Blessing on This Wonderful World! - If Days with Megumin -
Kazuma Satou, a high school student living in Axel, meets Megumin, a girl who loves explosion magic, at Dustiness's mansion. She declares herself a 'genius mage of the Crimson Demon Clan' and proudly announces, 'My explosion magic can only be used once a day, but that one strike is the strongest!'
Kazuma ends up living with Aqua, Darkness, and Megumin, getting dragged into their chaotic daily lives. Megumin clings to Kazuma, persistently trying to show off her daily explosion magic. 'Look, look
Blessing on This Wonderful World! - If Days with Megumin - - Miss, a mud-covered start
"…This dream again, huh."
When he opened his eyes, there was the familiar ceiling. White, a little old, but somehow warm. It took him a few seconds to realize this was his room.
Satou Kazuma, seventeen years old. A former high school student, and a current resident of another world. Back in Japan, he'd never gone to school—just shut himself in his room playing games all day. Then one day, when he went outside, he got hit by a truck—no, actually, he tried to save a girl who was about to be hit by a truck, and got hit himself. Before he knew it, the goddess Aqua was recruiting him: "Won't you come to another world?"
Now he was in a city called Axel, with that goddess Aqua dragged along for the ride. Dragged along—or more accurately, "brought along." And because of that, he was now living in debt.
Outside the window spread a cityscape of cobblestone streets. In the distance, he could see the tower of the Adventurers' Guild. Morning light bathed the city, making the cobblestones glitter.
"Haa…"
A sigh escaped him. Three weeks since he'd come to this world. If you asked whether he'd gotten used to it—honestly, not yet. Memories of Japan resurfaced at odd moments. The lights of convenience stores, the continuation of his games, and the softness of his futon.
Kazuma got up from the bed and stretched. His body creaked. Yesterday's fatigue still lingered.
Below the window, a single horse-drawn cart passed by. The driver, a man, was shouting something loudly. Probably heading to the market. This city was always bustling.
Kazuma picked up the bread on the table and bit into it. A little hard. But this was his breakfast now.
"…Eris, huh."
The currency of this world. One Eris was roughly ten yen. This bread was fifty Eris, so about five hundred yen. Back in Japan, that would buy two sweet buns at a convenience store.
Since coming to this world, not a day passed without thinking about money. There was no prospect of repaying his debt. At this rate, Aqua would keep hounding him with "Pay back the debt!" forever.
"…Well, can't be helped."
Kazuma shoved the rest of the bread into his mouth and stood up. White shirt, black slacks. Then he threw on a green mantle. This was his style in this world.
Looking in the mirror, a skinny man stood there. His black hair was a little long, with bedhead. His deep brown eyes looked somewhat sullen. Maybe because he'd been a shut-in, his body was thin and lacked muscle. The perpetually weary expression on his face was probably because he'd had it ever since coming to this world.
He looked at his left hand. On his palm, a faint mark like a magic circle. This was the proof of the skill he'd been granted in this world.
"Status View… huh."
Upon turning fifteen, residents of this world undergo a ritual called the "Rite of Revelation." There, they receive a skill from the gods. About sixty percent of people apparently have some kind of skill. Attack-type, production-type, support-type… the contents varied wildly.
And what he'd been granted was "Status View." A support skill that merely visualized a target's ability values. Completely useless in combat.
"Haa…"
Another sigh escaped him.
The guild folks badmouthed it as a "dud skill." Well, he thought so too. He'd wanted at least attack magic, or talent for swordsmanship, something like that.
But there was no helping what he'd been granted. Kazuma switched gears and left the room.
This was the Harthia mansion. A grand estate in the center of Axel, and currently Kazuma's place of lodging. It had a vast garden, a library, even a bath. Apparently there were eight servants.
Why was he lodging in such a mansion? Because Aqua had said something incomprehensible like "I'm a goddess, so I have the right to live in this mansion!"—and somehow, they really were allowed to live here. What even was a goddess?
As he walked down the corridor, he heard birdsong from beyond the garden. The morning air was cool and pleasant.
Kazuma left through the entrance and started walking down the cobblestone path.
Axel was a free city located in the central part of the continent. Population: one hundred twenty thousand. It housed the Adventurers' Guild headquarters and flourished as a crossroads of trade. Not just humans, but elves, dwarves, and demi-humans lived here too.
On the streets, merchants were preparing for the morning market. A woman arranging fruit, a man carrying fish, the smell of baking bread drifting through the air.
"Yo, Satou. Heading to the guild again today?"
The butcher called out to him. In these three weeks, he'd made a few acquaintances.
"Yeah, something like that. Gotta earn my daily bread."
"Ha, tough life. Keep at it today."
Kazuma gave a light wave and headed for the guild.
The Adventurers' Guild building was a large three-story structure. The first floor had the reception and request board, the second floor was a tavern, and the third floor was the officers' room.
When he opened the guild doors, the inside was already bustling with adventurers. Despite the early hour, everyone was eager.
"Good morning, Satou-san."
Luna called out from the reception counter. Luna was this guild's receptionist. She had silver hair tied back in a single ponytail and always carried a calm air. She looked to be in her mid-twenties. Among the guild receptionists, she was especially popular. The reason was probably that gentle smile.
"Good morning."
Kazuma gave a light bow and walked over to the request board.
The board was covered with requests again today. Monster subjugation, material gathering, escort, odd jobs… Apparently an average of two hundred requests were posted daily.
Among them, Kazuma's eyes landed on a single sheet of paper.
"Giant Toad Subjugation… reward five hundred Eris, huh."
Giant Toads inhabited the wetlands near Axel. They measured one to one and a half meters long. Low danger level, but the troublesome part was that they moved in groups. Still, at five hundred Eris each, killing five would net twenty-five hundred Eris. That would help with the debt.
