I have come to a set of three possibilities regarding the voice the Archbishop is hearing, because I highly doubt someone who wants to save the world would also hand out the recipe for the blood sacrifice device that it needs to be saved from.

His connection to the Goddess has grown stronger over the years, to the point where he's inadvertently hearing her frustrations. This would explain the "everything is flawed" in the Goddess's voice, since she'd probably have to vent at some time, but it doesn't explain the blood sacrifice slave collar manufacturing device. His connection to the Goddess was either usurped by or always came from an Evil God. This one does introduce another entity of comparable supernatural power to the story, which is a tough sell. This would also require the evil to either be a new arrival, something subtle, or a story the Church has forgotten. The Goddess has two sides, one good and one evil, and the evil side managed to get control of the conduit to the Archbishop. Admittedly, this is a pretty Jekyll-and-Hyde thing to have happen, but it would be easy for the evil half of the Goddess to sound like the good half.

We do, however, know that the Archbishop isn't acting as the Goddess actually wills because she sent Rikimaru and his human to do something to stop him.

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I'm curious if the snake is another evil mascot, since it's body seems to be smoky instead of solid and she clearly wasn't expecting it to be grabbed.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Water Magician (Manga) Vol 6 Discussion:

Abel: "If you have absolutely no other options, and I gotta stress that, no other options, really and truly No.Other.Options... Ask Ryo for help."

Showing my age here, but: If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find him, then maybe you can hire...Ryo.

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Oh neat, lots of good stuff!
Could snippet galore!

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Well, shit.

@Kotenmaru said in Looks like a Job for a Maid (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

My memory might be spotty, but is this the first time we've gotten an explanation for the usage of Tien and Chi?

As I recall, it was also explained in the LN (I think).

@pcj said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! (Manga) Vol 2 Discussion:

@heimdal7 said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! (Manga) Vol 2 Discussion:

Saw a story a few years ago about a guy who automated most his job only for his company to fire him and try and force him to give them the scripts saying it was their property. Basically he laid himself off.

90% of the time they'd be absolutely right in that situation. If he wrote the scripts specifically for assisting with the job they were paying him to do then the code is definitely their property unless he had a contract ahead of time saying he could keep ownership of it.

The point is the guy in the manga will end up getting a good job only to make himself redundant and get laid off with the way it is going.

The MC was smart though in that she made the automated system required her being there so couldn't be fired. That was till a idiot took over the company.

@AliceCheshire oh! No, this is very different in the novel. The trio did kill a red dragon which they eventually brought back to Erland to have butchered. And Marcus elevated Mukoda to S-rank for the killing of the red dragon.

Having the story instead pivot to it being a fake red dragon for the manga though, is interesting.

There's subtle interesting differences from Light Novel to manga and to the anime.

@arghc Yeah, he's the mage of Bell's original party. As I recall, I believe Bell saved him (added: and the other two members) from a monster in a dungeon and lost his leg in the process.

BRUH WHO GAVE THIS AUTHOR THE FEELS KNIFE?

Maybe someone can introduce Ellen to the Dunkelfelger way of woman making the advance on a guy... I'm sure as an adventurer Ellen would be able to do it. Though maybe as some things progress and Linus frees himself from the past related to that as well he might start looking...

As for Olof... probably drunk since the festival. Since he made that comment in a large gathering where both subjects of his comment could have overheard, nor just Alec with them there but Shiori could have overheard it too. That goes well beyond even the type of talk you'd have with your mates.

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Is fog not a natural phenomena that just happens once in a while in Japan? 8-)

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