And So Begins Our Epic Tale of Heroism

1

When we got back to Axel, we said good-bye to Yunyun, and then we headed not for our mansion but for the Adventurers Guild.

"I can't believe you managed to defeat the Ninnin without me. But we're party members, right? And that means even if some of us were asleep, we split the reward evenly, right?" Aqua was in high spirits. She seemed to forget she'd been giving us a dressing down until not long before.

"L-look, I just didn't believe you were really 'exercising' all night. I'm sorry about that, Kazuma, Megumin. Aqua, I've got it! How about we get some quality ingredients and have a banquet tonight to celebrate their work?"

"No objection from me. Sounds like a great idea, in fact. Not the sort of thing I'd expect from a klutz like you, Darkness!"

I guess Darkness the klutz must have really felt she owed something to Megumin and me, because she managed a smile despite the vein bulging on her forehead.

"You heard the ladies, Megumin. What do you think? Exactly whose reward is gonna pay for all that fancy food?"

"You are so right! The two of them have known me long enough that they should know perfectly well that I would never cause general mayhem just to satisfy a passing urge for an explosion!"

"""Yeah, right.""" "Kazuma, whose side are you on?!"

I dropped Megumin before she could get too hot under the collar, hurrying over to the front desk. "Hey, miss, Big Game Hunter Kazuma Satou here."

"Oh, Mr. Satou! And how can we help you today?"

I showed her the Adventurer's Card I'd borrowed from Megumin. "Miss, we've done it again. My goodness… If we keep going at this pace, there won't be any bounties left in the world before long. We're going to end up putting all our colleagues out of business. Ha!"

"Ah—ah-ha-ha… I see, so you defeated the Mad Bomber Moguninnin.

Congratulations! I'll prepare your reward immediately!"

The lady at the reception desk wasn't even surprised to see us take down big bounties anymore. But I wasn't disappointed by her lack of a reaction. And why not…?

"Excuse me… Are you, perchance, Sir Kazuma Satou…?"

Someone spoke to me as if they'd read my mind. It was a beautiful woman distinguished by the slight puffiness under her eyes and the air of maturity she exuded. She was reasonably well-endowed (although maybe not as well as Darkness), a body practically designed to entice men. Her black hair was clipped neatly at her shoulders, and she gave me a flirtatious look with her surprisingly amorous dark eyes. That alone was enough to get my heart pounding.

Maybe this woman was a priest? She wore a white robe that looked like it could have been a holy vestment, and a mace hung at her hip. And maybe it was the fullness of the space beneath her eyes that gave her that adult sex appeal. Or maybe it just went to show that none of the ladies around me had any mature attraction.

The woman offered me an elegant bow. "I have heard many a rumor, sir, of your fame and glory. My name is Serena. I know it's very sudden, but could I implore you to let me join your party?"

The entire Guild went silent at that… Well, not the entire Guild. Aqua exploded. "What? How can you just show up here and make a request like that? This party already has a perfectly good Arch-priest: me! And we don't need any other priests horning in. So get out of here.

Go on, scram!"

I guess she saw this new priest as a threat to her sense of self. The woman who called herself Serena, though, didn't even deign to glance at Aqua.

"Sir Kazuma Satou. Could you not possibly see your way to permitting me to be one of your followers? I swear I shall never impede you or slow you down."

As Serena spoke, a placid smile spread over her face.

Megumin looked like she was about to fly off the handle, but then she flinched and glanced away. Don't tell me she suddenly realized she wasn't one to talk, seeing as we were just coming home from all the trouble she'd caused in Crimson Magic Village.

Naturally, everyone's eyes settled on me. They seemed to want me to make a decision, but I knew what was going on here.

"You're obviously a servant of the Demon King or something. You just show up out of the blue and want to join my group? No one who knows the first thing about my party wants to be anywhere near it. You're clearly here to get close to me, destroyer of so many generals of the Demon King, and then assassinate me when I least expect—"

I was interrupted by Aqua chanting a magic spell. My body glowed for a second, but nothing else happened. I knew this spell. It would heal your wounds and even get rid of any nasty stuff currently happening to your body. Powerful healing magic. But of course, I hadn't been hurt recently.

"…Hey, what'd you do that for?" I asked.

"You, Kazuma, of the weakest class and with no stats worth mentioning and not even a very high level, are completely obsessed with the idea that you're being targeted by the Demon King, so I cast Heal on your head."

