Me, a priest? How could that be!

Chapter 27 An Epic Meeting with the Foolish Goddess

Kazuma Sato has been having some troubles lately.

Two and a half months have passed since I was reincarnated into another world, and I am getting further and further away from my goal of becoming an adventurer, making a lot of money, and reaching the pinnacle of life.

Do you know how he spent the last two and a half months?! He worked as a construction worker, slept in stables, and had to outwit and outmaneuver a stupid goddess. If he wasn't careful, he would have gotten into big trouble.

He was wrong.

He was really wrong.

I shouldn't have agreed to reincarnation in the first place. If I hadn't reincarnated, I wouldn't have taken Aqua, that troublemaker, with me in a fit of anger. And if I hadn't taken Aqua, that troublemaker, I wouldn't have wasted so much time working as a construction worker.

After finally making up her mind to take the adventure, she encountered an extremely dangerous beginner assassin as soon as she left the city. Luckily, Aqua unleashed a burst of power and punched it, otherwise she might have been dead.

Since then, Kazuma Sato has realized that there are limits to going it alone, and he must form a team. However, after finally forming an adventurer team, the members turned out to be more and more eccentric than the last.

"Kazuma, I'm talking about Kazuma!"

Aqua kept chattering away, making my head buzz.

"what?"

Kazuma Sato rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"I mean, should we take on a high-paying and easy job today? I haven't been making much money lately, I can't even afford bubble tea anymore. At this rate, I might as well become a construction worker."

"Then you should become a construction worker."

He pursed his lips.

Do you really think there are missions with high bounties and easy tasks?

You should know that the higher the bounty, the stronger the monster. These few oddballs simply can't do it.

However, the biggest problem with this team is that even though he is in charge, the problem children in the team don't listen to him.

"I think it's a good idea, I think it's a good idea!! Let's do the quest to hunt down the One-Hit Bear today! I heard that the Beginner Killer was roaming the plains, but after searching for a long time, I heard that it had already been hunted down. What a pity!"

The one speaking was the Crusader from the squad.

Darkness.

Honestly, she herself is regrettable enough.

I agree.

The one echoing her was the team's archmage, Megumin from the Crimson Demon Clan, who was striking a pose with one hand on her chin and the other covering her eyes.

"A mere beginner killer will only be reduced to ashes when it comes into contact with my Explosion Magic! It's a pity I had something to do that day. Hmm, what a pity."

You used Explosion Magic this morning, which depleted your magic and stamina, so there's nothing you can do, you chuunibyou girl?

Kazuma Sato rolled his eyes.

"Listen up, all I want to do as an adventurer is live a comfortable and carefree life, so I will absolutely not hunt monsters like the One-Hit Bear, the Dire Wolf, or the Beginner Killer!"

"But novice assassins are usually accompanied by weak monsters, such as goblins and kobolds. If you're not careful, you might..."

"Maybe?...Hey, what's wrong with 'maybe'? Keep going!"

Seeing that Huihui suddenly stopped talking, Sato Kazuma asked her anxiously.

He turned his head away.

But then they saw the Archmage from the Crimson Demon Clan staring wide-eyed in utter astonishment at the Adventurers' Guild in the distance...

"Wow, such powerful magic!"

"magic?"

Sato Kazuma was slightly puzzled and followed the gaze to the union. As always, the sky was clear and cloudless, completely unlike the dark and stressful atmosphere depicted in the manga.

"Megumi, if you're going to be a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) type, you can talk about it

"It's true!"

Aqua suddenly exclaimed in surprise, and Sato Kazuma looked at her and gave a speechless twitch of his lips.

This silly goddess put her hands in an OK shape over her eyes. In other situations, doing this might be praised as cute and playful, but right now, all I can say is that she's just making trouble.

"What are you doing."

"Of course, it's about the magic power. Kazuma, if Megumin hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have noticed it with my Goddess Eyes. This magic power is extraordinary!"

She had a serious expression on her face.

Kazuma Sato sighed deeply, then looked at Darkness in the squad.

"Me? Unfortunately, I can't see it."

Thankfully, we can't see it.

Otherwise, there would be reason to suspect that these two guys were deliberately playing a trick on him.

However, after asking around, I learned that Megumin has eyes that are extremely sensitive to magic, like those of the Crimson Demon Clan, while Aqua has the divine eyes of a goddess.

"But how come we didn't notice before?... Oh, I remember now, Aqua didn't notice before, Megumin was just lying around at the inn and didn't come to the guild."

Sato Kazuma made excuses.

"Kazuma Kazuma."

"Yes, I am Kazuma."

"Aren't you interested in this being? This immense magical power is even more outrageous than Megumin's; it might belong to some powerful individual."

"Don't mess around! Someone this powerful appearing in the newbie village—it's obvious there's something they're up to. I don't want to be walking alone at night, getting shot eight times in the back, and ending up dead!"

however.

If problem children listened, they wouldn't be called problem children.

"Huihui, let's go take a look!"

"oh!"

The two of them took the lead and ran towards the union.

Darkness, watching Sato Kazuma clench his fists as if about to explode, said hesitantly, "Actually, I'm quite interested too. If that person could use this magic to properly toy with... no, fight me, that would be amazing! Ha... ah... ha!"

That's enough!

He really couldn't take it anymore.

To prevent those two idiots from doing anything bad, Kazuma Sato had no choice but to follow them.

After joining the union.

They were huddled in a corner, acting suspiciously; they didn't look like good people at all.

"You guys are doing this..."

"Keep quiet and be truthful! Don't alert them!"

Kazuma Sato, who was forcibly pressed into his seat, saw a man dressed in a priest's robe in the direction they were pointing.

The other person was lying on the table, hiding their face in the crook of their arms, seemingly resting with their eyes closed.

Darkness let out a soft "hmm".

"That person is...."

"Do you know him?"

"Should I say I know him, or should I say I once thought he was a like-minded person...?"

"S-Same thing!?"

Kazuma Sato swallowed hard. He knew exactly what kind of games the perverted female knight liked, but as for the so-called like-minded people, who knew…

"Wait a minute, you said you once thought?"

"Ah. But Chris later told me that wasn't the case, which disappointed me for quite a while."

"What? It's a misunderstanding."

He was relieved that he hadn't left a bad impression, and at the same time, he subconsciously warned, "Aqua, don't do anything reckless... Where's Aqua?"

"Over there."

Following the direction Megumin was pointing, I saw that Aqua had already gone there.

Aqua, you bastard!

Kazuma Sato didn't stop her, but instead quietly pricked up his ears and spied from a corner. Even if Aqua was scolded, it wouldn't affect him. It has to be said that he had a very clever plan.

Unsurprisingly.

It seemed like a dispute would break out very quickly.

Aqua yelled, "What kind of attitude is this? I'm a goddess talking to you, why don't you even look at me! Isn't that incredibly rude?!"

No, no, no, it's obvious that you're the one who's been bothering others for ages. You're the one who's being rude, Aqua.

"Tsk."

The man who had been called out clicked his tongue in annoyance, looked up at Aqua, and said irritably, "What do you want? Can you stop causing trouble?"

oops.

For some reason, when Sato Kazuma saw that handsome face, a flame of jealousy inexplicably rose in his heart, and he also wanted to go and cause trouble.