This time, Kazuma seemed serious.
After Fang Li spoke with him, Kazuma immediately said,
"Then let's go discuss it with Wiz tomorrow."
And the next day, that shut-in NEET really got up early. While everyone else was still asleep and unable to stop him, he forcibly woke Fang Li, who was challenging the Sea of Death, and dragged him to Wiz's Magic Item shop.
There, the two of them met someone.
"Welcome to our shop! You two who have suffered all manner of torment in the territory of the joke race! Aren't you utterly shocked to see me? Fuhahahahaha!"
There was only one person in this world who spoke like that.
Vanir.
Vanir, the great demon whom Fang Li was supposed to have defeated.
"Y... youyouyouyouyou...!?"
Kazuma pointed at him with a trembling finger, his eyes wide as saucers.
It could not be helped.
The target who was supposed to have been defeated had appeared in a place like this. Anyone would have been startled, let alone when that target was an officer of the Demon Lord's Army.
Under such circumstances, Wiz walked out from the shop with her usual soothing smile.
"Welcome, you two. I heard you suffered greatly during this journey. I'm so glad to see that you're all right."
Wiz's healing smile and words finally brought Kazuma back to his senses.
"Wi... Wiz...?" Kazuma pointed back and forth between Wiz and Vanir in bewilderment. "Why are you two...?"
As if he had seen through Kazuma's thoughts, Vanir spread his hands.
"Are you surprised that I am here? Or are you surprised that I am still alive? If it is the former, I simply had nowhere else to go and happened to know the poor shop owner here, so I settled down in this place. If it is