Once a NEET always a NEET 3
Disclaimers I don't own Kono Suba or Isekai Quartet, please support to any all official releases.
Also I came to the realization the tone I set up the story was a lot different compared to what I originally planned, so word of warning I've no idea what direction I want this story to go now.
By the time club activities were over, Darkness and Megumin were the first to come back home, ready to apologize first over what happened over the weekend and to make sure Kazuma was alright.
"Kazuma we're home and we brought Mexican" said Darkness as she was referring to Mexican food.
Kazuma was passed out on the couch with a blanket half wrapped around him and a controller on his lap and about 3 empty cup of noodles on coffee table.
"Must've passed out while playing Bioshock Infinite" said Megumin as she looked at the games box on the coffee table as she examined the games cover and manual.
"Come on, give me a hand and open his room, I'll carry him back inside" said Darkness as she began carry him princess style in her arms.
Upon doing so, both realized how vacant and bare Kazuma's room was, since the handful of times the girls entered his room it carried and showed the things Kazuma had interest, now it only had carried a quarter of his things leaving a sense of emptiness and broken even.
"Hey Darkness, did you notice how different Kazuma's looked" asked Megumin, "Yes, it's quite worrying in my opinion" said Darkness before the front door opened to see it was Aqua.
"Jeez, what a pain in the ass, but at least the boss there is a lot nicer" said Aqua as she came back from work as she took a whiff of what was for dinner.
"Do I smell Burrito Gong" asked Aqua, as she went to check out the food they brought home, "Yeah, we got you a 3 crunchy tacos, 2 apple empanadas, and a 7 layer burrito" said Megumin as she started to play Bioshock and had her 3 bean and cheese burritos next to her while she gamed.
"Sweet" said Aqua as she grabbed her share of food and proceeded to eat, "So how was work Aqua, it sound busy" said Darkness.
"Some little twerp threw a tantrum and made a mess at the store so I was tasked to clean up the little brats mess" said Aqua as moments like that would definitely make anyone's day a little crappy.
"You have my sympathy" said Darkness as she pulled out her share of 2 tostadas, and the Nacho Grandes all to herself.
"So where's Kazuma" asked Aqua between bites, "He was a sleep when we came back" said Darkness, before they heard the sounds of footsteps to revealed Kazuma fully awake again.
"Sup" said Kazuma as he readied to grab his share of food and some root beer and retreat back to his room.
"Kazuma wait, can we talk for a minute" said Darkness as she was trying to reach out for him.
"Yeah, everyone's worried that you're becoming a shut in NEET again" said Aqua, "You're not helping" Darkness said to Aqua as she played innocent, while Kazuma was retreating to his room.
"Kazuma if you go back to your room I will overload your saved game" said Megumin with a mischievous smile as this stopped him in tracks.
"Do that and I swear you'll be without panties in this household forever" threatened Kazuma, "Alright I won't do it if you get your butt back here and chat with us" said Megumin.
Begrudgingly, Kazuma did as she said by complying to eat with the girls, while trying to keep to himself.
"Kazuma, I know you don't care to listen to us, but we want apologize for our actions and our behavior that transpired over the weekend, and what Aqua said was true that our friends are indeed worried about you" said Darkness.
"Yeah it's not fun without you, and everyone is willing to apologize and make up what they've done to you, so please won't you come back to school" added Megumin hoping their words had reached him.
"Not a chance in hell" said Kazuma as this through the girls in for a loop that Aqua nearly choked on her taco.
"You guys have done nothing but give me grief way before I got here, and when shit hits the fan it's always my responsibility to clean up after your guys' messes while dealing with the fact that you all have one or more terrible trait" stated Kazuma.
"Frankly I thought I could tolerate it until we get back, kill the Devil King, and then go our separate ways, instead I bare witnessed all 3 of you at your absolute worst, which I never thought was possible, but hey congratulations, you manage to show me that no matter your sex appeal, if your ugly on the inside your ugly on the outside too" said Kazuma.
"Ok Kazuma listen here, I know you don't give about what we have to say, but understand that if you don't come back to school, there's going to be dire consequences for all us attending" said Aqua.
"Heh, I guess there is justice in this world" Kazuma said with a sarcastic smile, "Kazuma, Aqua is right, a lot of us fear that should you not attend school we might never be able to go home, or worse cease to exist" said Darkness.
"Ok, let me ask you this, was it Roswaal who told you guys that, cause if so and he didn't give a complete and full honest answer, than sorry to say the guys is filled with more shit than a cart filled with manure" said Kazuma.
"Ok true, Mr. Roswaal has a reputation to be vague, but we were persistent in knowing about the full truth, and frankly neither he or any of the school staff knows what could happen should you not come back to school" said Darkness.
"Honestly here's whats the most likely case scenario of me not going to school, nothing, absolutely positively nothing is gonna happen with the exception of them kicking me out, which frankly is fine by me" said Kazuma.
"You can't be sure of that" said Megumin, "News flash, every time he said the fate of the world falls into our hands to take part in these stupid events ranging from the battle of the classes to the school play, and now these school clubs, he said something bad may happen, while at the same time something good may also happen, but you know what when it was all said and done jack shit happened and jack had the sense to not even bother coming" argued Kazuma.
"Who's Jack, is he in class C or something" asked Aqua, "That's a figure of speech you useless goddess" said Kazuma.
"Ok I am not a useless goddess, while you hardly done anything before, I can say that I clean the house, the bathroom, and made us lunch a lot more than you ever did" said Aqua.
