this small girl did to get a reaction from Shirou.

"T-The same thing that you did to him…I-I hugged him from behind…then grope his buttcheek…before moving my hand to the front…"

Seriously? This girl did something that bold while I did it half-asleep?

"Then…I guess we're even now, right?"

I asked her and Megumin nodded sheepishly back to me.

After finishing the discussion, we decided to ask Yunyun later on when she came back to visit us. I wonder what her reaction would be since she is a little bit shy.

Hopefully, it's what we hope for.

-3rd Person POV-

Kazuma and Shirou turned at the sound of a door being opened and found Megumin and Wiz coming out from the latter's bedroom.

"Did you two finish your talk?" Shirou asked while watching over the fire to make sure that he didn't boil it too long.

"Yes!" Wiz replied energetically while Megumin just looked abashed while nodding at the redhead. "If I could say, it was a very enlightening moment." The Lich added before the two women took a seat around the table.

"Good to hear that then." Shirou smiled unknowingly.

"…impossible…" Kazuma muttered as he looked at Megumin and the shop owner before whipping his head to Shirou.

"Please! Teach me, master!" Kazuma bowed a full 90 degrees at the redhead.

"Huh? Teach what?" the redhead spoke out, still confused at what his friend meant by that. As far as he knew, he didn't do anything for the girls to get mad at him.

Therefore, he told him that there was nothing to teach.

Kazuma was a bit skeptical, but he could see where it was coming from when the redhead said it. Shirou had almost done nothing to the girls except for being attentive and kind while being a bit funny and perverted at the same time. Maybe what Megumin told them just now was true when she said Shirou had that kind of feeling to make people around him relax.

With the matter being pushed aside, for now, the four enjoyed their dinner, with Shirou cooking more meats when Kazuma and Megumin had fought over the last of it. Wiz didn't eat meat too much, but she enjoyed the other vegetables and ingredients.

The dinner was very enjoyable since it was the first time for the two women to eat this kind of food. Eventually, it was time for the trio to go back to their inn after the redhead washed the dishes and paid for what he owed the shop owner.

"So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning, Wiz." Shirou said at the shopkeeper who was looking a bit down.

"Right, and please take this, Shirou." Wiz took Shirou's hand before giving him a key to her house.

"K-key?" the redhead asked, a bit flabbergasted at what Wiz handed him. Even Kazuma and Megumin couldn't help but gasp at the Lich's boldness.

"Y-Yes… it's just in case when you come and I haven't woken up yet…"

"O-Oh… okay then." The redhead said after he put the key in his pocket. "Well then, Wiz, good night, make sure everything's locked before you head for the bed, okay?"

Wiz nodded happily at Shirou being attentive to her although she was the older one.

"Yes…" Wiz walked to Shirou, confusing him.

Then, she stood on her toes, her hands cupped the redhead's head, and she planted her lips on his for a passionate kiss.

"Woah…" Kazuma gulped with a red face as he saw the two making out in front of them.

"AaaaaaahH!" Megumin yelled out angrily with a red face, but she didn't do anything to separate the two.

Wiz didn't care and Shirou didn't push her either.

After a few seconds, Wiz let go of the redhead before she licked her own lips.

"Good night, Shirou." The Lich turned to Kazuma and Megumin before waving her hand at the two and got inside her store at a rather fast pace.

Still dumbfounded by what just happened, the trio could only hear the shopkeeper lock the door from the outside.

"Damn… that was hot…" Kazuma said.

Megumin meanwhile was feeling jealous at how bold Wiz could be if she put her mind to it.

"I guess it wasn't wrong when they said Wiz was very competitive..." the explosive loli muttered to no one.

"A-Anyway! Let's get back to the inn." the redhead said with a bit of red hue on his cheeks.

No one opposed him since it had been a very long day. As for Megumin, even though she didn't use her explosion magic for the day, she had wasted all those mana for nothing since the Destroyer was already defeated when she was putting all his magical energy into her explosion magic.

Meanwhile, with Eris.

"Calm down Eris...you are a Goddess here...and your job is to purify this damn harlot for trying to snatch what's yours..."

The Goddess muttered darkly after she watched what the harlot Lich did to the young man, but then she calmed down and remembered that tonight she would get a chance to visit Shirou through that pesky Succubus' dream.

"U-uhm, Eris-sama?" a feminine voice called out to the Goddess of Fortune.

"Yes, what is it, Tenshi-san?"

Eris replied with a calm voice, trying not to scare the Angel.

"I-Is there something wrong lately? You looked scary and on the edge every time you watched the living world..."

"O-oh,dear. Have I?" Eris put a hand on her lips as the Angel nodded at her. "I apologize if I do, however, please do not worry, there is nothing need to worry about."

While the Angel wasn't fully convinced by what Eris had said. The former decided to leave the Goddess of Fortune's side to return to her duty.

Eris let out a small sigh as she watched her junior go away.

"It looks like I really need to come down to the lower realm to ease my mind..."

After leaving Wiz's store, Kazuma and the others decided to pay a visit to the public bath. He wanted to freshen up after the heavy work they did today and neither Shirou nor Megumin disagreed with him.

"Ah! There you are!" A voice shouted from behind. They turned around and found the blue-haired Arch Priest looking disheveled and dirty.

"I've been looking for you! Especially you, Shirou! I have a lot of questions about that Divine Construct!"

"Divine Construct?" Kazuma and Megumin repeated, looking confused about what the Goddess had said.

"That Ig-Alima in this afternoon! That was a Divine Construct! Those things are not something humans can have! Now hand it to me, or I'll let you taste my God Blow!"

Aqua harrumphed as she crossed her arms. Shirou however could only scratch his head.

"SHUT IT, YOU USELESS GODDESS!"

Kazuma yelled out exasperatedly.

They were fine when Aqua wasn't there and now he felt like he was going to have a headache if the idiot Goddess kept yelling like that.

"W-why are you angry, Kazuma!? I didn't do anything to you!"

"You didn't, but at least you should be thankful to Shirou here since he solo-ed the Destroyer by himself!"

"Huh? H-he solo-ed the Mobile Fortress by himself?" Aqua turned to Shirou before looking back at Kazuma and Megumin who nodded at her.

"It was after Yunyun and the other mages stopped its movement, so it was not all mine." The redhead scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Besides, that Ig-Alima was a hollow knockoff of the original that I saw before."

"W-wait, wait, wait! My brain can't keep up with it all at the same time!" Aqua asked for a time-out.

Megumin sighed tiredly.

"Aqua, can we save this for tomorrow instead? We're tired and we're planning to go to the public bath and return to the inn to rest."

"Oh? Public bath? I'm coming too then! I played around with the kids to calm them when the Destroyer was heading here and got myself sweaty and dirty here and there…"

"Huh. I hope you didn't teach those kids anything about your cult." Kazuma snorted.

"My followers are not a cult! Don't call them that, you pervert NEET!"

Shirou and Megumin sighed at the two before the latter tug his finger.

"Should we go first?" Megumin asked demurely.

"Sure, lead the way then." Shirou replied and the two left Kazuma and Aqua to themselves with Megumin still holding Shirou's finger which then quickly turn into a handholding.

Megumin didn't say anything and had her face faced the other way so as to not let the redhead see the pink hue on her cheeks. Shirou too felt a bit too nervous at the sudden advance from Megumin, but he didn't let her hand go, he returned her grip gently, causing the girl let out a small yelp.

"Oi, Scumzuma…since when did those two become so close?" Aqua asked when she saw the two holding hands.

"Listen you, stupid Goddess, you call me that one more time, I'll make sure you live in the stable alone. And those two had that kind of positive vibe ever since day one."

"O-oh… Is Shirou a lolicon?"

Kazuma then smacked the Goddess' head with a sack of his old clothing.

"What the heck did you do that for, you stupid NEET!"

"Stop badmouthing him already you good-for-nothing Goddess except for your healing magic."

Aqua pouted and threw her face to the other side as she and Kazuma followed behind Megumin and Shirou.

Unknown to them all, Shirou had one thing in his mind ever since Megumin hold his hand.

"It feels like walking with Illya to the grocery store."

-BATHTIME SKIP-

"Have you had your dinner yet, Aqua-sama?" the redhead asked politely as they waited for Kazuma and Megumin to come out of the public bath.

"Yup, the priestess over there treated me to frog meat and we ate together with the children."

Shirou nodded and the conversation instantly died down right there.

Aqua was rarely quiet as she played with her hair and Shirou just couldn't find any topic to talk about with the blue-haired Goddess.

"So…about you and Megumin…are you two dating?" Aqua asked as she pluck a split hair.

"Hm? No, we're not." Shirou answered nonchalantly. "What makes us look like we're dating?"

Aqua blew the split hair from her finger before fiddling with her hair again. "You were holding hands, what else, duh?"

"Huh, I thought that we look like brother and sister though." The redhead answered sheepishly, not noticing two shadows hiding behind the wall eavesdropping on the two. "She felt like a stepsister of mine who was actually older than me but around Megumin's height that likes to hold my hand whenever we went out together."

"Stepsister huh? What, were you adopted or it was her?" Aqua asked bluntly and Shirou rubbed his nose.

"The former, there was a fire, and both my real parents died, that's when my old man and his wife adopted me."

"Sorry, while it's a common thing for us deities, it must be hard for you to lose your real parents…" Aqua said meekly.

Shirou however only chuckled at the Goddess who suddenly acted like that.

"It's okay, it has been a long time since that incident."

The two turned silent again.

"Do you…miss your family? I mean, you suddenly get sent here with the rocket right?"

"Nope. Not really." Shirou answered flatly.

"E-eh?"

