“Create Water! Create Water! Create Water!!” “Hrrgh! Yargh!” At my direction, spell-casters all over the square began chanting.

Even with buckets of water spilling over his head, Beldia kept dodging our downpours.

Damn! We’d finally figured out his weakness, but we couldn’t hit him!

| could see the other magic-users growing fatigued. At this rate, we’d all run out of MP before we ever landed a drop on Beldia.

That was when | heard it.

“Hey, what’s going on here? Why are you all having a water fight with the Demon King’s general? Here | am actually working for once, and | come back to find you playing games? What kind of idiot are you, Kazuma?”

Sometimes | could just smack her.

Aqua had reappeared from wherever she’d gone and was now trotting through the crowd with her ridiculous complaining as the rest of us desperately cast water magic.

“Water—! His weakness is water! You may just barely qualify at the very bottom of the scale, but you are a water goddess, aren’t you? A goddess, right? Even if you’re a dumb one? Well, how about some damn water already?!”

“You know, you are in for some divine retribution one of these days, you ingrate! I’m not just barely qualified or at the very bottom of the scale or dumb or anything—l’m a bona fide celestial being! Water? You want water? Hal! | could make a flood that would put your little dribbles to shame! But you have to apologize for calling me all those mean things!”

Could she really do that? Well, why wasn’t she doing it already?!

“I'll apologize a million times if you want—later! If you’ve got a flood in you, then let it out, you useless goddess!”

“Waaaaah! How can you call me a useless goddess? Just you watch! I’ll show

|”

you what a goddess is good for l’d put out the bait, and she’d swallowed it. Aqua took a step forward. A mist began to swirl around her. Huh? “You poor fools! You think your little cloudbursts could ever—Hmm?” Beldia stopped dead when he saw Aqua.

That’s a Demon King general for you: | guess he could tell that whatever Aqua was doing was bad news.

Then again, all the spell-casters nearby were warily looking at her, too.

Aqua was muttering to herself, oblivious to the looks of everyone around her. “O my followers in this world...”

The mist around her began to bead into droplets of water.

| could feel each of them take in a bit of magic.

“..Aqua, goddess of water, commands you...”

..| had a bad feeling about this. Something about the way the air all around us seemed to tremble.

It reminded me of the feeling in the air just before Megumin let off an explosion.

Meaning Aqua had something just as powerful, and just as dangerous, up her sleeve...!

Beldia obviously had the same sense of foreboding | did.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he turned his back on Aqua and began to run. ...But he stopped when he saw Darkness in front of him.

Aqua brought her hands together.

“Sacred Create Water!!”

And then the floodgates opened.