Vol 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)

PART 1

“Megumin! We must have a match today, understand?”

Due to the weather-control effects of a particular teacher, there was a clear blue sky today

When I entered the classroom, I was immediately pestered by Yunyun

For soood mood

—I understood the reason

The silver dagger purchased a few days ago was hanging by her waist

She intentionally touched it a few ti

Did she want er suited her?

I was not her boyfriend I didn’t want to accommodate such a troublesome attitude

“No probleer How should we go about it?”

“Wager… If I win, Megumin will have to obey one command from me…”

“Okay The match content will be biased towards you then How about you use that cool dagger by your waist to settle this?”

“Use this dagger? Okay Although I don’t knohat it is really about, I accept!”

I led the confident Yunyun tomy palm on the desk

“Please use your dagger to continuously stab the space between ers Before I count to ten, if you do not ht?”

“Wait! Wait! No, no, this definitely is a no!”

“No probleet stabbed, I will endure the pain Then let’s start! One! Two!”

“Never mind! I surrender today!”

The scene was unchanged for today

“…Ah Thanks for the treat The taste is great today as well”

“Yes… Once in a while, I also want to have a serious match…”

Yunyun choked on her words as she took the meal box from me

“…By the way, Yunyun, how ic?”

“Points? Another… three points I can learn advanced raduate… How umin need?”

In Criraduate whenever she learned ic

Hearing Yunyun’s question, I looked at my adventurer’s card, which displayed 46 skill points

In the skill list, the words “Learning advanced

But I wanted to learn Explosion ic To learn that, I still needed…

“Still short of four points, which raduate before me”

“Eh!? Wait, Meguood, why do you have less points than raduate alone…!”

As Yunyun became worried, the homeroom teacher arrived

The noisy classroo on the podium, the teacher held the name list

“Taking attendance now”

The classmates responded when they were called

“…Dodonko! Nerimaki! Funifura!”

Since there were only 11 students in this classroom, my turn came quickly

“Megumin! …also Yunyun!”

“Present! …Teacher, what’s with this? You said ‘also’, right? Did you alain?”

“Okay, okay, starting lesson… or so I’ll like to say Recently, theactive The principal asked me to lead the hikikomori… no, the people with free tio home in the afternoon It will be self-study in the library during the ”

Note (): See enwikipediaorg/wiki/Hikikomori

Yunyun becanored The teacher left after speaking

—This was the Cri feared

Monsters were rarely active here

The nearby e…

I looked for books in the library, while still being bothered by this issue

I wanted to read the sequel of the book I read a few days ago

“Rhodes the Untamed” Volume 2, “Rhodes the Untamed” Volume 2…

—Found it

“Yunyun, I’ for that book in your hands You have taken soit immediately, can I borrow it first?”

Yunyun was holding “Rhodes the Untamed” Volume 2 and a few other books

“Uh… sure, Megumin reads this type of books too? Here, for you”

Yunyun handed me “You Can Communicate Even With Goblins” and “Be Friends With Monsters”

“Who says I want this?! Not these, it’s ‘Rhodes the Untamed’!”

“Eh? Megu I read it a few ti Appears’ has an unexpected ending with the old king and his two retainers leaving on a journey…”

“Please, no spoilers! …By the hat’s with your choice of other books? The titles are too painful… Too painful”

“Don’t be like this, Megu at me with such syht? That means, it is possible to be friends with plants…!”

…What was it with this girl?

“I can’t stand you If you want friends so much, just cancel your declaration of me as your rival…”

“—Hey, Yunyun Are you still reading such books? If you want friends so much, I can also be your friend”

I turned to look at the person who interrupted It is the classmate who talked to Yunyun previously… classmate… what’s her name?

“Isn’t it Funikura or so? Friends aren’t made intentionally, but naturally”

“My name is Funifura! Please remember your classmate’s name!”

Yunyun suddenly ca Funifura

“What did you say earlier? What, what did you say earlier!?”

