Cecil’s Blacksmith Shop.
Xia Jia took the lead, with Kuroneko, clutching the paper bag containing the fabric, following closely behind him.
“I’m back…”
Xia Jia pushed open the shop door, feeling drained.
Maintaining the magic for such a long time had left his eyelids heavy and struggling to stay open.
Just then, the sound of air being violently parted struck him from the front.
“Mjolnir Tornado!!!”
Dekomori’s nerve-wracking voice exploded in Xia Jia’s ear, followed immediately by the cold, metallic sensation of something slamming into his face.
“Ugh—”
Boom…
Clack.
Before Xia Jia could even realize what was happening, his face made direct contact with a yellow warhammer.
He spun a full 360 degrees, crashing into a nearby weapon rack, and saw stars dancing before his eyes.
Kuroneko’s eyes widened.
She instantly pulled out a metal bomb from behind her, looking completely guarded: “Enemy attack!”
Seeing this, Cecil roared, “You lot!!!
Are you trying to tear down my shop?
Put those dangerous things away!”
She had seen the oversized firecrackers Xia Jia had researched; while their lethality wasn’t high, they were more than enough to blow the front door off its hinges!
“Ugh…
what on earth is going on?”
Xia Jia clutched his dizzy head and stood up slowly, swaying as he took a step.
That hit had nearly knocked him into the afterlife.
Focusing his vision, he finally saw a guarded Kuroneko, Dekomori sprawled on the floor, Cecil holding her face in frustration, and Astraea covering her mouth to hide her laughter.
At this moment, Dekomori crawled up from the floor, dusted off her brand-new outfit, pointed at Xia Jia, and demanded:
“This is divine retribution death!
Anyone who abandons their Servant to bring along some thieving stray cat from goodness-knows-where must be punished by Mjolnir death!”
As she spoke, a streak of blood dripped from her bright red nose—clearly, she had taken quite a hit landing face-first just moments ago.
“Ugh, ugh, ugh…” So painful!
Not even two minutes into her “cool” entrance, Dekomori was already huddled in a corner, clutching her nose and wailing.
“So…” Xia Jia held his head.
“What exactly happened?
Someone explain.”
“Etto,” Astraea said behind her hand.
“That child just acquired a new weapon, so she got a bit carried away.”
Cecil, too, seemed unable to do anything about Dekomori and didn’t dare look Xia Jia in the eye.
Dekomori, having regained her composure, stood back up and walked directly to the massive golden warhammer, bending over to exert her strength.
“It is as such death.
Dekomori is currently obtaining the approval of her brand-new Treasure death.
Oh, Gate Master who has forsaken the contract, become the sacrifice for my Treasure!
Death!!
Mjo…
lni…
ugh, ugh, ugh.”
Dekomori strained with all her might, but she only managed to lift the hammer’s handle a tiny bit.
She stood there swaying unsteadily, yet she still insisted on trying to swing the heavy weapon.
The entirely yellow warhammer was a full 1.5 meters long, and its head was thicker than the trunk of a tree that two people could barely wrap their arms around.
Such weight was impossible to swing casually, even for Dekomori, who had been granted a Falna.
“Ah, I think I understand the situation now.” Xia Jia covered his face and stepped forward to aggressively ruffle Dekomori’s hair: “You brat, give it a rest already!!!”
“Ugh, ugh, ugh, it hurts death!
It hurts death!
Release me, death!” Dekomori’s grip loosened, and the hammer handle hit the ground with a massive thud.
“Cecil!” Xia Jia shouted.
“Hi!”
“You’re something else, too!
How could you just give a kid something so dangerous!” Xia Jia sighed in exasperation.
There was no doubt about it: because she was trying to please a new party member, Cecil had unconditionally satisfied Dekomori’s requests.
Xia Jia could easily imagine the scene: Dekomori would recount her chuunibyou settings, prompting Cecil to modify the weapon again and again, never once considering whether this was something Dekomori could actually use.
As a result, Xia Jia had become the first casualty of Dekomori’s attempts to swing the weapon…
“Seriously, my head is still buzzing…”
The main thing is, as an NPC, how could you just hand out rewards like that?
At the very least, she should have finished a quest or something before getting a weapon…
I don’t even have a weapon for myself yet!
Xia Jia felt jealous, and it was a mood that couldn’t be easily soothed.
“I’m sorry,” Cecil apologized honestly, but there didn’t seem to be any real regret in her eyes—in fact, she looked like she had gotten a kick out of it.
Just as Xia Jia found a chair and sat down, a dispute broke out between Kuroneko and Dekomori.
“Regardless of anything else, you should apologize when you’ve done something wrong, right?
The ‘Descender’ isn’t feeling well, is he?”
“It’s not your place to point fingers, you thieving stray cat death!
The bond between GM-sama and me won’t be shattered by a hammer death!”
If you take a hammer straight to the head, I imagine even the best friendship would collapse in an instant.”
