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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o! (Light Novel) - Volume 8: Epilogue II - After the end of the festival!
Volume 8: Epilogue II - After the end of the festival!
It was a certain day after the festival had ended, and after the town had returned to its usual peaceful atmosphere.
Lying on the sofa, Aqua was playing with the yellow furball on the empty shell, which still had a strong sense of presence. She said happily:
“Hey, Kazuma, Cecily sent a letter to thank you. ‘Thanks to you, the Axis Cult’s Axel branch has successfully achieved our goal. As arranged with the Eris Cult, the next year’s festival will also be co-hosted by both cults. This is all thanks to Kazuma-san donating so much money, so we will therefore consider you an honorary Axis cultist.”
“Damn it!”
“Wahhh!”
Knowing that it was too late to argue, I threw away the letter Aqua was reading.
“You’re awful! What, aren’t you happy with the thank-you letter my cultist put so much effort into writing, you Sukapon NEET?!”
TL Note: Sukapon is the main robot in the fighting Nintendo game, Joy Mech Fight. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Mech_Fight
“There’s nothing here to be happy about! Why do I have to become on of your worshippers?! This has to be some kind of punishment game!”
In the end, I gave all of the money I made as an advisor to Aqua.
After learning that Aqua had used her reward from the Kowloon Hydra hunt along with all of her usual savings to fund the festival, my sense of guilt was overflowing.
I helped rebuild the dilapidated church too. This should cancel out my role of scheming behind the scenes… I thought.
“Heheh, I see now, you’re just being a tsundere again. Kazuma’s a tsundere, so I should just hear the opposite of what you say, right? It’s like Cecily said. You’re a giant tsundere so whenever you say something mean I should just flip it around.”
“I hate both you and that woman.”
“…Why is it that I don’t feel any of the charm of a tsundere from you?”
Aqua sat down before me, then suddenly tilted her head and asked a question.
“Oh, right. Kazuma, there’s something I want to ask you. I heard Eris appeared during the beauty pageant, do you know where she went? Sheesh, she’s just too much. She went through all of the trouble of coming down here and didn’t even greet me. She’s so heartless towards her senpai.”
Even though she caused so much trouble for Eris, she still prided herself as a senpai. Feeling slightly impressed, I stood up from the sofa and picked up Emperor Zell, who was still sticking to Vanir’s empty shell.
I thought everything had been resolved, but I forgot that I still hadn’t decided on what to do with this little guy.
Wasn’t there a way to use this chick with great magical power?
“Hey, you’ll suffer in the future if you keep treating Emperor Zell so roughly, you know. When he grows up, I won’t stop it if it attacks you.”
“Okay, then I’ll finish him off while he’s still small.”
“…Don’t worry, Emperor Zell is kind and magnanimous, you don’t need to be afraid… Hey, Emperor Zell, come over here. This guy is as scary as the butcher on the third street, you need to be careful.”
What, now I was a butcher?
Emperor Zell returned to the empty shell and idly lay down.
“*Sigh*… And the work was finally done, too… I should be thankful that Eris-sama manifested, but the sudden influx of tourists was overwhelming…”
Darkness, who had been busy with lordship duties, rubbed the sides of her head.
“Good work. Being a lord must be hard. And hey, Eris-sama manifesting may have brought in a ton of tourists from all sorts of cities, but that’s helped improve the economy. Isn’t that a good thing?”
“I suppose it’s good that there’s so many people, but… Well, my father started to recover during the festival. Those troubling lordship duties are finally over as of today, so from now on I can go on quests without reservations.”
“Huh? What’re you talking about, don’t you know that I’m not doing any of those anymore? There’s finally no more reasons I should, after all. If I wanted money I could just use my Cooking skill to open up a restaurant with cute waitresses and cater to my hobbies and make a profit at the same time. I don’t need to go on quests anymore, right, Aqua?”
“That’s right. I want to focus on educating Emperor Zell right now, so forget about quests. I used all of the money from Kazuma to rebuild the church, to fund next year’s festival, and on the banquet. From now on, I’ll be living leisurely off of Kazuma’s money, so I won’t be taking any dangerous quests. Yes, I want to live idly in this mansion everyday and be worshipped during the annual festival.”
Aqua was agreeing with me, but…
“… Hey, wait, why do I have to spend money on you? I don’t mind covering food expenses, I guess, but at least earn your own allowance… And wait, did I hear that right? You’ve already spent all of the money I gave you?”
“Yup, all of it. And don’t worry about my allowance, I’ve thought up my second and third new money-making schemes.”
……
“You were so enthusiastic during the festival… And Aqua, I heard that. What are these two money-making schemes? Tell me before you do anything.”
“Nope.”
…Covering her ears, Aqua pretended not to hear Darkness’ inevitable lecture.
I caressed Emperor Zell in my palm as I watched them.
Meanwhile, Megumin came down from the second floor in a one piece dress.
Seeing the usual quarrelsome scene, she smiled happily and sat down beside me.
“It’s too bad. The festival finally came, but in the end nothing fun happened. It was just noisy like always, and then it was over. Oh well, I guess that’s normal for us.”
“It really is. A festival should be a merry, noisy place where you have fun, that’s what sets the mood. Something as sad as fighting monsters during a fireworks display should never happen. I wish the festival was a little longer. At the very least, I’d like a proper fireworks display.”
Remembering the nice mood we had back at the fireworks display, I felt extremely unlucky and cracked a joke.
Looking at me like this, Megumin laughed happily.
“…That’s right, it’s Kazuma’s birthday. I’ll have to give you a birthday present.
“I’m fine with anything. But to be honest, I’m kind of worried about what you’ll give me. Don’t be like Aqua and give me some strangely shaped rock, okay?”
Hearing this, Megumin suddenly drew closer and whispered into my ear.
“Could you come to my room tonight? I have something important to tell you.”
