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Chapter 13: Wasted Effort
Bullying… One of the most common things in the planet…. The government always tries to make a solution for it… But, no matter what they do… Nothing can stop it.
….I've always been a victim to it… It doesn't matter where it happens, but it's always one of the reasons why depression attacks…. It can happen everywhere. The internet, school, and in online games (toxic players)…
….But…
…..It's not the main reason why I stopped school…
The main-main-MAIN! reason!...
Is much-much-MUCH! Worse!... And it traumatizes me up to this day…
Its called a promise...
Are promises meant to be kept? Or are they meant to be broken?
All I can say is... Don't make promises when your kids... Well, yeah in mangas, kids always keep their promises...
It happened in elementary school….
I was Grade 6 by then…
"I will keep the key so make sure you keep the "lock" with you at all times and always treasure it." Onidera said teary-eyed, holding the key at her chest.
That was a very important promise on a distant day…
"Then if we see each other again when we grow up… We'll open that lock and take what's inside.. And then.."
'My first crush…. My first love… My first promise..'
"Yup!"
"We'll get married!"
Our eyes met, smiles in our faces, the promise in our hearts and the cheap accessories in our hands.
"Zawsze in lov-" Now I'm just exaggerating in the reference too much! This is not an anime or a manga!
….Do you believe in fate?
Fate that you both will see each other again?
If fate favored you, then you're goddamn lucky and you better be thankful.
However, we unlucky guys face this harsh thing called reality. Fate is always crushed under the power of Reality…
No matter how much we believe about it, reality always comes back to kill this fate.
I was too young, too naïve and too childish to believe in this fate.
I was just too blind…
1 year later this cheap locket has remained unopened.
My mind was always full of her. She became my inspiration, my heart,….my life. I would be happily skipping everyday, with a cocky grin in my face, and the promise going strong in my heart.
…And the moment I got into middle school..
Our promise was immediately…broken..
When I saw a motorcycle parked nearby….
"Hehehe, we're eloping Onidera!" Some guy with two hairpins in his messy hair, happily said to my "soon-to-be" wife.
"Yup! I'll follow you till the ends of the Earth Riku!" She happily exclaims as she hugs this Riku? Guy.
My mind stopped working for a while. My eyes only staring at the breathtaking scene ahead. My body reacts with the sound of the motorcycle's tires screeching in the road. The sight of the figure slowly disappears towards the open road.
'…..Huh?... What just happened?' I rub my aching temples, as my eyes were irritated by the light shimmering in the location where the motorcycle was.
I walk to the spot where the motorcycle once parked...
I pick up the "all too familiar" shining object. Feeling the cheap plastic that you always buy in thrift shops for 20 yen, slowly grasping it.
"Onidera's...key" Feeling my body being torn up bit by bit, I just bit my lip.
'Was our promise... Just kids play for her?' My body reacts in sadness. Body shaking all over, hands wanting to punch a brick wall, head wanting to bang in a door, mind being clouded with different emotions, and most importantly...
...*Sniiiiiiiiiiif* Snot slowly flows out my nostrils...
"I *snifffffff* thought *sniff!* she *sniff!* l-l *sniff* loved *huuuu~* me!" Trying to contain this semi-liquid germ in my nose, I try to stay calm...
*Sniff!* *Sniff!*
After a while, calmness engulfing my body. I finally contain the semi-liquid back to my nostrils... I look at the dead cheap 20 yen key... The other half of our promise... The counterpart to mine... The dead-cheap key... to my dead-cheap locket...
"I...at least want to know... What's in it.." Feeling slightly excited to see what's in it, I take out the other-dead-cheap 20 yen locket...
The promise that should be opened together... Is only being opened by me...
"Uhhhh~ Uhhh~" My body again feeling gloomy, I just continue to ignore the fact that I'm late at the very first day of middle school.
The 2 halves of the promise, both at my hands... I slowly put the key in the key hole... Our promise that should last for at least 10 years, is already broken by 7 dog years...
*Click!*... I try to ignore that unnatural sound... *Click!*... Feeling my body worsening by that sound... *Click!* ... Feeling frustrated, I jam the 20 yen key to the 20 yen locket...
'No... No... NO...'...*Click! Click! Click! Click! Click!*
After SOME time, I finally got the key inside my locket...
"*Sniff!* Please, save me..." I just look tenderly at the early fulfilled promise...
The only thing to do is to twist the key... My hands nervously shaking, the brains' way to tell you to stop...
'I... believe in Onidera!' I smile confidently, as I shake my head...
"I believe~!" Regaining my confidence, I close my eyes as I finally twist the key...
...*SNAP!*
I slowly opened my already teary-eyed eyes...
The very cheap, easily breakable key... snapped in the already cracked locket...
"Uhhhh!~" I bite my lip...
"Wahhhhhhh!~ I'm never going to believe in a promise again!" I yell, not caring at the pitiful stares from the people.
I threw away the 20 yen dead cheap promise... Like I threw away my heart...
"*Brrrr~!*" I shake from my traumatizing past yet again...
"What's wrong Kazuma? You need to pee?" Aqua asked beside me.
'Traumatized kids don't pee...'
"No way! I'm just slightly cold from the winter sky again.." I rub my arms sheepishly...
"Now, don't blame me! Your the one who gave me your cloak!" She slightly pouts in her misunderstanding..
'I don't know what kind of dere you are, Aqua.' I shake my head in my mind.
