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Side Story 7

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Chapter 7 – A Certain Pope’s Plans

The Holy Anri Thearchy.
A young religious nation formed from one of the corners of the Kingdom of Fortera, it had two national symbols.

The first was the temple-cum-dungeon, the “Holy Land of the Evil God”.
With five terranean floors and thirty-one subterranean floors, it was a massive labyrinth where each day, adventurers would risk their liv-… risk their money.
Even following the conclusion of the Three Gods War, the number of challengers saw no end.
To begin with, a dungeon was a chance to get rich quickly for adventurers. Not only did this dungeons contain numerous treasures, if they defeated the dungeon master, further fame and fortune would result.
Naturally, high risk accompanied that high return, but this particular dungeon boasted safety so great that to date, not a single person had ever died there. At the same time, it was also the most difficult dungeon in the world.
As a result of the Gods of Light and Darkness ordering their respective races to conquer it, its fame or perhaps infamy had skyrocketed. Now, adventurers from across the world gathered to challenge it.
Of course, you could say that for the merchants and inn owners in the vicinity of the temple, this crowd was a group of suckers.
And so, the Holy Anri Thearchy whose main industry was tourism, continued to grow at an abnormal speed.

As for the other symbol──

“OHHH! Anri-sama! Our God! Please listen to our prayers!”

A blonde young man in luxurious vestments was kneeling in fervent prayer.
And the one he was praying to was the figure of the nation’s patron god, Evil God Anri.
Indeed. ‘Figure’. Not the person herself.
The man was kneeling in prayer before a statue of Evil God Anri.
Because worshipping an idol was not outlawed in this nation, praying to a statue was not particularly strange. However, the problem was the size of the statue in question.

Its height rivalled that of the five story temple next to it.
A statue swiftly constructed in the Pope’s zeal, the Giant Anri Statue.

Incidentally, it goes without saying but the man currently praying to the statue was the very Pope who constructed it.
Every morning and night, without fail, he would offer his prayers to this statue.

This statue was surrounded by a fence, and drawing near it was strictly forbidden. This was a direct order from Evil God Anri herself, and even the Pope was not permitted to approach the feet of the statue.
Because the Giant Anri Statue was based on Anri clad in her Black Rose Dress, standing at its feet would give them quite an eyeful.
Because the Pope had carefully reproduced even the finest details.

“Phew, any morning where I can pray to Anri-sama is a refreshing one. Huhu, building this statue was the right choice.”

Wiping away his sweat, the Pope gave himself a thumbs up.
Like he said, the nations’ reception of this statue was exceedingly positive. To begin with, the country was a gathering of devout worshippers, so they rejoiced at the construction of the statue, and even without this piety, the statue itself was brilliantly made.
It was so brilliantly made that a certain girl could no longer walk about unmasked.

“Now then…”

The one who had created the plans for this perfect statue was none other than the Pope, and now that the Giant Anri Statue was complete, it was time to move onto his other plans.

“It’s time to bring the Grassroots Anri-sama Plan to the next stage.”

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“Aaannnnriiiiiisaaaamaaaaaa!!!”

Hearing the voice from outside, Anri unconsciously brought a hand to her brow.
There was no need to even guess who the man running her way was.
Rather, there could only be one person.

Perhaps because meeting with the divine Anri was difficult, at every matter the Pope would come rushing to report at the Black Rose Mansion.
Because he helped with the construction of this mansion, she would feel uncomfortable about being too cold with him and never turned him away, but it seemed that it mightn’t have been the best decision.

“Pleaaseeeee haaaaaveeee aaaaaaa looooookkkkk!!!”

She could feel a headache forming.
His reports could be roughly grouped into three: the status of the country, the status of the missionary work, and then miscellaneous reports. Amongst these three, the last one was the root of the most problems, as she had painfully experienced herself.
And from how he was behaving now, it seemed that today’s report would be one of the troubling ones.

“Please have a look, Anri-sama!”

Opening the doors and making himself seen, that was the very first thing he said.

“What’s going on?”

Under her mask, Anri’s face had cramped up, but she tried to sound as calm as she could.

“Huhuhu, it is finally ready! The main force behind the Grassroots Anri-sama Plan, the Miniature Anri Statue!”

With those words, the Pope produced a palm-sized sculpture. The design was the same as the dress-clad Giant Anri Statue, but despite its small size the details were delicately reproduced. Truly splendid quality.
So high was its quality that any art enthusiasts in this world would have surely paid top price to obtain it.
But to Anri who had knowledge of another world, she could only see it as a figurine.

“How is it? Is it not splendid?”

“What exactly are you planning to do with this?”

