Chapter 85: Chapter 69 – The Church of the Eminence of Sin

"Join the Eminence of Sin! We're recruiting new members to join our illustrious church!" Kanae shouted into the square.

A timid beast man shuffled through the crowds, face tinged red and gulping hard as he gazed up at Kanae. Like every other person that came through or passed by, he was probably hoping to get an upskirt or nip-slip from a wardrobe malfunction.

Kanae smiled and handed him a flyer that showed the location and name of their new church.

"Maybe you'd like to come by and get a closer look." Kanae winked, casting a minor charm on him.

"I-I will!" he promised, then scurried off while pressing the flier to his nose to sniff it.

There were a lot of pent-up people in this city, but whether or not they would actually drop by was another thing. Which was why getting the word out there was important. The point was to only convince just enough to turn the tides of the election.

However, there was one big problem.

"Excuse me!" Kanae hollered to a passing group of clergymen.

One of them brandishes a single-eyed cross of the Supreme One at Kanae like he was the devil. Another, who was holding a goblet, dipped his finger into the water to flick at his feet.

"The Supreme One protects us! Y-Your bodacious form and… s-sweet voice cannot convince us to sin, foul harlot! Begone!" he screamed, urging his fellow priests to hurry along.

Some people were harder to convince than others. The only luck Kanae had was when he charmed folks.

Also didn't help that someone's heart wasn't in it.

Arenade sat behind the crate that Kanae was standing on top, hugging her knees and blushing up to her pointed ears. She already accidentally flashed someone, and was now throwing a tantrum because of that.

"What happened to that promise about making things right?" Kanae asked, turning around and putting both hands on his waist.

"Easy for you to say… Unlike you, I'm a holy priest. The embodiment of purity and innocence! Now there are people out there plugging away at a sex toy of my lower body and waiting for me to accidentally flash them again! Ahhhhh! This isn't what I signed up for!" Arenade wailed.

"This is harder than I thought!" Edina exclaimed, returning from advertising further down the street. "I'm just getting shooed away. One guy thought I was a kid! I showed him though."

Behind Edina, several skeletal summons were shaking their fist at a passerby and chasing him away.

Kanae slapped a hand to his face. This wasn't working.

"Hey! Prostitutes aren't permitted to solicit in the religious ward of Lograin!" 

Two guards pushed through the crowds to confront them. They were both human, dressed in gambeson and armed with swords that their twitching hands were eager to draw at a moment's notice.

"Oh, we're not prostitutes. We belong to the Eminence of Sin," Kanae said, showing them a flier.

One man took it and tossed it over his shoulder.

"Doesn't matter. There are rules on this side of the city. Get lost, whores." He popped the sword out from his sheath about an inch, but Kanae wasn't at all afraid.

"K-Kanae? Is… Is that you?" Coming up from behind the guards was Will, eyes wide and staring at Kanae's almost naked body in the religious robe. "And why are you almost naked?"

"We're advertising the grand opening of our church, and these guards are keeping us from our holy mission. Can you help us out?" Kanae asked.

"Church? Holy mission? This is too much for me to take in at once…" Will mumbled, pressing a hand to his head.

A guard turned to Will. "Are you associated with these women? You better tell them to get moving before we take them in."

Something clicked in Will. He flicked his gaze to Kanae, then at the guard who spoke to him.

"Sir guard, are you perhaps unaware that you're breaking the law by denying these ladies their right?" Will challenged, infuriating both guards to size up the paladin.

"Hah? What do you know about the law, kid?"

Will stood firm to face the guards, braver than when Kanae had found him on the streets being harassed by thugs. 

"You have just heard that they are recruiting members to their church, a right which I would like to remind you, is protected by Lograin dating back centuries. Denying them that right is harassment against a religious order, a crime punishable by death. Perhaps I should report this incident to the Grand Eye in Radevic?"

The guards went pale. Will's show of gallantry even got Arenade to pop her head out to see them put in their place.

"N-No, that will not be necessary! We were mistaken, isn't that right?" a guard asked his companion.

