The legend of the Crimson Demon clan started from Suqing

Wearing the equipment gifted by her friends and carrying her sister's expectations, Megumin, determined to become the strongest arch-wizard, arrived in Alcanretia full of enthusiasm.

Then, she encountered a wall called prejudice.

She was refused when trying to register as an adventurer, and people treated her like a child when she tried to find work. In just a day and a half, she changed jobs three times and had to sleep in a broken stable at the tavern.

She hadn't eaten anything since yesterday.

Fortunately, she met the smiling high priest of the Axis Church, who saved her from starvation with his skewered meat. Because of this, she decided to help them innovate methods for recruiting church members.

However, whether she pretended to fall or acted like she was being bullied, these methods not only failed to recruit members but also led to her being reprimanded by the town's guard.

She felt so tired and wanted to retire.

… No, no, no, her adventure had just begun, how could she give up so easily?

Megumin regained her spirits and said to the priest beside her, who was listening attentively like a student, "Watch closely, I'll only perform this once. This will be the key…"

"My child! Someone, please! My child fell into the water!"

An anxious voice interrupted her lesson, and before Megumin could react, she saw a big sister wearing priest robes jump into the water to save the child.

That should be fine, right?

However, this big sister who stepped forward couldn't swim either, and she also shouted for help after jumping into the water.

"Why did you try to be brave if you can't swim!"

Megumin couldn't help but complain.

Just as she was about to do something, she saw someone wearing a mage's cloak with a rather familiar appearance, stepping on the water to try to save her and the little girl.

During the rescue, that big sister was touching her familiar person all over, constantly exploring areas that she herself hadn't explored!

"I was first, I was clearly first…"

She muttered softly, her eyes red.

Then, Yunyun accidentally stepped into the air, and in a situation where all three were drowning, she had no choice but to freeze the river surface with ice to save them.

Were they trying to be funny?

Megumin gazed at the two lazy bums sitting on the bench sunbathing and asked Jesta beside her, "That's an Axis Church priest's robe, right? Is she also a church member?"

"Her name is Cecily, and she's quite excellent."

"Hmph…"

She made a meaningful sound.

"Putting that aside…"

Jesta straightened his clothes, and then he suddenly rushed out.

"I saw it! I didn't expect someone to selflessly go to save someone! You must have a noble soul! Ah, you are a natural Axis Church member!"

…

Yunyun stepped on Jesta's face, who had slid over from a distance, and quickly removed her foot in disgust, noticing the flushed and strangely panting expression on his face.

She couldn't let a pervert taste even a bit of sweetness.

"Lord Jesta!?"

Before Yunyun could ask, Cecily beside her revealed the identity of the person.

"Ahem."

Jesta slowly got up from the ground, straightened his messy clothes, took out a piece of parchment, and looked at Yunyun and Yuiyui with a friendly smile.

"I saw everything that just happened. You two chose to selflessly rescue the poor person in that situation. I'm truly touched! As a reward, I'll give you these Axis Church application forms!"

"I don't want it."

He couldn't even recruit believers, and he was using such a seemingly benevolent tone to deceive people. He was playing a good game.

"No, Lord Jesta!"

Cecily stood in front of Yunyun and said, "I saw this child first. Even if it's Lord Jesta, I won't give her to you!"

"Is that so? That's a pity then. Then I'll just have to choose this young lady."

Jesta changed his target on his own.

"Ah, let me introduce you." Cecily said as if she had just remembered, "This is Lord Jesta, tentatively considered the highest authority of the Axis Church."

What did she mean by 'tentatively'? Did she have some ideas about this position?

Yunyun felt that Cecily had bad intentions.

Even though she said that, Jesta was still smiling.

Yuiyui also politely introduced herself, "I'm Yuiyui, nice to meet you, please take care of me."

"She's a young lady who looks like she's had a hard life."

"Hard life? I- I don't have many friends, but I don't want to be told that by an uncle I just met!"

Did Jesta also have the ability to tell fortunes or read faces?

Honestly, Yuiyui really did have a hard life.

"I'm Yunyun."

"What a good name. I was wondering, would you like to join the Axis Church?"

Jesta grabbed Yunyun's hand.

"Let go, let go!"

Little boy and priest (father), these two words are fine separately, but combined together, there's a big problem.

Yunyun spent a lot of effort to pull her red hands out of his grip, not understanding why the people of the Axis Church all had such great strength. Were they really all priest class?

"Hmm…"

Jesta carefully sized up the two of them and asked after a moment of contemplation, "You two… couldn't you be Crimson Demons?"

"Mr. Jesta knows about the Crimson Demons?"

"Hahaha, actually, I was just with a Crimson Demon girl from the Crimson Demon village. I think you should know her."

"Eh? Could it be—"

Yunyun was slightly surprised, and then she saw the Crimson Demon girl walking out from the corner of the street.

"Megumin!?"

"Yunyun and Yunyun, you two came to this town too."

Megumin walked over slowly.

After a brief chat, Yunyun and Yunyun also learned that Megumin was helping the Axis Church recruit members.

"Me, Megumin… you're doing this kind of thing? But when it comes to the Axis Church…"

Yunyun retreated slightly in fear.

Before coming to Alcanretia, she had only heard that the people of the Axis Church were very bizarre, but after meeting Cecily yesterday, she realized that the members of the Axis Church were even more bizarre than rumored.

"I can't help it, I need to save up money for the carriage, so I have no choice but to stay in this town and help temporarily," Megumin said.

Jesta said with a smile, "Yes, Miss Megumin has taught us many wonderful recruitment methods."

"Help recruit members?"

Yunyun looked at Megumin and said, "How much determination did you have when you said that? You're just an ordinary Crimson Demon, can you bear the future of the church? Recruiting members… don't easily say such heavy words if you can't do it. Megumin, you're really just thinking about yourself."

"Ugh…"

Megumin lowered her head guiltily.

It seemed that she also clearly knew how excessive the methods she taught were, and she hadn't successfully recruited a single member yet.

Megumin said aggrievedly, "I- I can't help it! I don't have any money, and I was humiliated as a child when I tried to work, so I can only resort to this! Rather, why did you come over now! It's all your fault, Yunyun! It would have been better if you had come with me from the beginning! I'm living in a stable and starving, you and Yunyun must be staying in the best hot spring hotel!"

"Well…"

Yunyun felt guilty.

… Wait, Megumin clearly wanted to latch onto a rich person to freeload, how did it turn into my fault?

At this time, Jesta said, "Everyone, according to my experience, someone should be seeing this scene and running to report it soon. Before the guard comes here, let's go back to the church first, you can catch up properly, okay?"

As he spoke, he smiled gently.