Maybe I could trade her for Serena.

"Do you truly doubt me so? Sir Kazuma, I believe you sell yourself much too short. You are a truly great adventurer, having defeated so many fearsome foes and become so rich at such a young age. One even wonders if you might not be the hero, chosen by the gods to stand against the Demon King…" Serena closed her eyes blissfully, her hands together as if she was praying.

What could I say? She wasn't exactly wrong about anything she had said so far. I had been sent here by the goddess Aqua to resist the incursions of the Demon King on behalf of the populace. Heck, I could almost start to think people still didn't value me enough… "Sacred High Heal!"

Aqua burst in again. This time it was Serena's body that glowed.

"Why do you cast healing magic on me?" she asked.

"You think our Kazuma is a genuine hero, so I cast Heal on your head," Aqua said.

... "Ahem. Well, listen, as much as I hate to say it, she really is our party's priest.

Sorry, but we aren't looking for any new members right now. Try somewhere else."

"Ouch, that hurts! Kazuma, that hurts! I really mean it!!"

(I was pulling on Aqua's ear the whole time I was talking.) Serena never stopped smiling. "…I see I can't persuade you. I shall withdraw for today. But, Sir Kazuma, I'm certain I can be of use to your party."

She had confidence; you had to give her that. Serena walked out of the building with her head held high.

I watched her go, then looked around at my current party members. Aqua was rubbing the ear I'd been pulling on, her eyes tearing up. Megumin was heaving a sigh of relief that Serena was gone as she finally emerged from Darkness's shadow. And...… "…What are you fidgeting for?"

"Just watching a beautiful lady priest try to steal you away, Kazuma… Is this what it feels like to be cuckolded…?" Darkness was squirming around in her cloud of filthy thoughts, her eyes moist.

I gave them all a hard look and said… "Is it too late to call her back?"

2

The next morning. When we got to the Adventurers Guild, something was different.

"All right, everyone participating in the hunt, please line up over here. I'll cast long-lasting support magic on you for free."

There was a line of adventurers forming inside the Guild. Serena was at the head of the line, casting support magic on each and every one of them.

Apparently, she wasn't even charging for it.

As crucial as it was to have priests around, there weren't that many people who wanted to be members of the class. So a no-cost buff like this was something parties without priests would really appreciate.

Serena saw me and smiled. "Ah, Sir Kazuma, you're here. What do you say?

Want some free support magic? You can receive multiple buffs if they come from priests of different religions. And I suspect I'm of a different faith from the priest in your party, so I'm sure we could both buff you. How does that sound?"

I was impressed she could tell who belonged to what religion… Actually, was it that impressive? I guess it only took one look at Aqua to know she was part of the Axis Church. Still, free buffs. I felt like for the first time, I was seeing a real priest at work.

"Excuse me, you, but with you just handing out buffs for free, what are the other priests supposed to do? You'll make everyone less grateful to us, so I'm going to have to ask you to stop going rogue like this." Our party's punk…er, ahem. I mean, our party's priest (such as she was) started in on Serena.

The real cleric barely gave Aqua a look. "Perhaps I could suggest you refrain from speaking that way? Otherwise, you'll impugn Sir Kazuma's reputation.

Don't you think you and the others have contributed to his poor repute? …And furthermore, what's wrong with a priest providing free support? I'm extending a hand of salvation to those parties who have no priest of their own. Are you saying that's a bad thing?"

"It's not a bad thing," the goddess (such as she was) replied to Serena's very reasonable argument.

"I'm not saying you necessarily have to go around casting free buffs on people," Serena said. "I recognize you seem to have more priestly power than I do, so I also won't criticize you for never having given anyone free help before… However, my actions are an embarrassment to no one and are proper and just.

As such, I don't believe you have any right to stop me, do you?"

"No, ma'am," Aqua said, completely outmaneuvered. She looked down and scuffed her foot on the ground. "…Gosh, I lost…" How could a goddess be outtalked by a priest? We looked over at Serena, and she smiled when she saw me watching her.

…Man, she really seemed like the more priestly of these two. Just then… "…I don't like it—not one bit." This abrupt offer of an opinion came from our certified true punk Dust. I wasn't sure what Dust didn't like, but he was lolling against a table, glaring in Serena's direction. "I don't like it… I've never seen such a priestly priest… Everyone else, they get one little support spell and they stop asking questions, but she can't fool me. When it comes to priesting, I know Aqua has a leg up on this girl. She even brought me back to life once. I know which team I'm on... Don't like it; don't like it at all…" I guess a twisted, nasty guy like Dust just wasn't built to cope with a beautiful, purehearted, humane woman like Serena.

