As the students all got settled into their seats after a brief break Fox pulled out the Death March book causing JNPR and RWBY to groan while Coco and Velvet looked around in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Velvet asked curiously.

"This story is so boring!" Nora whined as she buried herself into Ren's side.

"It's excessively slow-paced." Ren elaborated with a blank expression.

"So…why are you still reading it?" Coco asked whilst raising an eyebrow.

"We have to finish the current volume," Yang grumbled as she crossed her arms and slumped in her seat.

Satou's here. "Every cloud has a silver lining", I'm contemplating such phrase.

The peaceful afternoon I enjoyed yesterday completely changed.

Well then, the afternoon series, troubles arc will begin...

"Oh gods, is it like that the entire time?" Coco asked while groaning into her hands.

"Yes." The others all responded in sync.

A little distance away from the street stalls, there's a Parion temple.
In the east street, there are only street stalls in the main street.

There are some people gathered in front of the temple.

"I wonder what happen?"
"Let's check it for a bit."

Velvet's face twitched as the words repeated themselves in her mind. "Could we just burn it?" she asked sweetly.

"I'm afraid not." Fox shook his head with a wry smile.

Zena-san rushes over there. Seeing this quick change of pace, she's really a soldier.

Zena-san asks what happen to the big priestess' attendant from yesterday.
Zena-san is flapping her hand it around. She seems to be grateful for something.

I wonder what they're talking about.

When I got closer as I walked, I only heard the latter half of the story.
By the way, the conversation that I've heard,

"...then how about the Garleon temple on the east street. The temple there also has military contact so medical treatment shouldn't be a problem. It's on the east street but you're accompanied by a man so strange fellows probably won't approach you."
"Yes, even like this, I'm a magician soldier. I'd beat playboys who try to pick me up no matter how many of them come."

"This is…" Coco trailed off as she made a rotating motion with her hands.

"It drones on and on." Weiss declared as she looked for anything else to occupy her time with. "Normally I wouldn't mind a slower-paced story if it still moved the plot along, but this doesn't even do that."

"Yeah, I can see what you mean." Velvet muttered as she rubbed one of her ears idly.

From Zena-san, it seems that the priestess is in the middle of meeting with envoys from the royal capital temple. Moreover, since the priestess is only able to use magic for healing injury, light poison and illness, we're forced to go to the other referred temple.

...He's just passing the buck!

In the end, we're going to the Garleon temple on the east street.

It's not like I'm dissatisfied you know?
Even if I got used to it, walking the European-style city together with a plainly cute girl like this, it's quite enjoyable!

"Plainly cute?" Ruby asked tilting her head. "What does that mean?"

"Hell if I know Rubes." Yang shrugged her shoulders as the others made similar motions.

Along the way, about 100 meters away, a public park is there.

I thought that it was just a lawn with weeds, but it's cut short and in the square, some old couples carrying baby are resting, and around 10 young people are practicing martial arts.

"Zena-san, what kind of training is in the military?"

I want to hear it somehow.

"There's no emotional connection or investment in this," Jaune complained as he threw his head back and sighed. "Why should we care about any of this information they're dumping on us?"

"Now, now Jaune let's be nice." Pyrrha urged with a small smile on her face.

"That's right~, I think it's the same training as soldiers everywhere, but for magic soldiers, it's concerning preservation of magic power. We take care to maintain the state where we can use magic at its best."

Variation in training huh?
Certainly, MP-less magicians are useless.

"Magic soldiers and magicians each assigned different roles in accordance with their element. I can only speak from the viewpoint of military, but except for fire element, we don't usually use other elements for attacking."

Certainly something like torturing by fire is certainly suitable for attack. But you can also use it to heat bath you know?

"A bath?" Coco asked looking at her juniors.

"He obsesses over weird things like that," Blake explained.

"As for my wind, it's used for protection from arrows, Wind Protection, defending a castle from castle breaker hammer with (Air Cushion), or transmitting instruction with (Whisper), various useful things like those. If we use (Fly) then scouting will be easy, but the Earl doesn't have anyone who can use it."

That reminds me, Zena-san's goal was to fly through the sky, isn't it?

"If you manage to fly, then it'd be nice to have a date in the sky~"

I was joking, but Zena-san turns red to her neck and says "P, please leave it to me" while fumbling her words.

It's cute, but I'm worried if she's ever going to be deceived by a bad man~

"There's just something annoying about the way he talks in his mind," Weiss growled.

"Yeah… it's really punchable." Nora agreed as she slammed a fist into an open palm.

In the shades of the roadside trees, several cats are curling around. Come to think of it, this is the first time I've seen wild cats since I come here.

"That cat is cute~."

Zena-san looks like she'll run there if left alone.
I'm of cat's faction too, that's why I can't let cats' afternoon nap to be disturbed!
So I bring up this talk.

"That reminds me, there are no wild dogs in this city."
"There's a rumor that wild dogs if seen, will become meals for the people of the slum..."
"It's a lie, isn't it?"
"Yes, it's a lie.
But a rumor like that do exist, it seems that ripe Gabo fruits eaten with dog are quite addicting. So, ever since that fruit began to be consumed, wild dogs disappeared."

Gabo fruits appear again. Have some restraint!

"Doggies no!" Ruby screamed in horror as a person firmly in the dog faction.

Blake kept her own thoughts on the matter to herself seeing as Ruby was so torn up about it while Yang comforted her. 'Dumb mutts' she thought silently.

"Blake your hatred of dogs is showing through." Velvet pointed out causing the Cat Faunus to cough.

