Konosuba x Rokudenashi Special Collab Book

***Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor × KonoSuba: God's Blessing for This Wonderful World! Special Collaboration Book*** (ロクでなし魔術講師と禁忌教典×この素晴らしい世界に祝福を！　スペシャルコラボブック, *Rokudenashi Majutsu Kōshi to Akashikku Rekōdo × Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Supesharu Korabo Bukku*) is the special crossover between *Akashic Records Of Bastard Magic Instructor* and *KonoSuba: God's Blessing for This Wonderful World!* series written by their light novel authors, Hitsuji Tarō and Akatsuki Natsume, and illustrated by Mishima Kurone to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Fantasia Bunko and *Dragon Magazine*. It was released as the bonus book for *Dragon Magazine* May 2018 issue on 20 March 2018.

## Overview

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Fantasia Bunko and Dragon Magazine, a big collaboration from "*Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor*" and a Sneakers Bunko hit, "*KonoSuba: God's Blessing for This Wonderful World!*" comes real! It's a big compilation volume totalling 64 pages.

The cover illustration shows the cheerful Sistine Fibel and Aqua drawn by Mishima Kurone, while the collaborative novels themselves were written by light novel authors, Hitsuji Tarō and Akatsuki Natsume. Both their packed performance can't be missed!

In addition to that, the book also includes various parts worth reading such as Akatsuki Natsume × Hitsuji Tarō special talk, Mishima Kurone interview, and character charts.

## Plot Summary

### KonoSuba Side

Kazuma is strolling the streets one day, when two young girls with respectively silver and blond hair suddenly fall out the sky in front of him. Despite not understanding the language they are speaking, Kazuma believing them to be the new heroines gifted to him manages through gesticulations and expressions to convince the pair into following him back to his mansion. Aqua though protests his wild imagination, and after successfully conversing with the girls due to being a goddess, she inputs the girls' language into Kazuma's brain without considering the risk of getting it fried. Just as Kazuma prepares to get at Aqua, the blonde girl comments on their interaction being similar to those between Glenn and the denying silver-haired girl.

The girls are accordingly introduced by Aqua to be Sistine and Rumia, who got transported here when they were used as test subjects for a mysterious device of Orwell. As Rumia tries to cheer up Sistine whom Aqua described as a cat, Kazuma striking a cool pose introduces himself as an adventurer, before answering the girls' questions regarding their whereabouts.

Shocked at discovering themselves in another world, the girls recall Orwell sending them here because the ultimate vegetable ingredients for hot pot don't exist in their world, and are surprised at Kazuma fully believing both their otherworldly origins as well as the reason, which actually wasn't as stupid as some troubles caused by his companions. Kazuma next reveals himself to be an otherworlder hero sent from Japan by the gods to save this world, though the discouraging remarks by Aqua does nothing to reassure the girls. Darkness accordingly carries Megumin back from her daily Explosion exercise, prompting another round of introductions.

The following day, Kazuma believing that Orwell's machine will let the girls, who got sent in place of their shirking instructor, back home once they gather the vegetable ingredients, brings Sistine to a farm near Axel. The flying Cabbages chasing after them as well as the Mushrooms swarming Darkness though flabbergasts Sistine, who is subsequently outraged at the sacrilege of magic upon hearing that vegetables in this world can magically move as if they are mages. Darkness next sprouts obscene words when the Mushrooms start ejaculating spores on her, and in her haste Sistine casts Gale Blow which apart from the Mushrooms also blows Darkness away. With his two native companions refusing to learn the otherworlder girls' language through Aqua's risky method, Kazuma is forced to faithfully translate Darkness' gratitude at being saved with her chastity intact and wish to be slammed harder on the ground next time for more pleasure, only to be unfairly criticised by Sistine for making the lewd things up, even though he had already toned down the obscenity uttered by the perverted lady in his translation.

After Kazuma describes Glenn as a bastard for sending his students here to perform his errand in his stead despite being described as one himself by Darkness, Sistine defends Glenn by recounting how he changed his unmotivated attitude to start teaching seriously as well as helped the students during the school festival games, in addition to supporting her dream and calling a duel to save her from an unwanted marriage. With the last incident reminding him of the time he had snatched Darkness from a forced marriage, Kazuma asks for more examples of Glenn's greatness, only to see Sistine run out of them. As Darkness requests him to translate, a Cabbage sneaks up from behind her, which Kazuma lights up with Tinder to Sistine's astonishment.

