Darkness/History

## Early Life

Darkness came from the highly respected Dustiness house of nobles, nicknamed the Shield of the Kingdom, and the family in charge. After Darkness' mothers died of disease due to a weak immune system on her side of the bloodline, Darkness grew up with other nobles and acted as an older sister to Iris, then later a mother figure to her cousin Sylphina. She also found herself frequently the target of uncomfortable attention from Alderp.

As Darkness got older, she began developing her perverted fetishes, so her father Ignis tried to arrange marriages for her, yet Darkness kept rejecting them by clobbering him unconscious whenever he brought the matter up, and frequently ran away to Axel where her family had to offer rewards for her whereabouts.

Despite becoming a Crusader clad in a suit of armour created by the blacksmith of the Crimson Demon Village, due to her incompetency in attacking as well as her perversions, Darkness found herself all alone even after registering as an adventurer, thus as a devout follower of the Eris Order, she went to the Eris Church every day to pray for adventuring companions, and soon afterwards she met Chris who quickly befriended her.

## Irregular of Axel Arc

After partnering with Chris on various adventures because they failed to recruit additional members, Darkness one day heard the Guild warning adventurers about a powerful Demon sighted in the nearby forest, so she excitedly brought Chris to go search for it. However, it wasn't until the day following the defeat of the Guild's hunting squadron were they able to encounter Host, during which Darkness tanked his attacks while he got wounded before the two of them had to retreat.

## Beginner Adventurer Arc

   Upon reading a notice for recruiting new party members from a new adventurer rumoured to be so perverted he got the young girls in his party all slimy while questing, Darkness approached Satou Kazuma offering to join, though her perversions displayed during their first meeting made him initially reject her.

The next day while accompanying Chris as she taught Kazuma Thief skills, Darkness was awed when she witnessed Kazuma Stealing Chris' panties and demanding all of the Thief's money to buy it back. Her conviction in joining his party got further cemented upon their return to the Guild, where following her being introduced to Aqua and Megumin as well as Chris' departure, Kazuma who demonstrated Steal only to take Megumin's panties told her of all the stimulating sexual harassment female knights like her will be subject to once captured by the Devil King's Army whom he aimed to fight. During the subsequent Cabbage harvest, Darkness despite being unable to hit any of the flying vegetables still found a role as a meat shield for guarding other adventurers from hurtling Cabbages. Although her suit of armour was ruined in the harvest, Darkness was eventually accepted into Kazuma's party.

Some days later while Darkness' armour was still being refurbished, at her suggestion the party took a quest for hunting a Zombie Maker at the public cemetery to help Aqua level up. However, they instead encountered Wiz that night during her ritual of sending the Ghosts of the buried dead who couldn't afford a proper burial to the afterlife, following which she reminded Kazuma who struck a deal with the Lich that they had failed the quest.

Following the receipt of her reinforced suit of armour, Darkness returned to her family residence for a few days to train, since one of the Devil King's Generals had stationed himself near Axel and scared all the weak monsters that the party was able to handle into hiding. When Beldia later showed up at the city and cursed Megumin to die after a week for casting daily Explosions at his castle, Darkness rushed forward to take the curse in the Archwizard's place. She then proceeded to fantasize about all the perverted things the Dullahan would make her do in exchange for undoing the curse, and was only stopped from following a bothered Beldia back by the apologetic Kazuma. After Beldia's departure, Aqua quickly Broke the curse on Darkness with her goddess-powered Archpriest magic and eliminated the party's need to go fight the Dullahan.

At some point during the period, Darkness upon hearing of a tentacled Roper on the loose excitedly wanted to take Kazuma in search for it so she could make it her pet, yet discovered to her dismay that it already got Exploded by Megumin. Darkness even vied for leadership of the party, only to back out once she realised the liabilities which party leaders are responsible for. And during the party's hunt for a golden bamboo, she found herself attacked from below by bamboo shoots.
(In the audio drama, it was also during this period when Darkness along with Aqua had for a short while mistook Kazuma and Megumin to have become a couple)

Accompanying her party in distantly observing Aqua while she purified the riverhead lake near Axel from within a cage, Darkness became thrilled when Brutal Alligators swarmed in biting on the cage, though she was prevented by Kazuma from charging into the lake too. As they later carted Aqua back to Axel in the cage, Darkness stood up in her defence when Mitsurugi Kyouya approached, and accordingly refused the Sword Master's offer to join his party, despite not buying Aqua's claims of being a goddess.

When Beldia subsequently returned to Axel in fury over the continuing Explosions at his castle as well as them supposedly leaving Darkness to die, Darkness surprised the Dullahan by showing up very much alive. She then expressed envy at Aqua who got pursued by Beldia's army of Undead Knights, but following several adventurers whom she had been friends with getting cut down by Beldia, Darkness furiously attacked him, during which she still couldn't land any attacks, but fantasized in a disturbing manner as her armour was being cut up. After Kazuma's failure to Steal Beldia's sword, Darkness tackled Beldia unarmed but was soon overpowered. Just as she was about to be killed, Beldia got forced away when Kazuma along with other mages Created Water and made him dodge around. Subsequently managing to withstand the flood summoned by Aqua, Darkness struck Beldia down when his head was Stolen by Kazuma so Aqua could purify the Dullahan. As the battle concluded, Darkness began praying for the adventurers slain by Beldia, only to discover in embarrassment that they had already been Resurrected by Aqua. She later became the only one in the party happy at their great debt for damages wrought by Aqua's flood, due to the prospect of them having to take quests against strong opponents, though behind the scenes Darkness had actually petitioned her family into selling nearly all of their assets to cover most of the true reparation costs.

Some time afterwards, Darkness supported Aqua in turning over to the police a sorcerer who the Archpriest had captured for cursing women all over Axel, only to change her mind and join the other women at the Guild to be voluntarily cursed, when it was revealed that the women had paid the sorcerer to be cursed into losing their appetite for a week so they could slim-up.

## Deep Winter Arc

During the quest against Snow Sprites at the snowfield forest that Kazuma selected in hopes of it helping them survive the winter, Darkness excitedly slashed out at the Winter Shogun when it appeared to avenge the little sprites of winter, only for her sword to be instantly severed. Despite Aqua advising the party to dogeza at the generous spirit for mercy, the proud Crusader stubbornly refused to beg a monster for her life. This prompted Kazuma, who had been following Aqua's advice, to jump up and force Darkness' head down, which resulted in his decapitation.

In the one-day party swap between Kazuma and Dust, Darkness first surprised their temporary member by heading out on a quest with neither weapons nor armour, then made him speechless by admitting her inability to hit targets and displaying indifference to Megumin's Explosion. Following the appearance of a Rookie Slayer, Darkness grabbed Dust's sword and futilely attacked the monster while enjoying its beastial attacks until she lost consciousness. She was later carried by Aqua back to the Guild, where they waited for Kazuma's return so they could revert to their original parties.

After Kazuma's decision to venture into Keele's Dungeon alone, Darkness whose sword was still being repaired simply escorted him to its entrance, where she and Megumin waited until his and Aqua's return.

When Kazuma and Aqua took up a request to take care of a Ghost problem at an empty mansion in place of Wiz, she accompanied the party as they moved into the property. That night as possessed dolls roamed the mansion, she excitedly went out to hunt for them, before meeting up with Aqua to save Kazuma and Megumin who had been fleeing all about.

At some point during the period, Darkness (in the audio drama) joined her party on a simple delivery quest into the mountains, where she failed to save Kazama from falling to his death due to a landslide, and had to apologise to the homeowner whose roof was damaged by when his body fell into it.

After Aqua was hired by Abram to solve a Ghost problem at his mansion only to discover its identity to be his recently deceased father Pickles, in order to fulfill the wishes of Pickles so he could pass onto the afterlife, Darkness hugged a stuffed toy possessed by the Ghost who turned out to be in love with her mother (while she dressed up as a maid in the audio drama).

