Some time prior...

Kazuma's party made it back to the Guild Hall, ready to collect their rewards for their parts in defeating the Destroyer... And encountered a bespectacled woman in an official looking uniform, accompanied by multiple armed and armored guards. "Adventurer Kazuma Sato! You are hereby charged with sedition!" the woman declared. "I'll need you to come with me!"

"...um... Who are you?" Kazuma asked, a bit taken aback. "And what's sedition?"

"...I am Sena, government prosecutor," the woman sighed. "And sedition is the crime of attempting to undermine or overthrow the government. And you are under suspicion of being a terrorist, or possibly even an agent of the Devil King's army!"

"...WHAAAT!?" everyone present shouted.

"What did you DO Kazuma!?" Aqua shouted, shaking Kazuma.

"I didn't do anything!" Kazuma protested.

"Now hold on!" Megumin shouted. "Kazuma might be a pervert!"

"And a cheater in duels!" Cremea piped up.

"An asshole!" Fio added.

"Committer of petty crimes!" Darkness chimed in.

"A coward!" Aqua noted.

"Lazy!" Xylixia chirped.

"...are you guys defending me, or trying to start something!?" Kazuma roared angrily.

"However!" Megumin continued. "He wouldn't commit a coup!"

"Regardless!" Sena cleared her throat, having sweat dropped at the display before her. "The coronanite powering the Mobile Fortress Destroyer, which was teleported on this man's orders, was transported to the manor of the local lord!"

"...what!? A lord was killed in an explosion I caused!?" Kazuma panicked, his hands on his head.

"Don't kill him off! He's not dead!" Sena barked. "Fortunately, no one was home at the time, so there were no injuries or deaths, but the manor was completely destroyed!"

"...oh thank goodness, no one was hurt," Kazuma sighed in relief.

""Thank goodness!?"" Sena demanded. "Don't you understand the situation you're in!?"