Vessel's Blessing on This Wonderful World

The Heart of This Nightmare

When you awoke to the sound of... Something, you found yourself in a hallway, before your memory came rushing back to you.

You infiltrated Kazuma's mind, since he was acting strange. You went into his dreams to figure out what was manipulating his body. It was probably just a mental manipulation spell that was cast on Kazuma.

You would have to walk carefully from hero on, you were not completely sure what would happen if you messed with something here, this was Kazuma's mind scape after all. Messing with something here could be heavily consequencial.

You picked yourself off the floor, and looked down the unending hall way, with different quality doors around every where. Some had been rickety, as if they were uncared for, some had looked like normal doors, some had looked like luxurious gates to a castle, as if they were really important.

They might be memories, or dreams of his, or any kind of thing. You would have to explore carefully and with caution.

Or you could kick down the nearest door.

Walking over to one of the more rickety looking doors, you opened it quite haphazardly, and gasped at what you saw. It was quite a disturbing sight.

It was Kazuma in school, getting attacked by bullies. They were all frozen, but you could easily pick out that which one was Kazuma. The brown haired boy was getting kicked in the ground, while crying.

Sadly, this was a memory, so you could not do much about it. The best you could do was close the door and remember that this happened. Maybe you could buy Kazuma a drink or something.

So, if what that door has shown you was an effective key for how things worked here, The broken down doors contained bad or not very important memories, maybe the normal ones had been nuetral, and the big ones are treasured memories.

If that was an effective key, you would know how to navigate this place a little easier. Now, you would have to find the distortion that's causing the problem. You continued to search through more doors, finding tid-bits about Kazuma's life.

You kept going down opening doors, you didn't find much, just some mildly important memories, some of them had been of Kazuma's previous life and some had been of this life.

Kazuma was sitting at a computer in one door, eating pizza, and in the next, he was helping Megumin cast Explosion. In another he was learning steal from a girl with a cut on her cheek who held a close resemblance to Eris, even sharing the gravity defying tuft of hair. Quite a few doors down you saw him drinking juice with his family.

After quite a few doors you found what might be the cause of the strange actions Kazuma took. It was a memory of Kazuma at a succubus shop, happily paying for 'service', then being warned not to drink any alcohol whatsoever.

Which means he ignored it and drank some with his crab, the fool.

Knowing that what was happening was the cause of Kazuma's own stupidity dampened your mood, you are no longer Y/n the Mighty, Slayer of spells, Knight of Great Renown at the moment. You are now Y/n, Cleaner of Messes.

You finally found a door that had a demonic aura around it, clueing you in to finding the Succubus. You entered the door, and spotted the one you had been hunting. She was sitting at a desk, scribbling on paper.

"This has got to be the most depraved dream I've been requested yet, I know some people like this but in Eris' name what is this garbage?"

She was to consumed in her work to have noticed you walk in, so you knocked your hand on the door, which caused the woman to jump, and turn around.

"Oh... Hello, I didn't think this guy was getting another visitor in here?" She trailed off, and her eyes shot around searching for escape. You quickly stepped up to the desk, which she leaned back over, trying to distance herself from you.

You tossed a piece of paper at her, just asking her to get out of here and warning her about the Arch-Priest.

She flinched at the touch of the paper, before slowly reading the paper.

"Oh... Thanks?" She starts sliding towards the door, and books it faster than Joseph.

After fixing that... Mess.

You start roaming the halls looking for a way out.

Timeskip brought to you by Chibi Y/n playing Solitaire in Kazuma's dream scape.

After finally escaping that place, in which you had to find a certain door to leave, and searching through random doors in that place to find the exit was not fun. You finally woke up laying in your bed, and feeling as tired as if you never slept at all. Maybe you could just lay there a little longer.

Crash

Nevermind, because somebody is being rediculously loud at... Apparently Noon.

'How long was I in there?'

You walked into the front room and saw Aqua and Darkness on the ground covered in... Soup? Seems like a weird food to randomly have, but you won't blame them. You kind of wanted some Mushroom soup right now.

They slowly got up after their fall and spotted you, they pushed themselves up even faster and called out to you.

"Hey, your awake!" Darkness was the first to speak, and seemed worried... You think?

Aqua checked your shell for something and patted you on the back giving you an all clear.

You tilt your head in confusion, wondering what they had been up to.

Darkness seemed to sense this, and started to explain, "This morning, when Aqua went into the bathroom, she found you lying unconscious on the floor, and your Nail stuck in the door. When you wouldn't wake up, we believed you I'll, so... We made soup." Darkness waved her hand at the puddle on the ground.

Aqua seemed glad that you were okay, "Your shell seemed rather cold yesterday, so I believed that you had probably just had a cold, and I heard soup is a good cure for such things back in your homeland!"

Well... Some of the soup hadn't poured out... And it smelled good. Then again... Aqua and Darkness made it.

...

They were looking at you waiting for you to taste it, with large puppy dog eyes.

'Eris give me strength.'