The Pope had happily asked for her impressions, but she simply felt her face cramping up further.

“Naturally we will distribute one to every follower so that they may offer prayer whenever they want. In the future, I plan to have these sent beyond our borders as well.”

Finding that her hunch was dead-on, Anri shook her head and decided to stop his crazy plan early in its tracks.
Having a figurine of herself distributed to thousands, tens of thousands of people was nothing but a nightmare to her.

“I won’t all-…”

“The preparations are ready to produce a hundred a day. I suspect it will not be long before every believer has one.”

“You’re already at the mass-production stage!?”

Because it had progressed so much further than she had imagined, Anri let out a rare scream of shock.
But perhaps the Pope took her surprise to be pleasant surprise, because he smiled proudly.

“I cannot continue at such a snail’s pace. I must quickly prepare for manufacture of more designs…! Well then, please excuse me!”

“Wai-…”

With that declaration, the Pope left as quickly as he had come.
Left behind, Anri could only let out a sigh of resignation.

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54 thoughts on “Side Story 7”

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  4. Ohman the implications! How many “precise details” does he know?! Anri wears some very proacative undies after all. A figure like that could easily be used impiously lol!

    Thanks for the read Est!

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      1. hes a stalker and a zealot in a magical world im sure theres a way if not he made one with magic lol

        wouldn’t be shocked if he uses anri as bedtime fap material LMAO poor poor anri

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        1. Actually, I don,t think he does. I think he’s so devout that he would be enraged and claim heresy at anyone who would say something like that, and that his faith is pure. To me, both the Pope and Imperial Death seem to be like that.

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    3. IKR? I imagine they would get an influx of male believers after they start handing out the miniature statues.

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  5. I mean no disrespect.

    To begni with, a dungeon was a chance to get rich quickly for adventurers. Not only did this dungeosn contain numerous

    design was the same as the dress-clad Giant Anri STatue, but despite

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  9. So in the end, human Anri still gets some Evil God responsibilities dumped on her, huh?

    ….How does our merry pope know even those precise details of Anri?

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  13. Built in perfect detail?!
    Does that means the large ham Pope has seen everything?!
    What where when how?!
    Such blasphemy!!
    I call for Divine Punishment!!

    Thanks for the chappie, Fluffy Grand Arbiter-sama!!

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  18. Hmm “perfect details” hmmmmmmm~
    I wonder where our Merry Pope got those details from~~ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  22. thanks a lot!
    risk their lives—! um, no, sorry, i meant… risk their wealth—!
    that large statue being extremely, ahem, detailed…-smacks the young blonde guy- poor anri—! stop him, anri, you’ve got to stop him from the mass production of those figurines! you’ve got to!

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  23. +1 to make it cursed!

    How about to make it so that the owner must recite a verse from The Black Scripture in front of it, as the first thing to do each day, to receive a various random blessings of the day, or else he’ll get a curse for the day.

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  33. Slowly reading through the various series you’ve translated as I recover from a recent seizure. I saw mention at the end of the main story of another story by the same author, but not the title of said story (I may have over looked this). This brings two questions to mind, what’s it called, do you intend to translate it?

    Now to binge read another series. Seriously considering having a crack at translating one of your suggestions once I recover if only as a teaser.

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      1. That’s a pity, I was mostly just curious.

        I’ll look around for something else to read that isn’t the normal going to another world, becoming OP and dripping in bitches power fantasy that I’m well and truly bored of.

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  35. Now, let’s shift our thoughts and imagine anri in the other world(back on earth, the “original”). Imagine the shock if she found out about that she has figurines made up until the details everywhere and everything and a super gigantic one above ground that can probably be seen from other kingdoms in perfect replication of her features… If this story had continued, it’d been great fun if we got a short story of the evil god summoning the real anri to that world… He’d be laughing his ass off.

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    1. He is a younger son of a noble house. He was previously involved in the Goddess religion. Was disillusioned due to his access to the top ranked clergy. Worked in the religious objector’s movement, then started his own religion. The first big service of his new religion was in the Dungeon of Robbery where he sacrificed Lili to the Evil God.

      With the backing of the genuine Evil God who was looking for an income source, the dungeon was turned into a tourist attraction and the town declared independence as the Holy Evil God Thearchy and claimed the dungeon and surrounding land as Thearchy territory. The town was developed as a tourist trap, the noble declared himself Pope of the Evil God church and is marketing the hell out of Evil God Anli and her dungeon. The church earns a lot of money and the Pope rakes off a decent share.

      He’s been giving the Evil God orders ever since she made the mistake of giving him a mage staff that she had Blessed at that first service 😸

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