Kazuma Sato, a second-year high school student, accidentally introduces himself as a hero from another world on his first day at a new school. That night, the naked goddess Aqua falls through his ceiling. She was supposed to take Kazuma to a fantasy world, but due to a paperwork error, both have been reborn as modern Japanese high school students. The next day, Megumin, a chuunibyou girl, and Darkness, a masochistic lady, also turn out to be reincarnated from that same world.
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Blessings on This Wonderful School Life! - The Night Before the Culture Festival, Four Goddesses and a Letter of Confession
The after-school chime dissolved into the cold air.
The sky visible from the classroom window was covered in thick clouds. A heavy gray, looking ready to start raining at any moment.
I, Satou Kazuma, let out a deep sigh, still slumped over my desk.
Tomorrow was the culture festival. And yet, my head was a complete mess. Last night, Aqua had suddenly said, with a serious face:
"Kazuma, come to the rooftop after school tomorrow. I have something to talk to you about."
For that supremely confident water goddess to speak in a hushed voice, averting her eyes—something bad was definitely going on.
No, only bad things ever happened. That's been my entire life lately.
A goddess fell from the ceiling, a chuunibyou explosion maniac transferred in, a masochistic noble lady knight begged me, and the student council president turned out to be a lesser goddess. All of it, within these past few months.
My peaceful high school life had long since been shattered to pieces.
"……Hah."
Just as I let out yet another sigh—I'd lost count of how many—a familiar voice came from the seat behind me.
"Kazuma."
I turned around. A black eyepatch and a short bob with red inner highlights. Deep crimson eyes stared straight at me. Kurenai Megumin. The chuunibyou transfer student in my class who loved nothing but explosion magic.
"I, too, have something to discuss after school. The location is the rooftop."
"……You too, huh."
"What kind of reaction is that? I am personally setting aside precious time for you. You should feel honored."
She puffed out her chest with a "hmph." The red streaks mixed into her shoulder-length black hair caught the fluorescent light.
"More importantly, the rooftop's usually locked, right? Why are you assuming we can even get up there?"
"Do you not possess a spare key to the rooftop?"
"……How do you know that?"
"I know everything about you, Kazuma. For you are my fated comrade."
She said it with a straight face. Stop it. That's bad for my heart.
At that moment, there was a knock at the classroom entrance. I looked—wavy blonde hair. Blue eyes. A perfectly upright posture. Kirishima Lalatina-senpai. Commonly known as Darkness.
"Satou Kazuma-san. May I have a moment?"
She smiled sweetly. But behind that smile, I didn't miss how her eyes were strangely glistening. That was the look she got when she was thinking about something indecent.
"After school, I shall be waiting on the rooftop. You absolutely must come."
With just that, she turned on her heel and left. Her golden hair swirled softly through the hallway air.
"……That makes three."
I clutched my head. Something was definitely going on.
After school.
With heavy steps, I climbed the stairs leading to the school rooftop.
In my hand was a faded silver spare key I'd pulled from my pocket. I'd secretly duplicated it from the management office back when I first transferred, looking for a place to belong. Now it had become a hangout for me and the weirdos who clung to me.
I stood before the iron door. I placed my hand on the cold handle.
A creaking sound, like the hinges needed oiling, echoed out.
The moment I stepped onto the rooftop, cold wind blew into the collar of my uniform. In November, the sun set early over Hinami City. The sky was even darker than before, clouds hanging low and heavy.
And then.
I was speechless.
In the center of the rooftop—four people.
The water-blue-haired goddess, Aqua.
The black-caped explosion mage, Megumin.
The blonde noble lady knight, Darkness.
And the silver-haired student council president, Eris.
All of them stood at a distance from each other. They exchanged glances, fiercely keeping each other in check with their eyes alone.
Silence.
A heavy, almost painful silence enveloped the rooftop.
I swallowed hard. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead.
What the hell is this hellscape?
"……Why are all of you here?"
When I forced the words out, all four of them looked at me at once.
Aqua's blue eyes welled up with tears in an instant.
"Hey, Megumin! Why are you here?! I said I was going to talk to Kazuma alone!"
"That's my line! I fairly and squarely secured a promise to speak with Kazuma! Stop with these underhanded tricks!"
"Both of you are being unsightly. I have come, on my honor as a knight, to speak with Satou Kazuma-san about something important."
The three of them started arguing noisily. They were always loud, but today, beneath the clamor, there was a different, dangerous atmosphere in the air.
"……Everyone."
At that moment, Eris quietly opened her mouth.
Her voice was clear and cold. It had a strange power that instantly quelled the commotion.
"The reason you are all here is because of me."
The cold wind swept through her long, silver-tinged hair. Her deep violet eyes stared straight at me.
"I took the liberty of swapping the letters I delivered to each of you."
"Huh? Swapped?"
"Each of you had written a letter to Satou-kun. Originally, you were supposed to deliver them one by one, at different times, in different places."
Eris continued matter-of-factly.
"I rewrote all of your letters to say 'come to the rooftop at the same time' and delivered them."
"……Why would you do that?"
"Even if I do this, you will all resent me. But even so…… this is my way of settling things."
Eris gripped the hem of her skirt tightly. Her fingertips had gone white.
"Satou-kun. Each of you has been unable to acknowledge your feelings for him. So you were all trying to step aside.…… Thinking that if you disappeared, no one would get hurt."
"Step…… aside?"
"All four of you reached the same conclusion. That there was someone else, more suitable for him. To end this situation, to end these feelings, you intended to ask him to 'not choose you.'"
At Eris's words, the three of them froze in place.
Aqua's wide-open eyes began spilling tears, one after another.
