In-A-Gala-Da-Vida (Part 10: The Life Aquatic with Satou Kazuma)

"Alright, you ready?"

Aqua really wasn't sure how to answer that question.

All she was staring at was a bed. A simple, harmless, somewhat fancy, and frilly bed. With clean white sheets, a dark salmon headboard, and the horrible screams of gods vs demons nearby.

Yet somehow Aqua was most concerned about having sex with Kazuma again.

"I... I guess..." She sighed, crawling on to the bed with **** in every movement. Something that both men in the room picked up on.

"Lady Aqua, if you don't wish to do this then we can find another way." said Mitsurugi, an angry glare shot towards Kazuma, "We needn't follow this fool into his perverted plans and certain ****."

Rolling his eyes fiercely, the accused fool was all too ready to bite back at the sass, "You got a better plan, Matchstick?! ‘Cause we're all ears if you do!"

"We could fight!"

"We would die!"

"SHUT UP!"

They both stopped yelling to look at the frowning Goddess on the bed. "It's already decided, okay?! Kazuma and I called a truce, so I'm going to follow his plan..." Her words made Mitsurugi frustrated, but he did not dare try and defy the deity's determination.

Though there was one minor decision she could still make, and that was to lie on her front. Spreading her legs behind her while pressing the majority of her body into the soft silky sheet.

Deciding to follow with her resolve and not put it off any longer, Kazuma quickly got up onto the bed as well. His knees on either side of her thighs, he knew exactly how to mount the Goddess, readying up his crotch to her glistening slit. "Okay, I'm going to enter now..." He warned. With a silent nod back at him, Kazuma began to spread open the Goddess' pussy with his intensely sized schlong.

It hadn't been that long since they had sex. Not really. Technically, she'd had sex with his clone during Breeding Day, but before that it had been... Maid Day? It was hard to remember. Somehow it felt so long already... perhaps brought upon and festered by feelings of rejection and sadness she'd been feeling for the last few days.

So when Kazuma's cock entered her and began spreading her wet slit, it felt both like an intimate return and also a painful irony. No matter how good it felt as his hard hotness dragged along her sensitive walls, Aqua knew her goal was to resist the pleasure for as long as humanly possible.

"Okay, one thrust down..." He said into her era, "...like a zillion to go..."

"Then q-quit yammering and get on with it..."

He was asking a lot of her tonight, so Kazuma decided to skip the playful banter and do as she said. Moving his hips back and forth, back and forth, a rhythm quickly forming as his cock dragged along her bumpy interior walls.

Already, Aqua was letting out little gasps. The tingles started off slow but were definitely present. The feeling of silk against her skin became more pronounced, the smell of the air became thicker in her nose, all as each thrust raised her general sensitivity level notch by notch. As Kazuma said, it was a long way to go, and she knew that she had to try to focus on both not cumming AND something other than the sex to not go crazy.

The problem was where her mind had been wandering all night.

It wasn't hard to push thoughts to the side. Thoughts of him preferring Darkness to be here right now, or just using her as a tool to save the day, or... it wasn't hard to push thoughts to the side... Aqua could ignore it all... right?

Either way, she wasn't the only one trying to ignore the thrusting hips of Satou Kazuma.

Mitsurugi was keeping his eyes out of the door. The daughter was still a while away, deeper into the castle, fighting against those that Kazuma commanded. There was no way of knowing how any of them were doing. If Seresdina was right, and there was no reason to assume otherwise, there really was no way to put Musume down permanently. Which meant Kazuma's plan could be the only way to do damage to the creature at all…

And that burned the hero up inside. How could this asshole be their only hope?! How could his plan be to sully a Goddess enough to make her holy orgasm capable of stopping the ultimate evil? It was truly the worst night of Mitsurugi's life.

And the sex was only just getting started.

"ROOARRRRRR!!!!"

The howl of the beast caused all three of them to wince internally, "H-how you feeling, Aqua?" Kazuma tried to ask.

"The mood’s a little off..." She admitted, though she also couldn't help but moan softly under her breath when he hit that spot she loved so much, "B-but also don't go too fast! I won't be able to hold on if you do your good moves!"

"Right... yeah, makes sense. Gotta do the opposite of what my instincts are telling me." He nodded, scratching his chin in thought. With an adjustment, instead of long deep thrusts into her honeypot's greatest hits, Kazuma began trying to just focus on moving his hips back and forth. Like a hydraulic press, no flavourful thrusts, just mechanical sex. It... still made Aqua feel pretty good, but she appreciated the effort.

Minutes ticked by, and soon Aqua was REALLY feeling the added sensitivity effects.

Her pussy was burning up. Each thrust into her gushing hole was making her moan and melt, and with how sensitive her body was it was becoming already unbearable. Her nipples felt so hard and pointy, pressed against the silk sheets beneath her and grinding with each thrust along the bed to make her tits feel incredible. Her fingers gripped the fabric, but even that was feeling good. The draft from the open door, the sweat from Kazuma landing on her back, the tooth she was digging into her lip, all of it was thumping in her head. Like the sensitivity was making her hyper aware of everything. Overwhelming her senses as pleasure thumped her mind over and over again. Building towards a natural-

"STOP!"

Kazuma halted completely, balls deep inside the woman. She clenched her face, slamming her forehead against the bed and growling in frustration as Aqua edged away from the climax that had been building.

A minute later, she nodded again. "Okay... careful, but it p-passed for now..."

"Right..." Kazuma mumbled, feeling bad at how much struggle she was going through, "Anything else we can do?"

"C-close the door. The wind is too much."

Mitsurugi sighed in minor relief, "I'll be on the other side of it." He said before a hand raised towards him.

“W-wait!” Aqua panted as another zing of pleasure surged through her. “Stay! Come closer!” Mitsurugi’s jaw fell, slowly walking back to the rutting pair. Kazuma was equally surprised at Aqua’s outburst, not liking the implication of where this was going.

“L-Lady Aqua? You wish me to..?”

The lad was feeling ecstatic. Was there a chance? Did the holy Goddess finally choose correctly and see his worth over Kazutrash the Worm? A threeway, or better yet, could he replace the horrible scum sucker?

Her beautiful blue eyes looked up at him long and hard. Her panting and pouting face looked so wonderful to Mitsurugi.

“Phew.” She sighed in relief, looking a little less melted. “When I look at you, I get way less aroused. Now Kazuma can build my orgasm for longer.”

…

Mitsurugi slumped his shoulders in defeat while Kazuma’s shit-eating-grin pierced his soul. “You...can’t be serious.”

“You heard the lady!” Kazuma shouted as he began thrusting again, slapping her ass just to make a point. “We’re building an attack against the Demon King’s daughter and your role is to stand there and be yourself!”

“Nngh! Kazuma, don't slap me!” Aqua whined as her body squirmed, “There’s only so much looking at him will do! If you make me think about you, I’ll cum too quickly!”

“Hmm, you’re right.” Kazuma thought, “Oi, Mantabi! Take your pants off!”

