Chapter 08: An Adventure with the Best (Undead) Girl!

Light glinted off a window as Kazuma finally reached his destination, thankful that he'd successfully managed to ditch his party members for the day. "Alright, back here again."

Walking inside, Kazuma immediately beamed at the brunette behind the counter. "Yo, Wiz! Don't worry, for I ditched Aqua this time."

"Kazuma-san!" Wiz greeted back excitedly, a little sigh of relief escaping her lips at the goddess's confirmed absence. "Did you come here to buy something?"

"Not exactly." Kazuma unsheathed the Winter Shogun's katana and displayed it to Wiz, causing the woman to gasp. "I came here to have this appraised. Can you do that?"

"Of course!" Wiz accepted the sword from Kazuma, placing onto the counter before casting a diagnostic spell over it. "Amazing... Rather than being forged and enchanted, this sword is more of an enchantment itself sculpted into a material form... This ice is a remnant of the primordial freeze that dominated the world before the Celebration of Genesis... Kazuma, was the Winter Shogun truly the owner of such a weapon?"

"Apparently." Kazuma hummed as leaning against the counter. "Apparently, I won it by rite of combat since it didn't disappear along with the Winter Shogun after it died."

"Then there's no problem with you owning this sword, Kazuma-san." Wiz handed the weapon back. "If anything, I believe that the sword wishes to be wielded by the conqueror of it's last owner."

"Well, it never hurts to be sure." Kazuma put the katana away before dropping some gold for her. "Here you go, for your time."

"I wouldn't have minded doing it for free." Wiz said, even as she sheepishly accepted the coins.

"Oh, come on." Kazuma rolled his eyes as he looked around. "You're barely keeping out of the red. In fact, I'll even give you more money in exchange for teaching me some new Skills and Spells. As a lich, you probably know tons of useful ones, right?"

"...on top of slaying the Winter Shogun, didn't you also defeat the Demon Generals of Pride and Wrath?" Wiz questioned. "Do you not think yourself as strong after defeating those skilled maniacs?"

Kazuma blinked in confusion. "You sound like you've encountered Beldia before... and that Wrath lady, too."

In his defense, Kazuma just couldn't be bothered to remember the name of somebody he hadn't personally fought.

"Oh, that's because I'm like them in being the Demon King's direct subordinate." Wiz answered. "Representing the Reluctance of Sloth, I'm Demon General Wiz."

...what. "U-Um, Wiz-san? I feel like you just said something extremely dangerous just now."

Wiz's sole visible eye blinked in confusion. "Did I?"

"You just identified yourself as a Demon General!"

"Ah. I did, didn't I?" Wiz realized. "What's the problem?"

"Aqua and I killed two of your comrades!" Kazuma freaked out. "Aren't you too nonchalant about my presence?!"

"Not really?" Wiz tilted her head. "On top of the fact that you're still quite weaker than me, I haven't really built up a body count of humans compared to them. In fact, I'm only a Demon General in name as the King conscripted me for the sole purpose of maintaining his stronghold's barrier and forcing me into neutrality."

"...so basically, you can't fight against the Demon King, but he also won't use you against the humans?" At the confirming nod he received, Kazuma sighed heavily. "I have no idea how to react to this. You understand that I have every intention of slaying that guy, right?"

"And I wish you great fortune on that endeavor, but you're still too weak to be considering such a thing at this moment." Wiz smiled angelically, as if she hadn't casually outed herself as a (technical) villain moments ago. "Besides, even if you were to somehow kill me now, the barrier is powered by all seven Demon Generals and will require at least up to five of us dying to cause a malfunction."

...well, that made some sense. Also, Kazuma marveled at how she'd just pointed out her superiority to him in a completely courteous manner compared to how Aqua would've done it.

Wiz truly was the Best Girl. Still... "But don't you hate me a little for killing them?"

"Like I said, I got conscripted into service. I wasn't close to any of them, except maybe one or two of them." Wiz answered with her gaze going a little lost in her memories. "Seresdina was basically a bitch, and Beldia would often roll his own head down to my feet so that he could look up my skirt."

Kazuma fumed at the sheer bastardry of Beldia. How dare that dullahan take such fortuitous advantage of his physiology?! He oughta resurrect that guy and shake his hand before punting that head of his into orbit.

