Until I Burn Away - Megumin x Male Reader

Chapter 10: Showdown In The Snow

You were standing in the street, the biting cold wind blowing your scarf over your face repeatedly. You hit it away over and over again, but it kept annoying you. You angrily took it off and threw it on the ground. Your breath materialized in front of you with each exhale, the temperature of the air making every respiration into a puff of frost. 

Y/N: "Alright, we've seen some weird shit. But this, this just about takes the cake."

Megumin hugged herself and shivered violently behind you. You turned around. 

Y/N: "How did this happen? What the hell's going on?" 

Megumin: "What's the matter? It's just winter. Never seen a snowflake, Y/N?"

She asked you teasingly, but your mind was far too scrambled to even register her sarcasm. 

Y/N: "Never seen a snowflake that's appeared less than a full 24 hours after an eighty-degree summer day, that's for sure."

Megumin: "That wasn't summer. Winter comes after autumn, silly. Our seasons are just hot here."

You picked your scarf back up, now stiff and coated in frost that you had to shake off. You decided you might as well shake it off in Megumin's direction. 

Megumin: "H-hey! That's cold!"

Y/N: "You're saying you knew this was going to happen?"

Megumin: "Um, yeah. You didn't? Everyone knows it gets cold after autumn."

You smacked your head.

Y/N: "In a single day?"

She just grinned and shrugged. You sighed, which made a huge cloud of icy wind appear. 

Y/N: "Everything about this place is weird. It's all messed up, I tell you."

Megumin: "What's weird about-"

Y/N: "It has to be the work of the devil king. Just another reason we must defeat him and return this world to its natural state. To think of all the rest of the horrors he's subjugating these poor people to. I'll save them all from these ridiculous seasons."

Megumin: "What are you talking about? Hey, come back here!"

She started speeding up to catch up with you, so you quickly turned around and swept her leg off the ground. She lost her balance and fell into the snow dramatically. You started laughing.

Megumin: "Hey! What was that for? I-it's so-so-so c-cold."

Y/N: "Come on, aren't you a crimson demon? Surely a little cold won't take you down so easily!"

Megumin: "E-easy for y-y-you to s-say."

She tried getting up, so you threw a snowball at her. 

Y/N: "Come on, what's wrong? Get up. We gotta meet everyone at the guild."

She pouted.

Megumin: "Very funny. Do you have to terrorize me every time you want to be funny?"

Y/N: "Nobody's getting terrorized here. We're all having fun, aren't we?" 

You threw another snowball, this time landing a clean headshot. 

Megumin: "N-no! I'm not having fun! L-l-let me go be-before I die!"

For all you knew, crimson demons could have a type disadvantage against ice or something, so you showed a little mercy. You bent down and put your palm on her chest, before letting the mana flow into your hand. The snow piles on her body instantly began to shrink, and her body heated up in more ways than one.