Chapter 17: Trouble

"Exalted Mage! Please accept me as your disciple!"

After witnessing the extremely outrageous explosion magic, Megumin immediately changed her wary and disgusted attitude she had when she regarded Sato Hikaru as a dangerous person and was now shamelessly pestering him to learn his 'explosion path'.

"Please!"

"I've told you there is no such thing!"

Seeing his clearly exhausted magic power that he could only lay on the ground, a certain evil loli was still unwilling to give up and continued to cling to his thigh, Sato Hikaru suddenly felt a little regretful.

Although the feeling of releasing the explosion magic was fun and enjoyable, he never thought that afterwards, he would be entangled with this loli.

But looking at Megumin's current appearance, he knew that unless he gave an answer today, she would never let him go.

So after he left behind two footprints on Megumin's face and yet still unable to get rid of her, in the end, Sato Hikaru could only sighed helplessly.

"Additionally, do you think the current you who immediately fell to the ground after releasing the explosion magic can learn my magic even if I am willing to teach you?"

"Ah..."

Megumin, who previously refused to let go suddenly froze, then finally reacted and looked up at Sato Hikaru: "Wait a minute! Why hasn't your magic power been exhausted?"

When Megumin spoke, her face was as if she had just seen a ghost: "Didn't you just register yesterday, and your profession is an adventurer? When did you learn explosion magic? And this kind of magical power..."

"Hmph, how can an ordinary person like you comprehend the power of a chosen hero!"

"Chosen hero!? Could it be that you are the legendary hero, who was summoned from another world, to save the world whenever the world faced a threat of destruction?"

Megumin was truly worthy of being the top student from the Crimson Demon clan.

Sato Hikaru casually threw out a setting which was immediately picked up and was even promoted by a few levels.

The harmonious scene made Yunyun, who was at the side, to be very jealous, but she did not know how to join in due to her inner resistance to chuuni behavior.

"Hm!?"

Just when Sato Hikaru and Megumin were perfecting the 'chosen hero' chuuni setting.

Suddenly, there was a dazzling light that shot towards the sky, attracting all of their attention.

"This light...what a terrifying magical power."

"And it was all pure holy power, is there an angel descending?"

As an archwizards, Megumin and Yunyun were very sensitive to energy and immediately obtained information from the faint energy fluctuations.

As for Sato Hikaru who was boasting with Megumin just now, his expression suddenly froze when he heard the terms 'terrifying magic power", "holy energy", and "angel's descent".

Fragments of memories quickly passed through his mind.

From when he and Aqua arrived at the guild to Aqua's departure after accepting a high-level mission, as well as his release of explosion magic towards the monster that escaped from the forest…

If he did not remember incorrectly…

The mission Aqua took today was to [defeat the griffon].

The monster that escaped from the forest seemed to be a monster with an eagle head, lion body and wings on its back.

And this kind of monster was generally called … griffon.

"It's that guy again!"

Combining the above information, the culprit was immediately found.

He could even imagine the elated Aqua, who overestimated herself, subjugating the griffon.

And in the end, she not only failed to subjugate the griffon but even angered the griffon and was chased all over the forest.

The sudden appearance of the high-level monster in the forest triggered the instinctive fleeing reactions from those weak monsters which eventually turned into a beast tide.

In the end, because Aqua wanted to escape back to the city, she unwittingly led the griffon to drive the monster towards the city…

Thinking of this, Sato Hikaru looked towards the forest and beast tide wiped out by his explosion magic and breathed out a long sigh.

"Should I say that Aqua has good or bad luck? If not because of me and Megumin being here, each releasing explosion magic to deal with the beast tide, with the leftover monsters scattered to other directions, just for leading a monster into the city is sufficient to land that goddess in jail..."

By the side, Yunyun, who noticed that Sato Hikaru looked strange after seeing the light pillar and also murmured something, asked curiously: "Mr. Sato, do you know what was going on over there?"

"Ah...I can probably guess a bit. If my guess is correct, then the problem has been solved..."

Grinning, Sato Hikaru did not choose to tell her his guess. Instead, he glanced at Megumin who was on the ground, and used telekinesis to lift her by the back collar and greeted Yunyun.

"But since that idiot even used this level of holy magic, there is a big probability that she will cause more trouble. To prevent affecting Axel, it is better for us to go and have a look."