Back at the mansion, Sistine who cannot accept magic in this world capable of being cast without lengthy incantations starts an argument with Kazuma, to the puzzlement of the others who have just returned from gathering carrots and leeks. She then comforts a Rumia traumatised by leeks, which upon harvest will force their spiciest part into the harvester's mouth. Hearing of how the flustered Sistine had been discussing magic, Megumin excitedly asks Kazuma to translate for a magic discussion, and as Rumia expects Sistine also eagerly responds.

Just like how Kazuma anticipates, Sistine soon throws a tantrum over magic in this world getting managed through a system with skill points and levels, as well as them not questioning the roots of magic for comprehending the truth as laid down by the gods, before strangling Kazuma when he points her to an Aqua sipping tea for any divine answers. Subsequent to Aqua disappointing Rumia by simply saying magic in this world being a result of godly powers, Sistine calms down at Megumin's question over her world's magic, though instead of teaching one simple spell, she starts a lengthy lecture over magic's principles. Kazuma who has to translate it all is then asked by Megumin to convey her intent to teach Sistine how to prejudicially increase spells' power with a cool pose, but when he asks for Aqua's help to calm down a Sistine enraged by the stupid idea, the goddess reminds them that the otherworlder girls were supposed to return once the vegetables were gathered.

Chasing Darkness and Megumin's back to their rooms that night so he won't need to translate, Kazuma suggests going to Wiz's Magical Item Shop the next day, though the prospect of the merchandise having weird side effects just like Orwell's inventions unnerves the otherworlder girls. Reminding the girls of the possibility they won't be able to return, Kazuma tries to reassure them by offering the pair a place in this world as the new heroines. Sistine however points him out as somebody as sloppy and lazy but eventually reliable like Glenn, before getting mad at him throwing them under the bus, followed by denying Rumia and Kazuma's remarks of her being a tsudere.

Kazuma is strangled by Sistine at the mansion entrance the next day, after he returns from the Undead's shop to report about no suitable items there. Managing to convince Sistine, whom he guesses Glenn had previously described to be rash and conceited, into listening on, Kazuma recounts how the fortune-telling shop employee advised them to catch fish from the lake, since the fishes harvested from the fields are unsuitable for the hot pot. Angry because she thinks Kazuma was pulling her leg with accounts of an Undead owning a shop and fishes harvested from fields, Sistine is further enraged when Kazuma reveals the employee to be a Demon, at which he threatens to use Steal on her if she doesn't calm down.

At the lakeside where pufferfish, goosefish, and pollocks can be caught, Remia who gives up on wondering how come all these fishes are there instead asks why is Darkness sunken into lake, to which Kazuma explains that the Crusader insisted on being pollock bait. As Sistine starts going crazy again when Aqua comments on Darkness' "soup" flowing out, Darkness yells about a fish grabbing onto her legs. Ignoring her request to let her enjoy the sensation for a while, Kazuma prepares to throw a harpoon, only to have Sistine who isn't aware of Darkness' capability of surviving an accidental hit snatch it away. As Kazuma stops Megumin from casting an Explosion, Sistine casts Shock Bolt at the lake as Darkness is dragged off, which delights the electrocuted Crusader to Kazuma's exasperation. Changing his plan, Kazuma tells Megumin to go ahead with explosion fishing, but when he and Aqua are busy dragging Darkness ashore, the energised Megumin is approached by a Remia who thinks she is trying to save Darkness, before having an enormous amount of magical power poured into her through Magic Amplification, more than enough to blow the whole lake away.

Later at the crater that had replaced the lake, Aqua, Megumin and Darkness are respectively overjoyed at all the fish raining down with the lakewater and the sensation of the Explosion. While Kazuma hurries to gather all the fish before the townsfolk find out, the otherworlder girls feel jittery over having destroyed the lake, though Kazuma assures them that Aqua can fill it back up with her water, to Sistine's incredulous vexation. Handed a load of fishes by Kazuma, who tells them about Darkness refusing Remia healing her with Life Up due to being a masochist as well as Aqua the Goddess of Water capable of conjuring water casually, Sistine realises that what he had been saying were all true. Teleport Circles accordingly appear beneath the otherworlder girls' feet, just as the Demon working at the Undead's shop had prophesied. Frantically calling for Kazuma to tell her the truth about this world's magic as Darkness continues to refuse Remia's healing, Sistine instead is asked to give his greetings to Glenn, before both girls are teleported away.

Managing to escape back to their mansion before the police came, Kazuma's party enjoys a nutritious hot pot while discussing the two otherworlder girls, who make Kazuma recall his school life. When Megumin recalls Sistine's last sentence about this world's magic, Kazuma taking out his Adventurer Card discovers himself capable of learning the new spell Sistine had taught him.

