A/N: This story has been doing shockingly well and I'm overjoyed to be uploading another chapter. I really have grown attached to this story so I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do.

Chapter 7: An Unexpected Occurrence!

"I… I just don't know. When I joined your party, I did so under the impression that you were scum. I had heard rumors that you shamed two girls in public by making them walk around, covered in slime." She gently said "But after being around you I began to realize you were more than a pervert. You were a dependable friend who genuinely cares about his friends, even if they do act up sometimes. You always come to lecture me and the others whenever something goes wrong. You may not show it too often but you do care about all of us."

What the hell is this pain? As she spoke something hurt..

"Well what I'm trying to say is that you're wonderful. I also really like you.. I like you a lot." She whispered, her face getting closer to mine as she spoke.

It's getting worse..

"No.. I love you Kazuma. I really do." Damn what the hell!? This is really cliche but I like it! God I'm a becoming a generic protagonist! Darkness suddenly grabbed both my hands and fell to the ground laying me on top of her, her face mere inches away from mine. WHAT!?

"SO HAVE PLEASE! HAVE YOUR WAY WITH ME!" SHE'S LOST IT! I'M A FOOL FOR THINKING THIS WOULD GO SMOOTHLY! A FOOL!

"DARKNESS WHAT YOU'RE HOPELESS!" I yelled. She then wrapped my arms around my waist, pinning me to her. DAMN! I CAN'T GET AWAY! Wait.. my hands are free!

"DRAIN TOUCH!" I yelled as I drained her health. She moaned. Oh yeah i forgot. Welp there's no way i can get out before she breaks one of my bones so maybe I should just cooperate…

"Darkness why are you doing this? You know with a body like yours if you had asked nicely I would have gladly agreed." I said with a straight face

"Eh?! Well I it's because I lied to my father telling him I'm pregnant with your child so I didn't want to disappoint him. I know it's stupid but I didn't want to lie to him. I thought.. Well you know." She blushingly admitted. Darkness is the definition of hopeless.

As she said that an explosion erupted from the direction of the camp. It wasn't a Megumin sized explosion. GODDAMN AT A MOMENT LIKE THIS! HOW CLICHE!

"WE'LL HAVE TO CONTINUE THIS SOME OTHER TIME!" I said. She let me go and we both got up and ran over in the direction of the explosion. The ground trembled. Another explosion. DAMN! What the hell is going on.

When we arrived we saw a man in a suit and top hat.

"AH more friends! A pleasure to meet you!" He said. His voice was high pitched but he looked to be in his late 20's. He had a thick black beard that didn't match his rather small beard. His eyes creeped me out, too. We ran over to the others and stood in front of them. YunYun was bleeding out her left and right arm. It didn't look life threatening. Megumin was fine, but looked a bit frightened. Aqua was also seemed fine. She had cast buff on all of us once we arrived.

"Fill me in." I said sternly. The man in the top hat stood there, as if he was assessing the new situation.

"This guy showed up out of nowhere and attacked us. He hasn't made a move on the workers yet, just us." Megumin said. So he hasn't moved towards the workers. Then what does he want.

"Ah yes. I hadn't told you my plan. Well I plan on taking one, if not all, of you women with me."
Ah he's a perv. All the girls were shaken by this statement. Even Darkness. "Now then let's get back to it, shall we?" he said pointing his hand towards us. Then a green gust of wind darted towards us hitting all of us. We were all blown back a few feet. Damn he's got aoe attacks..

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE SPREAD OUT!" I ordered. The man didn't move at all and simply stood still as we encircled him. He smirked as I ran towards him. "LIGHTNING BLADE!" I yelled as jumped into the air to jab him. He still hasn't moved. I reached out and missed. Huh?! He dodged it.

"Up" He smirked. I caught a glimpse of knives falling from the sky. SHIT!

"AQUA!" I yelled. She then blasted some of the knives away with create water. Two had grazed my right and left arm. I then darted back to create some space. He lunged forward at me with a knife in his right hand. My right hand still had lightning blade so I swung and missed. He had darted back to his original position. I know. He must be using teleport! He teleported towards me with a grin on his grazed my left cheek with his knife, before I swung again with lightning blade. He teleported back and seemed a bit tired. There must be a limit to using it so much. I made some more space in between us until I was next to Darkness.

"Move in ahead of me. I'll move in and make my move. Just don't get caught or he might try to teleport away with you." I whispered. She shook her head. "YUNYUN!" I yelled as Darkness and I ran forward. A pincer attack! As I ran I activated lightning blade!

"That old trick? Really?" He sighed. He's gonna use teleport to evade our attacks I just have to predict where he'll teleport to. I KNOW!

"MEGUMIN! DUCK!" I yelled as he teleported. Sure enough he teleported next to Megumin and seemed to have missed grabbing her.

OF COURSE HE'S A LOLICON!

Megumin then swept him off his feet and darted back. He fell to the ground and as he got up I ran and jabbed him with lightning blade. HIT! My hand was now lodged in his chest. It went straight through him. I… just killed him. This move is no joke. He spat blood up and then his head hunched forward. We disposed of his body in the forest. Damn I really just killed somebody. I thought as I looked at my hand. Even though it was to defend my friends I still felt.. Awful. I suppose I shouldn't use this move unless completely necessary. I don't like the idea of getting my hand lodged in a body. After everything we sat around the fire and watched the workers to make sure they were safe. I was staring at the fire as it slowly began to go out. Then I felt someone wrap their arms around me. It was Megumin.

"What are yo-" She placed a finger over my lips.

"Thank you.. For protecting us." She said her head on my chest. I guess I did single handedly saved them. I did something heroic for once. Another pair of arms wrapped around me. It was Aqua. She didn't say anything but she looked like she was holding back tears. YunYun sat on my lap and wrapped her arms around my neck, pressing her face against mine. Darkness hugged me from behind placing her head on my back. I really am a terrible person when the first that comes to mind is 'Finally I'm being treated like a proper harem protagonist.' I wrapped my arms around the three girls in front of me. Although I may be scum I can still appreciate them.

"Thank you. For this" I said. The pain came back from earlier. I smiled.. With the sun beginning to set on this day we all hugged, enjoying each other's company. Truly this is a blessing.

A/N: We've almost hit 1000 total views on my story good lord that's amazing thank you so much!

Anyway I'll continue to update this as much as I can. I want romance but I'm not sure which route I wanna go so this is gonna be fun. You can expect a few laid back chapters before I start another arc like this. I know this was short but I like it that way. Also was torn between Darkness telling Kazuma that she loved him or the other thing so I compromised. So yeah I'll catch you guys next chapter!