Free Web NovelChapter 315: 315 KonoSuba 40
"Come, come, let me treat you to a nice meal. Come to my house."
When Hiropon said that, Megumin immediately said she wouldn’t go. It seemed that with things having happened, she was worried about her own home.
"I think I need to go to my house."
"Ah, is that so. Then go and come back. I’ll have things prepared."
Yunyun, perhaps wanting to spend time with her family after a long time, decided to stay at the chief’s house, and the rest of us decided to go to Megumin’s house.
We walked a bit and arrived at a shabby house at the edge of the Crimson Demon village.
"Hey, Megumin — is that a stable by any chance?"
Aqua pointed at the house and asked Megumin that.
"It’s not a stable. It’s the main house."
"Eh??"
Aqua’s reaction was understandable — it was a square house made of wooden boards, and it really did look like a stable. So I asked.
"Megumin, you’ve earned quite a bit of money, haven’t you. Didn’t you send any home?"
"That’s what I wonder too. I sent enough that they could have built even a small house, so why is it still like this... I don’t know, maybe they spent it all on food."
We went to the stable‑like house and knocked. Then the door opened, and a cute little girl with a star decoration in her hair came out — probably Megumin’s younger sister, ’Komekko’.
"She must be Megumin’s little sister! Extremely cute."
"A tiny Megumin appeared?"
Then suddenly, Cecily, losing her mind, tightly hugged Komekko, extremely happy.
"Waaah~ that Megumin had such a cute little sister! Would you like to be secret friends with this big sister? Haa, haa."
"Mmph... can’t breathe..."
Cecily was about to say something dangerous, so I immediately smacked the back of her head. Then Cecily finally came to her senses and released Komekko.
"Ah! Oh dear, she was so cute, I lost my senses for a moment."
"What were you trying to do to Komekko!"
Megumin was angry at Cecily’s behavior.
"Sorry, I saw such a cute child, and I couldn’t help it."
"From now on, Cecily is forbidden from approaching Komekko!"
"Eh! That’s mean!"
When Megumin issued a no‑approach order on Komekko to Cecily, Cecily made a sad face. As expected, Cecily likes children. In a somewhat bad way, though.
"Anyway, Komekko, I’m home."
When Megumin greeted Komekko, Komekko took a deep breath, then turned around, shouted loudly, and ran inside the house.
"Dad!!! Mom!!! Sister came back with a bunch of perverts!!!"
I tried to stop Komekko, but for a moment, thinking about it, it wasn’t exactly wrong, so I didn’t grab her or make excuses.
As I stood there unable to say anything, Megumin spoke.
"Let’s go inside first."
We followed Megumin into the house. Then Megumin’s father, ’Hyoizaburo’, and mother, ’Yuiyui’, came out and welcomed Megumin happily.
"Oh~ you’re back. Come in, come in."
"Welcome, Megumin. And who are these people?"
"Ah, these are my party members — Kazuma, Darkness, Aqua — and these are Taejin and Cecily, from a party we’re close with."
"I see. Welcome, everyone. Let me guide you to the living room first."
Guided by them, we moved to the living room. Hyoizaburo was wearing a black ’peaked cap’ often used by sailors or police, and his face gave an impression of being somewhat rigid.
Yuiyui, from having two children, seemed to be at least in her thirties, but she was young‑looking enough that she could pass for early twenties. I’ve met many milfs so far, but she was the youngest‑looking. And she was a decent beauty. The only regrettable point was that Yuiyui also had a small chest — probably Megumin’s small chest is also due to genetics.
Once everyone sat down in the living room like that, Megumin confronted Hyoizaburo.
"What’s going on? I sent quite a lot of money home — did you spend it all on food? Why is the house still in this state?"
Then Hyoizaburo, looking somewhat troubled, spoke.
"W-well, that is... I thought of a new magical item, and because I spent money making it..." freēwēbnovel.com
"Why would you spend the money I sent on something like that! Then at least you would have bought some fo—"
Then Yuiyui sighed and spoke.
