Kazuma Satou

Satou Kazuma ( 佐藤 さとう 和真 かずま ) is the main protagonist of the light novel and anime series Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!.

Appearance

Kazuma is a young man of average height 5'5" (165 cm) weighing 120 lb (54 kg) with slightly spiky chestnut-brown hair and green eyes (brown eyes in the light novel). His usual outfit initially was a green tracksuit, but later he started using an adventurer outfit consisting of a gold-trimmed green mantle, white shirt, pants, and leather boots. He wore a short sword on his belt, later replaced by his short katana, Chunchunmaru.

Personality

Before he died, Kazuma used to be a shut-in, who stopped attending school and spent the days locked in his room, playing video games. After he went to the Parallel World, Kazuma kept his laziness, as, while he works hard while he is on debt, once Kazuma has spare money, he stops working, lazing around at his mansion as a NEET. Kazuma is so experienced in the NEET lifestyle he even taught Bukkororii, another convicted NEET, ways to spend the whole day doing absolutely nothing. Kazuma also enjoys partying and getting wasted.

Because of his laziness, Kazuma is also greedy, knowing he needs money in order to sustain himself without working daily. Because of his intelligence and luck, he has a great business sense, and is always after news ways to make easy money. However, Kazuma sometimes is carried away by the moment and wastes money partying in the Guild.

Also, since Kazuma spent much of his young playing video games or reading manga, he sees his life in the Parallel World as a video game. Although Kazuma has common sense, he usually classifies people and elements around him as manga and video games tropes, even having a soft spot for sister archetypes. For such reason Kazuma gets frustrated by both the Parallel World realism, or its lack of common sense or logic, as its bizarre monsters or rules.

Because Kazuma is basically a babysitter for this "troubled children" party members, he is a very stressed person too. Kazuma is always taking responsibility by and cleaning up the mess caused by Aqua, Megumin and Darkness, becoming a volatile person and having outbursts of anger, sadness and even joy. Also, as a babysitter to his party, he does not hesitate in punish his party members for their missteps.

After reincarnated in the Parallel World, Kazuma decided to abandon his inhibitions. Although he is still caring deep down, Kazuma became a "too honest" person, who usually speaks whatever comes to his mind, no matter who it hurts. Because of such rudeness, mockery and sarcasm, he usually ill-treats or treats well those around him according to his humor, often using excuses, like his speeches about "true gender equality", to treat everyone "equally poorly", no matter the gender. Although Kazuma can be kind, particularly with children, he is also resentful, taking revenge on those who mess with him or his friends, and merciless, not pitying his friends.

Kazuma is a huge pervert as well, actually the most perverted man in Axel since its former Lord disappeared. Although his type are busty woman with long hair, Kazuma is always trying to peep all women around him (except Aqua), as well as committing "minor" sexual harassments, like trying to feel Megumin's chest against his back while carrying her. However, Kazuma actually goes after a kind and sensible girl (a typical novel heroine), and for such reason his heart skips with any display of kindness, even with the person is Iris or Aqua.

Kazuma is a coward too. He is willing of turn away and run off his enemies, while apologises almost in tears, and even use his party members as shield, although he can overcome his fears in order to help his friends. Also, because of his cowardice, Kazuma is afraid of both make a move on or kick out his party members. He, however, is bold-faced, as Kazuma often begs for forgiveness on his knees shamelessly.

Kazuma is also clever and artful, often formulating sneaky and pragmatic strategies during fights, thanks to his video games experience, as well as manipulating both his enemies as his allies in different situations. He is willing to trick party members in order to get what he wishes, as well as to keep secrets from them. However, Kazuma is still trustworthy in important moments, as life-threatening situations; and honest, as he never takes advantage of other people, nor the problems caused by his party members.

Furthermore, Kazuma is, according to Megumin, a weak-willed man with, according to Aqua, the mental resilience of tofu. Although he shows confidence and tries to look cool in suitable circumstances, Kazuma is very frivolous, getting carried away by fame, status and popularity, as well as acting without thinking, or falling into temptations of the fresh and the money, no matter how determined he was. His lack of determination is also viewable by how fast Kazuma gave up defeating the Devil King once he reincarnated in the Parallel World, and Kazuma usually only acts on self-interest.

However, while Kazuma usually complains about his party members and the harsh world he lives, Kazuma is a tsundere at heart, as while he pretends he doesn't care for his party, Kazuma grew attached to them, bending over backwards and sacrificing what is important for him, as opportunities, for his party's well-being, aside of making their will and supporting their antics, to his regret sometimes. Kazuma only admitted to himself he actually enjoys his party and that world in the end of the series.

Early Life

Kazuma Satou was once a regular student in Japan, yet during the summer of his third year in junior high, he witnessed his childhood sweetheart, who had promised to marry him, riding away on the motorcycle of her uppperclassman boyfriend. This shocked Kazuma into becoming a shut-in hiki-NEET, and instead of going to school spent his days engrossed with online games, where through endless battles against monsters alongside the parties he led, he made himself a name among the gaming community.

Journey to Axel Arc

One day, Kazuma following several days of gaming without rest decided to leave his house for once to buy a new game called Myraid Swords 2. Managing to snag a copy, on the way back Kazuma noticed a girl from his class who was about to be hit by a truck, so taking the initiative he jumped into the way.

He next found himself transported to a room, where an inhumanly beautiful girl who identified herself as Aqua the Goddess of Water informed him about his death by shock due to mistaking that he got run over by what turned out to be a slow tractor. After Aqua made fun of his embarrassing death to Kazuma's fury, she informed him of the 3 options before him: either start anew on Earth as a new person, go to heaven (which she doesn't recommend due to the lack of things to do there and the inability to have sex), or get reincarnated to a Parallel World currently ravaged by a Devil King.

After revealing that the fantasy world's language would be loaded into his brain despite a small chance of making his brain go "poof", much to Kazuma's concern, Aqua instructed him to pick a cheat item or special skill to be reincarnated with. Next called a geek by the impatient Aqua because he took his time trying to decide, the angered Kazuma eventually came up with a plan to get back at her, and made the decision to choose Aqua as his "special skill". An Angel who subsequently appeared next notified him that his choice was accepted by the gods, as well as how upon him defeating the Devil King, they will grant any one of his wishes. The jubilant Kazuma was then sent to the parallel world along with Aqua, much to the goddess' dismay.

Arriving at Axel, known as the Town of Beginnings where new adventurers start their careers, Kazuma asked Aqua for any info regarding this world, only to be shaken around by the goddess, who panickedly told him that she couldn't go back to the Heavenly Realm unless he defeats the Devil King. Kazuma thus decided to find the Adventurer's Guild for getting more information, though when asked by Kazuma if she knew its location, Aqua confessed that she didn't know anything about it, leading Kazuma to call her "useless".

Managing to reach the Guild, they got pointed by a Ruffian towards the reception counters to sign up as adventurers, yet find out from Luna that there is a guild registration fee. Kazuma thus asked Aqua for some money, only to be told of her having none, which caused Kazuma to call her "useless" again. He next felt sorry for Aqua when she went to pressure a priest for money, citing herself as the goddess of the Axis Order, but instead found out that he served the rival Eris Order, who nonetheless gave her money out of pity which she accepted despite feeling slightly defeated.

They pay the registration fee, and though their sorry states made Luna hesitate to look at them, she subsequently explained about the Adventurer Card and how it's used to show a person's level and skills, before telling Kazuma to hold his hand above a device looking like a card (or a crystal ball in the anime) for determining his stats. With Kazuma's stats revealed to be average across the board except his high intelligence and extremely high luck, Luna explained that stats like these are more suited for merchants, but Kazuma still decided to be an adventurer. He was next piqued when Aqua's stats were revealed to be exceptionally high except for her low intelligence and extremely low luck, which qualified her to become an Arch Priest, and further irrigated as the people in the entire Guild cheered for her. Calming himself down from the jealousy at Aqua stealing his thunder, Kazuma cheered up when Aqua approached him and told him that they will start a life of adventuring.

Irregular of Axel Arc

The same night he arrived at this new world, Kazuma who at dinner regretted his selection discovered to his dismay that because they had no money for equipment to start questing or even rent a room at the inn, Aqua could only borrow a stall at the stables for them to sleep in. The two of them next began working part-time jobs, first as servers at the Guild's banquet hall, where Kazuma berating the manager for asking him to harvest anchovies from the fields became a reason they got sacked, then later as banana sellers at a produce stand, where Aqua demonstrated making the merchandise disappear for good and got them both sacked again.

With jobs in the service industry all blown, Kazuma talked the reluctant Aqua into working for the construction industry, which was hiring heavy labourers because the craters Megumin had been blowing in the grasslands just outside the city walls needed to be filled. He however got sick of the backbreaking work on the first day, and instead had to be persuaded by Aqua into continuing this line of work. Thus they began a life of hard and gritty work during daytime before being the first to bathe at dusk, followed by them merrily eating and drinking at dinner after nightfall, sometimes in the company of their fellow construction workers, though the foreman had a tendency of slapping Kazuma on the butt as a way to "be friendly", and Aqua's antics such as swindling an adventurer who made her drop her wages brought him to tears.

Beginner Adventurer Arc

Following weeks of life as day labourers, Kazuma abruptly remembered how they needed to do some real adventuring. Aqua thus suggested Kazuma to go on a kill quest, and at him hesitating due to them being only Level 1, she stated that if she is around he has nothing to worry about, so Kazuma decided to believe the goddess, even though Aqua tripped and fell into the fountain as they were about to go back to the stables.

Waiting until the sleazy Aqua finally woke up late in the following day, Kazuma armed with a cheap sword he had managed to buy took her on a quest to hunt 5 Giant Toads, and soon found himself running for his life from one of the oversized amphibians on the grasslands outside the city while Aqua laughed in amusement. He was thus forced to beg for her help despite the unreasonable demands she made, only to be shocked when Aqua was instead gobbled up by the Giant Toad, though its immobility when swallowing her allowed Kazuma to kill it. After freeing the slimy and smelly goddess who bawled about being defiled, he had to repeat the process because she foolishly charged another Giant Toad and ended up gobbled again.

The pair soon returned to the city where they first washed the slime off at the public baths, then during dinner Kazuma suggested recruiting for new party members. However, nobody came applying on the following morning because the recruitment advertisement posted by Aqua only accepted advanced classes (and in the anime was not only badly drawn as well as written, but contained many fake reviews). Just as Kazuma was about to go change the advertisement, they were approached by Megumin, who bewildered him with her weird name as well as a chuunibyou introduction. Told by Aqua about Megumin being a Crimson Demon whose tribe is known for being overpowered mages sporting chuunibyou personalities, Kazuma after feeding the starving Arch Wizard and getting over his initial annoyance regarding her antics, took Megumin along with them for continuing the quest against the Giant Toads.

Exasperated when Aqua charged an approaching Giant Toad only to be gobbled up again, he became astounded by the sheer power of the Explosion cast by Megumin to completely obliterate another of the amphibians. His awe though turned to frustration upon seeing Megumin limply collapse from having exhausted all her magical powers before a newly emerging Giant Toad gobbled her up too, forcing him to rescue both her and Aqua, which ended up completing their quest. Carrying the limp Megumin on his back as he took the slimy girls back to the city, Kazuma heard the Crimson Demon explain how she had learned no spells except for Explosion which she could only cast once per day, the mechanics of which Aqua briefly elucidated for him. Naturally prompted to ditch the vehemently protesting Megumin, he ended up being blackmailed into keeping her around once Megumin began loudly deepening the misunderstandings of passersby, who had thought him to have sexually tormented the slimy girls.

Sending the said slimy girls to wash themselves off at the public baths before his reputation gets further damaged, Kazuma who collected the meagre rewards from completing the quest contemplated on how hard it is to make a living through questing. But just as he was crossing out some impossible quests, Darkness approached him pressuring to joining his party because she was attracted by how he got some girls all slimy and wanted to share the same fate, prompting Kazuma to reject the beautiful but masochistic pervert.

On the following day at the Guild, Kazuma was taught by Megumin how to learn skills using his Adventurer Card, before refusing to expend his skill points for learning Megumin's Explosion and Aqua's party tricks. He was then approached by Chris who came alongside Darkness, and accepted her offer of teaching him Thief skills. Accompanying the pair to the courtyard outside, Kazuma watched Chris demonstrate Enemy Detection and Lurk, subsequent to which she demonstrated Steal by taking his purse from him. Next offered to Steal something off Chris, he learned the Thief skills taught to him, before Stealing much to his excitement Chris' panties. Initially proclaiming to keep it as his family treasure, Kazama eventually returned Chris' panties after she returned his purse in addition to paying him all of her money.

Heading back to the Guild where Aqua was performing to a cheering crowd, Kazuma was shocked when Darkness blurted out the scummy acts he had just committed for everybody to hear. After Chris left for some adventuring work, though not before further damaging Kazuma's reputation as payback, he at Megumin's request demonstrated Steal, and was rewarded with Megumin's panties. Next continuing with his refusal of Darkness' attempts to join, he was cut off by an emergency quest that called for every adventurer in the city to participate, which turned out to be a harvest of flying Cabbages, to Kazuma's utter speechlessness. He anyhow Lurked close to clusters of Cabbages before Stealing them into his load, and during dinnertime with the three girls contemplated the vegetables' tastiness, before agreeing to have Darkness join his party.

Kazuma a few days later asked some other adventurers to teach him Basic Magic in addition to some other skills, and used the money he earned for a new outfit. With Aqua and Megumin still traumatised by Giant Toads, he at Darkness' suggestion took a quest for hunting a Zombie Maker at the public cemetery to help Aqua level up. During a party barbecue at the cemetery that night, Kazuma detected unusually numerous Zombies crowding towards a ritual nearby performed by Wiz, whom Aqua identified as a Lich and immediately attacked. Kazuma however stopped Aqua from purifying Wiz and listened to her explain how she was simply sending the Ghosts of the buried dead who couldn't afford a proper burial to the afterlife, and accordingly made a deal to have Aqua send the lost souls in place of the Lich so that the buried corpses won't be animated into Zombies by Wiz's presence, even though this rendered their quest a failure.

One day when drinking Neroid, Kazuma heard about one of the Devil King's Generals occupying a nearby castle, before finding his party's abilities hopelessly unbalanced. Some days later, his plans of using the rewards from the Cabbage harvest for buying a decent residence became moot when he had to pay off Aqua's debts. Finding no quests against low-levelled monsters because they all went into hiding as a result of the General's presence, during the following week Kazuma accompanied Megumin on daily Explosion exercises aimed at an abandoned castle, and as a result gained a sense of how to rate the Explosions.

Like all of Axel, Kazuma too was shocked by the sudden arrival of Beldia, who turned out to be that Devil King's General residing in the abandoned castle, though it soon turned into perplexity when the Dullahan raged about him being irritated to madness by the daily Explosions. Subsequent to Darkness being cursed to die after a week in Megumin's place, he had to hold the Crusader back from following the surprised Beldia to his castle in order to fulfil her perverted fantasies. Kazuma and Megumin after the Dullahan's departure made up their mind to accept Beldia's invitation of raiding the castle and making him remove the curse, only to be dumbfounded when it was easily broken by Aqua.

At some point during the period, Kazuma assisted Aqua with soliciting her holy water that ended up not selling, and had to restrain her from pestering a retired adventurer who provided water for free. He also accompanied Megumin on a job at a quarry, where she surprised him by mercilessly blowing up a baby Wyvern. In addition Kazuma was asked by Darkness to help look for a runaway Roper that she wanted to keep as pet, though to no avail. Then as the girls vied for leadership, Kazuma sat back to watch in hopes that somebody else could take up his troublesome duty, only for the girls to point him out as the party leader once Luna approached asking for somebody to take responsibility for their misdeeds. And when Kazuma took the party to hunt for a golden bamboo early one morning, he managed to dodge bamboo shoots attacking from below, only to be hit in the butt by the golden bamboo, which nobody wanted to eat afterwards.

