ea. If you really wanted to make an enemy of a race that’s higher than most monsters or demons, well, you can figure out the rest yourself.

Indeed, demons are troublesome enough, I probably don’t want to go out and make another enemy.

As it stands, there’s no need to conduct any interference with undeveloped humans. However, what’s the cut-off line for technology that will be destroyed?

Do they hate the otherworlder’s tastes perhaps? Maybe gunpowder isn’t any good then.

It seems that the Angels are individually close to a B+ rank, so they always come in armies of roughly... 1,000,000 strong or more...

In addition, there are leaders of Captain/ Commander classes that are stronger and organize the invasion.

It seems like there are General level classes as well, but the combat capabilities of these individuals are unknown.

A Demon Lord’s Body is probably stronger though.

They’re also under the Holy attribute, so any real attacks or intervention from the Church will probably be useless.

Though, even if nothing is done, the helpless monsters will generally be slaughtered under the Angelic invasion.

However, they don’t seem to be allies of humanity either, not even Hinata knows that much about them.

Well, it’s to be expected since no humans currently have seen an Angel for over five hundred years. The only reason they are known is through the recordings of history and rumors.

Given that, there’s a good reason as to why the Church considers monsters as the enemies, and also why demons exist.

Amongst the monsters, there seems to be an organization that is exceptionally hostile towards humans. There’s even a Demon Lord in their midst that clearly hates humans as well. Well, was of course...

Clayman was the representative of that faction, but he’s beyond dead now.

With Clayman dead, there aren’t any Demon Lords amongst the Eight-Star Demon Lords that have a clear cut hostility towards humankind.

(Hinata)

“HUH?! Clayman’s dead?!”

Oh, it surprised Hinata.

(Rimuru)

“Yep, he’s dead. I killed him and destroyed his soul.”

While I went for a nice, salty and oily potato chip, I offered my carefree reply.

Ah, potato chips are the perfect snack..

Rather than talking about that small fry, I much rather talk about the Angels that were coming. But it was clear that she was conflicted on whether or not she should give up on this matter.

That kind of small fry... what happened to him doesn’t matter at all if i’m perfectly honest. Well, that’s what I thought, but....

From what Hinata told me about him, Clayman had always been acting secretively and they were never able to get any leads on him.

However, his extreme hostility towards humanity was clear, and if there weren’t an internal balance check between the Demon Lords, and the necessary agreement of several other Demon Lords, he would have probably went to war with them ages ago.

Then I remembered.

(Rimuru)

“Oh right, I just remembered that Clayman mentioned his lord being the Demon Lord Kazaream or something of the nature. Ah, he’s likely to have some connection with Yuuki, so best to be cautious.

The Holy Knights who hadn’t heard this yet were thusly told.

(Anon Holy Knight 1)

‘Hah? The Leader of the Freedom Association might be the Demon Lord Kazaream?”

(Anon Holy Knight 2)

“However... we can’t just openly examine him on this... If handled wrong, this could lead to an all out war between the Church and the Freedom Association...”

(Rimuru)

“Well, Kazaream is alive and we assume he managed to manipulate Clayman...

That would mean the boss of the hostile demons is Kazaream. Even if he isn’t the de-facto leader, the chance that he’s monitoring them is possibly very high.”

I said that while eating a few potato chips.

But, contrary to their serious facial expressions, their hands continued to bring new potato chips to their mouths.

These guys... aren’t you acting a bit too familiar?

Heck, even Hinata was reaching her hands out and nibbling on various items.

Wait, what’s this about?! Is this really a topic that you can so casually discuss?

So on and so forth, but I ended up just muttering rashly, especially since it doesn’t really have anything to do with me anymore anyways.

(Rimuru)

“Oh well. It’s just a possibility anyway. It’s best that we don’t act careless though.

However, I do admit that there are plenty of people going after the “Otherworldly” children, so I don’t want to alert them if I don’t have to.”

(Hinata)

“Regarding that, I think I might know of a place. I’d like to go and examine further, but do you mind if I do so?”

(Rimuru)

“Eh? Uh... Ah.. Did you need to ask so carefully? Is there some professional informant in the Freedom Association?”

Hinata probably had a similar idea.

I could probably figure out what she was planning, and if it’s what I think it is, it isn’t a bad idea to entrust it to her.

Thinking this, I tentatively nodded in my agreement.

Indeed, even though there is no tangible evidence, this isn’t something that can be just left alone as is.

This matter will all be determined by the information that we manage to gather. Hinata’s eyes showed me that she was also aware of the importance of the situation at hand and we nodded at each other.

Thusly, our future relations with the Church have been successfully laid out. We were able to complete a friendly meeting and spent our time meaningfully.

I was even able to obtain some unexpected information, but it’s best I leave ‘that’ person to examine it.

Hinata also stayed around for another two or three days before she returned.

For the sake of an emergency contact, allowing either party to instantly contact the other, several people were left behind. However, monitoring us is no longer their purpose here.

Since we’ve already ceased all open hostility, it’s best to just establish friendly connections in the future.

If possible, i’d like to maintain relations as is.

Like this, the series of Conflicts with the Church, has officially reached a tentative completion.

———–

White’s note:

(White)

“Good grief! Well, the difference between Clown-chan, Guro-san and the Kuma-Hana team is apparent. It’s not as bad as when i’m working with people using Google Translate by a LONG SHOT. Though there are points where the translation was wrong.

I’d suggest that they use the Translation aggregator to double check their work.

/translation-app/#TAGuide

I recommend using the JPasar, ATLAS, and Honyaku as reference. Other than that, well done with what you put out.

Rough estimation of time used to complete: 280 minutes...

I’m out of practice... it was only 20 pages... though I DO type out each word...

Enjoy o/

~White

Yuuka: I’ll be taking a break now due to exams; everyone please miss me.

Smoggy: White San, I type out each word too (Mate, you’re good at this)... and Yuuka San, you will be missed.