That light seemed to be gushing out from Aqua’s body and the zombies around the Lich disappeared when they were touched by the light. It was the same with the spirits gathering at the magic circle of the Lich, they disappeared when Aqua’s light reached them. The Lich was also basked in that light… “Hyaaa–! My, my body is fading? Stop, my body is disappearing! I will be purified!” “Hahahaha, foolish Lich! Your existence goes against the law of nature, an undead which defies the will of the gods! Disappear, be vanquished by my power!” “Hey, stop it.” I stood behind Aqua and knocked the back of her head with the hilt of my sword. “…! That hurts! Why did you hit me!?” Her focus was probably broken when the back of her head was hit and she stopped emitting light. She held her head and scolded me with tearing eyes. Darkness and Megumin reached here at this time too. I ignored Aqua and spoke to the Lich that was trembling while curled in a ball: “Hey, are you fine? Erm… Can I address you as Lich?” Looking closely, the feet of the Lich had turned translucent and was on the verge of disappearing. The feet slowly became opaque again, and the Lich stood up unsteadily with teary eyes. “I, I, I’m fine… Thank, thank you for saving me from that crisis…! Erm, you are right, I am a Lich, my name is Wiz.” After that, she took off the hood she was wearing closely. What appeared under the moonlight was a beautiful woman with brown hair about 20 years old. I thought a Lich would have a skull like face. Wiz wore a black robe in the style of a evil witch. No, since she is a Lich, she was an evil witch right? “Eh… Wiz? What are you doing in this cemetery? You said you wanted to send the spirits to heaven, I don’t want to agree with Aqua, but that shouldn’t be what a Lich like you should be doing right?” “What are you doing Kazuma! Be careful you get contaminated and become an undead if you talk to this bad apple! Let me cast ‘Turn Undead’ on her!” Aqua became agitated after hearing what I said, and wanted to cast a spell on Wiz. Wiz hid behind me with a troubled and terrified expression: “Be, because… As you can see, I am a Lich, the overlord of the undying. As the overlord, I could hear the voice of the spirits wandering in the world. Most of the spirits in this public cemetery don’t have money and didn’t have a proper burial, so they couldn’t move on to the afterlife and loiter the cemetery every night. Since I am an overlord, I will visit periodically and send the children on their way.” … My eyes were tearing up. What a good person. Apart from the counter lady, she was probably the first normal person I met since coming to this world. Ah, although she was technically not a human. “I think that is a wonderful thing, but… Although I am not Aqua, wouldn’t it be better to leave this to the priest in this town?” In response to my query, Wiz was hesitant to speak as she peeked at the unhappy Aqua, and finally said: “Be, because… the priest in this town are materialistic… Eh, no, I mean… the rites for those without money would be pushed down their waiting list… something like that…” It was probably hard to say it in the presence of the Arch priest Aqua. “You mean the priests in this town are people who worship money. The public cemetery which is full of poor people are basically ignored by them right?” “We… Well, that’s how it is…” Everyone gazed at Aqua silently, while she averted her eyes from everyone. “Since that is the case, it couldn’t be helped. But could you stop animating the zombies? We are here because of a quest to defeat the zombie maker.” Wiz was troubled by what I said. “Ah… I see… But I didn’t animate them, the corpses that are intact would rise automatically due to my magic every time I come… Erm, I won’t have any reason to visit if the spirits in the cemetery won’t wander anymore and return to heaven… So… How should we resolve this?” Part 9 We left the cemetery and were journeying back to town. “I can’t accept this!” Aqua was still fuming. Dawn was just about to break. “It couldn’t be helped. She was such a nice person, you couldn’t bear killing her right?” We decided to let that Lich off. At the same time, we came to a consensus for the idle Aqua to purify the cemetery periodically. Fortunately, no matter how bad Aqua was, she still was a goddess. She knew that purifying the undead and wandering spirits was her job. But she threw a tantrum because her sleeping time would be reduced. For Megumin and Darkness who were hesitant about letting a monster off agreed after learning Wiz had never attacked a human before. I looked at the paper Wiz gave me and said: “But for a Lich to live normally in town, the security is really lacking.” The piece of paper had Wiz’s address on it. That Lich seemed to be living life as a normal human in our town. She even said she was running a small magic item shop. I told her my impression of Liches dwelling in dungeons, she replied that it wasn’t convenient and there was no reason to live there. No, Liches were once humans too, so I knew what she meant. I do understand, but since coming to this world, my fantasy about alternate worlds were shattered. This was not the alternate world I was hoping for. “We were lucky things turned out well in the end. Even with Aqua here, the opponent was still a Lich. If we really fought, Kazuma and I would definitely be dead.” Megumin said nonchalantly which made me stunned. “Eh, are Lich such dangerous monsters? Would it have been a tough fight?” “It’s much worse than that! Lich have high magic defense, nothing could harm her except enchanted weapons. She could trigger all sorts of abnormal status just by touching her enemies and drain their life and mana, a legendary immortal monster. What surprised me was why Aqua’s ‘Turn Undead’ had such great effect on such a powerful being.” I almost lost control of my bowels. That’s right, she was the boss of the undead after all. When I heard she was willing to teach me skills of a Lich, I took her name card gleefully… When I visit her to learn skills, I must remember to bring Aqua along. “Kazuma, give me the name card. I want to set up a holy barrier around the home of that woman and make her cry.” “Please let her go…” It would be better to not take Aqua along… As we were thinking about that, Darkness said quietly: “By the way, what about the quest to defeat the zombie maker?” “Ah.” x3 Quest failed.