Once a NEET always a NEET 10
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Once at work, Darkness and Cocytus wasted no time of getting things packed and organized so it could be easier for the machines to do the easy part.
"How is Kazuma" asked Cocytus as he was helping Darkness moving a couch, onto a conveyer belt.
"It's hard to say to be honest" said Darkness as they set down the couch before moving onto the next heavy object.
"So how are things back with Ainz and everyone else" asked Darkness, "Master Ainz has been encouraging us to figure out a way to attain Kazuma's forgiveness without the use of brute force or threats" said Cocytus as he was all for it in spite of his gruff manner of speaking.
Besides the Fiora twins, it seemed just about everyone was excited to get Kazuma to forgive them without trying to appease Lord Ainz.
Granted if asked, Cocytus would own up to that accusation, but has found himself trying to get Kazuma to forgive him in some way that was genuine and sincere a little more every day.
Otherwise, Cocytus remained as an enforcer for the residence that still serve Lord Ainz in their neighborhood, and keeping a sharp eye his roommate and former Floor Guardian, Demiruge, doesn't think about coming back.
"And how's that going" asked Darkness, "Lord Ainz spends his days plotting in his room and has insisted to not be disturbed for the most part, Albedo and Shalltear while both continue to fight for our masters attention, have been showing little progress in trying to attain Kazuma's forgiveness, but not out of defiance or of lack of not caring" said Cocytus as Darkness could picture those 2 having a hard time trying get a man, other than Ainz, to forgive them and actually mean it in wanting it.
"As for Aura and Mare, they're planning to come over with a cake and have readied themselves a written apology for Kazuma" said Cocytus.
"And when do they plan to do this" asked Darkness, "Over this weekend whenever you or anyone at home are available to accept visitors" said Cocytus.
"You can tell them they're more than welcome to come by later on tonight or tomorrow afternoon" said Darkness with a smile as both stood in front of a fancy refrigerator.
"I'll be sure to pass along the message" said Cocytus before lifting one of the more heavier electrical house appliance today.
With the Reincarnated Afterlife Battlefront
Since their alliance with Tanya and her squad, Yuri has made an effort to make a presence at school and pulled no strings or resources in focusing on espionage on the school faculty for the most part.
Otherwise, she would send a different member to join Otonashi, that is the well behaved one's, and she meant that loosely, in joining him and befriending Kazuma.
While initially wanting to dismiss the matter and case with Kazuma, and this was after Otonashi finally making contact and befriending him, things change after Takeyama along with Demiruge discovered through the schools databanks Kazuma, more than anyone, has a strong connection to the Destroyer that still sitting outside.
As for what reason, no one knows yet as nothing was mentioned, but she was determined to find out why as much as Tanya.
For now, she was ready to send Otonashi back to Kazuma's place, this time with Noda and Shiina coming alongside him and Hinata.
"Please be safe out there darling" said Yui to Hinata, "I promise you, nothing bad will happen to me, especially since I got to look out for Otonashi" said Hinata as Yui kissed him goodbye.
"Come on, let's get the lead out, I should be training right now" said Noda impatiently, "This is stupid" said Shiina as this group of misfits began to head out the room.
"So Takeyama anything new to report" asked Yuri, "Unfortunately no, and the principle of this school spared no expense in setting up a really tricky firewall, and please call me Christ" said Takeyama.
"So you're saying it's impossible" asked Yuri, "Nothing's impossible for me, just give me some time and we'll be golden" said Takeyama as he focused his attention back on his laptop.
"Alright, until then attention everyone" said Yuri as everyone else stood around waiting for her orders.
"Since we've confirmed that the people here at this school is real and just like us, we can't go about on our normal tactics in garnering supplies, be it bullets, or lunch tickets" said Yuri.
"Granted the school is oddly enough generous in supplying us with unlimited ammo and weapons for whatever the situation calls for, but getting food and other entertainment is another matter" said Yuri.
"I don't like the sound of where this is going" said Takamatsu, "We're gonna all have to go out there and get ourselves jobs, I don't care if it's full time or part time, the point is to us have an income while also trying to scope out and get a feel for the area" said Yuri.
"Now everyone your all dismissed" said Yuri as everyone began to make their way out the room as Tanya had been waiting outside out of courtesy of not being a disturbance.
"Major Tanya, what's up" asked Yuri, "Nothing new to report, so I'm hoping you have something worth sharing" asked Tanya.
"Well I'm sorry to say we got nothing as of now in regards to figuring out what the school is hiding " said Yuri as Tanya sighed.
"So how are things between you guys trying to get Kazuma to forgive you, I heard from Otonashi he went and ripped you guys a new one" said Yuri, "Aside from that last part where I prefer not to talk about, it could've gone a lot better" said Tanya as she looked back what happened earlier that week.
Tanya and her group were the last ones to visit Kazuma in attempting to apologize and earn his forgiveness.
What they got was Kazuma yelling back at them to back the hell of and to get the fuck out as he was clearly afraid of Tanya.
While Tanya wanted nothing more than to kick the door down to settle the matter face to face, she knew that it'll result in her getting evicted and possibly hurt from Darkness if the sight of Ram's broken nose had anything to say.
And rarely would Tanya sit down and reflect on her actions inflicted on others since her heartless forceful actions got her the results she wanted, but she knew better than rely on that tact on a delicate matter such as what she did to Kazuma and how she's been treating him.
As for her team, Matheus, Grantz, and Koenig felt especially terrible for giving their friend not only a swirly but participated in pelting him with crap, along with being the ones to initially restrain him in place as they did that undeserved hazing towards him.
Viktoriya was admitingly the one who caused the least amount of damage to Kazuma, besides the insults and making a mess, she never did anything to physically hurt as much as mentally.
