Vol 2 Chapter 3 (1/2)

PART 1

I wore the equipiven by my friends

I proest wizard

I felt I would not lose to anyone

……I used to have such feelings

“—I didn’t think the adventurer’s guild had level limits…”

I used both hands to hold the staff supporting hed deeply

—Alcanretia, the City of Water and Hot Springs

The monsters near this city were rather powerful

There eak oblins and kobolds, but they usually came in a set with monsters like the Rookie Killers

Thus, the adventurer’s guild in this city forbade low level adventurers fro on quests

I had the confidence that I could kill any powerful foe with ic, but if it wouldn’t help if I was not allowed take on quests

My destination was Axel City

I needed e fee to Axel…

Upon arrival, I iuild, but this was the result

“What should I do… I don’t kno e fee would cost, but the h There is no doubt about this…”

I thought so as I looked at hed

At this time, there was a shout of desperation

“—Axis Cult! Please join the Axis Cult!”

“Don’t you want to worshi+p Lady Aqua together? Revere her together? Serve her together? I guarantee your life would be draed in many ways!”

Axis Cult

According to hearsay, it was a religious sect that worshi+pped the Goddess of water Its members were very weird and people only knew of it by name

Axis Cultists were shouting to persuade people to join

“After hearing various anecdotes of Lady Aqua, you will be in love with Lady Aqua!”

“If you join the Axis Cult, you will beco loved by the undead!”

……Master acrobat aside, being loved by the undead was a problem in itself

The owners of those voices were two female cultists

Although they were shouting with all their ood

“Those people see a hard time…”

I looked away from the Axis Cultists towards the streets of Alcanretia

Truly, this region favored veteran adventurers The adventurers I had seen in this city were all equipped with high quality ite

They didn’t look like they would accept a rookie like me as a companion

“Ah, you there who look like you don’t have any friends! Look at your unlucky face, if you join Axis Cult, you will be lucky really soon!”

“Un- Unlucky face… Uh, if I join, can I reallyfor someone Please leave membershi+p issues for later!”

If it was like this, I would have to do low pay jobs to earn money…

“……!?”

I stood up roughly and turned around quickly I seemed to have heard a familiar voice

But the person whoued as not there There were only the Axis Cultists who continued to proselytize

Was I relying on her mentally?

I felt slightly embarrassed as my face reddened

……No- Not good

I got no time to care about others I must find a job first

I couldn’t work properly in the Hoic, but that was because the Hoic was too special

Because ic as a prerequisite, I failed at theic, such as harvesting vegetables

And if Funifura didn’t come to make trouble, I could probably do the job at the restaurant as well

There should be very few job that the genius of Criic Clan could not handle

After encouraging etically left to find a job—

PART 2

“You’re fired!”

“Pleas- Please wait, shop owner! Firing is too much There is a reason for this!”

“Fine I will listen to your reason”

I begged the shop owner in the employee’s rest room

Since co to Alcanretia, this shop was my 10th part-time job’s location

I couldn’t afford to be fired again

“The truth is because the custoht I was a kid who sneaked into the restaurant and said, ‘Little girl, you shouldn’t be here Where did your o?’ He tried to remove me from the shop”

“I see I see”

The shop owner said, nodding his head

…It looked like this wasn’t enough!

“Then, I said to the custoirl? Why don’t you tell irl?’ The custoht and breast size’ So I used the hot food in my hands—“

“Fired”

“Shop owner!”

—A week had passed since I arrived in this city

After changing a few shops, I still couldn’t settle down to work properly

Was I someone who couldn’t fit into society?

I was supposed to be a genius

“No- Not over yet… The restaurants were all done, but there should be other jobs…! Right, I was just unlucky so far…!”

Ithe road

Forget about the carriage fee I didn’t have enough money for food

This was the second day I ithout food

My money was totally spent I lived in the stable of the hotel

…This was different froined the life of an adventurer would be

Even so, I failed at all the jobs in the restaurants

Was there some other job I could do…?

“……You could find food daily I don’t kno you do it Who has been feeding you?”

I picked up Chomsuke as at my feet, and sat by the roadside

I didn’t knoas feeding it, but it see

Could so si would be fine

As erously inhuman direction

Suddenly, a sharp screary…

“—Ugh! Aren’t you ashairl!?”

“Thi- This fellow…!”

“To say such shas! You better…!”

I rushed over after hearing the screaht by two young men

This… This is!

I rushed over to intervene and flipped my cloak

“Cease and desist!”

“!?” X3

The three people were stopped in their tracks by my sudden intrusion

The elder sister recovered from the shock first

“Please saveus with your cute face? For you to walk around in the streets with your coarse body, you cannot coht?’ They want to take me away forcefully!”

“W- We didn’t say that!” X2

The men objected, but if I had to choose who to believe in this situation…!

“My naic Clan, one who uses Explosion nore this!”

