01x08 - I WENT TO WORK ON MY DAY OFF

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You're back?

Hello.

Even with my barrier, I can feel the

stifling magicules around me again today.

Good grief, you're just

increasing my workload.

That should be my line

If your branch had submitted its

income and expenses report on time,

there would be no need

for an investigation.

That whole business is

entirely for you, isn't it?

Besides, the Church exists

outside the kingdom's authority.

Who do you think you are,

demanding we submit

yearly income and expenses reports?

This is their attitude

after being designated

as the kingdom's primary religion

and receiving subsidies?

I'd really like to meet whoever's

in charge of your accounting.

Brother Cipriano isn't here.

The royal palace is investigating,

and the person in charge is absent?

When will he return?

He went to a meeting in another

town with Bishop Mateus,

so he won't be back for a while.

This Bishop Mateus again

I'll show you around the church,

so make sure you keep up.

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I've grown used to working in the palace,

but the church has a completely

different feel to it.

EPISODE 8: I WENT TO WORK ON MY DAY OFF

There are more statues than just Abran.

Are they important religious

figures or perhaps gods?

There's a barrier around them to keep

anyone from messing with them.

So that was from magic

just now, not magicules.

Either way, I'd better be careful.

Let's get on with the next explanation.

He sure likes to talk a lot

when it comes to the church.

The fire hour, huh?

We don't really have

anything here for you

But, well, since you're a representative

from the royal palace,

we've no choice but to feed you.

Oh, there's no need for that.

I brought my own lunch,

so please don't worry about me.

Damn it!

Okay. It's time for lunch

which means I have some free time.

The civil servant

Pleased to see you again, Priest Siegvold.

Where is Selio?

He went to eat lunch.

And left you behind?

No. He invited me to join him,

but I declined since

I brought my own lunch.

I see.

Where are those documents from?

They're visitor logs

from the assembly hall.

Please get permission before

removing any documents.

I attempted to speak with the

person in the assembly hall,

but I will make sure to

get permission next time.

Have you finished your lunch?

Where are we?

This is a flower garden created

by the holy maiden before last.

She said that flowers soothe the human

heart and cared for this garden herself.

The holy maiden of two generations ago

I believe records say she became a nun

on the outskirts of the kingdom.

She must have settled down at this

church after fulfilling her duties.

Could it be that he's monitoring me?

I heard that you're the otherworlder

who was summoned alongside

the current holy maiden.

Yes, that's right.

I see

Actually, I was present at

the time of the summoning.

Come to think of it, were people

from the Church there then?

Thank you for answering Abran's call

and doing your utmost with the

holy maiden to save this kingdom.

No, I was just dragged into—

I mean, I happened to come

along with Shiraishi—

Her Holiness as a normal person

with no power whatsoever.

I don't deserve such thanks.

No. The summoning ceremony manifested

divine revelation

bestowed upon us by Abran.

There is meaning to your arrival here.

If that's the case,

I wish you'd taken better care of me.

You are, after all, a disciple

sent to us by Abran.

I'm nothing so grand

This must be what it feels like to have

a mission unconditionally thrust upon you

and high expectations placed

on your shoulders.

This was Abran's will.

What is it, Pavel?

Norbert, we haven't gotten very far

on this. Will we be all right?

Sei-san won't be back for a whole month!

We have plenty of time!

When did I say that this was all

the work you'd have for the month?

S-S-S-S-Sei-san?! Weren't you

temporarily assigned to the church?!

Today's my day off.

Then what're you doing here?

I came to see if you were slacking.

I'm kidding. I only came

to do my own work.

No, you should rest on your days off.

Then when would this backlog get done?

Am I allowed to tell

Commander Indolark about this?

Won't it be bad if you

run into each other here?

It'll be fine. Aresh-sama

never comes here alone.

Oh, you shouldn't eat that!

It's not that I can't

eat such foods forever.

I'm slowly building up a tolerance.

You are?

Then do you wanna go drinking tonight?

Have you been listening to me?

That's too bad.

I wanted to hear about the church.

Oh, I actually wanted to ask

you about that myself.

Have you been to the church before?

Of course!

All citizens are baptized by

the Church at the age of six

and undergo a coming-of-age

ceremony there at eighteen.

As I'd expect of a national religion

that 90% of the populace believes in.

We even give offerings to the

Church during seasonal festivals.

The Church feels closer to people

than the royal palace.

Nobles who own land

support their local churches,

while nobles who don't either support

the one in the royal capital

or the orthodox church.

Now that I think about it, I saw many

noble family names in the visitor logs.

Also, a lot of the positions in the

Church are normally held by nobles.

As I suspected,

that priest must be a noble.

The only ones allowed to work in

churches are those who graduated

from the almshouse or nobles

with lots of magical energy.

