The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

#193 - I swear on the lights

The next day, early in the morning.

When Zun Zun and Hui Hui, with a smile on her lips, appeared on the first floor of the inn, they were greeted by strange looks from their teammates.

Satou Kazuma smirked and teased, "I know you two are childhood friends with a good relationship, but shouting declarations of love so loudly at night is a bit disturbing, isn't it? The whole inn could hear you."

"N-No way, I didn't expect you guys to be that kind of relationship. You must have been doing all sorts of things last night, right? With your companions right next door, you actually… ha… ha!"

"Shut up, pervert!"

Zun Zun pushed away Darkness, whose face was flushed, and went to Youyou, who looked resentful, and said to her very seriously.

"I swear to the lamp, Hui Hui and I really didn't do anything last night!"

"…Really?"

"Really! If you don't believe me, ask Hui Hui."

She looked at Hui Hui behind her, only to find the latter grinning.

"I win."

"Waaahhhhhh——!"

Youyou threw herself into Zun Zun's arms and wept bitterly.

Satou Kazuma watched this scene and couldn't help but sigh, "So this is the depraved, incomparable love triangle, it really makes people envious… no, I mean hateful!"

He accidentally spoke his true feelings.

If Youyou didn't need comforting right now, Zun Zun would have given him a punch, telling that idiot not to make things worse.

Just as they were having breakfast.

Aqua rushed down and shouted to everyone, "This town seems to be in a dangerous crisis!"

"…Oh."

"Is that so."

"I see."

Everyone, preoccupied with their own thoughts, gave perfunctory responses.

"—Why are you all acting so indifferent!"

She stamped her feet in anger.

Satou Kazuma curled his lip, "Weren't you crying all night? Why are you suddenly saying something like that? For this town, the most dangerous thing right now is your constitution, right? You're only allowed to bathe in the open-air bath near the room! Also, Zun Zun, you promised me yesterday that we'd bathe together today!"

"…Kazuma, men who are too clingy are not likable."

"This is called persistence! Sadly, there are many people who like my type, it's just that you don't understand my charm!"

"You have the charm of a hammer."

Zun Zun rolled her eyes at him.

"Don't ignore meeeee!!!" Aqua slammed the table heavily and shouted, "Listen to me properly! I didn't purify the hot spring because I wanted to! Even Darkness's high-end bath salts in the bathroom, I put them all in the bath, and they were purified in no time!"

"Eh, did you use up all those bath salts? I just bought them from the royal capital by mail order."

"That's not important!"

The idiot goddess ignored Darkness's lament.

She used this analogy to prove her purification ability, but it took a lot of time to purify the hot spring when bathing in the Axis Church's hot spring, which means that the hot spring was quite seriously polluted.

"I heard that the quality of the hot springs is suddenly deteriorating all over this town, right? In other words, this must be the Demon King's army, who see our Axis Church as a threat and think that they can't win even if they challenge us head-on, so they came up with this trick to seize our important source of income!"

"Is that so, how scary."

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"Believe meee——"

The companions' perfunctory attitude made Aqua slam the table hard in protest.

"But, it's just that the quality of a few hot springs has deteriorated, why are you bringing up the Demon King's army or something?"

"Indeed, there are many people who can't stand the Axis Church and keep a respectful distance, but is it possible for them to do something so roundabout?"

"There are many high priests in this town, even if there is a problem with the quality of the hot springs, it will be purified quickly, right?"

Darkness, Hui Hui, and Youyou said this.

Satou Kazuma began to think.

As the headquarters of the Axis Church, Alcanretia should not be afraid of hot springs being polluted, since there are so many priests. But in the end, it was still polluted, doesn't that mean that the other party's strength is comparable to a Demon King's army executive?

The man he met in the bathhouse yesterday must be related to the Demon King's army.

What to do?

Should he tell everyone?

Just as Satou Kazuma was hesitating whether or not to tell the truth, he found Zun Zun staring straight at him, as if she had seen through him.

…Could it be?

"Zun Zun, come with me for a moment."

He forcibly grabbed Zun Zun's wrist and led her to a corner of the inn. He glanced at his companions, who were curiously looking at them, and quietly questioned her.

"You must know something, right? Is it the result of a divination?"

"…Sort of."

"Why are you being so ambiguous?"

"Actually, this time it wasn't me, but my sister who divined it. She divined this result about half a year ago, so…"

"Y-You, were you doing this on purpose!?"

Satou Kazuma's finger trembled as he pointed at Zun Zun. He seemed to understand why Zun Zun, who was initially unwilling to come here, had changed her mind in the end.

"As expected, that guy is a Demon King's army executive."