"If I didn't love you, I would have already drop-kicked you just to get my cloak." A pitiful smile appeared in my face. As I can't deny the fact that I would have really done it.
"Now that's just too much gender-equality-ism!" Aqua used her low vocabulary of words.
"Nice vocabulary for a goddess..." A slight snicker escapes my mind.
"Uhhhhh~! Hmph~!" With a slight tinge of red in her frustrated face, she walks ahead of me to try and ignores me.
"Oyyyy~ I'm sorry~! Forgive me~! I love you~~" I playfully catch up to her..
...She stands still for a while... My curiosity flamed as I catch up to her.. A cloth of pink wraps around my neck as I did so.. I feel the cloth in my hand as I just looked at her..
"Don't misunderstand.. My raiment is not just used as a defensive item.. It can also strangle and break the necks of those who wear it except me.." She embarrassedly glares at me.
'Your strangling my heart, not my neck you goddess..' I just smile at her gingerly.
"Is this skill as effective as your God Blow skill?" I gently slap her with the pink raiment's sleeves.
"Want a God Blow now, you ungrateful Hiki-NEET?" A luminous light radiates in Aqua's eyes, as her first is already flaming up.
"I am Kazuma! I have faced countless of fearsome foes!" A grin escapes my face again as I see her flaming up like her fist.
"Ihhhh! I'm knocking your teeth out you pervert smiling Hiki-NEET!" Aqua's fist making it's way to my face, I only smile as I know how weak it is.
I block her flaming hand gently, not even feeling a slight amount of heat in it.
'I feel like I'm facing a bully here..'
After blocking, I quickly opened her fist, feeling her small hand with mine and interlocked my fingers with her's.
"W-Who said you could hold my hand hiki-NEET!?" She exclaims as she pulls her raiment in my neck.
"I did..." I try to walk...
"That's sexual harassment, you Harass-ma!" Despite being angry, she doesn't separate from my touch.
"And what you were doing earlier wasn't attempted murder!?" I exclaimed happily as that thought hit me.
'Come on, winter sky! Can your winds be any harsher than this!?' I just screamed in my thoughts to remove my embarrassment.
After a while, we both walk silently to Wiz's shop.. Our hands hugging each other... And our two members following behind us-
"Crap, I forgot again..." "Crap, I forgot again..." Me, myself and her both look behind us in sync.
'There are things called a one magic skilled arch wizard, and an invisible blind folded crusader...'
"...Oh, are you guys finished so soon? Go on, we don't mind being forgotten for an hour~." The eye patched Megumin teased, as she eyes us a meter behind us.
"What should I do~? Being ignored feels good~! Do it more both of you~! Mmm~!" The turned-on Darkness said in delight...Also aroused
'2 can play it that game...' I narrow my eyes.
"You guys won't have this! It will take a miracle for you to have something like this at all." I imply as I show them our hand.
"Yeah! You won't have a god hold your hands!" Aqua proudly pumps her chest as she agrees.
"...*Pfft!*" "...*Pfft!*" ...They both snicker at the same time.
"What does that mean!?" Aqua yells as she lets go of my hand and runs at them.
'... I forgot...' I look at them..
Megumin and Darkness look at me with sympathetic eyes. As they shake their heads in pity while being pulled by Aqua.
'I know... I'm in love with the worst heroine here *Sniff*' I let out a tear, as I hide my head in Aqua's raiment sadly.
"Poor Kazuma..." They both said in sync.
Aqua looks at us in bewilderment and with wide eyes... Not knowing what it is we're sad about..
"Nandeyooo~!?" She yells in frustration and with tears in her eyes.
'I'm sorry!...I'm sorry Kazuma!' I yell to myself.
KO-NO!-SU-BAA~!
"Hey Wiz, we're here." I raise my hand to say hello. My 2 party members looking towards her, except a special someone with a pout still in her face..
"Kazuma-san! And I see the rest of you are here, too." Wiz exclaimed slightly surprised. "Welcome!" She smiles as she greets.
"Sorry to intrude." Darkness, being the crusader...she usually is, replied respectfully.
'Like a true ojou-sama...' I nod knowingly..
"Why did we have to come to the undead's shop?" And Aqua, being the goddess? she actually isn't, said with a pout.
'Like a false goddess...' I nod knowingly, as I gently slap her head to treat her disrespect.
"Again!? You're a sadist, hiki-NEET!" Aqua exclaims as she rubs her head.
"I didn't even hit you too hard! And don't say I'm a sadist, there's an actual masochist beside you anyway!" I pass the blame to our crusader.
"Oyyy! How did I get involved!?" Darkness, now joins in on the fun.
Megumin ignoring the fun? that is going on... Looks toward a girl hiding in a storage of Wiz's items for sale.
The 2 stare at each other for some time... Until Megumin narrows her eyes, and looks toward the other direction with a "Hmph!".
"I know you saw me just now! Why did you ignore me!?" This girl sprouts out in unbelief.
'Wow... Now she's another eyesore- I still love Aqua though...' I shiver as Aqua just doesn't stop haunting my soul.
Regaining Megumin's composure, she again eyes the girl from top to bottom. "Well if it isn't Yunyun, my self proclaimed rival."
'Megumin...has a rival?... This girl... that only has one ability... Has a rival?...' I slightly stare in disbelief.
"I'm not self-proclaimed!" She denies in frustration with tears in her eyes.