That's because you need plenty of it

for prayer ceremonies and sacred relics.

So the magicules aren't just from

the barriers around the sacred relics.

No wonder I felt so uncomfortable.

If it weren't for Aresh-sama's barrier,

I might have collapsed on the first day.

It's you again

Thank you for all your help.

Selio is I suppose

there's no need to ask.

What a troublesome child.

Do whatever you want!

He's very devout in his faith,

but his honesty to his own

emotions is a bit of a problem.

I believe it's quite normal at that age.

Besides, it would seem he

never liked me to begin with.

True

He's always had an inferiority complex

toward nobles and civil servants.

If they assigned him to me knowing that,

the church must feel very strongly

about the royal palace indeed.

Of the monks in training, some have no

families, and the majority are commoners.

They instinctively reject

anyone from the royal palace.

I wish I could reassign you another guide,

but I cannot go against the

orders of Bishop Mateus.

No, please don't worry about it.

The church is open year-round.

Their jobs and lives here are intertwined,

so they learn as they work every day.

Being raised in such a closed-off

environment from a young age

is bound to instill a biased

set of values in them.

The church can prepare meals for you.

Many foods disagree with my constitution,

so it's easier to bring my own lunch.

I have no resistance to magicules

or magical energy,

so I show symptoms of overdose if

I consume foods containing them in excess.

Overdose?

Yes, holy magic and recovery spells

have the opposite effect on me.

Though they'd heal injury or illness,

I'd break out in a fever

from magic-sickness.

But the holy maiden

I suspect she received divine protection,

as she was formally summoned here.

Yes, divine protection That's true.

Then that must mean

You are the tribulated disciple.

Come again?

Your inability to adapt to this world

must be a trial given to you by God.

I think I just flipped a switch!

What an incredible sense of déjà vu!

If I'm not careful, I might get

strong-armed into monastic training

I just happened to tag along when

the holy maiden was summoned!

No!

Everything God does has meaning.

Is that right?

Ist-san

Ist-san.

It's Kondou.

I've come to get a progress

report on the return spell.

Oh, Kondu! Long time no see.

The otherworlder is amazing.

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Even we can't understand some

of the stuff Ist-san says.

Are all otherworlders like that?

I think something's just wrong with

him. He's similar to Ist-san

Not only do you lack manpower,

but you also lack the funds to buy

tools required for your research.

Huh?!

Are you going to buy them for us?

When? Tomorrow?

I didn't say we'd buy them yet.

I'll be at the church tomorrow,

so I won't be able come by.

Then bring me back one

of those sacred relics.

That's obviously not happening.

Good grief

Kondou-san! It's been a while!

It certainly has.

Likewise, it's been some time,

Prince Yurius.

I don't wish to see your face.

Kondou-san, I heard you wouldn't be

around because of a temporary assignment.

I am indeed on a temporary

assignment elsewhere.

I'm just back on my day off.

It's your day off, but you came

to work in your uniform?

You must be quite busy

Still, your temporary

assignment must be close

if you can stop by here

on your day off, right?

Yes. I'm working at the church

in the royal capital.

Huh? The church?

I've been visiting the church myself!

Is that so?

How is your work going there?

I've been purifying those who feel

sick and healing the injured.

I'm really happy there's somewhere

I can be of so much help!

She looks so spirited.

She must find it quite rewarding.

And then there's Selio-kun!

He's one of the children training to

become a monk, and he's so beautiful!

On top of that, he's a very good boy

and teaches me all kinds of things.

Oh?

But I've never run into you at the church.

It's a large facility, and I'm

mainly doing office work,

so I hardly visit the chapel.

Oh, that makes sense

Yua.

You're the holy maiden,

so there's no need for you to work.

Yurius-sama

As I've said many times before,

I want to do what I can.

I've told you that

you only need to purify—

And I've told you I don't want that!

I'm sorry.

Wait.

Come with me for a bit.

Why?

Why has Yua come to reject me?

Why does she depend on someone weak

and powerless like you instead of me?

Answer me, Kondou!

He pronounced my name correctly.

Ask me all you'd like,

but the answer is obvious if

you consider what's led to this.

Perhaps the two of you are drifting

apart due to a difference in values.

A difference in values?

Yua's from a noble family.

Our ideals cannot be so different.

No, the class system was abolished

in our country and no longer exists.

Is that so?

Even so, Yua is the holy maiden.

She should be treated with great care.

Yet recently,

she's begun to spurn even that.

She's likely showing restraint.

She probably doesn't want to

feel she owes him anything.

In simple terms, she doesn't

want others to just serve her.

She wants to return to her own world.

However, the kingdom wants her to stay

as a political and diplomatic symbol.