"Megumin, I’m sorry. Because he spent money carelessly, I can tell you that now we’re even almost out of rice."
"Eh? What did you say??!!"
At those words, Megumin seemed extremely shocked. Truly, Hyoizaburo was the worst kind of father.
Although Hyoizaburo is a magical item craftsman, he only produces defective items, so he is an incompetent head of household who cannot earn a proper income. Thanks to that, Megumin’s house is the poorest in the Crimson Demon village, and the family members cannot even buy proper clothes, nor can they properly get meals. Just looking at the clothes they’re wearing, the elbows and knees are patched with different cloth.
Because of that, during her school days, Megumin had no choice but to engage in quite eccentric acts — like collecting leftover crusts of bread that others threw away and eating them, or catching crayfish from the stream and boiling them for herself and her younger sister — and she even took Yunyun’s lunchbox under the pretense of a duel. And her mother, Yuiyui, is said to have suffered greatly because of her husband.
The problem is that he insists on only making magical items, which he has no aptitude for. When the household has fallen this much, it would be normal to swallow your pride and try some other work, but because Hyoizaburo is stubborn, he couldn’t do that. It seemed that Megumin’s stubborn insistence on Explosion magic was also inherited from her father.
"Haa... from now on, Mother, you manage the money I send. If not, I will not send any more money, and I will take Mother and Komekko with me. I think that would be better."
"I-I’m sorry. Your father is useless... next time, I will definitely make a wonderful magical item and..."
From his words, it seemed he still didn’t understand what the problem was.
Anyway, as the conversation became serious, Aqua was showing Komekko various party trick magics and playing with her.
"By the way, which one of you is the human called Kazuma?"
When Hyoizaburo looked for Kazuma, we all looked at Kazuma. Then Kazuma was flustered.
"So it’s you. Come here and sit down."
"Yes..."
Kazuma sat down as Hyoizaburo told him to. Then Hyoizaburo stared at Kazuma for a while, then spoke.
"What is your relationship with my daughter?"
"As I said, the same party, and friends..."
Then suddenly, Hyoizaburo tried to flip the table in front of him. But Yuiyui quickly pressed down on the table, preventing it from flipping.
"Dear!! Stop it! No more flipping tables and breaking them! I told you we don’t have any more money!!"
Everyone seemed surprised at that sight. Then, having calmed down a bit, Hyoizaburo spoke to Kazuma again.
"Ahem, I apologize. I lost my composure. No, it’s because you shamelessly spoke of yourself as just a friend."
Feeling that Hyoizaburo had some complaint about him, Kazuma fumbled in his bag and took something out, placing it on the table.
"It’s not much, but..."
What Kazuma placed on the table was a box of Arcanletia’s famous manju. Seeing that, Hyoizaburo and Yuiyui simultaneously reached out their hands, grabbed the box, and stopped.
"Dear, this is what Kazuma gave to me."
"Oh my, just a moment ago you were using the cold address of ’you’, and now suddenly it’s ’Kazuma’? Stop it, it’s embarrassing — this is for tonight’s dinner. I won’t give you any for drinking snacks."
As the two engaged in a war of nerves over the manju box, Kazuma said, flustered.
"Ma’am, those are manju, so you can’t use them as a drinking snack or for dinner."
Then Komekko looked at the box excitedly.
"Hey — is this real food that fills you up, not that watery gruel we always eat?"
At those words, Kazuma and Cecily finally understood why they were acting like this. So Kazuma took out all the manju he had saved and placed them on the table.
"It’s... it’s not much, but..."
Then Hyoizaburo’s expression brightened greatly, and he welcomed Kazma warmly.
"Welcome, Kazuma! You, the best tea!"
"We only have one kind of tea, dear. Ohohoho..."
Yuiyui poured tea and handed it to Kazuma. Seeing that she poured only for Kazuma, it seemed they didn’t have tea either. Everyone understood their situation and didn’t say anything.
