The two of them moved through the streets and alleys. Satou Kazuma used his stealing ability on those nobles who looked fancy and rich.
However, the value of the stolen goods varied. Some were expensive pieces of gold and silver jewelry, but there were also many useless things like socks and underwear.
But overall, this ability still brought some profit to Satou Kazuma and Aqua.
They found a place to exchange the goods for some money, and then they found a small restaurant, ready to have a big meal in the evening.
A whole afternoon of running around had already made them very hungry.
"I want this, this... and this!"
"Okay, coming right up!"
After the restaurant owner left, Aqua looked expectantly toward the restaurant kitchen, wiggling her legs and humming a song:
"We can eat good food again! The delicious food earned by hard work must be even sweeter!"
"Hey, you, what hard work did you do just now? You didn't do anything all afternoon!"
Satou Kazuma stared intently at Aqua.
All afternoon, Aqua basically did nothing. At most, she helped Satou Kazuma choose stealing targets.
"Well, just standing there is hard work, okay!"
Aqua immediately defended herself, deliberately putting on a tired look, but her eyes shifted guiltily to other places.
"Speaking of which, you should have learned a new skill, right? What exactly did you learn?"
Satou Kazuma asked with some curiosity.
"That's right! I really learned an amazing skill! It was the one I picked without hesitation from several skills! I just didn't have a suitable time to show it before! This is the skill that best fits my goddess status!"
As soon as she talked about this topic, Aqua seemed to be injected with energy. The tired look from before was gone, and her blue eyes seemed to burst with light.
"Oh!? Is the useless goddess finally going to prove herself!"
Although the fact that she could choose from several skills made Satou Kazuma feel a little annoyed, it also made him feel a glimmer of hope.
She is a goddess, and her own stats are not low, so maybe she really got an amazing skill.
That way, if they encounter a dangerous situation later—
"It's Light! It can turn anything I touch into a light source! And I can freely change the color!"
As she spoke, Aqua reached out and placed her hand on the tableware on the table.
The ordinary fork actually emitted light, and under Aqua's control, it changed colors in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
"How is it, cool, right?"
After showing off, Aqua proudly puffed out her chest.
"This... what's the use of this?"
"Think about it, after the party starts, with these colorful lights, won't it be very atmospheric!"
Aqua said with a smile, already ready to receive Satou Kazuma's praise.
Countless words gathered in Satou Kazuma's mouth, but he wanted to say something but was speechless.
This goddess's brain development seems to be even lower than he expected.
She got the chance to choose a skill, and this useless goddess actually chose a party skill.
Moreover, this goddess's original abilities also seem unable to function in this world.
For some reason, Satou Kazuma felt that his originally somewhat anticipated adventure in another world had been covered with a layer of shadow.
Just then, the restaurant waiter brought the food, and the wisps of heat brought the smell of food into Aqua's nose.
"I'm going to eat!"
She was eagerly preparing to eat, but the scene in front of her suddenly changed.
The two of them, who were just in the restaurant, were now suddenly standing on the street again.
This was exactly where they appeared when they first came to this world.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! My chicken leg, my chicken leg is gone!"
Aqua hugged her head and wailed in pain on the ground.
Satou Kazuma stared blankly at everything, feeling that the scene in front of him was very familiar.
What happened?
Weren't they just about to eat?
Why did they suddenly come back here?
It was clearly evening before, but now it has turned to day again.
Is this a dream?
"Useless goddess."
"What!"
The moment Aqua turned her head, Satou Kazuma reached out and slapped her twice on the cheeks, swelling the goddess's cheeks like a hamster.
"Ahhhhhhhhh! What are you doing!"
"Does it hurt?"
"Of course! It hurts so much!"
"Looks like it's not a dream."
"Kazuma!!!!!!"
Satou Kazuma completely ignored Aqua, who was preparing to give him a chokehold, and gently stroked his chin with one hand.
"We've gone back to the time when we first arrived, could it be that we've encountered a time loop?"
Satou Kazuma was a little confused. He took out his Adventurer Card. His skill points had not been reset, and he had already learned the Steal skill.
Just as Satou Kazuma was still extremely confused, a certain idea suddenly came to his mind. He then grabbed Aqua, who was clinging to him, and headed in a certain direction, arriving in front of a familiar alley.
"Hey, hand over all your money!"
Again, it was that familiar trio of thugs. After seeing Satou Kazuma and Aqua appear, they immediately stepped forward and blocked their way.
"Oh, it's you again!"
Aqua frowned, and then, with lightning speed, ducked behind Satou Kazuma.
She also remembered the scene of being beaten up by this trio before.
"Again? What are you talking about? We haven't met you before."
The trio looked at each other in confusion.
Their reaction also made Satou Kazuma basically certain that their time had been turned back, but he and Aqua retained their previous memories.
"Don't think you can run away by trying to get close to us. I'll say it one last time, hand over everything valuable you have!"
One of the thugs, who seemed to be the leader, said fiercely to Satou Kazuma, taking out a dagger from behind him and twirling it in his hand.
"That's the money I worked so hard to earn, how could I just hand it over like that!"
But this time, Satou Kazuma no longer had the panicked expression he had before. Instead, he raised his hand and pointed it at the thug.
"Steal!"