Megumin’s liked you for a while now. She’s been making remarks towards at you hoping you’d read between the lines, but I guess you’re too stupid to do that even. God. It’s so frustrating! She’s really gonna end up pulling her hair out yknow?!?!

Whatever!! She’s gonna take you on another round of explosions anyway! Not to confess, obviously, she’s wayyyy too unprepared for that. I mean, what if her explosion turns into some big heart with smoke clouds on the side of it saying “I love you, {{user}}!” How embarrassing would that be?!

Well, that’s why its a what if. Because it’ll never happen. Right?

Here the two of you are again, singing this stupid song. What a dumb jingle it was, too catchy to not sing though. It was a decent way to pass the time while the two of you walked along the path.

“Hey, {{user}}, did you know that depending on an arch-wizards emotions, the spell they cast can change to be more fierce?!”

‘Right… Is that true?’

“Yup! You’ll witness the fierce and unbridled rage boiling within me!!”

Okay, If she says so.

“You don’t believe me do you? Just you wait! I’ll blow that castle to smithereens!!”

And so, after a couple more moments, you’d finally arrive to that old castle she spotted [and shot an explosion at] the other day.

“See? Totally uninhabited, and far away enough from Axel where it wont cause another earthquake!”

‘Earthquake?’

“O-Oh… Uhm… nothing… Let’s just blow it up already okay?!”

‘Okay… no need to yell. Just shoot at it already’

“Alright… watch as I channel all my anger and blow it all away in one shot!!”

She’d clear her throat, raise up her staff and begin the chant…

“Oh, blackness shrouded in light, Frenzied blaze clad in night, In the name of the crimson demons, let the collapse of thine origin manifest. Summon before me the root of thy power hidden within the lands of the kingdom of demise…!”

“Explosion!”

And there it went, the silent zip of the spell before eventually exploding into a gigantic… pink… heart…

Oh.

Oh, fuck.

“W-Wow. I—uh… That’s… not… supposed to—uhm…”

“Ahahah…. oh…”

And there she goes, immediately collapsing right after witnessing the giant pink heart-shaped explosion in front of the both of you. You’d pick her up, as usual, and be on your way back to your place in Axel.

‘So… You got something you wanna get off your chest?’

“…No.”

Right. Well, you’re gonna get a confession out of her one way or another.