0p0 #114 - Brain: This is a game Me: Good job
#114 - Brain: This is a game Me: Good job
Icy, shivering.
Beneath him was a bumpy sensation and a hard touch, making Zun Zun feel somewhat uncomfortable.
When he woke up, he found himself lying on Darkness's back, and the sky was already faintly bright.
Feeling the abnormality on his back, Darkness asked with concern, "Zun Zun, you're awake. Do you feel better?"
"What exactly happened to me?"
He only remembered encountering an evil spirit in the cemetery last night, and then he didn't remember what happened.
"Zun Zun, you suddenly went crazy, your magic and stamina were exhausted, and your brain was almost burned out. I healed you, so you should thank me properly!"
Aqua ran over cheerfully to take credit.
Zun Zun weakly tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, "Oh, oh... Thank you. I'll treat you to bubble sake when we get back."
Although the idiot goddess is unreliable, she wouldn't exaggerate, and the others didn't refute, so it seemed he had really gone overboard last night.
"I hope no one was hurt."
"Well..."
"How, how should I put it..."
Megumin and Yunyun looked hesitant.
Zun Zun became a little nervous, "Could I have accidentally hurt a passerby? How is it, was that person injured?"
"No passersby were hurt, but..."
Darkness looked at someone's back.
He was about the same height as Zun Zun, wearing a black and green coat, all tattered, and his breastplate and vambraces were also a bit old and blackened. Most importantly, he had a brown-black afro, and his whole body was emitting strange smoke, making him look a bit comical.
Afro?
With such a distinctive hairstyle, Zun Zun shouldn't not recognize him, but there wasn't such an eye-catching person in the guild, was there?
"Who is he?"
"Uh..."
For some reason, Zun Zun's question made the others fall silent.
The person being asked tilted his head and looked over. Tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, but there was no anger at all, and his eyebrows were slightly furrowed.
Looking only at the upper half of his face, he looked like someone who had died from a serious illness, but the lower half of his face had his mouth pulled into an abnormally ugly expression, forcing a smile.
After a long while, the heavy eye bags, seemingly caused by prolonged sleep deprivation, finally couldn't hold back the tears, and they slowly flowed down his cheeks.
"Wahhhhh—"
Zun Zun exclaimed.
Wasn't that Satou Kazuma? How did he become so comical and wretched!?
Wait, could it be...
"I did it?"
"Yeah."
Except for Satou Kazuma, the other four nodded in agreement.
"S-sorry..."
Zun Zun didn't expect himself to be so forceful, and at the same time, he wondered, "Why doesn't Aqua heal him? It must be very uncomfortable like this, right?"
"I don't want to. I already used a lot of magic to save you, I don't want to heal Kazuma."
Aqua said as if she was sulking.
She definitely didn't use too much magic, something must have happened that made the idiot goddess unhappy, that's why she didn't heal him.
At this moment, Satou Kazuma shed tears.
Zun Zun immediately felt bad and said, "D-don't cry! It's my fault, I'm sorry!"
"It's not that."
Megumin covered her mouth and said with a snicker, "Because he was stabbed too much by lightning magic, Kazuma can't control his tears now, and he cries from time to time... Look at his eye bags."
"Yeah... *pfft pfft*, serves you right, Kazuma, who told you to stop me from purifying that lich."
Aqua also mocked him, Darkness and Yunyun didn't speak but couldn't help but tug at the corners of their mouths, Satou Kazuma was completely reduced to a laughingstock.
"Enough! Who caused this anyway!"
Satou Kazuma jumped up and down in anger, cursing, "Idiot Aqua, hurry up and heal me! It's so windy now, it's making my tears stop flowing! And this afro is too lame!"
"I don't want to! Kazuma, just go back like that, and let the people at the guild laugh at you!"
Aqua retorted unhappily.
But in the end, she still healed Satou Kazuma.
"So, where are we going now?"
Normally, after the quest is over, they should each go home, but they are still acting together, which means there is still something to do next.
"We're going to see Wiz."
Yunyun explained to him what happened last night.
Only then did he learn that the black-robed man they encountered last night was Wiz, who happened to be regularly going to the cemetery to purify souls. In this way, her lich identity was also completely exposed.
After being healed, Satou Kazuma blamed, "It's all Aqua's fault, if she hadn't set up a magic circle in the cemetery, how would the evil spirits have run rampant?"
"N-no, it's not my fault! Besides, a mere lich, who even pretends to be kind, should be purified directly! It's you, Kazuma, why did you stop me!" Aqua quibbled guiltily.
After resolving the rampant evil spirits, Aqua removed the magic circle in the cemetery.
Yunyun then said, "Then, Miss Wiz said she had a request to give us, so we are now on the way to her shop."
In front of Wiz's magic item shop.
"A lich appearing in this town must have ulterior motives! Just watch, I will definitely purify that lich!"
