Chapter 868: Kazuma, Tell Me the Plot!
Crack!
A crisp sound rang out as the egg fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"It really was an egg!"
Looking at the egg liquid flowing out, Eiji had countless complaints he wanted to voice.
Damn it, that idiot Aqua!
"Aqua? What happened to you!"
Darkness and Megumin, who had just finished bathing and were wearing pajamas, ran out. They stared in shock at the living room stained with mud and egg liquid, Aqua lying unconscious on the floor, and Kazuma Satou wailing loudly beside her.
The two of them immediately felt a headache coming on.
Can this party ever get its act together!
...
"Sigh!"
Kazuma Satou looked haggard and let out a deep sigh.
Although he had long known that Aqua was a troublemaker, he never expected she could cause trouble to this extent!
His little savings were instantly drained again. Fortunately, his business with Barnier was still booming, so he still had a decent income.
He really wished she could learn from Mr. Barnier on how to be a proper god!
Wait, Barnier is a demon!
Damn, a goddess is actually less useful than a demon!
These days, it really feels like the world is going downhill, and the underworld is more honest!
"Sigh!"
Kazuma Satou heaved another heavy sigh, rinsed off the foam from his body, and sank into the bath.
"It's just a hundred million, why are you acting like your mother died?"
Someone had already entered the bath before him.
That body, enough to drive anyone wild—clearly defined with muscular lines, looking incredibly powerful and explosive, yet so fair and tender it made one want to touch it... Kazuma quickly shook his head, dispelling the strange thoughts from his mind.
The one soaking in the bath was, of course, his newly acknowledged boss!
"Boss, you're the Demon King. Even if you just go out to hunt monsters, you can easily earn over eight hundred million. Of course, you don't care about such a small amount, but I do! This is money I risked my life to earn, and Aqua wasted it so easily!"
Kazuma sat beside Eiji with an exhausted expression, his heart filled with envy at that moment.
Being powerful is just so good!
He heard that the boss defeated the previous Demon King to take the throne. A hundred million gone just like that, succubi taken away just like that! If only he were that strong too!
"You're my subordinate, and you're going to travel across worlds in the future. If you really care about such trivial money, I'd look down on you!"
Eiji glared at Kazuma with disdain.
Completely forgetting how he himself had been won over by the wealthy Kanata and the wealthy Nero back in the day.
"Then how about you take me traveling across worlds, boss? Let's leave tomorrow—no, let's leave right now!"
"No way."
Kazuma immediately deflated like a punctured balloon and sank into the water.
"It's not that I don't want to take you, but this matter of traveling across worlds—I can't control it myself. We have to wait until the time comes."
"I see."
Kazuma understood and felt a little better.
But he was still so envious!
The boss roams freely across various anime worlds, with the Queen of Lewd as his teacher, takes the Sword Princess as his wife, and easily wins over Wiz and Darkness.
And him?
In this garbage isekai world, stuck with a bunch of useless idiots, the money I earn gets swindled away in the blink of an eye, and my own strength is pathetic—I don't even have a decent cheat ability!
"Boss, look, I've already acknowledged you as my boss. How about hooking me up with a cheat?"
Suddenly inspired, Kazuma Satou shamelessly grinned and made the request to Eiji.
Aqua was completely unreliable!
But the boss was different!
He could travel between worlds! He even managed to get his hands on Mysterious Heroine X's Noble Phantasm—getting him a cheat should be a piece of cake, right?
"Kazuma, you know what? In the Hagun world, Touka is my senior sister. We promised to settle things in the Seven Star Sword Art Festival, but she got eliminated in the quarterfinals and never even had the chance to face me. Why do you think that happened?"
Eiji looked at Kazuma with a benevolent expression.
"Damn it, I'd love to get a few cheats for my senior sister and the others too! But I couldn't get any!"
"Ah, this..."
Kazuma Satou deflated once again.
So the boss went back to participate in the Seven Star Sword Art Festival this time—no wonder he returned wearing a school uniform. If Touka is his senior sister, he must have been representing Hagun Academy, right?
"Boss, did you win?"
"Win what?"
"The Seven Star Sword Art Festival!"
"Champion."
"Awesome!"
Kazuma Satou gave Eiji a thumbs-up.
"I remember Kurogane Ikki breaking through as a Demon King in the end was super tough to deal with—something about converging causality for victory or whatever?"
"Me too, I can do that too!"
"That's truly badass!"
Kazuma Satou immediately regarded him with newfound respect.
So the boss had broken through as a Demon King too—things like transcending fate and converging causality weren't something mere "awesome" could describe!
"By the way! I just thought of a great idea!"
Eiji suddenly slapped his forehead, visibly excited.
"Kazuma, tell me about the later plot of Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry!"
"Boss, you don't know it?"
"I forgot!"
"I see..."
Kazuma didn't question it and quickly told Eiji everything he knew about the subsequent plot.
So that's how it is! That's how it is!
Eiji was overjoyed.
Why hadn't he thought of this trick before?
Admittedly, he'd long forgotten most of the plot details, but among so many worlds, there must be some with backgrounds similar to the original works. He could totally look up the plots in those worlds!
"Speaking of which, tell me about Strike the Blood's plot too!"
"What? Boss, you've been to that world too?!"
"Pretty much!"
"That's insane! But I get what you're thinking, boss. The problem is Strike the Blood's setting is all over the place, and the plot has no memorable points. I forgot everything after watching it once, so it might not really help with your situation..."
Kazuma Satou was so envious he felt like his cells were splitting!
With the boss's strength, he might even be able to get his hands on the Fourth True Ancestor—he'll probably become way stronger soon!
"Is that so?"
Eiji muttered to himself.
"Definitely. Rakudai Kishi has a fixed cast and follows one main storyline to the end! Strike the Blood is different—it keeps introducing new characters and settings midway, just like A Certain Magical Index. You could take notes and still not understand all the settings..."
"Anything helps!"
Although he'd only come here with nothing better to do, Eiji found himself genuinely enjoying this evening. Talking with Kazuma made him set aside the burden of being a dimension traveler for the first time in a long while.
"Boss, you sleep in this room!"
After taking a bath, Kazuma Satou brought Eiji to a room.
He grinned with a lewd expression before returning to his own room to sleep.
"This room..."
Eiji murmured thoughtfully, revealing an approving smile that said "this underling really knows what's up."
He opened the door and entered.
Inside the room, a beautiful golden-haired girl lay on the bed, breathing evenly with a serene face, her long hair scattered across the pillow.
Unlike her usual annoying masochistic tendency to self-destruct at every opportunity, the sleeping girl finally resembled a true beauty.