"And you've gotten in trouble more than all of us combined, so while you maybe not useless you are the most troublemaking goddess" said Kazuma.
"I can't believe you would just say that" cried Aqua as she felt butt hurt by the new title she was given.
"Back to the subject matter at hand, Kazuma while your argument may have a valid point given Mr. Roswaal and his reputation, the fact of the matter is that you have friends who genuinely care and worry about you and who want you back in our lives" said Darkness.
"If they were truly my friends they would've been back me up, giving me a hand, and say something nice to me, instead they showed their true colors as to how they think and feel about me, so do me a favor and tell them that their message has been received" said Kazuma as he finished his food and went back in his room.
"Jeez, he didn't have to be so mean" said Aqua, "Aqua, Kazuma feels betrayed by our actions, and frankly you didn't do anything to help the situation" said Darkness.
"It's called tough love" argued Aqua, "It's called being an arrogant ass in my opinion" said Megumin as she started up a new game on her own file.
"Well put, now Aqua I want you to understand that unless you show some sincerity and not degrade Kazuma any further, I don't think he's ever going to listen to you or accept your apology, which now that I think about you never said" said Darkness.
"But I am always honest with him" said Aqua as she actually wasn't lying about that, or any other time given how she's a piss poor liar.
"Actually we almost forget you couldn't lie out of a paper bag" said Darkness as Megumin nodded to that forgotten fact, "So mean" cried Aqua.
"Well honesty aside, I think you should be a lot nicer to Kazuma, he has done a lot for us, but you especially since you've known each other the longest" said Megumin.
Aqua remained silent from then on for the rest of the night as she took in the words and considered that fact maybe she could try to be nicer to Kazuma, and maybe think before acting and shoving her foot in her mouth.
Speaking of Kazuma, he was brooding in his room as he played TF2 in the first time since forever and chose to ignore any to all game requests and messages sent to him by his 'friends' and chose to play in a lobby mainly filled with strangers.
"Come on Medic, I could use some healing" said Kazuma through his mic as his team consisted of a Medic pocketing a Heavy, as he was forced to fend for his life playing as a Scout.
Ignoring his please to get healed, Kazuma was quickly killed by the enemies Blu Sniper using the lucksman.
"Damn it, is anyone going to back me up and watch my back" Kazuma asked sarcastically as he checked the leader boards that these 2 players, with Blank names were dominating the other team, that some sore loser was going to call cheating or hacking, even though these two are simply some of the best players the world has ever seen.
Not far from Kazuma's neighborhood, we can see behind some thick curtains were the very bright light from a couple of monitors revealing a gaming duo who were playing TF2 as well and on the same team as Kazuma.
"Hey Shiro, I think it be nice of you to at least heal the guy with the crusaders crossbow every once in a while" said Sora with his back towards his sister as she was pocketing him.
"This 'Billionaire Adventurer' guys sounds like a real scrub though" said Shiro, "He is, but this is a team game where we all got to do our share, plus I think doing that much will get him to shut up" said Sora.
"Fair enough" said Shiro as she shot Kazuma a few times with the crusaders crossbow to give him that health edge to kill the enemy Blu Sniper from before.
"See, got him to finally to stop bitching" said Sora, before their door was opened by none other than Stephanie.
"Hey guys, I got us Mexican" said Stephanie with smile as she brought them dinner, "How was work and school" asked Sora, "Interesting apparently a student in class B didn't show up and the whole school is in a panic".
"We hardly ever show up to class ourselves, so I don't see the big deal" said Shiro nonchalantly, "True, but rumor has it was one of those 4 students who took out the Destroyer the first time around" said Stephanie as this got the duos attention.
"Really now, that is quite interesting" said Sora as he remembered that day as it was mandatory for the siblings to be present that day, even if they were just bench warmers.
Still it was a sight to behold as how 4 students singlehandedly took on a big machine like the Destroyer in such a way that it was like witnessing defeating the final powerful boss in a videogame.
"Also guys, the school approved of your Gamers Club, and as promised you guys are coming to school every day now right" said Stephanie as she's been trying to get them to attend school regularly and had to jump some serious hoops in order to attain this club, under the promise they start coming to school every day.
"Sigh, a promise is a promise, who knows maybe it'll be fun to play with people who are competent and interesting in gaming" said Sora.
"So long it's not scrubs like this guy here, I'm in" said Shiro as she witnessed Kazuma getting himself killed when he blindly walk through a hall way and died from an enemy sentry gun.
Elsewhere
After getting his ass kicked and after getting up with the constant in game messages from Subaru and Ainz, Kazuma decided to rage quit and opted to play some New Vegas.
While playing, he felt an odd feeling he's been here and is still needed to do some unfinished business, and that he had a sudden lust for Aqua like he already know her bare naked body, in spite he'd never would feel any attraction towards Aqua, and as much as playing the game was fun actually patrolling the Mojave to save the day sounds terrible, but he'd jump on that boat by himself any other day and time if given the opportunity.
And there's my meta commentary and the end of this chapter, but hey there's more to come still.
Also to anyone who doesn't get the reference or knows and is painstakingly waiting for my other fic Kazuma the Road Warrior, no worries I finally got around to writing it, and the reason for the delay will be explained there, but to those that are interested, just click on my name and search through my written work, you can't miss it, it's one of the only 2 written Fallout/Kono Suba crossover stories I've written, you seriously can't miss it.
Other than that I got to introduce our characters from No Game No Life, so expect them to interact with our cast of characters by next chapter, while everyone else readies to either apologize or force Kazuma back into school.
This has been your Humble Narrator Tobi Yaza. =3
