Once a NEET always a NEET 4
Disclaimers I don't own Kono Suba, Isekai Quartet, and I guess I should also mention No Game No Life until it becomes official, speaking of which season 2 is scheduled to premier sometime during 2021, so yeah about fricken time am I right.
When morning came the girls went about their regular everyday routine in getting ready for school, which includes Aqua making a lunch for Kazuma.
"Last time I'm going to ask, you sure you don't want to come to school" asked Darkness through Kazuma's door, "I've been up all night, so let me sleep already" cried an irritated Kazuma.
"Very well" said Darkness as she went to the living room to tell the girls the answer they were expecting.
"Alright girls, Kazuma doesn't intend to come in today, so we should make haste and be on our way already" said Darkness as neither one argued and made their way out.
The trip to school felt a lot more longer for them, as they didn't want to leave Kazuma alone, but the last thing they wanted to do was worry anyone else any further.
Once they got to school campus they spotted Emilia, Subaru, and Rem hanging around the front of the school.
"So anything we should know about Kazuma's condition" asked Emilia with concern, "He feels really upset and betrayed by us, and feels that as his friends we betrayed him" said Darkness as those words echoed to them.
Truth of the matter none of them could argue that what Kazuma was feeling towards them wasn't reasonably justified as they all wronged him at some point that night either directly or indirectly.
"Oh dear, this is truly saddening to hear" said Emilia as her face began to droop a little with Subaru putting a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"It's alright Emilia, me and Ainz tried to reach out to him last night online, but he ignored our messages as well" said Subaru as he recalled that instead of giving Kazuma a hand, he was the one to initiate the whole idea of covering Kazuma in crap, ranging from paint, food, and night crawlers.
Now knowing what's plaguing Kazuma and he did nothing but acted like a bully that would oppress guys like him, Subaru was really starting to hate himself.
"No worries, we'll make it up to Kazuma, I swear before we all know it, he'll be coming back to school and we'll be friends again" said Subaru with a smile as this got people to smile back, before they went inside to start another school day.
Elsewhere
Right now Demiruge and Viktoriya were currently in the library as they were looking up on books or on any information regarding to that of shut ins and NEET's and how to approach and cure it.
"Found anything on how to deal with Shut-ins and/or NEET's yet" asked Viktoriya, "Unfortunately no, the closest I was able to find was a manga series centered around this fallen angel who was sent to earth by god, which I honestly find quite amusing in an ironic sense" said Demiruge.
"Look up books on psychology, depression, and platonic relationships, since you can't find anything with NEET here in this library, but I suppose if what Subaru has explained to us what NEET's are, it's definitely a psychological issue and this is the best start I can point us in" said Beatrice as she brought them a stack of books.
"Thanks Beatrice" said Viktoriya, "Hmpf, I'm only doing this because we hurt him and none of us knows what we're up against in trying to help him" said Beatrice before going back to maintaining the school library.
"So Demiruge, any idea how you guys are going to try to approach Kazuma at the moment" asked Viktoriya, "Well funny how you should ask, last night Lord Ainz tried to approach Kazuma through a game he and Subaru play occasionally, but he had the gall to ignore his messages and muted Lord Ainz" Demiruge as he clenched his fist.
"Kazuma must be really upset if he chose to ignore you guys" said Viktoriya, "Quite so, but the interesting thing was that when I suggested that we confront him right away and force him to apologize for such disrespect to Lord Ainz, he said to let it go" said Demiruge.
"Really now" said Viktoriya a she figured Ainz wrong given the tails he's shared and that was told by his friends, "Indeed" said Demiruge.
What Demiruge didn't add was the fact was the fact Ainz had called him out and put him in his place for initiating the idea and getting Tanya's men to forcibly tie Kazuma before they pelted him with crap, under the false assumption that this was all of his idea.
More so, he talked to Demiruge in private that he no longer has permission to speak on his behalf ever again, and that whatever idea or assumption he may think could be his, to keep it to himself, and to listen and shut up from now on as Ainz was determined to speak on his own behalf from now on.
Truly a killer blow to the devils pride and honor as he would've never dare to imagine to ever upsetting Ainz.
As such Demiruge was determined to patch things up with Kazuma with sincerity in hopes to gain back the trust and respect from Ainz.
Speaking of Ainz, the skeleton lord was facing his own turmoil as well, given how throughout the whole time he did nothing, and turned a blind eye, and this was after Kazuma pleaded him to get his men to back away right in his face.
