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 5 : Die Auswirkung
'Ah, crap! Crap! Crap! This is bad! I'm an idiot!'
I internally swore to myself when looking at the scenery before me.
Fire.
Fire everywhere.
And this fire, more accurately, the forest fire was caused by no one but myself.
Let us recap a little bit.
Our party accepted a quest to hunt down 50 demonic treants in this woods before they can do any harm to the townspeople.
Initially, the tactic we used was proven effective against those monsters. Initially, that is.
Things started to go south when their numbers dropped into around twenties as several lush green trees surrounding us slowly morphed into a hollow and dry tree, in other words, more demonic treants to deal with.
The next thing we knew was that we were surrounded by these monsters without a way out.
In order to solve this situation, I racked my brain to think about a way to escape from our predicament.
Then, a shot of inspiration came to my mind after Megumin told me about their fatal weakness to fire.
With that, I created a flametrooper kit without thinking about our current location.
Worst of all, I was sent into a frenzy with the sole purpose of burning every one of them down regardless of the environmental damage I caused in my wake.
By the time I sobered up from my frenzy, the sight of forest burning greeted me.
Now, I have to rack my brain once again to resolve this situation.
"Kazuma! What should we do!?" Shaking me around, Aqua panicky yelled.
"I'm trying to think of some way to solve this right now! But nothing comes to my mind! Ah crap, should we just run away!?"
"What are you talking about!? If we run away and don't do something, the whole forest will be gone! Not to mention what if there are some people inside the forest right now!?" Darkness retorted to my careless suggestion.
Hey, are you even Darkness? Why did everything you just said make sense?
Returning back to the problem itself, yeah, nothing really comes to my mind until now except telling Megumin to use Explosion on the burning part of this forest, but she doesn't have enough mana to do so.
Come on, Kazuma. Think! There's this plane or tank or riot car that could shoot a huge amount of waters, but those aren't on the list of military equipment.
Ah!
Aqua is a water goddess before she's a hetaregami, right!?
"Hey Aqua, since you're an arch-priest that believes in a certain goddess, could you cast a magic that caused a great downpour or something to extinguish it?" Looking at the panicked Aqua, I asked that question in hope of positive answer.
"AH! That's right!"
Probably realizing my implication, she snapped her fingers as an expression of enlightenment plastered all over her face.
"Of course this great me have such spell for I am the go- I mean the most devout follower of Axis cult under the most benevolent water goddess Aqua-sama! Ufufufu!"
This hetaregami...
"'Sacred Create Water'!" She shouted out.
Along with her chant, a giant magic circle appeared in the sky directly above the places where fire rages on and without any warning, a massive amount of water being poured down from the magic circle.
It did manage to stop the forest fire, but-
"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" I yelled out before I will the flamethrower to disappear and focusing my strength into my legs to run as far as I can.
-it causes a flood of mud and trees due to the massive volume of water simultaneously falling down from the sky.
Seeing the dangerous artificial natural disaster that threatens our lives, four of us tried to outrun the flood.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Despite running as fast as we could, the loud noise caused by the flood approaching us at crazy fast speed can be heard louder and louder each second passed.
"We've almost there!" I yelled out when I saw the light not very far from our position in the sea of trees.
When we finally could see the town's gate, Aqua yelled something she shouldn't say.
"Yes! We're gonna make it! The flood won't catch up to us!"
"Hey, you hetaregami! Don't jinx i- WAAAAAAAAA!"
"Waaa! Kazuma!"
"UWAAAAHHH!"
"Kyaaaaa!"
But alas, despite our success in getting out of the forest, the flood caught up to us, causing four of us to be swept along toward the town.
Thanks for jinxing us, you damn hetaregami.
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A few hours later...
"...Hey..."
Someone called out.
Ugh, where am I?
Why is it so dark here?
What happened to me?
With those kinds of thought popping out of my head, I tried to remember what's going on.
I am going with Aqua, Darkness, and Megumin to do a quest.
Something went wrong, but I can't remember what is it.
"...Hey...okay...wake..."