Dekomori glared, took a sudden step back, and assumed a combat stance: “Talking is useless death!
Since that’s the case, we have no choice but to decide the winner with strength death!”
Kuroneko took a step back: “Nani!
What are you planning to do?”
An astonishing aura exploded from Dekomori.
She raised her hands in a curve, turned her back to Kuroneko, and struck a pose as if preparing to swing a hammer…
“Burst, reality!”
“Hiss, such a powerful demonic aura…” Kuroneko backed away.
“Shatter, mentality!”
“Eeek—” Infected by the King’s power, Kuroneko hurriedly struck a pose as well.
“Banishment this world!” Following the end of Dekomori’s incantation, an invisible aura enveloped the blacksmith shop.
And then…
The little girls’ battle began…
“Dang, dang, dang, clang, clang, clang,” Dekomori provided the sound effects manually.
The two of them passed each other, striking embarrassing poses.
As the situation escalated, the two lay on the floor like wriggling worms, imitating an aerial battle by rolling back and forth.
Cecil’s eyes widened: “What are they doing?”
Xia Jia covered his face…
Astraea barely managed to suppress her laughter and explained: “Don’t mind them; this kind of entertainment is actually quite popular among the gods…
you can think of it as fashion.”
“Naruhodo!” Cecil replied, looking like she understood despite not having a clue.
What kind of bad ideas are you putting in their heads, Astraea!!
Xia Jia stared at the Goddess, hurriedly trying to stop Cecil—who looked like she might be assimilated—and asked: “Forget them for a moment.
Tell me, what has Dekomori been doing all day?”
When asked the crucial question, Cecil’s face fell.
“Nothing much.
Just got dragged around eating everything in sight, touched every single weapon in every weapon shop, barely managed to make her a weird-looking outfit, and tried to tackle-slide into some other mercenaries.”
“Although that guy used it as an excuse, claiming we broke his hand and demanding compensation, I exposed his scheme and he scurried away.”
“As for dragging passing Orcs and Elves over and demanding to touch their ears—which was incredibly rude—that’s not even worth mentioning.”
“Other than that…
she mostly just pestered me to keep beating that thing for her…
oh, what was it?
‘Playful Blue Moon’?”
“It’s ‘Mad Moon Thunder Hammer’ death!” Dekomori’s head suddenly popped out, gently patting Xia Jia on the head.
Xia Jia felt a small measure of relief; Dekomori was still a good kid, but…
“What about Kuroneko?!”
“Hmph, a mere half-demon; that sort of thing is no match for a Mjolnir wielder!”
At that moment, Kuroneko was already clutching her face, rolling on the ground and muttering “Ya, ya, ya.”
Heh…
Xia Jia’s mouth twitched.
Even though she was brainwashed by the chuunibyou act for a moment, is she only feeling the shame now that she’s snapped out of it?
As expected, Kuroneko’s type of socially anxious chuunibyou was just too weak when confronted with a true social-terrorist from the real chuunibyou group.
But on another note, one of Cecil’s comments made Xia Jia feel concerned…
“That mercenary you mentioned.
Was he a bald guy with one eye and a face covered in scars?”
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A Saiyan Stands Above Marvel 90
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DanMachi: Emiya the Giant Hero 75
The Gacha Merchant Who Started 80
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Emiya Shirou, Determined to Slay Every Curse and Evil Spirit 60
The Uma Musume Who Became 60
I’m Definitely Not the King of 80
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From Trilobites to Titans 45
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In Star Rail, Ultra-Beast Armored — Have I Caught “Equilibrium”?
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— Transmigrated into the White Dragon Girl (Chapter220) “Is this chat group even serious?” (Chapter125) I, Lord Ravager, Utterly Loyal!
(This matter is completely finished.) Can Playing Games Save the World?
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55 Transmigrated as Sukuna 80 Checking In in Demon Slayer 85 The Reincarnating Trainer of Tracen Academy 100 I Refuse to Become a Heroic 85 My Best Friend Into a Slime?
80 A Saiyan Stands Above Marvel 90 What Do You Mean by Using a Lab Mod to Be the Hero?
75 Tanya Starts from Re:Zero 85 Why did they assign me to Uma 75 MYGO Beauties 70 DanMachi: Emiya the Giant Hero 75 The Gacha Merchant Who Started 80 Honkai’s Otherworld?
Wait—Who Are You People?!
100 Emiya Shirou, Determined to Slay Every Curse and Evil Spirit 60 The Uma Musume Who Became 60 I’m Definitely Not the King of 80 After Maxing Out Every Class 80 Naruto: I’m Konoha’s Local Men 44 Honkai: World Modulation Mode 57 I, the Elden Sword Saint 50 Dio Brando Is Challenging FGO 43 No One Knows Pokémon Better 50 I, Sakazuki, Won’t Go Down Tha 45 From Trilobites to Titans 45 Chainsaw Man: Contracted with 55 DanMachi: