Powerful and Exhausted (Opmale reader x Konosuba)

Chapter 37: Labyrinth Exploration

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Drinks and various meats were devoured as a rowdy group of adventurers were celebrating a job well done. Meanwhile, on a table nearby, Megumin, Kazuma, and the goddess known as Aqua, stared and were starving as they listened in on the feast out of reach.

Kazuma: ...We're going to a dungeon, tomorrow.

Megumin: No.

Kazuma: We're going.

Megumin: *tearing up* No, no way!

Kazuma: We are! We are!

Megumin: I-I mean, I'm practically useless inside a dungeon!

Megumin: I can't use explosion magic, which makes me just an ordinary citizen!

Kazuma merely gives her a uncaring glare.

Kazuma: Remember when you said you'd carry our bags or whatever we needed when you joined up with us?

And with that, Megumin looks down with a sad pout.

Aqua: Hey, hey. Can't we just wait until Y/n and Darkness gets back?

Suddenly, Kazuma stands up and slams his hand on the table, which startles Aqua.

Kazuma: LISTEN UP! Right now, we've got as much debt as some countries! Y/n said that we've got to stop emptying his pouch everytime he gets paid! So now, if we don't do something, we'll starve to death!

Financially frustrated, Kazuma greatly resisted the urge to pull all of his hair out.

Aqua: Even though I'm being paid more now for folding those milk cartons? Even though I've been selling all the vegetables non-stop?

Incoherently babbling, Kazuma scratched his head as his stress was showing.

Aqua: Even though Y/n probably has more money in his back up stash that he tries to desperately hide from us?

Kazuma: Those side and part-time jobs are never going to bring us the kind of money we need, and besides, Y/n would get pissed if we took from him again.

He slammed down a poster for a quest to go to a kind of dungeon. The two girls lean in to get a better look at the flyer.

Aqua/Megumin: For beginners... Keele's Dungeon?

Megumin: Um, hasn't this dungeon been throughly explored already?

Unexpectedly, a familiar blonde steps in.

Luna: Well the thing is... recently, a new passage has been discovered by accident, so there was going to be a large-scale quest to escort the survey team but...

Kazuma: But I asked her to gives us the first go at it.

Luna: *smiles* That being the case, the other adventurers don't know about it yet.

Megumin: I see... then there might still be treasure in the unexplored areas.

Luna and Kazuma give them a thumbs up, as another familiar person shows up, this person was the red, zip up uniform worn guy who went to the succubus shop with Kazuma that one time.

(A/n: I just learned his name was Dust.)

Dust: Whaat? Hey, are you guys talking about a score?

His face was flushed as he had drank a couple of alcoholic drinks earlier.

Kazuma stands up from his seat and walks over to the drunk adventurer.

Kazuma: It's a very serious matter, I don't want to drag you into it.