Translator: yuNS, Skythewood
Editor: Deus Ex-Machina
Epilogue 1: ––For the sake of this person––
I messed up.
I parted in such a way with the person I had been looking for all my life, and in an emotional moment, I did something I shouldn’t have done.
How should I face him starting tomorrow?
He said that he loves me as well, so does that make us lovers?
Should I change the way in which I treat him?
“*Fuhaah~~*– Good morning!”
The culprit of my troubles appeared with a yawn. With a sleepy expression, he lazily walked to where we were.
Kazuma, who had begun packing his luggage before fixing his bedhead, said:
“Yunyun, let’s go back with ‘Teleport’.”
…Going to back to Axel from the fortress would have only taken a fleeting moment, but since we had come all the way here during our journey, we decided to go to a hot spring on our way back to relax.
“I don’t really mind doing that, but why did you suddenly bring that up?”
When Yunyun asked, he showed some suspicious behavior.
“T-There’s nothing really, I just really miss Axel you know~~”
Immediately after Kazuma, who said such insincere things–
“Yeah, I want to hurry up and get back to Axel for my heartfelt reunion with Emperor Zell! Let’s go home quickly and have a celebration party! We beat that evil-god after all!”
Aqua announced her plans without a hint of any ulterior motive. All she wanted to do was to celebrate with everyone.
“You’re right, we should be proud of our efforts this time. Until now, we fought against the demon king army generals because we were forced to, but this time around we had fought them on our own accord, and managed to defeat them as well.”
Said Darkness, as she stuck out her chest in a prideful fashion.
But–
“To be honest though, you didn’t really do anything.”
“Eh?”
Darkness – who had her moment of pride stolen by Kazuma – became a bit teary eyed.
“Hey, Yunyun, do you want to stay with us? There’s no need to force yourself to stay with us…”
“Eh!? Ah, y-, you mean me? Uhm, erm… if you would let me join you, I would happily…!”
Just as everyone seemed to have agreed to celebrate tonight, and were happily discussing their plans, Kazuma said:
“Ah, by the way, I’m not coming back tonight.”
It’s not like he was Aqua, so why did he say such ignorant things?
“You’re not coming back? Then where are you planning to go!? I mean, when you go out with your friends, what exactly are you guys doing?”
“Hm!? T-T-T-T-That’s is well, shouldn’t you understand? It’s just things that friends do together, you know…”
The sharp intuition of the Crimson Magic clan is telling he was going out on some funny business.
“So you’re just doing things with friends? Then tell them to come celebrate with us. It’s a rare occasion for us to gather, so the more the merrier right?”
“Eh-!?”
Kazuma’s expression looked as if he was witnessing the end of the world. Once again, I reaffirmed the greatness of my intuition.
Even though I didn’t know what he planned to do, he obviously wasn’t up to anything good.
I walked up next to Kazuma, whose shoulders were drooped, and patted him on the back.
“Well well, why don’t we have a drink with Kazuma tonight to celebrate his achievements?”
“Hey you, do you even know why I’m staying out tonight?”
Said Kazuma begrudgingly. Even so, I didn’t know what he meant.
“How would I know? By the way, where are you going?”
“The café, you know, that ‘café’? The one that operates 24/7?”
A café that operates 24/7?
There was only one café in the town of Axel that matched that description.
“…You, after what happened last night, you decided to do this kind of dirty business?”
“Hmm? What wrong Megumin? Your eyes are really red… What are you so excited about? Was it something that happened last night?”
This guy–!
…No, calm down for a bit, even though we said that we love each other, we never said that we were a couple.
Which means I had no reason to be angry.
“…That store has a lot of sexily dressed onee-sans. Hmm? Are they Kazuma’s type?”
“Huh, so you know about that store? And the type I like huh… I wonder what it is…?”
His reply was full of indecision.
“…While we’re talking about this, could I ask what type of girl Kazuma likes?”
“My type? Hm, I haven’t really considered that before… If I really have to say it though, it would be a ‘long haired, big boob’ed girl that would dote on me a lot’?”
Hearing him reply with such ease, I felt the need to reconsider my love for this man.
After what happened yesterday, shouldn’t his preference be a lot closer to me?
“Hey, what is it? I heard that if you sigh so much your luck stat would decrease you know?”
He wasn’t popular because he was always like this. Oh well—
It would be fine if I was the only person to love this strange person.
“Everyone, the preparations for ‘Teleport’ are done.”