A voice of someone yelling could be faintly heard as I keep trying to recall my recent memories.
Fire.
Everything is on fire.
'Yes! We're gonna make it! The flood won't catch up to us!'
Ah, I finally remembered.
We got caught by that flood, huh?
Ugh, did I die? Am I in afterlife again? Did everyone die as well?
Those kinds of morbid thought popped up one after another.
"Hey, are you okay!?" Finally, the voice can be heard clearly as I felt a hand pulling me up.
"GUAH!" I panted out as I took off my gas mask. Turns out the lens of my gas mask was covered in thick mud, preventing me from seeing anything.
Looking at the one pulling me up, I see a man dressed like an adventurer helping me to stand up.
Well, this answers that I'm not dead yet. But what about everyone else? And did that flood hit the town?
"Hey! There's another one here!" The man yelled out.
"Yeah, bring em here!" Another man responded.
Following the direction where the man helped me yelled at, I found another adventurer, who is a huge man wearing a breastplate with Aqua, Darkness, and Megumin all covered in mud laying down on the ground, panting.
Another question answered.
"Let's go."
With that, he helps me to walk toward the other man's location. Though, I'd rather call it dragging myself than walking.
After regrouping with my party, I asked about the situation of the town.
Apparently, there's no significant damage to the town thanks to this town's guards who managed to close the gate that prevented debris from the flood to enter the town. Though, some houses and stalls that were located on the outer part suffered moderate damage from the mud.
"Anyway, what happened back there? Some witnesses told us they were seeing forest fire before a giant magic circle appeared in the sky and the next thing they knew, flood. Luckily the town's guards managed to close the gate before it could enter the town." He asked while wryly smiling.
Looking at the direction where he looked at, I saw some houses being covered by mud and some stalls broke with its content being tainted by mud. There are also some people standing in front of those along with children that asked their parents what happened to their home.
Shit, I feel bad for them.
But if they know that our party was the one causing this...
"Uh, when we're in the forest, it was on fire and-" Before I could finish my sentence, I overhear a conversation from some people standing in front of one particular house that was half-buried in mud.
'Mama, where are we going to sleep tonight?' A little girl asked.
'It's okay, we'll manage.' The older woman said in a reassuring tone.
I slowly walk toward my party's position, whispering something to them, and-
""""WE'RE SORRY FOR CAUSING THIS MESS!"""" We shouted out in unison while performing a dogeza.
"So it's you people!?" One of the men whose stall in ruins yelled out in anger.
Walking towards us while holding a 2x4, his intention is obvious.
Though, before he could do whatever he wants, the adventurer who helped me stood in his way.
"Stop it, it's already amazing that they've got guts for admitting it. Let the guild be the one to judge them. Besides, you'll get a remuneration for this anyway."
"But-" The man tries to argue but was silenced by another largely built adventurer standing in his way.
"Okay."
With just a mere stare from the large adventurer, the man decided it's better to not push the matter any further.
"Okay, now then, Mr. the-one-causing-this, would you care for an explanation?"
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"Why should I do menial work like this?" Aqua complaints while casting her 'Create Water' instead of 'Sacred Create Water' that brought us into our current predicament to wash away the mud from the floor.
Instead of usually replying or retorting to her complaint, I didn't say anything while scrubbing the dirt off the wall.
As for the reason behind it, let's just say I'm at fault here and leave it at that.
Wearing a sleeveless white sweatshirt and leather pants, both of us are currently cleaning one of the houses that got caught in the flood yesterday.
On the outside of this house, I can see Megumin carrying a basket of fruits to one of the stalls that were already repaired while Darkness that wore the same clothes as I and Aqua carrying a large basket filled with branches and rocks from the flood.
Yeah, this was one of the deal we made in exchange for what we did yesterday.
After returning to the guild yesterday, we got an earful of scolding from the guild's receptionist, Luna-san for what we did.
Owing around two million Eris for the property damage we caused and barely having enough money to pay even half of it, we were forced to take this 'Zivildienst' kind of thing for the people whose houses or stalls got caught by the flood in order to pay the other half of it.
