"Waaah!!"
"Kazuma! You pervert! NEET! Pervert! Waaah!"
Aqua cried for a long time.
She wasn't reluctant to part with Kazuma, but rather that this guy actually threw her to someone else.
It made her feel like trash, leaving her incredibly aggrieved and furious.
"Only you!"
"Only you, Sato Kazuma, have no right to look down on me!"
"You're just a useless shut-in, an idiot who peed himself when a tractor scared him..."
As Aqua exposed his dark history one by one, Kazuma couldn't stay silent anymore.
This was her way of ruining his reputation even after they parted ways.
"Alright, alright."
Seeing this unfold, Rin really couldn't just watch, so he stepped forward to comfort Aqua.
In the end, Aqua still chose Rin.
There was no other way. Compared to Kazuma, Rin clearly had more hope of defeating the Demon King.
"Then, let Aqua stay with me for a while."
Although he said that, Rin knew very well that once Aqua was transferred, Kazuma definitely wouldn't care about her anymore.
"Mhm mhm mhm!"
"It's a deal! You can't go back on your word hahaha!"
Kazuma gave a quick farewell, then with surprising speed, joined a new adventurer party.
Rin was left stunned.
Good heavens.
No wonder Kazuma agreed so readily. He already had a backup plan lined up, didn't he?
Rin wasn't surprised. Kazuma was a very decisive person.
Whether the original plot's path was good or bad for him was hard to say.
Rin wasn't someone who liked taking advantage of others.
If Aqua really did choose to stay, he would also give Kazuma some compensation as proof that their ties had been cleanly severed.
As for what kind of compensation...
Didn't Kazuma want a proper cheat ability?
Then this will be Aqua's compensation to you.
Thinking that, Rin bestowed a gift upon Kazuma.
[Learning Ability]
Description: A cheat ability that allows you to copy the professional skills of the Konosuba World that you have seen.
That's right, this was the cheat ability Rin had originally received from Aqua.
With Rin's current power, analyzing the abilities granted by Heaven to reincarnators and casually creating a new one was incredibly easy.
This way...
Rin turned his gaze away from Kazuma. We're even now.
"It's just that, first Darkness, and now Aqua..."
"Why are both of the protagonist party's troublesome members ending up with me?"
Thankfully, Darkness had already grown and was no longer that masochistic female knight.
"Hello, I am Darkness."
"Aqua, Aqua the Water Goddess!"
"???"
Darkness blinked, tilting her head as if she didn't understand what Aqua meant.
"Aqua is indeed a goddess."
Rin confirmed it for Aqua. "The reason I came to this world was thanks to Aqua's help with reincarnation."
"In a way, she's the benefactor who allowed us to meet here."
"So that's how it is!"
Even though her strength now far exceeded the gods of this world, Darkness still followed her principles.
With the Water Goddess in front of her, she naturally needed to show proper respect.
"My apologies, Lady Aqua."
"Well, well, well..."
"Keep it low-key, low-key. This kind of thing, we can just talk about in private, tee hee hee~"
She said she wanted to stay humble, but Aqua's expression clearly said, "Keep praising me, keep going," which was almost painful to look at.
"Um..."
"Actually, I used to be a follower of the eris faith."
Darkness said, "Do you know Lady eris?"
"..."
In that instant, Rin could clearly feel the malice radiating from Aqua.
"Tch!"
"That flat-chested fraud!"
Aqua scoffed. "She's just a minor country goddess, yet she had the nerve to establish herself as the state religion. She even named the gold currency after herself."
"Uh..."
If it had been before, Darkness would definitely have said something in defense of her beloved goddess after hearing this.
But now, she had already converted to Rin's faith.
Goddess eris...
Darkness would respect and admire her, but she no longer worshipped her as she once did.
Still, Aqua's attitude shattered Darkness's ideal image of a goddess.
To put it bluntly, she was disillusioned.
Is Aqua really a goddess?
Even Darkness couldn't help but doubt it now.
The knight looked toward Rin, who sighed helplessly. "She's just like that. You'll get used to it."
Every single goddess in the Konosuba World is basically unreliable.
Aqua, the Water Goddess, was basically the mascot for idiocy.
Eris, the Goddess of Fortune, was kind and generous but constantly distressed about her figure.
Zenarith, the goddess who governed undead and disasters, oversaw other planets.
In Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, her high priestess, Grimm, had the ability to resurrect no matter how many times she died.
There was also the goddess who looked like an angel, presiding over love and destiny, and possessing an instant-kill technique that could return all souls to the source.
But in the end, she was driven to tears and chased back to heaven by Irisviel the robot.
I should say...
Rin sighed to himself. As expected of goddesses from a comedy anime. Feels like Eris is the only somewhat reliable one.
"Forget it."
Rin shook off the useless thoughts and called out to the two. "Let's go. I'll treat you to a meal."
"Can we order premium bubbly wine?"
"Mm."
"That's great! Rin, you're truly the man I chose!"
As for Kazuma, that useless NEET, Aqua had already tossed him to the back of her mind.
Recalling yesterday's events, Darkness felt inexplicably uneasy.
She couldn't help but worry that Aqua would be spoiled by Rin.
"Um..."
Just as she was lost in thought, a petite figure had quietly appeared at the edge of the long table.
A black-haired girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen, holding a magic staff, wearing a pointed wizard hat, wrapped in a red cloak, with bandaged arms and a tiny, flat chest.
What stood out most was the eyepatch on her face.
To be clear, the girl had no eye condition. She wore the eyepatch purely because it looked cool.
(To be continued.)