Konosuba: Stillness of Time (Hiatus)

Part 5: power realisation

Future

Clang...

Cling...

Clung...

The crown fell, the world cheered
The death of a king, the rise of a symbol

Now

After tearing the arm off of random thug #1 and brutalizing him later, the thugs around me were visually traumatized and tried to run away.

Y/N: oi oi, you cannot threaten me and think you'll get away unharmed right? That's an affront to my basic right of safety!

I then brought my arm up, pulling it back, and then ready to swing it

Y/N: 'this should cut off the lower portion of their legs'

SLICE

Just as I swung my arm I then saw a flash of brown being swinging with my arm before smashing into one of the buildings and collapsing it

I then whipped around, looking confused until I saw another group of adventurers preparing for battle.

I then looked at the building where the brown blur went into and seeing him coming out looking startled and roughened up quite a lot

Speaking to the brown blur and his companions: you know, you shouldn't bother other people's business and expect to come out unscathed. Especially when dealing with me.

Brown blur: listen! You were going way too hard on these people!

Y/N: you know, you should feel lucky that your still breathing 'seriously what was this guy thinking!'

Bb: I know it still hurts but damn I won't let you go any further! Any further and you might actually kill them!

Y/N: 'heh, that's adorable'

Bb: ...now how about instead of commiting another crime, I'll buy you a drink?

Y/N: 'thats a quick 180. Hmm he might be of use' alright but you're paying

Kazuma POV

"KAZUMA HEL-UUUPP" Aqua yelled as she's gobbled by a giant toad

'I'm too young for this shet' I thought as I rushed to strike the toad

Later

"Hey Y/N!" I called out to him as I went into the Adventurer Guild main building. I then notice he's drinking alone

"why you drinking alone buddy? It's always better to drink together!" I said hoping to get some free drinks off of him

"I just discovered that I can't get drunk"

Wu-wait...."What? This is a fantasy genre with new wines and-"

"Yes... I've been drink for the past...how many hours? It appears alcohol counts as poison..." he said with a moody tone "Anyway what took you so long...."

I then gave him a look

"...right...Aqua, Anyway, waiter! I'll take a drinks for him" he called out

'hehe...Free stuff...I really should stop skimming off people' I thought

I then look at Y/N with a serious expression, "listen, we need-"

"Where is Aqua anyway?" He asked

I gave him a blank stare before realizing how quiet it's been

I then shrugged and waved it off before said "eh, I'll find her later. So I need to ask you a favor"

He gave me a curious look "oh? What type of favor?"

I need you to join my team because you're the most competent person that I know and you aren't a complete NEET like me and I need your powers thats a literally cheat I mean who would've thought that you can be granted a causality nullification power?!?!?!? A literal power a nullify a literal fundamental law of the uni-no mulitverse! I mean-

Flashback to previously today

"Hey Aqua what do you mean Y/N Entropy isn't like me?" I questioned her

"He actually thought about what to wish for"

"What do you mean? What did he wish for?"

"I granted him 2 wishes because of his circumstances and he used those 2 wishes to its maximum. In fact, both of his ability are pushing the boundary-" I quicker interjected by saying "2 wishes? Why does he get 2 wishes?!?!"

She then looked at me with a rare serious look before saying: "he's end is probably the most violent one I've seen in millennia."

I stood there stunned

"What...Do you mean-"

"Exactly what I meant, so much so that I've removed most of the emotional and psychological damage by erasing most of the memory he had about his death"

"I'm just speechless... I mean..."

"You see the difference between him and you now right?" She said solemnly "you got lucky when your end isn't so violent"

After that I had nothing to say.

As we were going back, I knew I had to break the ice somehow

"Hey Aqua what's Y/N Entropy's powers?"

"*Sighs his power is Stillness of an Object's Time and Knowledge of Humanity" she answered

"Uhh...I can probably guess what his second ability is but what's the first?" I was genuinely interested, I mean since he has such a tragic past and he's managed to impress a literal Goddess, safe to say that I'm looking very forward to this

"Stillness of an Object's Time is actually a combination of 2 ability: 1. Time manipulation, and 2. Causality manipulation. His ability allows him to stop the time of anything he touches, including himself, thus instead of normal time stop where you can actually still harm him, he also introduced a causality nullification to the object, thus making something like a sword unbreakable." She answered

"Uh this might be stupid but what's causality?" I said sheepishly

"Ugh how are you-nevermind, causality, or in simpler term: cause and effect, is when for example: Cause: I pushed you left, effect: you move left. His ability is to negated such laws of the multiverse. He can move himself and whatever he touches out of causality. Although if he returns them to causality said object will react extremely violently and since he can move out of causality, his body isn't affected-"

'that is such a cheat ability! I meant so basically whatever attack I can launch at him gets instantly neutralized?!'

"Wait, why is it called an stillness of an object's time? I mean it's more of a immunity-"

I said before getting cut off by Aqua saying:

"Well that's what the author of Re: Zero decided to call it so we are calling it that"

"HUH?!?!"

Flashback ends

"I need you to join my team."

He smiled and said-