My money went from almost a million Eris to 50,000 Eris in one day due to this and the time I should spend to do quests for leveling ended up wasted on something like this.
Not only that, due to the panic during our escape from the flood, I 'will' all of my weapons to disappear for lightening myself so that I can run faster to avoid the unavoidable flood. Now I have to create them from the scratch again.
To quote a certain magic breaker, such misfortune!
Though I can't complain to anyone but myself. This is my fault after all.
If I didn't use flamethrower back then, this wouldn't happen.
While being a flammenwerfer is cool and all, using it inside a forest is a dumb and dick move.
Next time we're taking a quest inside a forest, I'll forbid the usage of Wechselapparat M1917 and incendiary grenades.
"Hey, don't space out!" I was snapped out of my stupor when I heard a man yelled at me.
"I'm sorry!" I apologized while scrubbing faster.
Three Days Later...
"Good job, next time don't do that again, okay?" A man muttered while putting his hand on my left shoulder.
Looking at the spectacle before me, it's unbelievable that these places were covered by mud and branches from the flood before.
Incidentally, this man is the same man who almost tried to hit us with a 2x4.
Yeah, it took us three days to completely clean every house and fix every stall from mud and branches that came along with the flood.
Now that we're free of our debt, we can finally do some quest again-
"Kazuma, I have a business with my family, so I have to leave." -Darkness.
"Sorry, Kazuma, some of those kind people we had been helping up until now offered me a rather well-paid job, so I'll excuse myself from quests for a while." -Aqua
-or not.
The only one left is Megumin.
"You have any business like them?"
"No."
"Wanna take some easy quest tomorrow?"
"Sure."
With only two of our party's member available for taking quest(including me), I sure am hoping that there is some easy quest tomorrow.
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"Let's see... Damn, there's no easy quest for the two of us."
Standing in front of the quest board, I can't find any decent quest for the two of us.
With Aqua and Darkness temporarily out of our party, I can't exactly risk our lives in doing any difficult quest.
On the board, there are several new quests added, but most of them are advanced ones and unsuitable for us to undertake.
When the easiest quest on board is to risk your life meeting Rookie Killer deep inside the mountain range, it should really speak on how difficult the rest of those quests.
"Hmm, I don't really mind to take any difficult quest because my Explosion will surely eliminate any threats."
"While I'd like to agree with that, our team only consist of us both, if you use Explosion and turns out there are many monsters appearing afterward, it'd be the end of us."
"Umu, that's true as well. I wonder if we should kill that demon king army's boss to solve this?"
Hey, you just suggest something dangerous, aren't you?
"While that would rack us a large sum of money and exp, it's impossible by the two of us only."
"Is that so?" She muttered while looking dejected.
Seriously, don't feel dejected after I reject your dangerous thought.
Now, what should we do?
"Hey, Satou Kazuma, isn't it?" A voice said from behind me.
Looking back, I saw a man in heavy armor with a sword sheathed on his back walking towards us with two people, a girl, and another man following him from behind.
"Oh! It's Taylor-san!"
Taylor, he's the large built adventurer who helped us during the flood incident.
Incidentally, he and another adventurer(Dust) that helped us weren't exactly looking for people to save from the aftermath, but they were looting for anything valuable that might come along with the flood but found us instead.
"How's your condition?"
"I'm fine, one of our party member is an Arch-priest who possesses a good healing ability, so I'm fine."
"Good, by the way, I almost couldn't recognize you, what's that kind of clothing?"
"Ah, this?"
Explaining to him the same thing I told to Darkness, he accepted it.
"Cool, it looks great."
"Well, thank you."
Finally, someone who admires the coolness of WWI Era military uniform!
"Hey, Taylor, who is that guy?" The girl behind him asked.
"Ah, sorry for not introducing you, this is Satou Kazuma. Satou Kazuma, this is Rin-
"Nice to meet you." I politely bow myself to the young girl in a green cloak.
"Ah, nice to meet you too, I'm Rin, the wizard of our party."
-and this is Keith."
Then, a lean man with a bow strapped on his back steps forward.
