Kazuma Sato smiled confidently, but... this feels soft, not like the hard, cold feel of a wooden cane. What is this?

Huihui blushed, already feeling a bit aroused. She felt a chill, as if she were using the toilet on a winter night. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she squatted down, covering her skirt.

Kazuma Sato looked at the elastic black cloth in his hand. The textile technology of this other world was already almost as advanced as that of modern civilization!?

This is... an eight-strand lace trim, with added nylon and cotton fiber materials.

Uh, Sato Kazuma looked at Megumin with an embarrassed expression. He couldn't understand if there was something wrong with his skill. Was there a bug in the range detection for stealing items?

Did he learn a useless skill that could even damage his reputation?

"What happened... Did you change from an adventurer to a pervert after leveling up...?" Huihui lowered her head shyly and stretched out her hand: "Um... it feels chilly, please give me back my fat toy."

"Kazuma...you!!" Aqua stared at Kazuma Sato in shock. Had this man finally awakened?!

After gaining power in another world, has he finally been unable to suppress his true nature?!

"Strange, this is so strange. How could this happen? It shouldn't be like this... This should be a skill that randomly steals something!!" Sato Kazuma looked at the relic in his hand with confusion and frustration.

Darkness sternly rebuked Kazuma Sato for his monstrous behavior, but then excitedly opened her arms and pleaded with him:

"Please make sure to add me to your team."

“I refuse…” Kazuma Sato was adamant, not wanting his team to become a gathering place for problem children.

Fortunately, Kazuma is the squad leader. If Aqua had been the leader, then... it would have been a disaster.

Upon hearing this, Darkness let out a soft cry, as if she had suffered a severe blow to both her body and mind. She staggered back a few steps, then inexplicably became excited again.

Kazuma Sato couldn't understand why Darkness was acting so strangely, getting excited just because he had refused to join the team...?

"That Kazuma, is she the one you mentioned yesterday who came for an interview when Megumin and I went to take a shower?" Aqua asked Darkness curiously.

Megumin and Aqua stared in surprise at Darkness's adventurer card.

They believed that their current squad had no reason to refuse Darkness, a high-ranking professional.

Darkness is a Crusader Knight, possessing high defense and high physical attack, making her a pure front-line tank with an extremely tough build.

Even without her precious metal armor, her physical toughness was astonishing, comparable to that of Hercules.

Kazuma Sato looked at Megumin and Aqua with a headache as the two of them started discussing things together.

Once most people wanted Darkness to join the team, it became difficult for him to refuse her.

He decided to try a different approach, to force Darkness to give up on joining his team.

He told Darkness that joining his squad was dangerous, the kind where you had a slim chance of survival, a suicide squad.

His goal, along with Aqua's, is to defeat the Demon King.

“That’s right. Especially Darkness, as a female knight. If you were captured by the Demon King’s army… that would be terrible! You would definitely be treated very badly. Do you understand?” Kazuma Sato looked at Darkness seriously.

Hearing her own words, her next reaction would probably be—[What!? Such a dangerous team? You guys are overestimating yourselves. I...I think I'll switch to another team or something.]

The Demon King… that’s incredibly unfair treatment.” Darkness swallowed hard, her starry eyes fixed intently on Kazuma Sato, and said decisively, “Yes, that’s right. I understand what you’re saying.”

From a very long time ago, the female knight's job has been set up to do all sorts of outrageous things for the Demon King.

That alone is enough reason to go!

Kazuma Sato scratched his ear. "Eh...what? Are you serious?"

"What's wrong? Did I say something strange?" Darkness tilted her head and asked.

"Never mind... we'll talk about this person later." Kazuma Sato looked at Megumin, taking this opportunity to eliminate two problem children at once. "Megumin, listen up. Our opponent is the Demon King. We're going to challenge the strongest being in the world."

You don't have to force yourself to stay in our team...

The strongest...the strongest being? Megumin stood up angrily and shouted, "My name is Megumin, the number one mage of the Crimson Demon Clan, and also the master of Explosion Magic!"

The one who manipulates. The Demon King dares to ignore me and claim to be the strongest.

I will use my strongest magic to destroy this being, just as you see.

The strongest, which aroused Huihui's indomitable spirit.

Excessive treatment turned on Darkness.

Kazuma Sato, filled with immense pain and despair, watched the exhilarated Megumin and the overjoyed Darkness. It was all over...

What should I do? What should I do now? My words only made them more agitated.

This time, we're truly at our wits' end.

Just then, Aqua tugged at Kazuma Sato's sleeve, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "After hearing what Kazuma said, I'm a little nervous... Is there an easy way to defeat the Demon King?"