"Oh, was I mistaken?" Witnessing a new side of our arch wizard, she keeps on teasing this girl.
"Y-Yes I really am your rival!" Embarassed, she closes her eyes in frustration as she faces Hyoizaburo *snicker* and Yuiyui *snicker* daughter.
"Etoo, are you also a Crimson Mage like One-trick pony over here?" I ask gently as I point this pony over here.
"Haha! Make that One-shot pony!" Megumin maniacly yells as she does a pose.
'...Are you actually proud of that?... And one shot?... Tell that to One-Shot Bear, and Verdia... Your already very lucky that I didn't let you face the 10 million FIRE-RESISTANT bees..'
"Well let me introduce you guys. This is Yunyun (Tch! It's such a nice name!)" She whispers about something but we didn't hear a glimpse of it. "She's from my hometown. Also, a Crimson Mage.. Doesn't have any friends except me... And, yeah she practically is calling herself my rival... (Tch! Boobs!)"
'Boobs!?... No way that I wouldn't hear that word!'
"Oy! Megumin! I do have friends! And I am your rival!" She yells teary eyed with how much she's being treated.
"You two are the same age!? I guess lucks on her side.." I just shrug my shoulders with the thought of that. "Hello, Yunyun pleasure to meet you. Thanks for babysitting our pony right here." I just smile tenderly as I ignore the glare of the pony right now.
"N-No! T-The pleasure's all mine!" She nervously replies, as a tinge of red forms in her face for meeting new acquaintances.
"Eto, I'm Satou Kazuma! This our masochist of a crusader, "Oy! Don't mention that part!" Darkness.." I point at the blonde crusader. "And...this is..." I stop for a moment as I saw Aqua posing proudly, waiting for her introduction.
'Don't be involved with her, Yunyun.' I do my best to not involve Yunyun with this goddess.
"So, what are you doing here Yunyun?-" I try to move on with the topic.
"Oyy! Why didn't you introduce me?!" Aqua pulls her raiment in my neck.
I just looked at her for a while... "She's too innocent to know someone like you, my dear Aqua..." A darkened expression came over me.
"What does that mean!?~" Bursting out from too much teasing, she snaps her fingers... And removed the comfortable raiment surrounding me neck.
"Oyyy! Give it back! I was so comfy in it!" I pull her hair gently, as I don't want to damage it.
"G-Give it back!? It's mine, you hikiNEET!" She fights back with pulling my hair...also gently..
After a while of fighting, I didn't get the comfy raiment back so I just continued. "This is Aqua, as you can see she's very troublesome so don't be involved with her..."
"Ihhhh! HikiNEET!" She pulls my cheek. "That's the ugly truth, you useless(useful)-goddess!" I also pull her cheeks in response.
"Etooo, are these two engaged?" Yunyun asked with curiosity as that question made me and Aqua stop.
Darkness, Megumin and Wiz eyed us suspicously... Waiting for our answer as they raised a brow...
'What are you guys implying here!? I am a total advocate of unrequited love!' I cringe my teeth in embarassment.
"N-" Aqua tries to come up with a reply.
"Of course not! We're not engaged in anything whatsoever!" Embarassment in its fullest, I just blurt out what was on my mind quickly.
...*Silence*...
'Huh? What's up with this uncomfortable silence?'
Aqua releases her grip on my cheeks, and I followed suit... I look at Megumin, Darkness, and Wiz. With their eyebrows narrowed, they stare at me.
'Are they glaring at me?'
I look at Aqua..
She just smiles happily as she looks to Wiz's items for sale.
Yunyun witnessing this silence, just turns her attention back to her rival. "Now, Megumin!" She points at her rival dead in the face. "We may have only just met here by pure coincidence, but what good timing! Let's settle this once and for all!" Yunyun ready for battle!
Kimi to mita sekai! Saa hajimari no kane ga naru! We are fantastic dreamers- Just kidding! Don't sue me!
KO-NO-SU-BA!
"Come on! Come on!" Yunyun waits eagerly to the challenge, as she looks to Megumin in seriousness.
"Settle this? I'm pretty sure I've won almost every single time you've challenged me." Megumin blankly replies.
'You're a savage Megumin...' I just shrug at this new side of her.
"Oh, shut up!" Yunyun blurts out a comeback to this savagery. She widens her eyes as she saw us again. "Sorry! I don't want to cause any trouble for you, so we'll take this outside." Not a single rudeness in her voice, she apologizes.
"Don't be silly. You've been a regular here ever since I told you that Megumin and these other three often drop by." Wiz casually tells a secret whatsoever.
Yunyun just shows another tinge of red in her embarassment as she charges toward Wiz's shop items to cover up. "Umm...! One of these please! This cool-looking choker!" She points in this actually cool looking choker.
'Has she been sulking around here all this time, just hoping to run into Megumin?' Pretty cute if you ask me-... Aqua~!.
"You know Yunyun. You're always welcome to just drop by our mansion any time." Darkness, in her most not weird form, admirably told Yunyun.
"Really? So if I were to turn up with sweets and juice, you wouldn't be annoyed with me and think to yourself, "Wow, she actually came. Doesn't she know we were just being nice?"? Yunyun asked, clearly expecting that situation would really happen.
'...Wow... She's so paranoid with friends.' I see Megumin with her eyebrows twitching, also thinking what I'm thinking.
