"Thank you, thank you." Kazuma says to the crowd both Aqua and Eris smile brightly as they bathe in the adoration of the people around them.
It had taken months for the three of them to buy this antique of a ship, and it had taken even longer for the two goddesses to use their magic to turn it into something that they could use to travel from one-star system to another.
The two different faster-than-light engines that the ship uses weren't the only things that the goddesses had to make from scratch. They also had to make a lot of changes to the ship.
For one, the spaceship was designed to be nothing more than one big box that was never supposed to leave the Sol system, and even then, it was never supposed to reach Pluto.
Its original job was to take people from one planet to another, and those people were expected to make more people along the way.
As for the ship itself, it was never expected to return to Earth or whatever world it had been built over.
The ship was and still is an antie, something that should be in a museum or should have been scrapped for parts years ago, t it had somehow survived until it fell into their hands.
Kazuma can't help but smile every time the show ends, the people leave, and everything becomes so quiet.
It reminded him of the days when it was just the three of them.
Back when they had to work in mines or simply do odd jobs to pay for the ship's license and parking, not to mention their food and clothes.
Granted, they probably could have finished a lot faster if Eris and Aqua hadn't made some changes, and he had told the pair.
The two goddesses said that it wasn't big enough, as the two of them needed a church of their own, and that church needed a place for their worshipers to live in that the other goddesses' worshipers couldn't enter.
He can't help but smile as he remembers how the three of them would sleep on the hard beds because it was so cold inside the ship.
It reminded him of the days when it had just been him and Aqua in that other world where Megumin and Darkness lived.
Those days are gone now. Megumin and Darkness are in another world far from him and Aqua; Eris can still speak to them, but she has to do it
using her alter ego.
Again the sound of footsteps approaching reached his ear, and both Eris and Aqua sat next to him before the pair placed a hot plate of food on his lap.
This had become their routine; after every show, the three of them would just sit here on the stage.
The curtains were lowered, all of the actors had stepped away, and the crowd was gone.
And it was just the three of them again.
Sometimes he wondered why no one else ever tried to join them, but then he remembered that the crew or the actors that even when the crew had just been four other people, the three of them had done this routine, so everyone probably thought that this was their alone time.
. Kazuma couldn't help but smile again; the smell of the freshly made food gave him some kind of comfort, he couldn't explain it, but it felt familiar.
It felt like home.
On his version of Earth, he had lived the life of a teenager when cell phones were not new, but they weren't old either, as there were still some people that remembered a time before them.
Yet at the same time, there were people like himself that didn't know a time when everyone didn't have them.
When he met Aqua, he lived the life of an Adventurer, and so he learned to live without the things that he took for granted in his old life, like running water and having a roof over his head.
And now he's living the life of, to be honest, he doesn't know what he is now.
He isn't an explorer, and he doesn't do odd jobs anymore; he just helps backstage as Eris and Aqua spread their names into every Human world they can.
"That's it. I've had enough!" Aqua loudly declares while at the same time she chews a mouthful of noodles.
"Why should we stay near these worlds?"
"The Axis cult deserves to be on every world, not just the ones that the ships I allowed to go to." she finishes saying before she chews some more and then swallows.
"But Aqua Sempai, you know that we haven't been granted a free license yet." Eris says to Aqua before she bites into her sandwich.
Aqua grins and lifts her hand as high as she can, then she quickly points at Kazuma, who is just looking at her as if he knows that the next thing that she is about to say is going to be nothing but headaches.
Especially because Eris will do whatever Aqua says.
"I have a plan."
"The castle can't just go from one colony to another, but if we were to find a world and claim it, then the Axis cult could go everywhere." Aqua says to them.
'Okay, but what about Eris?" He asks Aqua as they both look at Eris, whose eyes are sparkling, and Kazuma knows that she completely agrees with Aqua.
Kazuma can't help but exhale; there's no fighting this. Both goddesses want this to happen, so he has no choice but to do what they want, not because he wants to, but because he knows that they are going to do it anyway.
So he might as well stop the fire before it burns down the house.
"Okay, out with it; I've known you long enough to know that you already have a world in mind, so out with it." he says to Aqua, who now has a wide smile.
'It's a small world, but it's perfect for us, and best of all, no one knows about it yet." she answers him.
'Okay, so where is it?" he asks her, and Aqua immediately shows him a map and points to where the planet is.
Its time like these; he wishes that both goddesses would warn him when they use their powers.
He can see the world that Aqua chose, and it feels just like Earth; both goddesses begin to dance as they begin to embrace the world as their own before the three of them open their eyes and find themselves back on the ship.
'It's perfect!" Eris loudly declares.
The three of them were so caught up in their conversation that they failed to notice that several people were spying on them and were sending their conversation to several people that wanted to know everything about their ship, the Castle.