Since there failed visit, moral had reached an all time low with her squad to the point that rarely would Tanya have her main squad do any outside physical regiment training, outside of club activities, and even then all they do is reconnaissance missions these days.
What didn't help was that Kazuma informed what happened to his new friends where a furious Naofumi confronted her and gave an ear blistering threat that while it did anger, also impressed Tanya to a degree.
As for what he said, he told Tanya more than anyone else specifically to stay away from Kazuma, otherwise they were going to have a serious problem that'll end with one of them dead.
This of course made things a lot harder on Tanya's end for wanting to make amends with Kazuma, but it didn't deterred her or her team wanting to patch things up with him.
As such, she's given explicit orders to her team, including Demiruge, to figure out a way to get him to forgive the rest of them first and foremost as that's the point of why they're trying to fix things with Kazuma.
When asked by Viktoriya what about her, Tanya admitted that she can live her life without Kazuma forgiving her as she found it just deserved and that they shouldn't go out of their way to convince Kazuma otherwise.
Even so, Tanya wasn't ready to throw in the towel yet and would try it again on another time on her own accord.
For now she had other pressing matters at hand revolving around the secrets that are being withheld from her and everyone at this school and what they're gonna do about it.
With Kazuma and Naofumi
After calming Kazuma down, Naofumi insisted that Kazuma play some Borderlands 3 along with Sora, Shiro, and Shinichi online as he took the money on the table, along with some of his own personal expenses, and went out of his way to go out and do some grocery shopping to cook them up a proper lunch for the 3 of them since Filo was coming back from her play date with the Fiore twins.
Once he got back, he spotted Otonashi and a few others from the Reincarnated Afterlife Battlefront approaching the Satou residence.
"Otonashi, what's up" said Naofumi, "Hey Naofumi, I'm here to introduce more of the guys to Kazuma" said Otonashi before he spotted Filo.
"Hey Filo, how are you doing today" greeted Otonashi, "I'm doing good, I got to play with Aura and Mare today" said Filo happily as it somewhat bothered Naofumi that she chose to play with people who hurt Kazuma, but has long since learn that Filo is just trying to make friends who want to play with her.
"That's good to hear" said Otonashi before he realized Shiina who was standing next to him was now enveloping Filo in a hug as she had a light blush on her face over how moe she was.
"This is so stupid, how can someone be this cute" said Shiina as Filo just stood there and accepted Shiina's hug and affection as she didn't felt this as a stranger danger situation like the spear guy whom she had kicked in the damn nuts on more than 3 occasions now and was willing to do it again if he gave her a reason.
"Right… anyways what's with that bag there" asked Hinata, "I went out to get some groceries to make us all lunch, you guys want any" asked Naofumi.
"I can eat" said Hinata as everyone seemed to be on the same page as they entered the Satou household where Kazuma was group chatting with Sora, Shiro and Shinichi.
"Damn it I'm down" said Kazuma through his mic, before he notice how company came.
"Hey Kazuma, hope you don't mind us coming over and introducing us some new friends of ours" said Hinata, "Oh um, hello" said Kazuma.
"So wait is this that Kazuma guy you guys met, I'm kinda disappointed" said Noda, "This is so stupid" said Shiina as she still held Filo in her arms.
"Be nice, he's been through enough without you being a jackass about it" said Hinata as the ever short tempered Noda took that as an order other from Yuri, which he hated more than anything.
"You want to say that again punk" said Noda as he pointed his Halberd towards Hinata, "Bring it on tough guy I ain't afraid of you" said Hinata as he drew his SIG 9mm pistol and pointed at the most aggressive idiot of the group.
"This is so stupid" said Shiina putting on her regular neutral face, "Agreed, guys put down your weapons already will you" said Otonashi, "Or what your gonna make me" taunted Noda, "No, but Shiina will put you down".
Before Noda could comment or say anything, he found himself getting stab through the back courtesy of Shiina and her kodachi.
"Holy shit" said Kazuma as he dropped his controller and back away to the far edge of the couch, "Filo, get behind me" ordered Naofumi.
"What the fuck Otonashi, you just killed one of your own guys" said Kazuma as he had fallen over and hid behind the couch.
"Relax, believe or not we're all immortal so we'll just bounce right back up, the only issue you've got to deal is constantly getting new clothes and cleaning up the blood off the floor before it stains" said Hinata, "Which I will start doing, Hinata Shiina mind sitting up Noda till he wakes up" said Otonashi as both members did so.
Hesitant at first, Kazuma was surprised to see when Noda's eyes rolled back to normal and the stab mark he could clearly see through the hole in his shirt, on his fully chiseled chest, was gone.
"Damn it Shiina what the hell" yelled Noda, "Well I'll be damned" said Naofumi as he and Filo lowered their guard as he continued his way into the kitchen.
"This can't be real" said Kazuma in disbelief before he heard Sora's voice through his headset, "Yo Kazuma, are you AFK or what" he said as it got Kazuma to regain his composure.
"Yeah sorry about that, I just witnessed someone died and comeback to life is all" said Kazuma as he went to grab his controller and sat on the easy chair next to the couch.
"What are you talking about" asked Sora, "You have to see it to believe it, but I'll tell you anyway and have Otonashi confirm it to you guys later on" said Kazuma.
Truly no matter his situation or mood, it was never a dull moment for Kazuma, but because of out of world and random moments like these, he can smile and be grateful for the people who're there to bring and share those moments.
Alright guys, another chapter down, I think I'm going to introduce one more of these chapters before going back and moving on another fic I promised to finish a long time ago.
This has been your Humble Narrator Tobi Yaza. =3
