indianbanksassociation #397 - If you hold back for a moment, you will get angrier; if you take a step back, you will lose m
#397 - If you hold back for a moment, you will get angrier; if you take a step back, you will lose m
“That's right, when I went to talk to Vanir, that guy ambushed me and kicked me from behind, and then… Ugh, it hurts!”
As Zun Zun explained why he hadn't returned for more than a month, Megumin and Yunyun, one on the left and one on the right, each plucked a strand of his hair.
“What are you two doing, taking revenge on me?”
“N-No, it's not that!”
“Do I have that much free time? It's a charm.”
Yunyun and Megumin both held up something that looked like a small sachet.
“What is this?” Aqua poked the sachet, curiously asking, “Speaking of which, Megumin, you've been making this thing these past few days, and you look so happy, what exactly is it?”
“This is a charm unique to the Crimson Demons.”
It was Zun Zun who answered her question.
At the same time, he also took out a small red and black sachet from his pocket, similar to the one Megumin sewed, except that it had a string tied to it.
“It's a Crimson Demon custom to collect the hair of companions and put it in a sachet, to be used as one's own charm. By the way, the one in my sachet is the hair my sister specially gave me before I left.”
“…I see.”
Aqua nodded silently.
One could understand her thoughts; this strong sense of déjà vu was indeed passed down from the old geezers of the Crimson Demons, and this method didn't seem like a blessing, but more like a curse.
—Collecting people's hair, buttons, and small personal items.
“Because Darkness has always been standing in front of us, we wanted to give her this tightly sewn sachet; because Aqua always helps us recover, we wanted to give you this cute sachet.”
“Zun Zun's was made by Megumin and me together.”
Both of them had smiles on their faces.
“Megumin, Yunyun…”
Darkness and Aqua were both deeply moved, and smiles appeared on their faces as well, making the relationship between the team even closer.
“Um…”
Someone kneeling in the corner subconsciously raised his hand, a forced smile on his face as he asked, “Excuse me, my sachet…”
“None.”
“Why not!?”
“Because you, Kazuma, are not our teammate.”
“Eh, since when?”
“Just now.”
Aqua, Megumin, and Yunyun ruthlessly expelled Satou Kazuma from the team.
After all, doing such outrageous things to Darkness in the mansion—even though Darkness herself had a perverted reason for seeking stimulation—Satou Kazuma's reputation was too bad.
It was like the difference between good students and bad students, especially since they were all girls who could empathize.
“Why is it like this? I've already said it wasn't my fault!” Satou Kazuma was very unhappy about being forced to admit his mistake and kneel, “Hey, you perverted female knight over there, you said it yourself that you wanted to play that kind of play, and even said you'd give me money next time?”
“Ugh… to actually make a girl admit such a thing in person… Kazuma, you really are a fiend…”
Darkness's face was flushed, as if she particularly enjoyed being humiliated and exposed in this way, and she couldn't help but twitch, which made it even harder for Satou Kazuma to defend himself.
He curled up in the corner, drawing circles.
Zun Zun helplessly spread his hands and said, “Then, what happened to you during this time? Tell me about it.”
“Ah, actually—”
First, Darkness's father was cursed, and then Alderp took advantage of the situation to demand to marry Darkness, but after Satou Kazuma arrogantly threw out 2 billion Eris, he forcibly terminated the wedding.
“Um… sorry, Zun Zun.”
“What's wrong?”
“Your savings were used to save Darkness.”
Aqua's expression was awkward, Megumin and Yunyun were also a little embarrassed, and Darkness lowered her head even more.
Zun Zun's high-level potions, skill point potions, and the savings and bounties from this period, all placed in Wiz's magic item shop, were all taken by Megumin and Yunyun to save people.
That's why there was the scene of Satou Kazuma arrogantly throwing out 2 billion Eris.
—Sorry, Zun Zun!” Darkness lowered her head deeply, and at the same time said, “I will definitely do my best to repay the money I owe!”
“What are you saying, Darkness? I'm the one who owes the money, I'll pay it back.”
“…Because I owe a lot of money, I have no choice but to submit to Zun Zun, and every night I have to accept this and that kind of training… 'Hey, do you know how much money you owe me? Hundreds of millions of Eris!'”
The perverted female knight performed as usual.
“What's going on, I suddenly regret taking the money to redeem Darkness.”
“…Me too.”
Megumin and Yunyun were both speechless.
Although it was very unlikely, if they were to add a rival to themselves because of their own reasons, they would really want to cry without tears.
Satou Kazuma also began to doubt his life, should he really have been willing to do anything for a beauty back then, especially this perverted female knight.
“Ah, is that so.”
