Winning condition:
Our winning condition is Darkness stopping her marriage without shaming her own family. Our fail condition is either Darkness getting married or her family getting a bad reputation. Now there are numerous method I can do to make this work.
From the easiest to the hardest solution:
One: Assassinate Alderp's son and get rid of the evidence.
Two: Convince Alderp's son to stop the marriage by using succubus mind tricks.
Three: Convince Darkness's father to stop the marriage with succubus mind tricks.
Four: Convince Darkness's father to stop the marriage for her daughter's happiness.
Five: Convince Alderp's son to stop the marriage without succubus mind tricks.
Six: Assassinate Darkness's father and fake his will.
Seven: Propose and marry Darkness myself.
Hmm, all this solution is appealing, but you know what? I prefer a more permanent solution so we'll go with either third, fourth, sixth, or seventh. Now, the seventh solution is too hard for me to bear so we'll have to consider between sixth, fifth, third, and fourth solution.
"Alright everyone I've narrowed down the available plan," I said on our way to Darkness's home.
"What is it Kazuma?" Aqua asked from the other side of the carriage..
"You see, if we just stop Alexei's proposal, more will keep coming," then I turned to Darkness sitting next to me. "Now, I have a bunch plans to make this work. If the first doesn't work we'll go with the other,"
"What's the first plan?" Darkness asked.
"It's simple, we'll just have to convince your father that you don't want to get married, for the sake of your happiness. We'll tell him that you already have friends and an aspiring career as an adventurer here in Fantastic Dreamer."
Aqua and Darkness nodded in agreement.
"Now, if that didn't work, I can assassinate your father and fake his will so thaAAAA," Darkness caught me in a headlock and start strangling me. "J-joking! Jhocking, Dhack nass…"
It was the resident goddess that rescued me from her death grip. "Darkness, Kazuma, you're killing Kazuma!"
"Don't joke like that!" Darkness exclaimed before letting me go.
Well, I was half joking, I was just curious if her masochistic tendencies makes her feel pleasure out of grief from losing her loved ones. Apparently that's not the case and my poor neck paid the price for it. "Yeah, I was just joking," I told her.
"But still, if we can't convince your father by words, I will have to resort to succubus magic," I explained to her. "Either that, or simply have Alderp's son cancel the proposal, but that's not a permanent solution."
Darkness sighed a little. "Right, then, how are you going to do that?"
"All within my plan… Megumin, we're almost at the location…"
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For this plan to work, Megumin and Yunyun will infiltrate the mansion earlier than us. They will hide in the shadows, spying at everything. Yunyun knows the spell that can turn both her and Megumin invisible and I have a psychic connection with Megumin.
Yeah, I'm going all out in this.
"Lord Dustiness is approaching the front door. Yunyun is stationed on the garden beside the fish lake. There's no sign of virgin Walther, you're all the first to arrive,"
The door opened, revealing an old man who looked old enough to be my grandfather. He looked at her daughter with a joyful look on his face.
"Is this true? Are you really fine with this, Lalatina? Are you willing to seriously consider this matchmaking session?"
Lord Dustiness led us into the mansion excitedly. The inside is what you'd expect from a noble's residence. Antique furniture, expensive paintings, marble floor, and more fancy stuff.
"It's true, dear father. Lalatina wants to try it."
Did she just refer herself in third person? Is that the norm around here? And holy hell, does she looked so embarrassed to be called Lalatina.
"Hey, hey, Kazuma, she called herself Lalatina," Aqua said, holding back her laughter.
"Behave Aqua, at least she didn't call herself Chomsuke…"
A picture of Chomsuke bowing in front of Megumin saying 'It's true dear mother, Chomsuke wants to try it' appeared in my mind. We lowered ourselves and tried desperately to hold back a laughter.
When Darkness's dad saw us like this, he felt a bit suspicious. We quickly stood up and put an flat expression.
"Lalatina, who are these two guests?"
Hearing him ask this, Darkness extended his hand towards Aqua and me.
"These two are my adventuring companions. For this matchmaking session, I wish to employ them as a temporary butler and maid to join me for the event."
Her dad frowned and seemed uneasy about this.
"Um, about that…"
No can do old man.
I stepped forward and bowed respectfully in front of the dustiness.
"Pleased to meet you. I'm adventurer Satou Kazuma, I've been in the care of Lady Lalatina. If the matchmaking's a success, we probably won't be able to meet Lady Lalatina because of our difference in status. I know we're flaunting the rules a little, but for this very last moment, we wish to stay by Lady Lalatina's side, and see for ourselves if we can entrust our important companion to the groom."
"Fucking nailed that one!"
"I think I can do it better,"
A couple of maids came towards us. They both wore the classic black and white maid uniform and politely bowed in front of us. The older of the two has dark gray hair and the younger has black hair. Both has beautiful and petite figure.
"Please follow us, honored guest,"
"The gray haired one is Sally, the black haired one is Ellie, they're sisters. They came from the countryside where…"
"No need to go that detailed, just name is alright,"
The maids led us to a plain looking but fancy waiting room. The youngest served us tea and told us to wait before leaving us alone in this room.
Aqua and I sat down in front of each other. The goddess tried to sip on the tea, but her hand accidentally touched it, purifying the tea into hot water.
"So, Megumin, where are you anyway?"
I suddenly felt a pressure in front of me. It felt like a kid just sat on my lap.
"Where do you think?" the invisible Megumin asked with a teasing tone.
"Got it, let's not escalate this,"
We waited obediently for a while, but eventually got bored. I stood up from my position and Megumin seemingly vanished from existence.
Aqua and I wandered around the meeting room, picking up and observing the decorations. I don't have an eye for appraising things, but some of these look expensive.
Then I noticed a painting that looked like it was made by a child. I took a closer look at it and narrowed my eyes in distaste.
Aqua come up towards me. "Kazuma, you really like graffiti huh?"
"No, I'm just contemplating just how low art has fallen with the appearance of these 'modern art'. You've heard of a banana that became an art form right? I don't know much about this world, but I'm hoping that it won't fall that low…"
"That… Right…" Aqua looked at the painting once again. "You're right, this is a bad painting, why are they showing it off anyway?"
"Sorry for the wait, you… Hey Kazuma, that's a painting of my father by me when I was young. Father really likes this painting, so he hung it here to show it off to the guests. Don't stare at it, it makes me feel embarrassed…"
I turned towards her. "Aqua and I were just discussing that this is a horrible painting. You should ask your father to take it down."
"Kh… Kazuma… Are you really going to abuse me at every opportunity? I don't really mind, this is just not the time and place…"
As soon as she said that, the maids from earlier came in with a butler and maid uniform.
"Kazuma san, I've brought you your uniform,"
I received the clothes from the maid and followed her into the dressing room next door. Yeah, it fits perfectly.
I straightened my tie and nodded at the maid.
"It fits perfectly, thank you Sally san,"
The maid blushed a little and looked down.
"Thank you, Kazuma san…"
When I stepped out of the dressing room, I saw Aqua already in her maid uniform. Her beautiful literally goddess figure makes her look like a perfect picture of a maid. Especially in that innocent and obedient pose of her.
Now all she has to do is to keep her mouth shut.
"Ne, Kazuma, how do I look? It fits me well isn't it? Ara, you look good Kazuma, like a try hard butler that gets bullied by his mean mistress and cries at the corner of the room.
And she ruined it…
I smacked her in the head, before turning to Darkness. "Alright Darkness, we are ready!"