He maybe suppose to be this evil dungeon master of the Tomb of Nazarick, but before that he was a human, specifically a nerd like Kazuma and Subaru who went by the name of Satoru Suzuki.
And as a nerd he understood the hardships and bullying it came, and that fact that he did nothing, in spite of his power and authority he had over his men, he went and remained silent as he witnessed the night of abuse Kazuma had to endure.
So he clearly understands and sympathizes for Kazuma and him not wanting to associate with him or anyone anymore.
But regardless, Ainz wants to at least put out his own words and apologize to Kazuma for the actions of his floor guardians and his lack of taking any action, cause even if he were to live forever, he couldn't live knowing he knowing he ruined the life of a man who was exactly like him who had it already bad before, and he just made it worse.
Right now he was currently in class waiting for the bell to ring while remaining forever vigilant over the actions of his floor guardians from now on, and to ensure that nothing like that were to ever happen again.
"Alright class, sit down it's time to take attendance~" called Roswaal as everyone began to shuffle and take their seats to begin their day.
With Kazuma
His day started with him sleeping at 7:30 in the morning and continued back on schedule some time after noon as he got up and went into the living room.
As he started up his home console, he made his way into the kitchen to heat himself up some ramen till he saw a familiar green cloth wrapped bento lunch made for him on the table.
As he approached it, he saw there was a note on top left for him as he decided to pick it up and read it.
'I made you some real food to eat so you don't have to always eat that instant food and ramen crap, and if you get more hungry later on, promise to eat some fruit till me and the girls get back, we're having Carly's Jr. tonight- 3 Aqua' read the note.
Be it just from waking up or maybe because she was told to by Darkness, Kazuma tossed the note aside as he began to unwrap and eat the lunch she had left and prepped him and it was delicious.
Once he had his fill, Kazuma began to play videogames and switched between playing Bioshock Infinite and Borderlands the pre-sequel.
Soon he heard a knock on the door, where he promptly paused his game and answered the door.
"Package delivery for a Satou Kazuma" said Ristarte as she was dressed up in your average postal worker outfit as she held a clipboard and package in hand.
Taking the clip board, Kazuma signed it, before handing it back to Ristarte before giving him his package, before bidding her farewell and setting down to open the package.
Inside was something he had ordered a long time ago, and it was to have the many photos taken by him and everyone to be turned into a photo album for him to remind him of all the good times he's had since coming here.
But now that it's arrived and in his grasp and all the transgressions that spiraled these past few days, it served nothing but a reminder that all these memories with all these people was a lie and serve to be a waste of time and effort on him.
Taking the album, he promptly went and tossed it in the trashcan before going to his room where he balled up in his bed and hid under his covers so that no being could see him cry.
Later
Back in school, club activities were about to start, and all though many of the students of class B had decided on their clubs, that didn't mean they couldn't join or visit other clubs.
Like how right now Subaru with Rem were currently checking out the Gamers Club that was established.
"Aren't you worried about what Megumin might do if you tried to go to a different club" asked Rem, "Hey if Kazuma says is true that she's only serious 5% of the time and is an overdramatic kid with Chuunibyou the other 95% of the time, I'm sure we got nothing to worry about" said Subaru as he turned to give Rem a smile.
Once his head faced forward, his smile dropped and in its place was a grimace as mentioning Kazuma really upset Subaru as he felt he lost the right to even say his name.
But all of those feelings were left behind when they entered inside the Gamers Club room to see that is was mainly consisting of Sora and Shiro as they were playing COD BO II Zombies, specifically the map known as Nuke Town.
"Hello, and welcome to the Gamers Club, I'm the club president Stephanie Dola, well at least in name" greeted Stephanie with a grimace.
"Oh and here are our other members Sora and Shiro" introduced Stephanie, "Sup" said Sora as he turned to greet and wave at them as Shiro have a backhand wave.
"Nice to meet you guys, my name is Subaru and this here is Rem" introduced Subaru, "Pleasure to meet you" said Rem with a bow.
"Yeah, I know who you are Subaru, you were one of those 4 students who took on and defeated the Destroyer the first time around" said Stephanie as this got Sora and Shiro's attention as they continue to game, but kept their ears open.
"That's right, it took a combined effort between me, Ainz, Tanya, and… Kazuma" said Subaru as he visibly felt distaste for saying his friends name.
"Is something wrong" asked Stephanie, "Please forgive us, but in case you haven't been informed, our friend Kazuma has recently endured a traumatic betrayal inflicted by us, and well we all feel terribly responsible and guilty for what we did to him" said Rem as she recalled having join in pelting Kazuma by Subaru's insistence and when she hit him, it was with enough force to knock the wind out of him that he couldn't even beg them to stop.