People catching sights of hunters going to the meat processing plant in the east street with their dog partners seems to be the root of that rumor.

"Punishment for the demon's kin! Receive blessing by striking the demon with these holy stoooones!"

Halfway into the east street, we're hearing a faint voice verging on falsetto like it's coming from an old man. There are also voices of a lot of people.

On the square from the alley turn, there's a fat middle-aged man priest standing in an expensive-looking pedestal.
With bloodshot eyes, bubbles fly from his mouth.

"Ew…" the entire room recoiled in disgust at the imagery.

"O people with virtue!Do you remember the divine punishment also known as Star Fall from the other day?"
"Oooo!"
"We remember!"
"Oooooo!"

Isn't about half of the shouting people are faking it?

"Furthermore! Furthermore!Yesterday, the Earl's castle had been hit by an attack of the demon lord's executive!"
"Oh, Gods!"
"Please save us, hero-sama!"
"Oooooo!"

Shouting is a good way to relieve stress huh.

"This seems kind of bad doesn't it?" Jaune pointed out.

"They're all just mindlessly begging for someone to save them." Ren sighed "They're lucky that the Grimm don't exist in their world."

"Yeah, they'd be overrun immediately." Coco nodded her head.

"This is a sign of the dimming of the god's divine protection!Acquire blessings! O people with virtue!Those who gain blessings will be protected from disaster!"
"Priest-sama! Please save us!"
"Oooooo!"
"Blessings!"

Such cheap people.

"Acquires blessing! Do you understand people! Blessings!"
"Blessings!"
"Oooooo!"
"Please teach us!"

This town's people would be easily deceived by fraudulent calls or shady pyramid scheme.

Weiss frowned and shook her head. "What nonsense." She muttered, "They're panicking so much that they can't even think for themselves."

"Look at those fellows!"

The fat priest point at the back of the square.

"Those fellows are demi-human, the washout of the demon, no, the kin of the demon lord!Give divine punishment to those fellows and receive blessings!"
"Oooooo!"
"KILL!"

Oi, oi agitator.

"Wait!People of virtue!Murder is prohibited by the law of the kingdom. Wait!"
"What should we do, priest-sama!"
"KILL!"
"Oooooo!"

There are a lot of people who are just clamoring.

"Killing is prohibited!With these holy stones hit the demon's kin and receive blessings."

"Hey… aren't those girls the ones Yang showed us pictures of?" Pyrrha asked as she squinted her eyes trying to get a clearer picture. Beside her, Jaune chuckled seeing this silly side of his partner.

"Priest-sama!"
"Give us the stones~!"
"Oooooo!"

I look at the direction the fat priest points to. Three beastkin girls are there.

"But it's not free! Receive the blessings using your own money!"

"Oooooo!"
"Blessings!"

Dog, Cat, and Lizard beastkin girls are huddling together.

"They are the girls in the pictures huh?" Yang frowned seeing their situation. "I really want to beat that fake priest."

"Agreed," Weiss growled. "How could you stone something so cute?"

Blake and Velvet coughed reminding everyone about the Faunus.

"The holy stones are 1 copper coin each! For this special occasion, you can get 6 stones for one big copper coin!"

Ah, the voices from the people stop. What a calculating populace~

"What's wrong!Pious men and women!There's a limit on these holy stones! Those who receive blessings are those who act fast!"

"We'll buy it!"
"Please sell it to me!"
"Oooooo!"

They sure are weak with limited edition.

"Quite commenting about stupid things and stop them!" Ruby yelled.

"She's pretty fired up. Ain't she?" Coco asked seeing Ruby truly angry.

"You weren't here yet, but the last chapter, Satou let a bunch of soldiers die because he didn't want to stand out," Yang explained getting incensed looks from the two older students.

"Buy it from my disciples here!Line up!If you don't properly line up, you won't get the blessings!"

"Oooooo!"
"Line up!"

Fat priest, did you just use mind manipulation magic?

People who have bought the holy stones unreservedly throw it at the beast girls. They don't hesitate there.

Eh~~~? Are you serious?

"I cannot watch this!"

Zena-san pushes her way through the crowds running to the fat priest's place.
I was taken aback and late to respond.

"Yeah, I bet it's surprising to someone who only acts on logic and self-interest," Blake grumbled

"I hate how he acts like all of these actions taking place around her are so surprising," Nora growled.

"Kill the demi-human!"
"Oooooo!"
"Punishment for the demon kin!"

The people are heating up and sporadically hit the beast kin girls with the stones.
The lizard girl is protecting the smaller dog and catgirls.

Now then, it's easy to interrupt this from the front, but if the same thing happens again later then there is no meaning to it.

Detailed information from the AR comes up like usual when I look at the beast kin girls.

This is!

I quickly chew through the information I've found.
Then, it should be somewhere.

There!

I investigate the guy's information and is convinced.
With this, I should manage somehow!

I whip my gray brain cells to explore the best solution...

"Oh, is he actually going to do something? Not sit there and be a little bitch but do something?" Ruby asked with a heated look as her friends looked at her in shock. "Hm?" she asked noticing their looks. "Is there something on my face?" she asked sweetly getting swift shakes of the head from her friends.

Fox blinked as he rubbed his eyes. "I could've sworn you became very…blocky? For a moment there."

"Huh…weird." Ruby shrugged her shoulders eventually dismissing the thought as she looked around the room. "Wait is the chapter over already?"

"Yes, it is."

"So short!" the entire room shouted in surprise.