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Of course, for Emiya, it was never really about the money or experience.
It was about skill points.
After learning Abnormality Status Resistance, Magic Resistance, and Physical Resistance from Darkness a few days ago, he had spent most of what he had accumulated.
Now, after leveling up several times in a row, his skill points were replenished.
That alone was enough to put him in a good mood.
With skill points, he could learn more skills. And there was no downside to having too many.
On the other hand, after the cabbage harvest quest ended successfully, the entire town was flooded with cabbage dishes.
When Emiya returned to the Adventurers' Guild, he naturally didn't miss the chance to eat some.
After taking a bite of the Guild's stir-fried cabbage, he couldn't help but comment, "Delicious."
It was, without question, the best cabbage he had ever eaten.
"It's good, but I still don't get it," Kazuma said, looking completely worn out.
"Why is cabbage this tasty? I really don't understand."
He hadn't come to a fantasy world to fight cabbages.
No one paid attention to him.
Aqua, in particular, was sitting across from Emiya, staring at him with a gaze so intense it felt like it was glowing.
It made him uncomfortable.
"...Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Hey, hey," Aqua leaned forward. "You made a lot of money from this cabbage hunt, right?"
She had clearly seen the amount Emiya collected.
Emiya nodded. "I did."
"How much?" Megumin asked immediately.
"I'm not sure. Probably tens of millions of Eris."
"Tens... tens of millions?" Megumin's eyes instantly turned into currency symbols.
For someone who had grown up poor and barely had enough to eat at school, that number was overwhelming.
Even Darkness looked shocked.
Even her noble family might not be able to casually produce that much.
Aqua suddenly became extremely clingy. "Hey, Emiya. We're a party, right?"
Emiya nodded. "We are."
"And we finished the quest together, right?"
"So?"
"Then we split the reward, right?" Aqua finally revealed her true goal, her eyes shining with desire.
If she had said that to Kazuma, he would've immediately told her to dream on.
Emiya, however, simply nodded. "Sure."
To be honest, tens of millions of Eris was a huge sum, but he didn't care much about it. Even giving it all to Aqua wouldn't bother him.
"Hey, Emiya-san, you're spoiling Aqua too much," Kazuma warned.
"She'll definitely take advantage of you."
Emiya smiled. "It's fine. I don't mind."
It wasn't really spoiling her.
Aqua had been a genuine benefactor to him.
Just the Fantasy Creation skill alone was priceless. Not tens of millions. Not even hundreds of millions could buy it.
And Aqua had given it to him.
Because of that, he had no problem indulging her.
Kazuma's words, however, completely set Aqua off.
"You useless man, shut up! This has nothing to do with you!"
"What did you say, you useless goddess?" Kazuma shot back without hesitation.
The argument started instantly.
Emiya was already used to it.
If the two of them didn't bicker for a day, they felt uncomfortable. He ignored them and quietly continued eating his cabbage.
Megumin and Darkness were also long accustomed to these daily fights.
They weren't worried in the slightest and made no effort to stop it.
If anything, they added fuel to the fire, as if worried the argument wasn't loud enough.
Emiya sighed.
It was going to be a lively day.
A day or two later, after finishing another round of monster subjugation, Emiya's party returned to the Adventurers' Guild.
They sat in a corner of the bar-like guild hall, resting and gathering information.
In the Adventurers' Guild, information gathering was part of the job.
A surprising number of people chatted here, and if you listened carefully, you could overhear all kinds of useful things.
Where dangerous monsters had appeared.
Which missions should be avoided for now.
Or even that certain monsters hated the smell of citrus juice and wouldn't approach you if you rubbed it on your body.
All of it was information bought with blood.
Emiya sometimes came here specifically to listen in, but today, he heard something unexpected.
"Did you hear?" a man said loudly, already drinking in the middle of the day.
"I heard one of the Demon King's army executives has taken over an old castle. It's just up the hills outside town."
Emiya froze.
A Demon King's army executive.
If he remembered correctly, that could only be one person.
The headless knight.
There were eight executives in the Demon King's army. One of them was the headless knight, Verdia.
He had once been a knight in life.
After being unjustly executed and beheaded, his resentment turned him into a headless knight.
Later, he joined the Demon King's army and became one of its eight executives.
His swordsmanship was among the best in the army.
In battle, he could throw his head into the air to gain a top-down view of the battlefield, leaving his body with no blind spots.
He was also proficient in Death Curse.
The armor he wore, a gift from the Demon King, could resist holy magic such as exorcism.
Of course, he wasn't without weaknesses.
Water was one.
And the head itself was another. When he held it, his body was completely controlled by it.
As for why someone like that would appear near Axel, a beginner town-
That was because of Aqua.
When Aqua was dragged down from the heavens by Kazuma, the Demon King's army observed a beam of holy light descending onto Axel.
That light had been Aqua.
The Demon King didn't know what it was, but it made him uneasy.
So he sent the headless knight to investigate.
Verdia was then ordered to station himself and his subordinates in an abandoned castle near Axel.
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