"Listen, my whole life before I came here was much crazier and perhaps a nightmare for me." Shirou sighed. "While this world has Demon King and such, this is much better than being targeted by a certain red bowman from kilometers away or being hypnotized by my stepsister to sleep with her, or being… eaten by some girls that I know, or facing the King that keep calling me mongrel or faker without stopping, or facing a certain fake priest which keeps saying 'Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice' every time I meet him."

Aqua sweatdropped at the redhead.

"Your life…seems very complicated…"

Shirou exhaled heavily. "Complicated is not the word I'll use in my life…It's insanity…"

"You know, if you defeat the Demon King, Eris will gift you a wish, ah, but you can't wish for yourself to be transported back to earth since you died once here, and I resurrected you in this world, which means, now you're a permanent resident of this world." Aqua stuck out a tongue playfully. "You can wish for a communication device between world though, with that you can still keep in contact with your family and friends~"

"…why do I feel that Grail-kun is much more all-powerful than you Goddesses…?"

"Hey! We Goddesses have a duty to protect the boundary of each world you know! We can't just break the rules just because we want it!"

"…if that Goldie heard you, she'll probably say that she's the rule and just break it…"

Aqua quirked a brow at the redhead.

"Who do you mean by Goldie? Seems arrogant and selfish to me…"

"You can eat those words yourself, you dunce!" Kazuma muttered from behind a pillar. While Megumin who was on the other side was keeping an ear at the two.

"Goldie is the one who kept calling me mongrel and faker, the king of Uruk, Gilgamesh."

""PFFFTTTT!""

Both Kazuma and Aqua spurted out at the same time. Shirou then turned to see in the direction of the voice, finding Kazuma and Megumin eavesdropping on them.

The former immediately came out from his hiding and yelled out at the redhead.

"Gilgamesh!? That legendary figure from Epic of Gilgamesh!?"

"Yup, she's a real jerk I tell you. Been trying to kidnap me at every chance she can get and declaring I'm her property to everyone."

"He's a woman!? First King Arthur, now Gilgamesh!? Who's next, Okita Souji!? Emperor Nero!? Minamoto no Yoshitsune!?"

Shirou quickly everted his eyes away from Kazuma's glare before he cried out.

"FUCK! History lessons had all been lies!"

"And Mordred is a woman too." Shirou added, getting a frustrated shriek from his fellow Japanese.

"You okay, Aqua? You look a bit pale after hearing that name…" Megumin asked worriedly.

"O-uh yeah, I'm fine, it's nothing to worry about, Megumin…"

"Anyway, while we're at it, why don't you lead the way to our inn while I tell you about how I managed to see Ig-Alima."

Kazuma grumpily nodded and led the way, with Aqua beside him, and Megumin beside Shirou.

The latter offered a hand for Megumin, and the Crimson Demon girl nervously took it. Still, she still had something to do with Shirou's perception of her, or he would keep thinking of her as a sister.

Megumin held the redhead's hand tightly as the four returned to their inn.

"So, the reason as for how I see the Divine Construct was because Gilgamesh tried to kill us when we played a game."

"What kind of a game that needed such a gigantic sword to be pulled out!?" Kazuma retorted. "Moreover, what kind of a game that leads you guys to kill each other!"

"What if I tell you it's a game for getting a chalice that can fulfill any kind of wish?"

"The one you mentioned when we met you the first time? that was real?"

"Yup."

The group turned silent before Shirou opened his mouth again.

"Back to our topic, you can say my eyes are a bit special, and when they saw any kind of weapon, I can replicate it 99% almost the same as the original…except for Divine Construct of course."

"Wait, then how did you make Ig-Alima then?" Aqua asked.

"No idea." Shirou shrugged. "I'm not taught properly and I don't know how to explain it."

Aqua immediately choked the air out of the redhead for giving them false hope about his explanation.

"I was an idiot for believing that you can explain it to me!" Aqua harrumphed before Kazuma opened his mouth.

"Yeah, you're an idiot. Shirou clearly said he wasn't taught properly about this matter in the first chapter, luckily I didn't get my hope up too much."

The two began to insult each other again after that while Megumin and Shirou watched them. Before long, they had arrived at the inn.

Shirou's room was right beside Kazuma's and in front of Megumin's, while Aqua's was beside the Arch Wizard and in front of Kazuma's.

He entered the room and found it was very cozy for a world that doesn't have any technology. Then, he projected a simple shirt and pants to use as his pajama before changing into them.

"Projection is so useful…who in the magus said that projection is useless… I'd like to have a word with them..."

He laid down on his bed before he heard someone knocking on his door. He groaned.

"…who's it?"

"Shirou, it's Megumin…"

The redhead then stood up from his bed and opened his door, there, he found the girl standing oddly quiet as the moonlight shone through the windows in the corridor. She had her hand behind her and she was fidgeting while her eyes darted around. The girl was only wearing her red robe with open shoulders and her choker with no sign of her cloak and hat.

"Is there something that I can do for you, Megumin?"

The Arch-Wizard nodded meekly at the redhead. She looked up at the redhead as her crimson eyes shone in the dark with the moonlight as the background. Shirou too noticed that there was something wrong with the girl.

"Actually…I have something to tell you… can you lean down a bit? I need to borrow your ear…"

The redhead did so, curious about what Megumin wanted to say. However, the moment he leaned toward Megumin was the chance the girl was looking for.

She closed her eyes and placed her lips on his. It was just a simple tap kiss, lips placed onto each other's and last not more than 3 seconds.

"I…hope you understand now what Wiz and I discussed before…" Megumin said with a rosy pink hue on her cheeks, her Crimson eyes burnt bright red. "I heard that you thought of me as your sister…and you should know that I don't want you to think of me that way…"

Megumin looked down at the wooden floor sheepishly, she had trouble maintaining eye contact with the redhead, but from the small peek she made just now, she could see that Shirou was blushing from what she had just said.

"You know…can I... come inside or...are you busy with something?"

"O-oh…sure…" Shirou stammered as the girl giggled cutesy at him before she walked past the redhead.

Shirou then closed the door behind him before urging Megumin to sit on his bed while he sat down on the chair.

"You…don't want to sit next to me…?" She asked with puppy eyes as she looked up at the redhead from his bed.

Since Megumin was not wearing her cloak anymore and only had her red robe on her, Shirou could clearly see her pristine white shoulders from his position. It was kind of dangerous if he stared for too long thus he immediately moved to sit beside the Crimson Demon girl.

"Can we…lay down?" Megumin asked shyly before Shirou nodded again and the two lay down on each side of the bed, facing the ceiling.

"You must think that it's weird for us to lay together like this although we had just met 3 days ago, right?" Megumin began slowly. "I also feel really weird that I can have this kind of feeling although I have always said Explosion is the only thing that I love…"

Megumin asked without turning to Shirou. While she might look calm, her heart was beating really fast and she was trying her best to not let it be heard by the redhead.

"No, I don't think it's weird..."

Megumin turned her body to face Shirou as she stared at the redhead with glistened eyes.

"Can you tell me why?"

Megumin asked, her voice calming and soothing.

"Well… what if I tell you that back in my world, I fell in love with a girl the first time I saw her?" Shirou turned to Megumin, his golden eyes met her Crimson ones.

The two did not break the eye contact and the latter urged him to continue.

"I met that woman under the moonlight the same as today. Her form was ethereal and breathtaking, it was as if she's made of glass that I'm afraid a single touch would easily break her." Shirou chuckled as he reminisced. "And to be honest, you looked the same as her when the moonlight shines through the corridor's window…someone so breathtaking and almost out of this world…" Shirou then returned to face the ceiling. "Heh…I felt like a con artist trying to flirt with you, forget what I said, okay?"

"No, wait, please continue…" Megumin asked, tone a bit desperate. "I...I like it when you say those words to me…" Megumin giggled.

"Hmm…" Shirou hummed. "Nope, I don't have anything else to say for now, better wait until you grow up, girl."

"Uhhh... you do know I'll turn 14 real soon, right? I don't see what's wrong with telling me right now..." Megumin groaned as she leaned in closer to the redhead.

"H-How soon are we talking about here?"

"In 3 days...and I plan to spend it in my village with you and the others..."

"before then she made small talk with the redhead and fell asleep on his bed after around an hour.

When Shirou was about to give her some space, Megumin latched to his shirt and began to use his arm as a pillow.

"Well…damn… I hope Succubus-san can do her job even like this…"

Both Kazuma and Shirou who had ordered the service were just too excited that they couldn't get a wink of sleep although the day had been a very tiring one.

"Goddammittttt!"

Shirou heard his friend yelling from the next room. He couldn't help but snicker at Kazuma for what he did.

"Seems like he couldn't sleep either…"

Then slowly, his mind drifted away as he laid his head on Megumin's.

"Smells…nice…" he muttered before completely falling asleep.

-Shirou's POV- LEMON STARTS!

When I woke up from my sleep, still a bit drowsy, I didn't see Megumin beside me.

Did she return to her room?

The moonlight from the window of my room was then suddenly obscured by a figure.

…this scarily reminded me of that time when Illya snuck into my room by using the window. While she didn't do anything to me at and only slipped inside my futon, it still gave me a horrifying memory.

When the shadow opened up the window, I saw the figure with a slender body jumping into my room making a small thud. I could hear her make a small sigh before closing the window and walking toward my bed.

'Is this it?! Is it finally starting!?'

"Hm? Shirou~ you are awake, aren't you?" the very familiar voice spoke in a soft and gentle tone, with a little bit of sultriness behind it.

Noticing that I wasn't asleep, the figure immediately straddled my torso with no hesitation before she leaned close to my face.

"Or, did I wake you up?" the silver-haired girl in a thief's attire whispered to my ear.

After that, she gave me a light peck on the cheek.

"Hehe, I kissed you~" She sounded like she had managed a clever prank before she pushed herself up with her hand on my chest and smiled at me a little shyly.

Honestly, I was charmed by how beautiful her silver hair was basking under the moonlight like this. I couldn't help but pat her on the head reflexively.