"You really are a handful, you know that!?" Megumin, finally losing it, shakes Yunyun in her collar. "If you want to visit us, then just come!" Like a true friend? she invites Yunyun, dropping the choker, from the vigorous shaking. "And? Well? Are we going to duel or what?" One-trick pony ready for battle!
"Wait,Megumin!" Yunyun finally getting a chance to talk, has been stopped shaking. "It's not everyday that I get the chance to talk with this many people, so can we leave our duel until after sunset?" Only to get shaken again.
"Why do you have to be so indecisive?! This is why I hate loners!" Megumin now glaring to Yunyun, just keeps shaking her.
'...Loners huh?' That thought made me look to Aqua.
"Hey, can I get some tea over here. And bring some snacks while you're at it...please?" Aqua, now slumped in a table with her face leaning on her hand as she stares in a distance.
'Is she in another bad mood again?' I just look at her blankly for a while.
"C-Certainly, Aqua-sama! Right away!" Wiz, surprised at Aqua's somehow development? slowly runs toward her kitchen.
*Crash!* We somehow heard a loud crash in the kitchen, where Wiz currently is.
"Are you okay!?" Darkness goes to check the kitchen.
"I'm so sorry! I'm fine!" Wiz replies shyly.
*Bonk!* A random item hits my head.
"Hey, the sun's going down...please." Aqua pleads once again, still in her bad mood.
*Bonk!* Another random item hits my head.
*Bonk!* Another one...
*Bonk!* ...
"Well, they're being a rowdy bunch as usual." I could only stare blankly at this scene.
'I'm so used to this, that I'm not even fazed right now...'
"And I know now, that peace is too much to ask in this situation." I close my eyes in pity.
My eyes caught the sight of the cool-looking choker just in front of me.
"What's this?" I pick up the cool-looking choker, examining the tag at it. " "A popular item seldom sold in our store. This choker will grant any wish." Why would she write "seldom sold" on her own merchandice?" I turn around the tag too see the cheapness of this. "And look at that. A confident 100,000 Eris."
"What the hell? What the hell is up with these breasts?! Did they grow again? What, are they on display for the whole town?" Megumin, boob-slapping Yunyun, lets out jealous cries.
'...Don't do that in front of me-' And again water flowed through my mind.
"Stop! "Dammit!" Don't hit mine just because yours "Wh-What elasticity" won't grow!" Yunyun, being boob-slapped gets another beating from Megumin's jealous hands.
"Excuse me, this tea is barely even warm. This is why I hate- *sigh* Wiz seconds please." Aqua, in her bad mood makes an effort to remember her manners.
'My sword container taught her head I guess?'
"I'm so sorry, Aqua-sama!" Wiz bows her head again and again, with a slight smile in her face.
"What is this potion which supposedly "makes beasts flock to you."?" Darkness, now out of crusader-mode points flames her masochism again. "If I drink it, will I be surrounded by men made beastly by their hunger?" Her face now flushed as she let's out her fantasies fly.
"That's a potion which lures animal-type monsters to its user. Monsters will begin to attack you, one after another, without rest." Wiz explained.
"I'll take it!" Darkness, not wasted a single second after Wiz's explanation, to say yes.
Stare~
"R-Really? They'll keep attacking you..." Wiz concerned with her friend, tries to at least save this masochist.
I could only sign in this situation, as I'm so used to it...
My eyes again went to the girl with blue hair, drinking her tea as she watches Wiz and Darkness. She looks blankly at me for a second until looking away, clearly in a bad mood.
'What is she angry again for...?' I could only just cringe as I can't think of another way to make her happy and smile again.
'Tch!... I've saved her from One-Shot Bear,... I've took property of her not giving her away to other parties,... I took her to a date to the festival,... I held her hand,... I've danced with her, ...I've faced Bitter *cringe!* Sharks with her,...I've confessed,... I took care of her in her illness,...I've made a birthday party for her, ...I always take care of her, ...I always worry about her, ...I tease her so much because of how much cute she is...and I've loved her.'
'Is she still unsatisfied for all I've done for her?...' I just don't understand it...
'What the hell should I do, just to make her tell me that she loves me?!' I just scream in my thoughts in frustration.
'I'm scared... If she's like Onidera that will disappear someday-' I quickly shake my head as I do my best to forget that thought.
"...So does this increase your luck when you put it on, or something?" Doing my best to put my attention away, I just try the choker on.
*Clink!*
"K-Kazuma-san!?" Wiz yells in disbelief.
Everyone looks at me, Aqua just blankly looks...
'What do you want Aqua...?' I just cringe at her.
"Th-Th-That..." Wiz nervously points out the choker I tried on.
"Oh, this wish granting choker? Should I have not tried it on?" I asked, as I felt it in my neck.
"Th-That's a magical item which can't be taken off until your wish is granted, and will continue to tighten around your neck!" After that terrifying explanation, Darkness's face instantly flushed.
"It's a damned cursed item!" I stomp my foot in the process.
"No, it's actually quite popular among women!" Wiz explains, as everyone looks at me."Apparently once at the brink of death, they were able to do something to take it off!"
'Well, I can see Aqua using it... But even still! It just forces people to grant their own wishes! Are you kidding me!?' I just twitch my brows in anger.
Finally, standing up in her seat, Aqua looks at me with a face that I don't know, if she's worried or not concerned.
"And? What did you wish for, Kazuma?" Still has her bad mood in her tone of voice.