Aqua’s eyes shone brightly at the sword wielder, “Ooh! Yeah, that’ll help!”

It was perhaps the deepest frown that Mitsurugi had ever frowned in his entire life. “This is humiliating…” He grumbled, though complying with the request and whipping his second sword out for the woman to see. “I hate you both so much right now.”

Part of Mitsurugi supposed he should be glad that an aroused Aqua was looking intensely at his muscles and physique. But his better half beat that optimistic side of him into the ground for daring to find the silver lining in all this. Kazuma’s smug face made sure there wasn’t anything to enjoy other than this might be what takes down the Demon King’s daughter.

Aqua tried her best to ignore the absolute ravaging her pussy was receiving as Kazuma slammed into it again and again. Each stroke was making her body more sensitive, each slam made it harder to hold on. It was a losing battle, but as a Goddess she didn’t want to lose. Her inner mantras of ‘Don’t cum’ looping quicker and quicker while the main focus on her mind was finding ways to curb her arousal. Looking at the weirdo in front of her who she barely recognised but felt annoyed at for some reason definitely helped. Though his physique did remind her of Darkness’ wonderful muscles, it wasn’t enough to make her revulsion completely dissipate.

More and more he thrust. Her jiggly butt clapping its cheeks, all while his cock dragged copious amounts of pussy juice onto the bed. It felt so good inside her, so hot, tight, and especially wet to glide in and out of her slit over and over again.

"Mm... Kazuma.... Kazuma.... gonna...."

She was getting close already and he had to pause once more. The throbbing need to cum was making her hiss in rage as the chance was ripped away from her again, all the sweaty girl could do was chew at the sheets below her in frustration.

"I'm really sorry, Aqua." He admitted, rubbing her smooth back sympathetically as she edged away from another climax, "You're doing great, but we need to keep going. Just...go to the unhappiest place you can in your mind and try to stave off the pleasure!"

She hadn't even the strength to respond, just biting at the sheets with intensely gritted teeth.

Her mind had to escape somewhere.

Unhappiest place...

“OW! What the SHIT?!”

The whole office turned, one Goddess was on the floor with a mark on her face, her two friends in shock looking between her and her attacker.

“Say that again!” Aqua yelled, shaking her fist at the woman she punched, “I dare you! SAY IT AGAIN!”

Her two friends grabbed the blunette’s arms, keeping her back while the wounded shuffled away. “Y-you’re crazy, new girl! Why did Divane think YOU were a good fit?!”

“Sharly! Stop antagonising her!” Growled the girl holding Aqua back.

“All I said was that plant girl who wrecked that contest was crazy!”

The water goddess was pushing back even harder, managing to get somewhere against the two pushing on her, “You don’t get to say mean things about her like that!”

“Are you SERIOUS?! She was a terrorist!”

“She was a musician!”

“Oh, whatever! Who the fuck are you? You didn’t even win the contest! Second place bitch!”

“ENOUGH!”

The struggle was instantly over. Lady Divane made a rare appearance in the lounge room of her Goddesses to loom over them, arms folded above the bickering pair as they scowled at each other.

“Little Aqua, perhaps you should return to your post now.” Divane instructed, not giving her any other options.

Aqua looked up, then down, then all around at the scared or angry deities that she’d angered. A silent yet sobering moment hung in the air of Aqua’s first day here. The gods and goddesses who were supposed to be her coworkers from now on, the ones who could have been her friends…

Their faces showed their opinion of her now: trashy, crazy, useless trash.

She didn’t need any of them.

With a click of her tongue, Aqua stomped away without another word.

Being guided through the rest of orientation with a fuming attitude had made the angel she was with rather uncomfortable. They did their job well enough, but were very thankful when they arrived at the end of the tour.

“So this is my room?”

It was barren and empty. What looked like eternity below her feet and endless space all around her. A rippling puddle every time she walked, with only one bit of furniture in the whole span of the room she was in. The pure white chair standing tall for her, beckoning her to sit.

But Aqua felt a little hesitant for some reason.

“That it is, Lady Aqua,” The fluffy haired angel smiled, “From here you shall greet new souls from their worlds and guide them to the rest of their existences. Be it in the soul space, or reincarnation, you shall be their beautiful shepherd.” She explained, using her arms to try and prompt Aqua to sit, but still she looked with trepidation at the chair. “You can also view the worlds that worship you as well. Lady Divane has started the Axis sect with a few divine blessings and visions for the first of your potential flock. Priests and holy mortals that will dedicate their lives to you and your teachings. You may answer their prayers and lay out your will for them, however you see fit.”

For some reason, Gaia’s face wouldn’t leave Aqua’s head as she stared towards the chair.

“And… I’ll just be in here? Forever?”

"Of course not. You’re free to go where you like in Heaven." The two quickly snapped their heads towards the third voice. Aqua gulped harshly at the large blonde that had entered her chamber, the one that her friend had tried so desperately to depose...

"Lady Divane!" The fluffy angel hit the floor as she bowed low, daring not to raise her head until she was permitted to.

"No one is forcing you in here, little Aqua. There’s plenty of community spaces to mingle with other deities.” Aqua winced, remembering the look of disgust they’d all had for her. "Of course, maybe they won't take too kindly to the girl who committed an **** on her first day? Oh, if only you knew someone here who could... sing a song and make it better?"

Aqua felt so angry, shameful, and guilty. Her hands clenched into fists, her eyes stung, so many emotions glaring into the huge woman taunting her, "You... you're..."

"I'm what?"

It took several moments of heart pulsing to decide, but Aqua dropped her rage, looking towards the floor, upset. "N-nothing..." She shuffled a little, looking around the room, “...maybe I’ll just stay in here…” Aqua sighed before biting the bullet and sitting in her chair.

Divane smirked down at her, "Good girl. You stay here and work on this lovely little religion I started for you. I'll let you stay in here as long as you want, all the snacks and booze Heaven can offer will just be an angel's request away." She said while exiting the room again. A rebellion could have started in that girl's heart once more, but smothering it in riches was just as easy as snuffing it out with rage. No martyr, no lingering wills, just a simple fool with her pleasures.

There was a strange melancholy as she looked at her throne, like a line was about to be crossed. Her dream had finally been achieved. She had reached godhood.

Without anywhere else to go, the blunette sat down.

“How does it feel, Lady Aqua Goddess of Water?”

…

It was all she’d ever wanted. But memories of how she got here, mixed with the uncertainty of her future afterlife, made Aqua speak rather quietly.

“...it’s a little uncomfortable…”

"I think it's working!" said Kazuma, able to pump a little harder into his Goddess without her twitching as much, "Whatever you're thinking about must be making you edge less! Stay in your unhappy place, Aqua!"

She ignored him, only vaguely escaping her mental state to repeat her mantra again:

“Don’t cum, don’t cum, don’t cum, don’t cum, don’t cum, don’t cum, don’t cuuUUMMM!!!”