"Of course, he wasn't always like that. It's all Anul's fault for forcing that curse onto him, which messed with his head a lot whenever he was around me." Wiz shook her head sadly, only for a cruel smirk to cross her lips faster than an instant. "Still, I'm very grateful for your hand in his death, Kazuma-san. Truly."

"S-Sure." Kazuma answered, deciding that he hadn't glimpsed what he'd clearly just glimpsed. "So, about those Skills..."

"Sure!" Wiz chirped. "How about we start with {Drain Touch}? It's a Skill that absorbs an opponent's HP and MP, and can also distribute them to others."

Kazuma hummed in interest. "How useful. If I were to ever fight somebody much stronger than me, I could literally drag them down closer to my level while bumping myself or others up. You need an opponent to display it right? Feel free."

"I'll only take a little from you." Wiz took his offered hand, her own starting to glow a toxic purple. "[Drain Touch]."

Kazuma felt the effects immediately, his legs feeling a little shaky as his veins lit up purple and seemed to be losing essence to Wiz's own.

"...hm?" Wiz frowned slightly after she stopped. "Strange... While I could drain your HP just fine, your MP... It felt very abnormal... Unnatural, not to mention how bottomless it felt."

That was because Kazuma's devil fruit had pushed his reserves into the 'nigh infinite', along with belonging from a foreign world with abnormal rules of it's own. "That's probably because something that happened to me a long while ago. Don't worry about it, it's nothing harmful."

While Wiz sighed in relief, Kazuma pulled out his Adventurer Card and ticked in the new Skill. "Mind if I test it on you?"

"Yes, if you wish." Wiz offered her hand, which Kazuma took. The moment he used {Drain Touch}, he immediately emphasized with what Wiz had felt when doing the same to him. Using his Kenbunshoku, Wiz's aura had been influenced by her sheer kindness. But when directly feeling at what was basically her power manifest, Kazuma struggled not to buckle from the sheer depth of cold and darkness he'd just dipped his hand into- "Kazuma-san!"

Kazuma blinked as he came to, finding himself collapsed into Wiz's bosom. It seemed that he'd fainted and had required Wiz to carry him, with him weakly hugging her for support. "H-How long was I out?"

"Just under a minute." Wiz murmured as Kazuma stood up, a little overwhelmed from the huge amounts of energy he'd just taken. "I'm sorry. As a lich, I thought that you wouldn't have to worry about draining too much from me since I have more than many mages combined. I should've considered your reaction to so much necromantic essence in one go."

"I-It's fine." Kazuma gingerly clenched his terrifyingly cold hands. "I just gotta deal with all of this excess energy some how."

"I see... That makes some sense..." Wiz looked aside, her cheeks redder than usual as her eyes dipped down for an instant. Following her gaze, Kazuma stilled at the blatant stiffie he'd been sporting.

"Shit! I'm so sorry about this!" Kazuma recoiled from her. "Thanks for the Skill! I'll just leave-"

"I-If you d-don't mind me, I could..." Wiz fidgeted, tapping her fingers nervously. "I-I could t-take care of that for you..."

Kazuma blinked in confusion, his jaw dropping. Was... Was Wiz offering what he thought she was offering?! She seemed to take his silence as consent because she took his hand and led him deeper into the shop, closing the door behind them.

Wiz only had the time to turn about before Kazuma grasped her chin and leaned in close for a kiss. When she started to kiss back, albeit in a manner that showed her inexperience, Kazuma deepened his efforts as he pressed her against the wall, his hands grabbing at the shapely hips hidden beneath her dress.

Eventually, he had to pull back for breath, grinning down at how drunken Wiz appeared. "How was that?"

"Th-That was... a kiss...?" Wiz murmured. She then yelped a little when Kazuma went for her cool throat, her fingers curling into his hair as he lavished it with little licks and nibbles until he found her clothes too restrictive.

Apparently Wiz did so as well, her hand moving up to drop her gambeson robe entirely and loosen her collar enough to reveal a good amount of her heaving cleavage. Kazuma gladly took the offered gift and indulged himself, Wiz moaning as his two hands grabbed her thighs and hefted her up for better access to the most glorious pair of tits he'd ever seen.

Sorry, Darkness. Sorry, Luna. Wiz was truly the Best Girl to have easily outdone them.

In fact...

"K-Kazuma?" Wiz looked adorably confused when he pulled back from her breasts, only to squeak when he turned her about and flipped her dress up to reveal her soaking panties.

"[Steal]."

