I love time travel the most!

Darkness found it hard to accept.

It's normal that she feels uncomfortable because she likes men who abuse aristocratic power, rather than herself abusing it.

The receptionist, bowing repeatedly, said, "Well then, I have followed Miss Dustinis's instructions and completed the procedures for issuing an arrest warrant for this man. If we find any information, we will contact your hotel."

"Okay, okay, thank you for your help." Darkness shrank back.

As Kobayashi was leaving, he turned to the counter staff and said, "We can reimburse Dustinis for all expenses, so please do it as soon as possible."

"—?!"

Darkness's eyes widened.

Return to the hotel.

"You bastard! What do you want?!"

Darkness couldn't help but lash out at Kazuma Sato.

Exposing her identity and abusing her power naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the upright female knight.

"Alright, alright, I admit I was wrong." Sato Kazuma showed no remorse and said perfunctorily, "How about this, next time when there's a need to abuse power, Kobayashi-senpai will do it."

"what?"

"Anyway, you're no different from him, are you?"

"W-What are you saying...!"

Darkness blushed deeply.

This statement undoubtedly implies that he already knew about the relationship between Kobayashi and himself, which is why he said there was no difference.

"Huh, why are you so agitated?" Sato Kazuma asked in surprise. "I only said that because I saw you were unhappy. Kobayashi-senpai is the leader of the squad, and in the end, no matter what, it will all be attributed to the Dustini family. It doesn't make any difference whether he uses it or you do it."

"Yes, that's right."

"Otherwise what else?"

Seeing the relaxed look on the perverted female knight, the perceptive Kazuma Sato sensed that something was amiss.

"...Hey, you and Kobayashi-senpai aren't hiding something from us, are you?"

"No, no! That's not true!"

Darkness's excuses were utterly weak.

Just then, Aqua ran over to the rescue. She held clay in her hands, her nimble hands moving constantly, seemingly focused on making something.

It immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Aqua, what are you doing?"

"This? This... I made it based on what Darkness just showed off. Look, it's exactly the same, right? With this, I can always claim to be a child of the Darkness family and do whatever I want."

"Stop it!"

"Ughh ...

Darkness snatched it away and threw the clay, causing the silly goddess to yell incessantly.

Chapter 412 I'm Not a Bad Slime!

"Welcome back. How are you?"

"Not too optimistic."

Back at the hotel, Wiz greeted them and explained what had happened.

Having already used the power of the nobility to distribute the wanted posters, this was all they could do.

"I guess we've reached the stage of doing our best and leaving the rest to fate," Kazuma Sato sighed helplessly, then added irritably, "Hey, you guys! Don't you know that when you travel together, you have to take a bath together? We're going back tomorrow anyway, so let's all take a bath together to finish this."

"What is that? I've never heard of such a custom."

"This is a custom of commoners. How could you, a young lady, have heard of it?"

"Huh, is there really such a rule?"

Darkness asked Megumin beside her uncertainly, and the little girl replied with "How could that be?" The angry female knight then punched the lewd Kazuma hard, causing him to collapse to his knees, clutching his stomach in frustration.

Just as everyone was making a fuss, someone started banging on the door of the room.

"Here you are, may I ask who you are?"

Aqua opened the door.

The person in front of me was the counter staff member who had just asked me to distribute wanted posters at the Adventurers' Guild. He was leaning against the door frame, panting heavily, and looked like he had sprinted over at full speed.

Despite a bad feeling, Kazuma Sato still asked:

"What, what's wrong?"

"This is terrible! The hot springs... the hot springs in town are starting to gush out contaminated hot water!"

This is not good news.

Upon hearing this, Aqua ran out like a madwoman.

I guess they want to purify the hot springs.

Despite the worried looks from others, Kobayashi took the initiative to catch up and then spent another night soaking in the hot spring.

the next morning.

Those who wanted to discuss the matter gathered together again.

The silly goddess, who had been thinking about hot springs all day, spoke up first: "I think the problem lies with the source."

The emergence of the contaminated hot spring seemed to be only temporary, stopping immediately after a while, almost as if someone were conducting an experiment.

"The source? I remember it was on the mountain behind the church."

The church was the headquarters of the Axis religion, and behind the church was a mountain, on which was the source of the town's wealth—the hot springs.

Of course, the source is strictly controlled, so it shouldn't be that easy to break in there.

However, the Black Hand is an exception, as it is the Demon King's army.

Thinking about it carefully, it would be too troublesome to poison each hot spring individually, and the timing wouldn't be right either. So, it's much simpler and faster to mix the poison into the source.

Wiz frowned and pondered, "The question is how the criminals got in there."

"There are as many methods as you want! For the Demon King's army, who should be living in the shadows, the point isn't how they do it, but the fact that they did it!" Aqua slammed her fist on the table and shouted, "Based on this... everyone, please help me!"

"Okay, let's go to the source then."

The group of people set off in a mighty manner.

To the left of the cathedral at the headquarters of the Axis Order is a large lake, which is also the town's water source.

Behind the church, there is a mountain from which hot springs gush forth.

As expected, the road leading to the source of the hot spring was heavily guarded by members of the town's knightly order.

Then, as expected, they were stopped.

"I am the High Priest of the Axis Cult! Look at this! Just take a closer look at my adventurer card and you'll see!"

"I'm sorry, but even if you are the high priest of the Axis Church, we cannot allow you to continue."

"Only the administrator can go in."

As expected, I was turned away at the door.

No matter what Aqua said, proving herself with a card, the Knights guarding the area wouldn't allow them to pass.

Furthermore, given that a battle is likely to occur soon, and the fact that Kazuma Sato and his group are fully armed, this is probably one of the reasons why the Knights members are suspicious.

Aqua made her last struggle.

“You devout Axis believers… listen to me, this is what must be done, this is the right thing to do.”

"Excuse me, we are followers of Eris."

"Why!"

The fact that the Eris cultists would be here must be quite puzzling to the foolish goddess.

Coming to work in the enemy's stronghold, could it be that he has some kind of special fetish like the perverted female knight...? It doesn't seem like that.

"Do you know who this is?!"

While the silly goddess and the knights were arguing, Yu-Yu and Hui-Hui pulled Darkness out from the left and right.

Kazuma Sato shouted, "This is the young lady of the noble Dustinis family, Dustinis Ford Laratina! This matter is extremely urgent and of great importance to the town! We are here to investigate on the orders of the young lady!"

“This is indeed an emergency, but power cannot be exercised in this way…”

He said that, but his attitude had already softened.

It's like someone who refuses to let go in bed, but in reality, they'll be completely at your mercy with just a little more effort.

What is needed—

"Look, are you willing to let them pass now?"

"Please forgive our rudeness!" x2

The knights quickly made way for them.

What was displayed was merely a necklace.

Seeing their drastic change in attitude, Huihui seemed quite pleased and said, "Could I borrow this for a while?"

"Of course not, give it back to me!"

Darkness snatched the necklace back.

The little girl slumped her shoulders after losing her toy, and her upright best friend took the opportunity to lecture her.

Although the process was quite bumpy, at least we were able to keep moving forward.

The next thing to do is climb the mountain.

Pushing aside the overgrown vegetation, we walked along the treacherous mountain path, which was covered in snow.