Everyone gathered their belongings together—
“Alright, I’ll use the bounty reward to live outside for a week! Though I don’t really know how large the reward is.”
I had no idea why he wanted to stay outside for a week, but as usual, he was probably up to no good.
As I pondered about this—
“‘Teleport’–!”
–I decided that I would grow my hair longer.
Epilogue 2: ––Dear, Onii-sama––
–About one week after we returned to Axel
I was about put the plate down to feed Chomusuke, but I was interrupted by Megumin as she entered the room.
“…Kazuma, are you feeding it a bit too much? You shouldn’t dote on it so much you know?”
“But this guy hasn’t stopped eating—Here here, eat more and grow up quickly~”
Before you become that onee-san, I hope we can get along well.
Also, please forgive Megumin for using explosion magic on you.
“…There’s a letter for Kazuma. I don’t really know what’s it about though.”
A letter for me?
“Is it that dragon egg salesman again? Ever since I bought Emperor Zell, he’s been sending these mails every day.”
The idiot who got tricked lured a lot of scammers to this house.
“If it was sent to Kazuma then it probably isn’t anything good. Let me take a look.”
“Here it is… I can’t help but feel like I’ve seen this envelope somewhere…”
Megumin passed the envelope to Darkness…
Darkness opened the envelope and peeked inside. Without a moment’s delay, she shoved it in her chest pocket.
“…Oi, what are you trying to do with a letter addressed to me?”
“…It is as Aqua said, it’s just a letter from the dragon salesman.”
“It’s just as I divined! Isn’t this great Kazuma? The mails sent to me all address me as ‘This letter is addressed to the one destined to a dragon, an adventurer of great fame and might.’”
Ignoring Aqua who was saying stupid things again, I said to Darkness, who tried to avoid my gaze:
“Oi, give me the let—.”
“I refuse.”
Darkness replied in an instant, and proceeded to roll herself into a ball, as if she was pregnant woman protecting her child.
Seeing her action, I could tell who the sender of the letter was.
Because I’ve seen Darkness do this before.
“It’s Iris right!? Iris sent me that letter right!?”
“How did you guess!? No, I mean, this is just a—!”
I mercilessly stretched my hand towards Darkness’ chest as she desperately tried to refute my claims.
“AAhhhhhhhh!?”
“Look! As I thought, this is a letter sent to me by Iris!”
Darkness put her hands by her chest and bent down.
Hmpf, don’t think that I wouldn’t lay a hand on the letter if you put it by your chest.
After all, I am no longer the wuss that I was. I have been reincarnated as a ruthless man.
As I was thoroughly experiencing the thrill of my victory, I opened the letter.
Undoing the royal seal, I unfolded the letter—
‘Dear Onii-sama,
I have heard of your great achievements at the fortress nearby. You always seem to have dive headfirst into danger, so I have been a bit worried of your wellbeing…’
Just reading the header of the letter has warmed my heart.
‘This time, I have a request for Onii-sama, who has become one of the nation’s greatest adventurers.’
Then I read the last sentence.
“Actually, I am going to meet with the prince of a neighboring country with whom I have an arranged marriage with, so I would like to hire onii-sama as my bodyguard—”
And viciously ripped the letter.
Author’s Afterword (Akatsuki Natsume):
Megumin has been very Megumin in this volume, but I’ve decided that she should feel the stench of this love quite soon.
I didn’t really intend to do so forcefully, but there is a limit to my skills as an innocent and inexperienced writer.
I will continue to try out new writing elements, and try to improve every day. One day, I will write something that will make everyone laugh out loud.
In the volume, I have been helped by Mishima Kurone-sensei, S-san, and all the people related to the publishing process. Everyone has helped the book see a peaceful and successful release.
Finally, I would sincerely thank you for buying this book! (TL Note: Heh, you guys better go buy it!)
Artist’s Afterword:
Thank you everyone for purchasing the ninth volume! (TL Note: Heh…again)
This volume has been Megumin’s turn to shine on the grand stage…! I’m actually really jealous of Kazuma!
Thanks to everyone’s support, a second season of the anime has been green-lit, and Megumin’s Bakuen (explosion) spin-off is getting manga!
When I think that the Konosuba series will continue on like this, my heart aches a little!
–Mishima Kurone
Short story published in GAMERS
An Occasional Cliche Story
That day.
After coming to this world, I finally encountered an anime like event.
“Hyaaa!?”
