The Archwizard Aims To Be The Most Popular Side-Waifu Character! 4 (Konosuba, Arue SI)

"We'll start with the attic."

"Eh? Don't people normally start from the ground floor?"

"That's boring, let's do something different. Also, I prefer saving the basement workshop for the last. Now, up, up we go!"

I excitedly guided Yunyun to the top of my store-home.

"This is where I have my magical auto-telescope that triggers my emergency Teleportation spell which will warp my home to a teleportation marker I designated as a safe zone whenever a high-speed object or spell about to impact us is detected."

I was quite impressed with this sophisticated creation of mine!

I had to remove a portion of the roof and replaced it with a modern-looking glass roof/window in order for this magic item to be deployed, but it would be worth the safety from of shop in the event of a large object being teleported over my home or Megumin being mind-controlled to blow my home up!

"Are you expecting the Demon King to invade the town for beginners!? Arue, you didn't make any enemies of their mages right? Right?"

"Moving on-"

"Arueeeeee!"

"It's currently switched off but I usually turn it off before I go to enchanted crossbow with the magic scope attached can fire on thieves under the effect of Lurk. Don't worry, they target non-lethal areas and the arrows are coated with an aphrodisiac, so we won't have problems with the police… unfortunately, I can only aim it towards the front of the store, so it's pretty useless since most would probably try the backdoor."

"This leads to an entirely different type of problem! W-what if they start doing l-lewd things in front of the door?"

"We don't have to worry about that since most of what I said was fake anyways. The aphrodisiac isn't that strong, it can't detect those under a concealment effect and I'm not that good at making magic weapons... the crossbow actually fires at everyone that passes my house."

"Why aren't you in jail?!"

"Because I don't actually turn this on. This thing is just here to look scary… and the accuracy is so bad that it missed someone by several meters so no harm done."

"So you did turn it on after all!"

Messing with Yunyun is so much fun, especially when I don't have to trick her with fake trollish magic items… since a couple of my prototypes are on Hyoizaburoo levels of Fail anyways.

I just don't deliberately make it useless or have some weird limitations like Megumin's father, most of these failures are genuine failed attempts that I keep in storage until I need to salvage them for materials.

"Hahaha…" I chuckled lightly as Yunyun caught her breath after yelling so much, "Relax Yunyun, I was joking there. Despite how it seems, I fully intend to be a mostly law abiding citizen. I'm not going to go overboard as a Crimson Demon and land myself in prison."

"You can cut out the 'mostly'." Yunyun sighed and said with a relieved expression, "I guess that makes sense. I can't really see Arue, who was our graduating class' honor student, doing something crazy enough to end up in jail."

I don't want to hear that from a girl that brings a dagger to school when even the other students wouldn't do that. If this wasn't a dangerous fantasy world then such an act would be worth some level of punishment instead of simply raising some eye-brows.

In any case, I would never do something that would lead to an arrest… Not without having anti-binding magic items hidden in my body to render the authorities attempts to stop me from teleporting ineffective, at least.

If I was going to jail, I would rather skip the unnecessarily frustrating prison escape arc.

I didn't say any of that out loud, however, to spare Yunyun from the effort needed to reply in a Tsukkomi-like manner or with her rare sarcastic voice.

"Exactly so. Now, let's move on one floor down. Here we have the bedroom, which we will be sharing since the attic is cramped and there's plenty of space… and there's the bathroom. Hmm, oh right, you can keep your weapons here if you want."

I went over to the bookcase to the side of my room's desk, pulled down a fake book by 45 degrees, which activated the mechanism that moved the bookcase aside to the allocated space along the wall.

This revealed a long rectangular-like chamber made out of enchanted silver (that I mined from a dungeon I kept for myself) embedded into the wall.

I pressed several of the magic block "buttons" on the front of the silver wall, each touch causing a "beep" sound of different tones to be emitted, in a specific sequence which eventually unlocked the chamber.

"Ta-da! Isn't it awesome Yunyun? We can keep our most valued possession like powerful manatite or weapons over here! It's super secure, heck, I even accounted for the possibility of anyone getting the idea of just stealing the chamber off the wall by having the automatic defense spells launching [Light of Sabers] then teleporting back to me!"

