Just Megumin or I alone is more than enough. But since we haven't had a chance to go out today, we decided to play around for a bit. By play around for a bit, I meant playing baseball with Megumin while killing the toads.
I gripped the enchanted ball in my hand and looked at the little girl standing in front of me holding her staff. Behind her, stood Sena, staring at us like we're crazy. "Okay, you ready?"
"Ready!"
I throw the ball at her and she swung her staff with all her might.
The ball rocketed through the air like a bullet. It hits a stray frog right in the face and literally explodes on contact.
"Strike!"
"Okay, let's switch!"
"WAIT!!!" we all looked at the spoilsport that is Sena who's furiously pointing at the frog nearest to us. A certain goddess could be seen sticking out of the frog. "Y-your friend just got swallowed by a frog!"
"You okay Aqua?"
Aqua smiled proudly like she just thought up a genius plan. "Don't worry, I have this frog lulled to sleep with my bard skills!" she then took out one of her arms, showing that it's completely clean from Frog's slime. "And I've purified the frog's mouth with my brand new purification spell! Now this frog is my personal heater!"
I turned to Sena. "There you go, she's fine."
With that, we continued our game of baseball. Between Megumin's exploding ball and my fire ball, it's hard to tell which one has the upper hand. We argued about it, of course, and we didn't really stopped until almost all frogs sans Aqua's heater, was murdered.
"My explosion ball can kill two frogs in a row!"
"Well my fire ball didn't damage the frog too much, thus giving us better quality frog."
"Who would want to eat burnt frog meat?"
"Who would want to eat frog mush?"
We all turned to Sena and the woman starting to act more and more like Wiz in front of Aqua.
"Sena, you tell him/her!"
Sena shook her head. "I-I don't know? How should I know!? I don't know anything since I get this stupid job of keeping an eye on you!" she sighed and calm her breathing. "But since you insist, I'd say explosion, since our job is to kill the frogs as fast as possible, not hunt them."
Megumin pumped her fist to the air and gave Sena a thumb up. "Wise choice Sena san! Well, it's just common sense at this point. For a crimson demon such as I, no other races in this earth can beat our superior intellect and efficiency!"
Goddamn this girl, have I ever win against her?
"LIGHT OF SABER!!!"
A voice called out from the distance and what looks like a blade of light struck Aqua's heater. The frog was split in half by sheer power alone freeing Aqua and splattering frog juices everywhere.
A girl stood a top all the mess. It is a girl around Megumin's age. She has black hair and bright red eyes, unique to the Crimson Demon Clan. She even wore the same clothing as Megumin.
The girl held a silver staff in her hand, and had a short sword sheathed on her waist. She was slightly taller than Megumin, and had a slender and well endowed body. She had a determined expression and looked gentle, and she was also very beautiful.
Her expression is very calm and earnest. She gives off feelings of a model student. Almost reminding me of this studious girl who became the class president.
"Megu-"
"Give me back my Pino you murderer!!!"
Just like that, the calm and earnest look was gone. Replaced by surprise, confusion, guilt, and slight fear as our resident goddess tackled her with her slimy body.
"Wh-what? Wha?" the girl yelled as Aqua tried her best at clobbering the poor girl. Though, the poor girl was actually more worried about the frog slime. "P-Pino? Wha, no not the face! Hyaaaaaa!!"
I turned to Megumin and saw her watching the scene in front of her with a sadistic smirk. "Oi, Megumin, that's your friend right?"
"Hee? Really now? I dunno, she haven't done the Crimson Demon introduction yet," Megumin replied without taking her eyes off the tragedy in front of her. "Though, I would like to see how Aqua would fair against this mysterious girl who has mastered the advanced spell Light of Saber."
After a few minutes of yelling, splattering of frog slime, and a lot of struggling, the victor is clear. Aqua stood tall, facing the archwizard who was forced on her knees.
"Say you're sorry! Now!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for Murdering Pino!"
The girl is positively crying right now, quite possibly traumatized by the mad dog goddess.
"Again! Show me you mean it!"
"Waaaah I'm so sorry!!! I'm sorry for murdering Pino!!!"
As if the situation cannot get anymore weirder, Aqua herself started crying. She dropped down on the ground in front of the crimson demon.
"Waaah, I'm sorry to for being mad at you! I was filled with grief, even though it's not what Pino would have wanted!"
They then embraced each other in one slimy hug, grieving and comforting each other about the loss of their dearest friend.
I turned towards Megumin and saw her at a loss of words. "Well Megumin, I told you we should stop her, now the only sane person in your village has been brought down to Aqua's level," I told her, giving her my best 'I told you so' expression.
Then I turned towards potentially, the last person to have a modicum of common sense.
"No, don't me bring into this, please, I beg of you," Sena said with genuine fear of her own sanity.
After another few minutes of crying and comforting each other. Aqua and the crimson-ah, fuck it, it's Yunyun- Aqua and Yunyun let go of one another.
They stood up from their position and shook each other hand in a new found respect.
This is something that horrifies Megumin greatly.
"Ka-Kazuma… I have made a terrible mistake…" Megumin turned to me. "Kazuma, help my rival, please, I regret everything…"
Well, Main Character to the rescue! Let's see… Ah! This is a perfect chance to test out my memory magic and clean up her subconscious from the goddess's meddling.
"Megumin, I am going to teleport you, Aqua, and Yunyun to the mansion's bathroom. You will distract Aqua at the bath while I try to reverse what happened to Yunyun. Although Crimson Demons are quite resistant to mental attack, Aqua's subversion here should lower her IQ enough for me to clean her up."
With that, Megumin and I went to quick work…
No I didn't forget about Sena, I intentionally left her there because she's way, way below my priority list.