The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

#113 - All fear comes from lack of firepower

"I didn't expect you to be so afraid of evil spirits."

Sato Kazuma looked at Yunyun, who had buried her head in Yuuyu's chest, with an expression on his face that he didn't know whether to show ridicule or envy.

Megumin was much simpler.

She looked at her barren, nutrient-deficient flat chest, then looked at Yuuyu's plump agar-agar slime. The gnashing of teeth and regretful look on her face made people feel her unwillingness.

They were now on a hill away from town, a public cemetery for burying the poor and lonely.

The task they had taken this time was to defeat the undead that had emerged from the public cemetery. This task could only be done by priests, so Aqua, whose class was High Priest, easily took on the task.

The time was near dusk.

The group was now near the cemetery, setting up tents and waiting for night to fall.

Sato Kazuma looked at the trembling Yunyun, and his previous wicked thoughts turned into apology.

He asked strangely, "Yunyun, why are you so afraid of ghosts? Did you encounter some supernatural event when you were a child?"

"Do you know, Kazuma, I have always believed in a saying—all fear comes from insufficient firepower, but evil spirits…"

"Ah, I understand."

Yunyun is a Arch-Mage, and her combat power is the best in the team, but evil spirits cannot be touched or attacked, so there will be fear of the unknown.

Sato Kazuma, as a teenager of the new era, also believed in science at first, but it was different after reincarnation.

As for evil spirits... it would be amazing if it could get within ten meters of Aqua.

Sato Kazuma couldn't understand this kind of fear, but just like headless knights are afraid of water and Aqua is afraid of steel, Yunyun must also have a weakness to ghosts, just like a certain little elf.

That's right, that's right.

This team cannot allow normal people to exist!

With that said, he flipped the barbecue on the iron plate.

Aqua looked expectantly at the fragrant barbecue and asked, "Kazuma, Kazuma, when will the barbecue be ready?"

"Soon, wait before that."

They set up a stand a little further away from the cemetery, grilling meat while waiting for it to get completely dark.

"By the way, Megumin's explosion magic is also useless against evil spirits."

"...Really!?"

Hearing Yunyun say this, Sato Kazuma paused with the barbecue tongs in his hand.

In his opinion, explosion magic is the strongest firepower of the team. If it is useless, they might as well give up this task.

"Why are you so afraid? Don't you still have me?"

"Aqua?"

"That's right! I am Aqua, the High Priest who also serves as the Goddess of Water. I can easily solve any evil spirit! So, Kazuma, quickly offer me that piece of grilled meat!"

"Don't snatch, don't snatch! You idiot, let go quickly, you'll get burned to death!"

Sato Kazuma and Aqua wrestled together.

According to the guild counter lady, the target of this subjugation is a small character called the Zombie Maker. This is a kind of evil spirit that manipulates zombies. It will possess relatively high-quality corpses and manipulate a few zombies as subordinates.

This is a monster that even a novice adventurer team can defeat, so Sato Kazuma took on this task without hesitation.

Thinking about it, it will be no different from before, except that when Darkness is in charge of welfare, it is no longer Megumin and Yunyun who take action, but Aqua.

Time passed little by little.

The moon rose, and it was past midnight. Yunyun and Yuuyu hugged each other in the tent, and Megumin also squeezed in domineeringly. The warmth brought by the soft body made people feel a little relaxed.

Although it was a left-right embrace, there was no romantic atmosphere.

"It's getting cold."

Aqua said suddenly, "I say, Kazuma, the task we took was to defeat the Zombie Maker, right? I have a premonition that what will appear will not be that kind of small character, but a more powerful undead."

"Hey, don't say such things, okay? What if your crow's mouth comes true?"

Sato Kazuma glared at her and secretly glanced at Yunyun before saying, "Today's task is to defeat a Zombie Maker, and then let the zombies following it return to dust, and then we will go back to sleep immediately. If any abnormal things happen outside of the plan, go back immediately, understand?"

Hearing him say this, the team members nodded vigorously.

After about the same time.

The group walked towards the cemetery, with Sato Kazuma, who had learned the skill of sensing enemies from Chris, walking in the front.

Soon, his face showed a strange expression, and he said, "What is this? There is a strong feeling. Should it be that sensing enemies is working? There are enemies, one, two, three... Ah, there are too many enemies, right?"

At this moment, a burst of blue and white light emerged from the center of the cemetery, looking strange and dreamy.

That was a huge magic circle, and next to the magic circle was a figure in a black robe.

"N-No way…"

Yunyun shrank into Yuuyu's arms.

Megumin touched his head, seemingly comforting him while looking at the figure in the distance, and said somewhat uncertainly, "I think... that doesn't seem to be... the Zombie Maker."

And around that black-robed figure, there were several ghosts wandering back and forth.