Kazuma paused, just enough to let the edging pulses scour through the bluenette. He held her body to make sure she wasn’t alone through the process, though even his hand on her back was overstimulating the drooling girl.

It was also around this point that Kazuma was beginning to genuinely worry about the Goddess. She didn’t look well, just a sweaty mess as her eyes lacked focus and her body kept spasming. Mitsurugi’s own frown was also changed from annoyance to worry; the girl’s stare had left him a while back and looked like it couldn’t return if she wanted. “Lady Aqua…”

“You really are amazing, Aqua.” He attempted to reassure her while stroking her matted hair, “After this, I’ll treat you to as much beer and cum as you want.”

She shook her head roughly, making him retreat his hand, “D-don’t-t! D-don’t make m-m-me feeeeeel GGAAGGHH!!!!” Aqua moaned, thumping her head into the mattress a few times while gnawing at the sheets.

Kazuma knew her sensitivity levels were through the roof right now. He could feel her pussy clamp down hard on his dick over and over again like it was chewing on his meat. It felt amazing, but there was also a fear that this was really hurting the poor Goddess, not helped by how ill she was looking while holding it in. Sweaty and glassy-eyed, unable to focus on anything while she clenched and unclenched her body.

Time demanded he keep thrusting.

Forcing Aqua to dive back into her memories once more...

It was a dark yet warm night in the Kingdom of Belzerg. Deep in the mountains was a pub filled with people, merriment, and friends. For the locals, it felt like there was a party every night, but then when you lived near a raid boss it was important to keep spirits up for adventurers. Tonight was no different, yet it certainly felt like a bigger party than usual.

Gaia was celebrating her birthday. The local musician/horticulturist had made many, many, many friends. All wanting to be here for her to celebrate such a wonderful life. The lives she’d touched, the battles she’d won, it was all culminating here with big smiles and so-so music.

There were many people at her party that she loved, literally filling the entire pub with her friends, if it was anyone else it’d be hard to keep track. But sitting around the table sharing fantastical tales deep into the night was always one of her favourite pastimes.

Pounding one more beer, she finally finished her story with a roar of delight. “And then the goose stole mah pants! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!” Ironically, the nearby rockfall that was caused by how loud the table's laughter was, injured a goose on its descent. Though it was a particularly nasty goose that was known for pecking children.

Beers were coming in left, right and centre. More stories were flying in from Jim the baker, Hogarth the barbarian, and the explicitly loud Nigel the Tree Wizard. Talking over each other, yelling out good times and bad, all while happy-

“STOP EVERYTHING!”

Everything stopped. Gaia was glaring, having been the one who yelled out, silence staining the room that had been so loud just moments ago. She pointed at the woman who had just recently sat down on a chair around the huge table. It was a mousy woman with pure black hair, blue eyes, and a rogue outfit on, currently looking very scared as everyone in the pub looked at her.

Gaia hopped up onto the table, kicking her drink away as she crept slowly over the wood.

“You.” She spat, “Get the fuck out now.”

The black haired woman gulped, sweat budding on her forehead, “W-what? I’m-I’m-!”

Gaia was in her face, to the point where she could lick her if she wanted, hot breath breathing on the woman’s face like a hungry disobedient dog told to heel, “Nice fucking try, Aqua. You can’t sneak down here. I still fucking hate you, so get the fuck out, now.”

It was moments later that the woman was on her ass outside the pub. “Sorry about that, let’s get back to the PARTY!” Could be heard inside before roaring music and laughter took over once more.

The party raged on while the raven haired woman sat there. In the cold mud of a simple street.

“How…” She mumbled, tears in her eyes, “How did she know?!”

"NNNGGGGAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!" Aqua yelled, edging off the climax once more. Her spine curled upwards, her throat felt dry, and yet her sensitivity was still rising. Attacking her from all angles, tingling every fibre of her being, all while her aching pussy tightly squeezed against Kazuma's pole.

Her body was begging to cum. The aching wanton need to tip over the edge and experience relief. Aqua refused, again and again, yet her senses did not stop asking for a second. Pleasure without equal, each pump into her cunt another notch on the scale, making even the blood surging through her body a tingly microcosm of feelings. It was like she was in tune with everything, yet disconnected with it all as well. If she was not a Goddess, the woman would surely have gone mad.

“Okay, Aqua’s not gonna be able to hold out much longer.” Kazuma suddenly spoke seriously to Mitsurugi, “We need the daughter within magic range, lead her to us as best you can. Then we should be able to finish with one blow.”

“Right.” His rival nodded, taking the quick opportunity to pick up his trousers from the floor. He gave a long look to the suffering Aqua and deeply frowned, “I hope for your sake that this works, Satou Kazuma. If you made her this way for nothing, I will personally kill you myself.”

Kazuma wasn't exactly in the talking mood, “Fuck off and do as I say.” He growled back, and with a huff the hero obliged.

He was still struggling to move his dick back and forth into the Goddess. Urge to cum rising high thanks to the warm wet hole he was inside. But her sensitivity would reset as soon as his jizz touched her innards, so in a similar (yet vastly reduced) way he had to edge himself too. Not helped by how absolutely sexy Aqua was, her nice yet currently sweaty butt rubbing against his hips every time he thrust into her. The endurance sex they were dealing with would be over soon, as the threat of Demon King Daughter was now on a timer.

"Okay... big finish time soon, Aqua. I need you to start building your biggest orgasm..." He explained to a silent recipient, drool escaping her lips as she failed to talk, "Aqua? I didn't break you, did I?"

He tried to shake her, but it just seemed to make her flinch. The girl was trapped at the edge of orgasm, refusing to budge even as her body screamed in sensitive horror. In a flurry, Aqua was shaking her head against the sheets, clamping her hands tightly into her blue hair. "Stop. No! Cum. Hate... h-hates me... everyone... cum.. Drknss... Kzma... hates me... nhgg!!"

"Aqua?! Snap out of it!"

"And this is your locker. End of tour."

Eris blinked, not really expecting such an abrupt finale to her orientation. "Um, th-thank you, Aqua-senpai!" She bowed to an uninterested deity. After getting minimal response, an awkward silence hung between them until the new Goddess couldn't handle it anymore. She looked around the break room, "W-which one is yours?"

Aqua just chewed on her gum some more before pointing over to one of four lockers away from the one they were standing by, "That one with all the crap on it."

Unsure what that meant, Eris was too curious to not go and inspect. Indeed, the locker that had the label 'Aqua' on the front was barely readable due to the red line over the top of it. Over it in the same red smeared writing read, 'Second rate bitch'. Similar messages covered the locker such as, 'Dumbass', 'NEET', and 'Traitor lover' either scribbled on with green paint or just on paper that was glued to the front.

"Th-that's horrible!" said a shocked Eris, "Why don't you...?"

The other Goddess just shrugged, "What's the point? I don't use it anyway." The woman looked deeply at the messages without blinking, "They can write what they want... I'll just stay in my room."

"B-but-!"

"See ya."