"Waaah! This is… really advanced and amazing Arue! U-um, is it really okay if I use it though, my staff and magic items aren't much to shout about, unlike those magic weapons you have in there."

"It's fine Yunyun, what good is a safe storage if you don't store anything in them!" I said to Yunyun as I tossed the pouch of Eris coins into the vault for safe keeping.

Yunyun followed suit though she paused a bit to ask me a question.

"Arue, I see lots of magic weapons but um… where's your magic staff?"

"Ufufufu, I have kept it in another secure chamber. It's power is too great to be kept in my bedroom so I hid it in a special hidden room I found in a secret dungeon I conquered. That particular dungeon also resides in a magic-rich environment which allows the staff's magic to recharge without my input, not only that, the special case securing my staff boasts defensive spells even greater than these."

"Aren't you taking things too far? What if someone finds the dungeon and the room then steals it?! How are you even going to use a magic staff if it's all the way across the country?!"

"Pft! I have several layers of teleportation, Anti-Break Spell and Anti-Steal measures in place. I keep all my weapons somewhere else for a reason you know? Through lots of practice I am fully capable of calling my weapons to me at any time. Also, this method doesn't risk the chance of some lucky bastard stealing it off me as I go about my business too...plus, I can modify my teleportation spells to have cool dark lightning effects, and that will make my "it's time to get serious" moments even cooler when I summon my weapons to be!"

"I know all your reasons are true but I'm not sure how much of it is because you're really careful or just wanted to look cool."

"Yunyun, oh my Yunyun…" I shook my head and placed my hands on her shoulders, if she wasn't embarrassed at me saying her name twice in a roll she was definitely facing a bout of shyness when I touched her, "Have you ever considered the idea that it could just be both?"

All those years of dealing with Megumin and the rest of the Crimson Demon clan had already colored her image of all these quality of life enhancements somewhat.

Though she knows it in her heart that magic items and powerful magic can be both useful and 'cool' (or at least aesthetically pleasing), with all the time she spent with Megumin who can only pull off a really cool finisher before becoming useless her ability to process such a basic logical fact must have been hit quite hard.

"I-I have! But well, I dunno if that stuff is very common…"

"Well look forward to seeing more of it then. Here at 'The Abyss', the Arch-Wizard known as Arue has full intention of creating magic items full of style and utility!"

After preparing the bath for later, I continued the tour of the rest of the house. The floor below us contained a small kitchen and dining area, and the floor below was the store-front where I informed Yunyun of all the anti-thievering mechanisms. I left out the secret magic surveillance for obvious reasons… she didn't need to know I was taking upskirt photos of females that stepped into my shop.

"This is the back of my store, where you will find my boat anchored here with the magic powered steam compressor and occasionally engine hard at work here. Since the river that runs through Axel also passes through a nearby town that frequently acts as a trading hub I occasionally use my steam-powered boat to sail there to sell my wares… for the scenic route, I can just teleport there but it's more fun that way."

"I think I'm beginning to sense a pattern here…"

"-Anyways, when I'm not sailing, this bad boy-" I slapped the roof of my steam-machine, "-can fit so much steam in this!" I showed Yunyun one of my magic metal balls placed in the machine with a gauge attached to it. "This is what I call a Steam Ball, which has hot steam compressed to an absurd degree within it. As for its uses… other than scalding someone's skin, smashing itself into a monster or being used to power certain custom items, I haven't found a civilian use for it yet. I'm not some sort of civil engineer."

It was sorta inspired by some old Japanese animated movie that never saw commercial success, but I ended up getting the idea of actually making it after considering it a replacement to the gas canister used for the 3-D Maneuver Gear.

Unfortunately, by the time I finished this, the Adventurer's Guild said that giant monsters were on the verge of being over-hunted and that we were banned from killing most types of gigantic beings for a season or two.

That meant no shouting "Sasageyo" for me.

On that day, I... Arue, received a grim reminder. That I lived in a world where monster hunting was regulated when it had nothing to do with the Demon King's Army.

"Rather than a magic item isn't this kinda revolutionary?"

"You understand Yunyun! Come! Let's walk the path of industrialization together!"