Darkness’ naked body was before me.
Yes, this is the so called ‘lucky pervert incident’.
“Hey, why didn’t you lock the door. Let me be clear first, I am not in the wrong at all. After all, there is no need to knock before entering the bathroom in the day.”
After waking up early in the morning, I headed to the bathroom to wash off the sweat, and ran into Darkness who was taking her clothes off.
Well, we lived in this house for more than a year, so such things do happen.
Seeing how calm I was, Darkness was dumbfounded momentarily.
“Y-Y-You turn your head away! And don’t try to play it off so easily, I already told everyone that the lock to the bathroom is broken! And even if this is an accident, men have to apologize for seeing the skin of a maiden!”
“Don’t think your warped logic will work on me! All you feminist are the same, always pushing for gender equality, but will ask the men to give way when things don’t go your way! If I accomplish enough merits to earn a peerage, I will abolish this trash system. Starting from this house.”
“I get it, I really do! There’s too many things to retort, so turn your head back first!”
Darkness finally give in to my flawless argument, and answered with a crying face.
After being judged to be innocent, I averted my face in relief.
“We already bathed together once, why are you still so shy? And you have already taken care of me a lot in that certain shop.”
“You are still going on about that!… And what is that shop?”
“That shop is just that shop. A shop that will be fine even if the young lady doesn’t know about it. By the way, are you done? I just woke up with a body of sweat, so I want to have a quick bath.”
Darkness was hit badly by these words.
“Y-You really have no reaction after seeing me naked. To think that you are still concerned with your sweat at a time like this.”
“I won’t be shakened by your naked body anymore. If you understand, then get dressed and leave.”
Darkness complained about my answer as she dressed.
—— After washing myself in the bathroom, I cast freeze onto my warm body in the living room. Darkness glared at me with slanted eyes.
“… What, you want freeze magic too?”
“No! I am just mad that you don’t even care after seeing me in the nude! You saw the bare body of a woman, don’t you find your attitude right now terrible?”
“You are really troublesome… It’s partly my fault for not remembering about the lock being broken yesterday or the day before. But I really hope you can tell me if you want me to be interested or not interested in your naked body.”
“… Well, the ideal situation would be for you to be very interested, but I don’t want you to see.”
What a troublesome woman.
“If it was Aqua, she will forget after I buy a bottle of expensive wine for her. Megumin would probably not mind at all.”
“That’s because they are abnormal! If you feel any guilt at all, I don’t mind forgiving you if you apologize. I don’t need you to buy wine for me like Aqua, just do something to appease me.”
Darkness made a roundabout speech just like a noble.
“Do something to appease you. Abuse you verbally or kick you in public? I am a normal guy without such fetishes and can’t do such Play with you…”
“Idiot, I don’t need such nonsensical things at a time like this! There are many things you can do. Like giving me something I like, or accompany me to a restaurant with great atmosphere.”
Gifts and to accompany her…
“If it is something you like, there isn’t any pet shop so no collars. As for restaurants… I only frequent the barbecue shop though.”
“… At a time like this, I hope you can put my fetish aside and give me something normal. As for restaurants, those frequented by commoners feel rather fresh, but it would be better if it caters for advanced booking or memberships.”
This girl was troublesome in many ways.
Her fetish and her personality were both troublesome.
“Go and prepare gifts for me as apology! If you see the skin of a maiden, you will have to pay the appropriate price…!”
Darkness was all smiles and was probably getting cocky as I appeared to be deep in thought.
Her smug face when she held the advantage was annoying too.
… I couldn’t be bothered to think anymore.
“I get it, I will let you see my naked body and call it a draw. Then it’s all good.”
“How is that good!? Who want to see that… Hey, don’t take your pants off, stop! I-I get it, forget about this! S-Stop… Hyaaahh!”
It had been a while since I heard Darkness squealed like a girl.
Digital Edition Special Story:
A Certain Chick’s Special Move
“Hey Kazuma, listen to this, Emperor Zell finally learned a trick.”
Aqua said as she held Emperor inside her palms.
After having a slightly late lunch, everyone entered idle mode.
Sitting across from Darkness, I stared at the chessboard on the table——
“I admit that you are a first rate performer, but it’s impossible for a chick to learn a trick. We are betting the dishwashing chore for next week, don’t disturb us.”
“Heehee, I have always been losing but I have a big advantage today! And you have already used the once a day explosion rule in your match against Megumin! I will win, there’s no way I can lose!”
