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Chapter 1007 The Last Routine 186
Because of the incident with Jizo, most of Brexi City was destroyed. In order to reduce some of the compensation, Kobayashi and the others accepted the foreman's request to come and help.

"Okay, I'm done here!" Aqua wiped the sweat from her forehead, her face beaming as she asked in her work clothes, "Kobayashi, shall we wait a little longer?"

"It's almost finished!" Kobayashi shouted back, looking at the town that was nearly completed, and said with a sigh, "At this rate, it should be even faster than planned."

"I never expected that Kobayashi and Aqua, who are usually so lazy, would work so hard one day."

Darkness said this with a look of satisfaction.

Aqua smiled and said, "The foreman took good care of us when we first arrived in Axel. As a goddess, I should repay his kindness."

"Exactly, exactly." Kobayashi nodded in deep agreement, saying, "Thanks to the foreman, we can barely make ends meet living in the warehouse, and this time we even got a discount coupon—"

"Coupons??" Darkness looked at him suspiciously and asked, "What are those?"

"N-nothing at all!" Kobayashi quickly denied it. He couldn't very well say it was a coupon for the succubus shop, could he? Then, to quickly change the subject, he said somewhat awkwardly, "Speaking of which, the quality of this cement is really good. It sets very quickly, and I feel like it could be used to build a beautiful wall."

They almost called it a real wall.

However, Aqua, that idiot, was quite happy and said, "Right? Because we accidentally obtained some precious stones from deep within the mine, they got mixed up during processing! Alright, let's get this done quickly! It's been so long since I've been to Brech, let's go get some bubble tea afterwards—"

Just as she was lost in thought, the team's Archmage, Megumin, rushed over, looking extremely anxious as if something terrible had happened. She shouted to them, "Something terrible has happened! I've heard something very serious!"

"What's wrong?" Kobayashi asked with a grin, looking at Huihui's panicked face. "Did you receive another inappropriate letter from the clan leader?"

"No!" Megumin said with a serious expression, "Besides me... someone who can use explosion magic may have appeared!"

Ok? ? ?
Kobayashi knew that Megumin had been searching for a master who could use Explosion Magic, but unfortunately, so much time had passed and she still hadn't found him. Could it be that the evil god had appeared in this town?
For some unknown reason, but at Huihui's insistence, they rushed to the outskirts of town to see the person Huihui had mentioned who could use explosion magic.

We arrived outside the town.

"This is another incredibly large crater!" Kobayashi exclaimed, taking a deep breath as he saw the massive crater that had appeared on the plain. "It's big enough to fit our entire mansion inside."

He didn't suspect that Huihui did it. If it was the little girl who did it, how could she possibly report it to them?
And at this moment——

"No——————!!" A chubby man dressed in slightly luxurious clothes knelt on the ground, wailing and sobbing, his face contorted in pain. He roared in despair, "My villa is gone!! Who did it? Who did it?! I will never let you get away with this, I will make you pay for it!!"

"Because the villa was destroyed in the explosion... How pitiful..."

Darkness said this with a sympathetic look.

The same applies to anyone else; after all, if your mansion were blown to smithereens by some unknown person, you'd definitely be heartbroken.

"I can sense remnants of magic." Huihui walked to the edge of the pit, examined it carefully, and said thoughtfully, "To blast a pit of this size, could it be that person?... No, but..."

"For some reason, I seem to sense an annoying power..." Aqua said with a frown and annoyance, while looking at the man in the police uniform next to her and asking, "Hey you over there, what's this crater?"

"Huh, who are you guys?" The security guard who had been grabbed by the arm looked at them in surprise, then broke free from Aqua's grip on his sleeve and said, "We are currently investigating, please do not approach us."

“Then I’ll help too,” Aqua said happily. “As a goddess, I can solve this problem immediately after an investigation!”

She was completely oblivious to her own position and didn't realize how much trouble her words would cause others; it's possible she was deliberately trying to cause trouble.

"Goddess...?" The security guard gave her a strange look and said, "I don't quite understand, but if you're not a relevant person, you won't be allowed to enter."

The implication was clear: those who are unrelated should stay out of the way. It was actually quite tactful, but unfortunately, some clueless goddesses just couldn't understand what she was saying and still spoke rudely.

"Don't say that! Let me in!" Aqua said confidently, "I'll make an amazing discovery!"

Like a detective's rhetoric, Kobayashi was already prepared to be kicked out, but just as he was about to step forward to stop her from doing anything reckless, Huihui unexpectedly interfered.

"Please let me in!" Her eyes gleamed red as she said earnestly and excitedly, "I must know what kind of magic created this hole!"

"Sigh..." Seeing the two insisting, the guard was also very troubled. He felt that if he didn't agree, they might do something bad. So he said, "You'll go back once you know the reason for your appearance? If that's the case, it's probably not because of magic, but because something fell down."

As an investigator, I shouldn't have told them this information, but I eventually softened and spoke up.

"F-Fall down!?" Huihui looked at him in surprise, then looked at the sky and said excitedly, "Dark power released from the sky! How romantic, so incredibly romantic!!"

Then, ignoring the guard's warnings, she dashed into the deep pit, startling Xiaolin who shouted, "Hey, wait, Huihui, going in like that is really—"

"Whoaaaaah!!" The security guard, looking equally panicked, exclaimed, "If you disturb the scene and obstruct our investigation, you'll have to pay compensation...!"

Upon hearing this, Kobayashi quickly shouted to the crowd, "Sorry to bother you! We'll take our leave now! Okay, go ahead!!"

Grabbing Huihui by the collar, he prepared to use brute force to take her away, but Huihui cried out in grievance, "Wa ...