       Upon the Guild asking her to investigate the Powerful Messenger that was described to be a tentacle monster, Darkness pestered her party into heading for the forest temple where it was sighted, only to find out that the actual Powerful Messenger looked so revolting even she couldn't stomach it. As the party fled before Megumin blasted at it with Explosion, Darkness blocked something cast at them by the Powerful Messenger, which after she returned to the mansion with the Guild's rewards was revealed to be a slow-acting curse that made her so weak even Megumin could overpower her. Despite Aqua using Sacred Break Spell, the nature of the curse and the power of the caster made Darkness remain weak for the several days following, and forced her to seek the others' help the next day with anything that required even a little strength to perform. When going to the Guild for reporting about the curse, Darkness was initially teased by the other adventurers who were happy at finally beating her in strength, though they soon grew protective of her. Darkness proceeded to gain the adoration of her party members when she grew so weak that she needed to be spoon fed, but soon after the wounded Powerful Messenger made its way to the outskirts of Axel, Darkness recovered her strength once the curse was lifted due to Wiz defeating the earth spirit.

Darkness also joined the party in accompanying Wiz on her request to eliminate Ghouls and her subsequent contest against Wolfgang over who is the "King of Undead".

When the party set out on a quest against a White Tiger only to run into a Rookie Slayer, Darkness was tricked into staying behind while her party members ran, before she was slapped away by the White Tiger. She later gave Aqua some assistance with raising the tiger's cub, as well as accompany the party in sending it back.

During the night when Kazuma went to bed early instead of enjoying crab pot sent by her family with bubbly alongside his party members, Darkness undressed to take a bath, only to find the bathroom already occupied by a strangely assertive Kazuma, who to her embarrassment forced her into helping him wash. Upon Aqua and Megumin capturing a Succubus attempting to break in, Darkness realised how Kazuma must have been Charmed by the low-ranking Demon, though she didn't pull back from beating him up when he covered for the Succubus' escape. She was shamed again the following day because Kazuma turned out to remember everything that had happened in the bathroom.

When the Mobile Fortress Destroyer advanced onto Axel, despite Aqua and Megumin already packed up to flee, Darkness insisted on attending the Guild meeting for formulating the adventurers' response, and during the preparations of defences admitted to Kazuma her duty to protect the city. As the Destroyer approached, Darkness stayed immobile even as the fortress skidded to a halt right in front of her. Following the Destroyer broadcasting its imminent self-detonation, Darkness stayed outside to take care of the spent Megumin (whereas in the anime, she excitedly charged into the fortress to better enjoy its detonation, making the other adventurers who were initially fleeing think that she was bravely trying to stop the self-detonation, and inspired them to storm the Destroyer).

## Late Winter Arc

With Sena coming to arrest Kazuma for treason because the Destroyer's Coronatite core obliterated Alderp's mansion, Darkness attempted to become the one who would endure torturous interrogation by naming herself the one responsible. She later helped carry the immobile Megumin back as part of Aqua's plan to distract the guards with Explosions outside the city so she could bust Kazuma out of jail. Then during the trial where Kazuma's party members acted as his defence attorneys, Darkness kept a low profile until the judge and Sena strangely followed Alderp's directive into sentencing Kazuma to death, at which she presented her family crest and promised to do anything for Alderp so that the trial would get postponed. She accordingly left her party behind and headed off to Alderp for hearing out his terms.

    Darkness soon discovered that Alderp had wanted her to marry his son Balter, a proposal that despite her disliking was very much welcomed by Ignis. For the next several days, Darkness tried dissuading her father but to no avail, thus she returned to tell her party about the arranged marriage, which she wanted their help to ruin. She later followed Kazuma's plan of him and Aqua dressing up as a butler and a maid of the Dustiness household in order to accompany her on the upcoming interview marriage with Balter, so they can ruin it without tarnishing the name of her house. However, Kazuma throughout the interview between Balter and the Dustinesses repeatedly intervened whenever Darkness tried saying something to ruin the scene, citing that it would look bad for the Dustiness household. Darkness finally got her chance when during the walk with Balter in the gardens, she ripped up her dress and outright challenged Balter to a duel at the dojo. After many rounds of missing every one of her attacks but tanking all of Balter's while Kazuma and Aqua looked on, she gained the admiration of Balter who gave up upon witnessing her fortitude. Darkness subsequently ordered Kazuma to a round with her as a demonstration of how the scum she prefers fight, and accordingly got drenched by the Water he Created before getting Freezed. She however recovered before twisting his arm when they were armlocked while he desperately Drained her, up until she allowed herself to be Drained unconscious when Kazuma promised to do something unspeakably embarrassing to her. Waking up to find Kazuma as well as Aqua in a meeting with Ignis and Balter, Darkness proceeded to make sure the marriage got ruined by lying that she was already pregnant with Kazuma's child, much to Ignis' joy and Aqua's shock, though following Balter's departure it took her and Kazuma a long while to explain the truth.

Accompanying Kazuma to clean up the magic circle that Aqua left in Keele's chamber before it makes Sena think that they're responsible for the mysterious monsters that were emerging from Keele's Dungeon, Darkness who found herself capable of resisting the self-detonations of the Vanir Dolls took point as Kazuma followed her inside, where she was delighted at finally being able to hit targets when the dolls threw themselves into the path of her wild swings. The two of them then ran into Vanir as he fashioned the dolls in front of Keele's chamber, following which the all-seeing Devil exposed their embarrassing thoughts and explained his dream. Darkness then attacked Vanir when he declared his intent to kill Aqua, and despite cutting up his body fashioned from clay, the mask which made up his true form attached onto her face and allowed Vanir to possess her body. Contrary to Vanir and Kazuma's expectations, though, Darkness felt only pleasure at her body being taken, and kept interrupting Vanir's dialogue much to his irritation. After Kazuma trapped Vanir inside Darkness by slapping an evil-sealing sticker onto the mask, Darkness followed him to seek Aqua who could exorcise the Devil, all the while enduring the overbearing pain from resisting Vanir. Yet upon nearing the exit, Vanir was able to take complete control of Darkness' body, which although was unharmed by the Sacred Exorcism Aqua blasted at them when they emerged outside, had also served as a shield to protect Vanir from the full effects of the holy magic. Vanir then fully utilised Darkness' body for dodging Aqua's magic and defeating the other adventurers hired by Sena, giving Darkness some satisfaction from their vituperations. But when Aqua got backed into a corner, Kazuma removed the evil-sealing sticker so Darkness could remove the mask, which she found herself unable to do due to Vanir's resistance. Darkness thus told Megumin to cast Explosion on her, so that Vanir who refused to be exorcised by Aqua would also be destroyed too.

Several days following Aqua fully Healing Darkness when the party found her still alive, (a possible time interval for Kazuma to have put on a wish-granting choker from Wiz's Shop that slowly chokes him to death unless his wish is granted, and forced Darkness to perform push-ups as well as other debasing things he requested, only to kill him after being enraged by his confession), Darkness became gravely embarrassed when the other adventurers at the Guild all called her "Lalatina" thanks to Kazuma. Then subsequent to the party being declared by Sena to be free of treason charges and debt as well as receive a huge reward for their exploits, Darkness was specially gifted with a new set of armour. She later accompanied Kazuma to Wiz's Shop in order to tell the shopkeeper of Vanir's demise, only to discover that the Duke of Hell had reincarnated into a second life that now works for the Lich.

At some point during the period, Darkness tried to take up knitting as part of her bridal training, though without much success, and later gave up when she saw how even Aqua knitted better than her. She also dragged Kazuma to help slap her awake when she attempted to communicate with a lost Siren in the forest, yet upon pulling out the earplugs from the sea spirit, all three of them were put to sleep by the startled Siren's song. In addition, when Kazuma reported experiencing serious stomach pains after Darkness returned from a girls meeting, she suggested the possibility of him ingesting some kind of parasitic monster, and later restrained a panicked Kazuma as he tried to flee from the hospital.