"Mou~ Shirou…you really need to be careful when giving head pats to girls you know…" the thief pouted a bit at me but she didn't push away the hand on her head. "Girls easily fell for a man like you, strong, kind, attentive, and cute looking…" the silver-haired thief sighed adorably at me while taking my hand in hers as she moved it to her cheek.

"Ahh… how I long to do this…" Chris said joyfully as she closed her eyes and had my hand rub her cheek. "I've been watching you this whole time, Shirou… I knew about the problems you were going through in these three days…including your little tryst with the harlot Lich and Megumin who kissed you recently…"

"C-Chris?" I couldn't help but gasp at the Goddess-in-disguise who licked my finger in an erotic way.

"Hey…Shirou…" she called out my name. "Can I…kiss you?"

"Isn't that a bit late?" I teased her.

The thief didn't answer me and only looked me in the eyes shyly before she leaned closer to my face, her ragged breath covering my lips. I steeled my face and said.

"Please, eat me to your f—"

I couldn't even finish what I said before Chris planted her lips on mine as her tongue forcefully chased mine and played with it.

Goddammit! She smells too good and I feel like my brain's melting because of how she moved her tongue inside my mouth!

Without realizing it, Chris had taken my hands and put them on her slender waist, and since she only wore a bikini-like top, my hands were directly touching her smooth skin.

"Shirou…" the thief girl whispered as she pulled her lips apart from mine. "Please…touch me all the way…you can do anything to me…this is only a dream…"

-3rd Person POV-

That one sentence from the silver-haired girl broke the last line of sanity the redhead had. Following what the girl had said, the young man moved his hand toward Chris' firm and plum ass and groped them.

"A-Ahh~! Y-You surprised me there… I didn't expect you'll be going for my butt for the first time~" Chris shrilled before she continued.

"Because I prefer ass to boobs."

"Ohh? Do you like what you're touching then?" Chris asked with a sultry voice.

"Very much."

Chris giggled at him before she took off her scarf, cape, and her bikini top, revealing her modest chest to the redhead. The latter swallowed at the silver-haired girl who shyly covered her chest.

"D-Don't stare at me like that. It's embarrassing, you know. My chests aren't big like Wiz… and to be honest, I do pad my chests to make them look bigger…"

Shirou immediately sat on the bed, prompting the girl to sit on his lap, before he took the girl's hands and moved them away from her chests.

"I don't care if they're big or small, it's whom I do it with, that I care about the most." Hearing that, Chris' cheeks turned from light pink to bright red when Shirou had sucked on her erect nipple.

"Aahh!~" Chris pushed the redhead's head as he played with her chest. He was no longer holding her hands and had his own on her ass.

"M-More…Aa—ah~!" Chris moaned and then she felt something hard and hot poking her crotch. But she couldn't really look at it right now since she was on the verge of climaxing from her chests being eaten by the redhead.

"Mmmphh! C-cummminnnnnggg!" Chris moaned hard with her back arched and his expression was one filled with pleasure as drool came out from the corner of her lips.

"You came from your boobs and ass being played with? I guess you're also a pervert that needs correction…" Shirou whispered to her ear. "Eris-sama~"

Chris, being called Eris in her ear, shuddered as blood rushed to her head.

"Eris-sama…lay down and lift your ass to me."

Shirou ordered and the 'thief' promptly did so. She still had her pants on and the redhead didn't mind it as he buried his face between her ass.

"H-hyaaaaah~! S-stop sniffing…me there… Shirouuuu~" Chris begged, but her face said otherwise as she was drowning in pleasure from the redhead licking her crotch through her pants.

Her lustful moans finally drove Shirou over the edge. The redhead swallowed hard before he traced a knife and cut open her pants carefully in the middle, revealing green panties beneath it which he cut again to reveal wet pink lips down there.

"You're this wet even when I haven't directly touched it." Shirou teased as his face come closer to the thief's pussy which was dripping wet.

"E-E-Eh!?" Chris gasped before she felt Shirou's nose touch her down there. "P-Please stop teasing me, Shiroooou…"

The redhead chuckled before he extended his tongue and gave Chris' pussy a careful tease, making her shudder with pleasure as her eyes immediately rolled back, showing the whites as she could feel the wetness of his tongue even more than before.

"You taste delicious, Eris-sama…" The redhead said as he then proceeded to give her pussy an exploratory lick. He wouldn't get tired of the exotic flavor of the Goddess-in-disguise as she kept letting out her naughty juice.

Chris breathed hard as Shirou ate her out expertly. While Eris knew that Shirou was not a virgin, she didn't expect that he would be an expert at working his tongue over her most special place. The redhead quickly learned where her most sensitive places were, where she felt good, and where she wanted to be licked and touched.

"S-Shirouuu…there…pleasee…aahhn…do that place more…" Chris moaned faster and louder, Shirou was eating the place that she wanted to. She enjoyed the sensation of the redhead's tongue skilfully licking and teasing her pussy. She had known that sex was supposed to feel even better than this, but if foreplay was already this good, she wondered what will happen to her if he decided to move on to the next phase.

Then, all of the sudden, she felt the redhead flicking her clit with his tongue before he stuck a finger inside to stroke her g-spot.

"S-Shirou! Shirou! I-I'm about to… I'm gonna cum! I'm about to cum! A-Aah…there! D-don't stop!" Chris moaned loudly as Shirou moved his tongue and finger faster and came hard as her legs violently shook and squeezed together before she squirted over and over to the redhead's face, who happily drank up her delicious nectar.

Chris then fell flat to his bed with her face to the side and her eyes rolled to the back of their head. Her body quivered and twitched as the juice from her pussy keep spraying the bed.

"O-oh…shit…" Shirou panicked when he saw Chris twitching from the same eating he used to give her girlfriends. He had forgotten that the one in front of him right now was not a woman experienced with this kind of thing even though this was just a dream.

The redhead immediately scooped the girl up with his hands, worrying about her current state.

"C-Chris? Can you hear me?" the redhead asked anxiously before he received a small nod from the thief.

"I…I'm fine… it was just…that was very…amazing…" the silver-haired girl moaned before then she pulled the redhead to sit on the corner of the bed.

Chris then lowered herself onto her knees, staring at the bulge in the redhead's pants which wanted nothing more than to break free of its confinement.

"This means…I'm not losing to that Lich and Megumin…right?" the thief swallowed hard before putting her hands on the bulge, rubbing it gently.

"Of course not…Eris-sama…You won by a large margin…" Shirou pat her head.

Chris giggled softly at him and then, the thief moved her face closer to the bulge before rubbing her cheek onto it.

"The manly scent is so strong that I can smell it… and this…stain…" the thief put out her tongue before licking the stain of his pre-cum.

"Shirou…can I…taste it directly…?" Chris asked shyly as she blushed even brighter and Shirou nodded at the thief.

She gently pulled down the pants, only to see it got stuck at the 'sword's' tip, she fixed the problem quickly and at the same time, a 'sword of promised pleasure' sprang out from beneath his pants and placed itself on the thief's face.

"T-This is…" Chris swallowed hard as the manly scent turned her on like never before, but she still tried her best to stay sane despite the strong urge to lick the protruding sword on her face.

Eventually, she gave out to her carnal desire, reached forward, and gently took it in her hand. One hand was not enough to fully grip it, therefore Chris used her other hand before she move them up and down slowly at her pace.

"T-T-This is my first time…I'm sorry that it won't feel that good…" Chris looked up at the redhead with tears in her eyes. But Shirou didn't mind it and told her to go at her own pace.

Chris did so and her curiosity finally took over.

Her hands started stroking his 'sword' in a faster motion, getting a moan from the owner.

Chris gulped as she saw how Shirou was feeling her handjob before she finally stuck out her tongue and placed it on the 'blade' of the 'sword'. Chris felt the redhead quiver when she did that and hoped that he would enjoy what was coming up next.

"You're so...rock-hard...humongous...and burning hot...Shirou..."

There was a very marked contrast between the savage 'sword' and the delicate-looking thief, yet Chris showed no sign of fear, instead, she gazed at the giant object as if she revered it.

She made a noise as if sucking her drool before Chris leaned down and buried her face between Shirou's thighs. His massive 'sword' was then placed inside her small mouth.

The redhead moaned louder at the warm and wet sensation of Chris' mouth as she sucked the blade slowly before pulling it out.

"It's a bit bitter and salty…" the thief giggled before she lowered her mouth down a bit deeper into his cock again. Without being instructed by the redhead, Chris instinctively moved her hand while she sucked and teased his cock at a rather fast pace. The thief only could get a quarter of his cock until it reached the back of her throat, maybe half if she forced it, resulting in her choking if she did it.

"It's...so...big...I'm filled up even if I'm only halfway down to the base..."

Chris' hot mouth and delicate tongue brought a look of satisfaction to the redhead's face.

"Aah… keep doing that, Chris…damn, you're really good at it for a first timer…"

Shirou's words made Chris seem like a puppy praised by its owner. Chris's eyes filled with pride and adoration as she kept on sucking him before she let go of Shirou's cock from her mouth, a transparent line of saliva still connecting her tender lips with his cock.

"You like it, Shirou?" Chris teased before swallowing the head with her mouth and wrapping her tongue between the head as pre-cum kept leaking out of it. Without hesitation, she continued stroking and sucking the redhead harder as she moaned.

She let go of the cock for a moment.

"Chris...?"

Then the goddess-in-disguise opened her thin lips, letting her spit flow and wetting Shirou's cock.

The redhead responded to that by letting his cock twitch at it, getting a smile from the thief before she got back to sucking it.

The inside of her mouth was so warm, wet, and enticing as she slowly moved herself up and down on his cock, using her tongue to lick the tip and the part of his cock that she couldn't embrace with her mouth before she covered the tip of his cock wholly again.

