Disclaimer : KonoSuba is owned by Akatsuki Natsume, I don't own anything about it and only using it as a material of my fanfic.
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Chapter 1 : Mein Kampf in der Neuwelt
""WAAAAAAA!"" Both of us yelled out due to the situation we're in right now.
After we were engulfed by the light from that magic circle, the next thing I knew was that we're free-falling down in a space filled with myriads of colors that keep changing every second, probably due to the fact that both of us instead of me alone that's being transferred. I wonder if this is what those people feeling when they're taking LSD.
Not too long after that, everything suddenly turned black.
""Eh?"" Both of us muttered dumbly.
Then the light returned abruptly along with strong wind? blowing to my face.
Looking around, I found out why.
We're free-falling from the sky to the ground.
With no parachute nor any sign of our fall slowing down.
"AAAAAA! We're gonna dieeeeeeeee!"
"WAAAA! This was all your fault, you stupid NEET!"
"No! It's all your fault, you stupid goddess! I'm gonna die again because of you! WAAAAAAAA! And I'm still virgin to boot!"
"Hey, what's up with that sudden cry!? You seriously disgust me!"
While bickering about stupid things, our distance to the ground rapidly shorten without any pause and soon enough, we can see where we'll be landing(dying) at.
""AAAAAAAAAAAA!"" As our body getting closer to the ground, we screamed while closing our eyes, waiting for the sweet release of death and rather reluctant to see our last moment.
Then, the strong gust of the wind that I felt suddenly disappeared.
And yet, why do I feel no pain? Could it be that I'm already dead again? Am I going to after-afterlife?
Slowly opening my eyes, what greeted my sight was the ground. No, more exactly, few centimeters above the ground.
"Eh? Am I alive? GOHE!?"
After saying that, my body that levitates few centimeters dropped down with a thud.
Dusting myself off the dust from the fall, I looked at the surrounding and found out that we're in a forest.
Beside me, that stupid goddess comically lying spread-eagle on the ground, face down.
Is she alive?
Taking a branch from the ground, I poke her body to confirm my suspicion.
"Hey~ Are you alive?"
Poke Poke
Suru Suru~
Twitching about, apparently, she is alive.
"W-where am I?" She muttered while groaning.
Slowly getting up, she looks around as if in a stupor and frantically mumbling 'this must be a dream' multiple times.
Then she saw me.
"YOU!"
All hell broke loose as she pounced me and throwing her punches.
Kindly replying her attack, I countered back and it didn't take long for us to roll on the ground just like how kids would fight.
After few minutes went by, a pillar of light suddenly came from the sky to the ground nearby us.
Temporarily pausing our fight, we covered our eyes until the blinding light that came along with it died down.
As I open my eyes, I saw the beautiful girl that came before me and this stupid goddess got tangled up in that teleportation, but why did she seem so transparent?
"Aqua-senpai, Kazuma-san, are you two saf-"
She didn't get to finish her sentence when she looked at us.
'What's wrong?'
The answer to my unasked question was answered by what I saw.
Right now, I'm on top of this stupid goddess while both of us are breathing roughly(from earlier bout) and both of our clothing are ruffled(again, from our earlier bout). It instantly dawned upon me about what she interpret about this situation.
In order to avoid the misunderstanding, I yelled out loud:
""This isn't what it looks like!""
A~re? Why did this stupid goddess join in?
"Okay..." The beautiful girl muttered with a sweatdrop.
After dusting off ourselves from the dirt caused by our fight, the figure, as it turns out, a hologram of Eris the goddess of fortune sent by Eris herself to check on us starts explaining about our situation.
"Kazuma-san, I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused by the error in teleporting you. I'm glad that I could barely save you and Aqua-senpai from the fall."
"Ah, you don't have to apologize, Eris-sama. In fact, this goddess here should be the one apologizing." Scratching the back of my head, I told her my earnest feeling.
"What!? It's your fault we're in this mess, so you're the one who should apologize for troubling this Aqua-sama! Wait, why are you so easily called her with -sama while I'm not!?" Spreading both her legs and folding her arms while acting high and might like that, I'm truly perplexed on how could she be a goddess... Probably that's precisely why she's a goddess since there's many gods or goddesses like her in Greek mythology, but still, I digress.