"E-eeehh!? I have to be the future chief of the village, I'm not sure if I'm suited for this-"

"-It's okay! Once you're chief then you can raise taxes towards supporting my new modernization projects! We Crimson Demons can then be the forefront of both magic and technology! We shall conquer the world through superior civilization and when we develop magi-tech weapons of mass destruction, we'll explode everyone that disagrees with us to create world peace!"

"Noooooooo! We're gonna end up labelled as demon kings for that! Worse, I can even see our clan going along with it! We're going to be extinct if we do that!"

After sharing a laugh with Yunyun (who was doing so nervously as she was convinced I wasn't entirely joking), I took her to my basement workshop and informed her that she could use it too if she followed the safety rules.

The Giant Earthworm I killed earlier had already been taken apart and had its various parts preserved by my intelligent Golem that I enchanted for that specific purpose. Yunyun was impressed with that.

Then I started stripping.

"Hawawa! Arue, what are you doing?!"

"Isn't that obvious? The bath is about ready at this time."

I grinned as I shamelessly tossed my undergarments into the pile of dirty (and weighted) clothes. This was the first time I allowed my body to be seen by anyone other than my father after I passed my tenth birthday.

Though I had nothing to be ashamed of, especially with this luxuriously healthy enhanced body, a small part of me felt a perverse excitement from presenting myself naked to a young girl that had only just passed the legal age of marriage.

"B-bu-but why are you stripping here?! The bathroom is upstairs." Yunyun covered her face with both her hands, ah, Yunyun is cute! So cute! She makes me want to push her down and chain her up now that we're in my basement~ Ah, but I shouldn't go so fast.

"Firstly… It's only a short walk upstairs so don't fret about it. All the blinds in the house are closed too so no one can take a peek. Secondly, this golem here cleans and sanitizes my clothes. It's just like having a butler that cleans your clothes, only powered by magic and it doesn't complain at all." I patted the cute golem on its head, charging it with as much mana as it could take from my reserves then added my devil-wing styled hair band to the pile.

"Yunyun, you should take off your clothes too. Keeping your clothes clean is a good way to keep yourself and others from catching all sorts of diseases. You wouldn't want to get me, your friend, sick because some monsters were carrying diseases with them and we didn't notice right?"

I was just throwing around the "F" word at random points now, but hey, since it worked so well why not continue using it, right?

At the magic words, Yunyun peaked a bit by opening up her fingers then turned around so that I could only see her back, "Y-yeah! Arue is right! We have always been thought to stay clean, so um… I guess your golem can clean my clothes. Arue has been doing this all the time so it's okay... And we'll be taking a bath too so we don't need any clothes…!"

By the time Yunyun's embarrassment caught up with her, she had already thrown off her top and skirt into the pile. As she was doing that, I had removed the rest of my accessories and stealthily took one of the rings I stored in my workshop and placed it on my pinky.

It was a magic ring that stored skills from civilian classes like Merchants and Chefs. This one had the skill of an expert Masseur, that I had to pay a significant amount of my fortune to in order to get a copy of his skills.

This would be necessary for what was to come.

"A-Arue?"

"Hmm, yes Yunyun?"

"Must you stand like that?"

"Stand like what?"

I had my hands on my hips as I stood naked in front of Yunyun, my legs were spread somewhat apart in a subconscious attempt to trap... I mean, prevent Yunyun from escaping the basement before she took off her clothes.

… That totally did not sound better in my head. No, that was the exact same thing, only in more words!

"Don't you think you're being a little too shameless?"

"What is shame? Can I eat it? But really, we're both girls so I don't have anything to be ashamed about."

"I guess that's true…"

"Hmm, but since Yunyun is asking… could that be your thing? Are you a pervert that likes seeing other girls in shame, like this?" I quickly changed my posture and used each of my hands to cover the different private parts, "U-um, please don't stare at me… like that!" I swiftly returned an enthusiastic smile to the even more embarrassed Yunyun.

"Not like that! I'm not like that. Ah, forget it, I don't care anymore. Let's hurry up!" Yunyun quickly took everything off and stomped her way out.

Her anger and determination lasted as far as the ground floor.

"E-eh, kyaa! No way, no way! I can't do it! I can't walk all the way upstairs naked like this! Arue, don't you have a towel- iyaaaah! What are you doing!?"

I had snuck up behind Yunyun and grabbed her, lifting her up in the air.