(In the audio drama, it was also during this period when Kazuma helped Megumin by pretending to date her in an attempt to make a stalker thought to be fancying the Crimson Demon give up)

A week after Beldia's appearance, Kazuma stopped Aqua from taking some high-difficulty quests before letting her perform one that involved purifying the riverhead lake in order to get rid of the Brutal Alligators infesting it, then came up with the idea of locking Aqua within a cage borrowed from the Guild and dumping it into the shallows, so that she could purify the water without being harmed by the ferocious reptiles as they attacked her. Yet following the successful purification of the lake, he was forced to cart Aqua back within the cage on their return trip to the city because the traumatised goddess refused to leave it.

Kazuma next found himself confronted by Mitsurugi Kyouya on the streets, who after breaking Aqua out of the cage and hearing about her circumstances, angrily accused Kazuma of mistreating his beloved goddess. Piqued by the ignorance of the Sword Master over Aqua's lack of respectability as well as his arrogant attitude which was indicative of one who never had to scrape around for a living thanks to the cheat item gifted to him upon reincarnation, Kazuma made to leave once his companions refused Mitsurugi's offer for them to join his party, only to be challenged by the undaunted Mitsurugi to a duel. Kazuma immediately pulled a sneak attack on the Sword Master upon accepting the challenge where the winner can take whatever he wanted from his opponent, before Stealing the Cursed Sword Gram out of Mitsurugi's hands and knocking him out with the flat of the blade. Deciding to take Gram for his own even though it cannot be wielded by somebody other than Mitsurugi, Kazuma through threatening to use Steal on Cremea and Fio, successfully scared Mitsurugi's companions from attempting to take the cursed sword back.

With Gram still being dead weight, however, Kazuma decided to make good money off his prize by selling it to a general store on his way back to the Guild. He was later confronted again by Mitsurugi, who came accusing him of various scummy deeds on girls, then following the Sword Master's enthusiasm being punched out by Aqua, Kazuma sent him and his party scurrying away with the revelation of Gram being sold off.

The party of Kazuma was accordingly summoned by the Guild alongside other adventurers to the city gate, where Beldia returned to rage about how the daily Explosions had been continuing since his previous visit, which in turn enraged Kazuma because he realised that Megumin along with Aqua had been persisting with casting Explosions at the abandoned castle behind his back, prompting him to pull the cheeks of the two idiots. Kazuma later instructed Megumin to blow up Beldia's army of Undead Knights, which were chasing after Aqua who in turn chased after him, as they lured the horde far outside the city gate (and in the anime right up to Beldia's side).

Carrying the limp Megumin further away, Kazuma looked on in horror as Beldia easily cut down all the adventurers attacking him, and became additionally terrified upon hearing the onlookers reveal that they were waiting for Mitsurugi to show up and defeat the Devil King's General with Gram. He was next left speechless by Darkness' inability to hit Beldia with her attacks despite her tanking his, and with the other mage adventurers frightened from casting magic because of the Dullahan's death curse, Kazuma took it upon himself to Create Water for dousing Darkness who fantasized perversely even when repeatedly wounded, only to notice Beldia jumping away from the stream of water. Proceeding to Freeze the water puddles so Beldia cannot dodge, Kazuma and other Thief adventurers tried to Steal the sword from the Devil King's General, yet failed because of their difference in levels.

Just as Kazuma despaired his lack of competency while Beldia prepared to deal the killing blow on Darkness, he remembered from the games he had played that Undeads are susceptible to flowing water, thus teamed up with other magic-using adventurers to Create Water at the Dullahan. The streams they sent towards the Devil King's General though all got evaded, so Kazuma frantically told Aqua to summon water, but soon regretted it when the Goddess of Water summoned a flood that not only nearly drowned the adventurers, but caused huge damage to the nearby city walls and structures. Kazuma anyhow managed to Steal Beldia's head from the weakened Dullahan afterwards, which he gleefully used for soccer with some other adventurers, before Aqua purified the Devil King's General and revealed how she had Resurrected the slain adventurers.

A day following Beldia's demise, Kazuma made up his mind to abandon his mission of defeating the Devil King, but instead become a businessman in order to live safely and soundly. Heading to the Guild where his party members and other adventurers were heartedly celebrating, he heard from Luna how his party was awarded a special reward for defeating a Devil King's General. Yet before Kazuma could rejoice, Luna handed him a bill for the flood damages to the city caused by Aqua, which instead plunged them all into tens of millions in debt, spurring Kazuma's determination for defeating the Devil King so that he could get out of this ridiculous world.

Some time afterwards, Kazuma stopped Aqua's attempt at swindling Chris of money for retrieving a purse forcibly taken from a beginner adventurer. He however was unable to prevent Megumin from getting away with a cursed gem she had taken from Chris because the Crimson Demon made a scene about being robbed, and instead had to flee alongside Chris from the pursuing policemen by using Lurk. Kazuma was later treated to drinks by Chris at the Guild, during which Aqua joined in much to his speechlessness.

Deep Winter Arc

With the rewards from every one of his party's quests getting a substantial portion deducted for paying off his debts as the cold hard winter approached, Kazuma who one morning woke up to find his eyelashes frozen over became desperate for money so that they can get out of the stables fast. Rummaging around the Guild's bulletin board where mostly difficult quests were posted, he ignored one for scouting out the Destroyer before choosing the one for hunting Snow Sprites.

At the snowfield forest where Snow Sprites gathered, Kazuma easily took out many of them before instructing Megumin to clear out the rest with an Explosion. He next became both terrified and exasperated once the Winter Shogun appeared, since the murderous spirit out to avenge the Snow Sprites took this form thanks to some Japanese reincarnate previously sent over by Aqua. Despite following Aqua's advice to dogeza at the generous spirit for mercy, Kazuma had to jump up and force the stubbornly prideful Darkness into lowering her head, which resulted in his own getting chopped off by the Winter Shogun.

He soon found himself back in the familiar afterlife, where he was greeted by the goddess Eris who truly empathised with him. Accordingly offered reincarnation as a baby in a rich family back in Japan, Kazuma who thought himself hating the Parallel World starting weeping once he thought about his companions. Next hearing the voice of Aqua calling for him to return to his body that she had Resurrected, Kazuma was allowed by Eris, whom he found to be a true goddess, into going back to the world of living. His first thought upon returning to life, however, was to switch Aqua for Eris, before finally accepting the fact about rookies like him being incapable of taking quests during the winter. Although the party managed to earn enough for staying at an inn for the time being, the recollection of Eris was enough to make Kazuma regret his choice of coming back to this world where he had nobody but insane companions.

Deciding to find some simple porter jobs several days later at the Guild in order to let his recovering body take it easy, Kazuma found himself taunted by a drunken Dust over his weak Class, and finally lost it when the delinquent described his adventuring life in a party filled with beauties of advanced Classes as a breeze. He proceeded to agree with Dust's jest for them to switch parties for a day, and consequently accompanied Taylor, Rin, and Keith on a quest against Goblins as their porter.

Finding adventures with an ordinary party quite enjoyable even if he was looked down upon, Kazuma impressed them when his Enemy Detection picked up an approaching Beginner's Bane before he hid them all from the dangerous monster through Lurk until it left. With his new companions carrying their own luggage out of newfound respect for him, they soon discovered the Goblins who unexpectedly numbered a full score and gave them a tough battle. Kazuma though applied a combination of Basic Magic for defending the party and hampering the Goblins, allowing them to easily eliminate all of the monsters. As he headed back with the others who repeatedly praised him, the Beginner's Bane from earlier came chasing after them, at which Kazuma blinded the beast with another combination of Basic Magic and allowed for everybody to flee, further impressing the other three. Eventually returning to the Guild late that night, where they were greeted by an apologetic Dust who had a disastrous day with the three pretty but incompetent troublemakers, Kazuma ended up complying with his plea of them going back to their previous parties.

A week since Kazuma's decapitation, he having learned more Thief skills in addition to some Archer ones decided to go venturing into Keele's Dungeon alone for any leftover treasures, asking Megumin and Darkness for escort to its entrance. Using potions that masked his scent as well as Lurk to hide from monsters, Kazuma nevertheless had to let Aqua accompany him into the dungeon when reminded of Undeads that could still detect him. Soon contemplating ditching the goddess at the dungeon's depths after she laughed at how he freaked out at the sight of an adventurer's corpse, Kazuma tried unsuccessfully signalling for silence from the dimwitted Aqua prior to an enemy attack. Subsequent to cutting down the attacking monster that Aqua identified as a Gremlin, he realised to his shocking embarrassment how the goddess, who could see clearly in the dark, had witnessed him pleasuring himself when sleeping next to him in the stables.

Accordingly impressed when Aqua purified hordes of Undeads coming their way, Kazuma stopped her from approaching a chest, which turned out to be a Dungeon Mimic. Finally reaching the deepest part of the dungeon where they found nothing but unusually numerous Undeads crowding towards them, the pair was met by Keele who was awakened by Aqua's aura. Following Keele's recounting of his life story and Aqua's purification of the Lich using a magic circle drawn in his chamber, Kazuma as they left with the treasure Keele had gifted them realised how it was Aqua's goddess aura that had been attracting the droves of Undead, and consequently ditched her in the middle of a monster attack.

Seeking to compensate for his party's wildly unbalanced abilities, one day Kazuma made up his mind to visit the magic item shop owned by Wiz in hopes of learning Lich skills from its owner, though due to Megumin's earlier warning about the powers Liches wield, as a precaution he brought Aqua along. After clobbering the goddess because she against his instructions tried to attack Wiz, Kazuma who was surprised by the explosive potions Wiz put on sale in turn surprised Aqua once he expressed his goal. He next decided to spare the shopkeeper when she revealed her identity as a Devil King's General since she never hurt people, though Aqua's attempt at purifying Wiz while she demonstrated Drain Touch on her forced Kazuma to smack the goddess again. With the Lich reduced to a weakened state and incapable of taking on a request from a real estate broker to solve a Ghost infestation problem at one of his client's properties, Kazuma decided to have his party perform it in her place, especially when the owner allowed them to live there until it is no longer seen as haunted.

As Kazuma brought his party to settle at the villa mansion that had belonged to a noble, he ignored Aqua's ramblings about Anna's ghost that still haunted the mansion, and also disregarded the goddess' bawling about her treasured wine being drunk by Ghosts, instead going to bed while she ran around Turning Undead. Yet waking up hours later with a need for the toilet, Kazuma was shocked to find possessed dolls encroaching upon him, and so fled in panic to Aqua's room, where he only found Megumin who was in the same situation. They next had to flee when the dolls crowded in from outside the window, before the pair managed to make it to the toilet, only to be forced into barricading themselves when the dolls caught up and tried breaking in the door. Kazuma finally made up his mind to make a break for it because Megumin became terrified to the point of chanting for an Explosion, only to knock Aqua down as he burst outside to find that she and Darkness had already taken care of the Ghosts possessing the dolls.

On the next day, Kazuma took Aqua to the Guild in order to collect rewards for the ghostbusting, yet once Luna informed him how the Ghosts began infesting the mansion because they were forced out of the nearby public cemetery by a powerful barrier somebody had erected around it, Kazuma made Aqua confess to him her deed of setting up that barrier, before refusing the rewards out of a guilty conscience. He next took the goddess with him while apologising to the real estate broker, though the party was generously allowed to continue living in the mansion, so Kazuma later tidied up Anna's grave in the mansion's yard.

At some point during the period, Kazuma became surprised at Aqua proving herself as a muse of the arts. He however became disgusted at the goddess trying to bribe a policeman into turning a blind eye to her unlicenced soap figurine business through sculptures of pretty women that can have their clothes melted off, thus reported them to a policewoman. His attempts at testing out the sword of Shack the Ripper having ended in failure, Kazuma then had to rescue Megumin when she attacked Giant Toads with the magical sword which allowed her to cut up any object but couldn't harm living creatures. Additionally taught by Megumin a boardgame looking like chess but encompasses all sorts of crazy magical rules, which resulted in his repeated overwhelming defeats, Kazuma proceeded to dominate her in shogi matches during one rainy day, as well as win a gamble with her on guessing the gender of their mansion's next visitor who turned out to be Chris.

(In the audio drama, Kazuma led his party on a simple delivery quest into the mountains, where he fell towards his death following a landslide and had flashbacks of several incidents concerning each of his party members. Initially accepting his death, he suddenly refused to die impoverished and disgraced, thus managed to spring back to life after Aqua's Resurrection repeatedly failed, only to hear about his body damaging somebody's rooftop when it fell and landed him into more debt)

Told by Aqua one day how Anna was playing pranks using her ghostly abilities, he then accompanied her on a job requested by Abram to solve a Ghost problem at his mansion, then following the identification of the Ghost as their client's recently deceased father Pickles, had to go buy rare pink neroid claimed by Aqua to be required for letting the Ghost pass onto the afterlife. That night following a party at the mansion for the completion of the job, Kazuma witnessed Aqua sharing stories with Anna, to whom she confessed some of her misdeeds against him, before he jumped in to stop Anna from blurting out his secrets.

Kazuma was interrupted from his job of sewing pouches in the mansion on one cold day when Darkness burst in goading the party on a scouting quest against a Powerful Messenger, and so teased the perverted Crusader for her apparent goal of going for the tentacles that the monster was rumoured to possess. Heading into the forest where the earth spirit was said to dwell, Kazuma became both disgusted and irated when the Powerful Messenger they had to flee from was revealed to have taken an appearance out of cosmic horror all thanks to some prior Japanese reincarnate. Later discovering Darkness being cursed into weakness by the monster and needing help with anything that required a little strength to perform, he began feeling protective of her. Taking her along when reporting the curse to the Guild, Kazuma warned the other adventurers taking advantage of the Crusader's weakness not to get carried away with it, before he began growing fond of the frail Darkness, up until the curse was eventually lifted.

Kazuma also joined the party in accompanying Wiz on her request to eliminate Ghouls, where he demonstrated his ability to stomach gruesome sights such as a Goblin all munched up by the Undead. After the team ran into Wolfgang inside the Vampire's hideout cave, followed by Wiz getting riled into a contest with him to determine who is the "King of Undead", Kazuma upon Aqua suggesting Megumin cast an Explosion on the two Undeads quickly proposed that they compete with Drain Touch instead, before frantically instructing Darkness and Megumin to save Wiz from being opportunistically purified by Aqua.

Kazuma despite his reluctance still took the party on a profitable quest suggested by Megumin against a White Tiger, which surprisingly used a Beginner's Bane to scout them out before handing Aqua its newborn cub requiring the goddess' aura for nourishment. Initially hoping to sell off the cub whom Aqua named Sieg, Kazuma eventually gave in to Aqua and agreed to keep it, then subsequently accompanied her on the trip to send it back to its mother.

While working on his job of assembling artificial flowers in the living room one day, Kazuma to his bitter disappointment discovered that Aqua's intelligence would not improve no matter how much she levelled up, so he out of pity allowed the useless goddess back to the seat in front of the fireplace that he had just chased her out of. Later strolling around the city, he caught sight of Dust and Keith suspiciously loitering around an alleyway, and was accordingly let in to the secret among male adventurers about the Succubus Cafe.

Venturing inside with the support of his two fellow adventurers, Kazuma was greeted by the Receptionist Succubus who led him to his seat (which was right next to the Ruffian in the anime), and heard from her a detailed explanation of the dreams their staff offer, thus he wrote down on the request form a dream where an older but naïve girl with a glamourous body bashfully serves him. Excitedly returning to the mansion as the others prepared crab pot, he painstakingly refused Aqua's wine in order to prevent himself from drinking into a dreamless stupor, and instead went to bed early, though unable to sleep because of the anticipation, Kazuma decided to go take a bath, during which he fell asleep in the bathtub.

He soon found himself faced with a naked Darkness coming in for a bath, so determining how this unnatural situation was simply his requested dream, Kazuma ordered the shocked Darkness into helping him bathe. Yet just as he was about escalate the orders given to the obedient Darkness, an alarm sounded by Aqua about an intruder sent him angrily dashing out into the hallway, where it turned out that the Loli Succubus sent to give him the requested dream got trapped within a holy magic circle laid by Aqua, who alongside Megumin was all bent on exorcising the Succubus. Doggedly shielding the Loli Succubus upon realising how the occurrences in the bathroom were the reality, Kazuma managed to cover for her escape, albeit getting beaten up by the three angry girls. Apologised at the following morning by Darkness who thought that he had been Charmed by the Succubus, he began rejoicing the living necessities now in his possession, only to have it broken by a Guild alarm signaling the approach of the Mobile Fortress Destroyer.

