I like traveling the most

"Welcome back, how's it going?"

“Not too optimistic.

When they returned to the hotel, Wiz greeted them and explained to her what had happened.

Having used the power of the nobles to spread the wanted list, there is only so much that can be done.

"This is the stage where we have to do our best and let fate." Sato Kazuma sighed helplessly, and then said unhappily: "Hey, you guys! Do you understand that people who travel together must take a bath together? It happens to be tomorrow. We’re back, let’s all take a dip together before we can do business.”

"What is that? I've never heard of such a practice."

"This is a common custom. How could you have heard of it, young lady?"

"Hey, is there really such a rule?"

Darkness asked Megumin next to her unconvincingly, and the little Lolita answered "How is that possible?" The angry female knight therefore punched the obscene Kazuma hard, making him depressed and then covered his abdomen and knelt down. On the ground.

While everyone was making noise, someone knocked on the door of the room frantically.

"Come, come, who is it?"

Aqua opened the door.

What came into view was the counter clerk who had just been at the Adventurer's Guild, asking for help to spread the wanted list. He was holding on to the door frame and gasping for air. He was sweating profusely and seemed to be sprinting over with all his strength.

Despite having a bad premonition, Sato Kazuma still asked:

"What, what's wrong?"

"Something is going wrong! The hot springs...the hot springs in the town are spewing polluted hot water one after another."

This is not good news.

After Aqua heard about this, she ran out like crazy.

I guess I wanted to purify the hot springs.

Under the worried eyes of others, Xiao Lin took the initiative to catch up, and then spent another night in the hot springs.

The next morning.

Everyone who wanted to discuss gathered together again.

The stupid goddess who had been thinking about the hot springs all day was the first to speak: "I think there should be something wrong with the source."

The emergence of polluted hot springs seemed to be temporary, and it stopped immediately after a while, as if someone was conducting an experiment.

"The source? I remember it was on the hill behind the church."

That church is the headquarters of the Axis Cult, and there is a mountain behind the church. On the mountain is the source of the hot springs, the town's source of wealth.

Of course, the source is strictly controlled, so it shouldn't be that easy to break in there.

However, the exception is that Black Hand is the Demon King's Army.

Thinking about it carefully, it would be a lot of trouble to poison the hot springs one by one, and the time would not be right. It would be easier and faster to mix the poison at the source.

Wiz frowned and mused: "The problem is how the prisoner broke in there."

"There are as many methods as you want! For the Demon King's Army who should be living in a dark corner, the important thing is not how they did it, but the fact that they did it!" Aqua slapped the table and shouted: "Based on this... Everyone, please help me!"

"Okay, let's go to the source."

The group of people set off in a mighty manner.

To the left of the cathedral of the headquarters of the Axis Order is a huge lake, which is also the water source of this town.

Behind the church, there is a mountain with hot springs gushing out.

As expected, there were people guarding the road leading to the source of the hot springs, and they were members of the knights of this town.

Then, as expected, they were stopped. ׺°”˜`”°º× ׺°”˜`”°º×

"I am the high priest of the Axis Cult! Look at this! Just look at my adventurer card carefully and you will know!"

"Sorry, even if you are the high priest of the Axis Cult, we can't let you move on."

"Only the administrator can enter."

In the end, it was rejected as expected.

No matter what Aqua, who took out the card to prove herself, said, the members of the Knights guarding here would not allow them to pass.

In addition, there is likely to be a battle next, and Sato Kazuma and others are fully armed. This must be one of the reasons why the members of the Knights are suspicious.

Aqua made her final struggle.

"You, devout Axis believers...please listen to me. This is what must be done and is the right behavior."

"Sorry, we are Eris believers."

"Why!"

It must be puzzling to the stupid goddess that the Eris cultists are here.

Coming to work at the opponent's base camp, could it be that he has the same special quirk as the perverted female knight... It doesn't look like that.

"Do you know who this is?!"

When the idiot goddess was arguing with the knights, Yuyu and Megumin took Darkness out of the fight.

Sato Kazuma shouted: "This is the daughter of the great noble Dustinis family, Miss Dustinis Ford Lalatina! This matter is very urgent and very important to the town! We It’s because of the order of the eldest lady that I came to investigate like this!”

"This is indeed an emergency, but we cannot exercise power like this..."

He said this, but his attitude has softened.

Just like a person who refuses to let go in bed, he will actually let it go as long as he exerts the slightest force.

And what is needed——

"Please see, are you willing to let me go?"

"Please forgive us for our rudeness!" X2

The members of the Knights quickly made way.

What is displayed is just a necklace.

When Huihui saw their sudden change of attitude, she seemed to feel quite relieved and said, "Can you lend me this for a while?"

"Of course not, give it back to me!"

Darkness snatched the necklace back.

The little Loli's shoulders slumped after losing her toy, and her upright good friend took advantage of the situation to lecture her.

Although the process was quite bumpy, at least I was able to move on.

The next thing to do is climb the mountain.

Pushing through the overgrown grass and trees, we walked on the steep mountain road with snow everywhere.