Pocketing the panties away, Kazuma pushed her thighs apart and slid a finger into her depths, enjoying the loud squeak he got as a response. Leaning over her, Kazuma began to thrust two fingers in, enjoying Wiz's moans and squeaks while his spare hand fondled one of the large breasts swaying from her movements.

It wasn't long before her hips began to move against his own, seeking out something thicker than his fingers even as her juices trickled down her thighs. "P-Please... K-Kazuma..."

"Cum." Kazuma punctuated his order with a harsh twist of her nipple and a sudden shove of a third finger insider her depths.

Wiz positively wailed as she cummed, her fingers tearing into the wooden wall as her pussy spasmed while her body shuddered against him. Then her hands dangled and it was only Kazuma holding her up, her breathing heavy. "That was... That was..."

"Don't relax just yet." Kazuma directed her hand towards his strained pants, resisting the urge to grunt when her fingers immediately traced over the large bulge. "I haven't cum yet."

"Of... Of course..." To her credit, Wiz seemed to recover fast. Her determined gaze boring into him as she knelt down to work at his pants, releasing his cock out of it's confines. "I'll gladly return the favor and make it up to you- Oh, my..."

*Ding-ding!*

"Excuse me." A man's voice suddenly called out from outside. "Are you in at the moment, Wiz-san?"

"The realtor..." Wiz whispered before casting an apologetic look at Kazuma. "I..."

"It's fine." Kazuma reluctantly pulled back, adjusting his clothes and handing Wiz back her robe.

"I'll be there in a moment." Wiz called out, casting him an appreciative smile as she very quickly refreshed herself with a variety of spells and headed out.

While Wiz was out speaking, Kazuma forced himself to calm down as he finished dressing up. As much as he would've wanted to go all the way, Wiz was just too dear to disregard his emotional relationship with.

Speaking of which, Kazuma raised a brow when Wiz entered back. "Kazuma-san, would you mind accompanying me on a quest? I'll be willing to pay you with some more Skills and Spells in lieu of money."

"This is the place?" Kazuma questioned as he and Wiz stood before a pretty fancy mansion. A villa is he was correct. "It looks kinda grand for a haunted house."

"Well, the realtor did have trouble selling it due to that specific problem." Wiz commented. "He offered it up as a reward, but it's really too spacious for me. That's why I brought you along since you'd have the right to move in with your Party afterwards."

"And you too, of course."

"I'm sorry." Wiz apologized. "But I feel like living under the same roof as Aqua-sama would be unbelievably suicidal."

What a shame, but Wiz was right. No matter how much he'd vouch for her, Aqua was definitely unscrupulous enough to decide to exorcise the poor lich in her sleep.

"So, according to the realtor, this place is haunted, right?" Kazuma inquired. "Like, unbelievably haunted?"

"Indeed." Wiz confirmed as they entered into the house. "However, we will still have to wait until dusk for the ghosts to come forth. Shall we clean up a bit until then?"

Kazuma cast a sullen glare at the dusty floors before sighing. "Fine, then. I'd have to do it anyways later, and I'm not sure if the others except Darkness would've helped."

Besides, this would let him flex his wind control even further. Dust eddies blew up around Kazuma at the thought, causing Wiz to back away and start sputtering.

"Sorry!"

Hours later, Kazuma and Wiz rested upon the couch as dusk finally set, the former taking advantage of the latter's kindness for her glorious lap pillows. "That was quite exhausting, but at least moving in later will be a piece of cake."

"Yes. Good job, Kazuma-san." Wiz congratulated him, still not having done anything to dislodge him. He quietly wondered if she was really that nice or had just been probably touch starved for a while. "But you must get up now. They're here."

Kazuma sprang up just as the door burst open, a literal army of floating dolls rushing in. "Oh, shit!"

He wasn't gonna become a Chucky victim!

"Wiz, get behind me!" Kazuma stood before Wiz protectively while unsheathing his sword. "I'll be the vanguard, you-"

"No." Wiz patted his shoulder with a smile. "They aren't malicious in the slightest, Kazuma-san."

"Are you sure?" Kazuma hissed. "I don't want a Chucky coming for me!"

"...none of them know of anybody named Chucky, but these are all benign spirits." Wiz assured him after a little while of staring at them, most likely privy to a conversation that Kazuma couldn't hear. "In fact, it seems that their presence here is partially my fault. Back at the cemetery where we met, it seemed that an Archpriest went and erected a powerful barrier that's keeping them away."

