Satou Kazuma slowly opened his eyes, not knowing how much time had passed.
"Was it all a dream?"
Satou Kazuma only felt a slight headache, trying hard to remember what had happened.
Wait, that dream just now...
Damn it, it was totally different from what I imagined!
It should have been a SEXY older woman with a body like Elsa or Priscilla coming in to shower with me!
Why was it that violent little girl!
Although her face is cute, her personality is too awful!
Most importantly, her body!
Looking at it, it's clear she doesn't have much potential for future development!
"I have to beat up that good-for-nothing Dona later... Wait, what is this?"
Satou Kazuma then noticed that a line of words had been written on his lower abdomen.
Holy Sword.
Below that line, there was an arrow pointing towards Satou Kazuma's crotch.
"?"
"??"
"???"
Satou Kazuma was completely dumbfounded, and after a few seconds, he suddenly realized.
Everything that had just happened was not a dream!
That damn violent little girl!
"Aaaaaah! Felt!!!"
Satou Kazuma's shout echoed through the mansion.
But Felt had already left the mansion, jumping up and down on the streets outside.
......
Unknowingly, a few more days had passed.
Satou Kazuma had finally enjoyed a few days of relative peace, and other than occasionally helping out in the poor district, he mostly stayed at home, living a leisurely and somewhat boring life.
However, some strange rumors had recently appeared.
Satou Kazuma was the holder of some holy sword, and he had proof of holding the holy sword on his body.
Without even thinking about it, Felt must have done it.
Many people even went to Satou Kazuma to confirm this matter, and they were all cursed at by him.
It also took Satou Kazuma a long time to scrub off the writing on his body.
The lazy Aqua was full of energy every day—after all, Satou Kazuma had promised to build a tavern belonging to her in the poor district, and in order to drink for free in the future, Aqua was doing everything herself, participating in the construction work, and even personally carrying bricks and materials.
Beatrice followed Satou Kazuma every day, and so did Echidna.
She wanted to observe Satou Kazuma and learn more about him.
However, Echidna didn't expect that other than going to the poor district, Satou Kazuma basically just ate and slept, and then did some strange and even perverted things.
This made Echidna feel a little surprised.
Perhaps... this is one of the reasons why Satou Kazuma is so special?
At this moment, Satou Kazuma was holding a drink, relaxing on the bed.
Suddenly, the door to his room was suddenly pushed open—
"Kazuma!"
The sudden shout startled Satou Kazuma, and he didn't have time to swallow the drink in his mouth, choking and coughing violently.
Satou Kazuma felt short of breath, only able to squeeze out a voice from his throat with all his strength.
"Help me!"
"Seriously!"
Aqua patted Satou Kazuma's back hard, and he finally recovered.
"Useless goddess, why are you rushing over here so urgently?"
Satou Kazuma took a deep breath and looked at Aqua asking.
"Let's go on a trip tomorrow!"
Aqua said impatiently.
"Huh? Where are we going?"
Satou Kazuma looked confused. For some reason, whenever Aqua was about to say something, he always had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Let's go to Kararagi!"
"Useless goddess, why do you suddenly want to go there?"
"Well, well, isn't my tavern about to be finished! So I have to prepare all kinds of alcohol in advance! The sake from Kararagi is the same, I definitely have to go and choose it myself."
"Although I know you are really serious about opening a tavern, you should just be wanting to drink better."
Satou Kazuma narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the goddess in front of him with a very suspicious gaze.
"You've already had Anastasia and the others send over sake a few times, and you've finished drinking it all, so you should already know the quality of those drinks—you definitely have other purposes!"
"Oh, isn't it just wanting to go and see other places? It's so boring to stay in Lugunica all the time!"
Aqua touched her head and said with a smile,
"Mainly, I heard that Kararagi has very good specialty foods! All kinds of sashimi! Super suitable for drinking with! Anastasia told me a lot about Kararagi before, and even wrote a letter yesterday inviting us to play!"
"So that's your real purpose! Using the excuse of work to go to Kararagi to eat, drink, and have fun!"
"Don't you want to go? It's said that there are not only delicious foods there, but also hot springs to soak in! Did you know that I also have an Axis Church in another world, and they run a hot spring village!"
Hearing Aqua's words, Satou Kazuma's eyes instantly lit up.
Hot spring.
Hot spring?
Hot spring!
Are there any mixed-gender hot springs!
It has to be mixed-gender!
"Aqua! I approve of you!"
"Huh? Are you calling me?"
Having been called a useless goddess all the time, Aqua was a little surprised to hear her name from Satou Kazuma's mouth.
"That's right, Aqua, I think all of us have worked hard during this time, and we should go out and relax!"
Satou Kazuma put his hands on Aqua's shoulders, looking extremely serious.
"You're not just thinking about mixed-gender bathing because I mentioned hot springs now, are you?"
"How could that be~ Hahaha, I, I actually really want to taste the local specialties there too—of course, the most important thing is to make it a group vacation for us!"
Satou Kazuma immediately left the room and began to mobilize others to prepare.
"Elsa, Elsa! We're going out to play tomorrow! We're going to soak in hot springs!"
This was the most active Satou Kazuma had ever been towards Elsa.
......
Some time later, Kararagi.
"Finally, finally arrived!"
Satou Kazuma took a deep breath and jumped out of the dragon carriage.
Appearing before him was a city with a completely different architectural style.
Kararagi is the most special country in this world.
If other countries still have a Western medieval style, then Kararagi is completely ancient Japanese style.
The constant stream of people wearing yukatas and wooden sandals gave Satou Kazuma a sense of familiarity.
Unlike Lugunica, which is mostly humans, Kararagi has a lot of demi-human races.
"Oh, this is Kararagi?"