I originally thought that the mountain where the hot springs gushed out would be covered in sulfur and barren of grass, but it turned out to be like this.

Besides, it’s rare to take a trip to a hot spring, so why do you need to climb a mountain?

"But after walking for so long, why didn't you encounter any monsters?"

As they were going up the mountain, the knight guarding the gate told them that they would encounter monsters on the way and asked them to be careful.

But after walking for such a long time, there was very little breath from living creatures, let alone monsters.

An uneasy atmosphere was created.

"Okay, okay, don't scare yourself, just move forward quickly."

"Oh, oh... Aqua is right, why are you scaring yourself?"

The two of them walked towards the top of the mountain singing in harmony, but the speed was much faster than before.

It's a long way to the top.

Just looking at it with the naked eye, it feels further than Kratos's journey to the snowy mountains.

Fortunately, they won't go wrong.

In order to transport the hot springs from the source to the town, the Axis Cult built six huge water pipes on the mountain. If you want to get to the source, just follow the water pipe.

But walking on a mountain road with residual snow is quite physically demanding.

Gradually, Sato Kazuma came up with the idea of ​​​​being lazy.

"Senior Xiaolin, do you have any convenient ability that can take us to the top of the mountain in a snap?"

"Hmm... No. If you want to reach the top of the mountain instantly, you need teleportation, but whether it is magic or Teigu, you need to set the coordinates in advance. And I have never been to the top of the mountain, so I can't go there in an instant. ”

"What, it's really useless."

"……anger."

Originally a good boy, he hung out with problem children for a long time, which led to him becoming arrogant and even daring to say so to himself.

A little angry.

"Sato-kun, I'm sorry that you are already tired. But please look at the others. Even Megumin, who has the weakest physical strength, can't keep up. Isn't it a bit too much? In addition, the level of the adventurer is the lowest. It's easy to improve, but even so, you are still the lowest level in the team, and you should have the blessing of grace, and your proficiency should be constantly updated, so you should be much better than the average adventurer. However, you are still complaining about being tired now... you are really. It’s laziness.”

"I'm sorry! I was wrong!"

Kazuma Sato immediately apologized.

Kneeling was so straightforward that Xiao Lin lost interest in saying anything more.

No wonder people from the island country like to kneel down. It turns out there is another reason for this.

Seeing that Kobayashi was no longer angry, Sato Kazuma quickly climbed up, patting the dust on his body, selectively ignoring the disdainful looks cast by others.

When it comes to who is the most shameless Axel, no one dares to rank him second.

→

"Come, let me carry you."

"No need, Senior Xiaolin!"

"Or do you like princess hugs?"

"...Please use the one on your back, thank you."

In order to save time, Kobayashi carried Sato Kazuma on his back and continued climbing. But after I put it on my back, I realized how embarrassing it was.

"I never thought I would have to carry a man on my back one day."

"I didn't expect to be carried by a man..."

Sato Kazuma was also a little shy.

For a man known for being a devil, this kind of emotion shouldn't be appropriate.

"Speaking of which, Senior Xiaolin, you were really scary just now."

"Scary?"

"Well, whether it's his demeanor or tone, there is a sense of suppressed madness. Being stared at by those eyes is very stressful."

"Well...it's actually an imitation."

The target of imitation is naturally the lazy Archbishop.

But Kazuma Sato had a blank expression on his face.

Speaking of which, after I came back, I didn't tell them the story of the other world. I left a sentence of "We'll talk about it when we get back. Now let's concentrate" and ended the conversation.

Another walk.

Suddenly I came to the end of a water pipe, and in front of the water pipe was the source of hot springs that kept emerging.

It's just that the hot springs here are black.

"This is poisonous!" Aqua shouted, putting her hand in: "It's so hot——! Wow! It's so hot, so hot, so hot, I'm going to get burned!!!"

"You idiot, how could anyone put their hand into the source? Take your hand out quickly!"

"B-but...! It's so hot, so hot!"

Even though she kept crying, Aqua still didn't withdraw her hand from the dark and turbid source.

I really risked my life to purify the source.

Xiao Lin quickly cast freezing magic on her hand, and while it was cooled down, the stupid goddess still endured the hot source to purify it, and did not stop until it became as transparent as water.

"That's fine. But it's not that simple to purify the inside of the water pipe, so the source may have to wait a long time before it can be used again."

After completing the purification of the hot spring, Aqua healed her scalded hand. She, who was usually as excited as an idiot, became dejected and very sad.

It has been confirmed that someone is poisoning.

Soon regaining their strength, the group headed towards the top of the mountain. On the way, we passed other sources connected to water pipes, and of course they were all contaminated, and Aqua purified them one by one.

Six water pipes purified four.

Like the previous water pipe, it will take a long time before it can be used again.

At this time, we have almost reached the top of the mountain.

Just when everyone was wondering if there was really anyone here, a figure appeared on the open ground, and he was the man they met in the bathhouse.

"Look."

Sato Kazuma signaled others to be quiet and pointed forward, telling others that the wanted guy was there.

"Hey, isn't he poisoning me?"

The excited Aqua rushed over, and the rest had no choice but to follow.