"Ah yes, Aqua-senpai, I have a message for you from the heaven's council."
"They're sending you to retrieve me, right?" She said with a triumphant look.
"No, actually-
Haha, they must be deciding to punish her, right? Serves her right for that attitude!
-the council decides that since it's your fault for getting transferred to this world and for almost killing a 'gifted' person sent to try to stop the demon king, you must support him until the demon king is defeated by him before you can go back and Kazuma-san, you also must take care of her. If Aqua-senpai dies before defeating the demon king, you'll lose your 'gift'." Said Eris nervously.
""WHAT!?""
Both of us exclaimed.
For Aqua, why should she tag along with the youth who made her facing this kind of predicament?
For me, this is a punishment instead of a blessing. Not only I have to take care of this annoying goddess, my life here was completely linked with her.
In the end, both of us had reached a common understanding that the heaven's council are full of d*cks.
"You can't be serious right!? Hey, my kohai, take me back to the heaven! I command you as your senpai!"
"I'm sorry, Aqua-senpai, but this is their decision and I can't disobey them. And for Kazuma-san, there's a town nearby this forest at the east, since it's already noon, I suggest you go there as soon as possible.
Then, may luck be with you." With nervous tone, she muttered that before her hologram disappeared.
"Ah..." Aqua muttered lifelessly.
Although I really shouldn't, but I kinda feel bad for her, a minuscule bit.
"H-Hey."
Trying to call her out, she didn't respond at all. To add the creepiness of the situation, her bangs completely covered her eyes which are empty and she keeps muttering 'Why?' in a monotone voice over andover again.
If someone stumbled upon her right now, in this forest, I wouldn't blame them if they run away for thinking that they met a ghost.
Well, there's no time to linger around here forever, so I better get going like what Eris-sama suggested.
"Hey, let's get going. Let's think about the future later."
"Huh?" She replied while her bangs parted, revealing that her eyes regained their color back.
And that color somehow turned to fire as she pounced at me. Again.
Stepping to the side, her pounce missed and she fell face first on the ground.
As if that doesn't enough to sate her anger, she prepared herself for another pounce.
"Seriously, stop with this stupidity."
"Stupidity!? I can't go back because of you and I have to follow you around until you defeat the demon king for who knows when! What am I going to do? The future is bleak."
Whoa, she cried in panic.
Now I feel a little bit like an A-hole.
"Sheesh, calm down a little bit. First, let's go to the town and find the tavern for information, find a place to live, and when we're ready, going on an adventure/journey to defeat the demon king. Besides, the so-called 'gift' I requested will be very potent in this world and you are also a goddess, right? It's just the matter of time about the defeat of demon king by us." Explaining that with confidence, I personally think what I said is too much as the latter two might be rather hard for a hikikomori and NEET like me and I might regret praising her.
Listening to my word, her panicked expression instantly changed into a smug expression.
"Ohhh! That's right! I wonder why a hikikomori and NEET like you could have a good thinking? Ah, by the way, you may call me Aqua, be honored. But you can also call me goddess, though that will cause a problem as people will worship me and all which will hinder the effort to defeat the demon king. Ahh~ being a goddess sure is tough~."
Okay, I DO regret praising her and I really want to retort her arrogant statement, but I don't want to have another stupid fight and risk something bad happened when the night came.
With Aqua following from behind, I headed to the town like Eris-sama instructed.
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The Town of Beginner, Axel Town
Arriving at the town Eris-sama told me, I was greeted by the unbelievable scene before me.
Before my eyes were houses built from red bricks, the streets right out of Europe in the Middle Ages.
There were no cars, bikes, power lines or telecommunication cables.
I looked around the street, watching the people passing by.
There are animal eared girls! Nekomimi, Usagimimi, Inumimi, and more. Ah, is that an elf!? That beautiful nee-san is definitely an elf!
"Whoa, this is truly another world! Am I seriously going to be involved in this fantasy world? Hello new world, I will definitely work hard in this world. And f*ck you, old world." I internally monologuing.