“Hey, you are standing too close Your face is too close! I only said we can be friends…”

Faced with the up-close, serious-looking Yunyun, Funifura slowly backed away, and explained quickly

Hearing her, Yunyun nodded a few times, embarrassed

Oh… Yunyun, the forever alone, finally had a friend!

Although my worry for Yunyun’s future was a bit unasked for, I could be relieved now…!

“Ugh… I’!”

“Hey, Yunyun, do you knohat ‘friend’ means? Do you really know?”

…I could… be relieved… probably

PART 2

“Hey, Yunyun! I will give you a new one! It’s just a rubber band for tying hair If it is lost, I’ll just give you a new one! Megumin already repents, it’s not an issue!”

“But, but…! This is the first gift I received from a friend…!”

—I totally could not be relieved

Funifura wanted Yunyun to be a bit prettier, so she gave her a rubber band

Yunyun was overjoyed to receive a gift She went out of her way back to the classroom, and carefully kept it in the desk Then—

“Why did Megumin search my desk!? Why did you play and shoot off my rubber band! Are you a 3-year-old kid!?”

I got bored of reading, and returned to the classroom early I snapped and shot the rubber band out of theThat was all

—I was kneeling on the classroom floor

“It’s not that Look, there’s a bug on the tree outside theI’s, so I wanted to shoot it down I used up all my rubber bands, so I have no choice but to borrow yours…”

“It’s not ‘no choice’ This isn’t what a girl should be playing I can’t stand you…!”

Yunyun looked at hed

“Funifura, sorry! It is so difficult for inally intended to keep it in my safe at home…!”

“No need to be like that! It’s ridiculous! Rubber bands are meant to be used!”

Funifura said off-handedly, feeling a bit scared of Yunyun

“Forget about it It’s alether”

“Can, can I? Eating lunch together, it’s like being friends!”

“I said before, we are already friends!”

Yunyun’s loneliness was a sickness that developed too far

“Indeed, it’s alo quickly”

I, as ordered to sit straight on the floor, stood up, ready to follow them…

“…Megu a packed lunch?”

“No”

“This won’t do”

I replied, and Funifura shot me down

…Oh dear

It was a good thing for Yunyun to make friends

But at the same time, the poor me would lose my important supply line

I looked worriedly at Yunyun, as preparing to leave with her lunch box

“Megu me! Also, don’t worshi+p me!”

—But, as the saying went, three women made up a drama

“That person is definitely interested in me! But what to do? Also, I have so promise with in my previous life Is this adultery then? More or less”

“It doesn’t matter The previous life is not this life My fated partner is set… no, should be the handsoeon, so I ic fast to rescue him”

What was this unbearable conversation?

“Is that so? The two of you are incredible!”

Yunyun smiled nervously, and responded off-handedly

As I ate lunch with my classmates Funifura and Dodonko, the love topic never stopped

They seemed to have their ideal lovers and reality in a mix of confusion

“What about Yunyun? Your type… no, your lover in the previous life, what is he like?”

Dodonko asked as she forked her salad

“Me? I don’t have ently listen to my daily affairs…”

“Too unromantic”

“Very unromantic”

“This can’t be helped Yunyun is a weird person, after all By the way, my previous life should be a God of destruction, so I had no lover Ah, I’m full, so tasty”

“Weird person!? Hey, aive you half! Why did you eat it all?!”

PART 3

On the way home from school

“Great, Yunyun finally has friends I even suspected that Yunyun’s previous life is a giant isopod, and will be lonely forever I was so worried”

Note (): See enwikipediaorg/wiki/Giant_isopod

I said to the overjoyed Yunyun

“I did not choose to be alone! …Meguirl should be conscious of her appearance There’s some soy sauce”

Yunyun said, and used her handkerchief to wipe my mouth, just like my mother

“I used to think that Yunyun is a child who cannot fit into society, and will be easily tricked by a bad guy who pretends to be her friend Now, I am relieved”

“I used to think that Megumin is a child who lacks the uy who treats her to a meal Now, I am relieved”

Yunyun, iping my mouth, and I stared at each other, and immediately backed off

“You said soirl ill blindly follow a bad guy for a meal?”

