The Hiki-NEET Buys a Home. (ヒキニート、家を買う。, Hiki Nīto, Ie wo Kau.) is the thirteenth chapter of the KonoSuba Comic Anthology manga series, and was illustrated by Hanikura Kumo.
God's Blessing for This Wonderful Home Kazuma is overjoyed when he finally finds a home in the mansion, now that he no longer has to sleep in the freezing stables. As Megumin and Darkness comment on how happy he is, Kazuma inwardly continues about his privacy getting protected whenever he needs to fap, instead of having to be conscious of the Aqua sleeping next to him.
I'm Lonely Kazuma proposes a rule where intruding upon somebody else's room is prohibited, but Aqua opposes it because then he may return to being a hiki-NEET who shuts himself in, and upon Kazuma pointing out the lack of internet, cites him being cruel for leaving her alone.
Distraction Kazuma tells Aqua that he has no time for shutting-in due to the debt he has to pay off, at which she walks away from the home job of assembling artificial flowers to play boardgame with Megumin, much to his chagrin since it is the debt she had racked up. This however had been his plan all along, because with Aqua busy playing with Megumin, she is distracted from the topic about their rooms.
Had been right next to In the privacy of his room, Kazuma contemplates how his fapping won't be noticed by Aqua, before pondering that the situation was more erotic in the stables when he was sleeping a mere 10cm from her.
Just as Expected Wondering if there are erotic books in this world, Kazuma vaguely asks Darkness about it by claiming himself to be looking for bookstores so he can find novels to read before bed. Darkness proceeds to lend him one of her own novels, which as expected is one about a female knight having things done on her by Orcs, with the sections about the female knight's ordeals all dogeared.
Know about You Handed additional novels afterwards, Kazuma reads about more terrible ordeals suffered by the female knight, and loses his appetite for warabi mochi subsequent to reading a volume depicting what Slimes are capable of. The next day when Darkness cheerfully asks him about how the books were, Kazuma as he returns those novels is glad for knowing about Darkness, who is oblivious to how he recoils from her.
It is in a Dream In that period when he still doesn't know about the Succubus Cafe, Kazuma decides to go look for erotic books by himself at the bookstore, only to see Aqua working there, following which she teases him over being interested in those types of books.
