chapter 5: a price for this cursed sword
Alright, so I am going to switch over to 3rd person, just to test it out, but it might stick. might not. depends.
Lupus woke up on this fine morning feeling like today is going to be a wonderful day. As such, he went about his everyday routine at the guild, as follows:
1: Kissing Luna and saying good morning as she gets up before him
2: Eating breakfast with Luna
3: Going on a dragon quest
4: slaying dragon and speeding back to Axel
5: Slaying a den of vampires for shits and giggles
6: stopping by a drug store to check in on a special project
7: getting lunch with Luna at a random restaurant
8: beating up the guys who try to pick pocket them, and fail.
9: lie to the guards and have them sent to jail
10: hang out with Kazuma and her party
It was after step 10 that Lupus knew why he felt like today would be a good day.
"I've had all I can take of living in debt!" Aqua shouted, making Lupus scoff. "A quest! Thanks to that dullahan, there are only tough ones left, but let's accept one! I want money!" Lupus, Kazuma, and Megumin all share the same look as they stare at Aqua. Darkness on the other hand was looking a bit different.
"I... I don't mind..." Darkness manages to say, a light blush on her face.
"P-Please!" Aqua cries as she leans on Lupus, who then pushes her onto Kazuma. "I'm sick of working part-time in the shopping district! The manager yells at me if any croquettes aren't sold! I'll work hard! I'll give it everything I got this time! Please!"
"This is one pitiful self-proclaimed goddess." Both Lupus and Kazuma share the same thought as Kazuma relents.
"I'm sure I'll run out of money eventually, too, so go find a decent-looking quest for us." Kazuma said as she pointed to the board
"Got it!" Aqua said as she ran off. Kazuma saluted as Lupus just sighed.
"Will Aqua be alright?" Megumin asked. "I get the feeling she'll bring back some insane quest."
"I'd be okay with an unreasonable quest!" Darkness said as she leaned forward enthusiastically.
"There a problem with you Lupus?" Kazuma asked. "You have been, well, rather silent. more so than usual."
"I just really want to punch that useless bitch into the next timeline." Lupus said as He walked off. "When you all agree on a job, I'll be with Luna. come and get me before you leave."
"Wait!" Megumin said as she stood up. "You are coming with us?"
"Yup. Just to watch Aqua fuck it up somehow." Lupus said as he walked off.
"I wish he could talk down to me like that!" Darkness moaned as she grabbed herself.
Megumin and Kazuma just stared at her before Kazuma stood up. "I am going to check on Aqua."
"All right." Aqua said as she pulled down a request.
"That's not all right!" Kazuma said as she ripped the request out of Aqua's hands. "What are you trying to accept?!" Kazuma put a hand on Aqua's face as she comically struggled to get back the request. "There's a place where a manticore and a griffin are fighting over territory. Please kill both of them. the reward is 500,000 eris. Are you stupid!"
Aqua picks up anther request. "The quality of the town lake's water has declined, and Brutal Alligators have started to live in it, so I would like to have the water purified. The monsters will move to a different habitat if the lake is purified, so there is no need to kill them. The reward is 300,000 eris. This quest is perfect for me! How about it?"
Lupus and Luna looked over from the counter where they were both cleaning it, then back at each other before Lupus sighed. "Of course the bitch would choose that one."
"Now dear, you know its your job to help younger inexperienced adventurers on dangerous quests." Luna said as she leaned against him. "I'll get your mead ready for when you return."
"If I had the power to make you a goddess, I would." Lupus said as he kissed her before turning around and walking to the useless Goddess and Kazuma.
"Are you actually capable of purifying water?" Kazuma asked.
"You fool. Who do you think I am?" Aqua said. "Surely you can tell by what I'm a goddess of from my name and appearance."
"The goddess of party tricks, right?"
"nah, she is the goddess of failures and uselessness. Also, you are not Aniki, you are not permitted to say that sentence useless bitch." Lupus said as he punched Aqua in the back of the head, making Aqua cry, and Luna saying "Be nice!"
"No you morons!" Aqua cried out. "Water! Do you not see the beautiful Water-colored eyes and hair?!"
