"Kazuma, since when are you going to bed this early?". Is Megumin seriously suspicious?
"With such a crazy and failure of a day, I think I am in a deep need to laze around".
"Shure".
"Hey, cut it out with the dumb jokes, Aqua". Aqua giggled. "Whatever, I said I wanna laze around so I'll laze around".
All three of them seemed to believe me, but Darkness still seemed unconvinced. Anyways.
Purrrr.
"Hey, where have you been all this time, Chomuske?" Heh, Megumin kept calling her that.
"I was accumulating energy". Energy? "This town is surprisingly full of it. Want some?" The catgirl approached Megumin and started purring.
"Whatever, you girls have fun. Goodnight". So I left them.
While on my way to my room, still a place unfitted for a demon lord, I heard them talk about a letter Megimun received from Yunyun. Whatever, they'll tell me tomorrow about it.
Well then, I this time to think about rescuing Iris.
Mmmmhh. I pondered a little.
I bet I could teleport Eris and I into the castle, then we could sneak around, with my new powers we could easily defeat the guards, then reach Iris and teleport her with us back here.
Mmmmhh, that dream though...
Knock knock. There she was, so I went to the window to open it.
"Chris, what's up?" Ehhh? Chris... She looked... A little different.
"Chris, why are you so... dressed... I mean more covered that usual?". She wore clothes that covered everything except the face. Usually she would show some skin.
"Don't bother, you perv". I was shocked. Was this really her? She never talked like that, never ever, not even close.
"M-m-my bad, please disregard that, Kazuma". And now she's back to normal?
"Chris, I'm always here if you want to talk about troubles".
"Thank you, but I'll be fine". She didn't seem fine, maybe I'll have to find out by force.
"Are you sure that you'll be able to help me today? I could try it alone".
"Whatever dude...". I was again socked hearing such words coming out of her mouth. "I mean yes, I'll help, don't worry about me".
Mmmm, anyways, I trust her.
"Okay, so this is the plan". So I explained my idea, it was simple after all. "The only thing is that we don't know where exactly Iris is held captive".
"But wait Kazuma, first of all, if you go as the thief and rescue her, wouldn't that blow your cover? Maybe even mine. I mean, people will realize quickly that it was you all along, since only you would go that far for Iris".
"You have a point". The masked thief could still be useful at a later time.
Mmmmh.
"Chris, what if we scout the palace, making it look like we're there to steal something, but in reality we find where Iris is being held, and have a different plan of attack in which I would go there as myself to rescue her?"
"That's a good idea, let's do it then".
"Ok, teleport".
Nice, it worked. Since I still had a clear memory of this place in my mind, we were able to teleport there.
"Ok, let's look around for clues, then we scout the palace".
"Is this her room?".
"Yeah".
"Pervert".
"Hey, it is just a location I remember well".
"As a pervert would".
"I'm telling you we spent lots of time here together".
"Degenerate". Chris was speaking weirdly again.
"Hey! I was teaching her about life outside the walls!".
"Don't yell Kazuma".
Crick.
"Who goes there?".
"Freeeeeze!". Oups. Not only the soldier, but the whole room froze up. I need to practice and find a way to better manage the strength of my skills.
"Let's get him inside the room". Chris nodded, then we broke him of the ground at the entrance and moved him into the room.
"We have plenty of time until he unfreezes. So let's scout the palace and end up going to the throne room, as if it was our final objective". Chris nodded.
We sneaked all over the place, from room to room, then slowly going down to the dungeons.
"Boss, there is a surprising number number of soldiers". Yes, Chris somehow still won the title after beating me at rock-paper-scissors.
"Indeed there are, newbie. Maybe it is to guard Iris, but it seems to be overkill". I nodded. It definitely seemed overkill. Nevertheless, we were managing to sneak around without too much of an issue.
"Newbie, are you sure they would keep her in the dungeons? She's a princess after all".
"Isn't that how it is usually done in palaces and castles when locking down political prisoners?"
"I'm not sure they would keep their own princess down there".
"We should still check to make sure". Chris nodded in reply.
"Damn, she's not around here". We had reached the dungeons, but no signs of the princess, or anyone for that matter.
"Let's continue scouting". I nodded in reply.
Again without much difficulty, we made it to the other side of the castle.
"Boss, is it me or do I sense some interior hot springs not too far?"
"Seems like it, why?".
"Let's check them out, just in case".
"You're such a perv...". Again in that strange tone. And that look, even in all previous situations she never game such a look, a look as if seeing garbage. "I m-m-mean, who cares about some dumb hot springs". Oh no she didn't.
BAM! I wall slammed her... And she stood in shock.
"Don't you dare criticizing hot-springs". As someone from Japan, that thought meant war.
Crack.
Ehhh?
Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack. Crack.
The entire wall cracked.
"Emmm". I completely forgot about my strength.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.
The wall collapsed, revealing the queen surrounded by at least 20 female knights... Were they in a meeting? Were they all female knights because they were assigned to protect the queen? Who knows.
"Pshhh, time for plan B, steal and run".
"WHAT THE?"
"STEAL!" Chris and I screamed at the same time.
Ehhhh?
"EHHHHHH?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH". The female knights screamed like a chorus of embarrassed maidens.
I suddenly had a small mountain of all types, sizes and colours of panties in my hand... There was one that was sexier above all others... Not bad for a queen... Oh... Yeah... This was because of the passive skill that makes some of my skills have an area of attack... Chris will kill me... Uh?
"Emmm".
There was Chris, holding on her hand a small mountain of all types, sizes and colours... Of bras?
"Easy peasy". She made a thumbs up gesture, although I could feel the embarrassment radiating through her mask. Nevertheless, that brought me back to reality.
