I love time travel the most!

"I'm going to fight to protect this town! So please help me!"

"I want to go for a walk in the street, no."

“I have already clearly understood how terrible the Axis cultists are, so I will not play along today.”

"me too."

Aqua's request was immediately and decisively rejected by Kazuma Sato and the two Crimson Demon girls. Having suffered so much, they would probably rather see the town perish than face the onslaught of the Demon King's army.

"X-Xiao Lin..."

"Don't cry, I'll be with you."

If you were to ask what the foolish goddess cares about most, it would only be her followers. Their numbers are probably far fewer than those of the Eris followers, but as Aqua said, she'd do anything for them.

When the Axis religion faced a crisis, how could the worshipped water goddess not lend a hand? ...Even though her status as a goddess was not recognized.

Where is Darkness?

"I……"

"It's okay, Darkness. It doesn't matter if you don't come to help. You can go shopping with Megumin and the others. I have Kobayashi to take care of."

Aqua is like a fallen girl who doesn't care about anything else as long as she has "this," and she turns around and abandons the female knight.

Hearing this, Darkness breathed a sigh of relief, since she preferred going out to find new thrills.

After that, Kobayashi took Ryuzu and set off with Aqua.

Unlike the tourists who came to see the sights, they were not harassed by the Axis cult members. This was solely due to the Axis insignia on Kobayashi's forehead and Aqua's long, light blue hair.

"Aqua, what are you going to do?"

"what?"

"Wasn't it you who kept clamoring to come to the town's hot springs? Seriously, you didn't just rush out without thinking of any plan, did you?"

"Well..."

Aqua rolled her eyes, trying to appear as if she was prepared. But it was obvious that if she were that smart, she wouldn't be called the "Idiot Goddess."

"That's it! I've got an idea!"

For some unknown reason, the silly goddess excitedly ran towards the Church of Axis. Just when Kobayashi thought she was about to ask the cult for help, she never expected that she would ask to soak in the church's hot springs one more time.

"Hey……"

"Come on in too!"

Before Kobayashi could argue back, the silly goddess grabbed his arm and led him to the hot spring, then took off her clothes so quickly that there was no time to stop her.

"Wait, wait! Why are you taking your clothes off!"

"I need to double-check if the hot spring is really contaminated. Also, Kobayashi, hurry up and take off your clothes and come in! At least I need to convince you!"

Aqua urged him on.

Hot springs, goddess, solitude.

Kobayashi would bet that no man could refuse this invitation.

However, even with the goddess's stunning body displayed before him, he had no reaction whatsoever, to the point that he wanted to shout: Niu Niu, what's wrong with you, Niu Niu!

Damn forced sainthood!

I took a leisurely soak in a hot spring.

Perhaps because they were too close to the foolish goddess, they didn't sense the pollution of the hot spring. However, the sensitive goddess did sense it and was certain that the Demon King's army was responsible.

To confirm whether the entire town's hot springs were contaminated, Aqua took him to most of the hot spring pools. Soaking in them from morning till night, Kobayashi felt himself becoming quite swollen.

then.

Having finally made up her mind, Aqua borrowed a megaphone from somewhere and dragged Kobayashi to the center of the hot spring in the street.

She first performed a talent show, attracting a large crowd, before beginning her speech.

"Dear followers of Axis! This town is currently under attack by the Demon King's army! As for what they have done... they have poisoned the town's hot springs! I have confirmed that many hot springs have already been damaged!"

He gets straight to the point from the very first sentence.

However, being too blunt can be seen as alarmist by others.

Immediately, someone stood up to question it.

"I haven't heard about this. I just soaked in the nearby hot springs and I didn't feel anything!"

"That's because I've been purifying the toxins in the hot springs everywhere, and I've finished purifying all the hot springs in this area. However, we can't relax yet, so I have something I need everyone's cooperation on—please don't soak in the hot springs until this is resolved!"

Hearing her say that, the people around her started talking about it.

Aqua gestured for Kobayashi to say something.

Just as he was about to speak, another middle-aged man said, "This is a hot spring town, Miss Priestess. Hot springs are an important tool for attracting customers. If you tell everyone not to soak in the hot springs, then we won't be able to make any money."

"That's right, that's right. Besides, what reason would the Demon King's army have to poison the hot spring?"

Just like Megumin, Aqua immediately voiced her previous speculations again, echoing the questions raised by the crowd.