“Megumin is like that Besides, you underestiirl ill blindly follow a bad guy just to be friends?”

I confronted Yunyun by the roadside, s viciously

“Ah, I can easily iine a future in which Yunyun is at the beck and call of a useless guy who told her ‘Let’s be friends'”

“I can also i at a loss due to a lack in the uy for a meal!”

…It looked like it was time to settle the score with this self-proclaimed rival

I took on a defensive position Yunyun became wary

In this hair-trigger moment, a sound suddenly interrupted

“Eh? Isn’t this Megumin who live nearby?”

I turned and looked It was the shoe-maker’s son who lived near my house

“Isn’t this Buzucoily? What are you doing here?”

Tobrother But he idled around every day, declaring that he needed to conserve his power before the world needed him

It was rare for hi outside

“The e I was driving the nearby monsters away Ah, since I was told ‘Now is the time to use your reserved power!’, I have been full of adrenaline”

Oh, yes The ho the hikikoe to hunt monsters

He washis self-satisfied look, I decided not to spoil his mood

“Oh, there are even monsters that you do not usually see What’s the nae…”

Buzucoily said softly and made eye contact with Yunyun

“…Mine is the naic… the son and successor of the top shoe-hter Pleased to meet you”

“Ah! Yes, I’m Yunyun Please to meet you…”

Buzucoily erated self-introduction Embarrassed, Yunyun lowered her head and introduced herself softly

It was rare for her to have a chance to introduce herself This little girl is really strange

“What are you two doing? There’s a sense of tension that a battle ht erupt in any moment”

“Yes! This woman and I are about to have a death duel to deterer! Yunyun, let’s start!”

“Wait! Aren’t we having a normal match? I still don’t have that kind of determination!”

PART 4

I opened the loosely-closed door of reeted the darkness

“I’m home”

Following the sound of footsteps, a welco voice said

“Welcome home, sis!”

Ko

Her face and her robe were muddied

It looked like she went out to play again

“Komekko, I don’t knohere you went, but the e Soo out”

“Okay! I will try not to go out!”

“…More accurately, it should be ‘Do not go out’”

Komekko handed me a piece of paper

“…? What is this?”

“A pretty woic iteic ite me this”

…? I looked closely, this appeared to be an order foric items

At the edge, in a beautifully written script:

“I’ic iteood business contact with my shop…”

There was also praises for my father at the back

…Father was a ic item artisan

But, even though his reat power, all of them were flawed

I did not knohere this shopkeeper came from, but she probably confused my father with someone else

Otherwise, this shopkeeper’s business sense must be abnormal

“Yeah If she wasn’t confused, then it must be mockery Her shop’s location is the rookie city Axel The shop name is…”

—Before I finished reading, Komekko pulled my sleeves

“Sis, I’redients!”

“Fine, I’ll redient left, just soetables”

Koedwere all prepared

There were also soetables

I was thinking of etable soup, when a soft sound was heard suddenly from the pot

“……?”

I removed the pot cover Inside it was…

“…Ko”

“It’s fatter today when compared to yesterday! When can we eat it? Tomorrow?”

“Let’s wait a few more days”

I fed Koht it would be okay to leave Kuro at ho to school

—After deciding this, I picked Kuro out of the pot

PART 5

Today was a school holiday

This was a frightening day every week For me, it was an unbearable day

The reason was…

“Sis, good ht? Let’s eat breakfast!”

“…Ko home You can eat my share as well I can conservetoday”

I lay beneath the blanket without

But Komekko did not leave

“Without going to school, sis won’t be able to eat Yunyun’s breakfast Let’s eat together!”