"Let's go".
We ran away. The female knights had too much of a shameful surprise to run after us, but we could hear as they called for reinforcements.
So we ran and ran, until we found an empty storage room.
"No we can teleport safely without anyone noticing I have teleport"
"Y-y-yes, let's do that". Hehehe, Chris' embarrassment was getting stronger and stronger.
"Teleport".
It feels nice to be back in my room.
"Chris, are you sure there's nothing you want to share with me?". She stole a stack of bras, after all. It was very unusual for her.
"N-n-no, don't worry Kazuma... Oh, and here you go, I d-d-don't need this...". She proceeded to put the stack of bras on my other hand. "Goodnight". Then she quickly left by the window.
Sight.
Wait, how did Chris also have an area of effect using steal? Was she affected by my passive skills? But how?
Crick.
"There... You... Are... KAZUMAAA!". Darkness? Megumin? Aqua?
"This isn't what... You.. Think...?" I quickly looked at my hands, each still holding their respective stack of underwear. Oh shit.
At that moment, Darkness looked like she was going into a berserk mode, Megumin started fuming like a devil while quickly enchanting her beloved spell, while Aqua was making a party trick but with such brutality that the sight was simply indescribable.
"Calm down...". It was too late, they definitely weren't calming down. They were getting ready to attack.
"Teleport". It felt like a reflex, based on a previous event.
"Everyone, see, they listened to me and came here... To... Talk...". Yunyun finally realized something was wrong.
"There". Shit, Aqua finished her party trick.
"AHHHHHHHH!" Everyone nearby screamed in horror and ran away from us.
"GRAAAAAA". Darkness annihilated a nearby statue with one powerful hit even if it didn't land on the statue, due to the increased area of effect.
"CURSED EXPLOSION!". And Megumin nuked part of the village.
This was hopeless.
"This is not what it seems". I think no one head me. I'll have to scream louder.
"I-". Uh? Hundreds of magical attacks were flying towards us. No time.
"Teleport"
All three of them were knocked out, and I was the only one to realized what a complete chaos we had just caused.
"I wonder why they were so out of control". I looked at them sleeping as if they had the most beautiful dream.
"Weirdos".
Anyway, I got to sleep too.
Such a nice morning...
Oho, they are still asleep? Did they really like their shenanigans of yesterday that much? Well then...
She goes here...
And her here...
"Ummmummummm". Aqua was mumbling.
"Shut it". Aaaaaaand, there.
Then I grab my cup of coffee. Perfect.
Purrr.
The catgirl came to warm herself on my lap. Perfect indeed.
"Ummm, Kazuma, what's going on?". Finally one woke up, and her talking seemed to wake up the others.
"Let's wait for the others to wake up, in the meantime, let me enjoy this moment".
"THE HELL WITH THAT!". Heh. "Why are are pilled up next to the fireplace, and you're using are as a footstool?".
"What the...". The other good regained consciousness.
"Yeah, what the... Hell... Kazu-... Ahhhh". Darkness was trying to overpower me, but she couldn't because some other emotions were getting in the way.
"Wait... There is a good reason for it". All three of them looked confused. Seriously?"Don't tell me you forgot that all three of you went crazy yesterday". They kept looking confused.
"What do you mean? I did have a nice dream though. I felt like I made the biggest and most badass explosion ever... An for some reason that I won again at something... Felt nice". Is Megumin kidding me?
"Me too...". Yeah, I bet. "I felt like I finally was able to hit a target on purpose and in full force". Delusional and useless.
Reflexively I looked at Aqua to see what she had to say.
"What? Yeah I had a nice dream, but I'm always awesome!". Delusions, delusions all over the place.
"You... Threeeee... IDIOTS!". I just couldn't hold it any longer. "You three wrecked the Crimson Village, right when Yunyun was able to convince them to gives us a second chance".
"Mmmmmh... So it wasn't a dream?"
"How... About... NO!". The three of them go a little embarrassed. "So you three will stay as my foot stool until you can explain what the hell happened".
"I don't care, let me up... Darkness, help us out... Stop breathing so heavily".
"Y-y-yes, I should control... Myself". Oh, Darkness seemed to regain her strength.
"Megumin, don't interfere, Darkness looks like a sturdy stool, so I'll use her as such".
"Ahhh... Ahhhhhh...". All going according to plan.
"So... I'm waiting for a reply".
"Well, I remember that you went to sleep... Then we read Yunyun's letter... Then we stayed up playing games for some time".
"Continue, I'm listening".
"Then, we heard some noise from your room, so we went to see... And that's all I remember before the dream".
Purrr. "Actually...". Purrr. "That was probably my fault...". Purrr. "My lord".
"How so?"
"Well, you remember the time I mentioned I accumulated lots of energy around the city? Well, I'm the Goddess of Violence after all".
"Ohhh, and you gave it to them?"
Purrr. "Aham". Purrr.
"But why did all that energy only affect them when they entered my ro-". Wait, maybe I should shut up.
Purrr. "Something triggered their reaction, which was pushed even further due to my energy".
"Ohhh, I see, case solved". Good, she stopped there.
Purrr. "It might have been the stack of panties and bras you were holding". Shit.
"Wait a second... I REMEMBER THAT NOW". Damn it.
"Ka...". Suddenly I felt a lot of strength under my feet. "Zu...". A killer aura was building up under my feet. "Ma...". Yup, time to go, I bet I can outrun them with my higher speed skill.
Smack. Something was holding my foot... Very... Tightly.
"Where do you think you're going?"
I wonder if a demon lord can be killed by its minions... I guess that I'm about to find out.