Kazuma Sato, a first-year high school student, is nearly hit by a truck on his first day of school but is saved by his classmate Aqua. However, Aqua insists, "I'm a goddess!" Kazuma shrugs it off, but somehow she ends up living with him, and his childhood friend Megumin joins them, turning every day into chaos. Megumin chants "Explosion magic is the strongest!" and breaks windows, while Aqua tries to "purify" classroom plants and kills them. Kazuma, exasperated, still ends up taking care of them
God's Blessing on This Wonderful Academy! - My Partner, a Rampage, and the Other Side of the Water Pipe
Late April. The light streaming through the classroom windows had grown a little stronger.
Satou Kazuma was crouched by the side of the road on his way to school.
"I'm sorry, Kazuma. I made you help me practice my purification again."
Aqua pressed her hands together meekly. Her long, light-blue hair swayed gently in the morning breeze.
"'I made you,' my ass. This happens every single morning. Give me back my precious morning hours."
I yanked weeds from the roadside with my work-gloved hands as I spoke.
"But the fact that my goddess purification power is so strong just proves I'm the real deal! If I keep practicing, I'll definitely be able to control it perfectly!"
"Every time you practice, the roadside grass dies. Yesterday you even killed the old lady's flower bed. I had to grovel and apologize for you."
"That was... well... I think the flowers wanted to be purified too."
"Don't 'think' that! Did you ask the flowers?!"
I heaved a deep sigh.
It had been about two weeks since Aqua started freeloading at my place. What was supposed to be a one-night arrangement had somehow turned into her carving out her own space in the living room and stocking the fridge with some mysterious drink labeled "Goddess Fruit Water."
At school, Aqua was the same as ever.
Every potted plant in the classroom had withered. The rooftop flower beds had been ravaged in the name of "purification rituals." By now, students would hide their plants the moment she came near.
"Kazuma! Today's P.E. is volleyball! I'm great at sports, you know!"
Aqua bounced up and down as she spoke.
"You've been dead last in P.E. since you enrolled. What exactly are you great at?"
"In the divine realm, I was known as the Goddess of Ball Sports!"
"What the hell are divine ball sports? And your self-assessments are worthless anyway."
I stood up and peeled off my work gloves.
Weeding the school route had become my daily routine — all to cover up Aqua's out-of-control purification magic.
"Kazuma, you're so kind. You even pull weeds for my sake."
"It's not for your sake! It's to reduce the complaints from the neighbors!"
"You don't have to be embarrassed. You're my partner, after all."
Aqua tried to cling to my arm.
"Stop it! My gloves are filthy!"
I shoved her away.
Even so, Aqua kept smiling.
(This woman really never learns.)
I cursed her inwardly, but I was beginning to realize that somewhere deep down, her cheerfulness had been saving me.
---
Afternoon P.E. class.
The volleyball lesson was being held not in the gymnasium, but on the grounds behind the school building.
The April sun was stronger than expected. Dressed in my P.E. uniform, I stood at the edge of the court, staring blankly at the sky.
"Kazuma! Watch me! My super play!"
Aqua waved at me from the center of the court.
She'd been grouped with some girls from our class. Though "grouped" was generous — Aqua was so hopeless at sports that her teammates kept a wary distance.
"Hey, do you think Aqua-chan will be okay...?"
"I'm scared she's going to pull something again..."
The girls' whispers drifted over on the wind.
(Well, I get how they feel.)
I nodded inwardly.
The match began.
The light thud of the volleyball echoed across the grounds.
Every time the ball came near her, Aqua shrieked and dodged.
"Hey, Aqua! Don't dodge! Receive the ball!"
The P.E. teacher's shout cut through the air.
"B-But the ball is scary!"
"How is a volleyball scary?! What does that even mean?!"
I watched the whole thing from a distance.
(She really has zero athletic ability.)
And that was the moment.
The opposing team's powerful spike flew straight at the face of one of Aqua's teammates.
"Kya!"
The girl instinctively shut her eyes and shielded her face.
"Watch out!"
Aqua leaped in front of her.
"I'll purify it!"
She pressed her hands together.
The wing-shaped pendant at her throat flickered with a pale blue light.
(Oh, crap.)
I knew it instinctively.
The next instant—
BOOOOM!!!
An explosion.
The ground shook.
The pale blue light that burst from Aqua's hands blasted the ball into dust and drove straight into the earth.
"You've gotta be kidding me!?"
The words flew out of my mouth.
The ground was gouged open.
No — that wasn't all.
From deep underground came a gurgling sound.
The next moment—
SPLAAAASH!!!
A massive jet of water erupted from the fissure in the ground.
"W-What is that!?"
"Water! Water's coming out!"
Screams erupted.
The water surged higher and higher, flooding toward the school building.
"Oh no... the water pipes...!"
The P.E. teacher muttered, his face pale.
Aqua's purification magic had ruptured the water pipes buried underground.
The water poured relentlessly into the school building, flooding the first and second floors, turning the classroom wing into a swamp.
"K-Kazuma... what do we do..."
Aqua grabbed my sleeve, her face ashen.
"Don't ask me 'what do we do'! Do you even understand what you just did!?"
"But that girl was about to get hit by the ball... I had to save her..."
"You didn't save anyone — you flooded the whole damn school!"
I clutched my head, staring at the geyser.
---
After that, P.E. was canceled.
The first and second floors were completely submerged.
Water pooled in the hallways, and the classroom floors were caked in muddy water.
Students grabbed buckets and rags, desperately bailing out the water.
"Hey, Kazuma. What the hell is going on?"
One of my classmates approached me.
"You're asking me what's going on..."
"It's that Aqua who's always with you, right? She pulled something again, didn't she!"