And with that, Aqua was already walking away from her new junior. It had been a while since she'd been **** to do anything by management, so she wasn't particularly thrilled at having to leave her little enclave.

"Wait! Aqua-senpai!" Eris quickly caught up to the taller girl. Rolling her eyes, Aqua slowed down and turned to the other woman who was awkwardly following her superior, "I-isn't there any... advice you can give me? About what it's like to work as a Goddess?"

There was a long pause as the low-lidded eyes of Aqua stared into the soul of the new Fortune Goddess. After a relenting sigh, the Water Goddess finally spoke, "Look, when you've been here as long as I have... all I can say is don't try too hard. Nothing crazy ever happens up here, nor anything all that fun. Best you can do is care for your followers and occasionally make it look like you're busy whenever management is around. You do that and you'll find eternity as easy as I do."

Staring in a stunned silence, Aqua finally felt as though she could return to her room in peace.

Until a certain fluffy haired angel appeared in front of Aqua.

"Gah! What the hell do you want? I did the orientation fine!" She defensively growled.

"No. Lady Aqua, I'm actually here for you." The angel explained, "Please, let's go into your room for now."

She was skeptical, but followed the angel's orders. Leaving Eris to tilt her head in confusion, having never received the directions to HER room in the infinite corridor of Heaven.

With nowhere else to go, Eris silently followed the pair. Creeping around the giant door, she peered in to try and see what was happening. Only seeing Aqua holding a piece of paper and looking rather shocked.

It was hard to make out, but Eris could sort of hear them talking...

“...how… h-how did she…?”

“Old age.”

The fluffy haired angel didn’t visit Aqua much. Other angels took care of Aqua’s snacking needs, but in terms of a personal assistant, the woman had become rather sick of the blunette’s constant whining. She only came down from above to chastise Aqua or give news from Lady Divane herself.

News like Gaia’s ****.

“...I …I…….”

Aqua was nearly catatonic at the human’s newspaper. She was such a popular person in the village that it had reached the front page. Gaia had reached a shockingly old age as a “new age punk rock botanist”, with some kids and a loving husband she was leaving behind. It was a lovely end for a woman that Aqua never got to properly apologise to.

“Yes, I know it is sad for you,” The angel admitted, placing a simple hand on Aqua’s devastated shoulder, “100 years can pass in a blink of an eye up here if we’re on the wrong time dilation. I know you tried to go and talk to her, there was nothing else you could have done.”

It was a hollow statement, and the angel quickly left the woman to her grieving. Aqua held the newspaper tightly to her chest.

Obviously, there was something she could have done…

Loud crashing was getting louder by the second and all Kazuma could do was shake his secret weapon.

"Wake up! Wake up, Aqua! GAH! You useless Goddess, now is NOT the time for a nap!"

More crashing, more destruction, Kazuma could see the shadows of the dragon-like daughter crashing towards him. All while Mitsurugi struggled to outrun the beast. Joined by the ecstatic Divane, who seemed to be roughed up immensely and drooling wildly.

"INCOMING!"

"STAY BACK! AQUA'S DOWN!"

"WHAT?!"

In an instance, Mitsurugi and Divane skidded to a halt. Turning on a dime to slam into the dragon's body. Their feet dug into the marble, skidding along the ground as they tried to hold her back.

"What did you do to her?!"

"I... I don't know!" yelled Kazuma in a panic, "All I did was tell her to think unhappy thoughts to stave off her orgasm!" He looked at the struggle the two were going through with immense fear, frustrated but still worried about Aqua as well, "I meant like...I dunno, puppies dying or some shit! What the hell was she thinking about?!"

"P-perhaps she's thinking about a wonderfully painful bath of nails?!" Divane suggested, though her moan at the struggle against the daughter distracted her thankfully.

Through the dust and shadows, the red glowing pair of eyes glared directly at the pair on the bed.

"Killll.... Satouuuu.... KaazzuummmaaAAAAA!!!!"

"Oh fuck!"

Mitsurugi kept his hands tightly on his sword, holding off the shadow dragon with all of his strength, "JUST RUN! WE'LL HOLD HER OFF!"

Scooping the loopy Aqua into his arms, Kazuma decided not to argue with the man for once. His cock still lodged deeply against her womb, the adventurer darted as quickly as he could out the other door and down the hall, away from the imminent danger. Sounds of legendary sword clashing against claws was all he could hear as he rushed with his naked friend in arm.

"AQUA, PLEASE! WE'RE OUT OF TIIIMMMMEEEE!!!!"

"Kazuma?"

The void said nothing back.

Where was she? Aqua had been on... the bed, right? Yeah. Kazuma's plan to defeat the daughter. Have sex and then transfer her big orgasm to knock her out.

So why was she in an endless expanse of nothingness?

"Kazumaaa?" She yelled out once more. Aqua had just heard his voice, right? It felt like it...

"Kazuma's not 'ere, luv."

The sound of a voice she'd been tormented by for so long sent a shudder down her spine. She appeared only in her darkest moments, so of course the ghost of the friend she'd betrayed would be here now.

Aqua turned around to see the plant girl of her nightmares. Gaia smirked down from a decayed tree stump in the shape of a raised throne, munching on an apple.

"'ello, Aqua. Long time, no see."

Kazuma had no idea what was happening in Aqua's mind. Her sensitivity was so high that he feared the worst, and her eyes had rolled so far back that all he could see was the white of the woman's eyes.

"AQUA! FOR FUCK'S SAKE WAKE UP!"

That time she definitely did hear him. Looking around the void to try and see where her friend was speaking from. "Kazuma?! Where are you?!"

"Ignored. Once again!" Gaia sighed with a cocky grin while shrugging her shoulders, "Guess I shouldn't be surprised. You've managed to disappoint or betray just about everyone you ever cared about! I'm not your greatest failure, I'm just one of da first!"

"Shut up! Leave me alone! KAZUMMAAAA!!!!"

Jumping off her stump, Gaia began following the Goddess, "’Oh Kazuma, my Kazuma~! Wherefore art thou, my Kazuma~’ Oh yeah, I know where he is: in the arms of a BETTER WOMAN!"

The landscape changed. No longer pure white, sands seemed to flow around their feet, forming in front of them to make a statue. The image of Darkness and Kazuma, embraced together, smiling and in love. All while the statue depicted a sad and lonely Aqua behind them, crying at their backs.

"You seriously thought you had a chance with EITHER of them?!" Gaia laughed hard, "How many times did you fuck up their lives?! How many times have you 'tried your best' only to fail even harder than before?!" The plant girl yelled.

Tears stung at her eyes. Both at the image and what Gaia was saying.

"If only she was a deity," Gaia gestured to Darkness, "She'd never have betrayed me for power. The little human managed to depose Divane! You didn't even leave your room, you little fuckin' failure of a Goddess..."

There was almost no defence that the girl could say...

"AQUA! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME THEN TRY TO REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES! JUST... COME BACK TO ME!!!"

