The Power of Aqua

"Tsk, forget about it for now, ahem...", Eris clears her throat before turning to Kazuma, Aqua, and Milcar.

Quickly noticing the tension in the air caused by Aqua, Eris nervously smiles before speaking.

"She's Darkness, a friend, don't take what she does seriously, she just plays around occasionally", Eris bows slightly as if apologizing.

"You're insulting me in public... you", Darkness gazes at Eris with bright eyes, causing Eris to scratch her head in annoyance.

"By the way, it's a good time, why don't you join the group we're forming?", At this moment, Aqua intervenes with a smile, she looks at Darkness while smiling kindly.

While Aqua happily smiles at Darkness, a somewhat strange sensation spreads through the place. Darkness looks into Aqua's pure blue eyes with some disbelief.

A moment later, Darkness smiles and nods slightly, "Hehehe, well, I wouldn't mind, as long as we have some challenging missions. Remember, I'm a paladin and a tank, don't forget to use me as a shield, Understand?, if yes, then, jejeje, I wouldn't mind if you use me from time to time...", Darkness says while patting her chest and lookind to Milcar as if pledging loyalty to her lord.

There was a moment of silence as Darkness simply stared at Milcar, then at the smiling Aqua. At this moment, Kazuma stands up and looks at Darkness with shining eyes.

After all, How could Kazuma not feel a slight flutter in his heart upon seeing this beautiful blonde woman?, Kazuma, who doesn't know Darkness's true nature, is now shining with excitement.

"Hehehe, lady, Why don't you join us?, Of course, I'll pay for whatever you ask", Kazuma says like a gentleman, he bows slightly while showing a flattering smile.

"Hahaha!" A loud laughter spreads across the table, the one laughing is none other than Milcar, "Mr. Kazuma, Really?..." Milcar smiles widely, looking at Kazuma with bright eyes.

Kazuma grits his teeth with some annoyance, however, before Kazuma could attempt to respond to Milcar's words, Darkness simply took a chair near Milcar and sat there, Darkness's eyes, though calm and peace, cannot hide the growing disdain to Kazuma in her heart.

After all, as a nymphomaniac woman who adores masochism, How could Darkness be attracted to a kind man?

Kazuma lowers his head, and the dinner continues as usual. After the group shared the dinner, the money was distributed among them, and they bid farewell, saying they would meet at the tavern tomorrow morning.

Milcar breathes softly, today has been a completely strange day, from the Kobolds he doesn't remember seeing in the Konosuba anime, to the sudden change in Aqua's behavior, If Milcar were to speak honestly, he is surprised that Aqua is acting strangely, all of this has taken him by surprise.

After all, Aqua acts strangely, one can't even know what goes through Aqua's mind.

Milcar looks at the sky before walking towards a waitress, he is ready to rent a room at the adventurer's guild tavern to sleep for a few days.

Milcar's motivation remains to buy a house and cultivate Qi for as long as possible, after all, the battle against the Kobolds he had this morning made him reflect on the danger of this world.

While Milcar asks a waitress about any available rooms, in the almost empty tavern, one person catches Milcar's attention. Out of the corner of his eye, Milcar can see a giant hat with quite striking patterns, that hat is on top of the head of a loli with red eyes, or at least it should be since one eye of this little loli is covered by a quite cute patch.

"A thousand Eris per night, sir", the waitress responds calmly, Milcar smiles before giving the waitress a ten thousand Eris bill.

"Well, How about ten nights?, I pay in advance, beautiful, I wouldn't mind if you came to keep me company in my room", the waitress has a professional smile, apparently used to this type of customer, she simply smiles in response to Milcar's words, After a brief chat, Milcar rented a room for himself for ten nights. After the waitress left to prepare the room, Milcar walked calmly to the girl with the giant hat.

"Life favors the blind and feeds the fat, sister, don't be afraid, although life is tragic, it can be beautiful", Milcar smiles slightly as he utters a nonsensical phrase upon reaching the girl with the large hat.

...

The girl lifts her head slightly to see who dares to interrupt her little nap just to see a rather ordinary man albeit with somewhat uncommon features.

"Are you...?", A slight glimmer passes through the girl's single red eye before she tilts her head.

"Are you hungry?", However, Milcar evades the girl's question and asks his own question, the girl nods her head before squinting her eyes.

"Well, I'm hungry, but... Who in the hell are you?", The girl squints her eyes with deep thoughts, she seems to not trust Milcar, and with reason, "Hehehe, if you buy me some fried frog meat, brother, then I could teach you something pretty good".

The girl smiles, showing her white teeth, and Milcar nods.

"Well, then...", Milcar quickly orders some food for the girl to have dinner.

...

After a moment the food was drawn to the girl's table, she didn't even wait a moment before literally eating without manners, "By the way... taste... my name is Megumin... delicious... What's yours?", Megumin asks as she chokes on the dish brought by the waitress.

"Milcar, I'm an immortal cultivator...", Milcar smiles as he watches Megumin eat. Megumin looks up with some frog meat on her right cheek, Milcar tries to wipe Megumin's right cheek with a napkin, however, Megumin quickly pulls back her head with some caution in her eyes.

Milcar, who was trying to recruit a walking nuclear bomb for his team, squints his eyes. As a former novelist, he can't understand it, he's trying to be kind for the first time in a long time and the girl he's being kind to looks at him with caution. What went wrong?

Milcar squints his eyes, however, Megumin quickly points at Milcar, "I don't think you should have tried to do that," Megumin says seriously, her single eye constantly shining.

"Why?", Milcar can't help but ask. Megumin has a slight smile on her face before licking her lips, "Hehehe, well, that's because your girlfriend is behind you", Megumin said with a bright smile before continuing to eat.

There was a moment of silence.

Milcar doesn't seem to process Megumin's words, he tilts his head in confusion before feeling a warm breath near him, a moment later, Milcar feels something soft and comfortable pressing against his right arm.

Milcar turns to his right to see what's happening only to be surprised by a bright blue mane, kind eyes, and a smile from Aqua who is hugging his right arm.

"Hehehe, Milcar, Milcar, I was looking for you, I couldn't find an inn and wanted to know if you had found a place to rent a room, you know, I don't want to sleep in a dirty stable., but I find you talking to a pretty girl, hmph.." Aqua smiles cheerfully before reaching for Milcar's right pocket, she takes out the last chocolate candy from Milcar's pocket, removes the wrapper, and puts it in her mouth.

What?, Why?, wWhat the hell is going on here? Milcar asks himself several questions as he watches with wide eyes how Aqua acts in a cute way, he can feel Aqua hugging his right arm tighter as the seconds pass, Milcar can't believe he hadn't noticed Aqua's presence, if Aqua was his enemy then he would probably already be dead.

"Oh, forget it, she's been behind you all along, hehehe, it seems you don't have good perception", Megumin tilts her head as if to say there's nothing to be done, she then continues to eat the various dishes on the table with pleasure on her face.