Determined to protect his hard-earned mansion despite Aqua and Megumin calling for them to flee, Kazuma took his party to the emergency adventurer meeting held at the Guild. There he heard about the formidable abilities of the rampaging ancient weapon as well as other adventurers' suggestions for countering that had been proven ineffective, then when asked for ideas, came up with the strategy for Aqua to break the Destroyer's magic barrier for Megumin and Wiz to blow its legs off with Explosions. While simple barricades were set up outside the city gates later on, Kazuma heard from Darkness her duty to protect the city when trying unsuccessfully to talk her out of standing guard at the forefront.

Endorsed to take command of the city's defence by Taylor and the Guild, upon the Destroyer coming into sight, Kazuma ordered Aqua to break the magic barrier, before spurring Wiz and the panicking Megumin to blow off the fortress' legs. Yet to his horror, Aqua who got carried away began uttering flag lines, following which the Destroyer broadcasted a warning about it accumulating heat. Kazuma anyhow dragged Aqua and Wiz into joining the rest of the adventurers storming the fortress in an attempt to prevent its imminent detonation, during which he wilily Stole the head off an attacking Golem, only to have his hand crushed by the heavy part's weight and requiring Aqua's Healing.

Eventually coming across the remains of the Destroyer's Head Researcher, Kazuma became exasperated at the absurdity recorded in his diary, before discovering the coronatite core used for powering the fortress. He proceeded to Steal the unstable ore out of its containment chamber, albeit suffering serious burns that Aqua had to Heal, then allowed Wiz to Drain Touch some magical power from him in order to Randomly Teleport the coronatite to somewhere else as it was about to explode, proclaiming how he would take responsibility for the consequences. When subsequently faced with the fortress about to explode anyways from all the heated gas it accumulated, Kazuma Drain Touched the magical power from Aqua to recharge the spent Megumin, which allowed her to cast another Explosion that destroyed the Destroyer.

Late Winter Arc

As he and his party were emphasising their exploits against the Destroyer while celebrating at the Guild, Kazuma was approached by Sena and her escorting knights, who instead of rewarding him announced his arrest on charges of treason. Following Megumin and Darkness' "defence" of him revealing more of his scummy antics, he was told of how the coronatite ended up Teleported to the mansion of Alderp and resulted in its destruction, so despite no casualties caused, the prosecution was now suspecting him to be a terrorist or working for the Devil King's Army. Finding the other adventurers who had voiced their support of him changing their tune as soon as Sena threatened to arrest them too, in addition to Aqua and Megumin frantically heaping all the responsibility onto him, Kazuma failing to make a panicked break for it got apprehended by the knights.

Thrown into the prison at the police station where he soon found himself joined by Dust, that night Kazuma was woken by an Explosion outside the city, following which Aqua came smuggling him a lock picker while the guards were distracted by the telltale spell, only for him to throw it back outside and go sleep once he discovered his jail cell using a combination lock. The following day at the interrogation room where Sena questioned him while utilising a lie-detecting magic bell, Kazuma was forced to truthfully answer all sorts of questions exposing his scumminess, until he blew up at the prosecutor inquiring him over topics unrelated to his charges. Turning cocky upon an apologetic Sena admitting how she suspected him to be a terrorist based on the bad rumours over town about him, he was accordingly cowed into submission once she became stern at him bringing up the topic of her having no boyfriend. But when giving a negative answer to the question of whether he was associated with the Devil King's Generals, the bell indicated him to be lying because he had forgotten all about Wiz. Thrown back into jail to await trial on the next day, Kazuma during another Explosion that night was visited again by Aqua, who smuggled him a hacksaw through the window for cutting the bars, though she then attempted unsuccessfully to deliver him crates for reaching the tall window through the police station's doorway, prompting him to throw the hacksaw back outside and await his fate instead.

Kazuma appeared in court the following day (where all the unsubtle execution preparations brought him into a vomiting fit in the anime), and became further pessimistic upon hearing how his party members, who acted as his defence attorneys, had only prepared for the task by practising how to shout "Objection". Still feeling that he could manage as long as Aqua keeps her mouth shut, especially after she yelled "Objection" just for the heck of it, Kazuma was allowed to narrate his exploits against Beldia and the Destroyer in defence against the charges read against him. Subsequent to Sena summoning several witnesses to testify about Kazuma's scumminess as well as listing his party members' misdeeds in order to paint him as a terrorist, the protesting Kazuma found himself at a loss for words once Sena brought up sightings of him using Lich skills as well as him falsely denying connections with the Devil King's Generals during interrogation.

Alderp cutting in to declare Kazuma a minion of the Devil King's Army who purposefully sent the coronatite to his mansion, though, gave Kazuma just the opportunity to declare himself having no ties to the Devil King's Army as well as not purposefully Teleporting the coronatite to the lord's mansion, a testimony that the court's lie-detecting bell proved to be true. Yet just as the judge and Sena made to dismiss the charges due to the lack of evidence, they suddenly changed their minds upon Alderp's insistence that Kazuma is guilty, much to the shock of the said defendant. He was eventually spared from immediate execution thanks to Darkness getting the trial postponed, though the court still ordered Kazuma to prove his innocence in addition to paying reparations to Alderp. Heading for Wiz's Shop in hopes of partnering with Wiz to sell Japanese goods as a way for earning the reparation fees, Kazuma gave the continuously interrupting Aqua a thrashing because she had been obstructing and vandalising Wiz's business, following which he got his valued possessions at the mansion confiscated by knights as debt collateral for damages to Alderp's mansion.

As Kazuma feared for the worst after the masochistic Darkness went to meet with Alderp but didn't come back, he got introduced to Chomusuke, and found the cat who was friendly to him a source of tranquility, though he then became shocked at witnessing Chomusuke breathing fire to cook the fish he gave her, something the girls didn't believe. Subsequent to Sena barging in and accusing Megumin's Explosions for making the Giant Toads hibernating underground just outside the city begin surfacing prematurely, Kazuma ordered Megumin and Aqua to take care of it, and shocked Sena by standing around to watch the pair get preyed on by the amphibians. His later offer to rescue a gobbled Megumin refused, he proceeded to Snipe the one chasing Aqua, yet the sheer numbers of the monsters newly emerging turned out to be more than they could handle.

Following the party being saved by Yunyun, Kazuma heard her blurt out all sorts of scummy antics exhibited during their school days by Megumin, whom he had recharged so that he won't have to carry her slimy body back. Later handed a piece of high-quality manatite won from Yunyun by the slimy Megumin, during their return trip he proceeded to internally rank Yunyun as being much better than his resident Archwizard, only to have the perceptive Megumin irately grab onto him in order to make him slimy too. Making it back to their mansion while Aqua was still out, he and Megumin quarrelled over who gets to bathe first, before nonchalantly undressing while throwing taunts, yet to his surprise the Megumin whom he simply saw as a child went ahead to bathe with him. The two of them accordingly discussed Yunyun while in the bathtub, before Kazuma panicked at Aqua's return, fearing what she would say upon witnessing him bathing with a little girl. He frantically expended all his magical power for Freezing the bathroom door shut, yet after collapsing from exhaustion, Megumin who realised the reason for his franticness began attacking him, forcing Kazuma to call for Aqua's help, which resulted in him being branded a "loli-NEET" by the goddess.

Turning more agitated the next day because of Darkness' continued absence, Kazuma went outside for breakfast, where he heard about the appearance of self-destructing monsters in addition to glimpsing Yunyun timidly buying kebabs. Subsequently seeing her timidly waiting for dating couples to finish playing at a shooting stall before challenging it herself, yet failing to hit the stuffed toy Winter Shogun that she wanted with her arrows, Kazuma stepped in to hit it with Snipe, only to have the stall owner charge him double price for violating the rules against using skills. Meeting Yunyun again at another stall where the owner offered a monetary prize for anybody who can break a lump of adamantite, Kazuma afterwards joined forces with nearby adventurers to stop Megumin upon her attempting to challenge with an Explosion. With Yunyun still trailing behind the two of them as they strolled around, Kazuma accompanied the Crimson Demons outside the city, where Megumin beat Yunyun in a contest of adultness by citing how she had already bathed with him.

(In the anime, Kazuma brought his party to Wiz's Shop to discuss his debt-paying plan the day after he met Yunyun, and witnessed how she and Megumin used a Friendship Crystal, before Megumin beat Yunyun in a contest of adultness)

Following a few days of worrying about Darkness who had not come back (a period in the anime that Kazuma and Aqua used to explore Keele's Dungeon, from which he returned with Keele's treasure only to spend it on partying at the Guild), Kazuma became infuriated by Aqua's arrogant attitude, especially since her flood was responsible for a large portion of their debt, therefore he began Stealing her possessions to use for debt repayment. Then as Darkness returned to explain how she was the heiress of the Dustiness noble household and wanted them to help her ruin an arranged marriage with Walther, whose portrait Kazuma immediately ripped up upon it being shown to him, the Adventurer suddenly came up with the idea to play along with her, but in secret actually assist with sealing the marriage so that he can be rid of the incompetent Crusader, though in excitement he ripped up the portrait that Aqua had just repaired.

Kazuma went on to suggest him and Aqua respectively dressing up as a butler and a maid of House Dustiness so they could accompany Darkness during the upcoming marriage interview with Walther, then after meeting Ignis at the Dustiness residence, secretly made a deal to support his endeavour of marrying off his daughter. He proceeded to stop Darkness from expressing her distaste at the whole affair during their wait for Walther, as well as smack the heiress when she attempted to act unladylike once the young nobleman arrived. Next feeling exasperated at hearing the perverted Crusader rant to him in private over her masochistic fantasies and preference of lecherous scum, Kazuma nevertheless persuaded Aqua into letting him secure the marriage.

Although he managed to prevent Darkness from speaking out of line with discreet bursts of Freeze during the interview, once the interviewing couple went for a walk in the garden at Ignis' suggestion, where Kazuma was surprised by Aqua summoning a shoal of koi in the pond, his repeated babysitting of Darkness made Walther aware of their close relationship. Kazuma then leered at Darkness after she ripped up her skirt for challenging Walther to a duel in the dojo, before being ordered by the heiress to fight her with his scummy style. He thus drenched her with Created Water before Freezing it, then as she grabbed at him used Drain Touch on her, yet Darkness with her stamina was capable of enduring it while she twisted his hand in an armlock, until Kazuma talked her into capitulating through promises of unspeakable embarrassment. The soggy and half-naked Darkness whom he drained unto unconsciousness, however, was later witnessed by Ignis, who promptly ordered Kazuma and Walther executed, and only through the two young men's frantic explanations of what really happened were they eventually spared. Asked by the departing Walther to take good care of Darkness afterwards, the heiress' ensuing lie about her being impregnated by Kazuma forced him to spend the better part of the next hour clarifying the truth to the overjoyed Ignis.

Later confronted again by Sena for suspicion of being connected to the peculiar monsters emerging from Keele's Dungeon, Kazuma denied the accusations and refused to go help tackle the problem, then further questioned his party members over the issue following the prosecutor's departure, and discovered to his fury that the magic circle drawn by Aqua for purifying Keele was still actively repelling monsters from the Lich's chamber, which may make Sena think him responsible for the monsters' emergence. He consequently took his party to Keele's Dungeon for erasing the evidence, claiming to Sena who had hired a group of adventurers how he heroically wanted to protect civilians from the self-detonating Vanir Dolls, and was handed a evil-sealing sticker capable of disabling magic in case he found the source responsible for summoning the little monsters. With Darkness being his only party member willing to enter the dungeon, Kazuma followed behind her as she charged straight through the swarms of Vanir Dolls that left other adventurers behind them reeling.

The two of them finally ran into Vanir as he fashioned the dolls in front of Keele's chamber, and Kazuma upon discovering him to be an Archdemon in addition to a Devil King's General who was scaring all the Giant Toads into surfacing, managed to calm the agitated Darkness down from attacking, despite some of their recent embarrassing thoughts towards each other voiced out loud by the all-seeing Demon. Following a conversation with Vanir, where they found out about his nasty plan for achieving his death wish with a perfect dungeon, Kazuma who wanted to avoid conflict asked to be allowed to clean up the magic circle behind Vanir, only to have the curious Archdemon look into his past, resulting in not just his otherworldly origins, but the true nature of Aqua also being discovered. Barely resisting the temptation from Vanir's demonic whispers that offered letting the pair enjoy themselves in the bedroom behind him while he went to kill Aqua, Kazuma unintentionally gave Darkness the opening to hack the all-seeing Demon's body apart. Initially terrified when Vanir not only revealed his mask to be his true form, but furthermore forced it onto Darkness' face to possess her body, Kazuma soon became surprised when the masochistic Crusader unexpectedly retained some autonomy, so while she kept Vanir busy by repeatedly interrupting the Archdemon's dialogue, Kazuma seized the chance to clean up the magic circle.

He next slapped the evil-sealing sticker onto Vanir's mask, so that he would be trapped within Darkness' body while she walked outside for Aqua to purify the Archdemon. Panicking as they neared the exit when Vanir fully took control of Darkness and charged outside to kill the goddess, he was somewhat relieved after Aqua dealt the Archdemon a serious blow with Sacred Exorcism, before warning everybody nearby about the Devil King's General possessing Darkness. Kazuma however soon found himself powerless to help as Vanir fully utilised Darkness' body to defeat all the adventurers hired by Sena and then prepare to kill Aqua, yet faced with the goddess and the prosecutor's pleas, he nevertheless stepped out to confront the Devil King's General. Advised by Megumin to remove the evil-sealing sticker so Vanir can be released from Darkness' body which was shielding him from the full power of Aqua's magic, Kazuma tricked the all-seeing Demon into defending against his Steal, when in fact he cast Tinder instead to burn away the sticker, though because Vanir still refused to leave Darkness' body, at the Crusader's own suggestion Kazuma instructed Megumin to blow them both up with Explosion.

A week following Aqua fully healing Darkness when the party found her still alive, (a possible time interval for Kazuma to have put on a wish-granting choker from Wiz's Shop that slowly chokes him to death unless his wish is granted, spurring him to abuse the helpfulness of the five women on the scene into performing all sorts of debasing and humiliating deeds over the next few days, only to have the choker come off after his wish for having his feelings healed was inadvertently fulfilled, resulting in him being sent to Eris by the enraged women subsequent to his ensuing confession), Kazuma spread word around the Guild about Darkness' real name and made her thoroughly embarrassed. Next having all treason charges against him dismissed by Sena, who was now convinced that he wasn't a minion of the Devil King's Army, Kazuma's party was handed their rewards for defeating the Destroyer and Vanir, which not only cleared them of debt but also made them rich.

Kazuma and Darkness afterwards headed for Wiz's Shop in order to tell the shopkeeper of Vanir's demise, only to discover that the Duke of Hell had reincarnated into a second life that now works for the Lich. The otherworlder was next offered by the all-seeing Demon a money-making business deal prophesied to be needed in the upcoming future by him and the heiress, thus for the remainder of winter, Kazuma spent most of his time designing prototypes for all sorts of Japanese goods that Vanir will market and sell, with the kotatsu being one of the first products pushed out, and in return he was paid one-tenth of the sales profit.

At some point during the period, Kazuma supervised Megumin as well as Gilbert who commissioned her to show him an Explosion, and stopped them from targeting a church of Eris in addition to Wiz's Shop, yet distracted on the way by the argument between the construction foreman and a nobleman over the demolishment of a mansion, he ended up failing to prevent Megumin from casting Explosion at the mansion and causing collateral damage. Kazuma also teased Darkness on her knitting when the heiress practised the art as part of her bridal training, before accompanying her on an errand to buy more yarn. And hoping to attend a rock-paper-scissors contest at the Succubus Cafe for winning a prize, Kazuma instead got called into the forest by Darkness for smacking her awake if she got put to sleep by a lost Siren's song, yet he too ended up asleep before waking up long after the contest was over. In addition, while out drinking with Dust one time, Kazuma blurted out all about his failed service with the Loli Succubus.

