Aqua took another bite from her food, as she looked at Levi. "So, I saw how your eyes look at me and wiz what do you actually think of our Outfit?".
She was expecting Levi to be flustered, for him to ignore, for him not to say anything and then she would laugh but then he said.
He looked at her and wiz and Yunyun as well. "Beautiful".
The three girls started to blush
Aqua froze mid-bite.
The fork hovered inches from her mouth as her brain took a full second to catch up.
"…Eh?"
Wiz's eyes widened slightly, her calm expression cracking just a bit. A soft pink crept onto her cheeks.
Yunyun went completely red. Steam might as well have been coming out of her ears.
Levi didn't even seem to realise what he'd done. He took another sip of water, perfectly relaxed, like he'd just commented on the weather.
Aqua recovered first, slamming her fork down. "W-wait wait wait. That's it? No awkward pause? No looking away? No stuttering?"
Levi glanced at her. "Why would I do that?"
"Because you're supposed to!" Aqua shouted. "That was my whole plan!"
Wiz let out a small, embarrassed laugh, covering her mouth with her sleeve. "Levi-san… you say things very directly."
Yunyun hid her face against his shoulder. "Y-you can't just say that so casually…"
Levi finally looked at them, actually registering the situation.
"…Oh."
Too late.
Aqua pointed at him accusingly. "You're unfair. You ruined the joke and made it worse."
"How is that worse?"
"Because now it feels sincere," Aqua said, flustered despite herself. "That's illegal."
Levi shrugged. "I answered honestly. You asked what I thought."
Wiz nodded softly, still blushing. "I… appreciate your honesty."
Yunyun peeked up, her voice barely above a whisper. "…Me too."
Aqua looked between the three of them, then leaned back in her chair with a dramatic groan. "Ugh. This is what happens when you hang around decent people. You stop being ready for nonsense."
Levi smirked faintly. "You'll survive."
Aqua grumbled, then took another bite of food. "…Still unfair."
The water spirits watching from a distance exchanged confused glances.
They didn't understand mortals.
But they did understand one thing very clearly.
Their Great Levi-sama was dangerous—
not because he was a dragon prince…
…but because he said things straight, and meant them.
After lunch, Levi told them they were free to look around.
"Just don't open sealed doors," he added. "If it hums, glows, or whispers, leave it alone."
Aqua immediately ignored half of that and rushed off anyway.
Aqua wandered into the guest wing first.
The rooms were huge. Too huge. Each one had a massive bed, soft curtains that moved like waves, and walls made of clear water-glass that showed the ocean outside.
Fish swam past the windows.
Actual glowing fish.
Aqua walked into the middle of the room, looked around, and slowly dropped to her knees.
"…Why is your guest room nicer than my divine realm?"
She grabbed a pillow and hugged it.
"I had clouds. Clouds."
Tears followed. Loud ones.
"This isn't fair… I'm the goddess…"
Somewhere far away, a water spirit quietly closed the door.
Wiz went in the opposite direction.
She found the library.
The moment she stepped inside, she froze.
Shelves stretched endlessly in every direction, curving upward like the inside of a dome. Books floated gently in the water-filled air, held in place by soft magic. Ancient tomes. Grimoires written in lost languages. Spell records etched onto crystal plates.
Wiz slowly walked forward, eyes shining.
"…This is a pre-Collapse archive."
She reached out, carefully touching the spine of one book.
"Atlantean spell theory… mixed with draconic runes…"
Her voice dropped to a whisper. "Levi-san… do you even know what you have here?"
A book floated down and opened on its own, pages flipping politely.
Wiz smiled, equal parts awe and fear.
"I could stay here for years."
(Author: For people wondering how Levi has this, Trident men came to the Mansion of screen)
Yunyun went somewhere else entirely.
She followed the sound of laughter and flowing water until she reached a wide open hall where water spirits and nymphs moved about, cleaning, repairing, and maintaining the mansion. Everything was calm. Orderly. Peaceful.
Yunyun clasped her hands together.
"Um, excuse me," she said politely. "Is there anything I can help with?"
The spirits stopped.
They all turned toward her at once.
A nymph floated over, smiling warmly. "Help? Oh no, honoured guest. That would be rude."
Another spirit nodded. "Levi-sama would scold us."
Yunyun panicked. "N-no no, it's fine! I like helping! I'm used to it!"
The spirits exchanged looks.
Then one gently placed a towel in her hands.
"…You may hold this."
Yunyun froze. "…Just hold it?"
"Yes."
She nodded seriously. "O-okay."
She stood there for ten full minutes, holding a towel, feeling included but also deeply confused.
Levi watched all of this from a distance through a water mirror.
Aqua crying in luxury.
Wiz silently nerding out.
Yunyun standing very still with a towel.
"…Yeah," he muttered. "This tracks."
He leaned back in his chair.
