The Great Philanthropist
Church of the Wind Goddess, Ninril-sama
“Thank you for your hard work. May you be blessed by Ninril-sama.”
“Ou, no problem. Praise be to Ninril-sama, eh?”
The priestess of the Goddess of Wind beamed at the worker, while the orphanage children gathered round to stare at the roof where a hole had been for as long as they could remember.
“Our skylight’s gone,” said one child sadly.
Priestess Anna coughed into her sleeves at the worker’s slightly bemused look.
“Skylight, eh? Well, since we’re building a schoolroom for you anyway, why not put a skylight there?”
“Oh, but the price of glass…”
“Think nothing of it, some guy donated money to our smithy. Said something about it being in the name of Hephaestus-sama or something, our boss is in a pickle trying to balance the books and spend that money responsibly.” He shrugged, “It won’t be too difficult to get some decently priced glass for the roof. It’s just like putting a window up there instead of the side, eh?”
“Oh?” Priestess Anna looked intrigued. “That sounds wonderful. We also received a donation recently. Hence the renovation…”
“Hey, is that guy a skinny, dark-haired fellow? Kind of weak looking?”
“Well, I wouldn’t say weak looking…”
“Has a large wolf with him?”
“Ah, well…” said Priestess Anna. “He did have a wolf-like creature with him…”
“Dragons too!” one of the children chirped.
“Yeah, and a squishy Slime! It’s so cute! Can I have a Slime too?”
“I want to be just like Mukouda-san!”
“Yeah!!”
The worker snorted, “Probably some rich fellow out to score some karma points.”
Priestess Anna was outraged by this dismissive behaviour. “How dare you! He’s a great believer and follower of the Great Ninril-sama! An unparalleled believer of great faith-”
“I heard he also donated to other churches, all the churches. I heard he even donated to the Church of Pharmacy. Those crazy researchers had been going around buying up all kinds of rare stuff for their experiments, and screwing up the market for the wizards,” the worker smirked.
“… Regardless, he is a great and generous man,” Priestess Anna insisted. “A great and noble philanthropist!”
“Sure, sure,” the worker said patronisingly. “I’ve seen his kind before. They donate to various churches and temples to gain popularity. He’s probably going after a noble title or something.”
“E-even if he is, he’s still doing good!”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Church of the Earth Goddess, Kishar-sama
“To the next item on the agenda. Let’s see, we have a donation of 300 gold from a certain Mukouda-sama. Is he the same Mukouda-sama who donated to our other churches?”
“Looks like it, he had been consistently donating 300 gold to other churches and temples, not just ours, apparently.”
“Is he aiming for political clout or something?” someone asked. “A noble title, perhaps?”
The people at the table started to mutter among themselves until someone piped up, “I believe he’s the same Tamer Mukouda-sama, the Adventurer with a Fenrir as a familiar.”
“I heard he has a dragon with him too.”
“Two dragons!”
“And a slime…”
“… …”
“Well, if it’s the same person, he had to be flush with money at least,” someone said begrudgingly. “Is he aiming to buy a kingdom for himself?”
“Word has it that he’s a recluse of some sort. However, he does seem to have a soft spot for orphans and orphanages.”
“Oh, the bleeding heart type? Well, that’s not a bad thing, I suppose…”
“Indeed, considering how he targeted privately owned orphanages as well as the pharmacy and some healing places, I believe he should be a truly altruistic person out to do good.”
“May Kishar-sama bless his soul.”
“Indeed.”
“Still, to indiscriminately donate 300 gold to all churches and temples seemed reckless.”
“Well, I heard that he refused to have anything to do with the Church of Rubanov!”
“Hah! Looks like he’s not so undiscriminating after all.”
“Well, those people don’t look after their believers at all. So, there’s no reason to line the leaders’ pockets anymore.”
“Also, I heard Mukouda worked with beastmen.”
“He’s not one to talk much, but to donate to orphanages and hospitals on top of churches without making a big announcement about it… well,”
“A true philanthropist?”
“Maybe…”
Church of Rubanov
“This is discrimination! Discrimination, I say!”
“Yeah, yeah!”
“Discrimination against his own kind! How despicable!”
“Is he not a fellow human? Surely, as a fellow human, he should support our cause! The great path of humanity!”
“Hail Rubanov-sama!”
“Indeed, as one who had conquered the Fenrir and Ancient Dragon, he should be a human above all humans!”
“This obviously shows that humans are above those filthy beasts!”
“That’s right! That’s right!”
“Hail Rubanov!”
“Have someone approach him and remind him of his duties to his fellow humans. Praise be to Rubanov!”
“All hail!”
“Hail Rubanov-sama!”
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Mukouda sneezed.
“Ugh, that’s the fifth time today. I wonder who’s talking about me behind my back…”
Sui reached out a tentacle and rubbed his nose. The weird snuffly feeling disappeared. Although he was grateful, he really did not like thinking about Sui-tan sucking boogers from his nose…
“Mu, still not ready yet?”
“Relax, it’s getting there,” said Mukouda as he continued to chop up more cabbage. The Mithril knife makes slicing cabbage a breeze. He dared to say that he was even faster than those cabbage-slicing machines found in restaurants back in Japan. Ah, thinking about those places suddenly made him want to eat Katsu. Maybe he could make some after this…
“Why are you slicing so many leaves? We don’t need those,” Fer grumbled. “Just meat is good enough. If you have time to slice leaves, why not cook more meat?”
Mukouda ignored him with the ease of habit. What’s important was that he, Mukouda, wanted some raw sliced cabbage. Therefore, there shall be raw sliced cabbage for dinner. Besides, these were special Alban-grown cabbages, so they were sweeter and tastier than even the [Net Super] ones.
“Oi-”
“If you disturb me again, your dinner will be nothing but sliced cabbage,” said Mukouda casually, which was a waste, but…
“You-”
“On second thought, that’s a waste of my vegetables, so you can have plain bread with water instead. So, look forward to it.”
“… …”
Mukouda smirked in the quiet that followed. That’s right, why waste his precious cabbages on that ungrateful glutton? Just give that oversized mutt some bread and water and see how long he lasts.
So far, the threat had worked every time. He had no idea how long before the creature realised it could actually threaten bodily harm, but…
If that thing did, Mukouda would resign!
Quit cooking!
Hah!
He can just buy some pre-cooked food from [Net Super] and eat that instead!
Mwahaha~!
[Gumihou: Indeed, that’s how it should be~!]
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Sui absorbing snot and boogers haha