"Ch-Chris! I'm about to…I'M CUM—"

Chris felt his cock pulsate, and when Shirou was about to pull out, Chris immediately wrapped her hands around his waist as she kept on deep-throating him, not letting him go. The redhead couldn't help but groaned and thrust his hips upwards as he emptied his load into Chris's small mouth, the hot cum shooting down at the deepest part of her throat. She eagerly accepted his white essence of life as she extracted every last drop with her motions.

There was a little bit of pain in Chris' expression, but she didn't let go of Shirou. She had been looking forward to tasting his semen at the time she tasted his precum. The redhead came too much inside her mouth that his cum threatened to leak out of her small mouth, and some of it actually did, dripping into her fingers that she had removed from Shirou's waist.

Shirou moaned as Chris continued to move her mouth up and down his shaft, sucking out all the semen he let out and cleaning it. Then, she pulled her mouth with a final lick before opening her mouth and showing him how much semen he had left in her mouth.

Emiya Shirou was called the EX Harem Protagonist not only for his charm to attract women without him noticing it but also for his own load of semen which amount was crazily excessive for a human.

The insane volume of Shirou's cum mixed with the feeling of having something stuck in her throat made Christ almost start to cry but she looked like she was loving it.

Shirou stared hard at the erotic sigh the thief gave him, unable to look away as Chris made a show of slowly swallowing his essence and licking her fingers clean of his semen.

"…this is…how you taste like…" the silver-haired Goddess-in-disguise looked up at the redhead with a heart mark in her eyes. "you taste really good…a bit salty, but I like it too…"

"Chris…for a first timer, I give you 80/100… and because of that last show you made, I gave you 100/100 overall…" Shirou said with a thumb up and the thief giggled cutesy at him.

"Thank you…Shirou… I'm glad you like it… I was really afraid that I couldn't make you feel good after what you did for me…"

"You're welcome…" Shirou looked at Chris who was still kneeling on the floor with no clothes except her pants. Her red, blushing face was almost enigmatic under the moonlight. Beneath her, he noticed that the floor was wet with her own nectar without the thief realizing it. He gulped and his cock became hard again.

"O-Oh my…" Chris' eyes widened as she let out a small yelp. "You're hard again in just a few seconds...

Chris gulped before stroking his cock slowly.

"Shirou…while I really want to continue this…you must wake up now…" Chris kissed the tip of his cock.

"The 'sword' you have here is what every succubus wants…and you must never let them get a chance to taste it…"

Shirou gulped, why was Chris in his dream made by the Succubus warned him about this matter? The moment he thought of that, Chris stood up from the floor and pecked his cheek.

"Aqua-senpai must have noticed the divinity I gave out just now and woke up… I'm sorry that I must cause you trouble again, but this is a necessity in order for you not to be targeted by those insolent Succubi…" Chris looked at Shirou before she smiled at him. "I promise we will continue this in reality…not in a dream…until then…please promise me not to use Succubi's service anymore…"

Shirou stood up, and Chris wrapped her arms and legs around him reflexively for her not to fall.

"I promise! I won't use the succubi's service anymore!"

Chris nodded happily before she noticed there was something hot poking at the entrance of her pussy.

"O-Oh my… if only we had a bit more time… maybe your sword would have gone inside my sheath~" Chris teased before she kissed the redhead's neck, leaving a hickey clear for anyone to see.

"Well... I'll see you soon, Shirou."

Shirou nodded at her and his view went black.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

There were knockings on the door which then turned into bangings.

"ERIS! IS THAT YOU!? SHIROU OPEN THIS DOOR! I FELT THAT PADDED CHESTS GODDESS' DIVINITY COMING OUT FROM YOUR ROOM!"

Shirou and Megumin slowly opened their eyes. Drowsily, the redhead stood up from her bed and Megumin sat on his bed, still under his blanket as she rubbed her eyes.

"Who…why is aqua being noizy…" Megumin said before yawning.

The redhead yawned too before he headed for the door and opened it.

"Ah! There you are! Why are you taking so…long…" Aqua looked at the drowsy redhead before he noticed a figure on her bed. "Megumin!? w-why are you sleeping—"

Aqua wanted to walk past the redhead, but then she was somehow blocked at the door.

"Oi, why are you blocking—" Aqua looked at Shirou's hand, one still scratching his head and the other on his lips as he yawned.

"Wait, if it's not you, then what's…" Aqua looked down near her belly which were slightly wet, there, she found something that she didn't expect

"AAH!"

Aqua screamed, Shirou and Megumin turned at the blue-haired Goddess.

"Why are you being so noisy…aqua…" Megumin stammered as her eyes found what was making the Arch Priest went panic.

"AAAHH!" Megumin screamed out before her face turned bright red.

Then, Shirou looked down, following the girls' eyes.

"AAH!"

He found that his pants in the front part was half pulled down and his 'sword' was blocking Aqua from coming into his room like a knight standing guard.

The redhead immediately pulled his pants up before pushing Aqua who was still dazed out of his room. Then he quickly closed the door and locked it before he turned to Megumin.

"You didn't see anything! You don't even remember this ever happened! You're going to sleep and forget about this thing tomorrow morning!" he yelled at Megumin exasperatedly.

Megumin, eyes still locked at the bulge inside his pants could only say.

"D-Did…you get that b-b-big…because of s-sleeping with me…?"

Shirou deadpanned at the blushing girl before sighing.

"Please…just go to sleep…"

Meanwhile, at the succubi cafe, a small succubus came back looking tired, disheveled and somehow looking excited which was not normal for a succubus. Her face was flushed, and her breath was uneven. Although the succubus looked really young like a kid, she was much older than the humans.

"L-Lolisa? what's wrong? why are you looking like that?" Allysa called out, voice laced with wariness as she never saw her friend looking like this.

"A-A-Allysa...the sword prince..." the small succubus fell into the receptionist succubus' arms, the latter's arms were cold and the former felt really good brushing her skin with hers.

"Y-You're burning here! what did the sword prince do to you?"

Lolisa didn't answer the adult succubus, instead, she pulled down the latter's bikini-like bra and began sucking her nipple.

"L-Lolisa? While I don't mind you doing this, don't you think that we should talk— aaahnn~" Allysa moaned as she felt something jolted inside her body.

'W-W-what is this?! I-I've never felt something like this before! D-did Lolisa do this? I-it feels really goooooooddd~"

"L-Lolisaaaa~ pleassee…do…me more…" Allysa began to drool as she fell down on her back to the lounge's floor.

The small succubus obliged Allysa's request before she let go of her nipple and went for the other one while her small fingers then begin to trace down to Allysa's belly button and moved to her crotch which was starting to wet.

"Aaah…there—"

Lolisa took the adult succubus' lips in hers as her tongue intertwined with the latter's. Spit and drool mixed together as Allysa's face turned into an exotic one. Her hand didn't idle anymore as Allysa reached for Lolisa's pussy and began to place two of her fingers inside the latter's drenched lips down there.

Lolisa felt it, Allysa's fingers scrubbing her inside gently while trying to reach for her g-spot as she pushed them in and out repeatedly. She let out an ecstatic moan before the two succubi kissed each other again passionately.

"Not…enough…"Lolisa muttered before then she stood up and placed her pussy right in front of Allysa's face for the latter to eat. "Please…do me harder…break me…eat me..." Lolisa pleaded with lust behind her voice.

The receptionist succubus had never seen her junior acting like this even though they had tasted a lot of men in their lives. But currently, other than how the Sword Prince made her like this, indulging herself in pleasure was much more important. Allysa went for her pussy with no hesitation and began to push her tongue inside it as she licked the clit and explored the inside of Lolisa's pussy. She grabbed her long tail which sprouted from being too aroused and rubbed it up and down before then she used it to pleasure the small succubus' cunt by thrusting it deep into Lolisa.

The small succubus moaned louder before she too proceeded to eat up Allysa's lips down there. She grabbed the tail and did the same to the latter. Like the ouroboros, the two were interlocked with each other, not realizing that the other succubi were watching them and approaching with dildos and other toys in their hands.

After that orgy party between the succubi, Lolisa told them the reason why she was this aroused. It was then revealed that Lolisa had licked the precum off the Sword Prince's cock which made her become like this. The situation went from bad to worst after she fell to her libido and was about to place the massive cock inside her small cunt which they weren't supposed to do.

Allysa as her senior wanted to berate her junior but decided not to until Lolisa finished explaining her situation. Lolisa then continued, that when she had just the tip of the cock in front of the entrance of her pussy, she was stimulated beyond what she had felt all her life. She was much more aroused than before and climaxed just from the tip kissing her entrance. That was something that never happened. It was as if the Sword Prince's 'sword' was a drug very lethal for the succubi.

The succubi swallowed hard at what Lolisa told them. They could feel their crotches were getting wet again just from the small succubus telling her story. Allysa herself couldn't help but drool at how Lolisa thoroughly described what the precum tasted like and the shape and the size of the 'sword' Emiya Shirou hid under his pants.

That night, the succubi began to squabble between themselves, they quarreled over who should go to the redhead's place the next time he visited the café.

And if Emiya Shirou didn't come to visit anymore, then they would just drug him before they brought the redhead here and gang-raped him.

It was early morning at the guild. A certain buxom blonde was filing every report that she had sent to the lord that governed the town of Axel. It was rather hectic since the Governor of Axel had suddenly asked for the report regarding the incident of the Destroyer.

Luna knew that the Governor of this town was shrewd, greedy, selfish, and very corrupt from what she had heard from her fellow receptionists and adventurers. Therefore, she was a bit skeptical the moment the Governor of this town had come personally for the reports.

Luna sighed and began to rub her forehead. Then, she saw her favorite adventurer come in from the guild's front door along with his party's leader, the Arch Priest, and the Arch Wizard.