Somehow after my inner monolog, people looked at me as if I am a weirdo.
"Good grief, I know you are a hikikomori and NEET, but must you need to say what you thought out loud like a moron just because you're overexcited?"
Eh?
Apparently, my inner monolog wasn't so internal.
"Shit." I cursed.
"What?"
"Nothing. More importantly, if you are a goddess, you could answer all my question, right?"
"Huhu, of course."
"Where's the adventurer guild?"
"Ah, eh, um..."
Alright, she's useless.
While thinking to ask someone, a voice called us out.
"Hey kid, you're new here?"
Turning around, I saw an old man who sold fruits in a stall.
Might as well as to ask him.
"Ah yes, could you tell me where the adventurer guild located?"
"Are you people adventurer visiting this town?"
"No, we're from a distant land and we came here to be an adventurer."
It's not a lie despite it being a clever way to cover the fact that I came from another world while Aqua came from the realm of gods.
"Ah, a newbie eh? Go to the main road and turn right, you'll find it unless you're blind."
"Ah, thank you very much."
"Don't sweat it, kid. May Eris bless ya with luck in being an adventurer."
"Thank you again... And hey, Aqua, let's go."
Dragging Aqua who is still mumbling to herself, we headed to the adventurer guild.
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Adventurer Guild
A place for adventurers to take up jobs, which was a staple in games, an organization that supported the adventurers a.k.a the job agency version of this world.
There was a rather large establishment before them and the fragrance of food drifted from within.
Probably there are some troublesome people inside, but let's just hope for the best.
After preparing myself mentally and entering…
"Ah, welcome~ Please approach the counter if you looking for jobs. If you are here to dine, please take any empty seat~!"
A waitress with short red hair received us warmly.
The slightly dim interior seemed to double as a bar.
Groups of men in armor could be seen congregating inside, but they didn't seem to bear ill will.
But unfamiliar faces seemed to be rare, everyone was focusing on us.
… I realized why they were looking this way.
"Nah, nah, they are looking this way too blatantly. It must be the holy aura coming from me, they must have found out that I am a goddess."
PACHI
I facepalmed.
The only reason they're looking at you was because of your beauty as long as no words came out of your mouth.
For now, I ignore their gaze and went about my original objective.
Making a beeline for the counter, I see that there are four counter staffs and two of them were female.
Obviously, I queue up at the counter with the prettier lady.
"Hey, the other 3 counters are empty, why are you queuing here? We won't have to wait if we go to another counter… Ah, because this counter staff is the prettiest? Really, I was just a bit impressed and thought that you might be reliable, but you are doing this?"
Aqua who was following me didn't know anything, so I whispered to her quietly:
"Building a good rapport with the guild's counter staff is the basics. And the pretty counter lady definitely had plenty of flags to raise. This means there will be more shocking hidden side quest waiting for us. For example, the counter lady might be a powerful adventurer or something."
"Now that you mentioned it, I saw something similar in a manga. Sorry, I will wait in line obediently."
Idiot or not, at least it's convenient that she stopped complaining about every little thing.
It was finally our turn.
"Good afternoon, how may I help you?"
The counter staff was a gentle beauty.
Her wavy hair and large breasts made her look matured.
"Eh, I want to be an adventurer. I came from far away and didn't know anything…"
If I tell the counter staff I came from the countryside or a far away nation, they will give a more thorough explanation, besides, I'm not lying about it.
"I see. There will be a registration fee, will that be okay?"
That's right, this is the basic tutorial.
I will just need to follow the instruction of the counter staff.
Wait, registration fee?
"Um, excuse me for a moment... Aqua, where's the pouch containing the starting money that you should've given to me?"
Hearing that, she checked every pocket in her clothes - only to find nothing.
"Aqua, did you just lose our only way to register as an adventurer?"
"D-Definitely not! B-But, how about you sell the gun you could make with you 'gift'?"
"No way, if that's the case, then I'm no longer going to be the unique cheat user and if anyone but me possesses the gun and defeats the demon king, wouldn't you end up stuck here forever? Besides, I still don't know how my 'gift' work."