So how come he was such good friends with me?

At any rate, it looked like there were quite a few adventurers in this Guild who really trusted Aqua. If nothing else, they'd known her a lot longer than Serena, who'd popped up just the other day.

Then a Guild employee turned to the gathered adventurers and said: "All right, adventurers! Let's throw ourselves into this hunt! Now, today's going to be a little bit different from normal…" I guess she had been waiting for Serena to finish buffing everyone. For some reason, the Guild employees weren't putting hunt quests up on the board like they usually did. Instead, the girl talking had just a single piece of paper.

"It so happens that since last night, the area around the communal graveyard has been crawling with undead. And today we want you to go take care of them. The graveyard is too close to town, and there's no telling when the citizens might get hurt by this invasion. We request that all available priests join this mission!"

…A bunch of undead at the communal graveyard? Darkness, Megumin, and I all naturally looked at Aqua. We thought she was supposed to be doing regular purifications at the graveyard… "What?! Why are you looking at me like that?! I purify that graveyard once a week, just like I'm supposed to! I'm not even half-assing it anymore!"

"…You do kind of have a history…" I looked at her skeptically in spite of her vigorous defense.

"Come on, everyone—don't look at me like that! I swear I'm doing my job this time! It's true! Fine, just you watch! Today I'll show you what it looks like when an Arch-priest really gets serious! Zombies? Skeletons? I can handle them all on my own!"

By now, she was talking loud enough for the entire Guild to hear her.

3

Somebody was shouting: "What the hell's going on here?!"

We were at the communal cemetery. The final resting place of people with no money or adventurers with no family. A big plot of land right on the edge of town…and currently home to at least a couple hundred undead. The other adventurers looked a bit freaked out; no one had been expecting this many monsters.

No, no, I wasn't scared. It was cloudy right now. But hey, why should we be scared of undead monsters at noon, even with a little cloud cover? Riiight…?

"…H-hey, can I go home?"

"No, Kazuma, you can't. I would love to go running home—they smell terrible —but I'm about to show you how cool I can be. And then when the adventurers talk about the most beautiful priestess in Axel, they'll mean me again!"

I'm pretty sure no one actually called her that. Ever.

But man, did it stink. It stank so bad. Zombies reek enough on their own; a crowd this big was bound to be stomach-churningly nasty.

"Fine, go nuts, Aqua. If you charge in there, they'll probably all race after you.

Then you can hit them with your biggest purification spell."

"You've got it! I admit I'm not eager to have this many undead chasing me, but…" One person watching saw how put off Aqua was by the smell. "In that case, allow me…" Megumin began quietly chanting her explosion magic, but Darkness grabbed her from behind.

"Good, Darkness, you hang on to Megumin there. Don't want her blowing up the entire cemetery. Go for it, Aqua!"

All the other adventurers were so overwhelmed by the stench that we were the only ones to get anywhere near the mob of zombies. A few of the others attacked with ranged magic or projectile weapons, but it didn't really seem to be getting them anywhere. Meanwhile, Aqua and I worked our way closer to the herd. I expected them to fixate on us and come after us in a frenzy.

"Stop it, Darkness! Let me go! It would feel so good to drop an Explosion right on them! At this rate, Aqua will purify them all first! But my Explosion could wipe them out so dramatically!"

"It would wipe out this whole cemetery! As a Crusader who serves the gods, I can't allow you to desecrate a graveyard!"

As Megumin and Darkness argued, Aqua and I made contact with the undead.

The other adventurers, who knew that Aqua was a decent Arch-priest if nothing else, waved their weapons and tried to get the monsters' attention. But none of their shouting could distract the undead from their favorite target: Aqua…!

"…Uh… What?"

"They're not coming this way."

The undead were busy attacking the most conspicuous adventurers.

"Maybe it's like, you know, the last of your little bit of godliness finally trickled away, and they can sense it."

"I'll prove to them I'm still a deity by dropping some divine punishment on you right here and now, you dumb NEET. And I guarantee you'll end up in hell!"

Aqua ground her teeth and glared at me.

"Hey, then I'll get to party with Vanir and everyone."