The young man that she favored seemed a bit exhausted early this morning unlike usual. She wanted to ask him for the reason, but since she was a guild receptionist and the redhead was an adventurer, she had to keep a line between them so as to not become too attached to the redhead.

Luna however knew that it was already too late for her to follow the rule that she made for herself. The buxom blonde had fallen head over the heels for the redhead, therefore, she decided to come out of her desk with the herbal tea she brewed for herself and greeted Shirou who was on his way to the kitchen with a rather strained smile as he greeted the waitresses.

"Shirou-san, good morning."

Shirou turned at the voice and beamed a smile at the owner.

"Luna-san, good morning." He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry if I look like this so early in the morning, but it won't be a hinder to me cooking for you all."

Luna smiled sadly at the young man before handing him a container of her herbal tea.

"What is this, Luna-san?"

"That's a herbal tea that I brewed myself. I drink them every time I'm in the same condition as you are today, Shirou-san." Luna took his free hand and held it in hers. "While we are grateful that you're cooking delicious breakfast for us, please do not force yourself and take good care of your body, alright Shirou-san?"

The waitresses and adventurers that had arrived early at the guild gawked at the buxom blonde's warm attention for Shirou. Luna felt that the guild was too quiet all of a sudden before she looked around at the waitresses grinning and several adventurers whistling.

At that moment, she realized that she was holding Shirou's hand in hers as lovers did. She quickly let go of it before a light pink hue began to show up on her cheeks and began fidgeting as she stammered to explain.

"I-it was my advice as a guild receptionist so that you d-don't tire yourself, Shirou-san! A-after all! Y-you're this town's best adventurer along with your party!"

Luna cleared her throat before she turned around and glanced at him for the last time.

"P-please don't forget my advice, Shirou-san! O-or I'll make sure myself that you have proper rest!"

Luna began to walk back to her desk before her eyes met with Megumin's glare. The two locked eyes for a moment before Luna smirked at him, getting a twitch from Megumin in her eye.

"Whoa…so I guess Luna also has something for our redhead huh…" Kazuma whistled as he leered at the blonde's butt.

Then, before he knew what hit him, his face was already planted on the floor. It would seem Megumin had smacked the Japanese young man on the back of his head when he leered at Luna's butt.

"Who did that—"

Aqua quickly pointed at Megumin and the explosive maniac also pointed at herself. However, Kazuma didn't dare to push his luck since right now the Arch Wizard of his party looked scary as hell.

Before long, they noticed a woman with long, straight black hair wearing a blue skirt suit with a red tie, pantyhose, and shoes unlike an adventurer's attire come inside the guild followed by a group of 5 knights behind the woman.

"That woman screams bad news for me…" Kazuma murmured before he saw the woman heading toward Luna who was at her desk."

"That's the royal prosecutor placed in Axel branch…" answered a mohawk-man sitting at the table next to Kazuma's party.

"W-what's a prosecutor doing here, old man?" Kazuma asked. He had known the man since he had talked several times with him although he didn't know the man and only called him old man or Mohawk man.

"No idea. But if a royal prosecutor came here after the incident with the Destroyer yesterday, it must have something to do with it…" the old man answered before he chugged his drink.

Megumin then called for his party leader.

"Kazuma, yesterday, you told me that you had the Coronation randomly teleported, right?"

"Yeah…you're not saying that the random teleport actually hit somewhere populated, aren't you?"

"K-kazuma, Kazuma! The woman is looking in our direction!" Aqua whispered tensely from beside him.

"S-stay calm Aqua! I'm sure that she only looked at us because our party was the one who immobilized the Destroyer…wait, did I tell Luna about the random teleport or not…" Kazuma mused as sweat began to fall from his forehead.

"K-Kazuma! Kazuma! She's heading here!" Aqua called again, panicking.

"Stay calm, Aqua. We didn't do anything wrong, besides, Kazuma told me that it was all his responsibility when he ordered for the Coronatite to be randomly teleported." Megumin exhaled as she put down her wizard's hat on the empty seat beside her.

"R-really? Then if anything happens, only Kazuma will be taken away, right? That's great~" Aqua sighed in relief.

"There's nothing great with it, you stupid Goddess!" Kazuma slapped the back of the blue-haired woman.

"Y-you dare to smack my head!? Moreover a Goddess like me!?" Aqua yelled out as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Shut it!" Kazuma sat down before he noticed the blue-suit woman was glaring at his party.

The woman didn't say anything before she eventually left the table, making the group sigh in relief except Megumin who saw where the woman was heading to.

"O-oi! She's heading for the kitchen! And the knights are following her too!"

"K-Kazuma-san!" Luna called for the brown-haired Japanese boy.

"L-Luna, what does that prosecutor want? Why is she going to the kitchen?" Kazuma asked urgently at the buxom blonde.

"Sena-san was tasked by the governor of this town to apprehend the one who ordered the Coronatite of the Destroyer to be randomly teleported since that person might be an agent of the Demon King…"

"Wait, then why did she go for Shirou instead of me? I was the one who ordered it! And what's wrong with that accusation for being an agent for the Demon King!?"

"I-I told her already, but she said that she had an intel saying that the Sword Prince is actually one of the Demon King's generals and the governor's destroyed mansion was Shirou-san's doing to weaken the nobles of the Kingdom…"

"Are you shitting me!? What the fuck is wrong with this kingdom and its law!?"

"Oi, oi...I knew this town's governor was corrupt, but I didn't think that he will frame this town's savior like that…"

"Ssshh! Don't let those knights hear you or you will be charged with treason!"

"Shit man… but do you think that the Sword Prince is one of the generals?"

"Why would he kill his comrades if he was one of them? Besides, the knights at the royal capital clearly said that the Sword Prince didn't hold back when killing the devil Vanir!"

"Guess you're right…"

"If this keeps up, this town will lose one of its best adventurers…"

"We need to stand up for him if push comes to shove…"

*BANG!*

Everyone in the lounge turned at the woman banging the kitchen door with a frustrated look.

"Are you saying you will refuse to obey the order of this town's governor!?"

The blue-suit woman said with an angered look.

"And what do you mean by I can't enter the kitchen if I don't have anything to do with it!"

The woman continued. Then a voice answered her with an irritated tone.

"As I said, I'm cooking breakfast for the waitresses, receptionists, and my friends. They will need it for them to work today and right now you're bothering me. Wait for an hour until I'm done like a good dog and don't bother me until I come out myself."

The redhead closed the kitchen door and locked it from inside.

"O-oi! You can't do this to me!" Sena fumed. Receiving no answer from Shirou, she turned around, glaring at those who stared at her before she sat on an empty seat, doing what the redhead told her to.

"Damn… you see how the Sword Prince handled her?"

"Glad to see that he's not one to chicken out when a woman gets mad at him."

"Aaah, Shirou-samaaa! You were so cool!"

"Right, right! I won't mind if he told me to wait like a dog if he gives me all his attention later!"

The murmurs between the adventurers and waitresses filled the room as Kazuma grinned.

"Now that's one who upholds true gender equality!"

"You're speaking as if that's a good thing, Kazuma…" Megumin deadpanned. "We still need to see what will happen you know…if possible, help Shirou to get away with this false accusation…to another kingdom if we need to…"

Luna turned at Megumin.

"W-were you being serious when you said that!?"

"Of course I am!" Megumin snorted. "Who would want to stay in a corrupt kingdom when they accused a savior of this town of being a General while he had defeated two of them!"

"Nice words, Megumin! I'm glad that you're not the one who will ditch her friends when the situation goes bad for them, unlike someone I know besides me~"

Aqua snorted at Kazuma.

"Oi, I never said that I will ditch him, you bitch!"

As the two quarreled, Luna looked crestfallen when she heard Megumin truly meant what she said. If that happened, then what would she do? Somewhere in her heart, she hoped that it wouldn't come to that decision.

Around an hour later, Shirou kept his promise. After cooking for everyone, he gave his full attention to the blue-suit woman who was sitting as she tapped her fingers at the table.

Everyone gulped and the new adventurers that had just come had been briefed about the situation, including Darkness with a complex expression when she heard why the prosecutor wanted Shirou.

The redhead then sat on the empty seat in front of the prosecutor. The latter cleared her throat before putting a plate to her side, courtesy of the redhead.

"Let me get to the point, Emiya Shirou, you are under arrest for being suspected as someone related to the Demon King, one of his Generals, to be exact."

The guild hall went silent at Sena's accusation.

Kazuma could only watch nervously before he noticed the calm look on his partner's face. Megumin tightly gripped her staff while muttering that she would cast explosion magic at the prosecutor. Aqua…was being Aqua, she wasn't affected by the whole situation and was enjoying the breakfast Shirou made for them.

Darkness, as a Noble could only be ashamed to know that a fellow noble would accuse someone unrelated to the Demon King like this.

"The Coronatite you had someone randomly teleported was sent to the Governor's mansion and destroyed it. Luckily there was no—"

"I'm sorry, but I have to decline your arrest warrant."

"Good, then— wait, what?" Sena blinked at Shirou's refusal.

"You have to tell that to the Princess of this Kingdom and the white suit lady from house Shinfornea if you want to arrest me since they had formally invited me to the royal capital for a meeting with the Princess."

Once again, the guild went silent, only a few sharp inhaled breaths could be heard.

"If you want the proof, I have them with me." The redhead then took out two letters from his pocket before putting them on the table. One had the seal of the Royal Family, while the other was the seal of house Shinfornea. Both were given to Shirou after he had signed the document for Vanir's reward by the receptionist, Luna.

"T-they're real…b-but…we cannot possibly let you meet the princess since you are affiliated with the Demon King…"

Shirou sighed.

"As I told you miss prosecutor, Sena-san was it?" the woman in glasses nodded. "You have to tell that to them since I'm pretty sure the white suit's family is in a higher position than the someone who governed this town."

