Bakuen Chapter 17

**May We Slay This Forest-Devil Irregular!** (この森の悪魔に討伐を！, *Kono Mori no Iregyurā ni Tōbatsu wo!*) is the seventeenth chapter of the *KonoSuba Bakuen* manga series, and covers Chapters 2 to 3 in Volume 3 of the light novels.

## Summary

Fleeing straight to the Guild, Megumin and Yunyun report to Luna how after recovering from Megumin's Explosion, they were faced by the high-ranked Demon who introduced himself coolly in their familiar Crimson Magic Clan's style as Host, though as he asked if they have seen a giant, ebony magical beast, the girls panicked and ran away.

On hearing about the seriousness of the threat, Luna petitions for aid from other cities as Yunyun collects the rewards for hunting the Giant Toads, and declares the forest to be off-limits until more powerful adventurers arrive. On their way back to the inn, Megumin claims that Host was lucky that she had used her magic today, but Yunyun isn't sure if Explosion would have worked on it, and prohibits Megumin who takes that as a challenge from heading back into the forest tomorrow. The two of them then witness the construction worker wearing a jersey who just received pay for construction work from the foreman complaining about the hard labour, only to have the blue-haired construction worker who enjoys the work insist on continuing the job as she takes him to bathe and drink bubbly, before she steps on a banana peel and trips over.

Days pass with the local adventurers prohibited from making their livelihoods in the forest, until they cannot take it any more and march on the Guild to ask about the reinforcements. Luna though tells them that due to Beldia the Dullahan General of the Demon King departing the Demon King's Castle with an army of Undead, the other cities cannot afford to send forces to Axel. As the local adventurers wonder what to do, Lex suggests for them to organise a hunting squadron to defeat the Demon, which Megumin decides to take part of, and tells Yunyun who has misgivings that she can stay at the Guild all alone if she doesn't want to come.

The following day, the masses of adventurers making up the hunting squadron march into the forest, during which Lex leading his party scoffs at the Crimson Magic "kids" in the middle of the procession, and Yunyun who grabs onto Megumin before she can start instead invites her wrath when her boobs press on her back. Their group is then beset by a crowd of Slime on the trees above them, and after Yunyun rescues Sophie from one Slime with Lightning, Megumin orders her to take out the rest of the disgusting Slime, which she frantically burns away with Fireball, to the awe of Lex's party. Yet as Yunyun bawls at Megumin, the squadron vanguard comes running back after getting beaten by the Demon, sending the rest of the adventurers into a panicked retreat.

Back at the Guild, where Luna reviews through an crystal ball how the Demon swept through the surprised vanguard before having one of its wings cut off by the hero with a cursed sword who got wounded in the battle, the other adventurers describe it as being on par with the Demon King's Generals. Luna though suggests seeking the help of a newly registered Archpriest whose stats and skills make her powerful enough to exorcise the Demon and heal the hero with the cursed sword, before telling the excited adventures that the seldomly seen woman has blue hair and is beautiful like a goddess. As the male adventurers eagerly head out to look for her, inquiring with all sorts of women including a silver-haired woman accompanied by her blonde friend, the weary Megumin returns to the inn, while Yunyun decides to stay at the Guild for a bit longer.

On her way back during dusk, Megumin sees an adventurer looking for the blue-haired goddess bumping into the blue-haired construction worker and making her drop her money. The dirty blue-haired construction worker though orders the adventurer to pick up more money from the ground than what she had dropped, and thinking that she cannot possibly be that saintly Archpriest who looks like a goddess despite the blue hair, the busy adventurer simply gives her the inflated amount of money before continuing to search for the blue-haired Archpriest. As the blue-haired woman's fellow worker in a jersey weeps at her antics, Megumin who is of the same mind as that adventurer returns to her room, where she is surprised to find Cecily.

It so happened that three days after registering as an adventurer, Yunyun sitting at the Guild listened to an old man intent on drinking about how to solve problems in life. While asking Yunyun to treat him to another pitcher, the man suggested Yunyun to start wearing a blouse that reveals more of her boobs so she can find party members. He backed down when Yunyun became impatiently enraged, and upon questioned on why she couldn't find friends or party members, he recommended her to post an advertisement that will pay people to become her friends, which Yunyun really attempted to do, though the Guild employees later denied it.

## Characters

* Luna
* Megumin
* Yunyun
* Host
* Satou Kazuma
* Aqua
* Dust
* Taylor
* Beldia (image)
* Lex
* Sophie
* Derry
* Host
* Mitsurugi Kyouya
* Cremea
* Fio
* Darkness
* Chris
* Cecily
* Rin (cover)