"This sucks! I hate the way you know somebody everywhere!"

Aqua finally gave up going after me and got back to business. She might not be much of a goddess, but she was still divine. I teased her about being the goddess of toilets or party tricks or whatever, but she had power to spare. All the adventurers around us looked relieved just to hear Aqua start chanting. And then her spell was ready… "Turn Undead!" Her shout echoed around the cemetery, which was enveloped in a white light. The moment the light touched the monsters… ""…Huh?"" Aqua and I said.

The undead didn't collapse into dust. In fact, they looked fine. And they seemed to interpret Aqua's spell as an attack, because they suddenly all turned on her…!

"Huhhhh?! Aqua, I think we can safely say that hunting undead is your one and only real talent! So use it! Use it now!"

"I don't get it! This doesn't make any sense! Maybe those things aren't undead! I mean, I've never seen zombies with red eyes! Hey, Kazuma, where are you going?! We're party members, right? Comrades?!"

Aqua grabbed my shirt as I tried to escape and wouldn't let go. Seeing Aqua's magic—our one true hope—fail so spectacularly, the other adventurers went from looking on placidly to panicking. In the middle of it all:

"Turn Undead!"

Serena's voice carried across the cemetery. She generated a wind that felt like a shock wave. And the undead started collapsing like marionettes with their strings cut.

""""Ooooohhh!"""" As all the other adventurers watched, the entire crowd of undead in the graveyard turned back into inert corpses, at just the single spell of Serena's.

So what had been shaping up to be a massive battle turned out to be over in a flash. Apparently, the Guild had been assuming the job would take us all day, so they hadn't prepared any other hunt quests. That meant all of us had the afternoon off. And when a bunch of adventurers suddenly have time to kill… "Hey, you're something else! How about you join our party? We do have one Advanced Class of our own!"

"Nah, join us! We're pretty famous, if I may say so myself!"

"You should party up with us! We're all women here, so there's nothing to worry about, if you know what I mean!"

"…Ahem, thank you, but… I only want to join Sir Kazuma's party…" Back at the Guild, Serena was mobbed and looking a little uncomfortable.

Why had her magic worked when Aqua's hadn't? That was still a mystery, but there was one thing we knew.

"Behold! I shall throw these pinewood shoes into the cup on the table from this far away. And then the cup will sprout…!"

"I think you've got entirely the wrong idea right now." Aqua was trying to do some kind of party trick, but the other adventurers were too busy convincing Serena to join them to notice her.

"…The cup will…will sprout…a beautiful, organic matsutake mushroom..." Her voice got smaller and smaller. "It'll…sprout right up…? It will!" Clearly feeling dejected that no one was paying any attention to her, Aqua tossed the shoes into the cup all the same with a splash. And when she did, something sprouted right up… "…Hey, tell me how you did that. Organic matsutake mushrooms aren't supposed to grow this season. Heck, maybe you could make two or three…" I swiped the gorgeous mushroom from the cup and was about to demand a few more, but Aqua slumped silently across the table and didn't move.

Megumin patted her head reassuringly. Darkness remained standing beside the table, a thoughtful hand at her mouth.

"Are you sure about this, Serena?" an adventurer was asking. "You did pretty much all the work this time. You sure you're okay with us splitting the reward?

You don't want anything?"

"I am a priest. If I have a place to sleep and food enough to survive, that's quite adequate for me," Serena said with a smile, earning a sigh of admiration from the others. Not only was she sexy, but her personality and abilities were pure priest.

"...…" I stared at Serena for a moment, then looked at Aqua without a word, but she didn't move a muscle from her spot on the table. "…Hey, I think you're losing this one. Can you live with that as a professional priest?"

"...…Leave me alone. I'm a minor goddess, the patron of the Axis Church. I don't want or need to become a major one. I'm perfectly happy looking after my handful of maniacal followers. You heard what that punk Dust said, right?

He said he backed me. There might not be many, but a few people see me for who I am. So I don't feel like a loser…" "I knew you were different from the moment I saw you! Unlike a certain disappointing excuse for an Arch-priest, you're real decent! I love how you're not polluted by money!"

That was Dust's voice, and he was talking to Serena. Our resident punk, who always needed more cash, had been suckered in by the excellent reward and had flipped like a pancake.

"…Welp, you heard the man."

"…Kazuma, you'll be my ally to the bitter end, right?"

Aqua never looked up from the table, but I could hear her sniffling.