"Yeah! No harm done here. None at all," the other said, quickly leaving without so much as another word.

"Yeah! Get lost! Next time you come fuck with us, I'll turn you into my personal undead minions and serve as furniture!" Edina shouted to their backs.

"Hey, hold on. How do you know the Grand Eye? That name isn't something you can just throw around." Arenade squinted at Will.

"Are they an important religious figure?" Kanae asked.

"The most important!" she exclaimed. "Grand Eye is a position that oversees all churches under the Supreme One. Three hells, they are the one who formed the Order of Colors and are probably second to the King of Radevic in political power."

They cast their gazes to Will for answers.

"Aha… Well, the truth is… My family has ties to the Grand Eye, and my older sister Analise Bellevue is being trained to assume the next mantle," Will explained.

The party returned to the new church and filled Will in on what they were doing.

"That's where we're at now. You've got to agree that Bishop Rudo doesn't have Lograin's best interest in mind. As you can see, we haven't had much luck. Maybe you have any ideas?" Kanae asked.

"After hearing all that… how can I think otherwise? While I question your mode of dress, one of the tenets of the Supreme One is to practice religious freedom. Perhaps the Eminence of Sin needs their own motto, tenets, and purpose. That is the best way to attract followers," Will suggested.

Motto, tenets, and purpose… What would the Eminence of Sin stand for?

"Help, help, help!" Arenade cried from the ceiling, being carried by Teana. "Tell your baby to put me down!"

Kanae jumped to his feet.

"Teana, bad girl! Let Arenade down!"

"Ahaha! What's the matter?" Edina asked. "You're a priest. You can just heal yourself if you take a bad fall!"

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"Getting hurt is still painful! Let me down already!" she wailed.

"Auuu!" Teana let Arenade plummet, but Kanae flew up in time to catch the elven priest before she hit the ground and fetched his daughter right after.

As soon as Kanae let Arenade down, she ducked behind a pew and stared daggers at Teana.

"Your baby is the incarnation of the demon lord. I tried to play with her, and she just lifted me into the air!" Arenade cried.

"Don't call my daughter a demon lord." Kanae stuck his tongue out at her, then bumped horns with Teana. "You didn't mean to scare her, did you? No, you didn't! You're just my sweet little baby who wouldn't hurt a fly."

"Hehe… ehehe!" Teana giggled, returning the gesture by rubbing their horns together.

"So… you and a goblin, huh?" Will asked.

"You should have seen her. Kanae went for round two fucking that goblin kid all night," Edina teased.

Kanae went bright red.

"S-Shut up! IIt was just a spur of the moment! I'm not actually in love with him, but the sex was good, so…"

Someone knocked heavily against the front doors, followed by them creaking open and blowing in a gust of wind. Kanae quickly transformed back to human form and held Teana close to his chest to cover her features.

It was a half-orc and elf that came in, both dressed in tattered leather vests, wielding a cutlass attached to a waist scabbard. Arenade and Will tensed up, hands on their own weapons.

"Sorry ta bother ya," the half-orc began. "We was at the adventurer hall looking fer ya, but they says ya weren't there. Came here ta ask about delivering the next shipment of yer goods to Orturic."

The tension in the air vanished.

"Oh, I can go with you guys to sign off on—" Kanae trailed off and hatched another idea. "What if we don't send this batch?"

"Whaddya mean don't send? That's money we could be making," Edina complained.

"Think about it. Lograin, just like Orturic, doesn't have any places selling sex toys. There's a whole lot of people that want to be discreet like the priests, monks, and other clergy that aren't going to brothels out of shame or fear of being found out."

"Kanae… are you telling me you're going to offer sex toys in exchange for votes?" Will reluctantly asked.

"That's exactly what I intend to do." He flashed a toothy grin.

Over the next few days, they and Renya's crew, who wanted them to succeed as much as their boss did, worked together to acquire as much slime as possible by submitting slime extermination requests to the adventurer's hall. Naturally, most adventurers avoided doing such a quest for low pay and experience. Kanae had to spend tens of thousands of gold to persuade people to take them on.