For the first time since coming to this world, everything felt strangely calm.
Which, in his experience, meant chaos was probably already on its way.
Later, they regrouped in the library.
The four of them sat around the long reading table, blue light drifting in from the water-glass walls. Books hovered nearby, opening themselves when Levi gestured.
Yunyun sat on his left, legs tucked in, carefully turning pages. Wiz sat on his right, already cross-referencing three different volumes at once. Aqua had claimed Levi's lap without asking, leaning back against him like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Levi didn't comment. He'd learned that resisting Aqua only made things worse.
They were reading The Founding of Atlantis: A Practical History, which somehow managed to be both fascinating and painfully dull.
Atlantis had started as a mage-city, built where ley lines crossed the ocean floor. Over time, dragons claimed it, not by conquest, but by agreement. Dragons provided protection. The mages provided structure. The sea provided everything else.
Yunyun traced a diagram with her finger. "So Atlantis isn't just underwater… It's phased slightly out of the normal world?"
Wiz nodded. "A stable demi-layer. That explains why surface nations rarely detect it. It's similar to high-level dungeon logic."
Levi added, "In DnD terms? Legendary city-state. Natural +5 to defense, concealment, and warding."
Aqua squinted at a page upside down. "So it's basically cheating."
"Yes," Levi and Wiz said together.
Aqua pouted, then relaxed again, clearly satisfied with that answer.
They kept reading.
Atlantis law was blunt. Strength mattered, but control mattered more. Dragons who couldn't restrain themselves didn't rule—they were removed. Leadership was earned through trials, not blood alone.
Yunyun looked up. "So… you're a prince, but you still have to pass trials?"
Levi nodded. "Second prince. Meaning expectations, fewer privileges, and more people trying to test me."
Aqua hummed. "That explains a lot."
Wiz paused. "Explains what?"
"The 'I just want to drink water and do quests' personality," Aqua said.
Levi blinked.
"…You Isekaid me remember?."
"Sorry"
They counted to read about dragon bloodlines next. Levi skimmed fast. Wiz slowed down. Yunyun slowed even more.
Yunyun swallowed. "Um… Atlantis recognises multiple mates as normal?"
Levi answered without looking up. "For dragons, yes. Political, magical, or emotional bonds. Depends."
Aqua smiled, smug and bright. Wiz adjusted her hat. Yunyun turned red and buried her face in the book.
Levi turned the page.
History stayed history. Treaties. Wars that never reached the surface. Demon incursions sealed by ocean trenches. Dry, dense, important.
After a while, Aqua yawned and rested her head against his chest.
"This is boring," she declared.
Levi didn't disagree. "That's how you know it's real history."
Wiz smiled faintly. Yunyun relaxed.
Aqua then flipped another page as she saw a simble. "What is this?".
Levi read it. "Dragon Mate mark, it is a mark of claiming Mates for dragon, this mark is either given by the dragon biting their mate or.... Carnal Acts".
Wiz was blushing. "So, either biting or... Sex".
Levi cleared his throat.
"Yes," he said, keeping his tone flat and clinical. "But before your brains run off a cliff—this is dragon law, not… whatever you're thinking."
Aqua tilted her head. "Explain."
Levi pointed at the page. "The mark isn't about sex. It's about binding. Dragons use it to anchor magical bonds. For most of history, biting was the standard method. It's symbolic, controlled, and public."
Wiz relaxed a little. "So the other method?"
"Rare," Levi said immediately. "And usually political. Used between adult dragons to formalize alliances or lineage ties. It's not casual, and it's not common."
Yunyun, who had gone very still, finally looked up. "So… it's not something that just… happens?"
"No," Levi said, firm. "It requires consent, ritual approval, and witnesses. Atlantis treats it like a contract, not a romance trope."
Aqua clicked her tongue. "Wow. That's way less scandalous than I hoped."
Levi ignored her and kept reading.
"The mark itself," he continued, "does three things. One: it stabilizes shared mana flow. Two: it grants limited protection—dragons can sense if their bonded mate is in danger. Three: it prevents hostile magical influence."
Wiz's eyes widened slightly. "That's… actually incredibly efficient."
"Dragons hate inefficiency," Levi said.
Aqua leaned closer to the page. "So if someone had that mark, other dragons would back off?"
"Yes," Levi replied. "Hard. Messing with a marked mate is basically declaring war."
Aqua leaned back, satisfied. "Noted."
Yunyun went pink again, but this time she didn't hide. "It sounds… very serious."
"It is," Levi said. Then, more quietly, "That's why it matters who you give it to."
The room settled again. No jokes. No teasing.
Just old rules, written in ink and magic, reminding them that some things—no matter how ridiculous the world got—were still treated with weight.
Aqua flipped the page.
"Okay," she said. "Back to boring history."
Levi nodded. And for once, no one argued.