"What should we do, Kazuma? You know, the bounty for a Demon King's army executive is 400 million Eris, aren't you tempted by so much money?"

"…Don't underestimate me!"

He glared at Zun Zun angrily, but his hand held Zun Zun's arm tightly.

Hypocrite?

In short, 400 million Eris made Satou Kazuma change his flexible moral bottom line.

At this time, Aqua shouted to Hui Hui and the others.

"I will rise up to protect this town! So, everyone is willing to help me, right!"

"I still want to take a walk in the street, so no."

"I, I also want to watch Hui Hui, so, so…"

"Then I'll be with Hui Hui too."

The three refused flatly.

"Whyyyyy——"

"What are you guys arguing about!?"

Satou Kazuma came over at this time, and he shouted to the group: "There's no time to dawdle here! This town is in an unknown danger, we have to save it! Let's go, teammates!"

"…Ah, ah?"

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"Kazuma, what's wrong with you?"

Hui Hui looked stunned.

Darkness was even more surprised.

Aqua took a step back with her arms crossed: "This isn't like Kazuma at all! Clearly, his nature is to never get involved in this kind of thing, although I'm very happy that he's willing to help, but… what's going on, it feels so disgusting."

"Y-You're so noisy! Just tell me whether you want us to help or not!"

"Yes! Of course, I want you to!"

"Then what's there to say! Let's go!"

Satou Kazuma was more enthusiastic than anyone else.

First, based on Satou Kazuma's memory, Zun Zun and Aqua drew a portrait of the man they met in the bath, and the degree of completion was almost like a photograph.

After that, the group went to the Adventurers Guild, hoping that the guild could put the man on the wanted list.

And this request was rejected.

—Heard it by chance in the bath.

It is impossible to put this person on the wanted list based on this one-sided statement. In addition, they are not adventurers who are based in this town, and they are not trusted, so they cannot issue a wanted order.

Aqua also wanted to use her face to get the counter staff to agree, but she was mistaken for the second-most popular girl in the red-light district.

So funny.

Being a goddess but not the first.

It is impossible to be lewd towards her, the passive saint attribute of the goddess cannot be broken through by ordinary people.

In the end, they still succeeded in using their face.

It's just that it was Darkness's face that was used, and the counter staff exclaimed in surprise at the name of [the daughter of the chief strategist of the kingdom, Dustiness].

Satou Kazuma forced her to take out the Dustiness family's keepsake, and the counter staff hurriedly took the portraits from Aqua and Zun Zun's hands after seeing the keepsake, and immediately issued a wanted order.

"As expected of Darkness! The power of the nobility is to be abused like this, right!"

"A, Aqua! Don't say it so harshly, and say it so loudly!"

Darkness is very concerned about using the power of the nobility, but she herself hopes that other nobles will abuse it.

Zun Zun also considered whether to get a keepsake to play with. After all, sometimes using a face is not as good as a noble keepsake, especially when dealing with organizations controlled by the kingdom like the Adventurers Guild, it is even more obvious.

Ask Alice next time.

As the kingdom's most beloved princess of the six flowers, her keepsake should be enough to pretend to be a tiger.

"—Th, then!"

The counter staff was afraid of neglecting Darkness, and bowed carefully and said: "I have completed the procedure to put this man on the wanted list according to Miss Dustiness's instructions. If any information is found, we will contact the inn where you are staying!"

"Okay. Sorry, I'm counting on you."

The counter staff kept bowing to the group who walked out of the guild, causing Darkness to shrink her body apologetically.

And Satou Kazuma said behind Darkness: "Oh, right, oh, right, all the expenses spent can be reported to the Dustiness family's account."

"—!?"

Darkness widened her eyes.

After finishing this matter, on the way back to the inn.

Darkness's anger still hadn't subsided, she grabbed Satou Kazuma's collar, "You, what's wrong with you!"

"Haven't you had enough? Consider it my fault, okay! Otherwise, how about this, all the expenses for putting that man on the wanted list will be paid in full by Aqua."

"Eh, do I have to pay?"

"Your church has a problem, of course you have to pay the bill!"

"How can this be!"

Aqua wailed.

At this time, everyone realized that she was holding clay in her hands, wholeheartedly making something.

"What is that, what are you doing?"

"This? This ah… I made this by imitating the thing that Darkness just took out to show off. Look, it's exactly the same, right? As long as I have this, I can claim to be Dustiness's child at any time, no matter who I want to play with…"

Before the idiot goddess could finish speaking, Darkness snatched the clay and slammed it hard on the ground.

"Waaahhhhhh——"

She squatted down and shouted at the shattered clay.