"No…… that's not it, Kazuma.…… But, I've caused you so much trouble. The debt, the hole in the ceiling, it's all my fault. So I thought…… if I disappeared, you could be happy. That's what I thought."
"I felt the same. I am only binding Kazuma's life as a comrade of the Explosion Path. If I stayed by his side, he would be dragged into my explosions and suffer nothing but trouble. That is what I came to believe."
Megumin's crimson eyes wavered as she squeezed out the words, looking pained.
"I as well. As a knight, I would be clouding the future of my lord. That must never happen.…… I resolved to push these feelings deep into my chest and step aside as a knight."
Darkness, completely unlike her usual blissful demeanor, stared at me with a serious expression.
The tears and anguish of the three of them made the air on the rooftop heavier and heavier.
"……Even so."
My voice came out colder and lower than even I expected.
"Even so, you all just decided on your own to step aside, to say 'don't choose me'…… did any of you even ask me a single thing?"
All four of them flinched.
I slowly looked across their faces.
"Eris said it earlier. That all four of you reached the same conclusion.…… That if you disappeared, no one would get hurt."
"……Because—"
"Don't 'because' me."
I cut Aqua's words off sharply.
"Are all of you idiots?!"
I shouted. Emotion exploded from the depths of my throat.
"Choose one person? There's no way I could do that!"
"……Kazuma."
"You're all going to disappear? Step aside? Don't screw with me!"
A cold wind blew through.
"If all of you disappear, I'll be alone again! That's what scares me the most!"
I could tell my own voice was trembling.
"Back in middle school…… I became afraid to trust anyone. I hoped, got betrayed, got laughed at…… so I shut the lid on my heart and decided I'd never expect anything from anyone again."
The four of them listened quietly to my words.
"But after I started living with all of you…… every day is noisy, I get dragged around, my stomach's always in knots—"
The words kept pouring out.
"……But it was fun. You all wait for me to come home. You eat the food I make and say it's good. You laugh at my retorts.…… That alone…… was enough."
My vision blurred.
Damn it. I'm a guy. This is pathetic.
"So…… I'll make all of you happy, all together! I won't let anyone step aside! If I don't have to choose, then all five of us can just stay together!"
I said it all.
Silence.
Only the sound of the cold wind on the rooftop could be heard.
And then.
A loud wail.
Aqua crouched down and burst into loud sobs.
"Uwaaaah! Kazumaaa!"
"S-sniff…… I am…… I am……"
Megumin was also crying, tears streaming from under her eyepatch.
"Kazuma-san…… how much do you intend to reassure me before you're satisfied……"
Darkness covered her face, sobbing.
And Eris.
She was quietly smiling.
Her deep violet-silver eyes brimming with tears.
"……Everyone is right."
She pulled four letters from her pocket.
"I swapped them and kept them. The originals should still be with each of you. But…… it no longer matters either way. Satou-kun has already learned the contents of all our letters."
Eris confessed that she, too, had written the same kind of letter.
"I was torn between my duty as a goddess and my feelings for you. The very fact of my being near you would destroy the bond between the four of you.…… That is what I believed."
"……You too, huh."
I gave a bitter smile.
"Seriously…… four against one, trying to test me, huh.…… Bring it on."
I snatched the four letters from Eris's hand.
"I'm reading these."
I tore them open all at once and unfolded the contents.
Each letter was densely written—some in skilled handwriting, some in rounded characters.
They really were all the same kind of content.
"Kazuma would be happier with a proper, cute girl who can cook, not someone like me."
"It pains me to force my obsession with explosions upon you. As your comrade, I wish to free Kazuma's future."
"As a knight, I must not stain the path my lord walks. Please forget about me."
"My existence will destroy the relationship between you and everyone else. That, more than anything, terrifies me."
I crumpled the letters in my fist.
"……All of you are idiots."
I muttered quietly.
"Me, choose someone? There's no way I could choose.…… I want to be needed by all of you. For the first time, I felt like I wanted to be needed.…… Thanks to all of you."
A single tear ran down my cheek.
"So…… don't destroy this relationship the five of us have.…… I'll protect it. I definitely will."
The moment I finished speaking.
Aqua threw herself at me.
"Kazumaa! I-I don't want to be apart from you either……! I-I'm sorry for writing that letter, I'm so sorry……!"
"I as well! To unilaterally step aside—I was a disgrace to the Explosion Path!…… But I will speak my true feelings too. I want to stay with Kazuma!"
"I-I as well……! I say this as a knight. I wish to be Satou Kazuma-sama's sword and shield.…… Please, let me stay by your side……!"
The three of them clung to me.
Water-blue hair, a black cloak, and blonde hair soaked my uniform with tears.
"……Hey! You're all heavy! Hot! Get off me! And Darkness, stop looking so alive! Stop pressing your chest against my back!"
When I shouted, the three of them burst out laughing through their tear-streaked faces.
"……Ehehe."
"Fuhah, and from Kazuma, of all people."
"Yes…… I am so happy……"
And then Eris gently placed her hand on my head.
"……Satou-kun. You really are too kind."
Her voice was as clear as ever, but terribly warm.
"May I…… join in as well?"
She smiled mischievously.
That night.
My home—a twenty-year-old detached house in Sakura-dai 2-chome, Hinami City.
Five shadows flickered in the living room.
"Now then! I hereby declare the opening of the First Satou Household 'Farewell Ceremony'—or rather, the 'Let's All Be Happy Together Party'!"
Aqua declared loudly, splashing water from the cup in her hand.
"It's a form of water artistry! As expected of me!…… How was that, Kazuma? Wasn't it beautiful?"
"Wipe it up! The floor's soaking wet! And that wate
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