"I didn't expect it to be two penniless guys, not even a single penny on them! Wasting our time! Get lost!"
Amid the cursing voices of three thugs, the two with bruised faces left the box.
Luckily, Aqua, as a goddess, had basic healing abilities, which restored their faces to a state that wouldn't scare children.
"Hey, aren't you a goddess? How come no one even knows your followers' church?"
Kazuma asked, touching his face.
"I don't know what's going on! This doesn't seem like the original world!"
Aqua said, scratching her head, looking like a duck with a broken brain.
"What do you mean it's not the original world?"
"Originally, you were supposed to be sent to a world to defeat the demon king, but something went wrong somewhere... This isn't the world we planned to go to!"
"Ha? As a goddess, what good are you?"
"Hey, isn't it because you forced me to come here? Maybe that's why something went wrong! And I'm not even sure!"
Kazuma and Aqua bickered, and his hand instinctively reached into his pocket.
"Huh?"
He felt something strange and took it out.
"Adventurer card? I didn't have this before, and those three thugs didn't find it either?"
It was a card that looked as thin as a cicada's wing, but it had Satou Kazuma's name on it, as well as various stats, similar to a character panel in a game.
"Oh, I think I have one too?"
Aqua also found a card on her person.
"According to the game's flow, we should have registered at the adventurer's guild first before getting this – I get it, no wonder those three thugs said they hadn't heard of it, it turns out they skipped the process of going to the adventurer's guild for us! Looks like we still have to embark on an adventure!"
Kazuma's face was full of anticipation, his eyes scanning the stats on the card.
"As a hero, these stats must be pretty good, right? Let's see yours–"
Kazuma immediately turned his gaze to the adventurer card in Aqua's hand.
Except for intelligence and luck, all of her stats were crushing his.
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Kazuma pretended not to see anything and silently turned his head away.
"Hey, what are my stats like? What are yours?"
Aqua asked curiously, but Kazuma pretended not to hear and turned his back to her, humming a little tune nonchalantly.
'Why are this useless goddess's stats so much higher than mine? Why, why, why!?'
Kazuma gritted his teeth as he looked at the card in his hand, and at this moment, his eyes caught a new change.
[Skill Points: 1]
[You will receive skill points when you level up, which can be used to learn skills]
[You can gain experience points by doing anything. The skills you can learn are related to the area of activity, for example: if you do stealing, parkour, lockpicking, etc., you will unlock thief class skills after leveling up]
[Initial skills will be randomly assigned based on the adventurer's own attributes, status, and surrounding environment]
"Finally, here it comes! The moment to unleash my inner terrifying potential!"
Kazuma eagerly chose to use his skill point to level up.
[Learned Skill: Steal, a thief-type skill that randomly steals an item from the opponent]
"The first random skill is Steal? Although it's not bad to develop in the thief direction, isn't this skill a little too ordinary?"
Kazuma muttered to himself, but since he had finally unlocked a new skill, he naturally wanted to try it out.
He turned slightly, looked at Aqua who was also studying her card, and raised his hand.
"Steal—"
But just as Kazuma activated his ability, a figure rushed past him like the wind.
Golden short hair, fiery red eyes, a petite figure with the nimbleness of a wildcat, it was a girl from another world that Kazuma had never seen before.
"Excuse me!"
The girl shouted and sped past Kazuma, her speed far exceeding that of ordinary people.
However, in that moment of less than a second, she became the target of Kazuma's Steal.
A pair of white panties appeared in Kazuma's hand.
"Huh?"
Kazuma was a little stunned as he looked at the mini panties in his hand, but a lewd smile quickly appeared on his face.
In the distance, the girl who had just flashed by stopped, her body trembled, and she turned her head to look at Kazuma, just in time to see the panties in his hand. She slightly pulled down her waistband and glanced down—
The panties that should have been under her shorts were gone.
"You jerk!"
Her face was flushed red, but she still let out a powerful shout.
"That..."
Before Kazuma could react, the girl's flying kick hit him directly in the face, making his face dent in like flattened rice cake.
The girl grabbed her panties back and left again like the wind, but her steps seemed a little more awkward than before.
"Hey, Kazuma, are you still alive?"
Aqua quickly leaned over and looked at Kazuma on the ground, a clear shoe print on his face.
She wanted to use healing magic to wake Kazuma up, but found that she couldn't cast it.
"Weird... why is my power..."
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Satou Kazuma to get up from the ground on his own.
"My head is spinning... what just happened?"
"Kazuma, I'm hungry, is there anything to eat!"
"Now that you mention it, I'm hungry too. I haven't tasted the food of this other world yet! Let's go, let's wander around and find out about the demon king! We're finally embarking on the hero's path!"
Satou Kazuma said immediately after regaining his senses. Everything that had just happened was just a small interlude, and he took Aqua through the streets of the city, asking about the world around them.
Until evening, they found a nice-looking restaurant and ordered a hearty lunch.
"It's strange, after asking for so long, why is there no demon king in this world? Although the world we were sent to is different, there should still be a demon king, otherwise how will we go back!"
Aqua lay limply on the table, her eyes filled with despair, but she still reached out and stuffed a chicken leg into her mouth, her cheeks puffed out.
Only by defeating the demon king could they leave this world.
But if there was no demon king, wouldn't they be stuck here?