Gaia looked frustrated, but Aqua just looked up at the sky in confusion,

"The g-ood times?"

“Do you think Pochal is into you?”

Aqua spat into their shared bucket, a tired yawn followed before she limply shrugged back at the question maker, “Of course he is. I AM a Goddess you know. Why? Did he say something?”

Kazuma similarly spat into the bucket, taking her toothbrush from her and putting them in their little hygiene case. “Nah, just noticed he kept staring at your ass.”

“Ugh, men.” She rolled her eyes, “I thought they were past all that. I’m a hard worker too!”

“Yeah, yeah. Don’t worry, I consider you ‘one of the guys’. I definitely don’t see you as a woman anymore,” She huffed at his teases, though they both fell back onto their bed of hay together, lying side by side as the day’s tense work began to overcome their senses. Yawning in unison, Kazuma rubbed his eyes and muttered, “Weather wizard says it’s a snowy night again. You wanna be big spoon or little spoon?”

“Little, please.” Aqua replied, rolling herself away from him in lazy anticipation. There were no flinches or grumbles as her companion wrapped his arms around her and pushed their bodies together. She snuggled into his arm to use as a slightly more comfy pillow than hay, and with their free arms they both tucked their single thin blanket as tightly as they could around themselves. The darkness of tiredness overtaking them once more, closing their eyes in hopes that neither caught a cold from snow again.

“Goodnight, Kazuma.”

“Night, Aqua.”

"Stop that!" Gaia hissed, "What, you think that you had good times with him because you knew the socially awkward NEET first?!"

But Aqua didn't respond to her, remembering the days of the barn so fondly. The days she'd finally escaped her room, and got to see the life that she could have shared with Gaia all those years ago. "Kazuma..."

"Kzma..."

His heart nearly burst with happiness (plus all the running). "YES! It worked! ‘Kzma’ here!" he excitedly yelled. "And I'm not the only one you have good times with! You've made a bunch of friends, Aqua!"

Her brow furrowed in her sleep. There was no way to tell what was happening for Kazuma, but inside the Goddess’ head she began to play more and more scenes from her time in Belzerg...

"There! All done!"

Megumin was in awe. Her crimson eyes were twinkling at the sheer glory of Aqua's creation. "IT'S PERFECT!" She yelled, dancing around the robot happily.

Never had she seen anything so cool. The angles, the detail, the amazing size of the model, and made entirely out of egg cartons?! The mecha that she'd envisioned in her mind was somehow less cool than this one. Aqua had surpassed every single expectation the wizard had and then some!

"It's... so beautiful! I'll take good care of it! I'll clean it, and show it off, aahhhh! I love it so much!" Her excited feet were tapping around the creation, admiring it from every angle.

"No problem," said Aqua, placing her paint supplies back in her carry case with a smile, "If you need me to make anything else then jus- oof!"

What Aqua hadn't expected was the full body hug.

"Thank you!" Megumin's voice was so happy, rubbing into the older girl's chest. There was definitely a refusal to let go as the wizard tried her hardest to show how appreciative she was. Even after Aqua gave an appreciative pat on her back, Megumin just squeezed harder. "It's the best present I've ever gotten! You're the best, big sis!"

"...'big sis'?"

Her eyes opened in shock at the phrase she accidentally used. "Ah. Um..." Megumin let go and looked away from Aqua with a blush, "Sorry... guess I was emulating my little sister back there..." she chuckled awkwardly before the embarrassing blush became too much and she angrily pointed a finger at Aqua. "I-I never said anything, GOT IT!?”

The other woman just looked a little confused, “Oh… o-okay…”

That earned her a frown as well as a quick roll from Megumin, "Ugh… don’t be sad about it… I don’t NOT consider you sort of like a big sister, kinda…”

"R-really?"

"Well, yeah," Megumin sighed through her blushing face, "You're always cooking meals for us, or doing arts and crafts like THIS guy, or even sneaking me little sips of your booze…" It was far less full on, but Megumin came back in for another hug, mostly to hide her embarrassment, "Maybe I can concede you're the second best big sister ever. Right after me for Komekko, of course."

The wizard was in mid-hug, so she didn't get to see how truly touched the Goddess was. And before she had the chance to see it, her self-proclaimed rival had decided to walk in. "Woah! Megumin, what is that thing?!"

"Wahaha! This is my ultimate final attack, Yunyun! Compare your life without such a robot and realise that it is pointlessly pathetic!" She declared, running off towards her totally-not-friend as Aqua watched them play. Just like a big sister would...

It was a rare sight for Aqua to find Wiz outside her shop. The Goddess had decided to enjoy some nice crackers and tea with the lich while 'threatening' her with purification. A usual occurrence on Thursdays.

But when she arrived, she found the purple mage sweeping up leaves outside in an uncharacteristically aggressive manner, all while a large plume of smoke sizzled from her hair.

"Wiz? What happened to you?"

What was particularly strange was seeing a snap of anger from the usually calm woman. It was clear she'd been fuming in her head just before Aqua had arrived. Her one visible eye scowled very briefly at the Goddess before Wiz shook herself from the anger. "A-Aqua! Sorry... I... I got in a fight with Vanir."

Aqua frowned, of course it was the stupid demon's fault. She licked her fingers and pressed it against a part of Wiz's hair with a sizzle, "Is that why your head is still on fire?"

"Yeah... I just wanted to buy some nice party items for the shop!" said Wiz, returning to the frustrated mood she'd been in as Aqua continued to clean her hair, "It's MY shop, not HIS! Just because the balloons I bought are actually monster eggs that turn into angry paper-bunnies doesn't mean that I should be punished with laser eyes!" The genuine pout from Wiz actually made Aqua smile to herself.

"Sounds like we need to get even." Said the Goddess, surprising the lich who hadn't expected such immediate support, "Now, let's get to planning a lovely prank on that dumbass demon..."

************

"Woah! These eggs are super useful!" Dust exclaimed, slaying another paper bunny with his sword, "It's like free experience! You always know exactly where they're gonna pop up, and they're just made of paper!" To demonstrate, he sliced the small creature in two and watched the paper fly around him harmlessly.

Rin similarly shredded three of them with her razor wind magic, "It's incredible! Wiz, how many of these can we buy?!"

All while Vanir frowned from the stairs.

After the sale, Wiz was giving him a very unsubtle eyeball, waiting for his praise or admittance that he was wrong. Something he definitely did not want to do. "Moi has to admit... this time, your sense of investment was not the worst thing in the world."

Even though she'd received the praise she wanted and was beaming proudly, Aqua still nudged her in the shoulder. She blinked then nodded with a tad bit of worry, "Um, V-Vanir? We saved you one of the balloons..."

The prank was so obvious, it hurt Vanir to his core as an agent of chaos. The balloon she was holding sloshed with water, a struggle for Wiz to lift as she approached him with the heavy yellow orb.

"Ugh... this is the part where Moi pops the balloon and lets water soak into Moi's clothing? Very well. If that is what you wish instead of an apology, then Moi shall play the role of the fool." He shrugged, took the balloon, and raised it above his head to rip it in two.