### Akashic Record Side

Trudging down the busy streets of Fejite, Glenn Radars the instructor at Alzano Imperial Magic Academy grumbles about being broke at a time when the next payday is still far off. He abruptly notices standing in the plaza is a blue-haired girl sporting the beauty of a goddess, who is frantically yelling in an unknown language at the crowd of people busy with prostrating themselves before her. Unable to get through to them, the girl proceeds to perform an act of sprinkling water from all over her body, astonishing Glenn with how she magically did it without incantations. The crowd however further prostrates themselves upon seeing her performance to the foreign girl's distress, so Glenn activates Neutral Translation and approaches her, only to feel himself wanting to prostrate himself before her too. Noticing the girl emitting an incredible holy aura, Glenn reinforces his mind with Mind Up and manages to stand, at which the tearful girl comes begging him for help.

Later sitting in a cafe, the girl known as Aqua, who is busily stuffing herself with plates of pasta, explains how as a goddess from another world, she was fighting the armies of the Demon King when she got accidentally transported to this world, where the inability to communicate left her hungry and unable to return. Glenn though finds her gluttonous manner a far cry from what a goddess' image should be, before he is astonished by how Aqua conjured water into her cup from her finger without any incantations or price. Although Aqua becomes pleased at Glenn readily believing her to be a goddess, she is soon left befuddled by his analysis of all the academic theories and observations that point to her divinity.

Aqua next weeps when Glenn buys her proclamation of the Axel Church worshiping her in the other world numbering tens of millions in followers, since nobody over there believes her to be a goddess. With the people in the shop all prostrating themselves at her due to what Glenn calls her "veneration field", Aqua basks in the delight experienced by the "winner" Eris, whom she has to await extraction from. Not knowing how long will she have to wait, the goddess who now has mortal needs implores Glenn to help her, only to find that he had spent all his remaining money on her meal. She thus offers to repay him with entry into the Axis Church, where praying to her thrice each day and offering her his side dishes during meals are considered "privileges". Initially infuriated by Aqua's antics, Glenn suddenly gets a wicked idea, which the goddess upon hearing also agrees to.

The next day, Sistine along with the accompanying Rumia and Re=L return to the Academy from her academic presentation at the royal capital, only to be greeted with a scene of mayhem in the courtyard, where Glenn dressed as a shoddy priest orders the bewitched students to prostrate themselves before an arrogant Aqua. Sistine also finds herself wanting to prostrate, until Rumia who is able to withstand the holy aura casts Mind Up on her, while the inhuman Re=L analyses Aqua unlikely to be an enemy. They next witness Glenn calling for donations, which the students madly toss into the box, making both him and Aqua delighted over the profitability of religion.

The enraged Sistine promptly walks up and tells Glenn to stop this debacle as well as return the money, yet Glenn instead declares himself the Archpriest of the Axis Cult's Fejite branch. At his signal, the fanaticised students all grab onto the "white cat", so that the otherworlder goddess can upon touching her enact the full effects of the "veneration field" and make her an Axis follower. As Sistine struggles to resist being infected by the holy aura, Rumia and Re=L attempting to save her find themselves blocked by the other followers.

Just as Aqua is about to touch Sistine, the useless goddess has her head stomped on by Satou Kazuma, who had just descended from the skies alongside Megumin and Darkness through the guidance of Eris. While Glenn and Aqua are respectively enraged by their quick arrival and getting stomped on, Kazuma grinds Aqua down with his heel before apologising to Sistine for the troubles caused by Aqua and her holy aura, which is uncommon in this world. He however proceeds to leer at the revealing school uniform of the girls, to Megumin and Darkness' disgust.

Aqua though refuses Kazuma's demand to leave this world where people actually worship her, instead deciding to stay and start a new life as its new goddess for the sake of earning Glenn money. She then incites the fanaticised students into capturing Kazuma, though Sistine saves him and his party by opening an escape route with a Gale Blow that amazes Megumin. As Rumia and Re=L also join their retreat, the Crusader volunteers to be the rearguard. Initially impressed by the female knight's noble fortitude, Sistine is soon disillusioned when Darkness excitedly fantasizes about being captured and violated, an antic described by Kazuma as her acting normal.

With the gang managing to escape after Re=L dragged the reluctant Darkness away, they assemble at the park where the otherworlders tell of how Aqua was sucked into a dimensional crack during battle, following which the three of them through the help of Eris were able to follow as well as learn this world's language. The Academy students who readily believe them then explain to Kazuma that Glenn isn't putting up this stupid debacle because of Aqua's holy aura but through his own accord, so after silencing a Darkness still hollering about getting herself captured, Kazuma and Sistine agree to an alliance for stopping Glenn and Aqua.

