Chapter 137: Acrobat / Circus Performer

Broly has met quite a few wives, but Darkness is definitely the strangest among them.

Because her Happiness Value rises in a way very different from others, she seems to like being ordered around forcefully.

"Hey, Darkness, go pour me a cup of water. Also, help Bathing Master Marianne wipe the floor of the house once."

At Marianne's home, Broly ordered Darkness to do chores; the knight girl showed a shameful yet indignant expression, but still obeyed and set to work.

"Hey hey hey, Aqua, how did this kid Broly suddenly turn into someone who bosses others around like this?"

The two people she had taken in suddenly brought another girl to her house and started ordering the supposed Crusader to do all sorts of odd jobs around her place; no matter how you looked at it, it was a rather abnormal situation. Marianne held back, but finally couldn't help herself and asked Aqua.

"This is Broly's new friend. I heard she feels happy when ordered to do work, so she became like this."

Aqua sighed; she felt her Disciple seemed to have been corrupted.

"How could anyone feel happy being ordered to do work? You're an unqualified master; let me educate your Disciple for you."

Marianne felt she couldn't let Broly become a bad kid who bullies friends like this, and decided to intervene.

"Broly, do your own chores. Ordering a friend to do work like this is incorrect."

Marianne walked over and said to Broly.

"Sister Marianne, it's not that I don't want to do things myself. Having Darkness do these chores makes her happy."

Broly explained.

"How is that possible?"

Marianne naturally didn't believe those words.

"Don't believe me? You can ask her."

Broly called out to the knight girl who came out of the bathroom holding a rag and a water bucket, and asked: "Darkness, does it make you happy when I make you do odd jobs?"

"Ah, this……"

Darkness became somewhat reluctant. Since meeting Broly, she not only had to spend her own money treating the boy to meals outside, but also had to follow him back to his residence and help with various chores. From a normal friend's perspective, this was indeed excessive.

"Don't worry. This kid Broly's Eye of the Mind isn't bad. As long as you say you're unwilling, I'll make him properly apologize to you."

"I think... it's fine."

Darkness replied, pinching the rag in her hand.

"Tell the truth. A groveling posture like yours won't win true friendship."

【Ah, is she roasting me for not knowing how to make friends? Although I indeed don't really know how to make friends……】

Darkness felt pained yet happy, but retorted: "I'm not groveling. Friends just help each other; I'm just helping him."

"Including coming to someone else's home to help clean?"

【Is she looking down on me? Does she think I'm a friendship beggar? Ah, this feeling of being looked down on... it's... too amazing!】

Daydreaming strange things, Darkness's face turned red. Seeing this, Marianne completely couldn't understand this girl's reaction.

"It's just helping wipe the floor. It's nothing. As long as Broly doesn't abandon me, even washing his underwear would be fine."

【Come on, look down on me all you want. I'm ready!】

Marianne: "......"

【Does this girl have a screw loose or something?】

"I won't abandon you, but I don't have underwear for you to wash, because I don't wear underwear!"

At this time, Broly interjected.

"Ah, so open about it?"

Darkness exclaimed.

"Because my master doesn't wear underwear either!"

Broly self-exposed Aqua's secret.

"Hey hey hey, how can you go around telling people that kind of thing?" Aqua shouted dissatisfied.

Marianne: "???"

No wonder I never saw those two hanging underwear to dry; turns out they're both the type who don't wear any.

"Anyway, things are exactly as you see. The more my Disciple uses Darkness, the happier she seems to get. She's a proper Crusader; helping others is probably her motto."

Aqua summarized.

"Darkness, you did these things for me. I'll keep it in mind. If you need anything in the future, just let me know. I'll repay you anytime."

Broly stood on a chair, patted Darkness's shoulder, gave this Crusader girl a promise, and hurried her off to work.

【Ah, I've been PUA'd. This situation of drawing a big pie for myself to make me work — when I really have a need, they'll definitely break their promise without mercy.】

Thinking like this, Darkness scrubbed the floor vigorously, looking forward to the future where she would be betrayed by him.

The Swimsuit Beauty Pageant lasted Five Days. The heat had already died down; everyone had some aesthetic fatigue. But more importantly, after Darkness, the pageant welcomed no new wives.

Prosecutor Sena, because she had official duties to handle, couldn't possibly serve as a beauty judge forever.

At the same time, the Adventurer's Guild's Quest Board girl, Luna, was also dissatisfied with the town Adventurers' recent request completion rate.

With various parties having opinions behind the scenes of hosting the pageant, this grand beauty contest in Axel came to a close.

【The true headliner should debut last!】

Holding this thought, Aqua wore a pale blue swimsuit and took the stage on the final day of the Swimsuit Pageant.

"Hello everyone, I'm the final contestant, Aqua!"

Without needing the host to introduce her, Aqua introduced herself.

The audience all had some aesthetic fatigue; some even thought the Protein Queen was the true beauty of this pageant, producing thoughts like that due to aesthetic fatigue.

However, after Aqua with a Goddess's appearance took the stage, she still made quite a few people regain normal aesthetics.

The audience, regardless of gender, were all somewhat curious about just how this Swimsuit Beauty Pageant's Major Donor would demonstrate his own beauty.

"Watch me, Flowers Birds Wind Moon~"

Aqua did not let anyone down; she took out two fans and used a Party Trick Skill, and streams of water emerged from the fans, circling around her surroundings.

Aqua on the stage was just like a true Water Goddess; if the picture had stopped at the initial performance phase, she would probably have left the audience an extremely beautiful impression, but unfortunately, the performance time lasted a full minute and more.

"Watch me jump through a water hoop~"

Aqua jumped over a water hoop circling in front of her, and after falling into the pool, she leaped up from the pool again, looking just like an otter, performing exactly what she had said, finally ending with a motion of rising on the waves.

In just a minute and more of performance time, her visual acrobatic performance could be called wonderful; this could be heard from the passionate applause that rang out in the venue after the performance ended.

However, this no longer had much to do with demonstrating beauty; everyone's attention was entirely on her acrobatic performance.

"Is this Senior Aqua?"

In the audience seats, a Thief girl who had only arrived in Axel today, watching Aqua thanking the audience on the stage, revealed an expression of disbelief on her face.

"No, this must be an illusion; how could Senior Aqua possibly come to this world and become an acrobatic performance master!"

But in the end, Eris still did not dare to connect the woman on stage who had conducted a wonderful acrobatic performance with the Goddess senior she was familiar with.

Because no matter how she thought about it, that senior who called herself a Goddess Elite could not possibly come to this world she managed, a place that had once been disparaged by the other party as a poor backwater.

"Then, please have the four judges give contestant Aqua their scores!"

The host's words had just finished when Broly's ten-point sign was impatiently raised up.

(Chapter End)