Following a series of explosions around Axel which the police accused Megumin of, Darkness took some of her house guards (or Chris in the audio drama) to investigate the area themselves. After searching for several days, they revealed to Megumin, Kazuma and Lorielina as well as other adventurers that the explosions were caused by Mine Mushrooms detonating upon the influence of Megumin's Explosions.

With Kazuma becoming lethargic, Darkenss went with Chris on a quest against Goblins after chatting with a passing Dust, and accordingly allowed herself be Binded by her friend so she could have her clothes torn by the Goblins and body ravaged by their thick sticks. Getting freed subsequent to Chris defeating all of the Goblins, Darkness reiterated the type of scummy men preferred by her. A few days later, she was cornered into an alleyway by a group of masked men trying to kidnap her, and fantasized how she would be humiliated, to the point her would-be kidnappers wondered if they had cornered some pervert looking like the target heiress. Following Dust appearing to her rescue and the men scared off by Yunyun and Vanir, she was asked by Yunyun to date Dust who was said to like her. Darkness though turned it down because of concern over her party, and proceeded to give advice for Dust to become popular with women, only to be irately called a muscular macho woman, which saw her going after Dust in rage.

At Kazuma's goading, Darkness for a day worked as a waitress at the Succubus Cafe while dressed in Succubi attire, all for the purpose of training herself to become popular with men, despite not knowing the exact nature of the Cafe and finding the Loli Succubus looking familiar.

When Alderp refused to open his coffers to reimburse his subjects living in the countryside where the Destroyer rampaged and forced them into seeking the Dustinesses for aid, Darkness under the influence of Maxwell loaned 2 billion eris from Alderp to help them, on the condition that she would repay with her body should something befall the head of her household.

## Early Spring Arc

As spring approached, Darkness with Megumin tried to drag Kazuma out of the warm kotatsu he shut himself into and set Aqua a bad example, before Kazuma agreed to take a quest against Lizard Runners. Despite Darkness desperately holding back the charging reptiles, the quest still ended with Kazuma dying, followed by the unspeakable that mortified her being committed upon his body.

The following day as Vanir brought along some samples of the goods Kazuma made prototypes of, Darkness explained to Kazuma how the Guild decided to let the Devil be for the time being while playing with balloons that were actually condoms. She then told Megumin upon her returned a few days later how come Kazuma and Aqua began acting like weird wealthy without the motivation to take quests nor personally fight the Devil King, before fanaticizing about Kazuma turning into a useless man. When the party set out the next day on their vacation to Arcanletia, Darkness was Drained by Kazuma to revive the Wiz he had brought along, following which she enjoyed their caravan trip along the highway to the city of water. Yet on the way, Darkness' hard body attracted a flock of Running Hawkites, then as the caravan stopped to let the adventurers guarding it to repel the monsters, she leapt into the Bind cast by one of them before enjoying how the Running Hawkites jumped over her bound body in a display that embarrassed Kazuma. With the flock turning back for another run, Darkness told Kazuma to tie her to their carriage so she could be dragged along as they raced towards a nearby cave while Aqua Healed her injuries, subsequent to which Kazuma hurled her towards the cave entrance so the Running Hawkites would after jumping over her run into the trap. During the caravan's camp that night, Darkness had her armour fixed by Kazuma, and in the ensuing Zombie attack had to take care of Wiz who got caught in Aqua's Turn Undead.

Following the gang escaping the encirclement by followers of the Axis Order upon their arrival at Arcanletia and them checking in at the inn, Darkness accompanied Kazuma to buy souvenirs. However, they soon got continously hounded by Axis followers trying convert them through all sorts of crazy con tactics, and only managed to get away when Darkness showed her talisman of the Eris Order, though this earned her the ire of many townsfolk who insulted, harassed, and even attacked her, much to the Crusader's delight. After Darkness and Kazuma picked up Megumin from the Axis main cathedral so they could go back to the inn, she took Megumin to enjoy the hot springs where they discussed about Kazuma, before punching the said eavesdropping pervert through the fence separating the women and mixed baths, sparking a battle in which she threw things at Kazuma.

At breakfast the next morning, Darkness got pressured by Aqua to help her save the city from what she claimed was a conspiracy by the Devil King's army to contaminate the hot springs and bankrupt the Axis Order. She accordingly went around asking without luck for clues about the contaminated springs, before rejoining Aqua when she went preaching to her followers about the contamination threat, though the Eris Crusader wasn't able to help much when the crowd turned disbelieving and hostile (and in the anime she joined the others when the gang had to escape the inn that night because of a mob of Axis followers coming to lynch Aqua).

The following morning, when it was revealed that the prime poisoning suspect the party managed to pinpoint had actually blurted out his plot some days ago when Kazuma was eavesdropping, only to have the cowardy Adventurer keep it under wraps in an attempt to avoid trouble, Darkness and Megumin furiously helped Aqua gang up on him. Later at the local Adventurer Guild, Darkness' noble status was used by her party members to persuade the employees into looking out for the culprit, subsequent to which they had a discussion of nobility and their relationship with her as they made their way back to the inn.

On the gang's way up the next day to the main spring situated in the mountains behind the main cathedral, Darkness' noble status was used again to get past the Eris followers guarding the gate leading there. Subsequent to Wiz expressing surprise at Darkness' identity, the Crusader was cajoled into scouting ahead, where she came across the dissolved remains of a Rookie Slayer. But following the gang discovering Hans in the act of poisoning the source reservoir, Darkness had to chase after a Kazuma fleeing in panic after he discovered how the Deadly Poison Slime was actually a deadly adversary in addition to being a Devil King's General, before she was forced to follow Aqua who turned back to go fight. Yet subsequent to Hans successfully poisoning the source reservoir and then breaking free from the ice Wiz trapped him in by reverting to his true monstrous form, Darkness took off her armour and ran around to lure the Deadly Poison Slime which even she couldn't keep as a pet away from her companions. This gave Kazuma the idea of having Darkness race them to safety once Megumin casted Explosion on Hans, before shielding the gang from the poisonous slime splattering all over the area, so that Wiz and Aqua could respectively freeze and purify the small bits of Hans afterwards, though because of Aqua the gang got chased out of the city the next day. And after returning to the party's mansion, Darkness proceeded to make tea for Kazuma before Yunyun came knocking.
(In the anime, the gang headed towards the main spring at night while being pursued by the lynch mob, who changed into believing Aqua before joining the fight when they saw Hans reverting to his monstrous true form, though they still swept Darkness around like rubbish. Following Kazuma's death and Hans being blown up, Darkness tried to defend Wiz when the reduced Hans approached to devour them until Aqua intervened, and subsequent to the party's return to Axel spent a long period there before heading to the Crimson Demon Village)

    Accompanying Kazuma to Japan with the others through a magic item that takes people to the other world for 12 hours but wipes their memories upon return, Darkness was astonished by the trucks she had took to be small Destroyers, before she got fascinated by fast food and brought to Akihabara by train, which excited her despite having to help Aqua when her hagoromo got caught in the train door. Later surprised by a talking vending machine that Aqua bought juice from, Darkness was handed a business card from scouts for pornography actresses, and got thoroughly embarrassed once hearing Kazuma explain what it was about. She proceeded to cheer up when brought to a gaming centre, though she made a scene by irritatedly smacking a medal game machine. After nightfall, Darkness and the others followed Kazuma back to his home, but while waiting outside as instructed by Kazuma before he went inside, the trio found themselves questioned by police who thought Darkness was a foreign prostitute and began arguing with her. The party was at that moment transported back to the KonoSuba World as the effects of the magic item ran out, leaving them with no recollection of the events that transpired.

The day after the vegetable selling contest between Aqua and Vanir, Darkness told the party of nightmares emerging amongst male adventurers sleeping at the city's inns, then persuaded Aqua to leave Vanir alone.

