While Kazuma inflates bubble pads to pop in order to relieve his stress, Megumin and Aqua try various methods to stop the wedding. Both only serve to annoy the Dustiness family and get Megumin three days in jail —pretty light sentence for essentially calling in a bomb threat! Megumin is angered by Kazuma’s stubborn insistence that he won’t do anything unless Darkness begs him.
Megumin isn’t about to give up, even when Kazuma warns her she’ll become a criminal. But when she asks how he can’t care about what might happen to their friend in the clutches of that pig Aldarp, Kazuma’s composure cracks and he tells her of course he cares. Regardless of how awful Aldarp is, the fact is it’s a high-security noble wedding.
They don’t have any moves. Instead, he’s glad he and they got to spend as much time as they did with someone of so much higher station like Darkness. He considers that a miracle he’ll always treasure. Megumin’s stance softens, as she now realizes Kazuma has thought long and hard about this. But she still promises to do something even if he doesn’t.
The day of Darkness’ hastily scheduled wedding arrives, and Kazuma receives an unexpected visitor: Vanir, armed with a giant suitcase of gold. He, the All-Seeing Demon, knows full well what Kazuma wants to do and what he wants to ask. Before he can answer those questions, Aqua takes him out with a holy spell and when he recombines she starts trash talking him.
After Aqua settles down, Vanir tells them that the debts the Dustiness family has incurred were due to collateral damage done by their party. They saved the city from the Destroyer, but it still trampled a great deal of farmland, while the flooding damaged a great number of buildings.
Kazuma’s party paid some damages, but the Dustinesses fronted the rest, resulting in their present precarious financial situation. The gold Vanir has brought is to pay for the rights to all of Kazuma’s invention ideas (more recent ones being an apple segmenter and a Jenga tower). That gold, combined with most if not all of Kazuma’s remaining assets, should be just enough to repay the debt the Dustinesses are owed.
As Darkness prepares for the wedding, she’s flanked by kind maids and an even kinder guard who keeps Aldarp away before the ceremony. They all probably wish she’d be giving herself to someone she chose. She contemplates how Megumin and Aqua would react to learning about the debt, and then resigns herself to the fact Kazuma won’t come for her, but simply sulk in the mansion they built together.
Just as Kazuma was grateful for the “miracle” of getting to live with and go on adventures big and small with Darkness, Darkness is equally grateful for those times, and believes it would be too selfish to ask for more, regardless of what she wants. She believes, even as she walks down the aisle with her butler, that she is doing what she and only she can and must do: her noble duty.
Then the officiant at the altar starts talking, and uses vows that constantly insult Aldarp as a fat old bear-pig of a man, and Darkness realizes it’s Aqua in disguise. Before she can react, one of the officials takes her hand, throws off his hood, and reveals that he’s Kazuma, who has come to her aid after all.
Presumably, he made a deal with Vanir that he knew was a bad one under any other circumstances but the one that matters: it’s the one and only deal that will help him get Darkness back. Whatever she might say about the Dustinesses obligations, the fact is she’s unfairly shouldering the burden of the damage done by all of them during their adventures.
Aldarp will get the money he’s owed, but he won’t get Darkness’ hand. Kazuma, Megumin, and Aqua may end up broke as a result, and have to move out of the mansion they worked so hard to attain. But all of that is just stuff. None of it matters compared to getting their beautiful, perverted, muscle-headed, fantastic-abs-having tank back—to continuing the miracle.
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