"Guh, that's true, but..."
In our dilemma regarding what to do, the counter staff interrupted with a rather uncomfortable expression. Are~? Did I just break her flag?
"Customer, we can lend you the money to register, but um, please return them in a week or we'll revoke your card and put a bounty on your head."
'You should've told me from the beginning' or 'That kind of punishment is too overboard' that's what I want to retort her with, but it seems unsightly and everyone is looking at us who made a commotion, so I just shut my mouth up.
Following the instruction, I owe the guild 2000 Eris as each registration cost 1000 Eris and 1 Eris = 1 Yen. Then, she explained about how adventurer works.
- They're jack of all trades, doing any jobs they can
- Adventurer possesses level(just like a game character), the way to gain a level is by killing or eating any creature as all creature contains soul which equates to experience point. Again, just like a game. butwith the addition of a morbid implication that we eat souls.
- Adventurers are divided by multiple jobs they can choose based on their abilities and each class is unique in their own ways.
- Every adventurer has an adventurer card with the function of displaying your level, abilities, money, exp. points, and stat.
"Here's your adventurer card, please fill in as much as you can, but weight, height, and age are mandatory. When you're done, please touch the card and I'll check it and give you the suggestion of what class to choose."
After following all the instruction, here comes the evaluation.
"Alright, let's see here. Hmm? Satou Kazuma-san. Your strength, vitality, and magic are average, intelligence, agility, and speed are slightly above average, and finally luck is very high. I'd suggest you to either become an arc- Arere?"
At the end of her explanation, no, she was cut in the middle of her explanation as if she found something weird about my card.
"Yes?"
"Satou Kazuma-san, have you registered at the different branch of adventurer guild and lost your card?"
"Huh? It's my first time coming here, what's wrong with it?"
Without telling me anything, she shows me the problem. Namely, my Job.
There, on the column of the job, what should usually be filled by the word adventurer, it's-
Name: Satou Kazuma
Age: 16
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Job: Militärbeauftragter
Knowing a little bit of Germany from looking through their history regarding the World War I, that word means Military Officer, and she told me that never in her life that she saw a job like that.
It took a while to convince her that I'm not tricking her about my job and then checking with the guild database to ensure that I'm really a beginner instead of a fraud, she seems to bought it after realizing that apparently she couldn't do anything regarding my situation and apologizing to me that I'm stuck in an unknown job with no way to change it.
I expect something amazing from her since she's a goddess, but found something outrageous instead.
If my commotion is like a breeze, hers is like a storm.
While the only great thing about me is my luck stat, she's the opposite of mine with the absurd stat in everything but intelligence and luck which respectively abysmal.
The guild went rowdy due to congratulating her and all, contrasting the pitying look I got earlier when the counter lady apologizes to me about my own situation.
'Am I really the hero here?'
While the person herself-
Looking at me with a shit-eating grin plastered all over her face as if taunting me, she bragged about it and choose the job of Arch-Priest as her occupation out of the fact that there's no goddess job in the list.
And thus, the beginning of our adventure began-
Three days later...
-or so I thought.
"Kazuma, help me!"
"Although it's slimy and smelly, could you get me out of here? I'll die if this keeps up."
In front of me is two giant toads.
And no, they're not the one speaking.
It came from two figure whose legs sticking out of those toads' mouth and spasming about.
PACHI
I facepalmed.
How did it come to this?
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1st day
After registering ourselves at the guild, we borrowed another 1000 Eris to purchase meals before sleeping on the horse stable due to not having any money.
Before I sleep, I checked my adventurer card and found something more surprising other than the fact that I have a strange job: my 'gift.
Unlike the usual ability that was listed under the 'Skill' tab, my gift was listed on the other tab named 'Special Skill' and from my previously pessimistic thinking about not being able to use my 'gift', it describes everything I need to know about it.
Special Skill: Military Equipment Creation
Passive :
- Military Equipment Creation Magic: Allows the owner of this gift to create any object that fits under the Military Equipment category, the mana cost varies to each type of object, more complex the object is, more mana it'll take.