"I know what I don't see." Lupus said as he looked at her bare back side. "Seriously, get some goddamn under garments or I'll hit it with a Warhammer."
Aqua just smirked at Lupus, and Kazuma glared at Aqua, a faint blush on her cheeks.
"Go ahead and accept it, then." Kazuma said as she looked away. "If you accept it alone. you can keep the whole reward for yourself."
"Wh-What?" Aqua asked. "Well, monsters are likely to attack while I'm purifying the lake... So I'd like you to protect me..."
"How long will it take? About five minutes?" Kazuma asked.
"Your next words are "Half a day or so? What?" Lupus said.
"Half a day or so? What?" Aqua said, as Lupus just smirked.
"That's too long!" Kazuma said as she slammed the request back on the board.
"Please, I'm begging you!" Aqua cried as she tried to get the paper back. "Help me out Kazuma-san!"
"How will you go about purifying it, anyway?"
"Huh, well for a goddess of my class, simply touching the lake should purify it."
Lupus suddenly had an evil smirk as he walked next to Kazuma. "I think I have a way of you safely purifying the lake Aqua."
"Oh no."
Time skip
Kazuma, Megumin, and Darkness are walking next to a cage that is being carried by Lupus in one hand, while the other hand held several coils of chain.
"Lupus let me out!" Aqua cried from inside the cage.
"Nah, this is just fine." He chuckled as he bounced the cage.
"I feel like I'm some rare captured monster that's on its way to be sold!" Aqua cried.
When we arrived at the lake, Lupus attached the chain to the cage, made a giant column of stone, pushed out the top like a crane, then attached the chain to the edge of the rock, and yeeted the cage into the middle of the lake. he sat on top of the extended part of the rock and looked down on Aqua.
"So this is what it feels like to look down on some one." Lupus uttered to myself. He soon got bored and jumped down to the rest of the girls. "The bait is ready."
"Aqua! Tell us if anything happens! We'll real you in, cage and all!" Kazuma shouted as she looked at Aqua with pity.
Aqua just responds with a bunch of mumbling.
"This quest is going to fail." Lupus said as he sat down, leaning against the tree. "The repairs for the cage will cost more than the reward."
"How do you know this?" Darkness asked.
"Because they are Brutal alligators for a reason. Those bars aren't enchanted to withstand the force the monster can put on them with it's jaws." Lupus said as he pulled out a book. "But we can get a reward out of this." he said as he looked at the page labeled Skin prices. "Do you know how much the skin of a Brutal alligator is worth?"
"No, but the quest said there is no need to kill them." Kazuma said. "Why?"
"150,000 eris a piece." Lupus said, putting the book away. "And by the looks of it, there are 40 of the suckers in there that are big enough to harvest."
"How much money would you make if you skinned all of them?" Megumin asked.
"Somewhere around 6,000,000 eris. Then add sales tax, which is ten percent, sadly, makes it 600,000 divided between the four of us, is still 150,000 each. but I can bullshit my way out of that and get us the full 1,500,00 each." Lupus said.
"How do you avoid the sales tax?" Darkness asked.
"Simple. I know the person who collects the tax. we have a very... interesting partnership." he said as he looked a the cage. "But we can make some more money off this quest, as I found a meadow of rare herbs over the mountain, ones that sell for twice as much as the skins."
"How many are there?" Kazuma asked.
"I don't know." Lupus said as he stood up and streched. "I am going to find out. shoot this into the sky if the 'gators decide to attack."
"So you can kill them?" Darkness asked.
"Nah, so I can watch."
Two hours later
"Alright, I am back. there were only about 20 I could harvest and get the full price." Lupus said as he walked up, the herbs on a cart big enough for the cage.
"So if what you say is correct, we each get 2 million eris?" Kazuma asked.
"Yeah, but I should have waited to get back. They wilt over time. Lost about 3 before I froze them, so no worries about that." Lupus said as the girls looked at the block of ice.
"Well, the monsters haven't shown up yet, but I have something to talk about with you." Kazuma said as she started to drag Lupus away.
When they had gotten over the hill, Kazuma let go and faced Lupus. "Who are you? another reincarnate?"