Levi kept reading, completely unaware.
Across the table, three very different trains of thought quietly derailed at the exact same time.
Aqua
'…He could mark me, right?'
She stared at the page, then at Levi, then back at the symbol.
'I mean, I'm a goddess. If anyone could handle dragon bond nonsense without exploding, it's me.
Also—war declaration protection? That's actually useful.
Hah. Imagine other gods finding out. Their faces would be priceless.'
She puffed her cheeks slightly, pretending to read.
'Still… he explained it seriously. Like it mattered.
Idiot dragon. Why did you have to make it sound… respectable?'
Wiz's fingers rested lightly on the book, but she hadn't read a word in a while.
'Dragon mate marks…'
She glanced at Levi from the corner of her eye. Calm. Thoughtful. Careful with his words.
'He didn't joke. He didn't flirt. He explained it like a responsibility.'
Her lips curved into a small, shy smile.
'If he ever chose someone… it wouldn't be impulsive.
It would mean trust. Permanence.'
Her chest felt warm.
'…I wouldn't hate that.'
Yunyun was the worst off.
She was not okay.
'Mark… mark… mark…'
Her brain short-circuited somewhere between "binding contract" and "sensing danger."
'H-He'd always know if I was hurt?
That's… that's…'
She squeezed the hem of her robe, face red enough to rival Megumin's explosions.
'I'm not saying I want it! I'm just—if it happened—hypothetically—it wouldn't be bad—'
She sneaked a look at Levi.
He was still reading. Still calm. Still completely unaware that three women were silently reevaluating their entire future.
Yunyun swallowed.
'…Would he even consider me?'
Levi turned the page.
"And this section is about territorial disputes," he said casually.
Levi kept his face neutral, eyes on the page, but his thoughts were anything but calm.
'Damn you, Eris, he thought flatly. You turned a clean isekai run into political lore, dragon biology, and emotional landmines.
Dragon Mate Marks.
Binding. Protective. Permanent.'
He glanced—just briefly—at the three girls around him.
'Yunyun and Wiz… yeah. That part's not new. I crossed that line in my head a while ago.'
His gaze shifted to Aqua, still sitting on his lap, pretending very hard to be interested in ancient Atlantean script.
'And Aqua… somehow, against all logic, she grew on me.'
Not as a joke. Not as chaos incarnate. As a person.
That realization made him exhale quietly through his nose.
Then another name surfaced.
'Luna.'
The guild receptionist. The calm smile. The way she handled Axel's insanity like it was just another workday.
'Yeah… she deserves to know too.
Not now. Not like this. But eventually.'
Levi closed the book with a soft thud.
"That's enough history for today," he said evenly. "My brain's full."
The girls blinked, clearly pulled out of their own thoughts.
Aqua tilted her head. "Huh? Already?"
Wiz smiled gently. "It was getting dense."
Yunyun nodded a little too fast. "Y-yeah! Very… educational."
Levi stood, carefully shifting Aqua off his lap and setting her on the couch beside him.
"We'll head back to Axel before it gets late," he continued. "No need to give the town another heart attack by disappearing overnight."
Aqua stretched. "Aw. I kinda like it here."
"I know," Levi replied. "That's why we're leaving before you declare it a holy site."
She laughed. Wiz covered her mouth. Yunyun relaxed a bit.
As they moved toward the exit, Levi cast one last glance at the dragon mark symbol burned into his memory.
'Sooner or later', he thought, 'this conversation is going to happen.'
And for once—
He wasn't dreading it.
Yeah.
Of course it didn't go to plan.
Because this was Konosuba.
Levi woke up with the distinct, immediate realization that something had gone very wrong.
He did not open his eyes.
He did not move.
He simply… assessed.
There was weight on his left side—soft, warm, breathing evenly. Another presence on his right, colder, faintly magical. And somehow, impossibly, a third arm was draped across his chest like it had claimed the territory overnight.
Levi took a slow breath.
…This is my life now, isn't it.
He carefully cracked one eye open.
Yunyun was curled against him on one side, clutching his sleeve like a lifeline, fast asleep. Wiz was on the other, dignified even in sleep, her expression calm, one hand resting lightly near his shoulder. And sprawled half on top of him, completely unconcerned with personal space or gravity, was Aqua—drooling a little, snoring softly, one leg thrown over his.
Levi stared at the ceiling.
"No portals," he muttered quietly. "No airships. No gods screaming. Just… this."
He tried to shift.
Aqua mumbled something about "divine pillows" and tightened her grip.
Yunyun stirred, made a small sound, and settled even closer.
Wiz did not move—but her lips curved slightly, like she was aware and choosing peace.
Levi stopped moving entirely.
Right, he thought flatly. I accept defeat.
Somewhere in Axel, fate laughed.
And honestly?
For once—
Levi didn't mind.
To be continued
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