Quite the impasse,

no matter how you look at it.

Enough. Leave me.

Then if you'll excuse me

Good grief.

I was planning on doing some

research in the palace library.

I need to hurry

Commander Makovska of the second

royal order. Nice to see you again.

Do you have some time?

I'm very sorry. I actually have

something to do after this.

It won't take long.

Please just let me work.

Don't worry. There are no longer any

knights who'd dare lay a hand on you.

So, what is this about?

Well, it's about Prince Yurius

Is there another problem with him?

Is there any way you could mediate

between His Highness and Her Holiness?

I'm leaving.

That guy

Wasn't his name Kon

Konou?

What about Seiichirou?

Aresh, don't startle me like that.

You startled yourself.

So, what about Seiichirou?

Seiichiro?

Didn't you just mention his name?

Oh, just now?

Well, since we just found out

about the next expedition,

I was wondering if Seiichiro

would be coming along.

He participated in the first

due to demand from above

and to investigate for the

miasma containment project,

but someone of his constitution

should never go near the demon forest.

I'll never let him do it again.

Since when did Aresh have the final say?

Oh, come to think of it, we finally

received the documents for the expedition.

Could you take a look at them?

Got it.

No one other than myself needs

to call him Seiichirou.

His family name is Kondou.

Call him that.

This goes beyond just being protective.

He always puts Kondu first,

and now they're even living together.

There's no doubt about it.

Aresh's first love is definitely

Kondu the otherworlder.

The bishop and accountant,

who are away on business,

should be returning shortly.

I'd like to have all the church

documents in order before then.

The problem is that I'm unfamiliar with

the politics of the Church and nobility.

The Church

The nobility

Nobles should have family names,

but the priest didn't give me one.

Milan-san.

Yes?

Do nobles who enter the

Church cut ties with their families?

That depends.

Some nobles still receive aid

from their families once they join.

Sometimes children from good families

are also entrusted to a church

temporarily to learn manners.

So not everyone cuts familial

ties when they enter.

Pardon me.

Milord has returned.

Would you join us in greeting him?

That was close!

We would have crossed paths

if I'd come home any later.

Either way, he's home awfully early today.

Valtom-san has been taking care of

Aresh-sama since he was a young boy.

He's practically a father figure and

the only one who can reason with him.

If a man like him is asking me

to greet Aresh-sama with them,

this must mean

I don't have the courage to ask,

but I wonder what the servants

of this house think of me.

Welcome home, Aresh-sama.

What are you plotting?

How rude. It's the least I can do

to welcome my landlord home.

What kind of person do you take me for?

An extreme workaholic.

I don't think I'll be welcoming

him home anymore.

I have the documents for the

next expedition. Want to see?

I do!

The purification should be complete

with the third expedition,

so I proposed to have barrier sorcerers

and builders join the expedition

and stand by in a local village,

but it seems that was rejected.

The completion of the

purification isn't certain.

We'll need to confirm things

after the purification,

and there's already

a shortage of sorcerers,

so I'm sure they weren't able to gather

enough to cast the barrier spell.

Then we'll need a separate expedition

to put up the barrier

One needs a certain level

of magical energy

to be appointed as a

royal sorcerer, right?

The number of people who have that

are few.

On top of that, if they're

to work in the demon forest,

they'd best have high magicule resistance.

The third royal order boasts

mental and physical strength,

and we're skilled at

controlling our magic.

There's no point in having magical

energy if you can't control it.

Does that mean magical

energy can go out of control?

That's right.

That's why children with such tendencies

are usually left in the care of churches.

Churches?

Come to think of it, there are barrier

spells cast all over the church.

Moreover, nobles, commoners,

and orphans all work there together.

That must be bringing together people

with strong magical energy

and resistance to magicules,

regardless of class.

Wait, Aresh-sama

I'm casting another barrier layer.

Look at me.

I don't mean like that.

Huh?

Aresh-sama! I'm too heavy!

You aren't.

Let me down!

Seiichirou

How about this?

Huh?

You don't like being in my lap, right?

Oh, yeah

Wait, why did you push me down?

We're already done, aren't we?

You've put on a bit of weight.

You're checking my body?

The next expedition is in six days.

We still have mountains to move.

I need to pull myself together

Don't think about it! Don't think about it!

Aresh-sama is the commander of a

prestigious order and naturally clever.

He's quick to learn and has

a keen sense of intuition.

Rather than him being swept up in things,

I feel like he's clearly targeting my

aversion to wasting time and my desire

to get the most out of a situation.

This isn't the kind of decision

to be made based on efficiency.

He's a troublesome opponent

Anyone else is way off-base

to be coming to me for advice.

I haven't even been able to face

my own feelings properly

EPISODE 9

I MADE A PLAN