In the Academy's Classroom 202, now turned into the headquarters of the Axis Cult's Fejite branch, Glenn solicitates to the obediently purchasing fanatics the "holy water" squeezed out of Aqua, which quickly sell out to Glenn's delight despite Aqua finding the naming somewhat disgusting. But when Aqua starts discussing her share of the earnings, Glenn to her dismay gives her only a small portion, before easily tricking the gullible goddess with a fib of how the coins in her bag are all rare wrongly-minted versions.

The pair next hear reports of the gang from earlier returning, while the fanatics at the Academy's entrance are cowed by Darkness defiantly enduring all their spells such as Shock Bolt, Blaze Burst, and Gale Blow, though they are subsequently bewildered by the resolute but perverted knight's fantasizations of them capturing and defiling her. Not wishing to deal with her any longer, the fanatics together cast Stun Ball at Darkness, only to have her withstand the hit and ask for more. With their attention all drawn to the pervert, Rumia easily puts the fanatics to sleep using Sleep Sound, following which she walks up to heal Darkness. Despite wishing to enjoy the sensation longer, Darkness guiltily accepts due to Rumia misunderstanding her to be selflessly sacrificing herself.

In the courtyard where Megumin and Re=L had infiltrated, the pair is faced by a crowd of the Academy's security golems now under the control of the Axis Cult. Commenting on how these golems are similar to those in her world, Megumin strikes a cool pose before reducing them to dust with an Explosion, though she subsequently collapses into immobility because of using up all her magical power. Yet before Megumin can confess about her only able to cast Explosion once per day, more golems emerge to surround the pair. Re=L promptly starts smashing the golems, and mistaking Megumin's hesitation at casting another Explosion for concern over harming her too, places the limp Archwizard on the flat of her sword before launching her screaming into the air. Helplessly flailing aloft before falling back down, Megumin is caught just in time by Re=L, who ignorant of her fatigue proceeds to launch her higher the next time.

With the cult distracted by the battles outside, the "white cat" is able to strike straight at its headquarters, where she squares off against Glenn and Aqua. Glenn though confidently prepares to cast Fool's World for nullifying Sistine's spells, only to have Kazuma who sneaked up to him using Lurk snatch the Fool's Card out of his hand. With Glenn at a disadvantage in a magic battle against Sistine as evidenced by their first duel, Kazuma advances on Aqua planning to Steal and sell her feather cloak as punishment. The defiant Glenn and Aqua though respectively resist with Magical Punch and God Blow, only to have Kazuma blind them by blowing the dirt from Create Earth into their eyes with Wind Breath. Sistine immediately casts Shock Bolt, only to have it rebounded onto herself and Kazuma, since Glenn had in advance laid down a magic trap against the spell.

Just when Glenn arrogantly boasts victory at the paralysed pair who find themselves shut inside an electrical magic barrier, the foolish Aqua as Kazuma expects gets carried away, and proceeds to wash them away with Sacred Create Water, totally oblivious to the electrical barrier still in effect. This results in both Glenn and Aqua being electrocuted by the torrent of electrified water, while Sistine and Kazuma manage to endure it thanks to her casting a spell for increasing their electric endurance.

Later in the courtyard, Aqua weeps after being repeatedly Stolen from by Kazuma, an act which Megumin and Darkness call him a scum over. Having discussed how Eris said that the effects of Aqua's holy aura will dissipate once she leaves this world, Kazuma and Sistine both apologise to one another for the disturbance caused by their resident troublemaker. As the two groups express their parting words, Megumin contrary to the friendship between Darkness and Rumia feels only fear at Re=L, while Kazuma and Sistine respectively lecture the weeping Aqua and force a Glenn all battered by magic spells into apologising. The otherworlders are soon enveloped by the power of Eris that will send them back, so each of them exchange final farewells with their otherworldly counterpart, though Glenn and Aqua unrepentantly promise to establish a stronger Axis Cult for swindling wealth should they meet again.

Following the otherworlders' departure, the four of them reminisce on this amazing meeting, which Glenn thinks might have been a prank from the gods, before the broke instructor prompts the girls into treating him for a meal as they return to their normal life. Meanwhile back in Axel, Kazuma's party discuss their otherworldly adventure, after which Kazuma reveals that he had Stolen some gold coins swindled by Aqua from the other world, an amount he will let Glenn foot upon returning money to the owners, rendering the girls speechless with his scumminess.

## References

1. ↑ Official Fujimi Fantasia Bunko Website