"Right, I am just going to avoid the main character, "denying their own power" bullshit and just say I am another of the Gods creation. The most recent one actually." Lupus said. "I am just going to say I have more power than all of the Gods combined, but I don't like using it."
"Why not?" Kazuma said as she glared at him. "Because if what you say is true, then you can end this whole deal now!"
"Calm your tits. I am delaying doing it because I want to piss off the Gods. They are trying to use me as their attack dog, but I am my own person." Lupus said as he flipped off the sky. "I didn't want this power. I was going to die the death of a warrior, but they stripped that away. forever prevented me from dying in battle and joining my brethren in Sovngarde."
"So Skyrim exists in this world?" Kazuma asked.
"Yeah, it does. Your earth sees it as just a game, doesn't it?" Lupus asked.
"yeah, but how do you know?" Kazuma asked.
"I told you I'm stronger than all of the gods, right?" Lupus said as a green ball appeared in his hands.
"Yes, you did." Kazuma said as she stared at the glowing ball.
"Well, there are beings stronger than gods, that are the literal manifestation of a element." Lupus said as the ball soon flattened out and showed outer space. "Guess what I am the manifestation of?"
"Space? Power?" Kazuma said as she stared into the portal, as the picture changed from space to the planet, then the sun. "Life?"
"No. I am the manifestation of reality." Lupus said as he dispelled the magic. As he said that Kazuma backed up, then bowed to Lupus. "Don't bow. I hate it. much like I hate my power."
"But-"
"No. I am still only human. no matter what the gods say." Lupus said as he began to walk away. "Now come, I do believe a show is about to begin."
After they had joined back up with Darkness and Megumin, Lupus snapped his fingers, as 8 of the full grown alligators swam at the cage. making Aqua panic.
Seven hours later
Everyone walked into the now clear lake, purification complete. Lupus walked over to the cage and started to have one way conversation with Aqua. The rest of the party waited by the edge. They only heard bits and pieces of what was being said. before the conversation started to get louder.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN TAKE YOU BACK LIKE THIS!" Lupus shouted as he ripped open the cage. "GET YOUR BARE WET ASS OUT OF THIS CAGE SO I CAN FIX IT!" Lupus then proceded to pick up Aqua in one hand and threw her over to Kazuma. Aqua scrambled to get back into the cage, and had entered it right before Lupus had completely fixed it.
"GODDAMN IT AQUA!"
Even Later
Kyouya and his two female companions had just come back to Axel after slaying a dragon, when he heard a familiar voice chanting in a sad tone.
"A used-up goddess is being transported along..."
"This voice..." Kyouya said as he looked around. "I've heard it before!" He then started to run in the direction of the voice.
"A used-up goddess is being transported along... I'm sure they're taking me away to be sold..."
Kyouya looked at the lady stuck in a cage surrounded by Brutal alligator pelts. He saw a woman in armor, one in a wizards clothes, and a woman in light cloths. he looked at the man that was dressed in bone an dark metal armor who was pulling the cart along with one hand.
"Lady Goddess!"
A little earlier
The group was walking alongside Lupus as he pulled the cart while he wore a mix of daedric and dragon armor. Lupus had on his dragon bone helmet, gauntlets, shield, and boots, while he wore his daedric armor. He did this to try and pull as much attention to him, rather than the depressed Goddess in the cage. about half way into the city he gave up, and tried to cover the cage in the skins of the Alligators, but Aqua would scream bloody murder, so that was out of the option. eventually he cast a low level invisibility spell, so people could still hear her, just couldn't see her. only those that Lupus chose to let see her could, or high ranking individuals. The group still caught a lot of attention, but now it was Lupus who was on the receiving end of the whispers. They were mostly on how demonic he looked, but he didn't mind much.
"Hey, Aqua, we're in the city now, so stop singing that song." Kazuma said as she tried to shut Aqua up. "Just transporting a woman on her knees in a cage is already drawing everyone's attention."
"Actually, it's my armor and our payload. The citizens can't see Aqua, but they can hear her, so they might think we caught a spirit." Lupus said as he held up a black and red ball of magic. "A spell from back home in Skyrim. {Cloak Other} Comes in handy for hunting missions and stealth missions."
