Idiots Love Explosions?

Chapter 3

"Kazuma, Kazuma."

"Hm?"

"Let's do this one!" She excited said as she pointed at a post titled 'The Power Golems'. As Kazuma took a closer look at the poster he noticed the drawing, it had two golems with one gem-like eye. The drawing had the golems looking at two adventurers, one female and one male. Kazuma looked skeptical at first. He thought 'Do they get stronger the more people there are?' But before he could even finish thinking about it, Megumin had already snatched the post and accepted it.

He looked at her with a unimpressed face, "You can go do that quest all by yourself. I'm not gonna help with that."

"H-Huh?! Kazuma, are you leaving me, Megumin, the strongest mage there is, to go kill monsters all by herself?" She asked as she took out her staff and aimed it at him.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing," He replies with while he lowered her staff, "I won't risk my life for that useless priest and masochist."

"But it pays for 500,000 eris!"

'Fi- 500,000 eris?! That's only half of what we need. There's no way this thing can be safe!' He then took a look at the post one more time, 'It's located near the outside walls of Axel. It's a town called Orpheus Aziz' He thought it was a really odd name, I mean, are those even words? Nevertheless, he tells her to go if she minds him not being there.

Megumin responded by pouting, "Hmph! Kazuma you're so incompetent, even after all of those nights we spent together," She says as she started rubbing herself against her staff.

People in the vicinity then started looking at him with disgusted faces, "G- guys! It's not what you think! Right Megumin?" He says with a nervous laugh.

"Even after all of those ridiculous poses you made me do, you won't even help me on this? You're a brute Kazuma! A full on brute!"

Kazuma tried shushing her but she continues, "Kazuma, even after you defiled my body your filthy hands, you still refuse to go with m-" He then covers her mouth and started dragging her to the gate. He did all that while the other adventurers looked at him with a disgusted expression, he even heard one say "So... is this guy the town pervert or what?" His hand formed a fist as he remembered this but sighed shortly after, "You girls are nothing but trouble." He then let go of Megumin while lazily walking towards the gate.

"Kazuma, does this mean we're going now?"

"Why the heck not... got nothing better to do," He states with a rather sad tone.

"You could just run back to the mansion y'know?" She says while putting on a cheeky smile.

They made it to the town of Orpheus Aziz via a carriage. After asking around the very few locals in the area about the golems, they both found themselves in front of a cave with a man in the entrance.

The windy breeze blew on the old man's white hair, "Have you come to fight my children?"

Kazuma yawned in response, "Children?" He asked as he stretched. Meanwhile, Megumin was already ready to blow the man and the cave to smithereens but Kazuma chopped her on the head, interrupting her channel. While she was quite upset to not be able to cast her explosion, she was reassured that she'll be able to cast it later, just not now. He explained this to her like she was child.

"Are you planning on killing us too, you explosive maniac?"

The old man coughed, "Now then. Have you come to fight my children?"

'Why does he keep calling them as his 'children'? Is that even- I'm not even gonna question it actually. Just basing things off of the things I usually see, it's not that surprising.'

The man suddenly raised his arms up, almost as if he was surrendering, "Please kill me! End my curse! Pleaheaaseeee! I beg you, rid this horrid curse from me!" He continued begging while continuously rolling all over the grass, almost like a child who didn't get the birthday present he wanted. It was laughable, so laughable in fact that Megumin snickered.

"Please! Just end my suffering, I haven't eaten in years!" He continued pleading. "He- Here! I'll give you this special gem that'll help you defeat the golems!"

Kazuma's face became flat while Megumin was still holding in her laugh. They slowly took the gem the old man was talking about. It was a emerald-shaped red gem that had, what looks to be, a second darker gem inside of it. It was like it was about to explode or something. Suddenly, the man commented about something, "You should probably throw the gem in the cave now."

The three of them looked at the gem. The darker gem was about to burst so they rushed to throw the gem inside. As they did, a loud sound was heard. So loud that the wind it produced slightly shook them. A few seconds after hearing the sound, a large explosion erupted from the gem. The man spread open his arms as he saw the explosion incoming, "Finally, the sweet release of dea-" Before he could even finish the sentence, he was blown away, far from the cave.

"Kazuma... you told me I'd be able to use my explosion."

"Hm? Oh uh... sure, sure. Go for i-"

"EXUUPLOSION!"

Quest Complete!

"Let's never talk about that ever again."

"About how anti-climactic that fight was?"

"Yes."

"Yeah, it'd probably be a boring thing to read if it was in a story, huh?"

"Probably. But if the writer was a competent one, he'd probably make it work," Kazuma stated as he looked behind him.

A sudden group of people approached them. They already made it back to the town and it was a surprise for them to see such a wave of people run by, seeing as how Kazuma's a well known pervert and that Megumin was the explosion freak. Needless to say, they were weird.

"Did you really kill the Power Couple Golems in one hit?!"

'Power Couple Golems? Did they mistake us for another group of adventurers?'

"Yeah, we just did! And with only one shot too." Megumin responded with as she held on to her eye-patch while doing a heroic pose.

The group looked at her with eyes of amazement. One thing that Kazuma noticed though, was that nobody were looking at him. They were all looking at the explosion addict.

"So are you two a couple yet?"

Kazuma had to think about that question before he could even answer, "I'd rather not have people ship us. It's weird. She's not at that age yet."

"I'll have you know that my birthday's next week!"

"Huh, okay then, Ms. Explosion Loli. Still, what gave you that idea?"

The group of people looked at each other with a dumbfounded face. "Did you guys not know?"

Kazuma was confused by this question. About what, exactly? He didn't know what the question even meant. He was starting to think that they really did just get the wrong people since the names of the golems they killed sounded about the same.

The group all sighed as they didn't respond, Kazuma and Megumin simply looked at them with a confused face. "The more affection you feel for each other, the more damage you'll deal to the golems! And you took them down with one shot, there's no way that you guys aren't a couple yet."

"Wait what."

"That's why they were called the Power Couple Golems. Ya' dunce."

"Uhh... what."