Felt also got out of the dragon carriage, looking at the surrounding environment in shock.
This can be said to be a completely different scenery from Lugunica.
Thinking that this was a long-awaited vacation, Satou Kazuma brought almost everyone with him, anyway, Russell was helping to watch over things there, so there shouldn't be any big problems.
Even many nobles expressed their willingness to help.
Satou Kazuma and Aqua were the most popular people in Lugunica now, and those people naturally wanted to build relationships with them.
However, Satou Kazuma ultimately entrusted Crusch and Emilia to help deal with matters in the royal capital.
Since they owed him a favor, he had to make good use of it, and they were also very willing to help.
At this time, Satou Kazuma turned his head to look back.
Not only Felt, Ram, Rem, Meili... even Otto and Garfiel had come along.
Ever since the Sanctuary was inexplicably defeated by Satou Kazuma, Garfiel had regarded him as his big brother, following behind him like a little follower every day.
As for Otto...
He really had nowhere else to go. The originally bankrupt Otto was forced to become Russell's slave, and finally, after pleading, Satou Kazuma finally agreed to add him to his group as an accessory to their cooperation.
Anyway, he was short of a handyman.
But
There are so many people...
Did their forces unknowingly become so large?
However, there don't seem to be many normal people among them.
Not to mention that useless goddess...
Including but not limited to a tsundere loli, a violent loli, a giant nanny, a masochistic maniac, a terrifying young girl, a group of three idiots...
And a useless witch who's about the same as Aqua.
"Kazuma, did you know! The creation of Kararagi is also closely related to me!"
Echidna said with great pride.
"I know, I know."
Satou Kazuma said perfunctorily.
"Aqua-sama, Kazuma-sama! You've arrived!"
At this moment, a very clear but accented young girl's voice sounded from a distance, and Anastasia waved her hand, walking towards them, with her knight Julius following behind her.
Anastasia had already agreed with Aqua that if the latter came to Kararagi to play, they wouldn't have to worry about food, clothing, housing, or transportation; they would take full responsibility.
Echidna narrowed her eyes slightly, focusing her gaze on the white scarf around Anastasia's neck.
A meaningful smile appeared on her face.
"Long time no see! Anastasia!"
"I've already prepared a place for you to live! Come with me!"
"Alright."
The group then followed Anastasia's footsteps.
At the same time, on a tall building nearby, a demi-human with a wolf's head was smoking a pipe, focusing his gaze on Satou Kazuma.
"I didn't expect that such a prominent figure in Lugunica would come to Kararagi so directly; his appearance is likely to have a very big impact on our Kararagi; we can't ignore it; let's just keep an eye on him; who told me to be the famous idler~"
A smile appeared on his face,
"After all, I've recently heard that the person called Satou Kazuma is an incredibly powerful swordsman; it's rumored that he also owns a holy sword that can rival the Dragon Sword; I'm really curious."
After saying these words, the werewolf's figure disappeared, blending in with the surrounding environment; no one noticed his presence.
......
At the same time, in Lugunica's royal capital, in front of the mansion where Satou Kazuma originally lived, a middle-aged man who was completely wrapped up and had a beard on his face was kneeling at the door.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it; am I late again!"
He took off the clothes on his body, and pulled off the beard and wig on his head, revealing an extremely handsome face.
Blue Lightning Cecilus.
As the leader of the Empire's Nine Divine Generals, he was full of desire for battle, swordsmanship, and killing.
After hearing about Satou Kazuma, Cecilus was very eager to have an opportunity to fight him.
After all, according to rumors, Satou Kazuma was able to kill the White Whale with one strike and was known as Reinhard's equal.
Cecilus was very interested in him.
Moreover, there was also a rumor that Cecilus was very concerned about recently.
Satou Kazuma holds the Holy Sword.
He was extremely obsessed with all kinds of knives and swords, and even though his monthly salary was very exaggerated, Cecilus spent almost all his money on collecting and maintaining knives.
Cecilus wanted to know what kind of magical weapon Satou Kazuma's holy sword was, and how it could let him kill the White Whale with one strike.
However...
Cecilus's process of finding Satou Kazuma was a little bit rough.
Although he acted as he pleased, he still had to go through the necessary procedures, first of all, he had to ask the Empire's emperor for instructions, fortunately, the other party also cared very much about Satou Kazuma's identity—the relationship between the current Lugunica Kingdom and the Vollachia Empire was relatively tense; even if there was a non-aggression treaty now, Satou Kazuma could be a threat in the future if war broke out.
Therefore, the Empire's Emperor agreed to Cecilus's secret infiltration, of course, in order to be safe, the Emperor publicly dismissed Cecilus from the identity of Nine Divine Generals, so that if something happened in the future, it wouldn't come back to him.
Cecilus then disguised himself and came to Lugunica's Royal Capital.
Satou Kazuma happened to be heading to the Sanctuary at that time.
Cecilus was an impatient person, and hurried to the Sanctuary, but Satou Kazuma and others just happened to have returned to the Royal Capital at that time, and the Sanctuary was extremely hidden and difficult to find, so the two cleverly missed each other.
After many twists and turns, Cecilus arrived at the Sanctuary, but saw that the entire town had become ruins—he immediately thought that this was Satou Kazuma's doing, and in his heart, he approved of the other party's strength even more, and wanted to compete with him.
He finally left the Sanctuary and returned to the Royal Capital, thinking he could finally find Satou Kazuma to compete with, but found the mansion empty.
Satou Kazuma and his group had already left for Kararagi.
Cecilus rushed all the way, missing everything.
And Satou Kazuma didn't even know about the other party's existence now.
"Satou Kazuma, Satou Kazuma, I must find you!!!"
Cecilus roared to the sky.