Following Kazuma's encounter with Zatu Ozuma and his party, Darkness got teased about "Larkless" sounding more like a Crusader's name than "Darkness". When Ozuma and party came knocking the next morning and called out Kazuma for his lies, Darkness tried to restrain Megumin from charging out, but fell into tears when she got taunted by Larkless and her companions for having an evil-sounding name. Two weeks later, Darkness accompanied Kazuma to the Guild where Ozuma's party had became the star, when reports came in about White Wolves appearing close to the city. As everybody all went to fight the pack, Darkness surprised Ozuma's party by declaring her ability to shield them from Explosion, before she lured the White Wolves into a bunch with Decoy for Megumin to wipe them all out, though following the cleansing of the pack, she and her party had to apologise to Ozuma's party upon hearing of how their misdeeds caused trouble to the similarly named party.

    As storm season approached, Darkness helped Kazuma persuade Megumin into joining the quest against the Great Spirit of the Storm. When all the adventurers headed towards the lake where the Great Spirit of the Storm manifested, Darkness drew a lot of male attention with her one-piece swimsuit. She later tried to attract the spirit's attacks despite her inability to swim, and stood to shield the others against the blast of the Explosions unleashed upon it.

Darkness was excited when Kazuma accepted a quest from Luna in the presence of Ran to some ancient ruins for fighting against a Titan Golem, which after heavily punching her repeatedly fingered her breasts, much to her pleasure, before she got flicked away. Later following on another quest for searching the underground facility of the ruins, Darkness helped sift through some old Japanese commodities they discovered, subsequent to which she listened to Aqua reciting the diary of the Head Researcher and went through the activation of the Pretty Girl Golem. Back at the Guild that night, she observed in amusement with the other girls how Kazuma discovered that Ran was paid to pose as his fan.

## Cursed Ring Arc

On the morning after Kazuma picked the cursed ring which became stuck to his finger due to a curse that also forced him into Stealing somebody's panties, Darkness accompanied the party to Wiz's Shop for asking about it. After hearing Vanir explain about the ring's history as well as how it forces its wearing to steal panties upon every full moon, she agreed to work for the 30 million eris fee he had charged for its removal, which she and .

After Kazuma still stole a panty despite all the girls staying somewhere else for the night, Darkness later complied with Kazuma's idea of earning Vanir's curse removal fee by working at his maid café dressed up as a maid server, where her excited humiliation attracted customers, though circumstances soon forced it to close.

Upon Kazuma hearing about the Sports Festival held by the Guild that offers a stupendous prize enough to pay the fee, Darkness explained to the gang about its new rules, which involve a swimming contest at the riverhead lake. She consequently joined the team's swimming training at the lake, though in the process her swimsuit mysteriously came off. On the day of the Sports Festival, Darkness during the race across the grasslands inadvertently inspired rival adventurers into fighting off Giant Toads, though the subsequent discovery of Brutal Alligator hatchlings in the lake snapping at the competitors' swimsuits ended up getting the festival cancelled.

Following a discussion during breakfast among the girls over what to do about Kazuma after he Stole panties again, Darkness at him suggesting selling light novels proposed writing about the maniac theme of a female knight being captured and tortured by the Devil King, which spurred Kazuma into scrapping the project, before she had to restrain a rabid Aqua causing a ruckus at Wiz's Shop. With Kazuma settling for making money through starting a singer idol unit, Darkness following idol training was assigned to be the cool member of the unit named "Shiny Blue", though it was soon forced to close due to circumstances.

The morning following the night something powerful tried to break into the mansion only to be repelled by the magic barrier Aqua had erected around it, Darkness and the others tailed Aqua who charged into Wiz's Shop to confront Vanir, where she restrained the rabid goddess. Then despite declining to accompany Kazuma on a quest to seek stolen antiques in a cave used by thieves as a hideout and forcing him to go with Chris and Yunyun instead, she still followed Aqua into trailing him along with Megumin and Wiz, which resulted in them too falling through a trapdoor into a deeper part of the cave system. She later joined the whole gang as they tried to sneak past the Skull Dragon sleeping by the exit only to have it woken by the ring, though they managed to make it out.

Having failing to retrieve the panties Kazuma had been forced by the curse to Steal at the next full moon, Darkness agreed to help earn the fee through working odd jobs. Several days later when the Skull Dragon was seen making its way towards Axel and had a bounty put onto it, Kazuma after hearing from Vanir of its origins assigned Darkness to cover for Yunyun while she held the Skull Dragon in place as well as shield her and Chris from the blast of the Explosions casted for weakening it. Subsequent to the ensuing deal made with the mage's soul in the Skull Dragon by offering up the Stolen panties and its purification by Aqua, the consequently enraged Darkness took part in the beating that sent Kazuma to Eris and forced Aqua to Resurrect him again.

Following the series of possible rewards and penalties for Kazuma depending on his performance in the "Panty Judgments", Darkness might become concerned over Kazuma acting particularly dejected, so following a walk with him around Axel, she discussed the matter with Aqua and Megumin, and was advised to act more intimately with him during their everyday activities. Kazuma though proceeded to make assertive requests for her to dress and feed him, before they went out walking in toad country, where subsequent to pushing Kazuma out of a Giant Toad's way Darkness instead got eaten, and later when frolicking with the other girls in the mansion's bathroom caught Kazuma Lurking about, though she still agreed to let him cozy up to her that night. The following day, she explained to Kazuma, who had been misinterpreting her actions as signs of love, how she was just trying to cheer him up, after which she apologised despite getting teased by him, and then she either enjoyed being ravaged by monsters on another quest or cosplayed as a cat for Kazuma's entertainment.

At some point during that period, Kazuma died again during one of their quests, and following Resurrection he shut himself up inside the kotatsu so his party members won't get him killed again. After the girls failed to drive him out, Darkness as part of their plan joined Kazuma in the kotatsu to laze around, and succeeded in making him go on quests again once he realised there'll be nobody to earn food and money.

## Magical Stones Arc

    After Darkness' boardgame match with Megumin got overturned by Kazuma, she was shown by Aqua a shard of glassic stone the goddess picked up when out for a walk, and followed the others to Wiz's Shop for assessing the shard, where Vanir upon inspection declared the shard to be part of a larger magical stone, which he offered to buy for millions of eris.

Accompanying Aqua with the others to the neighbourhood ruins where she found the shard, the party met Yunyun who popped out from hiding to challenge Megumin only to be defeated again. After the party defeated a Muncher-Muncher at the deepest part of the ruins, Darkness helped Kazuma unearth the magical stone, which upon having Aqua's shard fitted into a depression on it began glowing with more magical power as well as display a kanji. Back at Wiz's Shop where Aqua and Megumin began having disputes over selling the stone, Darkness suggested the party head to the Guild for discussing the matter, before becoming overjoyed to hear from Chris that there were more of those Devil-Sealing Magical Stones out there.

While asking around for clues to the magical stones at the Guild the next day, Wiz brought the party a magical stone detection device commissioned by Vanir that pointed them to Keele's Dungeon where Luna had offered them an Undead subjugation quest at. Upon reaching the dungeon entrance, Darkness was about to head inside with Aqua when she got caught in the Explosion casted by Megumin. Later as they searched the dungeon, in the process running into Mitsurugi who agreed to join in their hunt for the magical stones, the party fought unnaturally numerous waves of Undead after advancing into a secret passageway beyond Keele's chamber, where they were then faced by the Devil Giger leading the Undead attracted to the dungeon by the magical stone. Subsequent to defeating the Devil Giger and the discovery of the magical stone, the party returned to the Guild for hearing more about the magical stones from Chris who offered to join their search.

Arriving at the Temple of Everlasting Summer where the next magical stone was located, Darkness became elated at the scorching heat of the area as well as excited with the Bildnibis guarding the magical stone in the temple's depths, before helping defeat the spirit of fire to retrieve their objective.

Darkness then followed the party to the underground research facility of the Head Researcher, where they ran into Ran at the ancient ruins above ground, and allowed her to join them on their adventure. Making their way down to the lowest level, the party fought Gun Falcon DX and later Gun Falcon BX, before Darkness discovered the magical stone that Aqua activated on touch. That night at the mansion, Darkness brought out some crab sent from her family for a crab pot with her party members.