I ignored Darkness whose eyes were sparkling with excitement and focused back on the board.
A short distance away, Megumin – who had needlessly exhausted her mana today, and had also spent all her brain power in her match with me – laid weakly on the couch.
Damn it, if I knew, I wouldn’t have used my full power against Megumin.
“Aqua, Kazuma and Darkness seemed busy, how about letting me be your audience.”
“Is he really? Well then Megumin, I’ll allow you to be the one to witness Emperor Zell’s magnificent performance.”
I felt relieved that the annoying girl is gone, and concentrated on the board once again, thinking about how to turn around my losing game.
“How about it Kazuma, it’s about time you surrender right? After I told my father about my consecutive losses, my father, who is known as the treasured sword of the Kingdom, taught me this sure win tactic.”
“For a grand noble, your dad is too childish. He dotes on his daughter too much.”
Ughh, what to do. Should I hide the thief over here…
“W-What is this!? I was thinking that a mere chick won’t be able to do much…!”
“Hmmp, you get it right? After all, it is not a chick, but a dragon. This is just a simple matter.”
……
“Hey Aqua, what did that thing do? Show me.”
Although this was a crucial moment in the contest, Megumin’s exclamation intrigued me.
“You just said you don’t want to see, so why are asking again? Emperor Zell’s performance had ended for the day. The next show would be next month.”
“Ah, hey that’s too much, just show it to me for a while, I am very bothered.”
Or rather, I wouldn’t be able to concentrate if I don’t take a look.
“Hey Kazuma, just concede if you want to see Emperor Zell’s performance. I saw it too, it was amazing. It probably surpasses Aqua’s usual performance.”
“… That amazing?”
What should I do? Solely in terms of party tricks, I had to admit that Aqua was good.
No, or rather, she had no other good points except for her healing spells and party tricks.
“Aqua, please do it again! I have never seen something so amazing.”
“No Megumin, that’s a performance from Emperor Zell’s soul it did in order to repay my careful daily tutelage. It’s not something that could be performed so simply.”
Aqua and Megumin ignored me who didn’t see it at all and got all excited.
“I couldn’t help being impressed after seeing that performance. Kazuma, are you willing to be the only one not to have seen it?”
Darkness taunted me as I was caught in a dilemma.
“You’ll regret it if you don’t see it. Emperor Zell’s lifespan might shorten if it performs that too many times. It is sleeping now because it exhausted all of its energy from doing that right?”
“Right? If Emperor Zell doesn’t want to, then I can’t do anything about it… Ahh!? Emperor Zell woke up! Are you fine!? You are doing it!? You want to perform again!?”
“Ah! Emperor Zell just…! Kazuma, Darkness! Emperor Zell is all prepared!”
What does ‘prepared’ mean, I was very bothered.
And Aqua said if I miss this chance, the next one would be next month.
“Hey, hey Aqua! Don’t mess around and come here, I want to see. Darkness, let’s take a time out.”
“No. It’s your loss if you leave the seat. How can you leave before the match is decided? Come, choose! You want the party trick or to battle!”
Uwaahhhh.
“Alright, get ready Megumin! Watch carefully and witness Emperor Zell’s special performance!”
“If I can see it again, the lofty me might fall for Emperor Zell!”
Ahh, damn it!
“I get it, I concede! Hey Aqua, wait, I want to see too!”
The moment I concede to Darkness, Aqua and Megumin high fived.
……?
“Then watch Emperor Zell’s special performance carefully.”
Darkness who was wearing a proud face started putting away the chess pieces. This gave me an ominous feeling.
“Look closely at Emperor Zell’s special trick!”
Aqua held Emperor Zell gently in her hands with a dumb smile, then cupped her hands together…
After a while, Emperor Zell snuggled into a ball, closed it’s eyes and slept.
“This child will sleep when I do this. Early to bed and early to rise makes a chick healthy wealthy and wise, right?”
Early to eat and early to shit makes it wealthy?
Or rather, covering a chick with your hands to make it sleep is not a performance, but the nature of chicks.
… Hey, hold it.
Megumin had suddenly challenged me earlier today, and Aqua had enticed me to look at Emperor Zell’s mediocre performance. Was it all Darkness’…
“Here, Aqua, Megumin. This is the agreed payment. But father is really despicable… To use circumstances outside the chess board to force the opponent to concede…”
“Hey, wait a minute ahhhhhh!”