“Hey, you are of Criic Clan!? Wa- Wait, you made a mistake! We are the victims!”

“Ca- Calm down! Let’s talk this over!”

The men explained hurriedly

“What a pity You could have tricked the stupid people, but in my crimson eyes, that kind of excuse will not help you!”

“No, you need to have your crimson eyes checked!”

“Yeah, we are the Eris Cultists in this city… Ah!? This is bad!”

While ere talking, the elder sister made her escape

……Eris Cultists?

“Hey, how are you going to coraffiti on the statue of Lady Eris in our church!”

Wha- What should I do?

“Before that, she took all the bread that our cult prepared to feed the poor!”

I remembered this city was the main base of Axis Cult

I heard that Axis Cult had a lot of weirdos, but I didn’t think they would be so carefree and unrestrained…

“That Uh, I’m really sorry… I- I just arrived in this city recently…”

The two Eris Cultists intended to approach me as I was bewildered…

—At this moment

“Policeman! These are the people!”

I heard a voice suddenly I turned around and saw the Axis Cult’s elder sister who fled earlier

And…

“Ah!? I was suspicious since this was reported by an Axis Cultist, but Eris Cultists are real- really seducing an under-aged girl…!?”

Even brought along a male policeman

“Wait!? I don’t knohat that Axis Cultist said, but we didn’t—!”

“Right! We just wanted to catch the Axis Cultist who vandalized our church…!”

Hearing this, the elder sister from Axis Cult whispered into the policeman’s ears

“Did you hear that? Other than the little girl, they want to take and do things to me as well”

“Hey, you two Eris Cultists! Come with me!”

“Eh!?” X2

As the policeman approached the men, the elder sister came over to me

“No problem! You must be scared Now is our chance!”

“Eh! No, those Eris Cultists are…!?”

I was totally confused by the sudden developrabbed my hand

“Ah!? The Axis Cultist and the little girl, please wait! I need to get the details from you…!”

The policeman said to the elder sister as she prepared to run aith me

“Run! Escape now!”

“I- I don’t need to escape…!”

I glanced at the shouting police

“—Are you okay? Not hurt? …Phew It seeerous”

“What are you saying? Why did it see rescued! Besides, I didn’t do anything There is no need for me to run away!”

After I was forcefully dragged along by the elder sister

For so in a small alley

“What are you saying? If I left you behind, you would definitely suffer at the hands of those evil Eris Cultists After all, you are such a cute Lolita! Since I rescued you, you should thank me to avoid retribution Ah, by the way, if you want to thank n on this cult entry form…”

I grabbed hold of her hand as she spoke and attempted to retrieve some papers

“No Those people didn’t seeuys!? And I won’t join Axis Cult! And why must I thank you…”

As I began to retort, rowled

……It had been two days since I last ate I couldn’t be bothered with this elder sister

“You ry Then… Come with me I won’t mistreat you!”

There was no need to mind such matters now…

“I’m Cecily, a priestess of Axis Cult Don’t be et some delicious food and we can chat!”

……I couldn’t resist the temptation set by Cecily as she smiled suspiciously

PART 3

“Lo- Lolita…!?”

“—It’s Lolita Our cult finally has a Lolita!”

“Call ain and I will take offense seriously! I’ll show you the true power of Criic Clan!”

Inside the cathedral, which served as the headquarters of Axis Cult

After I was brought here, everyone just labeled me as a Lolita

“Okay, okay, Miss Megu the kids in the city Please understand their difficulties too”

“What cri kids?”

I stared at the cultists speechlessly Upon Cecily’s orders, several cultists enthusiastically brought some dishes over

“Come, please eat”

“……After I ate this, you are not going to say, ‘Froht?”

“Of- Of course not I swear to Lady Aqua that I won’t say such petty words”

She obviously intended to say that

I res and ate Then, a white-haired uncle came forth with a female secretary

A smile was on his face, and he looked very amiable

Thatdifferent from the others

“Oh, oh What a cute guest Welcome to our cult! I’m the arch priest responsible for this cult, Zesta”

This man who called himself Zesta said and smiled at me

“Arch priest… That is quite impressive I heard not many people can become priests, much less the advanced job of arch priest…”

It looked like I was right that he was different from the others

“No, no, no I think that Criic Clan is truly impressive to be born with the qualifications to become arch wizard”

Zesta said and smiled

“By the way,so, you may stay in a room of the church until you can find a job”

Hefor a priest

This would be a great help

“Thank you I’rave, so I will take you up on your offer… If there is anything I can help, please let me know”

“You just said ‘anything you can help’, right?”

Zesta heard what I said and suddenly appeared very serious

Oops I spoke too soon

Was he going to ask me to join his cult?

“Uh, an- anything I can help with It’s a social obligation…”

“What should you do… Call me elder brother… No, daddy… No, no At this moment, it should be underwear first… No Use me as a chair…”

“Sorry, I don’t understand what you are saying”

Zesta kept e words I felt speechless

“Ah, ah Great Goddess Lady Aqua! Please guidemy way!”