So I also took out one bag of rice, some meat, and vegetables from my subspace bag and handed them over. This wasn’t because I pitied them — I gave it because Komekko tugged at my heart. I thought, how much must that child have not eaten, to be like that.
"Oh~ this is!"
"It’s not much, but..."
"Welcome, you too. You, tea for these people..."
"Oh dear, I’m sorry. That tea just now was the last of it."
Seeing Yuiyui troubled, I shook my head and spoke.
"Your kindness is enough."
"I’m sorry. Anyway, thank you."
They moved the ingredients to the kitchen, then came back to the living room and opened one of the manju boxes that Kazuma had given them, and began to eat them deliciously. Especially Komekko ate well, so everyone watched her with fond smiles. But Megumin was a bit embarrassed at that sight. It was because of her family acting like this, and also because she thought that she herself was probably like that in the past, so it seemed she was embarrassed.
As I watched like that, Hyoizaburo spoke to me.
"No matter how much food you give, Komekko is off limits!"
"What do you mean by that? I am already married, you see."
I pointed to Darkness and spoke. Then Hyoizaburo looked at Darkness, whose face had reddened at my words, then looked at me and apologized.
"Ah, sorry. I misunderstood."
But then Komekko looked at me and spoke.
"If I marry this big brother, can I always eat a lot? Then I’ll marry big brother!"
"Ko-Komekko!?"
It seemed Komekko was speaking with some misunderstanding, so I patted Komekko’s head and spoke.
"This big brother is already married to the knight here, so I can’t marry you. Instead, so that Komekko doesn’t go hungry, big brother will come sometimes and bring food. How about that?"
"Really? Wow~!"
As expected, Komekko didn’t know about concepts like marriage, and it seemed that her family not starving was more important. I took out a few more snacks that Komekko could eat from my subspace bag and handed them to Yuiyui.
"Please give these to Komekko when she’s hungry or something."
"Oh my, Mr. Silver Flash is a very good person. And Mr. Kazuma seems like a good person too, so I won’t object, but I think it would be better if you at least live a proper married life."
At those words, Kazuma spat out his tea. Megumin also blushed and was extremely flustered.
"We said we’re just friends!!" "That’s right, we’re just friends!!"
"But the letter we received said..."
"No, by the way, may I ask what was written in that letter?"
Then Yuiyui told them the contents of the letter in detail, one by one.
"For example... enjoying making our daughter all slippery, or feeling her chest while carrying her when her mana is exhausted, or bathing together, or when she’s sleeping defenselessly on the sofa, sitting and continually observing up her skirt, or while feeding Chomusuke, making her memorize the underwear by saying ’See? This is it. Bring this. Then I’ll give you tastier food’, or forcing her into an unwanted marriage so she gets a reputation as a crazy widow..."
Hearing what Yuiyui said, Kazuma pressed his head to the floor and apologized.
"I have no excuse!!"
Seeing him apologize like this, it seemed that even if I hadn’t seen it, he does those kinds of things often in normal times.
Anyway, Hyoizaburo had a sip of tea and then continued speaking.
"But she did say ’a precious comrade’..."
"Eh?"
"Even if he is a perverted, foul‑mouthed, irrational man — because if I take my eyes off him, he’ll die easily... she said. For my daughter to speak that way, there must be something."
At those words, Megumin blushed and was extremely embarrassed.
Yuiyui watched that sight warmly, then spoke.
"I’d like to help my daughter’s party, but..."
"Ah, it’s fine. I’m expecting a large sum of money soon..."
At Kazuma’s mention of money, Hyoizaburo’s eyes sparkled with interest.
"Ho ho, how much, for your information?"
"300 million eris."
"300 million??!!!"
At Kazuma’s answer, Hyoizaburo and Yuiyui seemed extremely surprised.
"Of course, Kazuma! Stay at our house tonight! You’re my daughter’s comrade and friend, so it’s only natural! You’re an adventurer, so you don’t have a home, right!?"
