Chapter 253: (Satou Kazuma) Smacking the 'Wise' is a Crime
The goddesses were shocked by Takumi's words.
"So... what do we need to do?"
Suddenly, they all became nervous.
If powerful beings from another world descended, they would be doomed, wouldn't they?
No way!
They didn't want to go through something like that.
They would die, right? Absolutely die.
Never mind that they were goddesses—when it came to actual combat power, they really weren't that strong.
"Hmm... let's see when the time comes," Takumi replied.
"I'm here just to greet you all and let you know what's happening."
"You have a few goddesses stationed in the human world too, right?"
"Just make sure they're prepared."
Now that he understood what world this was, Takumi had no intention of lingering.
As long as the situation was clear, the rest would be easier to handle.
Hearing this, the sea goddess nodded hurriedly.
"Yes!"
"I'll send down oracles to the churches below."
"We'll also go down ourselves to help."
If their world was about to merge with another, there was no way they could just laze around here.
They'd better get to work!
Get the word out before anything happened.
Otherwise, if there were heavy casualties, it would be a huge headache.
Takumi nodded and didn't say anything more.
He'd said everything that needed to be said.
Time to leave.
He said goodbye to the gathered goddesses, then returned to Bronya and the others.
At that moment, their computer screen was showing Aqua's situation.
"You're back," Bronya said.
"We've locked on to their location. Do you want to go over?"
"Those two are fighting frogs right now."
"Looks like it's right at the start of the story—Satou Kazuma has just reincarnated."
Heita turned the laptop around for Takumi to see.
Yep... there was Aqua being swallowed whole by a giant frog.
Takumi couldn't help but laugh at the sight.
"Takumi-oniichan, is she really a goddess?" Sakura asked blankly, staring at the screen.
"This goddess is so lame."
"Yeah... she's a goddess," Takumi replied with a smile.
"A goddess of wisdom, actually. But, well, she gave all her wisdom to other people."
Everyone went speechless at his answer.
"Don't listen to him, he's teasing you," Bronya rolled her eyes at Takumi.
"Don't trick Sakura. Wisdom goddess? More like a dimwit goddess."
She grumbled in her heart and let it go.
"Let's go," Takumi said, "Let's take a look ourselves. It'll still be a while before the worlds merge. We can have some fun here."
He packed up everything in the house and opened a spatial rift, stepping out.
The rest of the group followed.
At that moment, Kazuma and Aqua were wrestling with frogs.
Suddenly, a spatial tear appeared.
Both Kazuma and Aqua froze in place.
Then, a group of people in modern clothes walked out of the portal.
Kazuma was dumbstruck.
"Holy crap? Interdimensional group tours?"
Seeing these obviously out-of-place people, Kazuma was shocked.
Tour groups could cross worlds now?
How did he instantly know they weren't from this world?
Easy—their modern outfits were completely different.
"Huh? What?"
Aqua was equally confused, staring blankly at the scene.
What was going on here?
When everyone was through, Takumi turned to Kazuma with a big grin.
"Yo, fellow countryman!"
"You're a transmigrator too?"
Takumi greeted him cheerfully, acting as if they were old friends.
Kazuma was instantly excited.
"You're from Earth too?"
Takumi nodded.
"That's right! I'm also from Earth."
"How long have you been here, brother? Why are you doing so badly?"
"When I transmigrated, I got a whole world at once—became its ruler and even built a harem."
"See, these are all my 'wings'!"
He gestured grandly at the group.
Miori Shiba played along, hugging Takumi's arm.
Everyone else sweatdropped in unison.
Kazuma, on the other hand, almost burst into tears.
"So jealous!!"
"Boohoo, why did I get stuck with this idiot goddess?"
"Damn it!!"
What a winner at life.
That was how transmigration was supposed to be.
His own life here must be fake.
"Alright, just kidding," Takumi said.
"I might be a transmigrator, but not from your original world. We came from another world entirely."
"Your world is about to merge with several others. That means it'll get really dangerous."
"We don't know what kinds of worlds will be merged in."
"Last time, the Shokugeki world nearly got eaten alive by the Gourmet Hunter world's creatures."
Kazuma, being an otaku, of course knew about anime worlds.
Hearing this, he was floored.
"Wait—what? Shokugeki?"
He looked at Takumi's companions, then froze.
"They're all anime characters?!"
Kazuma shrieked like a prairie dog.
Was this a joke?
"Yep!"
"And actually, you're an anime character too."
Takumi grinned even wider.
You're the same as us.
Maybe Takumi himself was just some author's character, but who cared?
Kazuma was stunned.
"No way!!"
He leapt to his feet.
"Tell me—what happens to me in the future? Do I get rich? Do I get a harem?"
He stared at Takumi, full of hope.
"You're just a comedic punching bag, that's all," Takumi said dryly.
"Don't get your hopes up."
Kazuma instantly turned gray.
"Just destroy this world already!"
He was utterly depressed.
Just a gag character?
A pervert?
No bright future—was he going to keep suffering like this forever?
No way!!
Kazuma's dreams were utterly crushed.
At that moment, Aqua snapped out of her daze.
"What are you all talking about?"
"Isn't unauthorized world-hopping illegal?"
She glared at Takumi and his group.
"Don't you know you're breaking the law?"
"Is unauthorized world-hopping illegal? I don't know about that, but I do know that smacking the 'wise' is definitely a crime."
Takumi couldn't help but retort.
Was this girl's brain short-circuited again?