"What?! I thought Darkness had done something about that!" Kazuma frowned. "Who the hell would do something so problematic?!"

Aqua suddenly sneezed just as she raised her fourth bottle of wine. Grumbling angrily while cleaning her nose, Aqua just continued on.

"Anyways, are you able to put them to rest here like you were doing before?" Kazuma asked.

"Yes, but I would still need to do it outside amongst nature." Wiz paused to consider her options. "Yes, I think the backyard will do... but it doesn't have as much natural or ectoplasmic energy as the graveyard does."

"...I think I can handle that." Kazuma answered, an idea popping into his head.

[Name: Kazuma Satou]

[Class: Adventurer]

[Title: Japanese Otherworlder, Logia Devil of Air, Party Boss, Slayer of the Rookie Killer]

[Alignment: Chaotic Good]

[STR: 70]

[VIT: 125]

[AGI: 60]

[INT: 50]

[WIS: 40]

[LUK: 410]

[NRG: EX]

[MNY: 6,438,000 Eris]

[SP: 0]

[Skill: Debuff Resistance (14)]

[Skill: Enemy Detect (31)]

[Skill: High-Speed Incantation (6)]

[Skill: Lockpick (3)]

[Skill: Lurk (22)]

[Skill: Magical Resistance (10)]

[Skill: One-Handed Sword (5)]

[Skill: Physical Resistance (33)]

[Skill: Special Effects (80)]

[Skill: Steal (55)]

[Skill: Trap Detect (3)]

[Spell: Create Earth (13)]

[Spell: Create Water (8)]

[Spell: Explosion (19)]

[Spell: Freeze (4)]

[Spell: God Blow (9)]

[Spell: God Requiem (2)]

[Spell: Tinder (7)]

[Spell: Turn Undead (2)]

It was times like these that Kazuma was grateful at how defeating powerful foes and monsters gave him huge amounts of SP, so much so that he could immediately dump them all into his newly gotten {Special Effects}, just for this moment.

Behind the mansion, Kazuma hummed as he looked over the barren land and could see how such a place would be lacking in mystical energy and such. Still, that just gave him more of a chance to impress Wiz.

"[Special Effects: Eden]!"

Upon invoking his Spell, Kazuma felt the heavy drain immediately, but was rewarded in how the landscape before him began to change. Trees broke free from the earth as they bloomed, grass spread until there was little sign of the brown dirt below and flowers soon tickled the face of Kazuma's collapsed body.

"K-Kazuma-san!" Wiz shouted in alarm as she held him up. "What was that? Why did it make you collapse?"

"That was a special Skill I got from beating the Winter Shogun." Kazuma muttered as he tried to recover, trying not to scream at the feeling of nails screwing into his skull. "I can basically change the landscape within a set territory, but it gives me a killer headache. The Winter Shogun had always kept his own setting at 'Blizzard'."

Kazuma grunted a little more as he tried to sit up. "Just set me down and do that ritual of yours. I'll be fine."

"...if you say so." But even as Wiz said that, she began right there while still cradling Kazuma, her undecipherable incantations soothing his headache a little with her cold palm against his face.

"Oh, it looks like Wiz-sama's found herself quite a reliable man."

"Thank goodness. She's quite lonely sometimes."

"Thank you for your help, young man."

"Bye-bye, Wiz-chan, Onii-chan! Take care of my house for me! Oh, and leave some wine for me at my headstone!"

"Anna, you're too young for that."

"Boo."

All around him, Kazuma quietly watched as varying spirits manifested before ascending to the peaceful afterlife. Even more poignant was the little girl who was still hanging around to ruffle his hair while holding a spectral version of one of the dolls inside. "Bye, Anna. Sorry for calling you a Chucky."

"Bye-bye! I don't even know what a Chucky is!"

"There." Wiz finished with a satisfied expression on her face before pulling one of Kazuma's arms over her shoulder and directing him inside. "Come with me, Kazuma-san. You need to rest."

"Don't worry, I'm almost okay." Kazuma pulled ahead with a solid step on his own, before staggering with the second. "Well, I did say 'almost'."

It was immediately after that that Kazuma found Wiz supporting him until they reached the room he'd selected for himself earlier. "Will your Party members mind you being away for the night?"