"Oh my god that sounds terrible" said Stephanie as she covered her mouth with her hand, "If you mean that Kazuma has become a NEET, because of them, I agree" spoke up Sora as he and Shiro paused their game to take part in the conversation.
"Look we haven't really been around to know what goes on here at school every day, but consider my interest peeked in knowing exactly what happened to and who this Kazuma person is" said Sora as Shiro nodded along.
"It's a long story, so hear us out before you ask any questions" said Subaru as everyone took a seat to hear the full story what became of Kazuma.
Elsewhere
Like I said earlier, there was a lot of clubs formed and that were open to visitation to anyone curious enough to join these clubs.
As such, Tanya wanted to visit these clubs, specifically one called the Reincarnated Afterlife Battlefront Club.
If what Ainz said is true, that this was the largest club with the largest club room, surely they have to be interesting to be given such a treatment, especially given their rumored reputation, thought Tanya as she had heard that all members are enrolled in class D, and are considered to be the most rambunctious students in the most rambunctious class in the school.
"What the hell do you mean after all this time, Takeyama hasn't been able to find jack in this world" Noda says angrily.
"Call me Christ would you" Takeyama said as he was determined to at least get one person to call him by the ridiculous self titled name, "It's like he said, no matter how hard he studies, or how much painstakingly time we put our efforts in scouting, we can't say how this world works, and the rules that may apply" said Yuri.
"I say we crucify the nerd and Angel, maybe then we get some results" said Noda as half the people cheered in agreement.
"No one is doing that, Tachibana has nothing to do with this world as much as any of us know about it either" said Otonashi as Tachibana readied her hand sonic.
"There's someone outside the door" mused Tachibana as everyone stopped trying to pick a fight amongst themselves as they armed themselves, ready for anything as Hinata went to answer the door.
"False alarm guys, it's just a little girl" said Hinata as that triggered Tanya to jump and with all her strength uppercut punch Hinata, that he was sent flying back and was knocked out by the blow.
"Senpai" Yui said as she ran towards her husband and rested his head on her lap, while everyone else pointed their weapons at Tanya ready to fight till she dies.
"Give the word Yurippe, and I'll gladly hack her into meat logs" said Noda as he finally feel like he could sate his taste for blood.
"Everyone calm down, while it was uncalled for, I'm sure Hinata asked for it" said Yuri as some people felt bad for Hinata, "This is so stupid" said Shiina as she rested her hands over her dual sheathed kodachi.
Seeing how well organized and militaristic they are, and how they do follow a chain of command, Tanya began to smirk at them.
"Forgive me for knocking out your fool, but I am interested in knowing a little more about you guys and maybe even form an alliance" said Tanya as everyone remained wary of her.
"Alright, come on in, my name is Yurippe Nakamura, president and leader of the Reincarnated Afterlife Battlefront" said Yuri.
"I thought we were called Bullshit, Fucking tired of this Shit Battlefront" said Fujimaki, "School wouldn't allow a club named with profanities" said Yuri.
"Wait didn't we say we were gonna be called the Barnacle Battlefront in case something like this happened" said Takamatsu, "Only if we were reincarnated as Barnacles hence the name dunderhead" said Yuri.
"Ey yo, wait didn't we agreed that ya know, on a vote to call ourselves the Reanimated Recharged Soldiers Battlefront" asked TK, "Look as much as I love the band and reference, last thing I want is for us to be looked like a bunch of emo teens and a joke" said Yuri.
"But we're all emo teens" said Naoi as everyone agreed to that statement as Yuri's patience was running thin at this point.
"Oh shut up" said Yuri before the group began to argue amongst themselves as Tanya stood their awkwardly.
Ok starting to regret coming here, especially since there lot are better suited to be with Kazuma and his company, thought Tanya as she reflected and owned up that some of her actions towards Kazuma may have been unfair given how he never was a soldier to begin with and didn't deserve to be treated harshly as one.
Ok guys, I got another chapter down, and another Isekai franchise in the mix, so I hope you guys like where the direction of where the story is going so far.
Personally like I mentioned before I had a different idea in mind for the story, but hey who knows I probably will still execute and act on it still since the challenge of getting Kazuma to school by any means necessary, where shits and giggles are guaranteed to ensue isn't far from my originally planned agenda.
This has been your Humble Narrator Tobi Yaza. =3