Shirou drank his herbal tea given by Luna.

"Besides, I'm sure a royal order is one to be prioritized than some governor's, right?"

Sena gritted her teeth before she stood up.

"When is your appointment with the Princess and the Noble Lady from House Shinfornea?"

"Today, in an hour."

Kazuma and the rest of his group spurted out their drinks when they heard what the redhead had said. Darkness, held her head as if she was about to pass out from the sudden news.

"Oh, and miss Sena." Shirou called with a smile. "You smell like a devil, a heavy one similar to Vanir that I encountered at the royal capital two days ago…"

Sena flinched, and the adventurers in the guild too were surprised by what the redhead said.

"What!? Don't you dare to insinuate me for what I'm not!"

"Hey, I only said that you smell like a devil, but I didn't say it comes from you, it was a faint smell of it, a remain to be exact." Shirou shrugged. "And let me tell you, I'm much better than any tracking dogs you'll ever find in this world, so you better check the people you've met quite recently since I'll be relaying this information to the Princess and Claire of house Shinfornea as soon as I see them.

Sena gulped. While Shirou didn't mean to threaten her, the prosecutor felt like he actually did.

"I'll make sure to do that." She fixed her glasses and nodded at the redhead before heading toward the guild's main door.

"One more thing," Shirou continued as Sena glanced at the redhead. "Judging from the smell, it would seem you encounter that someone around yesterday, in the evening probably…and if it's true, you better take care of yourself and wait until my party returns from the Royal Capital."

"I'll heed your warning but that doesn't mean the accusation of you being a General of the Demon King is uprooted."

Shirou nodded as he watched the prosecutor leave the guild with the knights hurrying behind her.

After she had gone from view, Shirou face-planted at his table.

"I hate my luck… it's just days after days that I got into trouble or something like that… fuck…"

The onlookers could only pity the redhead when they heard that. True enough, these few days, the redhead's reputation went up through the roof for defeating Beldia, Vanir, and Destroyer. The young man in question however wasn't happy with that since he felt everything was being thrown at him in one go.

Then, Shirou felt a hand on his head. He didn't need to look up to see who the owner of the small hand was.

"Good job for handling the matter, Shirou…at least you bought us some time until we find a way to clear your name…"

"I would be very happy if you told us that we're meeting the Princess today, you know…" Kazuma said with a sigh.

"We're going to the royal capital right!? Oh gosh! I can't wait for what it has in store!" Aqua squealed.

"Actually…" Shirou looked at his party who seated themselves in the empty seats. "It was never specified when we will meet the Princess…"

"What do you mean? Did you lie using the Princess and House of Shinfornea 's name?" Darkness asked urgently. She really hoped that the redhead didn't do it since it definitely would come back at him as a boomerang while at the same time, Darkness also felt relieved that they might not need to meet the Princess.

"No… they told me to see them whenever convenient for me since I told that white suit to tell that selfish Princess to be more attentive to their subject's condition before asking them to meet her."

*BANG!*

Darkness slammed the table, her face went pale hearing what Shirou said.

"Y-you said that to Lady Claire!?"

Shirou nodded and Darkness fell to her seat lifelessly.

"Damn dude, I take my hat off to you. Can't believe you have the balls to talk like that to a girl, a noble nonetheless."

"I'm pretty sure you'll do the same, Kazuma… I can't see you as someone that will respect a girl, noble or not if they kept pushing you when the condition is best for them only."

"Heh, you're not wrong about that."

Kazuma and Shirou grinned at each other before Darkness muttered. "Great…just great…now there are two of them…"

"Then, should we go shopping for our outfits?" Megumin asked as she kept patting the redhead, not wanting to stop.

"No, we don't need to. I told the white suit that as adventurers, we don't own something fancy like that, therefore she would prepare them all for us if we go there right now….but…"

"What? Is there something wrong?" Kazuma asked while Darkness' face began to turn blue as she heard what Shirou told the woman from the Shinfornea family.

"Since we need to use teleport to go to the royal capital… you know what it did to me…"

His group froze and turned silent.

"Fuck…that's right…you always get randomly teleported huh…" Kazuma clicked his tongue. "Any chance that you'll make it this time?"

Shirou rubbed his forehead as he tapped the table with his fingers.

"Not sure…but I think we need to leave for the Royal Capital now in case I got randomly teleported again…"

"H-Huh? You're planning to go right now?" Darkness asked, a bit startled.

"Yup, no better time than now… If I got teleported somewhere else, I'll just have to find someone that can teleport me to Royal Capital, if not closer."

Aqua stood up from her seat.

"Let's go then! If Shirou gets teleported randomly, we can look around the capital until he arrives!"

The rest of the group deadpanned at the Arch-Priest except for Shirou who chuckled at her.

"You're not wrong."

"Still, can't you be a bit more tactful to Shirou, Aqua?" Megumin retorted.

"Enough." Darkness said with a stern tone before facing Shirou and Kazuma. "Shirou, I know you can probably behave yourself when you meet the Princess, but Kazuma…you're my biggest worry here…" The blonde Crusader sighed.

"Oi, what do you mean by that, you perverted Crusader? If someone treats me politely then I'll do the same. But if they treated me badly, I can do the same to them! I don't care if they're a woman or a little girl!"

"That's what I mean!" Darkness yelled in shame as she squirmed from Kazuma calling her a pervert. "Y-You opened your unruly mouth whenever the situation goes bad for you! That's what I'm worried about! For just this once, please! Don't say anything that can have you on death row!"

"Tch! Fine, but you owe this time!"

With that, Darkness sighed in relief.

"Okay! Now that Darkness had Kazuma on a leash, let's go to the Royal Capital!"

"Not yet." Shirou sighed before turning to Darkness and Aqua. "Darkness will be fine, I think… the problem is Aqua-sama…"

"Wait, are you saying I'm the most problematic one?"

"Not a doubt," Kazuma answered.

"Yup." Megumin followed.

"I…can't disagree with them…" said Darkness.

"W-What?!" Aqua yelped before turning to the redhead.

"Don't worry, Aqua-sama, I've never felt that you're a problematic one…except for the matter that I'm about to tell to you and Darkness here…"

"See!? Shirou here said that I'm not the problematic one! You guys should follow his example!"

"That's because you didn't send him the bills for your wine collection you goddamn useless Goddess!"

"Wait, Aqua did it again?"

"Megumin, don't ask the numbers, please don't. You won't believe how much frog meat we can have if we spend that money on food." Kazuma deadpanned.

With a dry laugh, Shirou told Kazuma that it was fine since they'll be receiving another 600 million Eris which resulting Kazuma calling the redhead an idiot for saying the exact numbers.

In Aqua's eyes, the two young men could see $$ printed on them. They sighed before Shirou decided to move on with the topic.

"Anyway, moving on with our matter, Aqua-sama, I want you to promise me not to do anything to the people that will help us get to the Royal Capital."

"Why? I don't see why I should do anything to people that I know unless they are not human— wait, why are you averting your eyes? Don't tell me the people we're going to meet are not humans?"

Shirou nodded slowly at the blue-haired Goddess.

"…Fine, since this is your request, I'll make sure to behave unless they provoked me first."

Kazuma turned to the Arch-Priest. "Who are you and what did you do to our Aqua?" he deadpanned.

"Oh shut up, you NEET!" Aqua harrumphed before turning to the redhead.

"In exchange…" Aqua's cheeks slowly turned light pink. "I-I want to join what you and Megumin did last night—"

""WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!""

"What did you do last night…" Kazuma turned at the two mentioned by Aqua with a blank look. Their faces were bright red as tomatoes.

"Oh my…did…did something happen?" Darkness asked in amusement.

"Well, last night when I went to check Shirou's room since I felt Eris' aura, I found Megumin sleeping on his bed looking all disheveled…"

Kazuma and Darkness swallowed as they turned to the two who were trying to explain things to them.

"After that…" It was Aqua's turn to blush furiously as she imagined the 'sword' blocking her path. She looked at Kazuma before turning to Darkness and whispered at the noble's ear, causing the latter to shiver.

"W-W-Was it really…?" Darkness asked with a red face and bated breath.

"Yes…that was the first time for me too…" Aqua replied meekly.

"Oi! Why are you two leaving me out of it!?" Kazuma yelled at the Arch Priest and Darkness.

"Trust me, Kazuma…you will break if you hear this…huff…huff…I don't mind if he breaks me with that massive thing though…no…I want him to punish me and slap me with it…huff…huff…" Darkness answered while whispering the last part.

"Why in the world are you getting aroused right now, you damn masochist…" Kazuma impassively looked at the blonde noble.

"Enough about it! Shirou and I haven't done anything yet!"

"Wait, yet? Then does that mean you're planning to do it soon?" Kazuma grinned at the explosive maniac before turning to Shirou. "You're getting a legal loli soon, Shirou. A dream of every man!"

"Can't we just move on from this topic already!" Megumin screamed with flushed cheeks. "What we do doesn't concern you! And fine! If you want to join us sometime later, then be our guests, Aqua! So stop talking about this matter until the time comes!"

"C-Can I join too!?" Darkness stood up from her seat, leaning toward Megumin who looked perturbed at the blonde Crusader's lustful eyes. "Please, Megumin! I beg you! Let me join your threesome with Shirou and Aqua! D-Do you want me to crawl on the ground and beg like a dog?!""

"O-Oi-oi! What the hell did the Crusader just say?" an adventurer asked after he spurted out his drink.

"T-Threesome!?"

"He's doing that with two girls and gonna add one more!?"

"Holy shit dude, how do you think he will take them on?!"

"He's a real man among men!"

"G-Girls! Did you hear it!?" a waitress returned to her friends after delivering drinks.

"No, what happened?"