He regretted it immediately.

"AAARRGGGGHHHH! HOLY WATER?! IT BUURRNNNSSSS!" He screamed, kicking around the floor like it was literally melting him (which it almost did). Aqua was hunched over from laughing so hard, pointing and cackling at the distressed demon.

After being frustrated with him and his pompous attitude so much recently... Wiz couldn't help but giggle a little with her. Cathartically enjoying herself at seeing him be knocked down a peg for once, and not being the brunt of all their pain.

Though, as Vanir silently and ominously rose from the floor, she felt that the feeling wouldn't last long…

"An zen Kazma ushed me an’ Darknesh as a batterin ram! Kehehehehe!" Aqua laughed, kicking her feet under the table while slamming her tankard atop it.

Her guest tried to keep a serious frown, mumbling under her breath how 'inappropriate' that was. But with how drunk she was, there was no hiding how funny she found the idea as well, covering her smirk with her fingers before asking, "D-did she at least enjoy it?"

"Of coursh!" yelled the other drunk, sloshing her beer around with exaggerated swings, "She was moanin' like crAzy when her hed -hic!- hit the monstah's shield!" Her explanation was broken up by one more big chug of her drink. All while her drinking partner couldn't help but stifle her giggles.

"W-well... at least D can feel free around you like that," She said after finally losing the giggles, "And I gotta say, being secret drinking buddies with her friend has really helped expand on the Darkness stories I get to hear."

Aqua shrugged back at Chris, happy to do a bit of gossip for free booze, "I can tell ya ‘bout Megumin's secret crush or Kazuma's porn stash too, if you want~" The Goddess smirked, rubbing her thumb and forefinger together in hopes of selling more of her friend's privacy. Chris just shook her head politely.

"No thanks, I'm good." She said with a worried smile. With a shrug, Aqua dropped the topic, instead just finishing off her current glass with gusto before lazily scanning the room for Luna. Meanwhile, Chris' smile grew in warmth. Even if she was drunk, it was still preferable to the shut-off shut-in she'd known up in Heaven, "...and I'm so happy you're happy too, Lady Aqua..."

"Wazzat? You finally she me ash a Goddesh?" The eagle-eared Aqua looked back at her, "As soon as I stop vomiting, I shall add you to the Order of Axis!"

"V-vomit-?! Oh."

Then Aqua made a high bill for Kazuma to clean up Luna's clothes from rainbow puke.

---------------------------------

"Aqua? Are you alright? May I come in?"

There was a scramble behind the door. A quick tidy up as the blonde waited with worry for her friend to open the door.

Slowly, trying to play it as cool as she could, Aqua finally opened up, "Oh! H-hey Darkness! How's it goin’?"

No one really knew that Aqua had moments where she needed to cry alone. Sure, they'd seen her cry a LOT, but that was usually because she wanted something she couldn’t have; demands and complaints, or just crying at the failures she brought upon herself. Rarely did Aqua ever SERIOUSLY cry. And when she did, it was usually while alone in her room, hiding the red eyes from all who asked.

It was something that Darkness refused to let go.

"May I ask what's the matter?"

With a pretty pathetic poker face, Aqua just shook her head, "N-nothing's wrong! Just getting ready for bed! Long day..." She lost some of the fake smile there for a second, but brought it back up as Darkness frowned.

A pause hung between them, Darkness trying to egg out the answer through the awkward silence, even if she already had an idea what it was pertaining to.

With no further answer, plan B was invoked.

"A bottle of the most expensive noble wine." She said while bringing out the bubbly, "It'll follow me into your room as long as you tell me what's wrong."

"...fine."

*********

It hadn't taken long for Aqua to spill everything. Their recent adventure to Alcanretia had been very eventful, taking down a huge slime terrorising her people, and yet Aqua hadn't been able to celebrate since.

"They rejected me, Darkness..." The bluenette sighed, sipping at her glass much more conservatively than her usual guzzling, "Their own Goddess... I showed my soul to them, and they thought I was just a crazy cosplayer."

The Goddess stuff wasn't something that Lalatina could truly relate to on the surface, but the feelings that Aqua was experiencing THAT was certainly something she could empathise with. "Aqua... why do you need the validation of strangers for this... idea of your godhood?"

"It's not just an idea! I really AM their Goddess!" She protested, Darkness worrying she'd already said the wrong thing on accident, "I watched them grow! I blessed their prayers! I got to see little Madeline's first Axis form signing, I helped with Jerry's second divorce, and I shepherded Yusume's spirit into the afterlife! ME! My Axis members were the only ones who believed in me for so long, and now they can't even see when I walk among them?!"

In a slump, the girl threw her face down onto the bed, kicking her feet in frustration under her.

All while Darkness wondered about how much of it was true.

"Well..." She began, wanting to be as delicate as she could, "I think people are just unsure how to feel about Gods walking among us common folk. I certainly would be a little freaked out if I found Eris out on the street. It sounds like you were an amazing supportive role in their lives. Perhaps they're just scared you're not up in Heaven protecting them anymore?"

Something seemed to make Aqua shudder. Still not lifting her head from the bed, instead talking through muffled sheets. "...can't I juft protec vem here?"

"You already did. Hans' defeat... well, even I have to admit, that was very Godlike."

Aqua was far more excited at the blonde's admission, "I know, RIGHT?! Now do you see that I'm an actual, factual Goddess?!"

"Uhm... maybe?" She said with an awkward smile, one that Aqua's beaming star-filled eyes seemed to shake even harder on, "More drink?"

The two continued to share the very expensive bottle. Sharing stories about Axis members or laughing about Kazuma. A night of pity quickly filled with lovely memories for both of them.

A final memory of a Darkness that was a little too tipsy putting Aqua to bed while giving a speech.

"Aqua, I don't have much to say about facing rejection with a brave face... in fact, I'm probably the most cowardly out of all of us in that regard... but, I know that you can never let the rejection win. As long as you keep improving yourself, whatever you're improving yourself for will show up when you're ready. Maybe... for example... someone won't pick you in the end. And you know that. But my life could still be worth something, even if I just save one life. The good we do is important."

With a long yawn, Aqua smiled at her friend with tired eyes. "You are important..."

"Thank you, my Goddess." Darkness smiled back, giving Aqua a quick peck on the top of her head before turning off her light and leaving the room.

Each of her memories played out like a clipshow, all so real in the mindscape as Aqua remembered the times she shared with her friends. The statue of Kazuma and Darkness that had been formed by sand changed, replaced by multiple statues of Wiz, Megumin, Sena, Chris, Luna, Cecily, Yunyun... all as Gaia got increasingly more frustrated.

"NO!" She hissed, grabbing Aqua by the shoulder before jamming a finger into her arm, "These are just idiots you've tricked into liking you! We both know if they knew the REAL you, knew what you did, they'd never want to spend another second with you!"