- Inherent Knowledge: Allows the owner of this gift to know how to use anything created, enough to be moderately good at it.
- Efficiency: Any object that was created will cost 25% less mana for the second, third, and so on times. Does not stack on each creation.
- Realism: This creation magic only allows the creation of real Military Equipment that the user saw in the previous world in its originality. Will not apply to: fictional depiction in any form and inaccurate description.
- Creator's Will: Allows any creation to disappear if the creator wills it.
Meanwhile, the active one was divided into three parts: Weapon, Vehicle, and Miscellaneous. Small bits of flavor text told me the Miscellaneous cost the least among the three, Weapon at the middle, and Vehicle as the highest(for obvious reason).
Since I don't think I have a large mana capacity, I think I should try to create a pistol as a start.
In my head, a certain pistol appeared in my mind. Outstretching my left arm, I focused on gathering my mana there.
"Trace-" Before I could say finish the chant, I frantically shook my head.
Okay, let's not be a plagiarist here, plagiarism is bad, even more, if the one I imitate is another imitator(faker).
"Creation!" I shouted with my outstreched left arm.
Remembering its name.
Recognizing its form.
Knowing its function.
Then, with a bluish flash of light, the gun I envisioned appeared in my outstretched hand.
Chambering a 9x19mm Parabellum caliber with a good rate of fire and accuracy, it's the infamous Germany's semi-automatic pistol, Luger P08.
Taking out the magazine, I see that it's already loaded with 8 bullets.
'If the gun I made was already loaded, then even if I don't know the correct caliber, just using the loaded bullet's caliber would be fine! Though, what if the bullet that was loaded incompatible?'
Such things go around my head.
Testing out my first theory, I recreate the bullet with the same steps and to my joy, succeeded. But I can't really test the second theory as this is night and a gunfire would awake everyone and caused a problem for me.
Feeling excited with my success, I tried to create a sub-machine gun this time to test how far my mana capacity could take me.
Only for me to suddenly lost my consciousness due to mana depletion before I could even imagine what sub-machine gun I wanted.
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2nd day
Today, we've decided to do a quest in order to pay our loans to the guild and officially starts our occupation as an adventurer.
Although the whole fiasco that happened yesterday was unfortunate, but today will be different!
Putting aside the mana problem I had with creating a rifle and choosing to focus on my quest, I equipped myself with a newly created pistol holster for my P08, a combat knife, and a magazine pouch carrying 6 of them, I'm ready to go.
Incidentally, I offered Aqua to use my pistol, but she refused it as she considered it inelegant and not worthy of her.
The quest we've decided to take was to eliminate five giant toads in three days since the pay is good and there's no other hunting quest, we decided to take it.
And we regret it deeply.
When meeting those toads for the first time, I realized once again that this is truly another world as no normal toads would grow to the size of a fucking bull. But still, it's not something to be scared or regretted about.
Opening fire to it on the other hand...
BANG!
With a squishy 'SPLAT' sound, one of the toad lost a third of its head and dropped dead with the content of its brain oozing out.
Killing the last four also went without a hitch, but by the time we're done...
Good news: I don't have to worry about incompatible bullet caliber to my created firearms, bad news:
"Hey Aqua, why are we surrounded by this many giant toads, nee?" I asked while warily observe around twenty giant toads who are slowly approaching us. Apparently, the gunfire sound was probably what brought them here and I'm too busy hunting the other four to the point of not noticing them approaching.
"Mmmph!"
"Aqua, you ther- HEEEE!? How could you get eaten!?"
Right behind me, there's a single giant toad with legs that dangling about sticking out of its mouth and a missing Aqua. Doesn't take long to guess what happened.
After killing the toad and releasing Aqua, we immediately bail out.
Returning back to the guild to retrieve our reward from quest completion, we are standing in line to wait for our turn.
To me, the quest hunting today is a great eye-opener to how I should use my gun more carefully, to pay attention to my surrounding, and to get another party member to guard Aqua or just simply leave her here, but the former isn't going to happen since we're still a starting party while the latter's impossible.