Trudging through the snowfield forest where the next magical stone was hidden, Darkness unlike the others shrugged off the cold. Upon reaching the depths of a snowy dungeon, Darkness became elated at the appearance of a Dera Mammo at which she recklessly charged towards. Subsequent to the mammoth's defeat, the magical stone got blown out from the ice, and all their companions at Axel were accordingly invited to the hot springs that gushed out. Returning to the mansion, Darkness noticed on the detection device how the next magical stone appeared to be located in a dungeon under lockdown.

Following the party the next day when Luna granted them special permission to explore the Mystery Tower, Darkness and her party members along with Wiz made their way up the tower. As the party arrived at the midway point, Darkness glimpsed somebody looking like the deceased Beldia, sparking a discussion about them running into all kinds of people and monsters they had met before. Accordingly fighting past a Giant Toad Ghost as well as other monsters, the party was faced on the top floor with the physical illusions of Beldia and Hans, who thanks to Kazuma's instructions they were able to defeat. Following Hans' failed attempt to kill Aqua as part of his final act, Beldia rolled his head to peek up some girls' skirts before being stomped from existence. Aqua later picked up the magical stone powering the tower, causing the tower to begin disappearing, at which Kazuma used her hagoromo as a parachute for everyone until Wiz Teleported them all to safety.

Shocked by Vanir's revelation to the party the next day at the Guild about the dungeon containing the final magical stone moving around, Darkness also heard Sena's announcement to all adventurers about a moving dungeon appearing, and followed along her companions who agreed to explore that dungeon after Vanir offered to pay extra for all seven magical stones. Amazed by the architecture of the town dungeon described by Kazuma as a Shangri-La, Darkness headed off alone to relieve herself soon after the party entered, where she found everything in the place to be artificially created. Darkness accordingly chased after Kazuma who had gone ahead without her, only to discover him attacked by the doll copies of their party, so she joined up with Aqua and Megumin to help him defeat the imposters, though Kazuma found her doll copy actually hitting with its attacks unlike the real Darkness. The Doll Master who created the dungeon and carried the magical stone then showed up, before telling them its sad story of being discarded due to its appearance. Forced to fight again because Aqua enraged the Doll Master, the party still managed to defeat all the dolls and retrieve the magical stone.

When her party members expressed interest at the rumour regarding the seven magical stones being able to grant any wish once they are all assembled at an altar on the Island in the Sky, Darkness reminded them how they had to find a way to get up there first, prompting the party to head for Wiz's Shop and seek help. Afterwards as her party with Wiz and Vanir in tow made their way through the floating island, during a break Darkness and Kazuma took in the breathtaking view of the land below them, before being used by Aqua to serve as a windshield when they reached a higher and windier level. Following the Devil-Sealing Magical Stones being placed on the altar and the Imitation Dragon getting released just as Vanir had schemed, Darkness along with Megumin warned the others while they were preoccupied with Aqua and Vanir's squabble of the monster's hostility before it began attacking the party, who barely fought their way out of the Island in the Sky thanks to Wiz freezing the rampaging beast, only to have it track them all the way to the grasslands outside Axel.

With the Imitation Dragon rampaging at the gates of Axel, Darkness got her wish of having somebody help them when the commotion attracted the gathering of adventurers who accompanied them on their search of the magical stones. During the fierce battle, Darkness helped persuade Aqua to let Kazuma smash her shard, which had been transferring power to the Imitation Dragon for it to regenerate from its wounds. She proceeded to carry on her attacks, before covering for Ran, Yunyun, and Vanir under Kazuma's instructions as they attacked the Imitation Dragon in preparations for the killing blows to be made. Later with Vanir being unapologetic over starting the whole ordeal, Darkness along with Aqua and Megumin ganged up on him. She consequently joined the other adventurers in celebrating their victory at the Guild.

## Black Slab Arc

Helping the party salvage a disastrous quest thanks to her toughness, on their way back Darkness tried to warn Megumin and Aqua against picking up a black stone slab and a gem by citing the incident with the cursed ring, though to no avail. After Wiz assessed the Black Slab at her shop and told them how it could generate clothing when provided with ingredients and magical power, Darkness began masochistically fantacizing about being cursed just as Aqua generated a set of high-quality sleepwear for young girls as a test run, following which she returned with the others feeling queer. The next morning, Darkness shocked her party when her personality changed to that of a domineering sadist, which Kazuma discovered upon closer inspection of the slab was the result of its curse.

Subsequently told by Sena that their party was accused of theft by a nobleman who offered to pardon them from banishment if they could generate within the deadline a set of clothing that makes the wearer envious, Darkness insisted on finding out the real culprit in order to clear their name, though she also agreed to use the Black Slab coupled with some clothing recipes from Vanir that were concocted by a man in black robes as well as himself for generating the requested clothes. Spending the ensuing weeks in a cycle of the whole party working several days on odd jobs and quests for ingredients and money to buy ingredients followed by rest and clothing generation, Darkness became increasingly aggressive towards her party members, and was witnessed by Chris while she shopped around for whips. Scaring Kazuma off when he tried asking what she wanted, Darkness then began forcing the party into survival training in case they needed to flee into the wild. It eventually came to an end when one day, as she was compelling the others to run laps around the riverhead lake to satisfy her desire of overpowering control, at Kazuma's begging she put on the Leather Lest, before whipping Kazuma so much that she was satisfied in body and broke the curse. Yet following the generation and delivery of the requested School Invidia to the nobleman, Darkness while recalling how mean Kazuma had been to Megumin, hears from Sena about the set of clothes getting stolen and the nobleman again requesting them to make another set of clothes for earning his pardon.

After being notified by Yunyun of Megumin getting cursed into thinking that loli girls are better, Darkness as she again helped the party work for ingredients got told about Megumin trying to start a Lolita Alliance. She later helped Kazuma and Yunyun set up a speech for Megumin despite being booed at by the audience, before the curse on Megumin wearing Pure Doll got broken. Soon afterwards, the party used the Black Slab for generating the requested Idol Superbia, but several days since it was sent out, Sena came to tell the party of its theft, which occurred at the same time the outside mercenaries hired to boost security were attacked on the road by summoned monsters. Subsequent to Sena dropping off another clothing request from the nobleman before leaving, Aqua confessed how she helped a man in black robes attract monsters that delayed the mercenaries on the road, which the others realised had made them accomplices to the theft.

The next day, Darkness further questioned the Aqua forced to seiza by a despairing Kazuma, and discovered how she had helped the man in black robes break a magic barrier guarding someplace during the night before they picked up the Black Slab, the purpose for which Darkness reasoned to be letting Devils or Undead through. After hearing from Wiz about more details on the curse, the party reckoned that it was Aqua's turn to be cursed with feeling no desire, a situation Darkness and Megumin found especially troublesome to break. Darkness proceeded to help the party work for ingredients all over again, during which the incident with Kazuma offering to help Megumin clean the bathroom so she could have her feelings healed by sleep occurred. Later on she took part in the party's ambush on the man in black robes at Wiz's Shop, though Aqua wearing Sexy Formal instead purified the robed doll possessed by undead that showed up. As Kazuma fell into despair at proof of the culprit being destroyed, Darkness found it peculiar how Aqua didn't notice the man being an Undead when accepting the jobs from him, and told the party to continue working for generating the requested Sexy Luxuria in order to buy more time. Yet after a successful delivery, the nobleman came up with more excuses to make them generate an additional set of clothes, making Darkness and Sena agree that the nobleman was going to squeeze the party into slaving for him unless their innocence is proved. The girls consequently realised how their lives were forfeit because they couldn't get any more recipes, at which Kazuma comforted Megumin and Darkness in an unprecedented fashion, making the girls discover that it was him who got cursed.