"Name's Keith, the archer of our party."
"Yes, nice to meet you. My class is Militärbeauftragter, I'll spare you the detail, but it's quite similar to the archer. By the way, this is Megumin, one of my party's member."
"Osu. I'm Megumin, an Arch-wizard!" She dramatically declared while striking a pose.
Hey, don't go chuuni here!
Luckily, they just smiled in amusement in response before Taylor continues his sentence.
"By the way, there's another member of our party, but he's-
Police Office
"Hey, I swear that I didn't steal anything!" A man yelled to the police officer in front of him.
Thud
A pouch filled with coins fell from the yelling man's pocket.
"Ehehe..."
In response to the man's weak laugh, the officer just arched his eyebrows before rolling his eyes in disbelief.
Back to Kazuma
"-in some sort of business. His name is Dust, but you already met him anyway. So, what are you doing? You had been staring at the quest's board for a while now."
"Well, that Crusader and Arch-priest of my party are also in some sort of business as well. That's why it's just the two of us looking for a decent quest we could take, but couldn't find any." I explained while shrugging my shoulders.
"I see, we're also looking for a quest and since both of us respectively missing some of our party's member, why don't we do a joint quest?" He suggested.
"Hmm, that's a good idea. Well, we'll be in your care then."
"Umu, as long as you're not being a burden, it's fi- OUCH!"
Hearing her boast, I couldn't help but smack Megumin's head as a reflex.
"Forgive my party member here, she's a little bit eccentric."
"Uh-huh."
After that, he chooses a quest of goblin's camp extermination. An advanced level quest with the reward of 500,000 Eris with an additional 20,000 Eris per goblin killed during our quest.
Apparently, they built a small encampment in the forest nearby our town due to the demon king army's boss coming to the castle in the deeper part of the forest, forcing those goblins to move into the forest nearby town. While they weren't much of a threat, a pack of Rookie Killers that really love to hang out nearby them made things much more complicated, hence the advanced level.
Hiding behind a bush, I use my binocular to spot their encampment and those who are patrolling the area.
After I'm done, I can confirm, this is indeed an advanced level quest.
There are around a hundred of those goblins patrolling around and that's not counting those living in the shacks. Though the dangerous thing about this is why I haven't seen any Rookie Killer at all. Either they're in the same position of us who is observing these goblins or they haven't been around yet.
My only question is why does Taylor pick this job? Apparently, the answer is currently sitting beside me with her crimson eyes shining in anticipation.
Right...
"Okay, here's the situation. According to my observation, there seventy goblins patrolling around the encampment, not including those who might be inside the shacks, and no Rookie Killer spotted, so let's be on our guard and be prepared for an ambush that those things could do."
"Alright, if that's the case, let's go with the original plan. If Rookie Killer pops up, we'll use your plan, Kazuma."
Yeah, in this joint quest, Taylor will be our leader and his plan will take more priority than mine.
Not that I'm complaining, it's refreshing to follow an order rather than giving it out for a change of pace and his plan is a pretty solid one.
"Understood. Then, let's go, Megumin."
With that, we proceed to follow the plan.
Together with Megumin, we climb a hill nearby.
Standing on the hill, I use my binocular to see their encampment and apparently, they haven't noticed us.
As for Megumin.
"Oh, darkness shrouded in light,
Frenzied blaze clad in night,
In the name of the crimson demons,
let the collapse of thine origin manifest.
Summon before me the root of thy power hidden within the lands of the kingdom of demise!
Explosion!"
BOOM!
Right in the middle of the goblin's encampment, a bright flash of light erupted as her spell hit the mark.
When the light fades out, we can see the destruction of goblin's encampment.
Though, there are some survivors of around twenty goblins or so.
But it went according to our plan.
Those surviving goblins now restlessly looking for the source of the spell and it's Taylor's group turn to shine.
"HAAAA!"
Charging forward with his greatsword, Taylor draws in the goblins' aggro on him, making them focusing their attention on him.
Behind Taylor, Rin is chanting something while Keith notched an arrow and aim it at the goblins' way.