"I heard the Sword Prince had a threesome with the girls in his party and the blonde one is joining them!"

"""WHAAAAA!?"""

Shirou's ears twitched from hearing the spreading rumors. He felt a headache come to him, way worse than when he had to deal with the prosecutor just now. He face-planted himself at the table as if giving up on the matter.

"Girls…you probably should consider Shirou's situation over there…" Kazuma went blank at the 3 girls after noticing the redhead was not paying attention to any of them any longer.

"Yup...there's no way I'm getting a harem if this is how it will turn out..." Kazuma finished as he pitied the redhead. "I wonder when my heroine will come out..."

"So…your non-human friend opens a magic tool shop in Axel." Aqua mused as her eyes glittered, looking at the board above the store's door. "Wiz's magic tool shop…"

"Shirou…what do you mean by Wiz-san is not a human?" Darkness asked. "I've known her for quite a time since our family used her service to teleport us to the Royal Capital…"

"Well…let's just get inside first…" Shirou said before turning to Aqua. "Aqua-sama, please remember your promise…I really don't want to use my last resort if you couldn't…"

"Hmph! I'm a Goddess, there's no way that I will break my promises!"

Shirou nodded before he pushed open the door which was already unlocked.

Once he got inside, he saw Wiz attending her front desk before turning to him cheerfully.

"Good Morning, Shirou!" she greeted before greeting the others who came in after the redhead.

When she was about to greet the blue-haired Arch Priest, she stammered but still managed to do it.

"G-Good Morning Aqua-sama…"

"…yeah…" Aqua immediately closed in on the redhead and strangled him. "Your friend is a goddamn LICH!? Of all non-humans that you could have befriended, she has to be a LICH!?"

Darkness turned to Wiz after Aqua said that.

"I-Is that true, Wiz? You were not a human?"

"She was a human! She must have become a Lich to reach immortality!" Aqua interjected. "Sorry! But I can't comply with your request from before, Shirou! I'll purify—"

*SMACK!*

Megumin swung her staff to the Goddess' head.

"WWWHhhhHYyyyyYYY!?" Aqua whined at Megumin before Kazuma followed up with a pinch on her cheek.

"Owch owch! Iht hez Hahuma-zhaan!"

"You should start listening to someone else's story first before you purify her, you brain-dead goddess!"

"Luckily…that one isn't here too…" Megumin sighed exasperatedly before she looked around the store.

After Megumin said that, the front door was opened by the devil in butler uniform.

"Good MORNING, everybody! Even from the outside, the Cult's Goddess there served Moi a very excellent snack! Kuhahahahaha!"

Aqua blinked at the devil in the mask before she threw Kazuma away and jumped at Vanir.

Vanir didn't do anything. He just stood there with his hands on his side and a grin plastered on his face.

"Sacred Exo— kuhagh!"

Aqua bit her tongue and fell to her knees from being pulled on her hagoromo so suddenly.

"What are you doing, Megumin!? He's a devil! a dangerous one to boot!"

"Kuhahahaahahahaha! What's wrong Goddess Aqua? Why don't you exorcise Moi right now? Moi won't try to retaliate~"

Aqua gritted her teeth. "Sacred Exorcism!"

…

…

"H-Huh?" Everybody in the room, including Aqua, blinked. "I-I can't use my spell!? Why!?

"Sacred Exorcism! Sacred Turned Undead!" it was useless, nothing that she used came out. "WWWHHYYYYY!?"

"KUHAHAHAHAHAHA! SO USELESS, A DOLT, MORON, HOPELESS! Moi sympathize with those who allowed you to join their party! How could you not even notice the golden chain on your leg right now!" Vanir laughed as he enjoyed the emotions Aqua gave out.

"Chain!?" Aqua then turned to her leg and saw a gold chain she was very familiar with.

"E-E-Enkidu!?" her eyes then traced toward the end of the chain held by the redhead.

"Enkidu, the chain of heavens!?" Kazuma yelled out. "The one from Epic of Gilgamesh!?" the brown-haired Japanese boy turned to his partner who nodded sheepishly at him.

"Gil used these chains to strap me on the bed that one time, luckily I managed to get away before she did anything to me…fuck, that was a scary moment in my life…" Shirou then turned to Aqua. "I'm sorry Aqua-sama, but these two are my friends…I can't let you exorcise and purify them…"

Darkness looked at the redhead from the side with flushed cheeks and uneven breath. She hadn't expected that someone so calm as him can be so ruthless as to chain a woman. Darkness had imagined many things when Aqua told her about the 'sword' and now with a chain that can render Aqua's spells useless, she imagined what it would feel like if she didn't have any of her skills when the redhead punish her with the 'sword'.

Being alarmed by the Crusader's ecstatic gaze on Shirou, Kazuma said. "Oi…Darkness' looking at you with those eyes again…"

"…I'm trying not to look at her…"

"Hmm…what a massive pervert we have here…" Vanir mused as he looked at the Crusader. "This woman's thinking that she wanted to be punished with the 'sword' while being chained by you and had her skills sealed, boy." Vanir paused before getting a loud denial from the Crusader and continued. "She also doesn't want you to hold back when you push that 'sword' of yours deep into her sheath, break it if possible."

…

…

Megumin and Wiz started to move away from Darkness who fell to her knees while covering her face. Even Kazuma was…disturbingly disturbed by what the Crusader in his party was thinking. Shirou meanwhile could only pretend to not hear what Vanir said to preserve the woman's dignity.

"Sorry, but this chain only seals Divine Entities' ability…"

The redhead muttered apologetically at Darkness who meekly nodded at him.

"Enough with Darkness!" Aqua cried out while bawling. She turned to Shirou with puffed eyes. "And you! We're gonna have a real talk after we're done!"

Shirou nodded before dismissing the chain, Vanir meanwhile was having the day of his life. It was a delicacy to be able to enjoy a Goddess' negative emotion, something that he never had before. Truly, he needed to thank the redhead once more.

"Boy, Moi thank thee for giving Moi such cuisine that Moi never tasted."

"Don't thank me yet… there's something I have to ask you, and I need you to answer me truthfully."

Vanir might have raised an eyebrow at the earnestness of the redhead if he had been able to do so. All eyes in the room were directed at the two men.

"Do you have anyone of your kind lingering around Axel?"

"As far as Moi tell, no. There isn't anyone besides Moi that manifested in this world."

"Alright, I'll trust you."

Vanir raised his hand.

"However, let Moi check it for thee in exchange for the Goddess' dark emotions just now." The Devil smiled. "Do thou have any inkling where Moi should look at it?"

Shirou grinned, a very devilish one to boot, enough to terrify his friends in the room.

"You should check the Royal Prosecutor, Sena first since she gave off a scent of a devil, a trace of it left by someone who visited her last evening."

"A very specific person already. Moi like thee, makes Moi job easier." Vanir cackled. "Very well! Moi will check up on this Sena right now! And as a piece of advice for you, your journey to the Royal Capital will be another turmoil! Kuhahahahahaha!"

Vanir laughed before he left the store, leaving the dumbfounded Shirou before the redhead turned to his friends.

"Well…you heard the devil spoke…"

"U-uhm…" Wiz raised her hand. "What's this about Royal Prosecutor and Royal Capital?"

The group turned at the Lich except for Aqua who sat down on a chair in the corner of the room before they gave her the brief summary of what had happened just now while Shirou left for the kitchen, cooking breakfast for Wiz.

"I…see…I didn't know that happened…"

"No one could have known, Wiz…" Megumin reassured. "Luckily, Shirou was quick-witted and decided to attend the invitation from the Princess."

"But…you know what teleport spell did to Shirou… Vanir-san also said just now…it will be another turmoil for him…"

Darkness, Kazuma, and Megumin looked at each other before they scrunched their brows.

Aqua meanwhile crossed her legs and arms while putting a smug look on her face.

"Why don't I boost his luck before we leave for the royal capital then?"

The other four quickly whipped their heads to the Arch Priest.

"That's right! you can boost our status with your spell! And maybe if his luck is high enough, Shirou won't be randomly teleported anymore and we'll arrive together at the royal capital!" Megumin stood up from her seat with a fist in the air.

"Right, why do we forget about Aqua being an Arch-Priest…" Darkness added.

"Well, duh, because she hasn't done anything Arch-Priest worthy…" Kazuma followed up, getting a loud 'oi' from the Goddess.

Wiz meanwhile could only beam a smile at Aqua gratefully. She knew that the Goddess hate anything related to Devils or Undeads, therefore she wouldn't open her mouth unnecessarily. Aqua noticed her but didn't say anything since she wouldn't want to waste her breath on an undead.

"Say," Aqua started. "I haven't heard how Shirou come to befriend a devil and a lich."

Darkness looked at Kazuma and Megumin since they weren't too surprised back when Aqua said that Wiz was a lich.

"Well, long story short… Wiz became a lich because she wanted to remove a curse from her friends, courtesy of the late Beldia." Kazuma paused before drinking his tea. "As for Vanir… Shirou actually almost managed to kill him, but he managed to survive and only had his mask broken…that's why there is a II written on it…" Kazuma sipped his tea again. "Then, Shirou said that Vanir had never killed anyone and only ate their negative emotions, when the devil told him that he wanted to retire from being a General, Shirou played pretend with him to let him escape by almost killing him…"

Kazuma turned to Megumin.

"Did I miss anything?"

"Nope, you got them right in one go."

Kazuma nodded before turning to Darkness, who nodded understandingly at him, and Aqua, who grumpily did the same.

"I'm still asking for what I requested from him before."

"That's your business with him." Kazuma deadpanned.

"Um…Megumin…" Wiz called for the Arch-Wizard who was sitting next to her quietly. "What favor does Aqua-sama mean?"

The explosion maniac's face reddened before then she whispered to Wiz what happened last night and the favor Aqua talked about.