"Should we charge? Even if it's not the Zombie Maker, those who stay in the cemetery at this time are probably undead. Even so, there won't be any problems with Aqua, the High Priest, here."

Darkness held a long sword, looking impatient.

At this moment, Aqua suddenly shouted.

"Ah——————!"

"Ah——————!"

Aqua, who suddenly shouted, didn't know what she was thinking. She stood up and ran directly towards the figure in the robe. Before everyone could react, Yunyun also seemed to be stabbed by Aqua and suddenly shouted and ran in another direction.

"W-Wait, hey!"

Sato Kazuma stretched out his Er Kang hand.

Uh... what should I do now?

Yuuyu quickly said, "I'll go after her, you go take care of Miss Aqua."

"I also…"

"Megumin, you're too slow, you'll only hold us back, wait here."

"Ugh."

Being said this, Megumin clenched her magic wand and looked at Yuuyu's gradually receding back unwillingly. She was already considering whether she should strengthen her physical strength. After all, if it goes on like this…

"Arrest!"

"N-No————!"

A sound came from behind. Aqua pounced on the person in the cloak. Sato Kazuma and the others went up to take a look and found that it was Wiz, the owner of the magic tool shop. It was thanks to Megumin being there to recognize her that she was not purified by the idiot goddess.

Megumin asked curiously, "So, what is Miss Wiz doing here?"

"Y-Yes... As you can see, many of the souls in this public cemetery are unable to return to heaven because they have no money, so I come here regularly to send those children who want to return to heaven on their way.", Wiz explained timidly in a low voice.

What's going on, is this person a goddess?

She really... I'm so touched.

Just as Sato Kazuma was thinking this, he heard Wiz say again, "But recently, I don't know what's going on, there is a particularly strong seal in the cemetery, which makes these children have nowhere to go, causing evil spirits to flood. Even some time ago, a gentleman was possessed by an evil spirit."

"Ah, ah?"

At this time, Aqua seemed to have thought of something, and her expression suddenly became stiff. She shrank her shoulders and wanted to sneak away, but was grabbed by Sato Kazuma.

"Wait, Aqua."

"W-What's wrong... Mr. Kazuma."

"I remember you said before that because there were too many evil spirits, you were going to purify them, and the next morning you proudly told me that you had leveled up three times overnight…"

Even a fool can guess.

Obviously, all of this was caused by the idiot goddess. Thinking about it, that Zombie Maker was also not sent back to heaven because of this, but possessed a fresh corpse and wreaked havoc on the world.

Eh? Speaking of Zombie Maker…

"Where are Yunyun and Yuuyu?"

"Haven't they two come back yet?"

"Because you just shouted and scared Yunyun."

Everyone had worried expressions.

"That... it's better to go find them, the Zombie Maker is actually quite powerful. I heard that many adventurers have been injured."

"Ugh!"

Megumin's face changed, and she raised her foot to walk into the depths of the cemetery, but someone grabbed her shoulder.

"Wait, Megumin."

"Don't stop me, Darkness, I have a reason to go."

"That's not it!"

Darkness stepped aside, revealing the companion behind her and said, "Let's go together."

"That's right, we are a team."

"Leave the evil spirits to me, I'm a High Priest!"

"No, you should remove the magic circle first."

Looking at such reliable companions, Megumin showed a sincere smile, but... those two people don't know where they are showing affection now, which makes her a little annoyed.

Along with Wiz, the five people walked towards the depths of the cemetery. Soon they found a bright yellow light coming from inside, as well as Yunyun's rampant voice and Yuuyu's anxious voice.

"Ah, hahaha—what Zombie Maker! Those who are not afraid of death, come over here! Don't even look at who I am! Let me physically transcend you! Light of Saber!...of Saber!!...Saber!!!"

"Yunyun, Yunyun!? That's enough, that's enough!"

In the depths of the cemetery.

Yunyun was constantly emitting powerful electric magic like an electric rat, and his scarlet eyes showed a look of rational collapse. The obsessive aura that no one should approach looked particularly scary.

Not to mention Yuuyu, who was worried and wanted to step forward to comfort him but couldn't.

Even the Zombie Maker was cowering in the corner, trembling, looking at Yunyun's thunderous rage (misunderstanding) as if he were looking at a god.

"Hey…"

"Should this be called physical transcendence?"

"Yunyun…"

Under everyone's worried gazes, only Darkness had an excited and eager expression. She was just about to rush up when Sato Kazuma stopped her.

However, after stopping her, someone was going to suffer.

"Eee Yah——————!"

The stray current shot out by Yunyun fell into Sato Kazuma's body.

His retribution has finally come.

Accompanied by the electric light, and the bones that could be seen through the electric light, Sato Kazuma's miserable howl resounded throughout the cemetery, making Darkness envious and jealous.