(In the audio drama, it was also during this period when Kazuma flaunted his newfound wealth by buying an expensive vase he believed to be a masterpiece, following which he went to help Wiz with the quest against Ghouls, yet upon return not only did he discover Aqua having already broken the vase, but that according to Vanir the vase was actually a cheap counterfeit, so Kazuma in enraged embarrassment smashed the vase before descending into tears)

Left alone to eat dinner by himself one day when his party members went on a girls night out, Kazuma dined on some delicious vegetables he had won from a vegetable shop's raffle. He however woke up the next day experiencing serious stomach pains that Aqua's detoxifying magic couldn't cure, so being told the possibility of him ingesting some parasitic monster, Kazuma agreed with going to the hospital, only to have doubts when the place turned out to be a Witch Doctor's shop outside town. Attempting to flee in panic when the Witch Doctor suggested cutting him open for diagnosis, he was held down by his party members before being put to sleep by the Witch Doctor. Eventually waking up in his bedroom, Kazuma who was initially angry at the girls later heard that the Witch Doctor had actually cured him of the watermelon seeds, which he had swallowed whole in the previous night, taking root in his belly, prompting Kazuma to go thank to skillful doctor afterwards, especially after discovering his foreskin problem also taken care of.

Following a series of explosions around Axel which the police accused Megumin of, Kazuma who initially took the stance of suspecting Megumin for them changed his tune once she returned from questioning at the police station where the lie-detecting bell convinced Lolierina of her innocence. He was next seduced by the deputy police chief who heard of his exploits, and chose to accompany her observation of Megumin as the Crimson Demon headed out to catch the explosion culprit. Unable to come up with other apparent suspects at the Guild, Kazuma wondered if the culprit's goal was to frame Megumin, then suggested Lolierina to arrest Megumin anyways when she began accusing random adventurers and listing people whom she committed misdeeds against as possible suspects. Following Yunyun being accused before getting exonerated and Megumin having an Explosion ban slapped onto her, which then got lifted because an emergency quest against One-Punch Bears required that spell's power, Kazuma agreed that Megumin's powerful Explosion didn't cause the other explosions. His trust in Megumin, however, was accordingly betrayed when Darkness with her house guards (or Chris in the audio drama) came to explain how the other explosions were caused when Mine Mushrooms growing around the countryside detonated in reaction to Megumin's Explosions, spurring him to admonish the explosive girl.

The day after Sena led a raid on the Succubus Cafe, Kazuma at Dust's behest duped Darkness into working there for a day without telling the Crusader about the establishment's true nature.

For the purposes of making the product prototypes, Kazuma asked a blacksmith to teach him the Smithing skill, and while there also put down an order for a custom-made sword designed like a katana as well as a suit of armour. On the way back, he witnessed Aqua summoning koi to perform tricks alongside her in a spectacular display, before advising her of how this attempt at convincing Megumin and Darkness of her godliness wouldn't work, and later got attacked when he asked her to teach him the trick for summoning fishes.

Early Spring Arc

As spring approached, Kazuma still shut himself into the warm kotatsu despite the others spurring him into taking quests, and respectively used Freeze and Drain Touch on Darkness and Megumin when they tried to drag him out. Suddenly feeling the need for relieving himself, he then petitioned the girls to carry the kotatsu with him inside to the toilet, only to hear them consider dumping him outside as they picked the whole load up (which they actually did in the anime).

He was saved when Sena came asking him to take care of the Lizard Runners causing trouble with their mating race in the surrounding countryside, and despite being reluctant to go out into the cold now that he was rich, Kazuma changed his tune once he heard his party members boasting about them attaining levels much higher than his. Taking Megumin to the blacksmith, he picked up the sword ordered earlier as well as a piece of magic branding paper for naming it, but had to abandon the armour because it was so heavy that he couldn't move, before discovering to his vexation how Megumin had without his permission branded the absurd name "Chunchunmaru" onto his new sword. Returning to the mansion where Darkness still couldn't persuade the goddess to head out, Kazuma managed to entice Aqua with the prospects of hot pot.

(Kazuma in the anime brought his whole party with him to the blacksmith, then had to have his sword shortened because he couldn't wield it properly at its original length, and subsequent to Megumin later naming it at the Guild, he accepted the quest against Lizard Runners from Luna)

Kazuma soon came up with a sound plan, which consisted of him Sniping the King Runner and Princess Runner from atop a tree on the grasslands, and in case he fails then Megumin can take out most of the Lizard Runners while Darkness stops any survivors from reaching them so that Kazuma can Snipe the leading reptiles again, and in the meantime Aqua will support them with her magic. Once Kazuma from his treetop vantage point spotted the horde, however, his plan fell apart because Aqua arbitrarily attracted all the Lizard Runners towards them, and Sniping the King Runner first only spurred other males into charging faster to replace him. Between Megumin unable to cast Explosion since he had Drain Touched her earlier on, Darkness being kicked by the reptiles, and Aqua getting stomped all over, Kazuma barely had time to Snipe the Princess Runner trying to fly-kick him, yet the impact from her body hitting the tree ended up jolting Kazuma off and making him break his neck in the fall.

Feeling embarrassed for seeing Eris again because of such an ignominious death, Kazuma was relieved to hear of his party members making it out alive once the horde disbanded due to the Princess Runner's demise. Calmly striking a conversation with the goddess while waiting for Aqua to Resurrect him, he began finding her to be the "main heroine" of his otherworldly saga, before hearing Eris admit to having sometimes secretly sneaked into the mortal world. When Aqua started to hurry him into returning to his body, a suddenly piqued Kazuma decided to start life over from a baby instead. Yet just as he was listing some preferences for his next life to Eris, Aqua began alerting him about Megumin doing something sacrilegious to his body, which shocked Kazuma into returning to life. Next told to rest his body because of the nasty death suffered but nothing regarding what had been done to it, Kazuma when he later on undressed for bathing eventually discovered, to his utmost fury, that Megumin, who went to stay with her friend for a couple of days, had graffitied onto his crotch the words "Holy Sword Excalibur" with an arrow pointing downwards.

Swearing on the following day how he would teach the absent loli girl a lesson once she returns to the mansion from her escapade, he received a visit from Vanir who immediately quarrelled and fought with Aqua. Subsequent to both parties calming down, Kazuma showed the Archdemon some new product prototypes, including some "balloons" which were actually failed samples of condoms he had tried to make, before being stunned by Vanir's offer to pay him 30 million eris upfront for the intellectual property of all the products he designs. This notion of becoming so rich he doesn't have to work anymore prompted Kazuma into adopting the behaviour of an affluent entrepreneur, something Aqua helped with as she served him purified tea.

Forgiving Megumin upon her return now that the imminent fortune had made him generous, Kazuma declared his intent of quitting adventuring, and instead hire adventurers to weaken or outright assassinate the Devil King. Next trying to differentiate himself from Darkness who got turned on by him getting trashier, he cited the need to heal from his fatal neck injury as an excuse to rest, only to excitedly agree with Megumin once she suggested him take a healing vacation to Arcanletia the City of Water and Hot Springs, since the latter attraction is synonymous with mixed bathing.

With him and Aqua waking and packing up early the following morning in anticipation for the trip, Kazuma was told to head for the carriage terminal to buy good seat tickets while the goddess woke the others up. He however detoured to Wiz's Shop for telling Vanir that he wanted to postpone giving a reply to the Archdemon's offer because of the trip, and became surprised to find Wiz zapped unconscious by her employee because of wasting a fortune on purchasing faulty magical portable toilets. Kazuma consequently carried Wiz to join their vacation at Vanir's behest, and upon rendezvousing with his party members at the terminal, Drain Touched Darkness' life force for reviving the Lich. At Aqua's nagging, he went to purchase tickets for a carriage that turned out to have only four seats available because one of its seats was already occupied by a pet baby Red Dragon, but Kazuma's high Luck stats anyhow secured him a good seat in the rock-paper-scissors contest among the gang.

Happily spending the initial part of his first trip far away from Axel, Kazuma as he looked around the highway towards Arcanletia suddenly detected with his Farsight a flock of Running Hawkites heading straight towards them, which he soon realised was the result of Darkness' hard body attracting the monsters. Choosing out of a guilty conscience to take a stand alongside the other adventurers hired to guard the caravan, he nevertheless could only inwardly apologise when they were impressed by Darkness "noblely" letting herself being Binded by one of their skills and drawing the attention of the Running Hawkites jumping over her. As the passing flock turned back for another run on them, Kazuma having heard of a cave nearby jumped alongside his companions aboard their carriage and rode it over there, though with Darkness he had no choice but to have her Binded form dragged behind them. Using Powered strength upon arrival, he dumped Darkness at the mouth of the cave so that the Running Hawkites would all jump over her before disappearing inside, at which he ordered Megumin to wipe out the whole flock with an Explosion.

As the caravan made camp that night, Kazuma guiltily refused the rewards offered by the grateful caravan leader, before he made repairs to Darkness' battered armour. Hours later, he was waken from his slumber by attacking Zombies, a phenomenon he soon realised was caused by Aqua's characteristic of attracting Undeads, and so inwardly apologised to the other people as they were impressed by Aqua's purification of the Zombies, as well as refused the rewards offered by the caravan leader once more. Allotted to sit on the carriage's luggage compartment when the caravan set out the following morning, Kazuma used Farsight to peek at Wiz's breasts, and later played magic tricks before punishing Aqua for flooding the carriage.

Finally arriving at the beautiful city of Arcanletia, Kazuma despite explaining how his party was responsible for all the monster attacks, still got offered free lodging for him and his companions by the grateful caravan leader at an inn he owned. While carrying a Wiz still unconscious from being caught in Aqua's purifying powers, he was soon shocked to find crowds of Axis followers attempting to convert him to their order, and even more so when Aqua revealed that Arcanletia was the headquarters of the Axis Order. Managing to get away by pointing out Aqua as an Axis Archpriest, Kazuma and Darkness brought Wiz to rest at the inn, before the pair strolled around the city.

As they passed through the business district, an arrogant Elf and a stubborn Dwarf quarrelled in front of them as the shopkeepers looking and acting just like their kind in storybooks tried to sell their wares to the two impressed tourists. When turning back to ask the shopkeepers about local attractions, however, Kazuma discovered to his disappointment that the Elf who actually had round ears and the Dwarf who was actually wearing a fake beard were simply putting on an act for tourists, before hearing them talk about some hot springs recently causing illness to those who bathed in them.

Continuing to walk around with Darkness, Kazuma helped a young woman pick up the apples she dropped, yet immediately had her latch onto him while trying to convert him to the Axis faith, until Darkness revealed her talisman of the Eris Order to drive the irked woman off. Accordingly faced with a burly man pretending to be an Eris follower assaulting a woman, a shopkeeper offering him free gifts, and a young girl claiming to be his old schoolmate, Kazuma becoming sick of all the conversion attempts further got exasperated at Darkness being turned on by the insults thrown her way by the Axis followers. Refusing the pervert's request for them to move to Arcanletia, the sight of a little girl whom he helped to her feet after she tripped over on their way back to the inn made Kazuma feel relieved, only to be nearly tricked into signing a conversion form for the Axis Order, which at last made him lose it.

Kazuma consequently marched up in anger to main cathedral of the Axis Order, then after being made fun of by a priestess informing him of their pontiff's absence, tried to demand Aqua who sat inside the confessional to restrain her followers. His initial requests deflected by Aqua through a number of holy advice, Kazuma finally got her attention and pulled into her compartment when he confessed a number of misdeeds he had secretly committed on her. He next became disgusted at an Axis follower coming to confess about being tempted by the big breasts of Eris on her portrait depictions, and more so at Aqua when she consoled her follower by spreading how Eris wears chest pads. Kazuma later collected Megumin and Darkness, before leaving Aqua to bathe at the cathedral's secret springs as he headed back.

He returned to the inn to frustratedly discover Wiz, whom he had dreamed of bathing together with, already having bathed in the hot springs, so Kazuma decided to head for the mixed-bathing springs even though the others refrained from accompanying him. While stripping in the undressing room, however, Kazuma overheard Hans at the springs on the other side of the door boasting of him sabotaging the secret springs among others, so that he can over his long lifespan see to the destruction of the hated Axis Order. Realising how he had just listened in on a conspiracy by high-ranking members of the Devil King's Army, the spineless Kazuma, who also wanted the Axis Order gone, tried to avoid trouble by sneaking away, but changed his mind upon hearing Wolbach replying to Hans, and instead strode right into the springs to blatantly stare at her naked body. Left alone with her upon Hans' departure, Kazuma engaged in a conversation with Wolbach, who spoke of seeking her other half for restoring her full magic powers, as well as having taught a Crimson Demon girl magic, before hearing her warn him against bathing in the city's springs again as she left.

(In the anime where Wolbach left the hot springs first because Kazuma's staring disturbed her, he and Hans were massaged by some masseurs who tried to convert them much to their rage)

Remaining in the mixed baths when both members of the Devil King's Army were gone, Kazuma next heard Megumin and Darkness entering the neighbouring women baths. Pressing himself against the fence separating the baths, he eavesdropped on the girls discussing him, only to play right into their hands as Darkness punched the fence to hit him. This cumulated in Kazuma Creating Water to spray the girls, while they threw things including Chomusuke at him, before they returned to their suite to find Aqua weeping over her being scolded for purifying the secret springs into pure hot water.

Despite knowing it to be the truth, Kazuma tried to ignore Aqua's declaration at breakfast the next morning about discovering a conspiracy by the Devil King's Army to bankrupt the Axis Order because the secret spring she had purified turned out to be poisoned. Unsure of what to do after Aqua dragged Darkness away, he agreed to bring Megumin outside the city for an Explosion, a trip which Wiz also accompanied them on. While strolling through the streets, Kazuma inquired Wiz of the reason she switched from and adventurer to a Lich as well as her age, though he didn't get a straight answer for either question. Then when Wiz noticed Hans in the distance, he quickly dragged her and Megumin to complete the daily Explosion, so that she won't notice her fellow colleague in the Devil King's Army and inevitably pull him into the mess.

(Following breakfast in the anime, Kazuma brought Megumin out strolling in the streets, where they munched on Arcan Manjus before gettting harassed again, and later witnessed at the lakeside a maddened Hans venting his frustration towards the Axis Order, before Wiz ran up to join the two of them)

Kazuma was reminded of Wiz's identity as a powerful Lich when as the three of them made their way into the forest outside Arcanletia, she scared away the weaker monsters and defeated a Beginner's Bane attracted by Megumin's Explosion simply by letting it pounce onto her so that her passive Lich skills could render it incapacitated. Recharging Megumin so she could follow them back, Kazuma next witnessed Aqua's failed attempt at preaching about the danger facing the city, and decided to leg it upon Aqua's proclamation as the Axis Order's goddess inviting nothing but anger from her followers, though later that night he agreed to help her find the culprit.

(In the anime, he joined the others when the gang had to escape the inn because a mob of Axis followers came at night to lynch Aqua)

Joining his party's efforts with distributing around the inns questionnaires that ended up identifying Hans as the prime poisoning suspect, Kazuma blurted out how he had already eavesdropped all about the conspiracy, and as a result had to fend off the furious girls trying to beat him up. Later at the local Adventurer Guild, he proceeded to use Darkness' noble status for persuading the employees into looking out for the culprit, subsequent to which they had a discussion of nobility and their relationship with her as they made their way back to the inn, where they were told by a Guild employee that widespread contamination were appearing in the hot springs all over the city.

On the gang's way up the next day to the main spring situated in the mountains behind the main cathedral, Kazuma again used Darkness' noble status to get past the Eris followers guarding the gate leading there, before cajoling the Crusader into forgetting the embarrassment. Feeling uneasy when coming across the dissolved remains of a Beginner's Bane, he next got quipped at by Megumin over his low levels. Kazuma then had to use ice magic for cooling down Aqua's scalded hands when the goddess stuck them into steaming distribution ponds they came across in order to purify the poison contaminating them, with the gang accordingly running into Hans at the source reservoir which he was in the act of poisoning. Subsequently hearing Wiz identify Hans as a Deadly Poison Slime who like her was part of the Devil King's Army, the Japanese gamer who thought Slimes were but weak mooks surprised the others by confidently challenging Hans, only to be shocked upon discovering that not only was he a Devil King's General, but Slimes in this world are powerful adversaries capable of digesting people to the point they couldn't be Resurrected. Fleeing in panic down the mountain with his companions following, Kazuma was at length spared by the Hans chasing them when revealing how he was just a weak Adventurer. He nevertheless accompanied Aqua when she turned back to fight Hans, even though he believed that the world would be better off without the Axis Order.