Hearing that his savings were gone, Zun Zun said lightly, as if he didn't care at all about those hundreds of millions of Eris and bounties.
“Zun Zun, you…”
“It's just a little savings. A magic item craftsman can earn much more money than you think. Besides, Darkness is our companion, how could I possibly be stingy with this little money.”
“Zun Zun!”
Whether it was because they hadn't seen each other for a year, Zun Zun's tolerance was surprisingly high, or rather, he missed them very much after not seeing them for a year, and he was already satisfied to see them safe and sound.
“Then what about Alderp?”
“Speaking of which, the lord seems to have disappeared for some reason, and then news about all the bad things he had done quickly spread, and now Darkness's father is temporarily taking over the lord's work in Axel.”
“Is that so, it seems Vanir did do something.”
He nodded.
“…Eh?”
“What's wrong, Zun Zun?”
Darkness quickly asked. No wonder she felt a little strange, Alderp couldn't possibly disappear for no reason, unless someone made him disappear.
“Actually, I asked Vanir to take Alderp away… no, that's not accurate, after all, Alderp being taken away was an addition.”
Zun Zun spent a hundred million to have Vanir send his good friend, the true demon Maxwell, back to hell, and Alderp being taken away was entirely due to his contract with Maxwell.
“In other words, I didn't plot against Alderp, Vanir didn't harm humans, Alderp is like this entirely because he brought it upon himself, so Wiz can't pursue the matter either.”
“This is just like…”
“Exploiting loopholes.”
It was like everyone could see at a glance that Zun Zun was plotting behind the scenes, but no one could pursue him, after all, it was true that Alderp was at fault first.
“Okay, okay, don't be sad for that trash lord, isn't his disappearance a happy thing?”
“Indeed. After Alderp was gone, the residents of the town were very happy.”
“Right?”
This showed how unpopular Alderp was usually.
“Eh?” Satou Kazuma suddenly let out a soft “Eh,” curiously asking, “Zun Zun, when you left, you shouldn't have known that Alderp wanted to forcibly marry Darkness, what exactly…”
“Has Kazuma forgotten who I am?”
“Zun Zun?”
“I'm a diviner!”
It had to be said that the identity of a diviner was really very effective, no matter what you said, someone would believe it, and everything could be attributed to the identity of a diviner.
Especially with the backing of his sister-in-law, the most famous diviner in the kingdom, it was even more convenient.
“Because I saw that such a thing would happen, so I went to ask Vanir first.”
“But…”
“But that guy Vanir, in order to taste negative emotions, secretly ambushed me and sent me to another place with one kick… I will never spare that guy!”
Zun Zun said through gritted teeth.
“Wait a minute! Doesn't that mean that guy Vanir is taking from three sides at once!?”
Obviously, everyone finally understood.
Not only Satou Kazuma's intellectual property rights and sales rights, but also Zun Zun's hundred million Eris and the goods sold in the magic item shop, plus Alderp…
“Okay, let's go and讨伐that crappy demon now!”
As soon as Aqua heard that someone was scheming against her, and it was still a demon, she couldn't help but want to find the other party for a fight, but she was stopped by Satou Kazuma.
“Wait, Aqua.”
“What's wrong, Kazuma! Don't tell me you want to swallow your anger like this, don't joke around!”
“It's not that I'm not letting you cause trouble, but I'm letting you bring Zun Zun along.” Satou Kazuma held down the impatient idiot goddess's shoulders and said, “We can say that it's a failure in the transaction, and there's no way to cause trouble, but Zun Zun is different.”
“That's right. The fact that I was inexplicably sent to another world by Vanir is an undeniable fact, so he has to give me an explanation no matter what.”
“And then it's Aqua's turn to appear.”
The implication was quite obvious.
Aqua also seemed to suddenly understand and said loudly, “I understand! At that time, I will take the opportunity to make things difficult and purify that crappy demon!”
“Teachable child.”
Zun Zun nodded.
This kind of thing, the more you think about it, the more angry you get, the more you endure it, the more you lose, and no one can hold back. So everyone discussed going to cause trouble the next day. But before that—
“What's the situation with the Goddess Thanksgiving Festival?”
“That ah…”
In general, it was the usual annual Goddess Eris Thanksgiving Festival, but Aqua didn't have a Thanksgiving Festival for herself, and coupled with her jealousy of the Goddess Eris, she insisted on holding one together.
“In general, it's not bad.”
“What's not bad! In the end, Eris came forward, didn't I lose very thoroughly!?”
“Aqua, how could a goddess descend to the world.”
“Isn't I?”
“Here we go again.”
Aqua tried her best to explain, but even her own believers didn't recognize her identity as a goddess, so how could Darkness and the others recognize her?