Story: Konosuba Darkness Approaches

 

The pattern for reality was pretty straightforward. Kazuma must suffer. Now, here's the thing about eternal suffering. After a while you get numb to it. You can only prick someone's skin so many times before the nerves shrug it off. You can only inflict psychological scarring for so long before you have to up the temperature, as it were.

To really get under someone's skin, you've gotta first give them hope. You've gotta first make them a little bit happy. Give them something that they think is worth going for. Then, only when they least expect it, do you pull the rug out from under them. Time it right, and the suffering endures. You need to do less for a greater result. 

What was the greatest source of his suffering? The answer is clear after a moment's consideration: Aqua. A literal, actual Goddess, who has an extremely alluring figure and a pretty face, but the personality of a wanton bully.

"Oh, there you are!" Aqua chirped, putting her hands behind her back and leaning over towards him. If he didn't know her personality at this point, he'd be left completely powerless by her charm and beauty. "Kazuma, Kazuma~"

"Yes, yes, I am Kazuma!" he answered, stress slipping into his tone. He could already tell. Aqua had been corrupted already.

"I was just thinking," Aqua said, jabbing a finger into her chest. "You've been staring at my thighs haven't you?"

At that moment, a thunderclap occurred. Or it felt like it. Actually, it was Megumin, peering over Aqua's shoulder while giving the Goddess a good hard smack, that made her go 'mmmph~'

He was doomed. Well and truly doomed. They were both under Darkness's spell. They had both awakened to the joy of causing misery in others. At least, for now, Megumin was tormenting Aqua -

"Behold, the hand of destiny!" Megumin cried out, moving Aqua towards a nearby wall as she spanked Aqua yet again. "As it bestows divine wrath upon the lewd and sinful!" Smack! "Let those who bask in sin and vice, beware, for the very presence of Megumin, the demonic deliverer of justice, shall ensure that thou dost not leer!"

Smack, smack, smack!

It was about now that Kazuma realised that Megumin wasn't punishing Aqua, but rather Kazuma himself. His hand reached out towards them - and then Megumin shot him a glare and a pouty face that frightened him off more directly and precisely than some sick combination of a chainsaw and a series of syringes.

He was being denied the chance to punish Aqua for the torment that he'd been put through by her. Being denied the chance to even cop a feeling by way of making it up.

"Uh, I'll just leave you to it -" Kazuma said, trying to back out of the hell that he was about to be dragged into.

"No!" Megumin insisted, giving Aqua an even harder smack than before. Then she turned around, put her hands on her hips, and strode towards him in a manner not entirely unlike a henpecking housewife, descending upon her husband after he'd come home quite a bit later than promised. "You, Kazuma, are even worse than she is! Darkness opened my eyes, and now? Now it's clear - you need to be punished."

This girl was smaller than him, but Kazuma had never felt so afraid. Not least when she grabbed  the pitched tent with her hands and squeezed his shaft through the material.

"This? Right here?" Megumin warned. "It's not on! Not anymore! Those lewd eyes... those even lewder fingers! Do you know how much it ruins the animation budget every time you do that?!"

"No ma'am, I have no idea of the intricacies of animation!" Kazuma insisted, genuinely concerned she might cause some damage if she put a little more torque into it. Or heaven help him, adjusted the position of her fingernails just so!

But the thing he was afraid of the most was that this might awaken something in him! He was being tormented from multiple angles, all at once, and now -

"Megumin, Megumin!" Aqua yelped, and all of a sudden he was watching his two party members make out. Yes, that's right. Aqua was slipping Megumin some tongue, right there in front of him.

Oh dear. Oh dear for multiple reasons. Oh very dear! As much as Kazuma wished, oh how he wished that he was in control over his genitals, he is like most men! Incapable of preventing it from going 'hey what's going on out there can I get involved in this action?'

It didn't matter what the context was. If you go 'hey two cute girls you know are making out', then the context isn't going to change the fact that your dick is gonna want to know more about it. 

The context being, by the way, just in case you forgot, Megumin had a pretty snug hold of his dick right now. And not in the fun way either!  His eyes were crossing, while his capillary was pulsing, more blood flowing into it to make it nice and erect for the action he wasn't going to get!

Whatever expectations Kazuma had for the situation, somehow it managed to be much, much worse!

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Darkness was right, and Megumin knew it. There's only one way to deal with perverts. Conditioning. Make them condition perversion with pain. Make them suffer for their lewd behaviour. 

So that's what they were doing. Kazuma's lewd and dirty behaviour was truly disgusting. If he didn't indulge in it, he would be a much more effective leader. He's smart. She can see how smart he is. He's got an adaptable mind, but also adaptable ethics.

So he had to be conditioned out of it. Was it embarrassing? Yeah, it was. But it was also necessary for their survival as a party. Aqua was all in when she learned what the end result was, and -

And, you know what? It was kinda fun too. The control she had over him right now, just because she'd grabbed that thing. Maybe once, maybe even an hour ago, she'd be blushing from ear to ear, but right now?

Right now, Megumin was the one in control. Total control. Absolute control! Befitting for one such as she, a prodigy of the Crimson Demon clan! 

Maybe she'd keep this up for a little longer. Make sure the lesson really, properly sunk in. It wasn't because she was enjoying it or anything like that (she was totally enjoying it) nor was it because she has some sort of crush on someone like Kazuma (she absolutely has a massive crush on Kazuma), it's because Kazuma's smart enough to pretend to have learned his lesson, and then fake the results!

... Of course, by that logic she'd have to keep the lesson going for a lot longer than necessary. Hrm... She could learn to live with that~

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In the meantime, what's going through Aqua's brain? The mind of a Goddess must be sharp indeed. Keenly aware of the state of the world, capable of observations that would make mortals gasp and tremble! Surely her brilliant brain was considering what they were doing at a deeper level than Megumin? Or Kazuma, for that matter?

No, not at all, it was more like... 'Haha, look at this NEET loser, getting hard because he saw a scrawny runt like Megumin smack my fine ass! I'll just make out with her a little bit and - Hah! He's getting even harder, what a total loser! I'll hold this over his head forever!'

Thoughts as deep as a puddle. Quite appropriate for a Goddess of Water, right? An ocean would be better, but a puddle will have to do...