(In the anime, the gang headed towards the main spring at night while being pursued by the lynch mob, which blocked their escape path when Kazuma fled from Hans, and eventually forced him to turn back and fight)

Kazuma consequently became astounded when Wiz got enraged by Hans devouring the old man maintaining the main spring and froze the Deadly Poison Slime in place, before Sniping with the help of Aqua's Blessing the globules of deadly poison Hans was tossing towards the uncontaminated springs until he ran out of arrows, which forced Aqua to purify the springs while Wiz cooled down her scalded hands. As the Devil King's General reverted to his true monstrous form, Kazuma could only run while Hans devoured everything around him, until noticing how the Deadly Poison Slime was just instinctively moving towards anything edible. He proceeded to divert Hans' attention from Aqua and Wiz by throwing out a pack of souvenir Arcan Manjus, then instructed Megumin to cast Explosion on Hans, before letting himself get Drain Touched by Wiz until he lost consciousness, so that she could freeze the reduced parts of the Deadly Poison Slime as they splattered all over for Aqua to purify.

(In the anime where the Axis followers joined the fight, Kazuma after noticing the undissolved bones of the old man devoured by Hans, confirmed with Aqua that she could still Resurrect somebody in this state, so after instructing Megumin to reduce Hans' volume by blowing him smaller in order for Wiz to freeze solid, the Adventurer using himself as bait lured Hans away from Aqua and into a nearby gorge, and was consequently devoured before having all his flesh melted off his bones)

Regaining consciousness afterwards only to discover the townsfolk furious at Aqua because while purifying Hans' pieces, she had turned the water gushing out of the main spring into pure hot water and thus ruined Arcanletia's hot springs industry, Kazuma pacified the incident by relinquishing their rewards from defeating another Devil King's General as reparations to the city. Quickly taking his companions back to Axel, he returned to the mansion even more tired than before the trip while feeling unsatisfied from his mixed-bathing experience, and proceeded to sit down for a cup of tea before Yunyun came knocking.

(In the anime, Kazuma appeared in front of Eris as a pile of bones preceding his Resurrection by Aqua, then upon to his return to Axel proceeded to spend a long period there before heading to the Crimson Demon Village)

At some point during the period, Kazuma became impressed at Aqua employing her purification abilities at a broken water purification plant, until he discovered how she was the one who damaged it in the first place when showing off her water summoning powers. He was also Blessed by her so that he could draw from a raffle the special prize described as a mysterious magic item from another world, which turned out to be a worn old style mobile phone. On the days Megumin regularly visited a captured red-eyed Beginner's Bane, Kazuma too accompanied her. When the town festival held a scaring contest, in which Wiz was set up by Aqua to dress as a Zombie, Kazuma went with Aqua for escorting her to the standby location.

(In the audio drama, Kazuma bought a diary for writing down a glorious autobiography, but because trying to write at the fireplace couch, toilet, and bathroom all resulted in Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness respectively bothering him, he instead wrote vituperative accounts of several incidents concerning each of them. This depiction of the girls however wasn't taken kindly by his party members, who proceeded to rip up all his hard work, leaving him to bawl all about it in tears to the Ruffian)

Solicited by Wiz a magic item that sends people to another world for 12 hours before forcing their return and wiping their memories of the trip, upon hearing the destination to be Japan, Kazuma quickly bought it in order to take his party back to his homeland, where he planned to visit his old home once night falls for erasing his computer's hard disk of anything he didn't want others to see. Handing the girls some Japanese yen he had been carrying around ever since his first death as pocket money, Kazuma hurriedly vetoed Aqua's idea for him to Steal from ATMs, and instead took them to enjoy some fast food, following which he took them by train to Akihabara where their outfits won't attract attention, though Aqua caused a fuss when her hagoromo got caught in the train door. After the girls bought some drinks and was approached by a pornography scout, Kazuma took them to a gaming centre he used to frequent, where he once more dominated a number of games to Megumin's awe, until he had to go settle some trouble with Darkness as well as help Aqua with getting a Pokachu keyholder from a claw machine. When night finally fell, Kazuma led his party back to his home at an hour when his family was asleep, and instructed the girls to stay outside while he sneaked inside alone. Back in his room which had remained unchanged ever since his death, he proceeded to erase his computer's hard disk just as the girls outside got into an argument with the police. Next discovering the effects of the magic item running out, Kazuma left behind for his family the eris coins he had brought along, and was accordingly transported back to the Parallel World, where the party had no recollection of the events that transpired.

(In the audio drama, Kazuma started out with shutting himself in his mansion bedroom while the girls tried to goad him out, and upon Aqua threatening to reveal his secret stash of dirty material he had hidden inside, remembered how his embarrassing collection of pornography was still on his hard drive back in Japan, prompting him to readily accept Wiz's solicitation of the magic item that brought them back there for 6 hours. Arriving at Akihabara where Kazuma waited till nightfall as his party members had various misadventures, he led them back to his home and left them outside while he sneaked into his bedroom. Yet despite opening his passworded hard drive that nobody else had accessed, Kazuma hesitated from deleting the "treasures" that had accompanied him for many years. Accordingly rushing outside to rebuke the girls who got into an argument with the police, he realised to his horror that the party was being transported back because the effects of the magic item ran out, leaving the hard disk and its contents open for the world to see, though Kazuma didn't remember any of it upon return)

Taking Megumin out for Explosion one day, Kazuma who wanted to feel a girl against his back but also found piggybacking tiring had his thoughts pointed out by Vanir who tailed them, and against Megumin's protests bought the baby sling offered by the Archdemon. Kazuma later accompanied Aqua who trailed the former Devil King's General for any excuse to exorcise him, then witnessed the vegetable selling contest between the two of them. Hearing Darkness talk about a number of male adventurers claiming to have screamed in their inn rooms at night because of nightmares, he helped Aqua sell some Axis talismans for warding off low-ranking Demons suspected to be the culprit, before realising that it didn't sell because the Succubi would be repelled too. He was next told by Dust and Keith about the Succubus Cafe offering a "special service" ticket available only through raffle, which he easily obtained with his high Luck stats. Yet as he excitedly waited in anticipation at an inn that night, the Succubus who showed up to seduce him turned out to be a shapeshifted Vanir aiming to taste bitter disappointment from male adventurers through this intricate setup. Screaming in frustration and getting scolded by the inn owner as a result, Kazuma furiously called for Aqua to exorcise the Duke of Hell once returning to the mansion, only to hear the goddess express her reluctance to do so for the time being.

When Kazuma was munching on skewers along the streetside one day, he was intimidated by the approach of Zatu Ozuma who was looking for a "Satou Kazuma". Since Ozuma had travelled all the way to Axel for voicing protest at the Adventurer with a similar name but bad reputation, Kazuma upon meeting the veteran adventurer's party members, who had names similar to his own companions, decided to identify himself as "Tanaka". Invited to a meal at a restaurant, "Tanaka" brought Ozuma's party to tears with a touching account of how Kazuma repeatedly saved the city and overcame debt along with countless hardships to become a successful businessman, before telling his party members all about the encounter at his mansion. An angry Ozuma however came knocking with his party on the following morning, and called Kazuma out for the various scummy deeds he had subsequently discovered about him, though Kazuma in retaliation pointed out how his autobiography which they wept at didn't contain falsehood. Despite his refutation nearly convincing Megumi into apologising before Ozuma stopped her, Larkless' accusation of Darkness being an "imposter" brought Kazuma's party into a disadvantaged position, until Megumin challenged Ozuma's party to make themselves a name in Axel as adventurers.

Kazuma proceeded to laze around during the ensuing fortnight, only deigning to craft a silver arrow out of boredom. Yet upon finally bringing his party to the Guild, he discovered in shock that Ozuma's party had became the star for defeating various powerful monsters including many One-Punch Bears. Now described by Ozuma to be the party of "imposters", Kazuma was saved from his predicament when an adventurer was carried in sporting serious wounds inflicted by White Wolves that appeared closer than ever to the city. Going with the flow of Ozuma and his party being astonished by Aqua easily healing the mortal wounds, he made up a theory about Ozuma's party disrupting the local ecology through overhunting One-Punch Bears, resulting in White Wolves flourishing so much they spilled out into the city's vicinity. When the two parties found the pack sporting numbers that alarmed Ozuma's party, Kazuma having identified the pack's alpha with Farsight Sniped it under Aqua's Blessing using the silver arrow, much to Akua and Ozuma's amazement. Further instructing Darkness and Megumin to respectively assemble and annihilate the attacking pack with Decoy and Explosion, Kazuma's party reconciled with the apologetic Ozuma's party, whose past experiences made Kazuma reckon them to appear more like fantasy protagonists. Accordingly told by Ozuma's party their other goal of thanking Kazuma's party for defeating Hans, and hearing them list a number of misdeeds they now thought were slander against Kazuma's party, the very much guilty Kazuma along with his party members apologised for causing trouble to the similarly named party.

When storm season approached, Kazuma got ridiculed for not knowing that storms were caused by the agitated Great Spirit of the Storm, then suggested the Guild and other adventurers look to Yunyun for fighting the spirit off as a ploy to make Megumin agree to fight too. Heading to the lake where the raging spirit manifested as the only adventurer other than Aqua who wasn't dressed for swimming, he enjoyed the sight of Wiz and various other female adventurers dressed in swimsuits, and became excited when some male adventurers spoke of the Great Spirit of the Storm possibly releasing a powerful gust of wind capable of blowing the bikinis off the female adventurers. Joining the male adventurers swimming into the lake for defending the magic-users casting a barrage at the spirit, he talked Megumin into making preparations ashore and rescued the non-aquatic Darkness, before dragging Aqua back from the maelstrom caused by the Great Spirit of the Storm she was arguing with, while having her provoke it into chasing them towards the shore. Under his instructions, Yunyun, Wiz, and Megumin consecutively blasted the spirit with their spells, releasing it of its pent-up magical power. The relieved Great Spirit of the Storm proceeded to reward the adventurers with an exceptionally powerful gust, only to have it Broken by Aqua, much to the grave disappointment of Kazuma and all other male adventurers.

Trying to pose as a veteran adventurer by ordering a glass of whiskey at the Guild's bar one day, Kazuma was approached by a new adventurer named Ran who called herself a fan of him, so he disposed of the whiskey that he actually couldn't stomach by having Ran drink it up. Luna accordingly approached Kazuma with a quest for purging a strange Golem guarding some mysterious ruins, one which he couldn't refuse in front of his fan. Forcing the reluctant Aqua into going with the party to the ancient ruins by taking her staff, Kazuma became exasperated upon discovering the Titan Golem standing sentry to be a robot clearly created by some Japanese reincarnate. Barely making it out from the self-detonation of the Titan Golem following its defeat, Kazuma returned to the Guild to give Ran a romanticised account of the quest, and when she became enamoured by Mitsurugi's presence, jealously reiterated the Sword Master's prior loss at his hands as well as the fact of him vanquishing three of the Devil King's Generals.

Kazuma was subsequently approached by Luna once more, and under Ran's watching eyes had to accept another quest for exploring the tunnels beneath those ruins. Bringing his party into the underground facility, where they only found all sorts of broken Japanese commodities and some little Golems possessed by Ghosts, Kazuma in the living quarters of the facility's creator listened to Aqua recite the diary of his fellow reincarnate. Shamed by the predecessor's initial determination for defeating the Devil King, Kazuma soon became incensed at that NEET's descent into the worthless depravity of creating Golem girls, before realising his identity as the Head Researcher who created the Destroyer. Kazuma nevertheless unsealed a completed Pretty Girl Golem created by the NEET scientist, only to find out that it possessed a sadistic personality for servicing its perverted creator's masochism. Managing to make it out albeit with a pain in the butt, Kazuma gave Ran a glorified version of the story back at the Guild. He later walked in on an argument between Ran and Luna, and discovered how the latter was paying the former to pose as his fan so that he will be forced to take quests instead of lazing around, so in retaliation the gravely upset Kazuma Stole the two women's panties.

Cursed Ring Arc

While bickering with the Megumin he was carrying back from her Explosion routine out on the grasslands one day, Kazuma picked up along the way a ring which he planned to sell, but at Megumin's advice took it to Wiz's Shop for assessment in case it was cursed. Following Megumin and Yunyun's scuffle at the shop where Vanir was absent, he was told by Wiz about the ring possessing some effect that she couldn't ascertain. Back at the mansion where Aqua treated the party to a sukiyaki feast, Kazuma while drunk accepted her dare to slip the ring on. He became shocked when waking up the following morning to find a girl's panties in his hand as well as the ring becoming stuck onto his finger, and subsequent to running out for help over the ring only to have his disgusted party members see him holding the panties, Kazuma trying to find out who its owner was guessed that all three girls were pantyless, which as a result got him punched by Aqua.

Later hurrying with his party to Wiz's Shop where Vanir had returned to, Kazuma listened to him explain the history of the cursed ring and its effects of forcing wearers to steal panties upon every full moon, before turning flabbergasted by the 30 million eris fee charged by the Archdemon for removing the ring. Overhearing the girls discussing chopping his finger off instead, the horrified Kazuma vehemently refused even when Aqua offered to flawlessly reattach it, and chose to work for earning the humongous fee. On the way back to the mansion, Kazuma came up with a policy of publicly returning the Stolen panties to its owners like a gentleman should, before holding meetings with the girls in addition to Wiz, Chris, and Yunyun for discussing plans to earn money.

On the night of the subsequent full moon, Kazuma despite the girls spending the night elsewhere in addition to taking all panties in the mansion with them, still woke up to find himself having Stolen somebody's panties, a phenomenon Wiz discovered to have resulted from the ring enhancing Kazuma's abilities. Talking his party members out of cutting off or destroying any part of him, he headed for the Guild, where everyone including Dust and Keith had thanks to Aqua's big mouth heard about him stealing panties. Kazuma was next offered by Luna a spot at the Guild's hall for running a business, then when served tea afterwards at Wiz's Shop by the shopkeeper who took out a maid uniform, came up with the idea of opening a maid café. Buying all the maid uniforms, Kazuma managed to persuade the six women helping him into working as the maid waitresses, in addition to receiving permission from Luna into opening the café at the Guild.

Kazuma soon got the women to change into the maid uniforms while dressing up as a butler himself, and began training them on how they should act and speak, then had them go advertising the maid café in their maid outfits. When the day of opening finally came, just as Kazuma had planned the adventurer customers got a pleasant surprise as the six maids acting differently from their usual selves came to serve them. Yet despite high earnings on the first day, Kazuma discovered that they still need to make more money in order to quickly earn the ring removal fee, so he began coming up with adding extra paid services. Soon hearing of some customers becoming discontent as well as the café earning the ire of Luna because the Guild's own dining hall was losing business, Kazuma suggested milking the customers with a hefty point system that rewards them by the option of dating a maid, even though he planned to close the café by the time they gather all the points. His scamming scheme however got overheard by Luna, who used it as leverage for forcing him to immediately close the maid café as well as charging space usage fees, leaving Kazuma with little gain that he then had to share with the others.

Waking up from a full moon's nightmare where his party members chopped his finger off, Kazuma still feeling groggy found himself holding two panties, so escaping a pursuing Megumin by jumping out the window, he headed for Wiz's Shop where Vanir had returned to subsequent to his long trip. There Kazuma heard from the Archdemon of how the ring had enhanced his abilities again, and subsequent to Wiz being zapped unconscious, was further told that he could be drained to death someday should this keep up. Leaving the shop in melancholy, Kazuma expressed at the Guild his woes to Dust and Keith, though the two warned him to take more heed at the danger of the girls in his party killing him instead. Kazuma was next informed by them and Luna about a Sports Festival that offers tens of millions in prizes for the winning team, so he afterwards discussed about it with his party and Wiz, before persuading Chris and Yunyun to join them so they could make a team meeting the required number of members.