"Well, I didn't wish for anything." I just tell my dear one.
"That's bad, Kazuma-san!" Wiz clearly surprised. "At this rate, the choker will continue to tighten, and in four days..."
'Oh no, not like this!'
"I'm gonna be killed by this stupid weight-loss device?!" I screamed in anger, as I'm dying again.
"It's all my fault." Yunyun sadly confessed. "I-It's all because I dropped that choker that Kazuma-san is now..."
"It's my fault for grabbing on to you, too." Megumin also confessed sadly.
"No, if Wiz hadn't been distracted by Aqua or I..." Make that 3. "I'm sorry Kazuma. Darkness slightly bowed, as she apologized.
"I'm the one most at fault! I should never have had such a dangerous item on display." ...4
'Aqua~... You don't know~..It's mainly your fault~ If I wasn't distracted because of you~...' I blame her in my mind..
Wiz walks up to me and kneels in front of me. "Kazuma-san... I vow to remove that choker from you, no matter what! Please don't worry!" Wiz declared as a true friend.
'Why didn't I fall for you? Despite the age difference...'
"I'll help, too!" Despite only meeting her a while ago, she wants to help.
'Why didn't I fall for you?...'
"Th-That magical item is child's play for the number one genius of the Crimson Mages!" Trying to raise my confidence, Megumin said in a pose.
'Your a child...But, why didn't I fall for you anyway... Despite being branded a lollicon if I did so.'
"I, too, shall lend my assistance!" Darkness, declared strongly, not as a masochist or a crusader. But, as a true friend.
'A masochist and a sadist... Why didn't I fall for you... Despite being taller than me noticeably.'
I feel happy being surrounded by good friends, but my eyes look at the only person left, not talking.
Aqua looks from side to side, processing what to say.
..."I-I haven't done anything wrong, you know." She nervously said, with a slight tinge of red in her face.
'...Why did I fall for you?' Being a savage in my mind I just stare at this loved one of mine.
"But I'll say sorry anyway." She said slightly happy... A happy voice used in an apology... Is that even an apology?
'You better say sorry! It really was your fault!'
"And if you do die, I'll cast Resurrection on you." She simply smiles, as she doesn't remember the choker is the problem.
I could only just stare blankly at her happily smiling at me.
'Making me think that this will all be okay... Tch!' I really am so~ in the mood to tease her, since she's talking to me now.
"I think I'll just stay dead the next time I die. I'm going on strike from life." I lie, I don't really want to die. But I can't ignore this feeling of teasing someone you love, especially if its something about death in itself.
"Wh-What are you saying? What about slaying the Demon Lord with me?" Aqua, clearly surprised at what I'm saying.
'Awww~, you remember that promise?'
"And don't forget, If I die then you'll have to deal with all of our debt by yourself." I spoke staring at her.
Aqua flails her arms in shock. "Okay, I get it! I just have to help out too, right!? We'll do anything it takes to get that choker out off you!"
A smile formed in my face. "Anything it takes, you say?"
DAY 1
Beautiful day, wonderful sunshine, sweet melody of tweeting birds, and a nice pillow.
"U-Umm, Kazuma-san? "Hi, I'm Kazuma." H-How is it? Are you comfortable?" Wiz speaks to me with an embarrassed face.
I just lay in Wiz's lap, unfazed.
"Your thighs feel pleasantly cool, and they're very soft. And..." I look to see Wiz's face. "I'm also enjoying that embarrassed look on your face."
"I-Is that so? You're very welcome, then..." Wiz replies too embarrassed to think of a good reply.
'A choker that grants wishes? How very splendid! I've got four whole days until it snaps my neck. I'm sure it'll work itself out by then. ' Kazuma thoughts as he just continues to lie down.
"He's letting his lust go full-stream ahead from wish number one." Megumin blankly tells. "You do know that's cheating right? You love Aqua, but you lust for other women..." She said, with a blank stare.
That comment surprised me, to the core... Especially, Aqua...
"I told you, I didn't wish for anything. So, I'm just asking for the desires I always lusted to do BEFORE I fell for Aqua." I look apologetic, especially to Aqua.
'I'm sorry... I'll do my best to pay you back..' I whispered in my mind, hoping she would get my message.
And apparently, the girl with blue hair slightly smiled, like she got my message.
"Very well! I don't know what you sought before you LOVED Aqua, but I shall accept it all!" Darkness in da mood~, declared with "SLIGHT" moodiness in it.
"Take off your armor and do one hundred push-ups." I quickly replied, pointing at her.
"Guhh~!" She turns her head in delight.
Aqua POV
Kazuma, laying on Wiz's lap, now gave his second order of lust that he seeked (sought actually, low vocabulary book of the goddess) before he fell for me.
The other 3 victims, me, Megumin and Yunyun could only watch, as Darkness push-ups.
"Oh? Well this isn't bad at all." Kazuma looks at his given punishment.
"He's looking at me with such an animalistic gaze, yet I cannot escape from it. What immodest form have I taken inside his mind?! Stop it!" Darkness, now in her fantasies, is now screaming in delight.
"How horrible! This man intends to use us beautiful women to fullfil his lustful desires!" I writhe I agony as I hide my chest towards Kazuma.
'How unlucky! This hiki-NEET is in love with me! He's going to make me do his most lustful desire!' I embrace myself, to get ready to do this command just to save him-
"You, run and get me some yakisoba bread." Kazuma said blankly.