At the same time, the other party also discovered Aqua.

When Aqua ran over, the man asked with a strange look on his face: "What do you guys do? Only the hot spring administrators can come in here. How did you get in?"

"What are you pretending to be?"

Hearing the man's nonchalant question, Aqua pointed at him and shouted, "You dare to ruin the hot springs in this town! We are here to deal with you, wake up!"

"Um... I don't understand what you are talking about. Otherwise, you can check the things I bring here immediately to ensure that you can't find poison... medicine...?"

The man's voice was originally full of confidence, but gradually became quieter and quieter.

And in front of his sight.

Wiz touched his chin with his hand, stared at the man and muttered, "Well...who is this? I should have seen this gentleman before..."

Seeing this, the man quickly turned around and said: "Anyway, in short, I came to investigate because of the commotion, so..."

"Ah, it's Mr. Hans! You must be Mr. Hans!"

When the man was vague, Wiz suddenly shouted: "Long time no see, it's me, I'm Wiz, Mr. Hans!"

"Han, who is Hans? I'm just the manager of the hot spring..."

The man who was constantly being called Hans tried to pass it off with a trembling voice, but Wiz didn't care about his situation and continued to talk to Hans as if he was missing him.

"I don't know what you are talking about. All in all, I don't carry any poison on my body. You have no evidence..."

"Ah, speaking of poison, Mr. Hans must be a mutant of the deadly poisonous slime! Could it be that Mr. Hans poisoned the source?"

Not only his name, but also his race was revealed. The deadly poisonous slime named Hans is already sweating profusely.

However, Wiz still moved closer unconsciously.

"Mr. Hans, why have you been ignoring me since just now? It's me, Wiz. So, Mr. Hans can also mimic. Are you able to come here because you mimicked the hot spring manager? Mr. Hans?"

"Wait, wait a minute, don't be like this, I don't know you at all."

Despite his shoulders being constantly shaken, the man just refused to admit that he was Hans, or that he was the one who poisoned him.

"Yes, yes, I have urgent matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave now... Could you please get out of the way?"

Seeing that something was not going well, he prepared to run away.

However--

"Where do you want to go, Hans."

"Don't even think about passing, Hans."

"Do you think anyone would believe it, Hans?"

"A lame lie, Hans."

"Stop struggling, it's time to reveal your true identity, Hans."

"You want to say, I'm not a bad slime, Hans."

Six people stood in front of him.

"Hans Hans Hans...don't call me by my name casually! And what's going on with the last one? Are you deliberately disgusting me?!"

The irritated Hans cursed with a distorted expression. Showing his true nature, he shouted at Wiz: "Why is Wiz here! Didn't you say you were going to find a town to open a store after leaving Demon King City? Then why are you here? Let’s hang out in the hot spring town and get back to work!”

"Okay, that's too much. I work hard! I don't know why I'm getting poorer, but I work hard every day!" Wiz loudly defended his unique talent.

But now is not the time to worry about that.

"Wiz, I remember that you don't assist the Demon King's army except for being responsible for the Demon King's castle barrier, but why on earth are you trying to hinder me?"

"Am I in the way of Mr. Hans? I just wanted to say hello because I haven't seen Mr. Hans for a long time..."

"That's a hindrance!"

I really don’t know if she was born with a lack of strength or if she did it on purpose. Hans put on a show after his identity was exposed.

"Wiz, what are you going to do? Are you going to fight me, or are you going to let me go?"

It seemed that Wiz was the only one he was wary of.

Wiz quickly said: "Why is this, Mr. Hans, they are all my friends, so can we have a good talk..."

"Let's talk about it? Hahaha, after you turned into a lich, you became a mother-in-law. When you were still the great magister and kept hunting us, you wouldn't say anything like having a good talk at all. ”

"Well...I didn't know how to look forward and backward at that time..." As she said that, the Lich Girl started to squirm shyly.

Sato Kazuma couldn't stand it anymore, so he stepped forward and said, "Wiz, he's your acquaintance, right? If you don't want to fight, just retreat. My name is Sato Kazuma, and I'm a man who has fought many powerful enemies. Whether you're from the Demon King's Army or something else, I'll defeat you."

"You didn't back down at all in the face of me. I see, it seems you're not bluffing."

Hans got interested, and said with wide eyes, "A mere adventurer dared to challenge me. I haven't encountered such a thing for a long time! Everyone knelt down and begged for forgiveness when they saw my true nature. It seems that you have a lot of backbone."

What are you talking about, a mere slime.

Just as Sato Kazuma was disdainful, Hans opened his arms and shouted, "My name is Hans, a cadre of the Demon King's Army, a mutant of the deadly poisonous slime, Hans!"

"...What did he just say?"

Sato Kazuma seemed to have heard the words of the Demon King's Army cadre, and Wiz's explanation came at the right time.

"Mr. Kazuma! Mr. Hans is one of the most rewarded officers in the Demon King's army. He is very strong, so be careful!"

When Hans became complete and appeared in a huge body, Sato Kazuma shouted in despair:

"--You call this a slime?!"