"That's right! The moment she put her hands together, it exploded!"
"It's always like this! Doesn't she have some kind of weird power!?"
The students' accusations zeroed in on Aqua.
She hid behind me, trembling.
"Kazuma... everyone's going to hate me..."
"...Haah."
I heaved a deep sigh.
"Hey, all of you, hold on. Yeah, maybe Aqua did it. But she was trying to save someone who was about to get hit by the ball. Sure, it ended up like this, but there was no malice behind it."
I stepped forward, shielding Aqua.
"But the school is flooded! Who's going to take responsibility!?"
"I'll take responsibility. So stop blaming Aqua."
When I said that, the students around us quieted down, just a little.
"Kazuma..."
Aqua looked up at my back.
"...It's not like I was trying to look cool. I just figured if I didn't cover for you, it'd be a pain in the ass later."
I brushed it off with that excuse.
But the truth was a little different.
(When I saw her shaking with that look on her face, I couldn't just leave her.)
That's what I muttered in my heart.
---
Later, the P.E. teacher came to the scene.
"Are you kids okay? For now, we'll process this as a malfunction of the fire equipment."
The teacher said this with a meaningful look at us.
"A malfunction of the fire equipment, sir?"
"Yeah. Let's make it that. The school's disciplinary committee will handle it the same way."
With that, the teacher hurried off.
(Fire equipment malfunction...?)
Something felt off.
It was obviously caused by Aqua's power.
And yet, the teacher was trying to write it off as an accident.
No — it wasn't just him.
The students around us had been in an uproar at first, but as time passed, they somehow started accepting it, as if to say, "Well, I guess that's how it is."
"Hey, so it really was a fire equipment malfunction after all."
"That's what I heard. This building is old, after all."
(Something's wrong. Something is clearly wrong.)
I looked up at the school building.
The flooded classroom wing.
The sight was real, yet it felt like I was in a dream.
---
After school.
I was heading to the grade supervisor's office.
"Kazuma, I'm sorry. It's all my fault..."
Aqua walked beside me, looking dejected.
"You can apologize later. For now, I'll go explain."
"But it's not your fault, Kazuma..."
"If you go alone, it'll just get more complicated. I'll go."
I made my way toward the staff room where the grade supervisor was.
On the way, I suddenly felt something strange.
(Huh...?)
I stopped in my tracks.
My body had been feeling oddly heavy for a while now.
No — not heavy, exactly. Tired.
The moment Aqua activated her purification magic, a wave of intense fatigue had shot through my body.
(Back then, before the water pipes burst, I somehow knew it was bad.)
(Was that a coincidence?)
I stared at my own hand.
"Kazuma, what's wrong?"
"...No, it's nothing."
I shook my head.
(There's no way I could sense Aqua's power.)
(But what was that strange exhaustion?)
Without finding an answer, I opened the door to the staff room.
---
The grade supervisor listened more easily than I'd expected.
"I see. So Aqua-san tried to dodge the ball, tripped, and the valve on the water pipe happened to break in the process."
"Y-Yes. Well, something like that."
I told a desperate lie.
The truth was that Aqua's mysterious power was the cause.
But there was no way anyone would believe that.
"Understood. We'll let it slide this time, as a special exception. However, if anything else happens, it will be reported to the disciplinary committee."
"The disciplinary committee, sir?"
"Yes. Lately, the disciplinary committee has been tightening its enforcement. In particular, any abnormal incidents within the academy are immediately reported."
The grade supervisor said this and turned his eyes back to his documents.
(The disciplinary committee... that's Wiz's territory.)
I remembered the face of that beautiful boy I'd met in the night district before.
---
When I left the staff room, Aqua was waiting in the hallway.
"Kazuma! How did it go!? Did you get yelled at!?"
"Well, it worked out. They're letting it go this time."
"Really!? That's my Kazuma! I knew you were the perfect partner for a goddess like me!"
Aqua's face lit up.
"I'm not your partner. And would it kill you to reflect on what you did?"
"I am reflecting! But there's no point in moping, right? Failure is the mother of success!"
"Your failures aren't the mother of success — they're the mother of disasters."
"Oh, but being able to cause disasters is only possible because of a goddess's power!"
"Don't brag about it!"
I sighed.
But seeing Aqua smiling as usual, I felt a little relieved.
---
That day after school.
I was alone in the library.
The cleanup of the flooded classrooms had settled down, and I wanted to rest somewhere quiet.
The library was on the third floor.
The water damage had only reached the first and second floors — the third was untouched.
I sat by the window, gazing outside absentmindedly.
"You're Satou Kazuma-kun, aren't you?"
A voice suddenly addressed me.
I turned around to see the school librarian standing there.
Mina Hoshino.
A woman in her mid-forties, always wrapped in a calm atmosphere.
"Ah, yes. I'm Satou."
"Would you mind if we talked for a bit?"
Mina sat down across from me.
"Have you been feeling strangely tired lately?"
She asked in a quiet voice.
"Huh...? Well, commuting between school and home, I guess I'm a little tired."
"I see. But it's a little different from ordinary fatigue, isn't it? For example, when you're near a certain person, your body feels heavy, or your head gets foggy."
My heart skipped a beat.
(Why does she know about that...?)
"...What do you mean?"
"It's just a general observation. This academy occasionally has children with special powers. When sensitive people are near them, their condition can change."
Mina wore a gentle smile.
"You might have a slightly sensitive constitution."
"...And what kind of person would cause that, for example?"
"Who knows. I couldn't say. But I think you have someone in mind yourself, don't you?"
With that, Mina stood up.
"Don't push yourself too hard. If you ever feel unwell, come here again."
She quietly walked away.
I watched her retreating figure, feeling my heart pound violently.
(Being near Aqua changes my condi
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