"Nandeyooo~!?" I actually ran in tears and disbeliefs through town.
'*Sniff!* *Sniff!* Baka, Kazuma!' I just rub my flowing tears away, as I find a yakisoba bread.
"He's just messing with me.. I know he got something up in his sleeves!" I whisper, as I went through the crowd.
I go to the guild's cafeteria, seeing yakisoba breads in the menu, I quickly called a kitchen staff.
"Excuse me! I want to order a yakisoba bread *sniff*"
"Ohh! Aqua-san! One yakisoba bread it is- Wait, are you crying?" The employee checks my face.
"*Snicker!*..." And snickered a laugh.
"Naniyo! *sniff!*" I just answered with a pout.
"Is this because of Kazuma-san perhaps~!" She teases as she gave me the yakisoba bread.
"Ihhhh!~ That hiki-NEET!" I just yell in the cafeteria not caring for their looks.
I look at the yakisoba bread in the bag... And took a bite of it.
'Revenge, you hiki-NEET!' I scream in my mind as I run back to the mansion.
Kazuma POV
In the sun, at the grass just outside the mansion, and a soft pillow.
"You really do love Aqua-sama, don't you Kazuma-san?" Wiz asked me with a slight smile in her face.
'Ohhh, she found out.' I just look at Sui and Hikki 's bowl in my belly.
"Haha, not surprised that you found out Wiz." I just smile knowingly.
"I told you guys, this is the lust I sought (nice vocabulary) before I fell for that goddess. And this is the "lust" I've built up on her before." I make up an excuse, as I poke Sui in the bowl.
'The lust of making her a servant.'
"Hai, hai." Wiz said in delight.
I finally hear the running steps of the servant I commanded, minutes ago.
"Bought it!" Her voice a little weird, like her mouth is full.
"You're slow! And say it more politely!" Not wanting her, to see my acting I just scream.
"I've brought your lunch!" Her voice still weird, she salutes.
I rummage through the bag, getting a hold of the weirdly less weighted yakisoba bread, I finally saw it with eyes... The half-eaten yakisoba bread.
"Hey. You ate half of this, didn't you?" I saw her face, with both her cheeks inflated like a balloon, and even has bits of bread crumbs still intact.
'Is this cute or beautiful? I can't tell.'
"*Chew! Chew!* Nope!" She chews first before answering.
'Chew your food before you speak!' I could only narrow my eyes at her.
"How can you say that with a face like a squirrel!?" And she just chews in reply.
I feed some of the bread to Sui and Hikki, and they eat it happily.
Aqua POV
'How do you like that, Kazuma!?' I thought as I just chew my food.
"Scissors, paper, rock!"
Hearing the yell of JanKenPon, I turn my head, still chewing the yakisoba bread and saw the Crimson Demons'
Megumin with a scissors, wins against the paper Yunyun. "Such is the law of this world that I should win." Megumin says proudly, in her pose.
A skirt slowly flows down in the floor, and it happens to be Yunyun's skirt. Yunyun just tries to hide her undergarments as she tries to battle again.
Kazuma just watches unfazed by what's happening. Not even a grin, a bat of an eye or even a slight tinge of red in his face.
Feeling a blush of sorts in my face, as I imagined myself doing that kind of game.
'Oh no... I'm going to be next! Get ready Aqua' I try to regain some confidence.
"Don't tell me you're going to make me do that next, too!" I slowly back away a step.
'Here it comes!' I brace myself.
"Go and buy me some high-grade alcohol and snacks." He blankly commands me.
"NANDEYOO~!?" I run again to town, with tears in my eyes.
'Baka! Baka! HikiNEET!~' With tears in my eyes I just went to find some high-grade alcohol and snacks.
*Sniff!* *Sniff!* I just rub my tears away while going to the guild cafeteria.
"...Does he even love me anymore?" I just whisper my thoughts as I ordered a sake and some snacks.
'If you love somebody, you at least have some lust for them right?' I just slump in the table as I wait for the order.
"He always looks at every girl...except me." I just pout in the table.
'Is my body too small?' ...No, that can't be it... Megumin...Is he a lolicon?... No...No... I don't think so.
'Is my body too big?' ...He does like it pretty big... Darkness... He IS a pervert... I touch my boobs to affirm its size.
'Is it the age?' ...Like Wiz... But, I'm much much older!... That is a secret by the way.
"Then what is it!? Aghhh~!" I just shake my head in frustration.
'*Sniiff~! Uughhhh~ Kazuma~!' I pout as I cry his name.
Kazuma POV
Aqua, returned from my command, sits in a spot placing all the goodies in it. I stand up from my pillow as Wiz is already sleeping and walks towards her.
"I said, don't get angry at me just because you lost! Really stop! It'll really rip!"Megumin and Yunyun still battling it out.
"34... Mmm!...35...Ahh!...36... Yamero~!" Darkness still in her fantasies, does her training.
With Sui and Hikki 's bowl in my hands, I sit to the spot where Aqua is sitting...*Ploop!*
Until she falls down to the grass...
'Not those Bitter Sharks again!' I cursed the Megalodon of a sharks once more, as I quickly check on Aqua's throat with the back of my hand.
"Phew~! She's okay... She's just sleeping..." I could only smile as she always brings out this side of me.
'She must be tired from running around town all day.' I sit in satisfaction, with Sui and Hikki beside me, swimming with satisfaction as their owner is not sick.