Following some discussion between Darkness and the other girls as well as a bit of experimentation, the three of them came to the conclusion that the curse which should have hit Aqua got rebounded by her godly aura onto Kazuma, causing him to desire healing the feelings of everyone but Aqua. Wiz then delivered some new clothing recipes despite the culprit who concocted them supposedly vanquished by Aqua already, but the party nevertheless started working for its ingredients. Days later, Darkness hears new clues from Kazuma about how the culprit in black robes was actually still alive, before being told by Aqua that Kazuma needed to give them a relaxing massage for the curse on him to break. Then after several massages failed to break the curse, at Aqua's advice she and Megumin let Kazuma massage them without feeling defencive so the curse could be broken before it became permanent. Darkness eventually put on the Charming Roomwear, before she and Megumin got a relaxing massage from Kazuma together, and so the curse was eventually lifted, following which the party continued gathering ingredients for the requested Berserk Ira as part of Kazuma's plan to catch the man in black robes.

    One night right before the deadline, the party ambushed and captured the man in black robes when he sneaked into their mansion to steal the ingredients. Yet while trying to generate the Berserk Ira requested by the nobleman, it turned out that the recipe given to them was actually for generating the self-autonomous Armour of Wrath. As the Armour moved on its accord to wreck havoc on the world in a display of wrath, Darkness struggled to hold it back. Upon Kazuma coming up with the idea of Exploding the Armour after bringing to a location without people, Darkness accordingly put on the Armour of Wrath, then resisting the pain of resistance enough to kill most people, she ran to the grasslands outside Axel, though Kazuma had to spur her onwards when she purposefully slowed down. Stripping off the Armour of Wrath and putting her own suit of armour on while Kazuma had his eyes closed, Darkness despite her endurance was all spent as Megumin cast Explosion on the Armour, thus Kazuma consequently chose to put on himself the set of clothes generated by the escaped man in black robes, which the girls later ripped off from his dead body.

After everything was settled with her having tested out enough numbers of various clothes, Darkness laid in wait for days at the Guild to sign up for a quest against Slimes, then respectively blackmailed and enticed the reluctant Kazuma and Aqua into joining her. The party also invited Yunyun to tag along, though Darkness during a discussion on Slimes sprouted a lot of perversions which Kazuma strived to keep Yunyun from hearing. Following a sleepless night, the thrilled Darkness accompanied by her companions headed for the lake, where Kazuma had to control her from charging out as soon as a Slime was spotted. Darkness let herself be caught by the Slime anyways, and despite being disappointed when the Slime wasn't able to dissolve her armour, still got excited once it slipped into her clothes to dissover her underwear, at which Kazuma ordered the Slime to be cut down. Still feeling unfulfilled as her companions didn't witness her shame of having her clothes melted before their eyes, Kazuma used the last generation of the Black Slab for a suit of bikini armour, yet Darkness then clarified that she had wanted her body becoming gradually exposed instead of wearing something that exposes it. Kazuma is subsequently attacked by a mutated Slime which only goes after men before having his clothes melted, prompting him to shut himself up in his room that night, so Darkness put on the bikini armour and let him look all over her as a form of apology. Afterwards, Darkness might enjoy the looks that townsfolk who heard about the bikini armour gave her, or starve herself because the bikini armour felt too tight to the point she collapsed in the bathroom where Kazuma found her all undressed.

## Mid Spring Arc

Upon hearing Yunyun asking to bear Kazuma's child, Darkness implored her to reconsider while helping Megumin beat up the shamelessly complying Kazuma. The following day she joined the party as Wiz Teleported them to Arcanletia before starting their trek along the trail to the Crimson Demon Village. On the way, Darkness and the other girls fell for the allure of a Tranquility Girl, making her prevent Kazuma from cutting it down then and there, as well as get mad at him after he later killed it.

Subsequent to the Kazuma scouting ahead on the clearing upon the trail the party had reached the following day defeated a female Orc, Darkness was devastated to learn that the male Orcs whom she had dreamt of getting molested by are no more. Following Kazuma's molestation by the Orcs and his subsequent rescue by Yunyun, she and the gang were discovered in the forest by attacking Oni (or Goblins in the anime), before getting saved and Teleported back to the Crimson Demon Village by Bukkororii and his vigilantes.

Arriving at the village, Darkness proceeded to accompany the party in hearing Hiropon explain the situation and witness how the Crimson Demons fought off another attack by the Devil King's army, then got brought back to Megumin's home where as night fell, she protested Yuiyui's decision to let Kazuma sleep with Megumin only to be put to Sleep.

The next morning at breakfast, Darkness joined the other girls in calling Kazuma names for him attempting to make a move on a sleeping Megumin during the night. Later as Megumin took Kazuma and Aqua sightseeing around the village, Darkness went to order a new suit of armour at the village blacksmith, where she also test swung a giant sword for him. She returned to Megumin's home just as Sylvia led a raid by the Devil King's army from that direction, and despite not landing any attacks, managed through her perverted toughness to hold them off until Kazuma brought reinforcements. That night Darkness was again put to Sleep by Yuiyui for trying to stop Kazuma and Megumin sleeping together, before she was woken up by Sylvia's night raid. When Kazuma whom Sylvia had taken as hostage threatened to defect, Darkness tried to talk him out of it, only to have him request her dressing up as a maid to perform lewd orders.

Joining the others to the underground warehouse for storing weapons where Kazuma was taken to some time afterwards, Darkness then fled alongside the villagers to the Demon's Hill due to Sylvia whom Kazuma had trapped inside the warehouse merging with the Mage-Killer and razing the village. Darkness later joined the villagers' resistance for buying Kazuma time to search for clues on the weapon created to counter the Mage-Killer (while in the anime she went to evacuate Megumin's family), though she soon got dejected when Sylvia refused to attack her, and headed to the place Megumin's family as well as her party members gathered to set up the Railgun.
(In the anime, subsequent to the Railgun being charged fully by Megumin's Explosion and fired by Komekko to punch through Sylvia, Darkness had to flee alongside the others when the Growth Chimera returned to life merged with the dead Beldia and Hans. Following the arrival of Wiz and Vanir, Darkness let herself be possessed by the Duke of Hell so they could hold off the Devil King's Generals, allowing Kazuma to enact his plan for finishing Sylvia off)

Spending the next few days in the village as it was being rapidly rebuilt, Darkness while accompanying her party and Yunyun to a cursed boulder claimed by Pekonyan to be the source of the village's jinx, had happily tackled a charging Panda before Yunyun froze them together, and later shielded Kazuma from a Knee-kick Runner's killer knee kick. Eventually she escorted her companions to the cursed boulder where its jinx got Broken, then subsequently tried to stop Kazuma from staring under Megumin and Yunyun's soggy skirts that were uplifted by Pekonyan's Tornado.

Upon return to their mansion, Darkness commented on Kazuma lazing around again, before the party was notified about the princess' request (while in the anime, she joined the party on a picnic after their return to Axel, where she witnessed Megumin's powered-up Explosion, and subsequent to that spent a long period on other things before the princess' arrival).

At some point during the period, Darkness also helped pursue a runaway rare miniature Destroyer that Aqua and Kazuma tried to sell in secret, though it ended up all for nought.

One day returning from shopping only to find the others practising how to pretend dropping their Adventurer Cards so another member could yell out their exploits for all to hear, Darkness chided them for their idiotic behaviour, though she soon got cajoled by their flattery. A couple of days later, Darkness accompanied her party as well as other adventurers out into the mountains for facing against Shuten and her band of Ogres, where the Crusader's suggestion of tackling the monsters head on got overruled by the overwhelming majority. Following Kazuma's capture and the adventurers being forced to hold a three-round contest against the Ogres, Darkness was selected to compete in the second round that was an endurance contest. But despite Kazuma successfully petitioning the rules into consisting of Darkness only needing to endure Shuten's attacks for a minute without the need for retaliating, the perverted Crusader insisted on ten minutes only to collapse after nine, causing the adventurers to lose the second round. She eventually recovered during the third round, when the adventurers and Ogres became friends.