Aqua stumbled back from the repeated prodding, falling against the statue of Wiz, "But... can't I just t-trick them a little longer then?"

"Pathetic! You admit your faults, yet are too weak to free these poor fools from your own awful self!" Her venomous words spat at the girl who was trying to avoid her, dodging through the statues but failing to do anything but listen, "You know what you deserve, Aqua. It's what you’ve always wanted, after all."

Then Aqua saw what she meant. The chair. In the middle of the eternal dark void, pocketing itself like a shadowy corner of the white space they were in.

"N-no! I'm having fun here! Don't make me go back! KAZUMA!"

There was nowhere left for Kazuma to run.

He'd been chased all around the castle. The two last lines of defence had fallen and now with horrible accuracy, Musume had caught up to him easily. No matter where he ducked, dove, or dodged, Kazuma could only run so fast.

This was how he was going to die: balls deep inside Aqua as the Demon King's Daughter burned their bodies to ash.

Kazuma supposed this **** wouldn’t be the WORST one he’s had so far...

Still, he was trapped at one of the few dead ends of the entire castle. His luck had run out at the exact wrong moment. No doors close enough to get into, he could jump out the window but landing from this high up without hurting Aqua would be impossible. And the way back was blocked by the shadow beast's body, like the reaper itself coming to collect his soul.

All he could do now was hope for a miracle as Musume stomped closer and closer towards him.

"You..." She hissed, her real body tucked in the belly of the beast just as scary as the shadow dragon that had fire leaking from its mouth, "...you slimy little bastard. Turning my own men against me. I bet it was you that stole my father..."

More stomps of pure doom towards him. Aqua was still spasming in his grip. He turned to protect her, knowing it'd do nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Her chuckle would be the last thing he heard, "I'm going to enjoy drawing out your ****~"

"Over my dead body, you bitch!"

Just as Musume lunged forwards, a yellow blur suddenly slammed into her snout. Clamping something around the jaws of the massive shadow dragon and yelling, "Normally this muzzle is unbreakable and only comes off once you submit to Kazuma!"

Roaring a muffled sound of pain, Musume retreated her advance. Though it wasn't over her actual mouth, only the shadow dragon's, it still was enough of a shift in tempo to assess before charging. To somehow get the magic item around her face... the blonde knight standing between her and her prey must have been an amazing shot.

"Darkness!" Kazuma yelled while balling his eyes out. "Holy fucking shit I'm so happy to see you you're alright and you saved me and-"

"Kazuma! It isn't over yet..." She panted, happy to see him alive but knowing when to make sure they stayed on track, "I don't know what your plan is, but I'll protect you as you do it. Nothing will get past your wall." She growled, throwing her arms up between him and the daughter. Practically daring the muzzled demon to charge at the muscled tank in a wrecked dress.

Kazuma nodded. There was only one thing he could do: he had to help Aqua if there was any chance of surviving this encounter. Activating his own linked feelings skill would open him up to perhaps an inhuman level of blue balls and a level of Goddess sensitivity that could actually kill him... but he had to find out what was wrong.

Aqua was just a huddled ball. Insults and **** were being yelled in her ear, not only by Gaia but by the voices all around. 'Useless', 'pathetic', 'dumbass'. The angels, the other deities, Divane, demons, all their voices and more surrounded her. Consumed her. Threatened to drown her in sorrow.

All while the plant rocker loomed over her form with an evil grin.

Well, until two feet landed on her face.

"GUAHHH!" Gaia screamed. Her body tumbling across the floor from the sudden kick she'd received. "What tha hell?! You?!"

Only seeing her tormentor on the floor, Aqua also turned around to see what had happened. "K-Kazuma?!"

Cracking his knuckles, frowning deeply, and squaring up his shoulders to go again, the boy who would drop kick any woman stood over Aqua protectively. "I don't know who you are, but only I get to make fun of Aqua."

"KAZUMA!" The water girl screamed, throwing her arms around his legs while tears streamed from her eyes, "KAAZUMMMAAAA!!!"

"Yes, yes, Kazuma here." He smiled, placing a hand on her head before frowning back at Gaia. "You're not just some guilty conscious, are you? You're something else."

There was a slight chuckle, then a deeper one, before the large demonic smile on the plant girl's face seemed to spread to both ears. "Well, you're certainly smarter than her." It hissed, a tongue dancing around its face as it gestured to Aqua, "I'll give you props. Sowing discord in your group is harder than I thought it would be. The blonde is protected by Vanir of all people, and none of the rest were easy to infiltrate apart from this one."

"Why? What do you gain from fucking around with us? Do you really have nothing better to do?!"

“NO! I DON’T!”

The smaller form of the punk mutated. Shifted. Expanding until near-bursting point as her body changed in front of Kazuma and Aqua.

All for the demon Alderp to stand there before them.

Kazuma just cringed at his disgusting new red form, “Ugh, you?!”

“That’s right! You thought you’d seen the last of me, fool! But even while my physical form is bound by Vanir’s magic, I decided to infect the one place he’d never look! The mind of the Goddess he truly loathes!” The fat man scoffed and chortled, throwing its arms around to showcase the white void they were in, "There's no way you'll escape my trap in time! You'll die by the hands of Musume, trapped in the mind of this stupid, vapid-"

"Sacred exorcism."

"GYAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!" Alderp screamed in pain as his body evaporated into pure light. Not even leaving a single trace of the demon that had been plaguing her.

Leaving Kazuma to blink in surprise.

"...huh."

Aqua just clicked her tongue, "Call me stupid... I'm not the one entering the mind of a Goddess then telling her he's a demon. That's way easier to deal with."

He had to admit, the girl made a valid point.

But he didn't. Because they were still in the void and that was far more pressing an issue.

"Uhm, Aqua? Why didn't we... escape?" He chuckled, looking around the empty void with panic setting in, "You killed the demon so we get to leave, right? So why aren't we leaving?! The daughter is literally five feet from us!"

Worry was setting in for her as well, "I-I don't know! Should I try to revive it?!"

With a shake of his head, Kazuma quickly began trying to think, "Okay... okay, he said it was a puzzle... so let's just work backwards. What is this place? You were being tormented somehow, right? How was he doing it?"

"Uhm..." She'd gone rather pale, sucking in her lips and looking away in embarrassment, "I... I don't know...?"

"AQUA!"

"F-fine! He was... making me sad about my past!" She admitted, though his rotating hands indicated that he knew there was more and she needed to keep talking, "And... and my future. I was sad. I am sad. I..." She swallowed, trying to avoid getting emotional but unable to do so. Instead she fell right back to the floor and landed on her butt.

Though he still felt a little frantic, Kazuma knew when to sit down next to someone.

Man and Goddess, trapped in the endless white void, looked upon the nothingness in silence.

"Okay, I get the solemn 'real talk' flags, but I do need to speed the plot along a little," Kazuma broke the silence first, "Let's start from the top: what was her deal?" He asked, clearly referring to the form that mind demon had previously assumed. "She must’ve meant something if that asshole chose her face to mess with you."