"You should be the one cheering up the most. In fact, you're the one most involved in this." Kazuma Sato looked at the useless goddess Aqua with a headache. Why was it that Aqua, who wanted to return to the heavens and had to defeat the Demon King, was panicking?

The correct answer has been revealed.

Next up is punishment play, followed by reward play time!

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Bless this beautiful world.

Chris took a deep breath, watching with smug satisfaction as Sato Kazuma looked humiliated. He'd bullied the goddess and now she wanted to run away:

"Looking back now, I realize Zhenzhen really deserved it! She had to take advantage of my fat to extort money from me. It was just too much!"

"Hehehe." Darkness smiled at her good friend Chris. "Luckily, Kazuma offended kind-hearted Chris. If it had been Ishtar, Meltlilith, BB, Sesshouin Kiara, or Kama's Fat Ti..."

Kazuma, he's probably been melted into dust by now.

She was actually quite unhappy with Kazuma Sato's behavior. What she was unhappy about was that Megumin and Chris had both experienced having their relics stolen by Kazuma Sato.

Darkness, who was the only one who longed for this kind of play, had never experienced it.

She felt neglected.

Darkness stared at the screen with resentment, ready to see what kind of punishment those people received.

These punishments were supposed to be a completely new experience for her!

Aqua and Megumin breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the people around them didn't participate.

What rewards? All the rewards they've received so far have turned into disasters. They might as well not have any rewards at all!

They are now heavily in debt and harassed by creditors.

"Aaaaaah! Why, why was it all for nothing when I answered first?!" Duster stared at the program in anguish, at the message: "[Those who know the result are disqualified.]"

He was disqualified from the competition by the system; that's terrible.

"I want to use the rewards I get to pay off my debts! I also want to use the money I get from the rewards to go on a gambling spree at the casino."

How could a once-powerful dragon knight have become an incurable gambler? What kind of painful experiences did Dust go through to turn him into this?

No matter what world you're in, you can't be a gambler; this is an ironclad rule that every time traveler must know.

Honkai Impact 3rd and Chaldea collaboration timeline.

"Aaaaaahh ...

"I...I...Waaaaah, I actually chose the wrong answer. I actually let Ereshkigal-chan choose the correct answer."

Ji Ying, from the Ministry of Justice, sobbed, leaning against the digital screen, her lips pouting pitifully.

"It's unbelievable, how could this be a conventional plot?! Isn't this a fantasy world?! How could a modern campus romance encounter appear in a fantasy world?"

"I'm really not reconciled. Is this what they call reaping what they sowed?!"

The golden sheep silently placed one hundred million quantum coins at the door of Princess Gyobu's room, as a reward for her help to Ereshkigal.

This time, it didn't carry the Holy Grail with it, fearing that Chaldea might become a singularity again.

"Waaaa, waaaa, I chose the right one! I'm going to get the prize...!" Ereshkigal hugged the Fujimaru Ritsuka body pillow tightly in his arms, his starry eyes sparkling with countless Fujimaru Ritsuka images, and his golden twin tails stood up excitedly.

"What kind of prize could it be...? What kind of prize could it be! Is it a prize that will keep Master in the Underworld forever, or...!"

Ereshkigal envisioned an incredibly beautiful scene: she was wearing a wedding dress in the style of the underworld, walking hand in hand with Fujimaru Ritsuka on the carpet of the Cathedral of the Underworld, surrounded by countless spirits showering flowers down from the sky.

Ishtar, Gilgamesh looked on with envy as he and his master became husband and wife.

"I was able to win the prize and choose the right question, all thanks to Princess Osakabe's hint!"

Just then, a huge hole appeared in the pitch-black sky of the underworld, and endless seven-colored light poured down. Dozens of holy chalices, golden apples, hundreds of inheritance crystals, the Fool's Chains, the Secret Stone of the Spear, the Divine Wine of the Seven, and the Heart of the Barbarian God all fell down with a crackling sound.

Another bag full of Saint Quartz fell to the ground, with tens of thousands of Saint Quartz rolling out of the bag and scattering onto the dark, damp, and cold floor tiles of the Underworld.

On the surface of the underworld, Ereshkigal sat on a sofa piled high with all sorts of precious materials.

Ereshkigal stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the golden Holy Grails falling to the ground, dozens of them scattered haphazardly, as if...

Like an empty aluminum can that someone casually throws away.

"This is...this is actually the Holy Grail!? These materials that Masters painstakingly farmed for so long are my reward...!?"

"Wow, wow, wow, there are so many Saint Quartz...!" Ereshkigal gasped for breath, hissing as she held the Saint Quartz in her hands. She could use the Saint Quartz to wash her feet.