He proceeded to take his team on swimming training at the lake, where the sight of them in swimsuits dazzled him. Next Kazuma separated his team into various training regimens where some members instructed others depending on their swimming levels, though there were some incidents on the first day of training, such as Chris and Darkness' swimsuits mysteriously coming off as well as Aqua detecting the presence of Brutal Alligators. Kazuma anyhow geared his team up by the day of the Sports Festivals, which they all managed to attend on time despite some mishaps, then after a Giant Toad attack during the adventurers' race across the grasslands, Kazuma got kicked at by a jealous Dust before Chris and Wiz stopped him. Noticing other male adventurers dawdling at the lakeside waiting for female adventurers to show up in swimsuits, Kazuma talked his teammates into speaking seductive lines as they changed in order to delay as many rivals as possible. He soon discovered while in the lake how Aqua was simply manipulating water instead of actually swimming, and proceeded to have an argument with her over how to split the prize, only to be nearly suffocated when the goddess panickedly clambered over his face because Brutal Alligator hatchlings were found snapping at the swimsuits of competitors. Despite managing to make it ashore, Kazuma's hopes of winning the prize went up in smoke because the Explosion consequently let loose by Megumin resulted in the festival cancelled.

With another full moon's night seeing Kazuma wake up holding three panties, he found the girls having breakfast at the Guild while proposing various ways to dispose of the ring that are also awfully painful and/or fatal to him. Racking his brains for ways to earn the ring removal fee, Kazuma proposed selling light novels, yet the theme ideas that the girls came up with didn't ring well with him, and an ensuing consultation with Vanir ended with Kazuma scrapping the project. A suggestion from Aqua about singing, however, gave Kazuma the idea of starting an idol unit. He accordingly called on his knowledge gleaned from television shows and anime for explaining the concept to the otherworlder girls, and managed to talk them into becoming idol members, following which he as their producer led everybody in working overnight to fabricate the idol costumes.

Kazuma afterwards started putting the unit members through voice and physical training, in addition to maintaining their diet and lifestyle. He then had them practise not only their singing and dancing, but also prepare for handshaking events with the help of Dust and Keith, before teaching the members how to draw signatures and hold an idol graduation ceremony. Furthermore busying himself with the necessary administrative work, Kazuma finally was able to get a live performance held for the idol unit that he named "Shiny Blue", which debuted with astounding success. Proceeding to hold repeated days of performances, he soon found illegal sales of tickets and goods cutting into their revenue, so he tried to hold paid special events. Yet at some point the number of audience abruptly dropped to his befuddlement, until Luna came to tell him how Aqua had been attempting to convert people into the Axis Order during the unit's handshaking events. Although the thoroughly furious Kazuma later confronted Aqua over it, at that point there was nothing he could do but cut their losses by holding an idol graduation ceremony to disband the unit.

After contemplating his upcoming ludicrous death from overdraining, much like the one he suffered before arriving to this world, upon waking up to discover four panties in his hand, Kazuma was approached by his concerned party members, who told him about something powerful attempting to break into the mansion during the night before being repelled by Aqua's magic barrier around it. With a search around the mansion revealing no traces of the intruder, which Kazuma fearfully deduced to wield power similar to the Devil King's Generals, he and the others followed Aqua who charged into Wiz's Shop to accuse Vanir for the attempted break-in, where he told Darkness to restrain the rabid goddess as well as a piqued Megumin. Accordingly grilled at the Guild by his party over the stolen panties, Kazuma was unexpectedly offered by Luna in secret a rewarding quest entailing the scouting of a cave used as a hideout by a band of thieves where they hid stolen antiques. His party members though declined from accompanying him, so through some persuasion, Kazuma eventually got Chris and Yunyun to reluctantly go with him instead.

Following an awkward trip to the riverhead lake and having a picnic there, Kazuma led the girls through the forest towards the cave, on the way to which he became delighted looking up at them when a hunting net trap dangled the distressed pair above him. Finally entering the cave, he led them crawling through a narrow passageway that turned out to be rigged with a trapdoor. Accordingly dropped into a deeper part of the cave system, Kazuma and the girls defeated a horde of attacking monsters before seeking another way out of the cave, only to be shocked when the trio later found a Skull Dragon sleeping close to the exit. Retreating the way they came, they ran into Aqua who trailed Kazuma alongside Megumin, Darkness, and Wiz, and together repelled an ensuing Undead attack. Unable to find another way out, Kazuma had the girls huddle around him so he could cover them all with Lurk as they sneaked past the Skull Dragon, yet a sudden flashing of the cursed ring as he neared it woke the undead monstrosity up. Managing to lead the others outside before the cave was brought down onto its head, he was shocked to discover the Skull Dragon having broke its way out, then subsequent to it leaving after noticing him, heard from Luna as he reported about the Skull Dragon how the quest was deemed a failure.

Exasperatedly waking up from a full moon night to hold five panties, Kazuma thwarted an attempt by his party members to sneak into his room and retrieve them. He afterwards held a meeting with the trio for discussing other ways to earn money, yet well-paying quests were too difficult for their caliber, so following a talk with Dust and Keith, Kazuma took his party on an attempt to negotiate a lower ring removal fee with Vanir, though to no avail. Next running into Chris and Yunyun whom he persuaded into assisting, Kazuma went around looking for odd jobs around town that the members could split up and work on. But despite the initial promising prospects of the jobs, he calculated several days later how at the rate they were going, it will take several years before the required amount of money can be gathered. The emergency meeting Kazuma held with the five girls for discussing the matter, however, was interrupted by an emergency assembly broadcast by the Guild that specifically required their presence. Arriving at the Guild to find all the other adventurers including Wiz there, they heard Luna announce the gradual approach of the Skull Dragon towards Axel and the emergency quest declared upon it, before the cursed ring began flashing again.

Kazuma with his companions thus excused themselves and headed for Wiz's Shop, where Vanir explained to them the Skull Dragon's history as well as its connection to the cursed ring. His hopes of conversing with the mage's soul inside the Skull Dragon dashed because it was busy battling with the dragon's soul, Kazuma and his companions came up with a strategy similar to how they fought the Destroyer, which comprises of the other adventurers holding the Skull Dragon in place for Explosions to weaken it before Aqua purifies the monster. Accordingly returning to the Guild and reciting what they discovered, albeit leaving out the part about the cursed ring's connection to it all, Kazuma joined in a toast prior to the battle, which proceeded just as he had planned. Although the Skull Dragon surprisingly survived, the damage wrought upon it finally allowed the mage's soul to gain supremacy over the body, so Kazuma and his companions had a private talk with him. After hearing the mage lament about the unfairness of the world towards his panty-stealing brother, Kazuma managed to persuade him from enacting vengeance by citing how there won't be any more panties if humans were all killed. He furthermore handed over the five panties he had stolen so that the mage could share them with his brother in the afterlife, at which the satisfied mage let Aqua purify him and the Skull Dragon's body. Kazuma next became overjoyed at the cursed ring crumbling, only to have the panties' enraged owners send him to Eris. Later Resurrected by Aqua, his fate thereafter depended on the series of possible rewards and penalties contingent upon on his performance in the "Panty Judgments" as well as his conversational responses to the heroines.

He might notice Aqua making frequent outings lately, and following nightfall on a day he returned with Megumin from an unsatisfactory Explosion routine to hear Dust and Keith talk about an enigmatic mob settling on the edge of town, Kazuma found it strange that Aqua returned with "donations" of expensive crab for dinner, which were then joined by other pricey goods whenever she returned from excursions in the middle of the night. With the other girls also concerned about the source of the goods, Kazuma trailed Aqua some nights later when she sneaked out of the mansion towards the residence of the said mob, where he witnessed the goddess worshipped by what appeared to be Axis cultists, but according to the teary Aqua on the next day, were actually a gang of con artists, who tricked her into borrowing millions of eris at loanshark rates using the mansion as collateral. Determined to avoid sleeping in stables again, he agreed to help Aqua earn money for repayment. Making in the ensuing days little progress towards earning money through odd jobs and easy quests, the party was notified by Aqua about a beauty pageant held by the Eris Order with a prize of millions of eris. Kazuma accordingly instructed Megumin to secretly post a quest at the Guild for taking out the con artists, while putting Aqua through intense pageant training so that she could act goddess-ly enough to appeal to the Eris followers on the pageant's judge panel. After having Aqua dress-up, jog through toad country (and occasionally being gobbled up), discuss with Dust and Keith, as well as take dialogue sessions for personality rectification from Wiz, he became exasperated upon the goddess managing to be declared the winner but blow it at the last minute. However, because at that point some Eris followers had already performed his quest against the con artists for free, Kazuma no longer having a need for quick money simply kept the fact hidden so Aqua could be made to continuously work.

He might while bickering with the Megumin he was carrying back from her Explosion routine out on the grasslands one day pick up another ring, which he took to Wiz's Shop for assessment. Despite refusing Vanir's services in fear of being charged, the Archdemon still slapped a huge assessment fee upon answering Megumin's question about the ring which contained a weak curse originating from regrets, so Kazuma agreed on the offered deal to pay by breaking a curse at a church of Eris in his stead. Advised to bring the ring with him, he took Megumin to check out the empty church, yet subsequent to scaring her, discovered both of them trapped within the structure by the curse. Unable to break out, he suggested abiding by the bloody words appearing on a wall that instructed them to hold a wedding ceremony so the curse could be lifted, yet Megumin's refusal to perform even a pretend one forced him to wait for aid. Discussing the curse as they looked around for food, Kazuma in the end chose to dine on the hand-baked cookies Megumin had brought along instead. When resting on the chapel pews after nightfall as Megumin went for a shower, however, Kazuma became spooked by the appearance of a ghost that sent him seeking refuge by the Crimson Demon while she was naked. Trying to sleep after failing to find the bride ghost, he eventually witnessed it again when accompanying Megumin to the toilet, thus went to bed with her in the church's bedroom. Hours later, Kazuma was woken by Megumin whom the bride ghost cursed into donning a wedding dress she couldn't remove, allowing him to convince her of the wedding ceremony's necessity. Through some trial and error with the ceremonial procedures at the chapel, they ended the ceremony with Kazuma slipping the ring onto Megumin as well as both swearing fealty to the other, following which the curse lifted in a peal of bells and let them go home.

He might hear Darkness report during dinner about the rewards from the emergency quest still being calculated, and consequently sighed repeatedly upon thinking of the party's financial situation, making Darkness visit his room to ask about what was troubling him. Playing down his worries so that she won't be concerned after all the previous messes, Kazuma woke up the next day to miss breakfast, before sighing when he found the girls secretly discussing him. He was next surprised when Darkness earnestly accompanied him on his walk, then upon eavesdropping on her conversation with the other girls after returning to the mansion, realised that she was in love with him, though his anticipation was replaced during dinner by doubt about her simply playing a prank. Kazuma thus began testing it out by having Darkness perform more intimate actions like dressing and feeding him despite the other girls' quips, then accompanied her on a walk through the city and out into the grasslands, though the other girls trailing them attracted some Giant Toads, one of which went for him before gobbling up Darkness who pushed him out of the way. Wallowing in disappointment over how the date turned out while he bathed, Kazuma instinctively Lurked once the girls entered the bathroom, yet the girls' frolicking eventually broke his concentration to reveal his presence for Aqua to punch him. Later apologising over the incident at Darkness' behest, he began sighing again as soon as thoughts about their financial woes resurfaced, though during dinner he still feigned drunkenness in order to cozy up with Darkness. Yet on the following morning, Kazuma discovered, much to his embarrassment, that Darkness was simply trying to cheer him up because he kept sighing. Accordingly apologised at by Darkness, he nevertheless joined her and the other girls on another quest.

He might go find Wiz to apologise for the trouble he caused after doing so with Chris, then offered to help around her shop for free. First reordering the merchandise on the shelves, Kazuma discovered how unattractive their labelling and defects were, before joining Wiz on inventory purchasing because no customers were expected. Witnessing Aqua elatedly selling croquettes on their way to the marketplace, he next became flabbergasted at how the benevolent Wiz kept getting conned by crafty stall owners into buying suspicious junk at outrageous prices, and returned home to hear Aqua talk about purifying many Ghosts that attacked her on the way back. Unable to get any good ideas about magic items from his party members, Kazuma going to help at Wiz's Shop again heard about the shopkeeper getting lots of purification requests against rampaging Ghosts, then after having tea with her, pointed out some flaws with her business methods. Next he took her asking around for what kinds of magic items do people want, though she ended up looking after some children, whose mothers too talked about Ghosts causing a disturbance on the previous night. Running into Aqua as he and Wiz talked about the Ghosts, Kazuma suspecting the goddess to be somehow involved agreed to help Wiz with the purification requests later that night. He first helped her carry a sack of holy water to the Guild, where Luna told them Aqua had already purified the Ghosts there, before Wiz spread holy water around the structure and throughout town for free to keep Ghosts from congregating. Despite telling her off for the rewardless work, Kazuma still became impressed at Wiz directing some children's souls to the afterlife, and expressed concern at her feeling uncomfortable when heading to work on a church of Eris. Kazuma then restrained Aqua, who chose to leave the Ghosts in the church alone, when she confronted Wiz, and as they walked back along the riverside, found that the goddess' divine aura had agitated the Ghosts due to elation from getting a pay raise and free croquettes at her job. Angered by Aqua subsequently showing off to people her ghostbusting in hopes of getting paid, Kazuma tried making the debt-ridden goddess split her earnings with Wiz, yet in the scuffle splashed holy water all over the Lich. Kazuma proceeded to shove Wiz into the river lest she gets burned away, following which he accompanied her back to the shop.

He might go find Chris to apologise for the trouble he caused after doing so with Wiz, though the Thief teasingly requested him to pay her 1 million eris before leaving without requesting him do anything. Hoping to do something for Chris anyways, Kazuma trailed behind her all over town and out in order to find out what she may like, in the process running into each of his party members, to whom he summarised how he wanted to find Chris as well as grumbled about him better off paying 1 million eris than get led around in circles. Going back home after losing her, he was woken the following morning by signal guns fired by the Guild, and heading there to investigate, became perplexed by Dust and Keith thanking him for his generosity, before turning horrified when Darkness informed him that somebody had posted a quest in his name, which entailed him paying 1 million eris to whoever captures Chris within six hours. Since it was already too late to cancel the quest, at Luna's advice Kazuma went looking around for Chris so he could keep her from capture, and eventually found her at Wiz's Shop, though between its shopkeeper trying to serve them drugged tea and some adventurers led by Keith discovering them, Kazuma had to take Chris fleeing through tight alleyways towards his mansion. Explaining to Megumin who had been waiting in ambush there how he didn't post the quest, he and Chris got her aid with escaping again when some adventurers came barging in, though both of them were at length cornered on the streets. Kazuma thus tried Stealing some wizard's rod only to end up with Chris' panties, which he threw towards the adventurers as a distraction while he took Chris out of the encirclement. Later talking the enraged Chris into continuing the escape instead of letting herself be caught, Kazuma and her sought refuge in a church of Eris, but had to creep through the rooms when pursuers began closing in. Next climbing across the roof, during which Kazuma slipped and nearly pulled Chris' shorts down too, they made it outside only to be surrounded. Kazuma thus made a show of preparing to strip Chris naked as a means of distracting the other adventurers so that the Thief can escape, yet unfortunately she didn't get his meaning and became infuriated instead. Barely saved by the Guild signaling the time limit of the quest reached, Kazuma promising to buy Chris more panties afterwards accompanied her outside the city to find Aqua laying in wait, from whom he squeezed a confession about her posting the quest because she misunderstood his grumblings on the previous day. This made Kazuma wish to have Eris join his party in Aqua's place, despite Chris saying that it won't happen.

He might find Yunyun laying in wait at Wiz's Shop when taking his party there, thus talked Megumin into accepting her rival's challenge, before watching over the Crimson Demons' fishing contest by the riverside. Engaging in a water fight with his party members, Kazuma helped Yunyun and Megumin out after they fell into the river, and later called a contest a draw. He proceeded to invite Yunyun back to their mansion for roasting the fish and sleeping over, though her having studied the ways for serving dinner just in case as well as Megumin's recollection of Yunyun's lonesome past pained him. At Yunyun's pleading during the night, Kazuma on the following morning declared letting her stay at the mansion, something his party members eventually agreed with. Accordingly forced from his dissolute lazing into accompanying Megumin's Explosion routine alongside Yunyun a few days afterwards, he became impressed by Yunyun saving them from a Giant Toad on the way back, but then pitied her for diligently picking up the mess left around the mansion by the lazing Aqua. Further impressed a week later by Yunyun's performance on a quest against flying Salad, Kazuma in response to the jealous Megumin's threat of leaving the party if Yunyun joined it suggested three rounds of contests between the Crimson Demons that Wiz and Chris would judge. After Yunyun won the first two, Kazuma who decided the context of the third made it a two-pointer which involved taking care of Aqua, resulting in Megumin's method of carrot-and-stick beating Yunyun's sheer pampering, and so Yunyun left the mansion to train more for her next contest with Megumin.