Cutting down any goblin coming his way while preventing any of them from slipping through his guard, Taylor was simply an unstoppable tank.
I wished Darkness could learn one or two things from him.
"Watch out, arrows!" Keith shouted out.
"Wind Curtain!"
Finishing her chant, a small gust of wind flew from Rin's staff toward Taylor's body for a second before settling down into a swirling wind around him.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH
Flying arrows that were aimed at Taylor were immediately repelled by the barrier of wind surrounding his body.
"Good job, Rin! Yosh, ORYAAAAAA!"
Cutting down another goblin charging at him, Taylor charges forward.
"Well, at this rate, our quest will be done without much trouble. Though I feel bad on barely contributing anything at all." I said while smiling wryly.
Listening to that, Megumin who lays on the ground arches her eyebrows.
"Huh? You did contribute by scouting them, right?"
"Well, that's true, but I wished I'd do more things to be useful for the team. Look, you eliminated most of those goblins while Rin and his party clear out the rest of them and I'm here barely doing anything to assist them in any way."
It didn't take long for my stupid wish to be granted.
As the last goblin fell to Taylor's blade, a black shadow leaped out from one of the bushes towards him.
Barely able to dodge the incoming creature, Taylor grits his teeth.
Failing its pounce, the creature landed few meters behind Taylor and his group.
Looking closely, it's-
"Shit! A Rookie Killer!" Taylor cursed while two of his party member trembled in fear.
"Mein Gott, me and my fucking big mouth." I cursed.
Taking my recently recreated Gewehr 98 that was slung over my shoulder, I immediately take a prone position and set the bipod down.
Yeah, unlike my previous Gewehr 98 equipped with a bayonet and Warner & Swasey Model 1913 Prismatic Musket Scope, the current Gewehr 98 I used is equipped with a scope and a bipod for scouting and sniping.
While I took my time to set my weapon, the Rookie Killer didn't just stand and wait as Taylor barely able to block its attack.
"Tsk, Rin, Keith, go away and leave me. I'll buy you guys some time. HAAAAA!" He shouted while taking a stance to block another pounce from the Rookie Killer.
Only for it to be a feint as it side-stepped him and aimed at-
"Rin! Get away!" Taylor shouts in desperation when he noticed its intention.
"Shit! I couldn't make it!" Keith cursed as he couldn't notch another arrow in time to shoot the incoming Rookie Killer.
"KYAAAAAA!"
Closing her eyes in front of her impending doom, Rin screamed in terror as she waits for her time to come-
DopanN!
-only to hear the sound of a gunshot.
Opening her eyes, she saw the dreaded Rookie Killer lays on the ground beside her, whimpering in pain.
DopanN!
Another loud noise similar to before resounded again as this time, the Rookie Killer quit whimpering as a hole with blood flowing out of it appears on its head.
"What was that?" Taylor muttered, being the first to snapped out of his stupor.
"Hey, don't you forget my existence here!" I shouted out.
Looking at our direction, they saw a man in a prone position on the ground holding some sort of strange stick with a smoke rising out of one of its end.
That is me.
"Kazuma was that you!?" Taylor shouts while pointing at the dead Rookie Killer.
"Yeah! It's- Look out! There's four of them incoming!" I shouted as my enemy detection skill warned me about the incoming threat.
"Shit!" He cursed while looking at his current situation: Being surrounded by four Rookie Killer.
"Fight defensively! Don't let your guard down while I eliminate them one by one!"
"Understood!"
With that, despite being scared by their situation, unlike before where they were panicking like this is the last day of their life, their movement wasn't as sloppy as before.
That's because they trusted me.
I'll kindly respond their trust.
DopanN!
A Rookie Killer who didn't move from its current position dies.
The rest of them instantly went restless and trying to look for the one killing their kind.
"Come on! You want some of me!? Come on!" Taylor taunted.
The attention of those three immediately shifts into Taylor.
That was the beginning of how things go south-
DopanN!
-for those Rookie Killer that is.
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After completing our quest and on our way back.
"That was amazing man! Now I see why your party are filled with high-class jobs!" Taylor said in amazement.