My large breasts were pressing against Yunyun's lower back as she struggled helplessly in my grasp, her panicked resistance was only making my nipples harder from the stimulation.

Ah, this feels good~ This is bliss… but I shouldn't delay this any longer!

"Kukuku! Nonsense, it is only two floors! I'll take you up there." I quickly started running up the stairs while carrying Yunyun, who was screaming my name as she realized how she could not escape the Crimson Demon with the strongest physical parameters!

"We're here." I dropped Yunyun off in the shower area, turned the water on and proceeded to close the door before joining her.

Yunyun was pouting at me as the hot water ran down behind her.

"Arue…!"

"What? I do this all the time when I want to take a shower or bath. It's best to leave my clothes downstairs first before coming all the way up."

"Arue, if you keep doing that you're going to end up a… a… Exhibitionist!"

"... You can't be an exhibitionist if there's no one to present yourself to. I've been living alone all this time you know?"

"Oh right… but still…"

"Forget it Yunyun. Now, how about we wash each other's hair and back? That's what friends do all the time and I've been waiting to try that out."

"F-friends?"

"Yes, friends! Ah, but if you're the type that prefers to take care of her own hair…"

"I-I understand. It's the first time I'm doing this but I'll try my best!"

Ah, so easy.

"Me too. Let's start with this, my special formulated shampoo that will-" I may have accidentally advertised my magic shampoo for half a minute with all its awesome features, but after that, we began the process of washing each other's hair.

I started with Yunyun to get a feel of what made her comfortable as she tried out my magic body wash gel.

"Is this alright? I'm not over doing it right? Not pressing too hard?"

She shook her head and replied softly, "No, that feels nice Arue."

I could see that she had a big smile on her face. Her face was radiating so much happiness it felt like my heart had warmed over twice.

Forgetting about getting a better look at her body, I continued to talk with Yunyun to get to know her better.

"That's good to hear. By the way, when was the last time someone washed your hair for you?"

"Um… I can't remember. I think my father did when I was little, or at least, he said he did."

Before the conversation took a depressing turn I quickly giggled and said, "Hehehe, guess that makes me your first friend to wash your hair. Ah, I'm sort of jealous~ Your hair is so naturally straight and smooth, it suits your style, unlike my own. I had to put in a lot of effort in treating it to get it curly you know?"

"R-really? Well, you really look good with drills."

"Is that all? If you said that I made drills look good then I would have fallen for you right there."

"Hwah! W-what are you saying?"

"Just joking~ Besides, I'm not that kind of easy girl, if I was, then some faceless unremarkable man would have just picked me off the streets by now with a compliment or two."

"That sounds more like a horror story…"

"Hmm, I guess it could be one from a certain point of view. Now, let's do your back."

I washed her back normally at first, then I pushed a bit of mana into the 'Skill Ring' to access the Masseur's skills, allowing me to massage Yunyun's back expertly while using the skill's active effect to remove her fatigue at an enhanced rate.

"Fuwaaa… Arue, this is...this feels good."

"It does, doesn't it? I figured that I may as well give you a well deserved massage while I washed your back."

"Mmm, Arue, you're so thoughtful and nice."

Yunyun was so relaxed that she didn't notice the fact that my fingers had inched towards her front a bit and I had been touching a bit of the sides of her boobs.

I'll take it slowly… the more I normalize Yunyun, the less apprehensive she will be when I convince her that 'friends' would do each other favors and massage each others breasts.

Of course, while I was eager to grab Yunyun's Yunyuns, I was also hoping that I could get Yunyun eager enough to massage my own pair. There's only so much pleasure I can derive from masturbation without assistance… just imagining Yunyun's bashful yet earnest determination as she gropes my breasts makes me want to do more to her in the shower right now~

I ended the massage and put a whole lot of body soap on my breasts. Then I pushed myself against Yunyun's back-

"-Ah! A-Arue, t-that feels different! What is this soft sensation… e-eh, something's pressing against me..."

That's because something is…!

"Hmm, don't worry about it."

For someone that had been worried about Megumin selling her virginity for money, Yunyun was still innocent about the nitty gritty… also, she was probably too distracted by the massage earlier to notice I had been 'washing' her with my tits as well.