## Cursed Relic Arc

When Kazuma was requested by Lundberg, a nobleman Darkness held in high regards, to investigate an ancient relic discovered at the research facility beneath his mansion, she followed despite fining the request uncommon, only to be caught in its defence response in the form of Level Drain, which reduced the party as well as the accompanying Yunyun, Chris, and Mitsurugi to Level 1 rookies with no Skills. Managing to escape being buried alive as a result of Megumin's Explosion, Darkness attended the ensuing trial where Kazuma was charged with treason by Sena. Since the Lundberg family was too powerful for her to throw the Dustiness name around in an attempt affect the trial, Darkness could only take her companions to see Lundberg and discuss the terms of pardon. She then had to drag outside the Aqua impatient at her hagoromo being confiscated and the Megumin who was irate at being unable to cast Explosions, so that the rest of her companions could listen in peace to Rav as he tried explaining what was needed for repairing the relic, then later had to give up all her money and advanced equipment to pay for the damages on Lundberg's estate.

Taking the old road to the ruins where even monsters roaming there now proved a challenge, the party reached the neighbourhood ruins, at the entrance to which they recalled how their adventures with the magical stones began when Aqua picked up a shard of them there. They soon found a passageway leading underground that was barred by a locked door, so at Darkness' advice the party went back and asked for the Guild's help to obtain its key from the noble in charge of sewer maintenance.

Journeying with the party through the underground sewers running beneath the ruins, Darkness helped fight off the Giant Toads encountered, as well as the ones trying to obstruct them while they were trying to position the Frogicide purchased from Vanir. Later at the storeroom where the pipe for repairing the relic was stored, she also fought the Giant King Toad blocking their way. Subsequent to bringing a piece of pipe back to Rav, Darkness was baffled when she returned the next day with Kazuma and heard the researcher asking them to search for a Magical Stone of Water from an unheard of dungeon near Arcanletia.

As the party walked along the highway to the city of water, Aqua showed hesitancy at returning to Arcanletia to look for the relic's replacement part in fear of its residents still resentful at her ruining their hot springs, so Darkness offered to take any stones thrown at her by the townsfolk.

Following the party's reunion with Chris who had been scouting out the city beforehand, Darkness was also surprised when Chris showed the party an Axis follower calling on the "power of Aqua" to split the waters of the lake in half and reveal an underwater temple. As the party in their search for the replacement part entered the temple clearly built for worshipping Aqua but now reduced to a dungeon, the said goddess along with Kazuma got their faces hugged in a courtyard by Lake Squids that Darkness had to pull off. Later when the party reached a flooded hall in the inner sanctum, Darkness and the other girls wearing swimsuits provided by Aqua dived in to search. She was accordingly captured alongside Chris by a surfacing Kraken, much to her delightful pleasure, and was left dissatisfied when Kazuma managed to free them. Darkness proceeded to clear away the debris that was trapping the water within the flooded hall in order to leave the Kraken weakened, allowing the party to defeat the Kraken and retrieve the replacement part.

Later as the party walked the trail to the Crimson Demon Village, Darkness also helped the others cheer up Megumin. Reuniting with Yunyun and explaining their situation to Arue, Funifura, and Dodonko when the party reached the village afterwards, Darkness joined the others in asking around about the controller slate needed for repairing the relic, though it wasn't before Aqua later performed tricks to Komekko at Megumin's home did they discover that the little girl had found it first.

Darkness became part of the support team to make Komekko impressed by Megumin's Explosion so she would hand over the controller slate, though after repeated attempts outside the village failed, she had to follow Kazuma on investigating a decayed fort, from which flew a Mecha Owl Monster that attacked them. That night while everybody discussed about the mechanical monsters recently appearing around the village, upon Megumin declaring to Komekko how she would fight those Mecha Owl Monsters, Darkness suggested to Kazuma as he chided Megumin that by taking out of those monsters' source at the fort, they might be able to show Komekko how cool Megumin is and convince her to hand them the slate. When the party returned to the fort the next day with Komekko in tow so she could see Megumin being cool, they defeated several Mecha Owl Monsters before successfully tracking the constructs to a secured building in the middle of the fort.

After the party descended into the facility ruins beneath the fort and fought to get past a door locked by a gamer code, they reaced the deepest part of the facility, where Darkness discovered an inactive mechanical construct looking like the Mage-Killer. Subsequent to the big red panic button on the wall pushed by Komekko and causing the activation of the Mage-Killer Prototype, Darkness followed Kazuma in the party's retreat, though she paused midway to delay the construct for a few seconds so that Kazuma could shut the door they had exited through onto the Mage-Killer Prototype as it tried to slither out. With its tail section trapped behind the door, the head section of the Mage-Killer Prototype was beset by Darkness and the rest of the party. Although they managed to beat the construct down, Aqua as she cheerily approached its prone form stimulated it back into activity, so Darkness had to join the party in the flight to the forest with it hot on their heels, before she and Aqua got caught in the Explosion casted by Megumin that destroyed the Mage-Killer Prototype and impressed Komekko.

Like the rest of her party when they headed over to search for the next replacement part, Darkness found out the hard way that Luna's warning about the snowfield forest turning lethally cold due to the overabundance of Snow Sprites was true after her mouth went so numb she could hardly speak. Following their return to Axel due to the others lacking Darkness' endurance to the chill, she headed back there once Kazuma bought the whole party Hot Rings to ward off the deadly cold. Later the party discovered the path leading up to a mountain of ice and reunited with Mitsurugi, before heading back to Axel for preparations subsequent to Aqua slipping away on the ice before being recovered.

Upon returning to the ice mountain with Mitsurugi being the guide and Aqua sliding out of the party to end up further ahead where the other had to go collect her, Darkness dug through the notebook from the remains of an adventurer Aqua came across, and uncovered the existence of ice dissolvent that proved the key for proceeding. When the party reached the end of the dungeon only find the way back blocked by a gigantic Big Snow Sprite, Darkness approached it only to be squashed by its enormous bulk much to her delight. After Kazuma and Mitsurugi dragged her out, the Salamander caught by Megumin was used by Kazuma to burn so many Snow Sprites out of the Big Snow Sprite that it shrank into a size the party could defeat and claim the Eternal Ice Crystal within for repairing the relic. Subsequent to them presenting the final replacement part to Rav, Darkness was commended by Lundberg, who invited the party and Sena to enjoy dinner.

Following the completion of repairs on the relic, Lundberg's proclamation of treason much to Darkness' disgust, Wallavy's release as well as subsequent departure, and Rav's betrayal plus escape, the party foiled Lundberg's attempt to silence them all with a Manatite Golem, subsequent to which Darkness knocked the treasonous nobleman out and helped Sena carry him to custody.

The next day, Darkness and Kazuma gave Sena their testimonies over Lundberg's treason case before returning to their mansion, where shortly after Aqua's departure, she and Megumin convinced Kazuma that they might be charged with treason again if Wallavy wasn't caught. Subsequent to Vanir bringing Wiz to help the party track down Wallavy, who had headed towards the Temple of Everlasting Summer, they all set out once Aqua came back.

When the party reached the oasis adjacent to the temple, at Aqua's insistence they all took a break, during which the girls splashed around in the water wearing new swimsuits. Locating Rav who was observing an evolved Wallavy regurgitating the monsters it had drained some time afterwards, Darkness got so turned on that she squealed her perversions and alerted Rav to their presence, thus the party consequently had to fight Wallavy before fleeing when it regenerated. Several days later as the Guild discussed the mysterious Wallavy, the party received permission to enter Lundberg's mansion, though Darkness didn't find anything useful while Kazuma became too furious to tell her what he read in the Head Researcher's diary that Megumin had discovered.

With the party searching the Great Tree Labyrinth for Rav at Vanir's advice only to find their way being blocked by a cluster of thick branches, at Aqua's suggestion they asked Wiz for a specially formulated weedkiller, which despite wilting away the branches also enraged the Ironwood Treant that marked out its turf with them. The party accordingly defeated the monster and headed to the deepest part of the labyrinth, where they fought the Wallavy evolved to its second form who had been directed there by Rav, as well as the Guardian of the Great Tree which attacked them upon awakening.