"Ah, no — I have a mansion in Axel village, so..."
"A, a mansion???!!!!"
At the words that he had a mansion, they were surprised once more. From then on, their treatment of Kazuma suddenly became very lavish.
"You, quickly prepare bathwater and a meal!"
"Ah, I understand!"
As they busily prepared to treat Kazuma well, I stood up and called Cecily and Darkness.
"Let’s go back to Yunyun’s house."
At my words, Darkness said she would just stay here since they were the same party. So only Cecily and I returned to Yunyun’s house. Actually, Cecily also seemed to want to stay more with Komekko, and tried to stay overnight at Megumin’s house, but I was worried she might do something strange, so I just brought her with me.
"Oh~ you’ve finally come. I’ve been waiting."
When we arrived, Hiropon had already prepared a lot of delicious food and was waiting.
"Are your other comrades not coming?"
"As for them, since they’re in Megumin’s party, they decided to stay at Megumin’s house."
"Is that so, I see. Well then, sit down."
We sat at the table and began eating. Then Hiropon asked me.
"By the way, I heard you already have two wives, is that true?"
"Yes — somehow or other, it ended up that way."
"Good ability... I wish I had that too. Hahaha!"
Then Yunyun frowned and spoke.
"Father, really..."
"Hahaha, joking, joking. Anyway, thank you truly for adventuring with my daughter. To be honest, I thought she would be alone forever."
"Yunyun is more capable than she looks. She’s already making a name for herself in the kingdom as the ’Crimson Magic Caster’. For me, I am proud that Yunyun is in my party."
"Oh~ is that true? My daughter has found really good comrades. Hahaha."
At my words, Yunyun was also extremely embarrassed.
"This is, it’s not much, but... since we were coming to Yunyun’s house, I prepared it."
I took out a high‑quality teacup set from my subspace bag and handed it to Hiropon.
"Hahaha, you shouldn’t have."
We finished eating, and while having a light drink and chatting, Hiropon was still a better father than Hyoizaburo, at least. Except for being a Crimson Demon, that is.
"Hmph... with this, I can breathe a sigh of relief. If she’s having such good comrades and wonderful adventures, there should be no problems for a while. Now, if only we could find a good match for Yunyun, everything would be perfect, right?"
Then suddenly, Yunyun stood up and spoke.
"Don’t worry, Father. When I turn eighteen, Taejin is going to take me!"
"Wh-what? But Taejin already has two wives, surely..."
At Yunyun’s words, Hiropon was extremely flustered. As expected, this was the heart of a father with a daughter.
"Ahaha, there is a condition attached — ’if I haven’t found a good man before I turn eighteen’ — but yes, I did make that promise."
At my words, Hiropon looked back and forth between Yunyun and me for a moment, grasping the situation.
"Haa... that woke me up from my drink. It seems Yunyun likes you a lot. Hmm... but this is a big problem. To have to fall for a married man of all people..."
"I don’t care about things like that. I’m going to marry Taejin!"
"O-okay, I understand..."
Yunyun spoke confidently with a voice full of conviction, so Hiropon said he understood for now. But although he said that, from Hiropon’s expression, it seemed he was trying to think of a countermeasure later.
We rested well at Yunyun’s house, and when the next day came, we took the children and went to Megumin’s house, partly to look around the village.
But there was an uproar at Megumin’s house.
"You finally did it!!! This is something you have no choice but to take responsibility for!!!"
"Of course!!! I will definitely take responsibility!!! Father!!!"
They seemed to be having a serious conversation, so we went inside to the living room. There, outwardly, Hyoizaburo and Yuiyui were scolding Kazuma, but both of them had expressions as if things had worked out well, and Kazuma, although being scolded, had a rather happy face.
"So, when are you thinking of having the wedding?"
"Of course, the sooner the better!"
Suddenly — a wedding. I didn’t know what this was about.
"Huh? Wedding? What is that..."
Then Aqua and Darkness, perhaps finding it difficult to explain here, took us outside and explained in detail.