"Yeah, and the Explosion from Megumin-san is great too! I wonder if I can be like that one day." Rin muttered while looking at Megumin with beaming eyes.
Please, do not copy her in trying to be a great wizard.
"Kukuku, if you train yourself every single day, one day you might achieve the level of what I am today, young girl." Megumin haughtily said.
"What are you talking about, you and Rin are probably around the same age. And don't say that when I'm carrying you like this, it doesn't suit you." I retorted.
"Muu..."
"By the way, Kazuma-san, what is that weapon? You did tell me that your class is kinda like an archer and fight using range advantage, but I thought you'd use a bow and not that magic stick." Keith interrupts while looking at the rifle slung over my shoulder.
"It's not a magic stick. It doesn't need or possesses magic to function. This is a weapon back in my hometown, it's called a rifle. This weapon fires a lead with impossible speed that could almost pierce anything."
"I see... I'd like to have that kind of weapon one day. By the way, where's your hometown? If I might visit the place, I could buy one of it?"
"Ah, my hometown's name is Japan."
"Japan? Never heard of it."
"Well, this is a huge world, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know it."
"I see..."
By the end of our banter, we didn't realize that the adventurer's guild building is right in front of us.
After claiming the reward and splitting it equally, we part ways.
"Well, if fate chooses so, let us do a joint quest again, Satou Kazuma." Taylor said while offering his fist.
Smiling at that, I bumped it before saying:
"Yeah, let's do it. I do enjoy our time teaming up like that."
"Well then, goodb-"
"Wait! Wait! WAIT! ! !" Rin suddenly yelled out, causing four of us to look at her in surprise.
"What is it, Rin?" Taylor asked with a worried tone.
"Why are you two talking like that?"
""What do you mean?"" Both I and Taylor replied.
"It's not like both our party are going to a journey, right? Why do you two talk like we're not going to see each other for a long time?"
She got a point.
"Hahahaha! Well, Rin is right. I wonder what's up with me trying to dramatize things!" Taylor laughs heartily.
"That's true." I could only wryly smile.
With that, we went separate ways, but not exactly that separate as both of our parties aren't going anywhere from this town.
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"WAAAA! You idiot! Why didn't you tell me about doing that quest!?" Aqua yelled at me.
Stop it, people are looking at us, hetaregami.
"Hey, Aqua, didn't you say that you are going to do a high-paid job in the town?" Megumin interjects before biting down a piece of fried toad in her hand.
"Yes! But I'd never expect for the quest you two did would pay higher!"
Yeah, our reward from doing that quest is great.
The thing is, while the original reward is 500,000 Eris because there are around one hundred goblins we've killed and in addition to the death of five Rookie Killers, the final reward is 5,000,000 Eris which was split into 1,000,000 Eris per person.
That's why I regain back my fortune.
Meanwhile, Aqua who did a labor work only earns 15,000 Eris.
And now, she's complaining about it.
She really does have a bad luck, doesn't she?
"So, what do you want to do about it?" I asked while dipping a bread in my hand into my soup.
"I want to do a quest! A quest that will earn me a lot of money!"
"Hee~ Good luck with that." I replied before biting into my bread.
Hmm, it tastes good.
"Huh? What's with that attitude? Aren't you glad that I'm back in action?"
"No, it's just that there is no available quest for the adventurer of our level. That's why today I and Megumin are going to do something else."
"What are you talking about!? Can't you see those quests on the board!? Are you blin- Eh?"
Putting down the bread in my hand to the table, I grabbed her by the collar and drag her toward the quest board.
"Look closely, you hetaregami! Those are very advanced or absurd quest! Yesterday, we were barely able to take a quest, and even then it's an advanced quest! Can't you see that trying to do any of these quests would amount to suicide!? You're the blind one here!" I snapped.
"Uu...Sniffle..."
"Uu?"
"UWAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! Kazuma is a meanie! Brute! Stupid NEET!"
"Aaaahhhhhhh! Stop it, everyone is looking at us now! Stop it!"
