The scene changed, Kazuma Satou and Aqua were ultimately too tired and didn't fight. They glared at each other fiercely, then snorted coldly and went to the bathhouse to take a bath.
The public bathhouse was almost the same as the bathhouses in Japan.
After washing, the two went straight to the resting area.
The resting place was also very simple.
It was a stable, not very spacious, and with a strange smell.
But Kazuma Satou and Aqua didn't say anything, seemingly used to it. After picking out some straw that wasn't covered in horse manure and making a bed, they immediately lay down on the ground.
The two lay on the ground, neither of them speaking.
Aqua directly closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, but Kazuma Satou raised his eyes, looked at the straw on the roof, and fell into deep thought.
The boy suddenly said, "Why did we choose this kind of job in the first place?"
Aqua wasn't asleep. She turned over and said in a strange tone, "Isn't it obvious? If we don't work, we won't have anything to eat? You don't like working? Honestly, NEETs are always so picky."
"That's not it! That's not it! How should I say it, what I'm looking for is that kind of tense and exciting battle against monsters! A life like that! Besides, where is this world being invaded by the Demon King and in crisis? It's so peaceful that I haven't even seen the word 'Demon'!"
"But you can't even carry bricks properly, and you got fired."
"Shut up, don't say it!" Kazuma Satou covered his face, his expression twisted in pain.
Finally, as if he had made up his mind, Kazuma Satou said with a serious face, "Let's go to the guild and recruit members. We can't keep going like this, or we'll starve to death."
Aqua turned to the side, a look of confusion flashing across her delicate face. Aqua's figure was good, and Kazuma Satou could even see the whiteness of her chest through Aqua's slightly thin pajamas.
Even though he knew what kind of person the guy in front of him was, Kazuma's face still showed a slight blush. However, this slight blush was completely destroyed by Aqua's next sentence.
"Isn't there also a salesperson we can be? Actually, there are many low-level jobs, it's not like we'll definitely starve to death!" Aqua said.
Kazuma Satou looked at the goddess with clear eyes with a blank expression. It was the first time he felt a little hopeless.
"Tomorrow, let's become adventurers. Don't say so much, are you planning to stay in this world until the Demon King dies of old age?"
The goddess in front of him gave off a sense of clear stupidity. Looking at the girl's clear eyes, those blue eyes and that flawless face, plus that head of blue hair.
Clearly, any one of these things could make people sincerely praise her. However, when these things were combined together, converging into a goddess named Aqua, those beautiful, praiseworthy things instantly became worthless.
As an otaku, Kazuma Satou was sleeping with a beautiful girl for the first time, but he really wasn't excited at all.
Kazuma Satou turned over, turned his back to Aqua, closed his eyes directly, without any nostalgia, smelling the faint smell of horse manure from the stable, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Seeing that Kazuma Satou wasn't in the mood to chat, Aqua yawned, changed to a comfortable position, and also fell asleep instantly.
The next day, the two came to the guild. They had 300,000 Eris in their pockets, a total of 600,000 Eris, which was barely enough to use for a while.
According to Kazuma Satou's plan, they would recruit members in the guild today.
There weren't many people in the guild in the morning. Kazuma Satou and Aqua had arrived at the guild early in the morning. Luna, who was standing at the counter, looked listless and didn't seem to be in very good spirits. Maybe it was because she had gotten up early, but in short, the girl looked a little lazy.
The guild was empty. After all, it was early in the morning, and according to reason, it had just opened, and there wouldn't be any adventurers coming at this time.
It was always like this in the past, but today was a little different. Luna found a chair, sat down, and was about to doze off when she saw Kazuma Satou and Aqua walking towards her.
Luna was slightly stunned. The code of conduct of a counter lady forced Luna to dispel her fatigue. The girl's mouth curled up, and her beautiful face had a faint smile. Luna said to the two of them, "Welcome, adventurers. Is there anything I can help you with today?"
Faced with such a cute girl, Kazuma Satou's cheeks turned red subconsciously. The boy's eyes subconsciously fell on Luna's chest, and then, as if electrocuted, he suddenly retracted his gaze.
A naive boy is like this, he has the desire, but not the courage.
Luna pursed her lips slightly, finding the boy in front of her very interesting. This naive appearance made Luna feel very cute.
Kazuma Satou waved his hand a little embarrassedly and quickly explained, "We came to the guild this time because we want to recruit a few adventurers, so it's easier to go out and do quests together."
Luna still smiled and nodded slightly, "Is that so? It seems that Kazuma is already planning to become an adventurer?"
Kazuma Satou was stunned, then said excitedly, "You know me?"
Compared to Kazuma Satou's slightly excited appearance, Luna was a little puzzled, "Didn't I register you the day before yesterday? How could I not know you?"
Kazuma Satou scratched the back of his head and said a little embarrassedly, "I thought that you would definitely ignore someone ordinary like me, but I didn't expect you to remember my name directly."
Luna smiled and said casually, "Ordinary person? This town is a very ordinary town, there's nothing special about it. Everyone is an ordinary person, there's no need to feel inferior because you're ordinary."
"Luna, you're really too good." Kazuma Satou was in tears, reaching out and holding Luna's hand tightly. Luna was startled by Kazuma Satou's sudden action and subconsciously retracted her hand, but the boy was holding on tightly, and she couldn't pull it back for a moment.
"Uh"
Just as Luna was in a dilemma, Aqua patted Kazuma Satou on the head and said with a helpless expression, "Kazuma, can you not be so embarrassing? Honestly, a NEET is a NEET."
When Kazuma Satou heard Aqua's words, his original feeling of emotion disappeared instantly. Kazuma Satou glared at Aqua and said to Aqua, "Mind your own business."