…Hearing this, I unwillingly got out of bed

Without going to school, I could not get food from Yunyun

I would normally eat my breakfast in school, so I could leave

My gentle sister would invitethe holidays

“It can’t be helped then What is for breakfast today?”

“Rice balls and salmon!”

“…That’s all we can do at the end of the month But I don’t like salmon, so Komekko can have it”

“…Then let’s feed it”

Ko at Kuro who came out of the blanket with me

It seemed that she wanted to eat it

I patted entle sister’s head…

“…… (gulp)…”

…I urgedat Kuro, to the kitchen

“Kuro, do you want to eat the skin of my salmon?”

“Meow”

“The skin is nutritious, so ”

After eating with Komekko, I considered what to do for today

—Father was a ic iteood

Even if they were sold, they must be heavily discounted, so my family had always been poor

At the end of each ic iteether at home

Father said they would leave this , and would not return for a few days

There should not be erator

Then…

“Koe Perhaps I can find some food…”

Bite!

“Meow!”

…Following the sound of so bitten, Kuro cried out softly

“…Did you bite Kuro again?”

“It doesn’t taste good when eaten raw”

—It looked like I must hurry

“Koreat charis man”

“My sister is a Femme Fatale!”

“Eh, eh! Komekko, I don’t want to do this, but the situation in the refrigerator is really bad… We were just talking about him, and the sheep appears”

Ko like a good sister, radually towards the sheep

“Isn’t this Buzucoily, the handso! Nice weather today”

“…I have no work, so you can’t con money from me”

Buzucoily was practicing his poses for grand entrance in the yard He warnedthe first strike before I could say more

I thought he was a useless hikikomori, but it seemed he should not be underestimated

“I would never ask , for ry”

“Where is the respect? You are just trying to scam me! I have no work and no lover, so there is no way I can steal food from my house for you Sorry, you better find someone else…”

“Big brother, I’ry!”

“Wait, Koht now!”

I watched Buzucoily run off, and said tohands,

“……Starting from today, you may call yourself Femme Fatale Komekko”

“Mine is the naic Clan’s Number One Femme Fatale little sister!”

Thereafter, my Femme Fatale little sister received a lot of tributes

PART 6

“Meguht!?”

For so She came to me as soon as I entered the classroom

“I kno is breakfast time Thanks for the meal too”

“What has breakfast tione conclusion… Eh, it? You mean Kuro’s meal? I have to feed Kuro too?!”

While Yunyun was shouting, I intentionally grabbed Kuro as on my shoulder

“If you are unwilling, I don’t mind But my family is not rich, so if you don’t accept, it will starve…”

“I understand! I just have to feed it, right? But this will have to wait until Megumin wins! And if I have to prepare its food as well, today’s match content will be decided by me!”

“No problem”

“If you don’t agree… Eh? Is it really okay?”

I repeated myself to the suspicious Yunyun

“No problem Yunyun can decide on the match content”

“……!”

Hearing this, Yunyun’s face glowed She secretly displayed a V hand sign to signify victory

But her expression stiffened immediately

“There will be only one match You cannot say that I am only allowed to determine the content of one match out of three!”

“I won’t change my mind Who do you take me for?”

I replied instantly, but Yunyun still had not relaxed her wariness of me

“You won’t make excuses like… ‘The one you defeated is not the real th’, ‘You can only be the real winner if you defeat my second form’”

“You still reo By the way, I have four forms If you win once today, I will admit defeat”

Hearing this, Yunyun finally relaxed and sighed

“Then… Then! The match will be arumin in this!”

Yunyun put her arm on her desk, rolled up her sleeves, and smiled confidently

I put Kuro on the desk in sight of Yunyun, then rolled up my sleeves and ready my arm

As we held hands tightly, our tall, eye patch-wearing classmate, Arue, became interested and came over

“Arue, good tie”

“Sure nobody can cheat in the view of my demonic eye Now, ready…!”

At eratedly removed her eye patch, and knelt properly on the floor

“Yunyun, if I win this time, you have to feed both Kuro and me I don’t have any Skill Up Potion today If you hat do you want?”