"Not really, except Geru... My slime familiar." Kazuma sighed as Wiz let him sit on the bed. "But she'll just come searching for me on her own. She's a scarily good tracker."

"Oh, that's good, then." Wiz smiled before casually taking off her robe and dress, making Kazuma's jaw drop. "Don't look so surprised, Kazuma-san. I have every intention of continuing where we left off... unless you're uninterested-"

"I am very interested!" Headache magically vanishing, Kazuma all but ripped off his own clothes, leaving himself in just boxers while Wiz now stood before him in nothing but a loose shirt and panties that highlighted her voluptuous figure regardless of their simplicity. "Damn..."

"Easy." Wiz placed a finger against Kazuma's chest as he tried to approach, pushing him back and down until she knelt before him. "It's my turn now to please you, Kazuma."

Kazuma grunted as his cock was freed and caressed by the coldest and softest fingers ever. It didn't help that the one responsible had such a naturally coy look that contrasted the unsure movements she made. "I-It's so g-good...!"

Emboldened by his genuine complement, Wiz stroked a little stronger before giving his shaft a tentative kiss which immediately moved to swallowing his cockhead with a soft slurp.

Kazuma didn't even have the chance to warn her before cumming as he reflexively dragged Wiz's head closer, the woman choking as his cock released his load directly down her throat. Thankfully, Wiz didn't try that hard to pull away, instead swallowing and suckling until Kazuma released her with a sigh. "Sh-Shit, I'm sorry, Wiz. I just-"

"It's fine." Wiz answered, her throat a little sore even as she licked her lips clean of the small dribble of liquid on them. "I don't really need to breathe, so it wasn't so bad. In fact..."

Wiz moved forward until she had pressed Kazuma down onto the bed, her thighs at either side of his torso as she now straddled him. Reaching upwards as her hair formed a wavy chocolate curtain around her head, Kazuma caressed Wiz's cheek before guiding her down for a kiss while her soaked core pressed down against his shaft before she quickly moved her panties out of the way to slowly sink down upon him.

"You're inside of me..." Wiz whispered, apparently breathless for somebody who had earlier claimed to not need to breath.

"Are you okay?" Kazuma whispered back, mindful of the apparent virgin he'd just claimed. He hadn't even been half as gentle as he'd been with his Party members, resisting the urge to fuck as her inner walls massaged his cock. "How does it feel?"

"Full..." Wiz's eyes drifted to lock gazes with him, before pressing her lips against his in a soft kiss. "Yet, I hunger..."

Kazuma never fought against his urges as much as he did at this moment. "Do you want to keep at it?"

"Yes!" Wiz's entire face heated up at how fast she'd replied, inhaling deeply. "Take me-"

Wiz groaned loudly as she buried her face into his neck, clutching his shoulders tight as Kazuma pierced deeper into her depths, the heat contrasting with the ever-present cool of her body. Then her moans only got louder as Kazuma took hold of her ass as he sat up, moving into a slow pace as he began thrusting upwards into her.

Moving her shirt upwards, Kazuma groped one of her heaving breasts and was rewarded by Wiz gasping loudly as she threw her head back, clearly offering her chest to him while she kept rocking her hips.

With her throat fully exposed like before many hours ago, Kazuma latched onto it once more and kissed his way downwards until he reached her breasts and nibbled at the taut nipples.

Wiz wrapped all of her limbs around him, her orgasm quickly hitting her as he gradually sped up and refused to pause through it. "K-Kazuma... I... I..."

"It's okay, Wiz." Kazuma hissed. "Let it go."

A choke escaped her lips before he was suddenly pushed down, Wiz gasping as she desperately bounced her lower body upon him. Kazuma welcomed the sudden change in dynamics, clutching her ass cheeks as his hips rose up to match her movements with utmost sincerity.

It wasn't long before Wiz finally screamed loudly, her cry echoing all over the empty house as she tensed up before shuddering as her orgasm pushed her into ecstasy once more. What more, there was a sudden burst of cold from her before tiny snowflakes suddenly manifested allover the room, perfectly still and luminescent as they defied gravity and bathed Wiz's heaving visage in a serene glow of jade.

Barely holding back his own orgasm, Kazuma decided that he'd never seen any woman as Erotic as Wiz looked at her sexual peak.

Then Wiz fell forward, the glowing and hovering snowflakes falling down unnoticed by her. She shifted, and then stiffened at how hard and throbbing he was within her. "You still didn't..."