Taking advantage of the gap between Kazuma Satou and Aqua's conversation, Luna quickly retracted her hand and pointed to the chair next to her, "You can rest there for a while, or you can go to the bounty board and write your needs on a piece of paper and post it, so that more adventurers will notice you."
"Oh, oh, I understand." Kazuma Satou nodded quickly, indicating that he understood.
Because he was idle, Kazuma Satou still took out a pen and wrote a few lines of information about recruiting teammates on it. Then he picked it up, and Kazuma Satou and Aqua discussed it for a while, and finally Kazuma Satou finalized this somewhat simple condition. Kazuma Satou put this piece of paper on the bounty board.
The requirements on this piece of paper were also very simple, and it also explained in detail the configuration of Kazuma Satou's team.
Although Kazuma Satou himself was too mediocre, and basically had nothing to offer, but with Aqua, a high priest, he was at least a high-level profession, which made the team look very tempting on the surface.
This town was like this, there were not many strong people at all. Having a high-level priest was enough to attract many people to join.
Kazuma Satou thought so. Because Aqua was there, and Kazuma Satou himself wanted to do something big, the requirements naturally became a bit harsh. Although it wasn't that he didn't want anyone who wasn't a high-level profession, ordinary adventurers really couldn't join Kazuma Satou's team.
However, the consequence of Kazuma Satou doing this was that, by noon, no one was willing to join Kazuma Satou's team.
They sat there idly for the entire morning.
From the emptiness of the early morning to the current sea of people, unfortunately, no one came to inquire with Kazuma Satou.
But thinking about it, even though Aqua is a high-level archpriest, Kazuma Satou and Aqua's levels are relatively low, belonging to novice adventurers. Since they are novices, they must have immature aspects, meaning they are both newbies. Naturally, no one would want to take on two burdens.
Not only are they unwanted by newcomers, but adventurers of similar levels also look down on Kazuma Satou's party. Moreover, the town is quite peaceful, with possibly very few casualties throughout the year. Under such circumstances, naturally, not many people would come to recruit teammates.
Unless the other party is also a newcomer, and this newcomer must also meet Kazuma Satou's requirements. Such conditions naturally become very harsh.
The two sat there bored. Some busybodies came over to ask a few questions, then shook their heads and left.
For a time, the air around Kazuma Satou and Aqua became silent again.
Aqua couldn't stand it anymore and said to Kazuma Satou, "Hey, Kazuma, why don't we lower our requirements a bit?"
Kazuma Satou rested his right hand on his cheek, looking very bored. After thinking about it, Kazuma Satou agreed with Aqua's view and revised the requirements.
However, after waiting for a while, no one was still willing to come.
Now both of them couldn't sit still.
But at this moment, a slightly childish female voice came from the entrance.
"I am Megumin, the foremost mage of the Crimson Demons! Is there anyone who wishes to become my companion?"
The voice was loud, and everyone's actions momentarily froze. Everyone turned their gaze to the entrance, only to see a girl dressed rather strangely.
This was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, wearing a black cloak, a black robe, black boots, and holding a staff. She even wore a pointed hat, a completely typical mage outfit. As the girl walked in, the cape behind her robe swayed in the breeze.
Kazuma Satou's position was not far from the entrance, so he naturally saw this girl with a very strange appearance.
Kazuma Satou subconsciously narrowed his eyes, his expression becoming a bit strange.
The girl was dressed rather bizarrely. Her right eye was covered with a bandage-like accessory. At first glance, he thought she was wearing white knee-high socks, but when the girl strode into the living room, he realized that those were not white knee-high socks at all, but bandages wrapped around her legs.
Kazuma Satou instinctively sensed something was wrong, but when he heard the other party's self-introduction, Kazuma Satou was stunned, a slightly delighted expression on his face.
Kazuma Satou poked the somewhat drowsy Aqua and whispered to Aqua, "That guy looks pretty good. She's a high-level mage, and she's even a Crimson Demon. Her strength shouldn't be too bad. What do you think?"
Crimson Demons are born with high intelligence and strong magic power, and most of them have the potential to become expert-level mages. The characteristic of the Crimson Demons is their red eyes, which are the origin of their name… and everyone's names are very strange.
In this world, the Crimson Demons are the foremost family of mages. Basically, all the powerful mages come from the Crimson Demons.
Of course, due to some other reasons, the reputation of the Crimson Demons is not particularly good.
"Huh?" Aqua rubbed her eyes and nodded blankly.
In fact, everyone's actions only paused for a moment. When they saw it was Megumin, they directly ignored her.
Everyone continued to do what they were doing, their expressions unchanged.
And this Crimson Demon girl seemed to be used to this kind of scene and didn't care too much. She swaggered to the quest board, her eyes scanning from top to bottom, and finally her gaze stopped on a piece of paper recruiting a team.
The girl looked at it for a few moments, seemingly tempted. She asked the surrounding adventurers something, and that adventurer pointed to the location where Kazuma Satou and Aqua were.
The girl nodded and walked straight towards the two of them.
No adventurers had come for so long. Seeing that an adventurer was finally about to take the bait, Kazuma Satou couldn't help but straighten his body, his expression becoming serious and earnest.
Seeing that Aqua was still dozing off, Kazuma Satou couldn't help but push Aqua. Aqua staggered, almost falling to the ground. Aqua steadied herself and was about to say a few words to Kazuma Satou when she saw the Crimson Demon girl walking towards them. Aqua was stunned, cleared her throat, and put on the dignified demeanor she used to greet transmigrators.
With the blessing of holy light, a gentle aura emanated from within. Aqua was dignified, with an inviolable expression.
Kazuma Satou rolled his eyes. Aqua's act could only fool strangers who were meeting her for the first time. If you stayed with her for a long time, you could see through Aqua's sinister intentions at a glance.