Relief for This Up-and-Coming Adventurer! (この成り上がり冒険者にも安息を！, Kono Nariagari Bōkensha ni mo Ansoku wo!) is the sixty-seventh chapter of the KonoSuba manga series, and covers Chapter 1 in Volume 7 of the light novels.
Cover[]
Darkness bringing along a length of rope asks Megumin for a favour.
Summary[]
While eating lunch with Aqua at a high-class restaurant, Kazuma makes a scene in which he calls the chef who cooked their dishes out for praising him, before they both pretend to be cultured rich gourmets despite them wrongly guessing the ingredients. Subsequent to leaving behind the meal payment that they call a "generous tip", the two of them prepare to try out another expensive establishment.
Kazuma accordingly flashbacks to the moment they became wealthy from the 300 million eris that the Guild awarded their party a few days earlier for defeating Sylvia, during which the Guild receptionist had even lauded Kazuma for financially benefiting the Guild too through defeating four generals of the Demon King. While Dust and Rin commented on how much Kazuma's party had grown, Kazuma upon being praised by the other adventurers excitedly treated everybody to drinks.
As Kazuma later adds up his share of the reward money with the fortune he will soon receive from Vanir for their business venture, he concludes himself as being a winner adventurer who can laze around all day without a need to work on dangerous adventures ever again. Arriving at the mansion when he discusses with Aqua about inviting their other party members out to dinner, the pair discovers to their bewilderment the interior to be as hot as a sauna courtesy of multiple heaters, in the midst of which is an enjoying Darkness who is tied up inside a blanket and a Megumin tempting her with ice packs. Kazuma and Aqua thus proceed to find somewhere else to stay for the night while blessing their homosexual love, prompting Megumin to frantically explain as well as prevent Darkness from boosting the misunderstanding.
Hearing afterwards that Darkness was training for an endurance competition, Kazuma tells her to do it at her family home, yet Darkness is reluctant because her father's health had recently deteriorated. He next refuses to assist with the training, before noticing Aqua pouring magical power into what she claims to be a Dragon's egg, which she had purchased when alone at the mansion from a seedy salesman in exchange for all of her reward money. Aqua goes on to name the baby Dragon Kingsford Zeltman or Emperor Zel for short, all the while oblivious to the faces her party members are making because they realised that she got duped by a chicken egg, following which Darkness goes off to shower.
The next day, Megumin who swelters under a blanket as she sits between the heaters warms the egg in Aqua's place, so that the goddess will agree on accompanying Kazuma and Darkness to Wiz's Shop. Aqua promptly bashes on the door loudly upon arrival, earning the ire of Vanir as he comes out to quarrel with her. The Devil afterwards tells the trio, who is coming for the business venture payment, about Wiz whom he forced to work nonstop as a means of deterring her from bankrupting the shop, to the point she went deliriously crazy despite the great sales figures, and had to be put to rest.
Vanir next points out how Darkness vents her pent-up sexual desires at night to her frantic embarrassment, and offers to tell for free the fortune of the noble girl possessing a sense of duty that isn't backed up by abilities, since a fate of destruction hangs over her. With Kazuma approving, Darkness agrees to have her fortune divined by placing her hand upon a crystal ball just like Vanir requests. Subsequently faced with a string of questioning from him, however, Darkness gets pressured into admitting about lightening her armour because of her splitting abs adding on weight, as well as the time she imagined wearing Megumin's cute dress which she had found in the laundry. She finally loses it when Vanir asks about her purposefully wearing revealing clothes in the mansion when Kazuma was around, at which the Devil reveals that the questioning has no connection with the divining but only serves to pass time before the results show up in the crystal ball.
Managing to calm down Darkness who tries to pry his mask off, Vanir properly divines Darkness facing a future of destruction due to a calamity befalling her household and her father, in which she futilely tries to overcome it by sacrificing herself, even though nobody including her father will be happy as a result. The Devil then advises her to flee and start over someplace else with Kazuma whom he candidly disparages, since there is nothing she can do about it, although Darkness who takes the divination with a grain of salt refuses to run.
Following Darkness' return to check on her family residence, Vanir hands Kazuma his large sack of payment, but right away also stops the Adventurer who plans to immediately use the services of the Succubus Cafe. Having forgotten all about Vanir's advice given soon after their first meeting in the shop, Kazuma is further advised not to satisfy himself with his current wealth but to create more sellable products, since it may end up actually giving him a chance at helping Darkness. Aqua though retorts with a divination of her own regarding Wiz wasting all of Vanir's hard-earned money, making Kazuma sneak away from the pair before they start fighting, while Megumin wonders why does she have to go through training for the endurance competition.
Characters[]
- Kazuma Satou
- Aqua
- Megumin
- Darkness
- Dust (flashback)
- Rin (flashback)
- Vanir
- Wiz (flashback)
- Receptionist Succubus (image)
- Chomusuke
Differences to other versions[]
- The manga skips the part about Kazuma teasing Darkness after she chides him as he wipes Iris's ring, and places Kazuma receiving his rewards as a flashback after the scene at the restaurant.
- The receptionist lady in the light novel hesitates when handing the stupendous reward money over to Kazuma, whose party members especially Aqua had thought he was summoned to the Guild for some heinous crime, and even packed her bags in advance.
- The light novel doesn't specify the identities of the adventurers who comment on the growth of Kazuma's party.
- In the light novel, Megumin heats up the living room with only the fireplace, and Darkness after being untied goes off the shower before Aqua explains about buying the "Dragon's" egg.
- Darkness prior to accepting the fortune telling punches Kazuma for persistently inquiring about the way she vents her pent-up sexual desires in the light novel.
- Megumin wondering why she has to train her endurance is a manga-only feature.
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