We can't let her do whatever she wants, at least not in front of the security personnel. If she causes damage, she will really be required to pay compensation.

However, that evening...

“I care about it no matter what…” Aqua said thoughtfully. “We can’t just leave it like this, otherwise…” She glanced at Megumin beside her and said, “Alright, Megumin, nobody’s around, let’s investigate properly.”

“That’s right, pursuing romance is what the Crimson Demon Clan does.” Megumin said shamelessly, then proudly flicked her cloak and said, “If you think I’ll back down so easily, you’re sorely mistaken!”

"Hurry up, hurry up! If you dawdle, Kobayashi will find out. Before that happens—"

"Oh? What do we need to do before we're discovered?"

Kobayashi's figure appeared here.

"What!?" Upon seeing Kobayashi suddenly appear, Megumin exclaimed in surprise, "Were you lying in ambush on us? We really misjudged you, Kobayashi!"

"It's so noisy!! You're looking at the wrong side, go back right now!"

Kobayashi yelled at the two of them like that because he knew Aqua and Megumin were troublemakers; those two would definitely cause trouble in the middle of the night. That's why Kobayashi and Darkness came together to capture them. After all, he really didn't want to get involved in things like this.

"Hey!" Huihui was very unwilling to accept this. She pouted and said, "We've come all this way and come back empty-handed. It's a disgrace to the Crimson Demon Clan! At least give us some spoils of war...!!"

As she spoke, she ignored Xiaolin's attempts to stop her and ran into the deep pit.

"Megumi! Get out of the pit!" Darkness shouted worriedly when she saw her rush in. "If this continues, Kobayashi will really get angry!"

However, Huihui suddenly froze on the spot.

"...Oh!!" She seemed to have discovered something and shouted, "I sense an unusual power! Come forth! Unknown invader, then give me power—"

I thought it was just her usual chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), but unexpectedly, her words received a response. From the depths of the pit, the ruins of the noble mansion began to shake, and then a strange ball of light flew out. It then let out a hearty laugh.

"Hahahaha————"

"W-What is this? That radiant, jade-like voice... is ringing in my head!"

Darkness said this with some surprise.

The ball of light continued, "Although it was just released, its memories are still a bit hazy... It seems it was forced to land while flying in the air." Then it looked at Megumin... Even though it had no facial features, everyone still felt its movement, as if something had landed on Megumin, and said, "Come, you who thirst for me, power... Do you want power!?"

"No need," Kobayashi said decisively, then addressed the others, "Alright, we still have bricklaying work to do tomorrow, so let's hurry back to our lodgings and rest."

"W-Is it okay?" Seeing his decisive refusal, Darkness said in a low voice with some concern, "It's clearly something else..."

"Getting involved in these weird things always gets me into trouble," Kobayashi said, clearly annoyed. "I'm a man who's good at learning!"

After all, things that ask you for power right away are usually traps. If you get too involved with them, you'll usually be the one who suffers. So it's best to stay away from them as soon as possible.

However, his thoughts didn't mean others thought the same. Huihui raised one hand, like a schoolchild answering a question, and loudly proclaimed, "Yes! I want power! My wish is to have the power to dominate this world!"

"Aaaaaah!!!" Kobayashi shouted in a fit of rage, pointing at Huihui's head and yelling, "Didn't I say I was going back!?"

If someone like that makes a wish carelessly, they're bound to have bad luck. Especially Kobayashi, who was just badly tricked by Jizo, understands this even better.

"Wait, Megumin, let's forget about it!" Aqua also felt something was off, and she quickly advised, "There's something suspicious about this guy."

You can doubt Aqua's intelligence and her lack of diligence in her duties, but you can't doubt her keen sense for demons and bad things; after all, what she says is usually very accurate... in bad ways.

Darkness nodded in agreement, saying, "Hmm, that lewd voice will definitely demand something terrible in return!" This guy was surprisingly impolite, calling someone else's voice lewd right off the bat.

"You guys don't seem to understand anything," the ball of light said with a grin, making people want to call him "Brother Jie." He then added, "I am the guide of the earth, capable of granting power to those who thirst for it."

"I already said I wasn't interested." Kobayashi said dismissively, even curling her lip in disdain, "I don't have that need."

"Is that possible?" The ball of light said dismissively, even casually, "The one who is granted my power can even rule the world...!!"

It sounds very tempting.

Darkness paused for a moment, then instinctively blurted out, "Rule the world...?"

"Hmph." The ball of light looked rather disdainful. "An archmage can use all magic, and... a crusader can grant the ability to feel no pain!"

It said this with great pride and smugness, probably thinking that these two abilities were enough to make the Archmage and the Knight of the Cross envious. However, the two of them looked disgusted.

"……strangeness!?"

The ball of light was completely baffled as to why the two of them didn't show any signs of ecstasy.

Huihui seemed deflated and said listlessly, "It's not attractive at all, I have absolutely no interest in it."

"It's no use to me either." Darkness was equally indifferent. "What's there to be happy about if there's no pain in your body?"

Megumin then spoke again: "Listen carefully. The magical power to unleash explosion magic infinitely, that's what I want!"

"Explosion magic?" The ball of light paused for a moment, then said strangely, "What's so good about that kind of ridiculous magic... I'm withdrawing my request from this guy!"

"What!?" Megumin, furious at the insult to her Explosion Magic, shouted, "Kirin, I understand now! This thing must be some kind of evil spirit. Let's destroy it right here!"

“I agree. It must be something like a con artist. Let’s try to purify it first,” Aqua echoed.

"Wait, wait!" The ball of light, both excited and frightened, quickly said, "In that case, experience my power firsthand! That will change your mind, won't it! Hah—"

The light enveloped everyone.

(End of this chapter)