“Eh? My request? Yes, yes, h, you will coether with me…”

Arue, as sitting on the floor, placed her chin on the desk Holding the desk, she shouted

“Fight!”

“Ha!”

“Eh? Ahhhh! Wait! Ughhhh!”

I intended to act suddenly to win the instant Arue announced the start But Yunyun ed to hold on

Yunyun, as physically stronger thana comeback

Since a sneak attack did not work, I can only…!

“Ah… If this goes on, I won’t have breakfast to eat… Yunyun’s food is so tasty I look forward to it every day…”

“!? Ev-, even if you say that! Today, I ain the title of Crihter, but also gain other titles…!”

Yunyun seemed to be bothered by her special treathter

I originally thought Yunyun challenged me daily only because nobody else would socialize with her…

But I will never let go of enius…!

“Ah If this goes on, not only me, even Kurosuke will starve…! My family is too poor to feed Kurobei For my beloved Kurotaro’s sake, I cannot lose…”

“Ah!? That, that… If you care so e its nae of my kindness!”

Yunyun slightly relaxed the are We entered into a stalemate Arue announced seriously:

“It is now a stalemate! There are 30 seconds left! If victory is not achieved within the re time, both parties will die!”

“What!?” x2

As I was surprised by Arue’s sudden addition to the rules, Kuro walked on the desk towards Yunyun

It sniffed at our quivering arms, then started to act cute before Yunyun

“St-, stop, Kuro Even if I win, I will still feed you…! Don’t act so cute!”

“A pet belongs to herto eat, I will snatch Kuro’s food You better understand this!”

“Despicable!”

“Winner is Megumin!”

Arue announced and raised ht arm up

PART 7

“Soe’s hikikoate the ht? As a result, there are no strongonly the dangerous ones Today’s lesson is field coe, ill use Cri to raise everyone’s level Everyone asseroup of two! Go!”

After taking attendance, the teacher explained today’s lesson and left The classroom became noisy

The students gathered according to how close they are to each other Yunyun sat at her desk, stealing glances at me

“What is it? My self-proclaimed rival, Yunyun”

“Self-proclairoups…”

“Yes We have to forroups So what?”

I intentionally used a distant tone of voice Yunyun became nervous

……Seriously

As usual, she cannot bring herself to ask for team invitation

Well, I ate her breakfast, so I decided to take the initiative

“Megumin If you don’t have a team yet, want to join me?”

I wanted to approach Yunyun, but Arue suddenly approached me

I reroup of three

“Okay, let’s do it together then”

“!?”

Yunyun listened to our conversation, beco confused and unsettled

Arue and I turned to look at Yunyun

After a while, Yunyun looked at us, and timidly said,

“Humin, I also…”

At the

“Yunyun, want to team up with us?”

“Oh, right You were always left behind, right? Just join our team”

Funifura and Dodonko invited Yunyun

The two of them smiled and walked to Yunyun’s desk

After being invited by thelance at me, as if she wasn’t sure what to do

“Let’s go, Yunyun We are classmates after all”

“Yes, yes We are friends, right!?”

“!? Friends…! Yes, yes, then…”

The term “friends” made the embarrassed Yunyun stood up

So easily seduced How unsure of herself

As expected, Yunyun would be conned by bad guys in the future

Yunyun seemed reluctant to leave me, but Funifura pushed her out of the classroom

“This is called being cuckolded, right…”

“!”

I, I wasn’t being cuckolded!

PART 8

The teacher lectured in the field, with her cloak fluttering in the wind

“Everyone is present! If you have a weapon, use your own Those without them can use these to deliver a final blow to the monsters!”

The teacher said and pointed to the pile of iteround

There was athat most of them were…

“Teacher! The weapons are too big We probably can’t carry them…”

Yes, all the weapons were massive

The great sas taller than Arue The blade of the axe ider than my body

The re could not move it…