But to Aqua,
"That damned frog dare to eat me, a goddess! Kazuma! Let us take the quest again tomorrow! I will personally let them taste the divine punishment dished by a goddess herself!" She yelled in anger.
"Before saying that, why don't you go take a bath while I confirm the reward?" I said while covering my nose.
Yes, while she's yelling that, her body is still covered by the slimy substance from being swallowed by the toad. And ugh, it smells like a rotten fish!
"Ugu, but I want to know how much we'll be rewarded after the suffering I went through. And I don't want you to lie about it."
"I won't lie to you, I swear, so can you please leave to take a bath? Hey look, that jii-san over there is emptying the content of his stomach after smelling the current you, you know!?"
And yes, thanks to Aqua, the people who usually sat in the middle of the guild to enjoy their meal moved away to the corner that's usually empty just to avoid losing their appetite or worse, emptying the food that they've eaten.
Agreeing to my suggestion, she goes away to take her bath while everyone she passed by covers their nose which only serves to fuel her anger further.
"Mr. Customer over there, it's your turn."
"Ah, yes."
While seeing Aqua off, I didn't know that it's finally my turn.
"I want to confirm the completion of my quest."
"Yes, can I have your adventurer card?"
After giving her my card and waiting for a bit, she gave me the reward money and my adventurer card back.
The amount of money I received is 112,000 Eris after being deducted by my loan. By the way, each giant toad yields the net worth of 5,000 Eris due to transportation fee.
Also, my level increased by 4 and I gained 4 skill point and there are this two shining words on my card, respectively says Blitzkrieg and Scharfschütze.
When I asked the counter lady, she said:
"It must be your job specified skill that shows up, everyone who has a job usually has a skill they can learn after leveling up."
With that, I read the description of each skill.
Blitzkrieg: A passive skill that will give the owner a slight boost in proficiency, accuracy, movement speed, and strength. Requirement: 2 Skill Point, only active when using short - medium ranged firearms.
Scharfschütze: An active skill that allows detection of enemy presence from afar(range depends on the gun), presence concealment, and increased power when using long ranged firearms. The amount of increased power depends on Luck stat and how undetected you are by your target. Requirement: 2 Skill Point, only active when using long ranged firearms, the power increase is a passive effect.
As I don't have anything else to spend it on, I take both of them.
From those skills, I wonder if I'm going to be a military officer for real in this world? If so, Yay~ My future is strange~
Well, no use for negative thought, let's just go with the flow and hope for the best. With that in mind, I leave for a bath.
When I finished taking a bath, I came to the guild to have dinner and regroup with Aqua to split our share. Nothing much happened after that except both of us returning to the stable to sleep.
I have another plan though.
While Aqua is sleeping, I start my 'training'.
Along with gaining skill point in leveling up, my stat increased a little bit and naturally my mana capacity as well, so I think it's time to try creating another gun. Though, I won't try sub-machine gun as I was immediately knocked out cold before I can even imagine the sub-machine gun. So, I'm going to create a more simple bolt-action rifle.
"Creation!" I chanted as I outstretch my right hand forward.
Following the three steps of creation, I managed to gather a lot of mana to my outstretched hand.
Ugh, I suddenly feel fatigued.
'Creating a pistol didn't take as much as this mana, but I can't stop here, I'm almost done!'
Enduring the feeling of fatigue, I pushed forward.
"UOO!"
With the same light that accompanies my successful creation, a rifle was held in my right hand and obviously due to its weight, I immediately put it down on the floor.
A Mauser Gewehr 1898 fitted with a bayonet and Warner & Swasey Model 1913 Prismatic Musket Scope, a 5.2x magnifier developed for the Springfield M1903 along with the simple two-point leather sling attached. Loaded with the powerful 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge, this rifle can really dish out nasty damage to those foolish or poor enough to be at the end of its scope.
Although I managed to successfully create this rifle, I probably spent around 80-90% of my current level mana capacity just for creating it. No wonder I collapsed yesterday. If a simpler rifle took this much mana to create, how about a more complex weapon like sub-machine gun or machine gun or vehicles or etc...