It worked. Sellica was swamped with cargos of slime, and Kanae worked all day shaping them at the church.

Arenade, Edina, and Thedia had fallen asleep on the pews with slimes in their hands and laps. Kanae stayed awake well into the night to continue shaping them, even as his hands had grown calloused. He glanced at the crates of sex toys packing the worship hall and sighed. They could have made a lot of money selling these, but there was no better way to advertise something than with free gifts.

"Uu… Mama?" Teana, who was sleeping next to Kanae on the pew, stirred awake and rubbed her tired eyes. 

"What's the matter? Can't sleep?" Kanae smiled, scooping Teana into his arms.

The baby succubus pulled off the wooden wristband and returned it to Kanae, then wriggled away to pick up the blanket that was covering her earlier, and flew behind him to lay it around his shoulders. She hugged him from the back, laying her head in the pocket between his right shoulder and neck and quickly falling back to sleep.

"Mama…" Teana mumbled while half-asleep. "Don't leave Teana… Teana, good girl…"

A pang of guilt plunged into Kanae's chest like a sharp knife as he felt her warmth and laid eyes on the bead bracelet in his palm.

"That's right. Teana is a good girl. Mama won't leave you ever again," Kanae whispered, humming a lullaby to soothe her back to sleep.

The next day, the day that they were finally putting into action their plans to attract followers to the Eminence of Sin, they got more attention than any of them had bargained for. Crowds filled the plaza from the front of the church steps to the main streets of the religious ward. Adventurers and clergy alike bumped shoulder to shoulder, trying to get their free sex toy.

"I heard Sexy Slime Goods from Orturic is giving stuff away!"

"Are they really here? She's the Hero of Orturic, isn't she?"

"They opened a church? Wanna check it out?"

Kanae frowned. Even if they opened the doors, the small church wouldn't fit them all. However, this was exactly what they needed.

"Free sex toys from Sexy Slime Goods!" Kanae shouted, waving a pocket pussy in one hand and dildo in the other. "The Eminence of Sin is not evil like it sounds! We practice love and acceptance above all! Why surround yourself with scorn when you can bathe in carnal desires and lust? Why would the Supreme One and The Many make sex feel so good if it was so sinful? We hold service everyday in the evenings!"

Cheers erupted from the crowds, at least from the people who were not as shy about it.

Renya's tri-dagger crew, Thedia, and the two nuns Kanae had previously charmed were handing out sex toys to grasping hands by the dozens.

"Oh… Why?" An old elven priest fell to his knees in front of Kanae with his hands in the air. "This is all so blasphemous! So why? Why does sinning feel so… good?"

Kanae knelt down and put a hand on his shoulder.

"We aren't here to pass judgement on you. Find your answers in this instead. Arenade, come here!" 

"Guh… Take this and… find love and acceptance through my… holy temple…" Arenade struggled with each word like it was killing her, picking up a sex toy of her upper chest to give the man.

"I see it!" He marveled at the slime copy of Arenade's bountiful boobs and teared up, then buried his face into the mounds. "Of course… Why didn't I see it sooner? The answers lie in the bosom of Demigoddess Arenade! Thank you for opening my eyes! Thank you!"

Arenade did the same, burying her face into both hands.

"It's official. I'm defiled forevermore."

"Hey, this place is great!" Edina exclaimed from the other side of the stairs, chucking pocket pussies into the crowds and delighting in them fighting over it. "People appreciate copies of my body and pussy. I knew I was a grade-A lay after all."

Kanae glanced up to the entrance of their church, where Thedia was holding Teana and watching from a safe distance.

"Oh, shit. Big trouble alert! Get the big whacking dildo ready!" Edina warned.

The mass of people began to part as someone stormed across the plaza. It was Bishop Rudo and a group of robed priests. He was clenching a pocket pussy, lips curled to a scowl.

"What is the meaning of this… this heresy?! This affront to the Supreme One?" Bishop Rudo yelled, then locked eyes with Kanae. "You… You… filthy harlot."

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