"I'll take this."
Kazuma took the request slip and returned to Luna's counter.
"Luna-san, please."
"Giant Toad subjugation, is it. …Satou-san, Giant Toads move in groups, so please be very careful."
Luna said with a worried look. Her expression seemed oddly cute. No, now wasn't the time to be thinking about that.
"I'll be fine. I'm confident in my agility."
Kazuma answered with a light laugh. Honestly, he didn't intend to be outmatched by mere Giant Toads.
From the second floor tavern, adventurers' voices drifted down.
"Hey, that guy's got Status View, apparently."
"Huh? What's that? Never heard of it."
"Talk about a dud. A skill you can't use in combat is pointless, right?"
Kazuma clenched his fist. Pretending not to hear, he left the guild.
…Damn. Someday I'll show them.
The wetlands on the outskirts of Axel.
Kazuma carefully advanced through the tall reeds. The ground was muddy, squelching with every step. The air was humid, mixed with the smell of mud and grass.
"…There."
Ahead, one Giant Toad. A green frog about a meter long. It sat still on a rock, unaware of him.
Kazuma drew the knife at his hip and held his breath. A Giant Toad's eyes were on the sides of its head. In other words, it had trouble seeing directly behind. He'd learned this weak point from observing them beforehand.
Slowly, without making a sound, he approached. Five meters, three meters, one meter—
"There!"
Kazuma closed the distance in one burst and drove his knife into the Giant Toad's back.
"Gueh!"
The Giant Toad let out a short cry and collapsed. Good, that was one.
But immediately after—
The surrounding reeds rustled all at once.
"…Huh?"
The next moment, five Giant Toads burst out of the mud.
"Whoa!?"
Kazuma hurriedly readied his knife again. But one of the Giant Toads spat slime from its mouth.
"Guh!?"
The slime hit his feet, and Kazuma slipped hard, falling over. He was covered in mud. Mud even got into his mouth.
"Pff, pff! Damn, this is the worst…!"
The Giant Toads leaped at him all at once. Kazuma rolled through the mud, desperately dodging.
"Why you…!"
Kazuma grabbed a nearby tree branch, shook off the mud, and stood up. His clothes were a mess of mud and frog fluids.
But the Giant Toads' movements were exactly as he'd observed beforehand. With eyes only on the sides, their reaction directly behind was slow.
"Calm down… one at a time."
Watching the Giant Toads' movements carefully, Kazuma circled behind them one by one and finished them with his knife.
One, two, three…
By the time he defeated the last one, Kazuma dropped to his knees.
"Haa… haa…"
Utterly exhausted. His clothes were a mess of mud and blood spatter. Mud clung to his hair too.
"…Damn it."
Kazuma looked up at the sky.
"If I'm gonna get this covered in mud, my skill could at least be useful…"
After collecting the frog stones from the Giant Toad corpses as proof of subjugation, Kazuma returned to the guild.
When he opened the guild doors, the adventurers inside all looked at him at once.
"…What?"
"Whoa, Satou, what happened to you, looking like that!"
"Did a Giant Toad swallow you or something!?"
Laughter rose from the tavern. Kazuma turned red and headed to the counter.
"Satou-san, are you all right!?"
Luna stood up with a startled look.
"…I'm fine. I subjugated six Giant Toads."
Kazuma placed the frog stones on the counter.
"Six of them!? By yourself?"
"Well, yeah."
Luna's eyes went wide as she checked the frog stones. Then her expression softened into a gentle smile.
"Thank you for your hard work. Six Giant Toads, subjugation reward of three thousand Eris. Plus five hundred Eris for material buyback. That comes to three thousand five hundred Eris total."
Kazuma received the reward and let out a relieved breath.
"…Thank you."
As Kazuma was about to leave, Luna called him back.
"Ah, Satou-san, please wait a moment."
"What is it?"
Luna looked a little hesitant, but said it clearly.
"Your Status View skill, Satou-san—as far as I know, there isn't a single other person in this guild who has it. In fact, appraisal-type skills have only been confirmed in a handful of people even in the kingdom."
"…Huh?"
For a moment, Kazuma didn't understand what he'd been told.
"It's that rare?"
"Yes. It's treated as a dud, but if you look at it differently, it's an extremely rare ability."
Luna smiled. That smile somehow resonated in his chest.
"…Is that so."
For the first time, hope for his own skill budded in Kazuma's chest.
But at the same time, a question arose.
(Why was I granted a skill like this at the Rite of Revelation?)
That night.
A room in the Harthia mansion. Kazuma lay on the bed, his status screen open.
A semi-transparent blue screen floated before his eyes.
『Status View Lv.1 — Visualizes the target's ability values』
Kazuma stared at the display.
"Lv.1 means… it can level up?"
Skills had levels too. He knew that. But what would happen if Status View leveled up?
"…No idea."
Kazuma closed the screen.
Knock, knock.
"Hey, Kazuma, did you earn properly today? Any prospect of repaying the debt?"
Aqua's voice came from beyond the door.
"Shut up, I'm thinking about it right now."
"Geez! You just waste money! Pay back the debt properly!"
Aqua said that and stomped off.
Kazuma opened the status screen again.
"So this is my… only weapon, huh."
Just then, outside the window, the wind howled.
Kazuma looked up.
In the darkness outside the mansion. Beneath the moonlight, there were two figures.
One had crimson eyes glinting in the moonlight. The other, black robes fluttering, quietly vanished.
"…Must be my imagination."
Kazuma looked out the window, but no one was there.
Kazuma slipped under the covers.
The next morning.
In front of the guild's request boar
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