I have to improve my mana capacity, huh?
With not much mana left for me to try anything else, I create the bullets for my new rifle before going to sleep.
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3rd day
After we woke up, we do the usual stuff to prepare for the day. Mainly, preparation for taking the giant toad elimination quest again for Aqua to get her revenge on and for me to train myself up a little bit more.
When entering the guild's building, people are staring at the rifle slung on my right shoulder.
Funny in how they never paid any attention to my pistol in its holster yesterday, but finally noticed when I brought a bigger gun. Well, they probably think this is a strange polearm or spear since there's bayonet sticking out just below the barrel.
Ignoring their gaze, we decided to order our meals, a simple vegetable soup and fried toad's legs(they're actually delicious).
While stuffing our mouth with the meal, someone approached us from behind.
Looking at said person, it's a small girl with smooth black hair reaching to her shoulders and red pupils wearing an eyepatch over her left eye, a black cloak, dark boots, pointy hat, and a staff just like a classic witch. With a delicate feature like a porcelain doll. Yep, it's a loli.
"I saw the notice to recruit adventurers with top tier, is that you guys?"
"Huh?"
Looking at Aqua, I muttered that out. She wasn't surprised in the least.
Hey, hey, what is this?
As if our eye contact was enough to convey what I'm wondering about, she answered:
"Ah, yesterday, when you are taking a bath, I was recommended by some adventurer to add more member to our party so what happened yesterday could be avoided and we'll have an easier time to defeat the demon king. So, I put a notice of recruiting adventurer on the board."
"That's pretty smart of you. Then, who might you be?"
Smirking at my question, she flung her cloak, letting it fluttering before declaring:
"Listen well! My name is Megumin! An arch wizard that controls the strongest attack spell, explosion!"
Then, spreading her legs as wide as her shoulder, raising her staff up, and putting her free hand in front of her face, she made a pose that won't be out of place in J*J*.
"For you to desire my forbidden power, so powerful that everyone fears me, show me the resolve you have to offer dark tribute to me!"
That time, the noisy guild went silent and their focus immediately shifted to us.
PACHI
I facepalmed. Just how many times I'll have to keep facepalming myself in order to cope with the strangeness of this world and its inhabitant?
"Ugh, Did you come here just to humiliate us? I get that we're a beginner, rookie, newbie, or whatever you'd like to call us, but isn't this is kind of thing... you know? Mean?"
"Wha!? Of course not!" She panicky denied.
"That red pupil, are you perhaps from the crimson magic clan?" Aqua suddenly interjected.
"Crimson magic clan?"
"Yeah, they are a race that possesses a trait where all of them are born with high intelligence and magic power. Simply said, most of them are expert in using magic. But all of them have weird names." Aqua answered.
"That so? Well, sorry for doubting you, but you shouldn't speak gibberish like that, it gave a wrong impression about you and what's up with your name?"
"What's up with my name? It should be me who asked what's up with others name."
"Then, what's your parent's name?"
"My mother is Yuiyui and my father is Hyoizaburo!"
Both I and Aqua went speechless. No, more exactly, we're barely able to hold our laugh from escaping out of our mouth.
"H-Hey, why do I feel insulted by you two despite being silent? GACK!"
She suddenly fell into orz posture.
"What's wrong!?"
"I haven't eaten anything since three days. Do you have anything to eat?"
"Well, fine..."
Although I want to ask about her eyepatch, her situation is quite dire it seems...
After treating her to a meal, we immediately interview her.
Looking at her adventurer card, she didn't lie being an Arch-wizard and damn that mana capacity's huge. I wonder what kind of things I can create with that much?
Aqua suggested that we take her in since her good class and amazing skill will surely be useful in our journey to defeat the demon king.
Well, let's put that theory to test, shall we?
Finishing our meal, we took the same quest as yesterday.
Using my newly acquired skill, Scharfschütze, the enemy detecting one, I managed to found few giant toads hiding in the forest nearby the plains where we usually hunt them. Ah, so that's where they came from yesterday.
Incidentally, the skill shows the enemy by giving them a red outline around their body and red circle icon above their heads.