"Can you teach me some of them?" Kazuma asked. "I learned a few stealth skills from Chris, Including {Steal} but I want to learn some skills that will be useful in combat."
"Chris, the thief correct?" Lupus asked as he opened his box. "Here, read these tonight, then sell them once you are finished with them, just to make an extra eris."
"Okay?" Kazuma asked as she took a bag full of books from Lupus, and put them on her back.
"You need to learn more spells too, Megumin." Lupus said as he looked at the crimson demon girl, who threw a fit and went on a rant about how Explosion was the only magic she needed.
"Lady Goddess!" A male voice shouted. "It's you isn't it, Lady goddess?!"
"Huh?" the group said as they looked back to see a man trying to pry open the bars of the cage. once he did, He started talking to the truly useless goddess.
"What are you doing in such a place, Lady Goddess?!"
"Hey." Darkness said as she pulled the man back. "Don't touch my ally so freely. Who are you?"
That was when Lupus stepped in. "That is quite enough Darkness." He said as he patted her on the shoulder. "I believe we are at a misunderstanding here. You think that we captured Aqua don't you? Well, in reality, Aqua is the girl's ally and party member. I am just here for extra muscle. we just had a quest to purify a lake that was being inhabited by Brutal Alligators, and I made a plan to hang Aqua over the lake in a cage as revenge for something she did a while back. plan worked, but she became traumatized as you can see."
"I see. sorry for the misunderstanding, but I still cannot let you off easily for how you have treated Lady Goddess." the man said, just as Aqua burst out of the cage, breaking the spell, and being her usual self.
"So, what business do you have with a goddess such as myself?"
Everyone just stared at her blankly.
"Who are you?"
"It's me, Mitsurugi Kyouya!"
Mitsurugi Kyouya "Cliché hero bitch"
"The Mitsuguri Kyouya who received this Cursed Sword, Gram, from you and was reincarnated in this world!" Kyouya exclaimed as he drew his blade.
"Oh, of course! That guy!" Aqua said as she pretended to know him. "sorry, I totally forgot! I've sent along many people, so it's inevitable that I'd forget some!"
"Y-Yes." Kyouya said as he put his blade away. 'It has been a while, Aqua-sama. I have been working hard every day as your chosen hero." In the background, Lupus snorted in laughter. "By the way... Why have you been locked up in a cage?"
"Dude, I literally told you before you introduced yourself." Lupus said as he shook his head.
"I pulled her with me for my chosen item." Kazuma said as she scratched the back of her head. "I was still a little tipsy from how I died, and wasn't thinking straight."
"HUH?! You dragged the Goddess to this world?" Kyouya exclaimed in shock as he backed up, then pointed at Lupus "Then you locked her in a cage and dunked her in a lake?!" He stepped forward and grabbed Kazuma by the shirt. "What in the world were you thinking?!"
"W-Wait! I'm having lots of fun every day, and I'm not upset about having been dragged here anymore." Aqua said.
Lupus leaned over to Darkness' ear and whispered, "Someone call the squire, because I smell Bullshit!" They both laughed at that.
"Aqua-sama, I don't know how this woman won you over, but you are a goddess! And yet this little..." Kyouya said as he stared into Kazuma's soul.
"Alright, I am going to stop you right there pal." Lupus said as he removed Kyouya's hand from Kazuma's shirt. "I just want you to know that Aqua is being treated nicely, in a way a goddess like her deserves."
Kyouya then looked at Aqua. "By the way, where are you staying now, Aqua-sama?"
"Um, in the stables..."
"Huh?" Both me and Kyouya said together. I looked at Kazuma, then smacked the back of her head. "You could have told me, I would have given you a proper place ot stay."
"Can-"
"No."
"But-"
"You should have asked before now. Now you can suffer."
Kyouya just looked at Kazuma and grabbed her shirt harder.
"Hey, take your hands off her!" Darkness said as she grabbed Kyouya's wrist. "Is there no limit to your rudeness?!"
"He's kind of making me want to blow him up." Megumin said as she held up her staff.
"Not here Megumin." Lupus said as he pushed the staff back down. "My house is in the blast zone.