4

It had been a few days since Serena came to town.

"Hey, Miss Serena, I got a little boo-boo here during a hunt. Could you fix it for me?"

"Yes, of course, with pleasure. Let me see it."

"Serena! Me next, please!"

"Oh, Serena, you're an absolute goddess!"

We were at the tavern in the Adventurers Guild. One particular table had sort of turned into Serena's base of operations, and it was surrounded by injured adventurers.

"I don't like this one bit…!" Aqua, who had let herself behind the reception desk, was watching Serena's table, crouching beneath the counter so only her head was visible.

"Miss Aqua, I'm afraid we can't have you back here," one of the receptionist ladies said, but Aqua completely ignored her. The employees looked at me. I guess they wanted me to do something.

"…Hey, Aqua, you're gonna cause trouble back there. I'm pretty sure Serena can see you anyway. Come on out."

"…She's got a lot of nerve, stealing my fans right out from under my nose. I'm usually the one over there, curing adventurers and being treated like a goddess."

You've never done that even once in your life.

Darkness had left with Megumin early in the morning, saying there was something she wanted to investigate. This wasn't the first time, either. It had been a daily occurrence ever since the priest called Serena had arrived. As for me, I'd been lounging in my room when Aqua had attacked me and dragged me out to the Guild… "I'm telling you, no matter how closely you watch her, you're never going to find a weak point. Let's just go home and get some sleep." That was why we were here. And no matter how I tried to insist, Aqua refused to come out from behind the counter.

"No way. There's something I really don't like about that woman. She's too perfect. She's beautiful and sexy and sweet and kind to everybody. And on top of all that, she's a great priest. She's too perfect, I tell you. That's perfection on a level you only see in goddesses like Eris and me."

"I'm not even going to dignify that with a response," I said. I watched Serena tending to the adventurers. When she noticed me, she smiled and waved.

Adventurers crowded around her like an entourage, each waiting their turn for Serena to heal them. Actually, to be perfectly honest, most of them hardly seemed injured at all—they were just hangers-on.

"Hey, Kazuma, I've got a favor to ask," Aqua said suddenly, finally standing up.

Then she stuck out her pointer finger at me. "Make a tiny scratch on my finger with your dagger. I'm going to have that woman heal me."

"…You can heal yourself. What, you need a reason to go say hi? Don't.

Serena's getting along with all the other adventurers right now. If you do something to undermine her, you might make enemies of everyone here." I tried to warn her, but she seemed to be set on not listening. She just stood there pointing her finger at me until I gave in and pulled out my knife… "…Hey, you asked me to do this. Don't move your hand."

"Yeah, but I'm still a little scared. Just a tiny, tiny scratch, right? Like, maybe there won't even be any blood. Okay?" She kept sliding her finger away from my dagger every time I got close. I was still wondering how I let myself get roped into this sort of thing as I moved the knife ever so carefully toward Aqua's finger… "Whoops, my pointer finger disappeared. Which one's the real finger?" Just before my knife touched her, Aqua playfully pulled her finger back… Without a word, I grabbed Aqua's hand and stabbed it.

"…! …!!" She snatched her hand back, too agonized to make a sound.

"There, now get going," I said, and that's what she did, shuffling over to Serena, shooting me angry, tearful glances as she went.

I watched from a distance, wondering what Aqua was up to as she stumbled over to Serena. At first, I thought maybe she was pretending to be drunk as a way of getting close to her. When she got near the front of the line, though, she started saying, "Excuse meeee. As you can see, I'm suuuper hurt here. Won't you please let a poor, weak girl through?" So she wasn't going for drunkard after all. She was trying to pretend to be grievously injured.

The adventurer at the front of the line scowled. "Aqua, you can take care of yourself, can't—? E-er, okay, go right ahead, okay, please just stop threatening me with your weird movements…!" The adventurer looked downright terrified and gave his place to Aqua… "Hold it right there."

…or was about to when Serena stopped him. She was staring right at Aqua.

"…?" Aqua looked back at her so blankly, you could practically see the question mark over her head.

"I won't ask why you don't simply heal yourself. But you are a priest, are you not? It's your duty to care for the wounded. And yet, you push aside the injured so that you may be healed? Don't you think that's rather repugnant, as a priest?"

"I do," Aqua said earnestly, nodding at Serena's tongue-lashing.

Darn right you do. It is repugnant. Serena's totally in the right.

