Chapter 59: The Struggling Past Life
Author: Geraint
Date Posted: May 23, 2024 Thu @8:00AM
Since I'm the one who broke the crystal, I paid the damaged item with my own pocket money. Everyone was shock with the scene they saw in my past life and they can't believe just absurd it was for me to do those stunts in real life.
"That was dangerous, Haru-kun! How did you ended up doing those things?" Yunyun asked while shaking me desperately.
"It was my desperate times in my past life. I'm very in need of money that I'll do anything risky just earn a lot. My wages in my part-time jobs are not enough to support my little sister's hospital bills and Big sister's tuition fee. My biggest problem was our parent's large amount of debt they left us after they died in airplane crash. Fortunately, I was able to overcome all those problem but I ran out of luck and crashed by a truck then I arrived here."
"Wait, Haru! If you came from Japan just like me, what cheat item did you get?" Kazuma curiously asked me.
"Nothing really, but Goddess Eris gave me this." I showed everyone my flip phone.
"An old model phone? What can it do?"
"I can access the internet in our old world. I can use it to search any cooking recipes that I want. Amazing, right?"
Kazuma was staring to me with squinted eyes and he was disappointed.
"How can you defeat the Demon Lord with that thing?"
"I want to ask you the same thing. Can that blue thing even defeat the Demon Lord?" I pointed at Aqua beside him.
"You're right. I'm starting to regret that I chose her."
Aqua got mad and spoke a lot of things that made me and Kazuma covered our ears. Since the duel between Yunyun and Megumin didn't produce any results, it ended up in a draw and Megumin was fine with it while Yunyun was unhappy.
"I am not a kid that will hold a grudge against this kind of thing." Megumin followed.
"Right, we once promised to see who grew up faster. Since you said you are not a kid, we can have a match on that." Yunyun pointed, wanting a different match for duel.
"When I said I am not a kid, I meant something else. That's because..." Megumin grinned then she pointed her hand to Kazuma, "I am so close to Kazuma that we even shared the same bed."
"-Wait!" Kazuma was surprised with her words and everyone looks at him like some kind of trash especially, Kurumi and Shiori who thinks Megumin was a little girl.
"Ara~, did I hear that correctly?"
"Seriously?"
Yunyun blinked twice then she screamed in surprise.
"Eh?!!"
Kazuma grabbed Megumin and pulled both side of her mouth.
"What are you talking about?! This big mouth of yours! Are you trying to spread humors with it?!"
"Hey, Megumin! May I ask how does it feel from your first time? Does it really hurt at first?" Yunyun asked as Kazuma and Megumin halted their argument and glanced at her.
"What are you talking about?" Megumin looks puzzled.
"Huh? Did you just told me that you had sex with Kazuma?"
"Sex?!!" Megumin became flustered, hearing the word.
"I just want to know how it feels when you did it with him. Just reference for me in the future. Haru-kun might..." Yunyun fidgeted and became embarrassed, gazing to me.
Megumin became nervous because Yunyun got the wrong idea and she's now reaping what she sow.
"Yunyun, when she said that she slept with Kazuma doesn't mean she did it with him. You're just thinking too advance and you've got the wrong idea. They just sleep together in the same bed but nothing happened."
"Eh?!" Yunyun's face became beet red.
Megumin covered her face with her witch hat and she hid behind Kazuma in embarrassment.
"If it just sleeping together, aren't we already doing that a lot everytime I visited your room?"
"Unlike Megumin, you have Shizu-nee and Lolisa who can talk these kind of topics without getting embarrass since they are already adults inside. It seems like they already taught you a lot of things."
"We just love talking about you, Haru-kun."
"Please spare me on that." I don't want to think about their topic about me.
"Yunyun, you shameless girl! I won't forget this!" Megumin burst out and ran out of the shop while crying.
"Megumin, wait!" Yunyun called her but Megumin already left.
"What's with her? We haven't settled out match yet. I don't know who won."
"Next time you meet up her, don't ask about it anymore."
"Eh? Why?"
"It's already your victory. Don't hurt her self-esteem more than you already did or she won't be friends with you anymore."
"What?! I have to apologize--" Yunyun was shock.
"Don't do that also. You'll just make it more worse."
"Then what am I going to do?!" she felt like she's in difficult situation.
"When she calms down, try inviting her to our house and play games with her."
"Ah, I'll do that! Thanks, Haru-kun!"
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After showing Shiori and Kurumi around the town, we back home when I saw Fuyumi with her mother, practicing shooting energy arrows to a dummy target. Shizu-nee showed it to her first and she hits a bullseye. Fuyumi did it next and focused in aiming her bow then she stumbled backwards when she released her energy arrow.