Hmm, next time then, I'll make it more obvious over time until Yunyun gets the guts to ask me what the "soft sensation" was, uhuhuhu~

Controlling myself, I finished my job, and allowed Yunyun to do my hair and back. She was kind of doing it too hard most of the time, judging by her intense look, she was way too excited about it and didn't control her strength too well.

It wasn't very stimulating in an erotic way, that's for sure. It was still too early to convince Yunyun to wash my back with her breasts like what I did earlier, unfortunately... Still, it was kinda nice to get some help with getting those hard to reach spots.

We both got into the bath together, there was enough space for the both of us. As much as I wanted to start groping her breasts I honestly felt kinda tired after the long day and the amount of magic used.

"Ahhh… I can feel my tiredness melting away…"

Seeing Yunyun relaxing so innocently made me feel a tinge of guilt. I've stressed her enough for the day and she had been indulging me way more than others had done. The least I could do was put aside my desires for now and just enjoy our time like this together.

With that thought I muttered my agreement and allowed myself to rest as well.

I totally forgot about my plans to check up on Wiz and other canon events as Yunyun and I got used to living together, still, it seems that luck shone on Kazuma and I since things seem to be right on track.

"Huff… Huff… I can't, I can't take it! The magic of this manatite staff, the colour and glister… Huff…Huff…"

One day, Yunyun and I happen to come across Megumin who was hugging her new magic staff and grinding her face (and other parts of her body) against it.

Yunyun looked like she was witnessing something horrifically wrong while I was recording what was happening with my magic mini-cam on the front of my dress.

We stayed out of sight for awhile just to watch, until Aqua started crying about how she got so little money from the cabbage hunt and was pathetically begging for "Kazuma-sama" to lend her money.

"Kazuma, let's hurry and find a quest! One with lots of weak monsters! I want to test the power of my new staff!" Megumin suddenly said to Kazuma.

"You're right, when we were hunting the zombie maker, I didn't have time to test out my new skills. Let's find a safe and simple quest." Kazuma replied Megumin.

"No, let's find a quest that can earn lots of money! I cleared my tabs, so I don't even have money for food today!" Aqua whined to her party.

"No, let's find one with strong enemies! One with monsters that have strong attacks and are tough as nails…!" As expected of Lalatina.

"Anyway, let's decide after looking at the bulletin board."

"Kazuma! Pick this one, this one! A pack of dire wolves showed up in the mountains led by an Alpha Dire Wolf..."

"Rejected! Hey, what's this? Why are there only high-difficulty quests left!?"

They received some explanations of Luna as they started looking up some quests, most of which were difficult thanks to Beldia's recent move to the abandoned castle near Axel.

It was then that Yunyun went up after mustering her courage and declared, "Megumin! How could you…! The mere idea of my rival running away from strong monsters leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Let's have a monster hunt competition to settle our long-time rivalry today!"

Yunyun said as she pointed at Megumin in a hot-blooded manner.

This can only end badly for either Yunyun or everyone as a whole.

Still, Yunyun looked happy, and if she's happy with this who am I to not go along with it? Besides, being part of a regular "rival" party to the main characters is a standard series development, which makes it a tried and tested method of enhancing my side-character relevance.

"…? Yunyun, you're still in town?"

Megumin said nonchalantly, making Yunyun shriek, "Eh!? Why did you think I would leave!?"

"Yunyun, pay attention, Megumin's well aware that you're still in town." I bopped Yunyun lightly on my head, the girl had taken Megumin's words as it was, as usual…

"O-oh, yeah!"

"Arue?!"

"It's you!"

Megumin and Kazuma started pointing at me.

"Yep, it's me. Hmm, so this is your party right? Megumin, Kazuma, how did you end up in a party with an impersonator of the Axis Cult's goddess and some noble playing at being a female knight that will end up at the mercy of monsters?"

"Who are you calling an impersonator! I'm a goddess! I really am!"

"I-I'm being looked down upon- even another adventurer can see that I'm going to be a toy to monsters-"

Kazuma slapped his hand over his forehead, "It's a long story. Just saying, you can group Megumin in with these girls."

"Hey, I think you just said something insulting just now." Megumin tugged on Kazuma's shirt as he looked away meaningfully.

And that was how we ended up having a competition in hunting monsters with one another.