Aqua said fiercely, and then took the lead in pushing open the door of the magic item shop.
"Hey, don't mess around!"
Satou Kazuma hurriedly chased after her.
Zun Zun was also on Darkness's back, and walked in with Megumin and Yunyun.
"Hurry up and come out! You lich, where are you hiding! Hurry up and come out and die!"
As soon as they walked in.
They heard Aqua making a big fuss.
Wiz's timid and cowardly voice quickly came from behind the counter, "A-Aqua-sama, please don't be so loud, I..."
"Die! God Blow!"
"—Wait for me!"
Before Aqua could make a move, she was stopped by Satou Kazuma.
Zun Zun sat on a chair and looked around. The magic item shop was still the same as before, without any changes. Although the shop was not big, it gave people a warm feeling.
Then, Wiz said, "First of all, congratulations on defeating the Dullahan, Beldia-san. He is considered to be a very skilled swordsman among the executives."
"...Eh, it sounds like you know Beldia?"
"Ah, ah, haven't I said it? Because I am one of the Demon King's army executives."
"—Arrest!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she was pounced on by the idiot goddess.
When the Dullahan was defeated, she received a lot of bounty, and she thought it was a generous sum, but when she learned that subjugating a Demon King's army executive would have a bounty of 300 million Eris, the idiot goddess beat her chest and regretted letting the other party go.
Now that there is another Demon King's army executive here, Aqua must consider whether this is her only chance in this life.
"It's not like that! I was only commissioned by the Demon King's army to maintain the barrier that protects the Demon King's castle! I have never harmed humans so far, and being an executive is only in name. Even if you defeat me, you won't get any bounty!"
Wiz cried and begged for mercy.
Zun Zun also advised, "Alright, Aqua, don't make things difficult for Wiz. She hasn't hurt humans, I can guarantee that... No, rather, everyone should thank Wiz."
"Thank?"
Satou Kazuma was a little curious, he guessed that there was a hidden story, and decided to ask Zun Zun in detail later.
After much persuasion, Aqua let her go.
However—
"Hey, lich! There are guests, don't you know how to serve tea? Do you want me to purify you!?"
"S-sorry, I'll go prepare it right away!"
Aqua was like a small thug collecting protection fees, and the timid Wiz ran to the back to prepare tea.
Satou Kazuma wanted to say something but didn't say it, then he wandered around Wiz's shop.
There were many kinds of magic items on the counter, but basically they all had serious flaws. For example: magic potions that explode as soon as they are opened, magic potions that explode when they touch water or are heated...
"Will anyone really buy these magic items?"
Satou Kazuma asked a soul-searching question.
And when he felt that these magic items had no need to exist at all, he suddenly saw a more special cabinet among these cabinets, with only 4 or 5 bottles of potions on it.
—Energy potions and skill point potions.
"...Skill point potion!?"
Satou Kazuma's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to pick it up, Zun Zun grabbed his shoulder.
"Wait a moment. You can touch me, but you can't touch it."
"...Eh?"
"Because these are the potions I made."
Zun Zun told them about his cooperation with Wiz.
"Really? ...Wait, energy potion 200,000 Eris? Skill point potion 20 million Eris!? Zun Zun, can you make other high-level potions?"
"Of course, I can make all high-level potions."
Hearing Zun Zun say this, Satou Kazuma had a wolf warrior idea.
Soon Wiz brought tea and snacks.
After a tiring night, everyone was hungry, and they were not polite with her.
After eating the snacks.
Zun Zun asked, "Miss Wiz, you seem to have a request to give us, what is it?"
"Yes, actually..."
According to Wiz, the owner of a mansion in the town had his house occupied by evil spirits, and he hoped someone could purify the evil spirits.
"That gentleman was originally a devout member of the Eris sect for generations, but some time ago he was helped by members of the Axis sect, so he changed religions. It is said that he originally wanted to go to the royal capital, but he was persuaded to settle in Alcanretia."
"...Eh?"
Zun Zun seemed to have discovered something.
Aqua's magic circle, the gentleman possessed by evil spirits, being persuaded to change religions by members of the Axis sect, and settling in Alcanretia...
He suddenly hugged his head.
"—Ahhhhh!"
"Zun, Zun Zun, what's wrong with you!?"
"It's nothing, it's just that my head is telling me not to think any further."
Zun Zun only felt that this was a scam!
Scamming for sex is one thing, but they're even scamming for money!?
Satou Kazuma ignored the crazy Zun Zun and asked, "So, Wiz means you want us to solve this matter? It's possible, but why don't you go yourself, Wiz?"
"Well..."
Wiz rolled up her sleeves, revealing her transparent wrist. Because Aqua went crazy last night, Wiz was almost purified, and she was unable to purify the evil spirits in the mansion.
Satou Kazuma was speechless.