An Arrest For This Religion's Pervy Priest! (この教団の責任者に逮捕を！, Kono Kyŏdan no Hentai ni Taiho wo!) is the eleventh chapter of the KonoSuba Bakuen manga series, and covers Chapters 3 to 4 in Volume 2 of the light novels.
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Cecily attempting to jump on Megumin when she was in the hot springs bath with Chomusuke on the prior night.
Summary[]
The knight explains that Zesta is suspected of conspiracy to commit treason, then displays a letter from the Crimson Magic Clan's fortune teller warning them about a threat coming to Arcanletia. The letter cautions the authorities how in the case something is wrong with the hot springs, they should pay close attention to the one in charge of their maintenance who is actually a servant of the Demon King, and they did in fact receive complaints about the hot springs the Axis Church is responsible for maintaining. Stating alongside other followers present that their church's teachings is kill the demons and mock the Demon King, the infuriated Zesta leaps at the knight in an attempt to harrass her, but still gets arrested for his efforts.
Cecily afterwards becomes nervous on what they will do without Zesta, but upon being questioned by Megumin on the specifics, she and other followers realise how nothing will really change. A guilt-ridden Yunyun then confesses that Soketto had asked her to deliver a letter of prophecy to Arcanletia, which will soon be in danger.
Megumin assures Yunyun the following morning as they head for breakfast that she was just delivering a letter and didn't know it would get Zesta arrested, then at the dining hall where only an eating Cecily who had woken late after a night of celebratory drinking is left, hears of how the other followers had headed out earlier as they frenzily vie for votes through crazy promises to become the next leader of the Axis Church. Cecily then offers paying Megumin and Yunyun to help her collect votes, while stating that it's all fine as Zesta is probably enjoying being interrogated by the female knight.
On their way out after a disgusted Yunyun with nowhere else to go was forced to tag along, Megumin as Cecily tries cozying up to them suggests inquiring at the inns reporting problems with the hot springs, though Cecily is convinced of Zesta's guilt. They then witness an Axis follower trying to buy votes from another with a panty that Cecily recognises to be her own, so she attacks them to snatch it back in addition to requesting votes for it.
Later at one inn that filed complaints about the hot springs water, they see that the water in the hot springs that flowed from the tap had turned into Gelatinous Slime. Cecily who expresses delight at seeing her favourite snack accordingly takes them to the water supply system maintained by the Axis Church, where the hot springs water running down from their source in the mountains get circulated to the various inns. Some knights then appear and state that they had already collected all the evidence, then show the girls the big sack of Gelatinous Slime powder Zesta was witnessed to have carried there, before stopping a saddened Cecily from drinking some of the Gelatinous Slime clogging the facility because it is evidence.
As the trio heads back to town, where Yunyun explains that the penalty for conspiracy to commit treason is death, much to the shock of Megumin and Cecily, the three of them hear Zesta in front of the police station from which he got released from busy reprimanding the female knight for their mistake. He then tells the trio how a lie-detecting magic bell brought by the female prosecutor ended up proving his innocence and how he was quite happy seeing her confident face welling up with tears, then rubs it in the irate female knight's face as she apologises for mistakenly arresting him.
Making their way towards the fountain plaza, Cecily changes tune into believing in Zesta's innocence while bribing Megumin and Yunyun into keeping quiet about her earlier stance with Gelatinous Slime powder, while Arnes observes them from behind a building corner.
Interlude[]
It so happened that on the night Megumin was brought to the Axis main cathedral, both Cecily and Zesta were, while washing dishes in the kitchen, anticipating bathing with a little loli. Upon Cecily revealing how Megumin agreed to bathe with her, however, Zesta reminded his subordinate how it was her turn that night to clean the circulation system. Cecily proceeded to have Zesta go in her place in exchange for large quantities of Gelatinous Slime powder, which was contained in a big sack that she took out. Upon Zesta agreeing, Cecily after promising to tell him of Megumin's "details" delightedly ran off to the baths, while Zesta thought that the sack she took out contained cleaning soda.
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Differences to other versions[]
- Upon hearing of Zesta getting arrested, Cecily and other Axis followers in the light novel begin suggesting his various sexual harassments being the possible cause, making Megumin who initially defends the Archpriest quickly cooperate with the authorities, although the female knight is accordingly driven crazy by Zesta's shameless antics.
- The point about Soketto borrowing the powers of a Demon who can see the future for making accurate divinations is skipped in the manga.
- Megumin in the light novel also helps Cecily knock down the Axis follows brandishing the Priest's panty, following which the trio goes all over town to impede other candidates, an endeavour that Cecily rewards the Crimson Magic girls with a cup of Gelatinous Slime for, before they finally go to investigate the hot springs, where the Priest is stopped by her companions from drinking the Gelatinous Slime out of the tap.
- The police find multiple bags containing Gelatinous Slime powder in the light novel instead of just one.
- When Zesta is released from custody in the light novel, several policemen also apologise to him alongside the female knight, before the Archpriest asks them to advise Sena not to falsely accuse the innocent once she relocates to Axel, all the while mistaking Cecily and the other Axis followers to have been worried for him and were protesting for his release.
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