For the next while, Fang Li, Youyou, and Chris searched for people around Axel while asking passersby for information.
But the news they heard made them doubt their ears.
For example:
"Miss Aqua was just here. Miss Megumin found her, but Miss Aqua said to her, 'Are you really willing to keep getting trampled under that lolicon's feet? Don't you ever want to show him what you can do? Come on, let's pull off something big together! Let's scare that damn lolicon so badly he never dares look down on us again!' Then Miss Megumin looked like her fighting spirit had been ignited and left with Miss Aqua."
For example:
"Miss Darkness surrounded Miss Aqua over by the plaza with a large group of officers, but Miss Aqua took a little blond, blue-eyed girl hostage and forced Miss Darkness to disperse the encirclement and go with her. Miss Darkness looked like she was about to cry, but obediently went with Miss Aqua."
And then there was this:
"Kazuma seemed to have already found Aqua, but Aqua told him, 'Hey, housekeeping NEET, don't think I don't know you sneak off to suspicious shops at night to do shameful things. I've got Alice and Darkness with me right now, and I can shut that shop down whenever I want. If you dare get in my way, I have my own ways of dealing with you.' Kazuma surrendered and went with her."
Every piece of news sounded like some kind of joke.
Yet if all of it was true, then it meant one thing.
Kazuma, Megumin, and Darkness had all been persuaded by Aqua, following her arrangements and becoming her accomplices.
"Why was that useless Goddess so damn competent at a time like this!?"
Fang Li nearly began questioning his entire life.
And