"I'm not saying I won't heal you because you're a priest. But you're not the only one here who's suffering. So won't you be so kind as to wait your turn?"

"Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry." Aqua apologized to the adventurer she had tried to shove out of the way, then went to the back of the line.

…Geez, not sure how I felt about a goddess being put in her place by a priest.

Aqua kept pressure on her wound, patiently waiting her turn until finally she was at the front of the line. She stood before Serena and held out her wounded hand. "Doctor, I was stabbed by a passing dumbass NEET. Can you heal this wound? Or am I going to die?"

The wound was little more than a scratch.

Serena took Aqua's hand, covering it with her own palm and giving a dry smile. "This is a very light wound; it will be better soon… Heal! There, that should do it…" Serena removed her hand to reveal…a wound. It hadn't healed at all.

"…?!"

Serena looked at the hand, frozen in shock, while Aqua pointedly started to snuffle and sob. "Doctor, I am going to die, aren't I?! The wound is so bad, even you can't help me, isn't it? Or did you choose not to heal it because you hate me, Doctor? Answer me, Doctor!"

I guess Aqua had resisted Serena's healing magic. Come to think of it, back when Wiz tried to teach me Drain Touch, Aqua had resisted the skill as a way of harassing Wiz. And if she could stand up against a Lich, a priest's healing spell would be a piece of cake… "Heal! Heal! …I d-don't understand it… Why isn't it working?"

"Why aren't you making it better, Doctor? Don't tell me that out of sheer jealousy toward me, the number one priest in this Guild, you don't want to make me better?! Or is it that you can't do it, because you suck at healing?

Ooh…I'm going to die. This wound is going to get infected, and I'm going to die…! Kazuma, Kazuma! Listen to me! This woman won't heal me!"

I went over to the wailing Aqua. Die of bacterial infection? Heck, poison didn't even work on her; she could purify it just by touching it. I kept this little quip to myself, though, as I stood behind Aqua.

"When I'm dead, I want you to build a tomb in the middle of town, bigger than the pyramids. And I want you to put little treasures from my room in it, the stuff you always call junk. Emperor Zel can be the guard. Make offerings three times a day—morning, noon, and night—of wine and delicious snacks. Carve my epitaph on the front. It should say: The great and wonderful—" I smacked the jabbering moron on the back of the head with the hilt of my dagger. "It'll say, The great and idiotic Aqua rests here. I'm sorry, Serena. Come on—let's go!"

"…! …!!" Aqua pressed her hands to the back of her head as I grabbed her by the collar and tried to drag her off. The looks the other adventurers were giving us were almost physically painful. We'd clearly worn out our welcome. But just then… "Um… Sir Kazuma, I have something very important to talk to you about.

Might I have a moment of your time?"

The question came from Serena before we could leave.

When Aqua heard that, she immediately healed her own hand, practically bouncing to her feet. "I've had about enough of you! Leave our Kazuma alone!

Is it not enough for you to have stolen my place as the Guild's most beautiful priest? Do you have to steal Kazuma away, too? Kazuma here is a very weak-willed individual who turns into putty in the hands of a younger woman if she so much as calls him Big Brother, so please just stop, won't you?"

"Ooh, you're in for it now! Just come with me," I said, about to drag Aqua off again, when one of the other adventurers said:

"The Guild's most beautiful priest?"

""…Pfft!"" "Who laughed?! Who was it?! I heard you! Come on out! Hey, I know you! I resurrected you once! If you're going to laugh at me, then pay up! Resurrection is a superpowerful magic spell that isn't normally cheap, so cough up the cash!"

Aqua was off and running.

"H-hey, it wasn't me! I didn't laugh… Hey, stop dipping your finger in my wine! …Hey, this is water! Why would you do a party trick with my wine?"

"It's not a trick; this is who I am! I've got your number! Say what you like!

Every time you get into trouble with some big bounty or nasty enemy, you come crying to me for resurrection or healing or buffs, and I've never said no to you! Well, just you wait! I'm going to turn all the wine in this building into pure water!"

"Aqua, please stop! It's the Guild that will suffer the most from that! Please stop!" A collection of Guild employees and adventurers tried to tackle Aqua before she could make it to the wine barrels.

"Let's get out of here, Sir Kazuma. What a ruckus… Perhaps we could go somewhere a little quieter…" Serena smiled at me, looking like she could barely stand the noise in the Guild.