“I apologize May I knohat this pervert is about?”

“He’s Lord Zesta, not a pervert He is set to beco person in Axis Cult”

The wo his head and trying to decide what to ask

“This uncle is the next high priest? Is this cult really going to be okay?”

“It’s Lord Zesta, not uncle Although he looked like this now, he can be serious when he needs to be… Uh, the cult will be okay, probably…”

Just as I was arguing with the woman

“Lord Zesta Sorry to interrupt your self-indulgence… But this is the report for our weekly recruites by the evil Eris Cultists, the results are not desirable…”

A cultist filed a report to Zesta, as still deeply troubled

“Ugh… This is truly troubling If this continues, I’ll be too ashamed to meet Lady Aqua It can’t be helped I must make some trouble for that beautiful priestess in Eris Church today as well I can release some stress and hinder them as well…”

“No, no, no Wait a s all the ti chased by Eris Cultists…”

I gruhthappened

These people weren’t bad by nature, right?

Although they were not bad people, so was obviously weird with them

“Why don’t you change your recruitment method? Pretend to be Eris Cultists and proselytize, then let then on Axis Cult recruitment form instead…”

“Wait In that case, people will just run away immediately Why not…”

The Axis Cultists began to discuss sos

After finishi+ng hed in satisfaction I looked at them and interrupted

“……You people are looking for an effective way to proselytize, right?”

“Do you wish to use the great intelligence of the Criic Clan?”

Hearing this, Zesta and the other cultists looked at each other

PART 4

The next day

“Is this really okay, Miss Megumin? It would help us a lot, but…”

“This is thanks for giving me food and a place to stay It is much better than some other weird request…”

I was suffering froue, but I still answered Zesta

Last night was really terrible

I bathed with that elder sister Cecily She did various things to me in the bath, after which she came to my bed…

I felt she wasn’t a bad person, but she may have some weird kinks

I shook ht I hid in a small alley with Zesta and observed the situation

—I estions on recruitment methods as a repayment for the food and shelter

“Re person passes by, I will purposely scatter the apples in this shopping bag”

Zesta listened and nodded

“Then, as I hurriedly pick the apples up, the kind person will help me As thanks, I will invite him to a café nearby At this point, Mr Zesta and the other cultists will pretend to be passing by and meet us as we chat idly As my friends, you all will sit around the table and… persuade him to join”

“This is great! Marvelous! This looks like it has a high success rate!”

I put er to my mouth and “Shhh!” to silence the excited Zesta

“Look A decent target is here so soon”

A kind-looking elder sister walked towards the alley where I was observing

Good Now to use this shopping bag and scatter its contents before her…!

At this moment

Zesta grabbedand rushed towards the elder sister

Then, he vigorously scattered the apples fro

“Wait—!”

As I wasthe apples before me

The kind-looking elder sister looked embarrassed, but still helped with the apples

“Ah, so sorry, Miss! I must thank you properly! Conveniently, there is a nice café nearby!”

Zesta didn’t even look at the scattered apples as he panted heavily and thanked the elder sister

The elder sister seemed to be his type

“No, no need for thanks… Compared to that, the apples are…”

“The apples are fine as they are Let’s go to the café! Coo!”

“Ah, no need, no need! No need for thanks! Since there isn’t any proble!”

The elder sister see Zesta and fled

Zesta held on to the shopping bag and watched her leave He said dejectedly

“…Just one step short”

“You better go back”

—We changed a location and started our next battle

“Next, ill for again… But for our next battle plan, Mr Zesta’s pathetic uncle look isn’t charh What should we do…”

“Miss Meguet hurt”

I ignored his protests and hid in the small alley

“So be it Next, ill target self-righteous males Firstly, I will cry out pitifully to attract his attention Then, Mr Zesta will approach uy savehim…”

“I see I understand the plan… By the way, for the part about approaching Miss Meguet as close as I like?”

“If you touch one finger, I will report to the police… Oh, speak of the devil!”

The targeted male passed by

He looked decent and gave off a sense of valor

“Not bad That guy looks ideal! Then, I’ll get started!”

I rushed out of the alley and shouted to attract his attention

“Sav- Save me! Somebody save me!”

The surrounding people were attracted by uished cries

Of course, this included the self-righteous guy

“That dangerous-looking uncle wants to forcefully take… me…?”

We arranged for Zesta to follow ly

But he hid in the alley and looked away

“Hey, what are you doing? I already attracted his attention! Quickly, quickly come over! Otherwise, I will beco on, they are looking on!”

As I spoke softly to Zesta, someone patted me on the shoulder

“Hey, little girl Can I have a moment of your time? This is my job”

I fearfully turned around and saw the target— the self-righteous guy before me

He was holding a black notebook