"Master, Master...! I want to give all these things to Master, he will be very happy...! That way Master won't have to work so hard every day going to various branch singularities and branch timelines."

Then Master will have more time to spend with me! I've made such a great contribution, so I'll get a pat on the head, a hug, and other rewards..." Ereshkigal's eyes were full of stars as she lay among a pile of materials, chuckling to herself, even though this wasn't the wedding dress or wedding hall she had imagined.

But she was also very content. These things made things much easier for Master. As long as Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't have dark circles under her eyes and could show a warm smile, she was already satisfied.

"Cough cough cough..." Suddenly, Ereshkigal remembered that she was able to obtain these things thanks to Princess Gyobu's analysis and helpful hints.

"Waaaaah... If it weren't for Osakabe-chan helping me, I would definitely have caused trouble for Master again! What if the punishment... is to make me the King of Singularities, the King of Lostbelts or something? That would be terrible."

Ereshkigal conjured a sack in his hand and deftly filled it with the materials on the ground. "I'll share some with Gyoubu-chan too; this reward belongs to both of us."

What she didn't know was that Princess Osakabe was not in her castle, nor was she in her room.

Princess Osakabe is being punished—[She can't stay home and draw for three months, even if she's taking on work! No way! The Sunny, Popular Princess Makeover Project is sponsored by Emperor Nero, Young Gilgamesh, Elizabeth Gundam, and Dragon Girl Kiyohime.]

Her room was protected by a special magical barrier.

She can only sleep in her own room and cannot stay in her own room for long periods of time.

Isn't this punishment a bit too cruel for Princess Osakabe, an otaku illustrator who can't live without her home?

"Ugh, the sunlight is so blinding... Princess, I'm melting, I can't take it anymore..." Princess Xingbu walked weakly down the corridor. The blinding Antarctic sunlight during the day was making her very uncomfortable.

It was warm and comfortable sunshine... but Princess Osaka just couldn't stand it.

"Alright, alright, hurry up, it's almost breakfast time. Don't you want to have breakfast with Master?" Kiyohime urged Osakabehime with a smile.

"Little Kiyohime... I really admire you for getting up so early every day to have breakfast with Master." Osakabe-hime said weakly, feeling so sleepy and tired.

She didn't want to move at all. Usually at six o'clock in the morning, she would still be fast asleep in bed, hugging her pillow, with drool drooling from the corner of her mouth.

She is a nocturnal creature; only the night belongs to Princess Osakabe.

Inside the Chaldea restaurant.

Theresa proudly stood with her hands on her hips, enjoying the nursery rhyme, the adoring gazes of little Joan of Arc, little Sesshouin Kiara, little Artoria, little Senko Muramasa, and young Achilles.

"Wow, Theresa is so amazing... She guessed it right! You even guessed such a difficult question. You're just like the protagonist in a fairy tale." Tongyao smiled sweetly. In front of her was breakfast—omelets made by Emiya's mother, sweet soy milk, and fruit chocolate cookies.

"Mmm... I wonder what the reward is. I want a pair of shoes that can run really fast, but I didn't have time to answer first." Young Achilles held a piece of manga meat in his hand and took a big bite of it.

No wonder he was one of the most powerful heroes in Greece; he had such a great appetite even as a child.

"I want the power to punch Honkai Beasts, kick Herrschers, and villains." Little Jeanne d'Arc Alter brandished her knife and fork, gritting her teeth as she dealt with the scrambled eggs on her plate.

She was utterly humiliated by the Honkai Beasts on the Australian continent and nearly died.

"I'm also looking forward to what kind of reward I'll get. But it seems like I don't lack anything at all~~~ The world's cutest Theresa, Theresa who possesses the strongest weapon Judah, has no desires left."

Theresa spoke confidently, with strawberry cake cream smeared on the corner of her mouth; her taste was surprisingly similar to Dr. Roman's.

One is the dean, and the other is the acting director of Chaldea; they have a very good compatibility.

"Hehehe... Yes, Theresa is very cute. This is the figure and demeanor that a cute girl should have. We are already perfect, so we don't need any rewards."

Euryale and Stheno, hand in hand, approached Theresa and said, "But Theresa, don't you want to find love? Don't you want to meet a boy who can make your heart flutter?"

"No need! Marriage and future boyfriends are all matters I'll decide for myself. I'll only give my rewards to lovely children. Of course, if the prize is a new dessert made with bitter melon, that's fine with me too!"

Theresa spoke confidently, puffing out her chest proudly. She was in control of her own destiny; whether it was the captain or her future lover, she would decide once she met them.

It makes the other party fall for it quickly.

Failure is impossible, nothing can go wrong; the world's cutest Theresa doesn't have that in her dictionary.

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