Although baseless and unbelievable, the information Kobayashi obtained actually confirms this: the Demon King's army's goal is to cut off the financial resources of the Axis Cult, thereby crippling it.

"Ah! In a place like this!"

Just then, the owner of the hot spring inn they had visited before pointed at Aqua standing on the box and shouted, "You bastard! What have you done to our inn's hot spring! How did it turn into ordinary hot water?!"

"Hey everyone, hurry and help catch that guy! That woman's here to cause trouble; she's turned all the hot springs in town into hot water!"

"That's right, she is very likely a henchman of the Demon King's army, sent to destroy this hot spring town, which is the base of the Axis Cult!"

Not only him, but everyone else shouted it out. For some reason, it suddenly became clear that Aqua was part of the Demon King's army.

The misunderstood, foolish goddess was naturally furious. She shouted, "Listen up, you lot! I am a goddess! That's right, I am Aqua, the goddess of water! My dear followers, as you can see, I have come here to save you!"

The previously noisy audience immediately fell silent.

An ominous atmosphere was brewing.

Suddenly, a burst of shouts and curses erupted from the scene.

"Stop talking nonsense, you rude bastard!"

"Just because you have blue hair and blue eyes doesn't mean you can impersonate the goddess Aqua. Be careful, or you'll be punished by the heavens!"

"Quickly throw her into the lake! Since she claims to be the goddess of water, being thrown into the lake shouldn't cause any harm!"

As they talked, the enraged crowd began throwing stones at Aqua.

"Wow! Stop! Stop it! I really am a goddess!"

The idiot goddess ran away with her head in her hands.

However, the already enraged audience wouldn't listen to her explanation at all, and even thought she was still offending the goddess, so they threw stones even harder.

Being rejected by her own followers, this goddess is such a failure!

Although Kobayashi was also wrong to let things develop unchecked, if the idiot goddess wasn't allowed to do so, she would definitely keep making a fuss.

I just didn't expect such a strong reaction.

Left with no other choice, Kobayashi, with the help of Ryushi's [Imaginary Number Switch], fled with Aqua.

Chapter 411 Difficult for Her Heaven?

After her disastrous speech, Aqua returned to her hotel and cried nonstop. No, she had been crying ever since she arrived in this town.

"Kobayashi... Waaaaaahh ...

"Okay, okay, stop being sad."

Kobayashi was comforting the silly goddess; he understood best the pain of wanting to prove oneself but not being recognized.

But this is the downside of having a strong faith.

The water goddess Aqua has become a totem and spiritual pillar of this town. Even the purest person (Aqua) would not be accepted by the Axis believers, because in their eyes it would be blasphemy and defilement.

Soon after, Sato Kazuma and the others returned.

Seeing Aqua sobbing uncontrollably and Kobayashi helplessly comforting her, he unusually didn't say much, because it was impossible for her to be unaware of such a large riot in the town.

I imagine that when Aqua was giving her speech, Kazuma Sato and the others were watching from below.

"Are you giving up?"

"How could I possibly give up! Are you out of your mind?"

"Why are you yelling at me!"

Sato Kazuma, whose good intentions were misunderstood, rolled his eyes at the idiot goddess in annoyance.

Aqua lifted her face, which was swollen from crying, and said, "In any case, someone is indeed carrying out sabotage in this town. Several of the hot springs I've been to have been severely polluted. Anyone who soaks in those hot springs will definitely get sick."

“Aqua’s only reliable ability is as a priestess. Since she said it like that, it must be true. However, we can’t even identify the criminal yet. As things stand, we are helpless.”

"That's true. We should report this to the Adventurers' Guild and the Hot Spring Management Association. After that, we'll probably have to leave it to them to handle."

Darkness and Megumin offered their suggestions.

Aqua gritted her teeth in resentment.

The matter concerns her religious community, and she really wants to resolve it personally, but those people simply don't believe her and she's been treated that way.

"If this continues, my beloved followers will..."

The silly goddess, her eyes brimming with tears, gripped the edge of the table tightly.

There's really nothing you can do against her.

Ultimately, this is a consequence of my own indulgence.

Kobayashi said, "My eyes should be able to detect something unusual. I'll let you know if there are any suspicious people."

Kazuma Sato chimed in, "I'll help you out tomorrow too. But in return, please don't let it come to a situation where we have to fight... No, even if we do fight, it's fine, since we have Kobayashi-senpai with us, what's there to be afraid of?"

"Hey, don't push all the trouble onto me."

"But the others are of no use at all."