As the party worried about their future back at the Guild in face of Wallavy's unstoppable growth, Aqua while scouring the diary of the Head Researcher, discovered a hidden page talking about a counter weapon against Wallavy being hidden in the Magic-Sealer Cave. Kazuma promptly led the party to make for the deepest part of the cave, where they had to defeat Giant Spiders and an Arachne on the way down. But in the chamber where the safe containing the counter weapon was kept, Darkness upon hearing of possible traps on it excitedly tripped them on purpose, which activated the Big Crystal guarding the safe and forced the party to fight the defence system. Then upon them racing back to Axel, she joined in the battle against a giant Wallavy who was advancing on the city.

Several days following the giant Wallavy's defeat, Darkness was just returning from a meeting with Lundberg, when Sena burst into their mansion to notify them about small monsters looking like Wallavy popping up all over, so she had to join the party in heading to various dungeons and defeating all the small Wallavies they found.

Taking part in the party's journey into the Bottomless Labyrinth from which the small Wallavies had emerged from, Darkness had to talk Meguman and Kazuma out of blowing the whole place up when they got piqued by a mocking sign at the entrance left by Rav. During the middle of their trek where Darkness read another mocking sign, the party sans Aqua who got captured by Guardian Sword had to fight the Golem when it activated. After the party discovered Rav at his hideout and was shocked at seeing a Wallavy bigger than ever on the move outside, they fought Guardian Cross which he had left behind as he made his escape.

When the party headed for the ancient ruins above the underground research facility as they followed the lead of Rav's whereabouts provided by Lundberg, the Titan Golem Type 2 stationed to guard the place pursued Aqua before stomping on Darkness, so once the enjoying Crusader was pulled out the party went and defeated it. Making it down to the deepest part of the facility where the magical stone had previously been found, the party followed a hidden door discovered by Aqua that led to a secret section.

As Darkness warned about them already being discovered, the party pushed into the laboratory Rav was busing working in, where they defeated the small clones of Wallavy modified to grow spines. While Kazuma and Aqua showed Rav the truth about Wallavy and drove him into shock, Darkness along with Megumin noticed on an observation device Wallavy who had grown into supergiant proportions heading straight towards Axel. After they all raced back to the city, Darkness headed towards the post Kazuma had assigned her to for fending against the approaching Wallavy.

At some point during the period, Darkness when returning to Axel with Kazuma expressed her determination to go on martial training so she could be of more help when attacking, though she then revealed her real goal of facing more dangerous foes. Requested by some merchants to chase off a pair of bandits who recently moved into the area, she later took Kazuma straight to their hideout and called for them to leave, and after tanking their attacks which she enjoyed, the bandits were freaked out so much they ran off. Darkness afterwards took Kazuma to check on the bandits again, and chased them when they escaped into the woods where a Werebear attacked them. Taking all of the Werebear's attack without landing any in return, Darkness got dragged off by Kazuma when the bandits eventually jumped in to defeat the monster. Going back there once more, Darkness and Kazuma found out that the pair who became bandits after losing their jobs had now changed to woodcutting, so subsequent to promising more aid to the unemployed, Darkness returned to Axel while telling Kazuma how she was done with martial training for the time being.

As other magic users along the roadside worked on trapping the advancing Wallavy in place before it could get any closer to Axel, Darkness and other remaining members joined Kazuma to fight the supergiant warabi mochi in order to keep it from freeing itself. Following Wallavy's core surviving Megumin's Explosion thanks to Rav having inserted it inside the relic for its protection and Wallavy subsequently evolving into a mutated form, Darkness joined all the other companions who they had adventured with to make their final battle against the supergiant mutant Wallavy had transformed into. When they damaged Wallavy so much that it started splitting out the small clones of itself, Darkness let Vanir possess her so they could hack out chunks of Wallavy, before they split so that Darkness could block the small clones falling out while Vanir zapped them. She accordingly helped clear a path through the small clones to allow Aqua and Kazuma go destroy Wallavy's core, and afterwards borrowed Aqua her sword for cutting up the inert body of Wallavy.

Several days later, when all the adventurers who had fought in the battle were drinking at the Guild in celebration, Darkness enjoyed the delicious warabi mochi Aqua had cut out from Wallavy.

## References

1. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 12, Chapter 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 3
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 2
5. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 2
6. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 4
7. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 1
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 2
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 3
10. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Bonus Short Story from Gamers
11. ↑ KonoSuba Manga Volume 1, Short Story
12. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Bonus Short Story coming with the first edition
13. ↑ Television Anime Season 1 Blu-ray Disc Box Set, Bonus Audio Drama, Track 1
14. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 4
15. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Epilogue
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 7, Chapter 5
17. ↑ KonoSuba Manga Volume 2, Special Short Story coming with the E-book
18. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 1
19. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 1
20. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 2
21. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 3
22. ↑ Television Anime Soundtrack 2, Audio Drama
23. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 1, Special Short Story Booklet
24. ↑ Sound Drama 1, Track 2
25. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 3, Special Short Story Booklet
26. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 5, Special Short Story Booklet
27. ↑ Television Anime Season 1 Blu-ray Disc Box Set, Special Short Story Booklet
28. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 4
29. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 5
30. ↑ Television Anime Season 1, Episode 10
31. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 4
32. ↑ Television Anime Season 1, Original Animation Disc
33. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Epilogue
34. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Bonus Short Story from Gamers
35. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Bonus Short Story coming with the E-book
36. ↑ Everyday Manga Volume 1, Short Story
37. ↑ Sound Drama 1, Track 3
38. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 2, Special Short Story Booklet
39. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 4
40. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 5
41. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 1
42. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 2
43. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 3
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 4
45. ↑ Everyday Manga Series, Chapter 21
46. ↑ Television Anime Season 2, Episode 19
47. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 5
48. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Epilogue
49. ↑ Television Anime Season 2, Episode 10
50. ↑ 2015 Sneaker Bunko Isekai Fair, Gifted Short Story Booklet
51. ↑ Preordered Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 6, Special Short Story Booklet
52. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 10, Special Short Story Booklet
53. ↑ Television Anime Season 2 Blu-ray Disc Box Set, Special Short Story Booklet
54. ↑ Television Anime Season 2, Original Animation Disc
55. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Prologue
56. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 1
57. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 2
58. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 3
59. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 4
60. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 5
61. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Darkness Route
62. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Audio Drama coming with Limited Edition
63. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Prologue
64. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Neighbourhood Ruins
65. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at Khiel's Dungeon
66. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Temple of Everlasting Summer
67. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Ruins of the Underground Research Facility
68. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Snowfield Forest
69. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Mystery Tower
70. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at Shangri-La
71. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Island in the Sky
72. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story with the Imitation Dragon
73. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Epilogue
74. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Prologue
75. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chapter 1
76. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chapter 2
77. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chapter 3
78. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chapter 4
79. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Final Chapter
80. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Darkness Route
81. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 1
82. ↑ 82.0 82.1 82.2 82.3 Animated Movie 1
83. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 2
84. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 3
85. ↑ 85.0 85.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 4
86. ↑ Everyday Manga Series, Chapter 23
87. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 5
88. ↑ Movie 1 Bonus, Short Story 1
89. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 5, Epilogue
90. ↑ Everyday Manga Series, Chapter 26
91. ↑ Movie 1 Bonus, Short Story 2
92. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Prologue
93. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Old Road to the Ruins
94. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Neighbourhood Ruins
95. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Underground Sewers
96. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Highway to the City of Water
97. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Underwater Temple
98. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Forest Trail to the Crimson Demons
99. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Decayed Fort
100. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Underground Ruins beneath the Fort
101. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Snowfield Forest
102. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Ice Mountain
103. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the facility beneath Lundberg's mansion
104. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Temple of Everlasting Summer
105. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Oasis of Everlasting Summer
106. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Great Tree Labyrinth
107. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Magic-Sealer Cave
108. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story during the hunt for the Small Wallavies
109. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Bottomless Labyrinth
110. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Ruins of the Underground Research Facility
111. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Secret Research Facility
112. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Friendship Events with Darkness
113. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story with Supergiant Wallavy
114. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Epilogue