Back to work.

Aqua then looked over Kazuma's shoulder, and he paused, looking back to see Ria up in his personal space, this time floating on her side. "Heya!" she chirped, and he reflexively jumped back, slipping, and splashing into the water. With some help from Aqua, he surfaced, spluttering. "Quit doing that!" he coughed.

"Quit what? Breathing?" Ria asked, her go to retort.

"... actually, yes!" he seethed.

"...huh, that's a new response. Good one," she complimented with a grin. "By the way, just wanted to let you know, two alligators are swimming for you, Megumin told me to inform you."

Kazuma and Aqua paused, and turned to see that what Ria said was true, and Aqua immediately grabbed Kazuma, taking advantage of her current biology to beat a hasty retreat, just as the creature lunged and snapped, but missed them, its jaws instead going right through the intangible Erokami, not that the beast even realized it. Ria chuckled as the two alligators pursued the two until they reached shore, upon which Kazuma froze them in the water, and Aqua resumed human form. They then quickly got dressed as Kazuma walked back out and quickly dispatched the two helpless alligators.

"More incoming!" Megumin called. "Guess your "activity" must have attracted them!" she quipped to Kazuma and Aqua.

"Can it!" Kazuma huffed. He and Darkness stepped into the water again, and fought for several minutes.

...

"What happened to you lot?" Fio asked raising an eyebrow. "Let me guess, more alligators?"

Kazuma, several holes in his clothes from where one had managed to bite him before Aqua healed him, Darkness scuffed up, and Aqua rocking back and forth, all stared at the bodies of the aquatic reptiles. "You don't say?" he asked sardonically.