"I will in a moment." Kazuma growled as he twisted about, Wiz now laying down with her hair spread out as she looked up at him while he loomed over her before immediately plowing into her from above.

Moaning heavily, Wiz wrapped her legs around his waist as he took her in a standard missionary position. With everything that had happened, it isn't long before Kazuma finally reached his own climax, flooding her depths with his seed.

Finally satiated, Kazuma laid down onto Wiz like that, the lich idly running cool fingers over his sweaty and warm back while her body's constant cool was most welcome at this moment.

They laid like that for several moments before Wiz's hands moved to cradle his face, turning it so that he could see her eager expression. "...again?"

By Thoth, this woman was going to drain him dry... but it'd be so fucking worth it!

Kazuma yanked her up and flipped her about so that she was on her hands and knees, before cupping a breast and kneading it. Wiz trembled as he rubbed his hardening member against her ass, the woman shifting against it on purpose.

There was nothing gentle in how Kazuma thrusted into her this time, Wiz exhaling sharply as one hand clutched her breast tightly while the other gripped her hip. Furthermore-

"[Drain Touch]!"

-Wiz gasped as she fell forward from Kazuma's sudden theft, leaving her reduced to helpless grunts as he pressed her down into the bed with renewed energy while now clutching both breasts as his weight and movements kept her pinned.

Wiz's hands clutched at the sheets, but did absolutely nothing more to indicate that she was against this rougher treatment. "Kazuma~! Kazuma~! Kazuma~!"

Every call of his name was an invitation to thrust into harder, Kazuma grunting into her neck while her hand helplessly reached to grab one of his own. He didn't know how long he spent slamming his hips into Wiz's pillowy rear, bestial grunts being the only sounds to escape him.

But he finally reached what was clearly ascension when he and Wiz cummed together, another wave of cold filling the room as Kazuma roared out a powerful gust of wind that swirled about, causing a very localized blizzard that neither gave the tiniest shit about as he collapsed onto her.

For a few blissful minutes, Wiz let Kazuma spoon her like they were an actual loving couple. Then reality caught up.

"Boss!"

Both Kazuma and Wiz looked up at the suddenly open window, his slime familiar beaming at him. "Ah. See, I told you she'd find me."

Then without the slightest regard for Wiz, Geru leapt forward onto them. "Boss, I missed you! I don't wanna go to sleep without a boop!"

"Okay, okay, geez!"

"Oh, my. She's like a toddler who doesn't recognize what we were doing."

"She is a toddler. She was 'born' just two days ago."

"No way..." Megumin gasped as she and the rest of the Party paused to look upon the mansion that Kazuma had just brought them to. "You really bought this mansion?!"

"I'm just renting it." Kazuma clarified. "Wiz and I did a job that the owner requested us for, and he paid in allowing free accommodation during the winter. Afterwards, we'll just keep paying rent and living here rather than being split up at our varying inns."

"Not bad! Yes, not bad at all! As expected of my human!" Aqua crossed her arms in approval before she then glared sullenly at him. "Now if only that lich had nothing to do with this, then I'd be pleased even more!"

"Good thing I don't give a fuck about your opinion regarding that." Kazuma responded smoothly while Geru's blob form vibrated on his shoulder. "Now, go inside and pick your rooms. I've already picked mine, so stay out. It's already been christened."

And by christened, he meant blessed with the great memory of his and Wiz's first time. Then they'd gone on to 'christen' the dining table. Then they'd also 'christened' the couch. Then finally, the door itself had gotten 'christened'.

Kazuma would like to state that despite his very willing acceptance, Wiz had been the one to initiate all of that. Best Girls didn't deserve to be so sexually deprived.

He'd immediately proposed to go steady with her, but unfortunately, Wiz had rejected him.

She was a lich and would be 'forever 20', meaning that he'd soon be leaving her behind as he aged along the years. Logically, Kazuma accepted it. Emotionally, he was man enough to admit that he'd cried a little into her welcoming hug.

But rather than accepting such a fate, Kazuma had decided on a goal.

A personal goal rather than just wanting to defeat the Demon King as he'd been reincarnated for.

No matter what it took, no matter the obstacles in the way, he would do it.

He would grant Wiz the Lich her mortality back.

KingVessel: Y'all probably questioning it, so I'll just straight up confirm it: Whether this story ends in the Harem route or not, Wiz is the first and best choice as far as Kazuma and I are concerned.