"S-So indecent…" the shopkeeper whispered as she turned crimson, fidgetting in her seat. "D-does that mean Aqua-sama also have feelings for Shirou?"

Megumin shook her head. "As far as I know, no. She's only interested in what she had seen, including Darkness who has been eavesdropping on us over there…"

Wiz turned to the blonde Crusader who quickly averted her eyes.

"I-I see…" Wiz gulped before drinking her tea. "What did Shirou say then?"

"Nothing. He didn't say anything about the matter, but I think he's very troubled with it…"

"W-Well...I guess we can't blame him if he's troubled..."

After breakfast for Wiz and snacks for his friends, the group agreed to go to the Royal Capital immediately. Aqua boosted Shirou's luck with her spell and Wiz used Teleport on them.

The group opened their eyes, and they found themselves not far from the Royal Capital since they could see the walls and gate from where they were.

"SHIROU'S GONE!" Megumin shrieked since she couldn't see any trace of the redhead's hair.

"...OI AQUA! Are you sure you cast that spell of yours properly!?" Kazuma turned to the blue-haired Goddess.

"I did! I even cast it twice on him for precaution!" Aqua panicked.

"We better hurry to the royal capital right now, let's hope that Shirou's luck this time sends him somewhere in the capital..." Darkness urged.

"You know...seeing you this serious really unnerves me..." Kazuma deadpanned, nevertheless, she agreed with the Crusader.

Thus the group left for the royal capital in a hurry.

It was the first time for the group to be in the royal capital saves for Darkness.

"Damn...this place is bustling..."

"As expected of Royal Capital of Kingdom of Belzerg..." Megumin added.

"Kazuma! Kazuma! Look, there's a wine store over there! Let's visit it later before we go back to Axel!"

"You and your wine brain..." the Japanese sighed.

"Let's head for the guild first, since Shirou had been here once when he defeated Vanir, he should have known where the guild is... who knows, if we're in luck, he might have waited for us there." Darkness said with seriousness on her face.

"Lead the way then, Lady Lalatina-"

Darkness smacked the Japanese on his the back of his head before she did what Kazuma asked her to.

Not too long after that, the group arrived at the guild which was 3 times bigger than the guild in Axel and much more crowded. The adventurers in the royal capital weren't like the ones in the town of Axel. They were luxuriously equipped with high-tier types of equipment, even for a simple job as a thief.

"Look at that... the stark contrast between the Axel and Royal Capital's adventurers...damn... I wonder how much they cost..."

"I agree..."

"You two do realize that Shirou has been killing Generals here and there including Destroyer without anything fancy like those Paladins over there, right?" Aqua pointed out loud, gathering the attention of the adventurers in their surroundings. "They had all those equipment yet still lost against Beldia and Vanir who Shirou killed with an explosive arrow, what a-"

Kazuma quickly covered the Goddess' mouth before she said too much.

"Sorry! sorry! Please ignore this nutjob Arch-Priest!" the brown-haired Japanese bowed profusely at the adventurers glaring at them.

Megumin and Darkness quickly moved on ahead so as to not get involved with them when suddenly they heard a new group of adventurers talk among themselves as they entered the guild.

"Have you heard? There was a disturbance in the castle just now."

"Really? what is it about?"

"They said someone trespassed into the castle with teleport magic to the Princess' bedroom."

"Dammit! Princess Iris' room! I'm fucking jealo- What a despicable person they are!"

"...I can say the same to you dude..."

Kazuma, Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness had their jaws dropped to the floor as the adventurers passed them by.

"O-oi-oi...it...can't be...right?" Kazuma gulped.

"H-h-he won't be executed, right, Darkness?!"

"W-Well...in normal regulation... they would have him executed immediately...but since this is Shirou we're talking about...let us hope that he will find a way out..."

"Why don't we head to the castle then? We have Darkness here and with her abusing her authority, I'm sure we can meet anyone in charge of the security in the castle." Aqua supplied.

"I do not want to abuse my privilege...but I guess it can't be helped this time..." Darkness took out a pendant underneath her armor. "Let's head to the castle, hopefully, we're not too late."

The group nodded before they left the guild hastily.

-Meanwhile, with Shirou several minutes ago-

I opened my eyes after Wiz cast Teleport magic on us.

When I didn't see Kazuma and the others, I started cursing right away.

"Goddammit...!"

I looked around the room.

"...Super luxurious bed with canopy, check... large mirror on the wall with makeup on the table, check... 4 doors wardrobe, check... bookshelf with very difficult titles, check... a window facing the...fuck..."

The instant I realized where I was, I began to break out in a cold sweat.

I was teleported to the Royal Capital just fine, but the place I was in right now was not a place I should stay at.

I opened the door to the balcony and looked down.

At that time, I was very tempted to dive into the body of water 40m down below.

Then I looked up at the scenery, a clear view of the whole Kingdom of Belzerg.

I sighed.

"I guess I should wait until someone comes in."

Then, a voice came from outside the lone door leading into this area, as if in response to what I had spoken.

"Iris-sama, I've brought the schedule for today."

A very familiar voice belonging to the white-suit lady that I met two days ago rang calmly before another answered her.

With a fairly dejected intonation, the voice inquired. "I understand, it is the same as usual, isn't it, Claire? Has the adventurer not answered my summon yet?"

Oh, now there was a haughtiness behind her voice.

It seems the Princess is in rather need of correction.

"My a-apologies, Iris-sama. However, Emiya Shirou hasn't given any response yet."

I saw the door being opened by the white suit lady as she bowed at the little princess walking into her room. At that moment, the Princess was stunned to see someone in her room, but she didn't yell or anything.

She only stared at me in confusion before blinking repeatedly and rubbing her eyes.

The Princess, Iris, had blue eyes and long straight blonde hair free flowing except for the right side of her face which was braided. She wore some sort of green-colored headband decorated with green leaves and grapes and a long white dress and a blue skirt covering her legs.

There was a necklace around her neck that I could identify as a Divine Relic that allow the user to switch body with their targets.

That was a really dangerous relic. I wonder how Eris-sama allows this kind of relic to be left in this world.

I waved at the girl with the best smile I could give in order not to freak her out.

She did the same and waved back at me, but still with caution in her every motion.

"Iris-sama?"

Claire addressed before she followed the Princess' line of sight and gasped at me standing casually inside the room.

"Hey, white suit, it's been a day—"

The woman quickly drew her rapier and charged at me.

I answered in kind by tracing Caliburn in my hands, blocking the white suit woman's thrust.

"Y-You!? How are you here!? No, are you even the real person himself!?"

I sighed as we exchanged blows several times, making noises in the room as she kept on pushing me.

Behind Claire, I could hear the princess whispering the word "beautiful" as she gazed at Caliburn.

"Calm down you pervert noble. This is an accident, I swear to it…"

She panicked when I called her that and her attacks became much more furious.

"D-Don't call me that!"

"Then quit it before you actually hit someone already! Look! Even your Princess over there is gawking!"

"H-How dare you to address Iris-sama in such an unruly manner!"

Claire didn't stop. What I've said seems to anger her more than before.

Her swordplay was good but not as good as Saber's. I can easily block them all if not for my slip on the feet.

"Ah/Eh!?"

Why the hell are you gasping when you were the one who kept attacking me!?

I slipped on my feet and my body began to fall from the balcony.

"I'll remember thiiiissss, you lolicon white suiiiitt! I'll tell the whole kingdom if I need toooooooo!"

I yelled out as loud as I can as I freefall into the pool.

Claire and the Princess hurried to the ledge of the balcony and saw the young man falling into the body of water from roughly 40m high.

Iris covered her mouth with her hand as a gasp escaped through her lips.

"Claire…"

"Y-Yes, Iris-sama…"

"Do you think… the gentleman is alright?"

"I-I'm sure that man is fine, Iris-sama…after all, he was the one who defeated the Devil Vanir without breaking a sweat…"

Iris turned at her retainer with an astounding look.

"Then…why did you attack without letting him explain his situation?"

Claire averted her eyes from the Princess'.

"And…what did he mean when he called you lolicon?"

Iris asked again, clearly unfamiliar with the word while Claire turned panic from the question.

"He even threatened to tell the whole kingdom if he needs to…

Again, Claire flinched and turned pale. Unable to find words to answer the Princess' question.

The two then noticed guards were apprehending the redhead who just got out of the pool.

"Oh no…the guards took him away…and he seems to be yelling something at us…"

Claire fell down to her knees with a blue face.

"Oh Goddess, Eris-sama… please, grant me strength to overcome this…"

That's it for this time!

Enjoy!

OMAKE

Shirou couldn't go back to sleep after what happened just now. He turned to his side and found Megumin sleeping peacefully even after what she had seen. Worse, the girl was clinging to his hand, not giving him a chance escape.

He sighed before he tried to close his eyes.

Then, suddenly, something flashed in his mind.

He raised his right hand up and see that his command seals were still intact.

'WHY DID NO ONE MENTION THIS SINCE THE FIRST CHAPTER!?'

Without thinking further about the consequences, he uttered.

"By the command seal, I order you to come, Saber!"

In a flash, two figures stood in his room.

"Sa...ber?"

His excitement plummeted when he noticed the Saber in front of him was not the normal one, but the altered version of her. Along with the ashen-hair girl, a blonde woman stood arrogantly with hands in her pockets.

"I see...while we were panicking to look for a solution to reach you, a harlot seem to approach you already, Shirou..."

The blackened Excalibur in her hand began to burst with a dark aura.

"Hmph! a mongrel dares to touch a possession of mine! Thief! She shall know pain worst than death itself!"

The blonde woman beside Saber Alter then opened her Gate of Babylon.

"G-girls! please calm down!"

That night, weapons flew outside from the room Shirou was sleeping in, destroying it into rubbles and a black aura shot up to the sky.