Comic Anthology Chapter 40

**Working Part Time in This Watery Business!** (この水商売でバイトを！, *Kono Mizushōbai de Baito wo!*) is the fortieth chapter of the *KonoSuba Comic Anthology* manga series, and was illustrated by Gakubuchi Aiko.

## Summary

At a restaurant where the party is dining, a drunken Aqua puts Wiz in a chokehold as she yells about purifying the Lich for the sake of proclaiming her goddess authority. When Kazuma comments about her being simply a troubling drunk who displays no authority by strutting around pantyless, Aqua responds by citing its unrelatedness as well as her being shown wearing panties in the source material. Pressing her purifying palm on the frantic Wiz's head while Kazuma calls for her to stop, the goddess hollers about how people should be worshipping her more because of her being powerful enough to purify a whole lake. Kazuma though taunts her over how she got traumatised by monsters, causing Aqua to blurt out the secret of her nearly pissing from fright at the time. As the useless goddess then claims that she hadn't dirtied the water because she purified it, Megumin and Darkness who find the argument spoiling their drinks wish for them to change the topic.

Mishearing Wiz's pleas for release to be taunts about her dirtying the water, the incensed Aqua swings at her with God Strike, only to have Wiz dodge it using a Lich-style Sway Back. The accordingly unbalanced Aqua thus strikes a barrel of wine which gets purified, to the utmost fury of the restaurant owner, since the wine was actually an expensive brand with a name similar to that of a crazy uncle. The owner goes on to weep over his dream of opening a high-class buffet one day, prompting the Aqua who doesn't have money to dogeza for forgiveness, abandoning all the authority of a goddess in the process.

Forced to pay reparations, Kazuma leads his party to find jobs at the Guild while growling at Aqua. Unable to see any good ones on the bulletin board, Aqua wishes for another Destroyer to Kazuma's discomfort, since she doesn't want to perform tiring hard labour which doesn't earn money easily. Darkness next delightfully claims how it is a given to fall into the nightclub business when lacking money, though the euphemism term she uses makes Aqua think that she is referring to "watery business". Seeing Aqua proudly proclaiming herself to be fitting for this line of work since she is a goddess of water, the still-piqued Kazuma decides to show her a thing or two.

Aqua is soon shocked when she and the other girls have to dress up in the lewd uniforms of the Succubi at their cafe, despite her actually long accustomed to wearing sexy outfits in things like special merchandise. Kazuma, who takes up the role of a "black suit", thus points out how she is much more decent now that she is wearing panties. As he describes the place to be the only "watery" establishment in the town of Axel, Darkness begins to extensively fantasize about being ravaged by fat old men, only to turn sorely disappointed when told that this Succubi's shop doesn't offer physical play.

The Receptionist Succubus then tells the new hires to perform the cleaning duties they were hired for in the first place, only to narrowly avoid being hit by Aqua's God Strike aimed to cleanse the dirty Succubus. Yelling at Aqua for picking a fight with their employer, Kazuma orders her to prepare tea and serve customers, only to have the tea purified into water and the customers enraged by her taunts about them being unpopular. The goddess whose uselessness exceeds expectations then suggests that instead of working under the Succubi, she should annihilate them all before seizing the shop's earnings, prompting the exasperated Kazuma into tying her up.

Asked by Kazuma for suggestions on what to do with Aqua, Megumin proposes something that can let her be worshipped like a goddess, and proceeds to paint all over her so she will look like a statue. Aqua is soon made to maintain the pose of raising her fans upon a dais set in the middle of a pond while casting Nature's Beauty, with Megumin setting her up to be a decorative fountain. Despite Aqua initially resenting being treated as a piece of ornament, she soon enjoys becoming the attraction of the shop, towards which the customers pray in hopes for a good dream. As Kazuma cannot help commenting on how Aqua is cute once she shuts up, Darkness feels a bit jealous of her.

## Characters

* Aqua
* Wiz
* Satou Kazuma
* Megumin
* Darkness
* Receptionist Succubus