Aqua swallowed hard, a guilty look on her face usually only reserved for her worst acts of monetary loss, "Someone from many lifetimes ago. She was my best friend, and I... messed it up. I was so stupid. I... I always wanted to apologise to her..." She mumbled quietly. "I ruined her life and never even got the chance to say goodbye..."

Shuffling around next to her, Kazuma sighed, "So like my parents then..."

She turned in surprise, wide eyes still blinking back tears.

"I said I knew it was real talk time!" He grumbled defensively.

Though he turned away, her hand on his made him turn back, she wasn't letting him avoid it so easily, "Y-your parents?"

"Yeah... I still think about them from time to time." He admitted, looking rather shamefully down to the floor, "Even after everything, I don't blame them for laughing about my ****. I was a real shithead, living off their hard work and refusing to pick up the pieces of my own life... people trying to help us broken idiots, eh? Hehe..." Another long drawn out breath after his failed levity, Kazuma was trying to process his own thoughts before shrugging his shoulders a little bit. "I dunno. I guess... the best we can do is remember them and live better lives now through what they were trying to fix."

Aqua was at a loss for words. Kazuma had never sounded so eloquent before, it was almost like he'd thought a lot about the topic of regrets...

But then he quietly growled in exasperation, "Not that it matters, since we're gonna die soon! Guhh... is there anything else? Surely it can't just be regret tied to that plant lady. Why were you being so rude to me lately?"

"I wasn't!"

"AQUA! Quit fighting and use your damn words already! She was your past but you JUST said you were worried about the future too, so what part?!"

"YOU! OBVIOUSLY!"

He frowned. Perhaps not as shocked an expression as Aqua was expecting, but he still let her words hang in the air.

"You... and Darkness... you let me be part of the harem, yet I've done nothing but do stupid things... my hands got captured by Xara. My body got captured by Sylvia. And then..." Her tears were back, "Then I had to spend a whole night looking at your dead body. Wondering how, why, or what would happen to you and Darkness. Divane took Gaia from me, and she was doing it again, and then the angels came to kill everyone else, and-and-"

Knowing it was just making her more upset, Kazuma quickly threw his arm around her shoulder reassuringly, "Hey, hey, sshhh.... I'm sorry..." He cooed, rubbing her hair and letting her get it out, "Look, don't take this the wrong way, but you've definitely fucked up before. We all have. And in arguably bigger ways too. Why do you think we care that much now?"

Aqua just silently wept a little longer before looking over at Gaia's smudge again, "...I got scared. When I messed up, she hated me. And then everyone else hated me..." The genuine non-whiny sadness was a strange eye-opener for Kazuma. The look of hurt in her as their pupils met was absorbing him, "...and I couldn't handle it if you hated me too."

"I'd never!"

"You don't know that!" She protested. Though his eyes said differently, the worry in her heart held a tight grip after so many years of rejection.

He tried to stay as adamant as he could, glaring right back at her, "I do."

She wanted to believe him, but the silence showed she didn't fully. Instead they both just turned back towards the void, as Aqua gathered her courage once more, "You know…I missed sleeping with you."

"We were having sex like five seconds ago."

"No, not that kind of sleeping," She said quietly while shaking her head. "I missed falling asleep in the bed next to you. Those stables… we spent so long there that I memorised your snores, your pervy dreams, even your unhealthy NEET breathing…” He gave her a sour look, but Kazuma’s heart panged when he saw her reddened orbs, “You were there after every shitty day of work, after every late night drink party, and on every cold night where we cuddled even when we both said we hated it…”

Smiles were briefly shared before her face began to crumble into tears again, “And then… you were gone! We got a mansion, got our own rooms, complete and total privacy. After the smelly stables, I thought it was what I wanted. Away from rude, stupid, annoying, grouchy, sweaty, masturbating Kazuma.”

"Oi."

“It took me two months to get a good night’s sleep.” Aqua admitted with a sigh, “I didn’t realise I was so used to you by my side. Your sounds, smells, habits… It wasn't until this week when we shared a bed again that I remembered how much I missed you. The stupid human who stole me from Heaven and showed me the world. Showed me life, taught me how to make friends, gave me a purpose, and was always there...”

He wasn't saying anything, instead just realising how much of an impact he'd had on her in silence.

"Kazuma… please don't ever hate me."

There could have been an affirmation, but instead Kazuma just asked, "Isn't there something else you want to say?"

There was another pause, all while the boy stared at his partner. Neither noticed the world beginning to crumble a little around them.

"Kazuma... I... I..."

She couldn't get it out. Instead, the statues that had been near them had begun to crumble away. Megumin, Wiz, Chris... all dust in the wind until only Kazuma holding Darkness remained.

Aqua couldn't even look at it, but the symbolism was clear.

"You know what she asked me today?" Kazuma chuckled softly towards the statue, "She asked if I wouldn't mind going on a date with you."

Suddenly her heart skipped a beat in surprise. "W-what?"

"She also asked if it was okay if she went on one with you too," He continued, "We've only been dating for like, what, two days? And already she wants to risk it all just so you won't get left behind. She'd rather stop everyone from being sad and have no happiness for the rest of her life than ever be the reason someone was upset. I've seen that this week, and that's why I love her. And if there's one thing this week has shown me, it’s that I have a lot of love to give..."

Too many confusing emotions overwhelmed Aqua to respond. She babbled, looking between him and the statue repeatedly rapidly, unable to form a coherent sentence until he turned to gaze directly at the Goddess with fierce eyes.

"Aqua. You can annoy the hell out of me. And there are days you make me want to tear the hairs out of my nutsack one at a time for even knowing you." His words were definitely confusing her now, "But I will never, EVER, hate you. If I had the choice between you or my dick, I'd bring you down from Heaven every time. If it wasn't for you and your whining, this lowly shut-in would’ve given up on trying to better himself in this world a long time ago. You keep my wheels spinning. You brighten the days of everyone around you. You may be a bad Goddess, but you are not a bad person."

Her face was long, tearful, and stunned. The white void around them had nearly completely vanished, cracking away with the sight of Darkness struggling to hold back the Musume. A deep itch was starting to come through her crotch as the sensitivity levels of reality rose once more.

And all Kazuma could do was stare at those deep blue eyes even deeper.

"For what it's worth, Aqua... I love you!"

His lips sealed over hers.

Time stopped as the white void reality shattered around them.

Aqua’s eyes were wide. Weren't they? It was hard to tell when one spiritually leaves their body. Standing next to herself in a similarly pure white form to the void that had broken. Kazuma was kissing her even through the chaos. Darkness was leaning her body against theirs as the daughter pushed her back, most of the castle destroyed behind her, all as time failed to move even an inch from where it had stopped.

A single dainty hand reached through the mass of shadows, past the muscled blonde, and placed itself carefully on the raging **** underneath. And as time began to start once more, they could see the event for what it was. At the end of it all, everyone heard the spirit Aqua yell out:

“SACRED SHARED FEELINGS!”