"You three are? Two crusaders and arch wizard?" Kyouya said as he looked at them. "I see. You're blessed with wonderful party members. You have such excellent people here, yet you make Aqua-sama sleep in a stable. Have you no shame?"
"Dude, they are anything but wonderful." Lupus said as he shook his head. "The arch wizard can only use Explosion, and one spell a day, and the crusader here can't hit shit! Also I'm the Adventurer King. Bow down peasant."
But Kyouya Ignored him as he stared down Kazuma. before scoffing and looking at the other girls. "All of you should travel with me, a sword master, from now on. I'll even buy you full sets of high-grade equipment."
Aqua started to whisper to the other girls as Lupus stepped in front of Kyouya, changing his size so it looks like he is towering over him. "I don't think you are worthy of being with them."
"If I beat you in combat, will you deem me worthy?" Kyouya asked as he drew Gram.
"No. A fight against me won't prove anything. you will face Kazuma." Lupus said, pointing to the girl. "If you win, Aqua and the rest of her party will travel with you, if she wins, you have to do one thing that she requires."
"Huh?" Kazuma asked as Lupus handed her his dragon bone sword from his hip. "All right, I'm in. Here I go!" she shouted as she rushed forward, slicing at Kyouya, only for him to dodge back.
"Hey wait!" He said as he tried to raise his guard.
"{Steal!}" Kazuma shouted as she put her hand towards Kyouya. A flash of white light followed, blinding Kyouya, and his sword was in Kazuma's hand, but she couldn't hold it up, and it fell, flat end landing on Kyouya head, knocking him put.
"Oh good, a concussion." Lupus said as he picked up Gram, then put it away in the box.
"Coward, coward, coward!" a skimpy pink hair girl exclaimed.
"Ah, you must be this man's bitches - I mean companions." Lupus said as he walked over to them.
"That's right, you disgusting man!" Yelled the other girl, who we will name Slut #2 for the time being, and her companion Slut #1. "Give back Gram! Only Kyouya can use that cursed sword!"
"Is that so?" Lupus asked as he pulled out Gram. "Is this true Aqua?"
"The Cursed Sword Gram is for this embarrassing guy's use alone." Aqua said.
"Well, I have it now, so I guess I'll keep it." Lupus said as he put the sword away. "Now, I have had a long day, and I want a drink and to see my girlfriend. Now leave. We will work out a deal later, or will I personally have to kick you into the after life?"
The girls gave up and walked away, dragging Kyouya with them.
The Next Day
Lupus P.O.V.
I was sitting at the bar, watching the commotion between Kyouya and Aqua, wincing as she nailed across the face with a magic infused fist. I then watched as Kyouya bowed to Kazuma and ask something, only for her to point to me. "Ah shit here we go again." I said as I pulled out "Gram" and started to cast analyzer magic. Kyouya walked up to me, and bowed.
"Please, could you return the cursed sword to me? In exchange I'll buy you the finest sword in the shop-"
"Sure here." I said as I tossed the sword to him, only for it to explode into pink mist. "HAHA! I needed that laugh. But I no longer have the sword."
"Where's the cursed sword?" Kyouya asked, sweat dripping off his face. "Wh-Wh-Where did my cursed sword go?" I grinned as I held up a heavy bag of coins.
"I sold it."
"Damn it!" He shouted as he ran off, Slut #1 and #2 ran after him.
All in all, it was a good day.
Until this happened.
"Lupus! Lupus!" Luna cried out as she ran to me. "You need to go to the front gate now!"
"Why?"
"It's back."
I sighed as I stood up from the bar, grabbing my sealed sword, to which I have begun to call, The Sword of Requiem.
I rushed to the front gate as the emergency broad cast started, and I felt the presence of the dullahan near the gate.
I waited for the others as me and the dullahan stared each other down.
"You all, why haven't you come to the castle!" he shouted as a dark aura exploded from his body
"Huh?"
yeah the 3rd person is a nice change from what I usually do, but I'll still do the ending scene in Lupus' P.O.V. a special thanks to PWOFalcon for helping me name the sword, and we will have a special scene at the end of the next chapter, I wonder what it is?
NEXT TIME; A Conclusion to This Worthless Fight!
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