At some point during the period, Kazuma in the middle of a quest ran off a cliff when chased by Undeads attracted by Aqua, following which he heard complaints from Eris about him always dying. Therefore subsequent to being Resurrected by Aqua, Kazuma made up his mind not to take quests again. He proceeded to announce his decision after the party's return to the mansion, and crawled into the kotatsu for emphasising his point. Refusing the girls' pleas for coming out a few days later when they were failing quests, Kazuma only agreed to poke his upper body outside for hot pot, then lured the girls into the kotatsu one after the other, making them as much of a captive of the device as he was. Yet despite initially overjoyed at nobody obstructing his shut-in lifestyle, he suddenly realised how there will be no one to earn money or food if this keeps up. Making a 180 degree turn, Kazuma chased his party members out of the kotatsu which he then confiscated so they will go out to work, though during a subsequent quest where Aqua attracted a horde of monsters, he found himself killed once again.

Magical Stones Arc

Piqued by Megumin and Darkness criticising him for lazing around the mansion and teased for being bad at the "imitation chess" they were playing, Kazuma overturned their match with an "Explosion" that to his surprise was a legitimate game move, before having to stop Megumin from chanting for a real Explosion and call Darkness out for fantasizing the loss of their mansion. They were then shown by the returning Aqua a piece of glassic shard of stone which she had picked up during her walk, though with her unwilling to take the shard for assessment at Wiz's Shop, Kazuma proceeded to trick her into tossing away the shard before catching it and making off with the other girls. Eventually letting Aqua hold the shard on their way there, Kazuma heard from Vanir how it was a part of a larger magical stone that he was willing to pay millions of eris to buy, prompting the party to rush out in search.

Arriving at the neighbourhood ruins where Aqua found the shard, Kazuma persuaded Megumin to accept the challenge from Yunyun who was laying in wait for them. Later defeating the Muncher-Muncher growing in the deepest part of the ruins, he with Darkness' help unearthed the magical stone. Kazuma next fitted Aqua's shard into a depression on its surface, and became surprised when the stone at Aqua's touch began glowing with more magical power as well as display a kanji number until the shard was gouged back out. Taking the magical stone back to Vanir who offered to buy it anytime, Kazuma because of Aqua and Megumin's objections agreed with Darkness to talk it out at the Guild, where Chris informed them that these Devil-Sealing Magical Stones had other specimens hidden elsewhere, making Kazuma and his companions celebrate in anticipation for their imminent low-risk-high-return fortune.

While asking around for clues to the magical stones at the Guild the next day, Kazuma was approached by Luna who offered a quest against a recent wave of undead spawning in Keele's Dungeon, though he ignored her because of the embarrassment suffered during the debacle with Ran. Wiz next came presenting the party with a magical stone detecting device commissioned by Vanir that pointed out Keele's Dungeon as the location where the next stone was located, so Kazuma changed his mind and accepted Luna's quest. Yet subsequent to arriving, his teasing of Megumin about her wanting to stay outside again because she cannot use Explosion inside ended up making her lose it and blow up the dungeon entrance. Angrily berating and threatening to use Steal on the explosion loli, Kazuma turned astounded when the magic from the stone permeating the dungeon restored the entrance to normal, although soon after proceeding inside, he became forced to rescue Aqua from a pit trap because she was holding the detection device. As the party made their way towards the lower level, he turned exasperated because they ran into Mitsurugi and his party members who had overheard their conversation about the magical stones last night, before the Sword Master offered to join in their search. They went on to fight unnaturally numerous waves of Undead after advancing into a secret passageway beyond Keele's chamber, where they were then faced by the Devil Giger leading the Undead attracted to the dungeon by the magical stone, which the party retrieved following the utter defeat of the four-armed swordsman. Kazuma and party accordingly returned from their not-so-low-risk endeavour to the Guild for a toast, and heard from Chris about seven of these magical stones existing, before she offered to join their search.

After waking from a night's dream provided by the Succubus Cafe to hear Aqua already headed out to do shopping, Kazuma himself led Darkness and Megumin to Wiz's Shop for purchasing equipment needed in their upcoming desert trip to the Temple of Everlasting Summer, yet had his patronage of the Cafe used as blackmail by Vanir, and had to agree with allowing him and Wiz to accompany the party's trip. Kazuma was afterwards surprised by the scorching heat of the area upon being Teleported to the temple's entrance, prompting him to pick up his pace so that he could quickly leave. Reaching the deepest part of the temple just as the heat was getting to his head, Kazuma and his party managed to defeat the fiery Bildnibis, before retrieving the magical stone and starting a dispute over how to split them amongst one another.

When Kazuma lead his companions to the ancient ruins where the underground research facility was located, he was surprised to see Ran adventuring there, though following his initial outrage at seeing her again, ended up forgiving the aspiring adventurer and allowed her to join his party's search. Battling their way through the facility now filled with various Golems and small variations of the Destroyer, the party pushed into the deepest floor where they fought Gun Falcon DX, before having to fight Gun Falcon BX without the luxury of resting. Subsequent to their victory, Kazuma and his party members stayed behind to search the inner chamber that rampaging Golems had smashed to ruins, and successfully uncovered from the debris another magical stone. Then during the party's crab pot dinner that night, he once more forbade Megumin from drinking bubbly.

Trudging through the snowfield forest where the next magical stone was hidden, Kazuma became exasperated at Megumin using Chomusuke as a makeshift heater as well as Aqua quarrelling with the cat again. After the party reached a clearing at the end of a snowy dungeon filled with falling pits and spike traps, a Dera Mammo appeared when Darkness against Kazuma's advice uttered a flag line, forcing him to follow the charging Crusader and defeat the monster. Unable to find the magical stone with all the snow and ice around them, Kazuma Drain Touched Darkness to recharge Megumin so that she could cast an Explosion, which in addition to the stone also dug out a hot spring, something all their companions at Axel were accordingly invited to.

The following day, Kazuma brought his party to the Guild to inquire about the nearby dungeon put on lockdown, in which the next magical stone was located, and ended up hearing from Dust the strikingly familiar rumour about the magical stones being able to grant any wish when all seven of them are gathered, making him suspect the stone to be some Japanese reincarnate's cheat item. Next restraining Aqua when she began pestering Luna, he heard from the receptionist scary stories about that dungeon which even veteran adventurers became horrified by. Although Kazuma initially chickened out, at the goading of his party members, he had to agree on accepting Luna's quest of exploring the Mystery Tower. Kicking Aqua forward as bait against the horde of Undeads surrounding the tower so the party could enter, Kazuma became surprised to find that roaming the entrance level were Axis followers, whom he quickly walked away from. He proceeded to make his way up the tower alongside his party and Wiz, all the while fighting monsters similar to those they had previously fought, as the others also realised by the time they reached the midway point. An ensuing battle with a Giant Toad Ghost that made Aqua and Megumin's trauma resurface finally made Kazuma grasp how all the monsters were actually spawned by the tower based on their traumatic memories, a fact he explained to the others when they faced the physical illusions of Beldia and Hans on the top floor. During the fight against the vengeful copies of the Devil King's Generals, Kazuma upon discovering that one illusion would upon defeat be immediately resurrected by the other, directed Aqua to purify the Dullahan at the same time he and Wiz froze the Slime, which successfully took out both illusions. Following Hans and Beldia's dissipation after some futile final struggles against Aqua and the girls, he after Aqua picked up the magical stone they discovered nearby realised how the magic powering the tower's existence had been cut, and so grabbed her hagoromo to use as a parachute for everyone until Wiz Teleported them all to safety back in Axel. Accordingly hearing Chris tell him about the seven magical stones rumoured to have come from Japan, Kazuma had his hopes of using them for defeating the Devil King shot down when Aqua reminded him regarding cheat items being exclusively usable by its original owner.

Notified by Megumin on the next day about the Mystery Tower reappearing overnight, Kazuma rebuffed the Guilds requests for investigating it again. He nevertheless headed over to the Guild hall, where Aqua was arguing with Vanir over the detection device showing the last magical stone moving about, and subsequent to elucidating the question in the goddess' place, became shocked when told that it was the dungeon containing the stone that was moving. Accordingly hearing Sena announce the existence of a moving dungeon looking like a town that reduced the knights investigating it to the mentality of naughty children, Kazuma like other adventurers refused to volunteer for the royal prosecutor's multi-million eris request to go investigate it, though his tune flipped once Vanir offered a higher price if all stones were gathered. Reaching the place following a long carriage ride, Kazuma described the dungeon to look like a Shangri-La where celestians roam, before having to wait for his three party members after they ran off. Rejoining with them afterwards, he found something wrong with the unnaturally placid and serious trio, so upon reaching the innermost chamber Stole their panties, something the girls uncharacteristically expressed none of the expected hysterics towards. Kazuma thus unmasked the girls as imposters, only to have them be joined by a fake copy of him, before the four of them reveal their true forms as the doll copies of Kazuma's party. Barely holding back the onslaught while outnumbered, Kazuma became thankful once his party members returned, and successfully defeated the dolls, which other than his were actually more competent than the real one. The Doll Master who created the dungeon and carried the magical stone then showed up, so Kazuma listened to it recount its sad story of being discarded because of its disgusting appearance. Upon the Doll Master offering to let them safely leave in exchange for warning other people not to enter the dungeon, he wanted to accept the deal because of how fatigued his party was, though Aqua enraging the Doll Master into waging war against humans forced him to fight it and the party's doll copies, a battle Kazuma and his companions managed to win before retrieving the magical stone. Later presenting all seven stones to Vanir and offered 300 million eris for them, Kazuma took his party to celebrations at the Guild, when Chris approached to tell them about the rumour saying that the magical stones need to be brought to an altar on the Island in the Sky for them to grant wishes.

Feeling excited the next day over being able to perform a proper adventure on a floating island, Kazuma after being reminded by Darkness about them having to find a way up there first took the others to Wiz's Shop for help, though he had to take Aqua's shard as leverage for forcing her to accompany them. Subsequent to explaining his need, he agreed to the terms of renting the Magical Giant Vanir Mask at a discount rate, which encompassed bringing Vanir and Wiz along with them, though the terrifying trip through the sky convinced him to use Wiz's Teleportation for travelling to and fro in future. Nevertheless enjoying the breathtaking view of the land below with Darkness during a break in their trek, Kazuma expressed vexation at Aqua trying to use him as a windshield as they climbed to a higher and windier level. After the party reached the centre of the island, where the altar on which Aqua was instructed by Vanir to place the stones was located, he dragged Aqua away from it once the stones started glowing unnaturally. Kazuma accordingly heard Vanir boast of setting them up through enticing the party into gathering all the Devil-Sealing Magical Stones that were actually used for sealing a powerful monster, in addition to directing them into believing the tall tale about the stones being able to grant wishes once all seven of them were place upon the island's altar where the monster would instead be released, just so that the Archdemon could taste the exquisite disappointment they were presently emitting. Surprised by how much of a mish-mash the released Imitation Dragon looked like, Kazuma next listened to Vanir recite how the Head Researcher created and sealed the failure of a beast, and became exasperated at the ensuing quarrel between Vanir and Aqua. The hostility displayed by the Imitation Dragon towards the party, however, forced Kazuma to desperately do battle, followed by leading the escape when the monster was frozen in place by Wiz. Fleeing back to the grasslands outside Axel, Kazuma with Megumin's help uncovered the shard of magical stone that Aqua had smuggled back with her, following which the shard attracted the Imitation Dragon right to their location.

With the Imitation Dragon rampaging at the gates of Axel, Kazuma got his wish of having somebody help them when the commotion attracted the gathering of adventurers who accompanied them on their search of the magical stones, so preventing Aqua from fleeing, he grudgingly agreed to take the lead in this final fight. During the ensuing fierce battle, Kazuma noticed the shard transferring power to the Imitation Dragon that allowed it to regenerate from its wounds, so subsequent to Megumin and Darkness persuading Aqua into letting it go, he smash the shard and caused the Imitation Dragon to weaken. Kazuma in the battle's final stages proceeded with giving various instructions to the others as part of his plan for taking out the monster, while himself Sniping one of the Imitation Dragon's heads in order to allow the killing blows be made. Later with Vanir being unapologetic over starting the whole ordeal, the exhausted Kazuma trudged back to the city while his party members went after he Archdemon.

Kazuma at the Guild later became dejected because their exploit of defeating the Imitation Dragon was cancelled out by Sena in exchange for the damages caused by the rampaging monster that they attracted to the city in the first place, as well as them having to leave the magical stones on the Island in the Sky, resulting in all that effort being spent for no gain. He was anyhow cheered up by Chris and Luna, after which Kazuma joined the other adventurers in celebrating their victory.

Abilities

Whereas his party members suffer from being too specialized, Kazuma has the opposite problem: he does not excel in anything. Despite having amazing Luck and decent Intellect stats, the former is not directly applicable in combat and he cannot make full use of the latter due to his low Magic Power. In addition, despite his class granting him an XP boost, he levels up the slowest out of his party due to a lack of contributions during quests on account of his low stats, causing him to lag behind even his "deficient" companions.

Stats: After becoming an adventurer and learning different skills, Kazuma had two high stats:

• Luck: Kazuma has an extraordinarily high Luck stat, so high that even Luna was surprised. However, she claims that its numerical value isn't really essential to an adventurer. The only person Kazuma has ever lost to in a game of rock-paper-scissors is Eris, the Goddess of Luck. During his gambling streak in the nation of Elroad, Kazuma was able to win enough money to temporarily put a casino out of business. Though frustrating and unpredictable in the short run, most things end up turning out well for him, no matter how many times he makes the same mistakes.
• Intellect: His Intellect is decently high, one of the highest out of his entire party, behind Megumin. In practical use, he is very cunning and sharp, often employing the usage of sneaky and pragmatic tactics. He also uses his intelligence to combine many different skills in order to create unexpected effects, as creating clouds of dust or trapping the target's feet on ice by using simple Basic Magic.

Skills and Magic: Kazuma belongs to the Adventurer class, and as an adventurer, Kazuma can learn and use skills and magic spells of any class. He can also level up easily. After venturing into the world's hardest dungeon, he learned many other skills on top of the ones he had prior due to having an insane amount of skill points:

• Thief-Class:
  • Steal: Steal a target's item at random. The item value depends on the user's Luck. Due to Kazuma's perverted nature, he often unintentionally (or intentionally) steals his female opponent's underwear.
  • Bind: Binds a target in rope provided the user has a rope on them. Kazuma uses this skill with a special mithril wire.
  • Disarm Trap: This allows the user to disarm any traps in their path.
  • Trap Detection: This allows the user to detect any placed traps in the area.
  • Enemy Detection: Allows the user to sense hostiles using "Radar-like" pings.
  • Lurk: Reduces the visibility and scent of the user and anyone or anything they touch.
  • Flee: Allows user to make a quick getaway.

• Warrior-Class:
  • One-Handed Sword: Raises proficiency with one-handed swords.

• Wizard-Class:
  • Tinder: Creates a small flame too weak to directly harm enemies.
  • Create Earth: Produces sand or soil full of nutrients.
  • Create Water: Shoots a jet of pure and clean water from atmospheric moisture.
  • Wind Breath: Creates a gust of wind which can redirect small projectiles.
  • Freeze: Creates a chill able to freeze the surface of the target's body.
  • Fireball: Shoots a ball of fire that detonates on the target.
  • Lightning: Summons a lightning bolt.
  • Flash: Creates a intense light that blinds the opponent.
  • Unlock: Allows the user to open up any lock or unseal any object.
  • Teleport: Instantaneously transports up to 4 targets to a marked locations. Each user can have 3 marked locations for teleportation. Kazuma marked the boss chamber of the World Largest Dungeon, the entrance of Axel Police Station and Eris' room in the Afterlife.
  • Explosion: Summons a single beam of light, that detonates at the target, creating a devastating blast of pure magical power.

