After two months of laziness, the mbers of the "Hero" Party suddenly beca diligent again upon receiving their new Falna.
Aqua had been frequenting the Adventurers’ Guild lately with one goal: to recruit Adventurers into her new Aqua Familia as followers.
This arrangent should have been mutually beneficial — in fact, even more advantageous for the Adventurers themselves.
Yet this Water Goddess hadn’t managed to recruit a single mber.
As expected of one of the "Three Stooges of Ani" — her situation mirrored that of Hestia, another of the "Stooges".
With Aqua’s approach, recruiting any Familia mbers was dood to fail.
The problem was simple: while explaining the benefits of joining her Familia, this idiotic Water Goddess insisted that Adventurers must join the Axis Cult to receive the Falna.
This was a fatal mistake!
The Axis Order/Cult/Church was notorious throughout the Parallel World.
The re ntion of the Axis Cult sent people backing away three steps, wanting nothing to do with its questionable followers.
And here was Aqua, demanding they join!
Most people already belonged to the Eris Order, making it even more impossible for them to consider joining another church.
This led Aqua to serious self-doubt, especially since no one would explain their rejections.
Still, the Water Goddess persisted, haunting the Adventurers’ Guild day after day, pestering potential recruits.
Predictably, she remained unsuccessful.
As for the others...
gumin had grown quite confident after receiving her powerful Skill. Having almost single-handedly defeated the Winter Shogun, this self-proclaid "Number One in Explosion Magic" had beco rather arrogant, insisting on daily Monster hunting to increase her status.
Darkness shared this enthusiasm. Driven by her desire to beco harder and stronger, she frequently joined gumin on these hunting expeditions.
Then there was Kazuma, the shut-in. Despite his previous desperation for the Falna, he couldn’t overco his true nature — spending winter days lounging by the kotatsu like a maggot, refusing to move.
There was no helping it.
Concerned about Darkness and gumin getting into trouble, Adam had to abandon his own desires to lounge by the kotatsu like a maggot, choosing instead to accompany them on their Monster hunts.
Having severely wounded the Winter Shogun, gumin’s next goal was to improve her Basic Abilities through intense training until her "vessel" reached its full potential.
Hunting low-level monsters seed the perfect way to achieve this.
Her recent reckless use of〘Explosion Magic〙had awakened so monsters early from their winter sleep — which, ironically, could serve as compensation for her previous mistakes.
For their purpose, one type of monster stood out as ideal.
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At the Adventurers’ Guild, they accepted the {Giant Toad Subjugation} Quest from Luna.
"Please give the toad subjugation quest, if you would, Miss Luna."
"Of course, Hero Mr. Adam."
Seeing her awkward smile, Adam could only sigh while holding his head.
If not for his status as a Lord, gumin — that problem child — would surely have been arrested for "disturbing the peace of Axel" and other charges.
Sena, the strict prosecutor, wouldn’t have shown any rcy.
How embarrassing!
What was the point of working so hard to maintain his Hero image?
Then again, without the boost from his reputation, they’d probably be shunned by everyone.
Perhaps his efforts weren’t completely worthless after all.
With the resignation of a self-righteous person, Adam led gumin and Darkness to the plains outside the village.
Several Giant Toads stood dumbly scattered across the snow-covered plains, their simple minds unable to comprehend why they’d awakened from hibernation before spring.
But that hardly mattered. If they couldn’t understand it, there was no need to dwell on it. In a mont, they’d be blown sky high!
◈ Explosion!! ◈
The mont she spotted the Giant Toads, before Adam could even formulate a battle plan, gumin — that chuunibyou girl — instantly unleashed her once-per-day super-powerful magic —〘Explosion Magic〙.
BOOM——!!!
A thunderous explosion rang across the plains, sending flas skyward and blasting a massive crater in the snowy ground, revealing scorched earth beneath.
The power was quite impressive!
But...
"Ah, I’m out of mana."
"Hey——!"
After casting her spell, gumin collapsed on the plains, carelessly announcing, "I don’t have a single drop of mana left. I’ll leave the rest to you guys."
It made Adam so angry he wanted to give her a smack — right on her bottom!
Her super-powerful magic had only killed one Giant Toad!
Now, sensing the threat of death, the remaining toads were hopping en masse toward their location.
Good for nothing except causing trouble! This is infuriating!
"Adam, w-w-what should we do? They’re charging at us! Hah—hah—!"
"Hey, why are you getting excited?"
Hearing Darkness’s excited panting beside him, Adam sensed sothing was very wrong with their party’s Crusader. He turned to look at her.
Sure enough! This perverted knight had done sothing outrageous!
"Why are you taking off your equipnt..." Adam couldn’t help but complain.
He rembered that Darkness had always wanted to experience toad sli play, but he had prevented it by deliberately avoiding Giant Toad Subjugation Quests.
Yet here she was, stripping at a speed that rivaled their neighbor getting dressed.
In the blink of an eye, she was down to her underwear, her fair skin reflecting a silvery light in the snow.
Though pleasing to the eye, it made one worry she would catch cold. This pervert wasn’t just hot-bodied — even her brain was heating up, making her do stupid things!
She ran toward the Giant Toads half-naked, her face flushed red.
"Hah—hah—hah! Sli, sli... this exciting evil must be subjugated by !"
"What nonsense are you spouting!"
Adam hadn’t expected her to charge out just to ’enjoy’ herself.
"Darkness, you really picked a great ti to cause trouble!" He sighed helplessly, "But don’t think you’ll get away with it! I’ll definitely stop you!"
Given Adam’s speed and the distance to the toads, stopping the perverted knight from experiencing toad sli play would be easy. With the Giant Toads still far behind them, he could even rescue gumin afterward, sparing that useless Arch-Wizard from a slimy fate.
After quickly forming his plan, Adam rushed toward Darkness.
"Wait right there, you idiot Darkness!"
"I am a Crusader, I must subjugate evil! Here I co!"
Those words would have been fitting for a righteous knight — but paired with Darkness’s flushed, smiling face, they seed completely wrong!
But before Adam could catch up, sothing unexpected happened.
A crimson tongue covered in sli shot out from beneath the snow, instantly binding the running Darkness. It climbed up her ankle, restricting her movent, and swallowed her whole in an instant.
"Waaah—!"
The speed was so fast that even Adam couldn’t react.
That idiot Darkness had actually been swallowed by a Giant Toad! Damn it!
Sli play (target: Darkness).
Just as Adam was about to cast magic, a cry for help ca from gumin behind him.
"Um... please, save too."
"Huh?!"
Turning around, he saw gumin was also being slowly swallowed by a Giant Toad.
"I didn’t expect there was also a Giant Toad under ." gumin said sothing that made Adam exasperated, "Maybe because of the Explosion, the weather ward up and made it wake early from hibernation, so..."
"..." Adam was dumbfounded.
To be honest, it’s not that powerful protagonists deliberately do unlikeable things.
Things like failing to save teammates in ti or being too indecisive to fix mistakes...
No — it’s because these teammates are such a burden! You’re all making look like an idiot!
My precious Hero title is crying!
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