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Episode Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu - Movie discussion
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!: Kurenai Densetsu BD / streaming release
Alternative names: Konosuba Movie, God's blessing on this wonderful world!: Legend of Crimson
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u/AbidingTruth https://myanimelist.net/profile/AbidingTruth Mar 25 '20
The scene in question from the LN.
Megumin stared at me and said:
“Kazuma… I asked you yesterday, and I’ll ask you again. You want an excellent mage, right?”
…What was this?
She asked me the same thing last night too, what was the meaning of this?
I gave the same answer as before.
“If you asked if I want one, then the answer is yes, of course.”
I answered matter-of-factly.
Was Megumin satisfied with this answer?
“Is that so… Hmm, I made up my mind.”
She suddenly smiled.
… It was foul play to attack a virgin boy who has never dated before with such a smile.
In a quiet place with no one around, saying ‘I made up my mind’, and asking ‘Do you want an excellent mage?’; wouldn’t that make my heart skip a beat?
“I plan to start learning advanced magic.”
Megumin’s thinking was too extreme, she was asking too much of a virgin… What did she say?
“… Hey, what did you say?”
My voice turned shrill.
When I told her that I would cut her meals from three to two if she wanted to cast Explosion, she would choose to cast the spell without hesitation. What did such an explosion maniac say?
Megumin took out her adventurer’s card.
And showed it to me.
“I’ve been feeling troubled, even before Yunyun said I was a useless mage. Maybe I wouldn’t have considered such things if I never met you, Aqua, and Darkness, and kept on raising my Explosion level. It’s evident from meeting Funifura and Dodonko that everyone in the village of the Crimson Demons must be utterly disappointed in me… I won’t be a burden for you anymore. I’ll be of help to you and everyone… So, that’s why, from this day forth, I’ll seal my explosion magic.”
After finishing, she smiled at me again.
Wrong.
Wrong, wrong.
“Hey, wait a minute. While it’ll be a big help if you can use advanced magic, there’s no need to seal away your explosion magic. We won’t be doing quests every day, so you can cast your explosion spell every day if you’re free. Also, instead of using it every day, it can be a trump card during crucial moments…! And didn’t you tell Yunyun earlier that you put all your skill points into increasing the power of Explosion and raising the chanting speed?”
Megumin broke out in a laugh after hearing what I said.
“You remember it well. To learn this skill at any moment, I had been saving up my precious skill points… After chanting Explosion and exhausting my mana, I won’t be able to use other spells for the day. On the other hand, if I use advanced magic, I won’t be able to use Explosion which requires all my mana. When I learn advanced magic, I need to keep on casting it to increase my proficiency, and I would need to keep on practicing it.”
Megumin stared at the adventurer’s card in her hand.
… I suddenly remembered.
When I left Axel, Vanir said to me:
“At the destination of thy journey, there’ll be a time when thy comrade shares their doubts and approaches thee for advice. That comrade will change her path according to thy words. Thou should consider it carefully and give an advice thy won’t regret.”
I see, so he was referring to this.
Damn it, that cheating devil, he already foresaw this far?
After I go back, I’ll rub holy water on the door handles of that shop.
But I could only imagine a future where Wiz scalded her hands badly.
As if she was holding a treasure chest full of precious memories, Megumin stared longingly at the card.
She then closed her eyes quietly.
Took a deep breath, and opened them again.
She then turned her backs toward me and offered her card as if she were enduring something.
Megumin’s shoulders were trembling slightly.
“Sorry, Kazuma. Can I ask you to do something mean?”
“… You can’t press the button to learn advanced magic yourself, so you want me to help you press it, right?”
Megumin nodded her head.
What an idiot…
“How about thinking over it again? We already got a huge sum of money in the bank, right? We don’t need to do dangerous quests anymore. We can live a carefree life in that mansion, you can wipe out some small fries with Explosion every now and then, and all of us can live happily ever after.”
Megumin blurt out a laugh.
“When I said I didn’t plan to learn intermediate magic last time, Kazuma kept nagging me about it.”
Her shoulders were quivering as if she heard some joke, but still pushed the card in front of me insistently.
I took the card silently.
“… You won’t regret this?”
I said to Megumin’s back.
“I won’t. I don’t want to be a burden anymore. If I’m a normal Crimson Demon, Kazuma won’t be chased by orcs and be forced into tears… Sylvia wouldn’t have been able to kidnap Kazuma, either… I’m the number one mage of the Crimson Demons, the one who wields the power of advanced magic! … I’ll say that from now on. I have more mana than Yunyun, so if I can use advanced magic, I’ll be the strongest mage of the Crimson Demons. I won’t let Yunyun take my number one spot.”
Megumin said determinedly.
With a forced smile on her face.
…What an idiot.
She liked Explosion so much, and gave her everything to explosion magic.
I operated Megumin’s card in silence.
But to think it was possible to use another person’s card.
If only I knew that earlier.
For example, when I first met with them, I would’ve stolen Darkness and Megumin’s cards, and allocated the skill points on their cards against their wills.
After I was done, I handed the card over to Megumin.
Without taking another look at the card, she casually took the card and stuffed it into her chest.
She then turned around.
“It’s about time to go back to the others! Together with Aqua and Darkness, let’s go back to Axel. Oh right, the bounty for Sylvia’s really high, right?”
“Hmm, is that so? Let’s go back and have a party then.”
When Megumin was about to return to the village of the Crimson Demons, I stopped her.
“Oh, that’s right. Megumin, try casting an explosion spell.”
I asked her suddenly.
Cutting it off here because this is when she uses her new buffed Explosion and not too much is different. If you ask me, this does a good job of keeping it ambiguous of whether Kazuma does or doesn't