Telling them about it and despite that, Megumin said she'll demonstrate her power to the one in the middle nearby said forest while entrusting us to take care of any giant toads coming her way during the chanting process and Aqua agreed as she wants to have her revenge for what those giant toads did to her and expect some came out.
Me? I simply released the safety locks of my rifle.
And surely like she said, when she's chanting at the unsuspecting giant toad in the middle, two giants toad appeared from east and west side of us.
"Aqua, you take the one on the left, I'll take the right."
"Yeah, it's finally time for payback!"
Cracking her fingers, she charged at the designated toad.
Meanwhile, I took a steady aim at the slowly approaching giant toad from the right.
Steady...
Breath in.
Su~
Breath out.
Ha~
BANG!
With similar yet more disgusting 'Splat' sound, this time, half of the giant toad's head was turned into chunks of brain matters on the ground.
After ejecting the spent cartridge, I moved my aim away to where Aqua charges...
"Mmmph!"
She was swallowed by a giant toad. Again.
BANG!
And I rescued her. Again.
While she's crawling out of the dead toad's mouth, I suddenly felt a pressure from behind, no, more exactly from Megumin.
"Watch closely. This is the strongest possible attack of humans. The ultimate attack magic. 'Explosion'!"
As she called out the name of her spell, a small light flickered from her staff before a huge pillar of light came down from above the giant toad as if a divine punishment from gods themselves that completely obliterate said giant toad.
"AGAGAGAGAGAGA!"
My teeth rattled as I stabbed the bayonet of my rifle to the ground, trying to hold my ground from being blown away by the strong wind.
When it finally ceased, I approached the crater caused by her spell to found a scorched land about 20 meters in diameter.
"Amazing... Such firepower..."
While mumbling that, I heard croaking noises approaching.
Looking at the source, I found another pair of giant toad approaching. One of them came for Megumin and the other to recently crawled out Aqua.
"Hey, Megumin! We need to-"
Looking at Megumin's position, I saw her lying face down on the ground.
"Explosion is my ultimate spell, it is very powerful and used a lot of mana. Simply put, the mana I used exceeded my limit, so I couldn't move. Ah, to think a toad would appear out of nowhere. No good, I will get eaten. Sorry, please save me. Hya!"
On the other side...
"Kazuma, help me!"
"Although it's kinda warm and nice, it's also slimy and smelly, so could you get me out of here? I'll die if this keeps up." Megumin added.
PACHI
I facepalmed yet again.
Having no energy to retort, I simply eject the spent cartridge from my rifle before freeing them both along with completing my quest.
Mein Gott, just how far do I have to keep up with this stupidity?
To Be Continued...
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A/N: That's it for the second, err, first chapter actually. Thank you for reading this new chapter of this series. About this chapter, it's about the explanation of Kazuma's ability and limits along with his struggle in living as an adventurer in the new world(hence the title). So, not yet much gun's blazing on the series. Not yet at least. And please do not expect modern or pewpew laser beam came out of nowhere as Kazuma here will use mostly WWI era weapons at his disposal and a very small amount of WWII weapon at best. Also, for some German's word that Kazuma didn't translate in his monolog or thought, here's the meaning:
- Blitzkrieg = Lighting War, a German's military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. German forces tried out the blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939 before successfully employing the tactic with invasions of Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1940.
- Scharfschütze = Sniping
- Militärbeauftragter = Military Officer/Military Commissar
- Mein Kampf in der Neuwelt = My Struggle in The New World
- Mein Gott = My God
For the reviewer, ArmantusCumPinnae, I'll try my best in keeping this fic alive and yeah, shit gets real. Though don't worry about too much shit get real, KonoSuba at its heart is a humorous series, so expect a lot of retorts, facepalm, and rant from Kazuma, one of the only sane person in his group or see him join the act occasionally.
That is all, goodbye! And again, please rate & review, I feel kind of lonely when nobody drops a review on me. Plus, it'd be beneficial for me and you readers as I can improve from your review while you have less to complain about the story. Also thanks for those who follow and favs my story, I'll try my best to write this story to your and mine's satisfaction.