• Undead-Class:
  • Drain Touch: Absorbs MP and HP from a target, which in turn can be transferred to somebody else. It is more effective where the skin is thin and spots near the heart. This skill, however, isn't as effective for Kazuma on adversaries with high Vitality like Darkness and Mitsurugi. Also, undeads and monsters with low-quality MP can cause negative effects on Kazuma's health.

• Archer-Class:
  • Bow: Raises proficiency with bow and arrows.
  • Snipe: Increases the distance and accuracy of an arrow. Damage is based on Dexterity while Accuracy is based on Luck.
  • Foresight: This allows him to see far into the distance and improve the user's vision overall.

• Priest-Class:
  • Heal: Instantly heals a person's wounds.
• Monk-Class:
  • Auto-evade: Allows the user to dodge any attack autonomously. Activation is dependent on the user's Luck.

• Ranger-Class:
  • Set Trap: Increases the power and activation chance of any trap.

• Creator-Class:
  • Create Earth Golem: Creates an earthen golem from the ground soil.

• Assassin-Class:
  • Deadly Backstab: One-hit kills the target in their back if certain conditions are met, as being undetected. Success rate based on Luck.

• Dark Stalker Class:
  • Eavesdrop: The ability to secretly listen to a conversation from a distance.

• General Skills:
  • Lip Reading: Understand what someone is saying as long as the user can see their mouth. Kazuma usually uses this skill alongside Foresight.

• Chef-Class:
  • Cook: Gets better at cooking. Kazuma used this in other to prepare dishes from his homeland, Japan.

• BlackSmith-Class
  • Smithing: Ability to forge and fix weapons, armors and other objects. Kazuma uses his smithing ability to great effect by inventing products from Earth, such as dynamite, condoms, lighters, and kotatsu, as well as repair armor made out of adamantite.

Equipment

Short Sword: A cheap short sword that he bought some weeks after being reincarnated with what little income he had made from his construction job.

Chunchunmaru: A specially-ordered short katana, which has a weird name thanks to Megumin.

Silver Arrows: Handmade arrows made of silver, effective against undead, demons and wolf-type monsters.

Cursed Ring: A cursed ring that got stuck on Kazuma's finger after he put it on, and forced him to steal panties upon every full moon.

Mass-Produced Vanir Mask: A mask that raises magic abilities, increases blood flow and gives the user's skin a healthy glow on full moon.

Tinymite: An small item created by Kazuma, similar to the dynamite, that created an explosion as powerful as Blasting Magic.

Bottle of Poison: Alongside the Deadly Backstab skill, Kazuma gained a bottle of poison from the assassin who taught him that skill.

Aqua

Aqua first met Kazuma in Heaven. As Aqua made fun of him, he wanted to get payback at her, which resulted in him choosing her to take into the Parallel World. Despite the two of them maintaining cohabitation for several months at the beginning of the series, their relationship is platonic. When ordering a sexual fantasy from the Succubus Cafe for the first time, Kazuma even requests his sexual partner be someone he knows and that she be an attractive older woman who is sexually inexperienced, without it ever occurring to him that Aqua meets this description. Due to the terms under which Aqua and Kazuma were brought to the Parallel World, the two are inseparable and Aqua even relies on Kazuma more than she admits. He thinks she is useless yet cute when she is silent and calm. They often argue and point at each other's respective flaws, which results in Kazuma usually making Aqua cry. In many regards, they often act akin to a pair of siblings.

While under normal circumstances he would never admit it, he does value Aqua as a companion. Despite Aqua's constant frustration with him, when she was to return to heaven, Kazuma struggled internally, coming to terms with it, and eventually was able to express his feelings for her to stay in his own unique way (which was also assisted by she herself wishing to stay, having grown fond of her party and the world).

He was also willing to dropkick Serena in the face just because he didn't like how Aqua was being treated and how depressed Aqua was getting, showing how despite the fights and arguments they have, Kazuma actually cares about and looks out for Aqua. Aqua is the only girl in his party that Kazuma doesn't think or do anything perverse towards. After defeating the Devil King, when returns to Heaven, Aqua sobbingly confesses her true feelings to Kazuma which makes him fall for Aqua for the first time.

Megumin

Megumin considers Kazuma a contradiction at times. She described him and we as someone who is idle when wealthy, yet hardworking when in need of funds, and perverted, yet reliable during emergency situations. They enjoy a close relationship, with Megumin being the most emotional one in the party, which was shown when Kazuma didn't want to return from the afterlife. She is also the most defensive in their party when Kazuma is bad-mouthed by strangers.

After the battle against Wolbach, Megumin confessed her feelings to Kazuma, to which he confessed as well. They later entered a secret relationship as "more than friends but less than lovers." While they tried to keep it a secret, it became known to the rest of the group after Darkness confessed to Kazuma. Since then their relationship progressed a bit faster to the point where they have attempted sexual acts. In the second travel to the Crimson Demon Village, Megumin offered to give Kazuma a handjob but they were interrupted. After Aqua ran away and when they were about to leave for a dangerous journey, Megumin wanted to have sex with Kazuma in order to "not have any regrets," but after they had a passionate kiss, they didn’t go any further due to Kazuma’s own comical doing. This left Kazuma uneasy, but Megumin promised him that they will continue afterward.

In In a short story, Megumin asks Kazuma on a date on which they took a casual walk around the town. He noticed that they were followed by Yunyun, Funifura, and Dodonko. Funifura delivers a letter to Megumin stating she couldn’t believe that she and Kazuma are an item. Kazuma, realizing that it's the usual maturity duel she has with her friends, tells Megumin to head home with him so that they could make out, to which Funifura exclaims that she couldn't believe that they are an item and are already making babies, Megumin embarrassingly retorts they haven't gone that far yet.

Darkness

While she fulfills his fetish for an "onee-san with great figure," her personality turns him off. Despite this, he often looks at her with lecherous eyes. Vanir teases them by stating that both Darkness and Kazuma have feelings for each other, but fear crossing the line of adventurer comrades, embarrassing both of them. Darkness often blurts out perverted thoughts, which Kazuma often snarks at either verbally or mentally. She seems to enjoy his verbal abuse, much to his dismay. Though he considers her "a helpless crusader," he does sincerely care for her, and vice versa. In the anime, Kazuma asks Darkness to bathe him as he thinks he is dreaming, where he went to the Succubus Cafe to have an erotic dream.

Kazuma also sees Darkness as a good friend who she can trust and rely on. Later on in the story, Darkness starts to develop feelings for Kazuma after he saves her from her arranged marriage with Alderp. She will not hesitate to punish him when she discovers his involvement with serious troublesome matters, such as him being the advisor to the Eris Festival. After the tax collection, she reveals that she loves him, and has been "obsessed with him" since he rescued her from Alderp. She even kisses Kazuma on the lips when she has a major breakdown after he rejects her, stating that he loves Megumin. In volume 13, Darkness tries to seduce Kazuma by offering to bathe him. Kazuma while being seduced, underhandedly wanted her to use force on him. Before Darkness could follow through, Megumin stops them after returning from a trip to her village.

Eris/Chris

Chris was the first person to teach Kazuma adventurer's skills, including his trademark spell Steal. Although Chris never joins his adventure party, she and Kazuma form their own separate party, with Chris as the "Big-Boss" and Kazuma as "Assistant-kun". Their thieving group, later dubbed "The Chivalrous Thieving Duo", steals magical items from corrupt nobles who intend to use them for their own selfish purposes. As a result, the pair have a massive bounty on their heads, second only to the Devil King.

Kazuma meets the Goddess Eris following his death at the hands of the Winter Shogun during his first winter in the Parallel World. In contrast to Aqua, Eris treats him with kindness and sympathy. She is prepared to send Kazuma back to Earth to start his life over, but is forced to resurrect him by Aqua. Kazuma is moved by Eris' actions, considering her to be the definition of a goddess. From that point onwards, whenever Kazuma dies, he is met by Eris.

After Darkness' Wedding, due to her appearance, advanced knowledge of divine relics and the way she scratches her cheek when nervous or uncertain about something, Kazuma suspects that Chris is actually Eris in disguise. He later confirms it by addressing Chris as Eris, to which she responds. Chris/Eris immediately swears him to secrecy.

Aside from helping her to recover divine relics, Kazuma considers Chris/Eris a close friend. He goes out of his way to help her and her Church, the Eris sect, during the Eris Festival. When they are down in the doldrums following the success of the "Goddess Aqua Thanksgiving Festival", he arranges "The First Goddess Eris Beauty Pageant", telling Chris to make an appearance as Eris in order to win back the support of her followers. Not only was the pageant a huge success, but the pair recover a divine relic. Following the pageant, Kazuma asks Chris to marry him. Chris's answer is evasive.

Although Eris's feelings towards Kazuma are not clear, Kazuma has cited Eris/Chris as his ideal girl. He considers her an important companion that he can talk to about anything. Aside from gossip about Megumin and Darkness, Kazuma also talks to her about serious issues like the stores in Japan.

After defeating the Devil King, Kazuma brings Eris back to Axel as his new cheat item, though she eventually returns to heaven.

Princess Iris

Iris initially disliked and greatly underestimated Kazuma, believing he lied about his many accomplishments and exploits. After Darkness confirms that Kazuma's statements are true, Iris warms up to him. She is fascinated by his stories and treasures how he is completely honest with her, and the only person to treat her like an ordinary girl, rather than a princess. To the ire of her wards, Kazuma's use of cunning and dirty tactics rubs off on Iris.

Kazuma regards Iris as the little sister he always wanted. Although careful to show proper etiquette around her, in private he is a lot more open with her. Kazuma is usually well behaved around Iris, but went too far when a powerful relic caused them to swap minds. This, coupled with his death at the hands of kobolds, earned him Iris' ire and temporarily lost her respect.

During his stay in the castle, Iris' feelings for Kazuma have turned romantic. After Kazuma saves her from a conspiracy devised by Lord Alderp, who intended to use the mind-swapping relic to take over the throne of Axel, Iris realises how powerful Kazuma is and how much he cares about her. In the trip to Elroad, when Lugkraft, an shape-shifting agent of the Devil King's Army, poses as Kazuma, Iris immediately recognises that the man in front of her is not her beloved "onii-chan". After establishing a romantic rivalry with Megumin, Iris invites Kazuma to stay with her at the Capital. Kazuma accepts this offer, but Claire and Rain send him back to Axel.

Kazuma repeatedly assures Darkness, Megumin and Claire that his feelings for Iris are completely platonic and that he only considers her to be his sister. However, Kazuma has noted, both openly and privately, that if Iris asked him to marry her, once she has grown up, he would say yes. It is not known if these feelings changed after he started dating Megumin.

Kazuma can technically be considered Iris' fiance. During the mission to retrieve the divine relic, Kazuma and Chris cast Steal upon Iris simultaneously. While Chris grabbed the relic, Kazuma unintentionally took a ring that members of the royal family only hand over to the person they are destined to marry. Kazuma cannot return this ring, even if he claimed to have just found it, because the royals would kill him to keep the theft a secret. As such, Iris' ring resides in Kazuma's mansion and is one of his most prized treasures. Feeling guilty about this unintended theft, Kazuma brought Iris a replacement ring. Although it was a cheap piece of jewelry, Iris has treasured Kazuma's gift, and hopes that Kazuma will be the one to defeat the Devil King. Not only have they exchanged rings, but by royal degree, whomsoever defeats the Devil King will automatically become the fiance of the Prince or Princess, but after Kazuma slayed the Devil King, a engagement wasn't discussed yet.

Wiz

Despite Wiz's status as a lich, Kazuma is very courteous to her, more so than his allies. She and Vanir sell products that he has designed, so he often visits their shop to see how things are going.

Taylor

Although Taylor serves as a foil for Kazuma (being a stoic and non-perverse person), the two-party leaders actually get on quite well. They occasionally meet up for a drink in secret to discuss the hardships they go through in dealing with their respective parties. Taylor once even offered Kazuma to join his party.

Dust

Dust initially disliked Kazuma due to jealousy, being unable to understand why he was always complaining despite being surrounded by three beautiful women with high-tier jobs. Dust's attitude towards Kazuma flipped after adventuring with the latter's party, truly understanding the hardships that Kazuma had to go through daily, and the pair soon became friends.

A lot of Dust's unsavory attitude and activities have rubbed off on Kazuma, the latter taking up gambling due to Dust's influence. Although Dust views Kazuma as his best friend, he still sponges drinks off of him from time-to-time and has admitted that he probably wouldn't help Kazuma out if the latter became short on cash. Kazuma has stated that he only really sees Dust as an acquaintance.

Though in reality while he will never admit he does see Dust as a good and close friend. And Dust trusts Kazuma enough to give him his trusted magic sword.

Arue

Kazuma have negative impressions about Arue as not only she was the weirdo who wrote the same ridiculous letter known as Legend of the Crimson Demon Hero and also because she was absent from the battle against Sylvia. Arue on the other hand also dislikes Kazuma not only because of his rudeness, also because he destroyed Legend of the Crimson Demon Hero 'chapter two' that she spent a week writing it. Even meeting again during a test in the Crimson Demon Village their relationships still remains strained as they constantly throwing insults at each other upon confrontation.

Serena

Serena tried to approach Kazuma, pretending to be a fan, in order to investigate him. He ended up discovering her real identity as a Devil King's Genenal, making a deal so Serena would threat him in exchange Kazuma wouldn't expose her. However, since Kazuma knew she has plans to prepare Axel for a invasion, he tried to stop her plans all by himself, but he failed and became her puppet.

However, after becoming her puppet, Kazuma ended up stealing half of her power by following her goddess too, and he not just made her life a living hell, but also ruined her plans and caused her multiple nervous breakdowns. In the end Serena went to his mansion in order to beg Aqua, Megumin and Darkness take him back, being defeated and having her level reseted to 1. Serena was arrested, escaping afterwards and following Kazuma's party in order to take take revenge, but ended up saved by him from the Axis Order by converting to their religion.

Story of Joining Sora's Team

Kazuma joins Sora's team especially He can sometimes be a trouble maker even though he is a trouble maker but he is kind especially Kazuma, his party, and others including Dust, and Mitsurugi is surprised about Nyaruko's behavior which is similar to Aqua especially Isogai actually hits Nyaruko, Kuuko, Nezumi-Otoko, and several other heroes especially He was surprised by Aqua who was made bump by Isogai because Aqua's idea was to cause trouble, especially Kazuma seeing Misumi's memories through Tomoe was surprised that Misumi was the same as especially Kazuma was surprised that Misumi made Kazuma's party more, and the others were surprised especially that Misumi made a mess and even made mentally destroyed by both demons and hyumans but Megumi is amazed that Misumi makes the apocalypse even though like Kazuma especially Kazuma is quite laughing about Aqua, and Eris is racist especially even though like Megumi, and Komekko but Kuzunoha's version is much more helpful especially when Megumi forces herself to take classes making Kazuma agree join in class with Mitsurugi, and Dust as new Misumi student especially since Kazuma is Misumi's partner as a student and partner to Misumi especially even though Isogai is like Kyouya but Isogai sees Nyaruko more like Aqua making Aqua surprised that Nyaruko's relationship with Isogai is very bad especially Nyaruko has a boyfriend Mahiro even Mahiro is Kazuma especially Darkness is surprised that Mahiro hits Nyaruko but It's actually Darkness but Kazuma advises not to cause trouble especially since the idea of ​​Darkness challenging Mahiro and the other heroes is bad especially Okajima being beaten by women makes Kazuma, Dust, and the others a bit worried that class 3-E girls are scarier than when things are perverted, made the Class 3-E girl, and other heroes annoyed so that he avoided the hero's wrath so as not to get beaten up again but Kazuma felt sorry for Mimori because Mimori was a victim, even his tragic side, which Kazuma also hugged after hitting Aqua because Kazuma was angry with Aqua about how Mimori's position made it better for Mitsurugi to keep quiet even justify about Kazuma did, moreover Megumin, Iris, Darkness, Dust, Cielo, Rin, Erika, and Kazuma's alliance supports Kazuma to calm Mimori because Kazuma embraces Mimori as a survivor of exile by Vysis.