I grab one of the goodies she brought, and ate it while looking at her sleeping form. Her hair spread to different directions, breathing slowly as she sleeps, her form really looking like a goddess...
"Guhaaa~ *Snore~!*" Until she turns around, suddenly revealing her stomach with her hand happily scratching it, and her mouth open-gaped that a fly might fly its way through it accidentally.
"*Sigh* Like a true goddess.. *Munch Munch*" I could only sigh and eat.
"Uhaaaa~...Hiki-NEET..." Aqua, still asleep, suddenly said my name.
That name, made me almost choke on my food, as it went into my ears. I felt a slight blush in my face as it processed in my mind.
"You useless-goddess..." I can only fix her hair that's covering her face, the face that has a mouth-gaped open, waiting for what she's going to say next.
"Uehehe~.." With her mouth still open, the moment my hand touched her face she shakes her head in delight.
'AGHHHHH~! AQUA~!' Not containing it any longer, I went closer to her face. Sui and Hikki swam happily as they saw me go close-up.
"You really don't know how much desires I'm building up because of you." I silently whisper to her, my hand in her cheek.
"Uehhhh~?" Like she heard what I said, her mouth just flowed some saliva out.
"*Snicker* You really are one of a kind." I wipe the saliva away...Quickly wiping my hand in some grass.
'I want to order her to kiss me so badly... But, I'm not going to lower my chances on her confession to me..' My smile weakened as I thought of that.
"Uhhh~!" Like she heard my thoughts, her brows displayed displeasure. "Idiot...Hiki-NEET~!" She said the "I" word... Right in my face.
"..." I stand up, walked to the mansion.
"Me-Megumin! Don't it's gonna rip!" Yunyun demanded, as her blouse is getting taken off by Megumin.
"67...68...69" Darkness still continues.
"Hmmm~..." Wiz in the realm of her dreams.
I walk inside the mansion, searched for a marker and took my cloak... I went back to where Aqua's spot is.
I put her head in my lap as I put my cloak on her, and put her head in a pillow.
'I don't want the Bitter Sharks to bitter my ass again.' I spat in the ground as I remembered her illness.
"Now to the final task..." *Plick!* I removed the marker's cap and went slowly closer and closer to her open-gaped face.
'Jiggaly...puff...jiggaly...puff!' ...Draw...Draw...Draw
'Jiggaly...puff...jiggaly...' ...Draw...Draw...Draw...
Aqua POV
"*Squirm~* What a nice nap~ It's like slept in my bed." I rub my arms as it is slightly cold, feeling the familiar cloth in my shoulder, my face blushed as I do not need to know what it is.
'My spot is a mess though...' I look around my spot and saw every bits of food around me.
'...Why is there a pillow here?' It doesn't need a detective to solve this crime... The crime of chanting a Steal on my chest. To forget this feeling I look around my spot more.
I see Sui and Hikki just beside me.
"Huehehe~ Sui!~ Hikki~" I just play with their bowl, as I saw them just looking at me.
'What are you guys looking at?' I look closer to the bowl, as I saw them open and closing their mouths again and again...
"Are you guys laughing again?" Finally, I see my reflection in the bowl...
'My reflection?...' There's some black lining on Sui and Hikki's bowl.
"We really need to clean your bowl guys." I said to them as I just inspect this mysterious lining on their bowl.
As the sun was going down, a mirror from the junk shines through my eyes. I grab the mirror, looked at my reflection,...and saw something horribly wrong.
...*Sniff!~*
Kazuma POV
Now, the sun is going down, the moon is going to go up, my food is digesting down and my head is resting on Wiz's lap.
Megumin and Yunyun, clothes spread all over the place, passing out while still taking off each other's clothes, and laying down on the grass. It was a good battle... But the clothes looks like they had rough-s... Still unfazed..
Darkness, finally finished with her training, lies on the grass, as she breathes heavily. It was a good workout-session... Her masochism is out of steam for the day... Still unfazed...
And...
"*Sniiff!* I've been defiled! I'm a goddess, and yet I've been defiled! *Uwahhhh!~*" The water goddess releases the water in her eyes as she is a water goddess. While Sui and Hikki, opens and closes their mouth on her misfortune.
Aqua, with a drawn beard, a drawn X mark, and a one sided lens, cries miserably as her face turned into a drawing book...I'm fazed... Only a little bit...
"Umm, is the choker coming off yet?" Wiz, now awake from her afternoon nap, asked me a question.
Feeling the choker slightly tightening, I could only just narrow my eyes from the slight pain its giving.
"As much as I hate to this, it looks like you'll all have to put up with my wishes again tomorrow." I said slightly disheartened, as I touched the choker in my neck.
And that statement made the crying Aqua stop...
KONO-SUBA!
DAY 2
Another beautiful day... The sun is shining... The birds are flying... I'm drinking wine, first thing in the morning, lying on the couch.
Wiz beside me, not knowing what to do.
Darkness, doing another training, training to strengthen her legs with squats.
Yunyun and Megumin just changing their clothes..
And Aqua fans me out..
'After that, I had the girls grant any and all of my wishes that I could think up.' I thought, as I stare at them
"*Fan* *Fan* Why do I have to do something like this?!" Aqua complains, as she just glares at me.
'Oy, I'm doing my best, just to give you the easiest ones.' I complain back to her.