"Kyah!"
Her energy arrow completely missed the target dummy and turned to the sky until falls down.
"Huh?"
The energy arrow was halted by my infinity before it hits my head. It must be coincidence that it fell on my head.
"I'll try again, Mama." Fuyumi looks determined. She aimed again and shot energy arrow but it missed the target dummy again then it turned towards the sky. Light was falling above me and it was Fuyumi's energy arrow and it stopped above my head again.
"Fuyumi-chan, you aren't doing it on purpose, right?"
"What are talking about, Haru-kun? Fuyumi is trying her best to hit the target." Shizu-nee said as Fuyumi shot another arrow but she made a mistake because her hand already hurts from practicing and she fell to the side with the energy arrow launching towards me.
"Again?"
I immediately clapped my hands and swapped places with the target dummy and the arrow hit the bullseye in the dummy.
"Yay! Fuyumi-chan finally did it!" I grabbed Fuyumi and raised her up, spinning her around. She looks unhappy because there was intervention from me.
"The Arata bloodline will continue with you. Please don't become clumsy just like your mother."
"Hey!" Shizu-nee pouted and she got mad of me.
"Everyone, snacks are ready!"
Belfast and Little Bel brought us some snacks in the basket and it was sandwiches with different flavors that we can choose from and Little Bel poured us some tea that we drank and it was really good. My everyday was been peaceful until the next day, Yunyun asked me to accompany her to the adventurer's guild in the evening and it became very noisy. It seems like Kazuma and his party investigated a new passage in a conquered dungeon and they acquired some few treasures in it and now, they are treating every adventurers in the guild some booze.
Right now, I wearing a pitch black sunglasses so people won't call me weird for wearing a blindfold. Yunyun went to the counter and bought a lot of foamy beer then she went to Megumin's table and challenge her into another duel.
"Megumin! It is such coincidence to meet you here. Just the right time." Yunyun placed down the cups of beer in the table. "I'll challenge you to these drinks today!"
Megumin has been tempting to drink some beer but she was always stopped because of her young age but now, she was happy accept the challenge.
"Alright, I accept--"
"Gutter Belt!"
The blonde adventurer who's name I didn't want to know have been the harassing the waitresses got hit in the face and crashed to Yunyun and Megumin's table and their food and drinks got wasted.
"Drink till you drop today!" Aqua announced, drinking beer while performing party tricks.
"Psssst! Haru!"
Chris who's panties has stolen by Kazuma was calling out for me.
"Hm?" I went towards her and she brought me to a table in the corner and we sit together and she gave me a cup of beer.
"Eris, is there something you want to say--"
Chris suddenly placed her index in my lips and I was unable to finish my sentence. I don't know why she looks unhappy of me.
"You're supposed to add 'Senpai' in my name."
"Eris-senpai?"
"Yeah, that's good." she looks very happy now when I called her that with her real name.
"The higher ups has chosen you to become god and they left you in my care. That's why, I'm your senpai now and my job is to teach you how to become a proper deity." she pointed to me.
"Now, prepare yourself, Haru. I will make you do some of my work here in this world."
"Huh?"
"It's not really that hard. We just have to collect some artifacts that left by those who reincarnated here and seal it."
"You mean, those cheat items?"
"That's right, it would be really bad if it gets stolen by someone and used it to harm other people."
"Okay, I'll bring it to you if I found some."
"Hehe... as expected from Kouhai-kun. You're easy to talk to. Anyway, can I look on your adventurer's card? I just want to see your current skills."
"Sure."
When I gave her my card and she looked at it, her face suddenly became pale and her jaw dropped.
"What's with those skills?! Are you aiming to become God of Curses? No, you're already the God of Curses!"
"It can't be helped. Those are the skills I've got from my luck."
Eris sighed, giving back my Adventurer's card.
"Well, as long as you don't associates yourself with demons. You'll be fine... or do you want to become a Dark God?"
"Don't worry, I won't." I sipped on my beer.
"Okay then, I'll teach you the skill on how to seal artifacts next time we meet."
"Could I just learn it from Aqua?"
"Well, you can but she will found out about you and she will also make you call her senpai. Do you want that?"
"Nah, I'll abstain."
"From now on, please take care of me, Kouhai-kun." she wrapped her arm around my neck and she grinned.
"Me too, Eris-senpai."
I just decided to accept it since I indebted to them with my current life here with Yunyun and my siblings.
(To be continued.)