Immoral Guild (不徳のギルド)

MEBUKI FOREST

MAIDE Key, Maide, and I are doing a quest today.

Toki is having a special physical training, mentored by Hana, apparently.

For now, you should start with three hundred reps of push-ups, sit-ups, and squats respectively.

Goodbye, current world. I don't think I can come back home alive.

Today's not like your usual monster hunting.

We're here on a quest to gather the Lupinusilence flower.

Lupinusilence?

LUPINUSILENCE It's a troublesome flower...

LUPINUSILENCE ...that disperses pollen with a silencing effect...

LUPINUSILENCE ...when the petals are strongly agitated.

So we won't be able to speak, then?

Not being able to speak is no problem to me and Hitamuki, since we use physical attacks,

but someone who uses magical attacks like you won't be able to chant.

While we're gathering them as materials for equipment and medicine,

they're in the way of the guards,

so we're also getting rid of them.

So we don't need to fight monsters today?

No, we don't have to take the initiative to attack them now.

Hitamuki, be on guard for our surroundings.

Sure, I'll do my best with dedication so that you can do your job safely—

THUNK!

Hitamuki?!

Endure...

Geez, what are you doing?

Just focus half your attention on other people and the other half on yourself, okay?

I'm sorry...

I'll fix you up, so stay still.

Oh, you don't have to.

Actually, I've been doing a special training,

and finally obtained a new arte!

A new technique?

Yes!

It's a healing method using chakra.

I can control my mana and use it to increase my healing power...

And just like this, I'm all good now!

Right...

RECON - COOKING - HEALING She becomes better at all the skills...

RECON - COOKING - HEALING ...that have nothing to do with attacks.

What is a martial artist, actually...

It'd be great if I could heal other people too,

but too bad I can't.

Of course you can't heal someone else.

Why's that?

Hitamuki, can you reattach this snapped branch with your own power?

Of course I can't!

Exactly.

In other words, people can imagine and carry out the action to "destroy someone",

but they lack the ability to interfere with the "restoring of someone".

They can only heal their own wounds and illnesses using natural healing.

That's why people use medicine and tools.

I see.

Huh? But you can heal other people too, right?

Us white sorcerers...

HOLY BIRD PHOENIZASK ...are borrowing the power of the Holy Bird Phoenizask,

HOLY BIRD PHOENIZASK who regulates the restoring of humans.

I see... so that holy crest is the source of power, huh...

That holy crest... you sound like you've seen one in person.

I-I saw it on TV!

All right, time for us to catch some lupinusilence!

Huh...

I already told you earlier, but take care to not touch the petals, okay?

Okay!

I'll do my...

...best with dedication.

Even though we don't have to intentionally fight,

there's still a chance that we'll still be attacked by the monster...

Kikuru's gone pretty far, too...

N-Not like I want him to stay close to me, though!

That must means he really trusts Hitamuki's recon, huh...

Don't worry.

She's more cautious to her surroundings than normal people.

Wait, was there an ivy hanging around here?

A STUFFPECKER HAS APPEARED!

Kiku—

MAIDENA HAS BREATHED THE LUPINUSILENCE'S POLLEN

Where's Hitamuki?!

She doesn't know that a monster's here?!

This flower smells so strong, my nose has stopped working...

If it comes to this, I'll search around for enemies with my ears and eyes!

Maide?

Help me, Hitamuki!

MAYDAY Heeeelp!

MAYDAY

Hitamuki!

Help me!

Nooo!!

Looks like Maide's having so much fun with this job!

I should do my best too!

She's really innocent... for better or for worse...

Why does it have to be me today and not Hitamuki in the first place?

A stuffpecker should have a habit of collecting and playing with shiny objects...

It's the precious church wand, but if this gets it off me...

It's not going for my wand, but me?!

No... You can't touch me there...!

It's too tight...!

No... please... stop!

I'm being toyed by the thing!

It's going to paralyse me and bring me to its nest...?

I'm scared... What will happen to me now...

Someone help me...

Someone...

Kikuru!

Maide!

I'm sorry! I didn't know there was a monster!

I was also responsible for leaving the lookout to you, Hitamuki.

I've always left it to you these days, my senses are getting dull.

Maide, you're bleeding internally...

I guess you can't heal until the Silence effect wears off, huh?

Sorry, but you gotta suck it up until we reach the city.

Key...

There's something I want to try.

Could you... leave us for a second?

Okay.

W-Well, then...

Excuse me...

Huh?! Wait, what?!

What is this?! Huuuuuh?!

- Huuuuug... - What is this?! Huuuuuh?!

Huuuuug...

S-So soft...

If our skins touch each other...

...my chakra healing might also be transferred to your body!

A-As if I could be...

I'm healed?

I'm healed!

I-I did it!

I'll dub my chakra "physchakra" now!

PHYSCHAKRA I'll dub my chakra "physchakra" now!

Huh? She's healed?

No way... she healed me with her own power...

You got in danger again because of me...

I'm...

...really glad you're healed now!

Which one is younger here, again?

You see,

I've been thinking that your innocence makes you cut out to be a white sorceress.

And today, I know that you have the quality for it.

You're definitely suited best for a support role in terms of your personality and abilities!

Huh? What?

You're not cut out to be a martial artist!

She finally said it...

Things may not turn into what I had hoped,

but she's definitely getting better in her own way.

Key...

I still have some room for growth... right?

Right... I could use a sub-healer now too.

Immoral Guild!

A NEW FAMILY MEMBER

Hey, Kikuru. Are Hitamuki and the others not coming today?

Nope. They're all getting another medical check-up at the hospital.

It's not because my fishy check-up got busted, right?

So I'll be hunting for monsters on my own today.

I've been spending my time and energy on them, so I couldn't find my own gig.

Oh, come on! You can rest for a day!

Let's go on a date around the city!

A date...

Hey, stop clinging to me so much.

Kikuru's all mine today!

You really like Kikuru, don't you, Esyne?

Yeah! He's so reliable and cool, I love him!

But don't cause him too much trouble, okay?

I won't!

Girls often perceive admiration for older people as infatuation...

I remember seeing and hearing about this.