I only made her deliver, wash the dishes, clean the house, do the laundry, and only chores.
"Physical training again today?" Darkness exclaims as she squats.
'If we had Mental training then I'd sign you right away.'
"This is embarrassing..." Yunyun embarrassedly exclaimed, in her bunny suit.
I could only blankly stare.
"I can't help but feel like there's some evil intent behind these clothes." Megumin exclaimed, as she pulls the shirt down.
I stare at them for a while.
'I wonder how Aqua would-' No, No, No.
If you want her confession, then don't make her do something that would make her hate you.
Aqua POV
I look at Kazuma, as he stares at the 2.
'You're really a pervert aren't you...' I silently thought to myself.
Making other girls do what you want... Not caring of their opinion of it... Forcing them to do anything you desire...
'... If that's the case... Then why aren't you a pervert to me?'
Your a pervert to everyone,...except me.
'Am...I that unattractive for you?' I thought to myself as I just imagined myself in a bunny suit.
"I know you're hiding a trick on your sleeve for me, Kazuma..." I whisper to myself as I fan him.
'...If you don't...Then you're not in love with me anymore.' My fanning slows, as that thought hits my head.
Day 3
Kazuma POV
Another beautiful day... The birds are flying again... Steam is coming out of the mansion... And the choker in my neck tightened again from the unsuccessful desires that happened.
"*Scrub Scrub* All I have to do is sit here and wash myself?" Darkness asks, now taking a break from training.
"That's right. That is all. And I am sitting here watching." I said unfazed, while Wiz, Yunyun and Megumin scrubs me.
"No doubt you're going to try and defile me,a goddess, today!" Aqua said with a blush on her face. "What are you going to make me do?" She asked, as she hides her chest from me.
'I wish!'
Tch! Don't look at her...Don't look at her... Temptation go away... Come again another day... Little me want to be confessed~
"You can go and find me a natural hotspring. You can do it right?" I took a little peek, as I ordered her.
'No...No...No... Calm down man!'
"Huh? Why?" She asked, surprised.
"Aren't you the goddess of water? Oh, my mistake. Was it the goddess of parties?" Can't help but tease her.
"*Mm!* Alright, I'll do it!" She replies angrily, as she puts her hand on the floor. "I'll show you the true power of a goddess!" She screams in triumph, as she closes her eyes and concentrates.
"D-Does it itch anywhere?" Wiz asked, embarrassed.
"Hmm... No, doesn't itch anywhere." I just said blankly.
"I-Is that so? T-Then I'll continue then." Wiz shyly replied, as she scrubs me again.
"It's... *Hic!* coming... It's *Hic* coming~..."
'...Eh?' I look at where the sound is coming from.
"The...hot..*Hic!*...springs...*Hic*...is *Hic!*...coming~." She says slowly, as her hands are still on the floor...as she cries.
Silence is all around the bathroom, as droplets of water can only be heard.
I quickly walk to Aqua. "Hey... Stop crying.." I sadly said as I kneeled in front of her.
"*Shakes her head* No... It's a command... I need to bring a hot spring." Her eyes, still closed, she just continues to bring out the hot spring.
"Stop...already.." I took her hands of the floor and made her face me.
'Why are you crying again...' I just slightly clench my teeth.
"*Sniiff~!* ...*Sniff~!*" She just cries, her eyes still closed.
"Hey... Come on..Stop.." I poked her head, signalling her to open her eyes.
...*Sniff!* The sound of crying can only be heard in the bathroom, as she finally opens her eyes... Looking like a mess, her tears flowing down, she just looks at me.
'...She's just like a true goddess right now.' Her blue free hair, her slim but well balanced body, and that aqua blue eyes.
"Why are you cryinng again~?" I slowly wipe her tears away.
'It doesn't make sense again! I gave her the most easiest commands! And now she's crying!' I silently scream in my mind.
"Mmm~!" She points at me.
'...Me...Again!?' What'd I do this time!
"I didn't know, drawing on a goddess's face can leave them this emotional." I just said, the only reason I can think of.
"You... dumb... hiki-NEET!" Finally not crying anymore she returns back to her pre-volved form.
"What!? You useless-goddess! Can't even tell the reason why she's crying."
We're right on each others faces as we yell.
"Your commands for me is the problem, hiki-NEET!" She said like a rich girl.
"Huh!? I'm giving you the most easiest commands, useless-goddess!" I yell back, irritated of her selfishness, and laziness.
"T-That's the problem, hik-NEET!" She replies with her face now being flushed.
"You laz-!..." My mind processed her words.
'I said the easiest commands, she said it is the problem...So...What?'
"What do you mean?..." I asked, really not getting what's going on.
"You...can also ... command.. me for other things.." She said,her face really red.
Can't process anything, my face also resembling her's.
Chapter 14 Part 1 End!
A/N: Sorry for the really late update! My mind still needs to be refreshed after the long-long-long! 2 weeks of Sight Seeing with my relatives and such. I'm going to update the other part, in the next 2 days, as I feel slightly pathetic for not bringing out the OVA's potential. Please, forgive me if I made this worse than my other chapters. Even so, I'm going to continue, until I reach Season 2. Apologies, and please tell me if this chapter is bad. I know it is, but I really promise that my Season 2 plots is going to be better than this. Please still give me your support my viewers.
PS: I already finished the bathroom scene but I cut it because I'm not really feeling good on the part that I just cut...