"Kazuma, you brought this on yourself."
"Hey, Megumin, you're not helping at all!"
"UWAHHHHHHH!"
"I understand! I understand! Next time! If you find a high-paying yet still plausible quest, we'll do it together!"
"*sniffle* Really?"
"Really."
"Well, that is a must, obviously." She said in a haughty tone.
Bonk!
I hit her head, hard.
After that, we finished our breakfast before going on our own way.
Aqua didn't take a quest, instead, she took a labor work just like yesterday.
Hang in there, hetaregami.
Meanwhile, I and Megumin went out of town at Megumin's request.
"What is so important that you accepted not taking any quest about this?"
Yeah, this morning before the whole Aqua shenanigans, we were both scouting for a quest to take, but all of them are no good. Despite that, I would have imagined that Megumin would take a quest paper, show it to me only to be an absurd quest, and I retort about it, that kind of routine. So it came as a shock when she said we should give up looking for a quest today since we've earned a lot yesterday in both level or money and asking me to accompany her to someplace outside the town.
"I'll show you when we're there."
"Suit yourself, but don't do anything crazy."
At that comment, she instantly gets flustered.
"What are you talking about? Who do you think I am!?"
"A chuunibyou." I deadpanned.
"Muu... Ah, we're here."
When she said that, I followed her line of sight to see a beautiful scenery surrounding me and a cliff with an old castle built on top of it can be seen from afar.
Is she going to ask me for viewing this beautiful scenery together?
"'Explosion!'"
I guess not.
To Be Continued...
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A/N:
Alright, this is one of my earlier than usual release since I have some free time! This chapter is about the consequences/impact of what Kazuma did or thought, hence the title "Die Auswirkung" that means "The Consequence/Impact". For the event of this chapter, as usual, breaking from the canon and taking a future canon event, put it into a blender of idea, throw it out and voila! That aside, the first arc would soon be over. Note: Major canon event will still exist, but heavily altered by our good ol' Kazuma which will result in the canon diverging due to the butterfly effect. Now let's go into the term:
- Dogeza: known as sitting right on the ground is an element of Japanese manners by kneeling directly on the ground and bowing to prostrate oneself as touching one's head to the floor. It is used to show deference to the most highly revered high-class person, as a deep apology and to express the desire for a favor from said person.
- 2x4: A plank due to its common size(even though it's really 1.5x3.5" in real life) that could be found just about everywhere at hardware stores, construction sites, home renovations, garages, and just about anywhere else there's wood to be found. It's an unassuming little item, highly flexible in its possible applications, able to serve as either construction material for building a home, protecting said home against unwanted intrusion or even as improvised weapon.
- Such Misfortune: A reference to Touma from a certain magical index as this quote is synonymous with him due to his misfortune in most things he does.
- Zivildienst: German, translated verbatim to "Civilian Service", although "compulsory paid community service" is more contextually equivalent. However, the official translation by the German government is "alternative civilian service" is the civilian branch of the national service systems in Austria and Switzerland. In Germany as well Zivildienst was the alternative service to military service until the suspension of conscription in 2011. It is a means for conscripted persons who are conscientious objectors to fulfill their national service, typically in the fields of social work (e.g. hospitals, retirement homes, emergency medical services) and, although rarely, environmental protection, agriculture, and public administration. As such, it is exempt from the general ban on forced labor by the European Convention on Human Rights.
Review Response:
- RedSS: Hahaha, I'm glad you enjoyed it and for the gun-ota, you can read it in Omega Harem Translation(google it).
- ArmantusCumPinnae: Danke auch, mein freund. About panzerfaust, I kinda doubt if I'll include it or not, but let's just see about it.
- Anonymous: Danke!
- Judgment of the Arbiter: Ihr willkommen, mein freund.
- Guest: Sure thing!
- MysticSpider: Already responded in PM.
- satuross: Danke! And yeah, it's proceeding quite well indeed! But I'll wait till the full volume tl done before reading it.
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.
P.S. To Germanic reader out there, please correct my words or terms about German if I'm wrong since I'm still learning about your language. Tschüss!