The next day, Fang Li and Chris did not meet up at the mansion, but came to the streets instead.
"So, did you take that piece of junk to be reforged?"
"I... I understand why you'd call it junk, and I understand why you'd want to have it reforged, I really do, okay? But even a Goddess probably couldn't melt down the toughest divine artifact. I just took it somewhere it wouldn't bother anyone!"
On the streets around the festival grounds, which were being decorated as though for a grand celebration of the Aqua Festival and Eris Festival, Fang Li, looking thoroughly unconvinced, walked alongside Chris, who could only smile wryly. As they walked, they wrapped up the matter one last time.
In short, Aigis had ultimately been taken away by Chris.
There was no helping it. Leaving that armor in the mansion any longer would have been far too awful.
In just one day yesterday, Aqua had been angered to tears by that armor an unknown number of times. Megumin had constantly been looking for a chance to take it out and fire off an explosion. Darkness happened to be exactly Aigis's type, so she had endured its sexual harassment the entire time while actually enjoying it, even saying something as stupid as, "N-no... why don't I raise it?" Even Kazuma had been calculating how much money he could make by selling the divine artifact and secretly looking for someone to appraise it.
As for Alice, there was even less need to mention her. She was so innocent and kind; being around that kind of scum was practically contamination, and terribly bad for her upbringing.
Even Youyou had nearly been tricked by that armor. One could only imagine how badly Fang Li wanted to get rid of it.
Thus,