Cecily/History

## Early Life

Not much had been revealed of Cecily's early life prior to her becoming a Priest of the Axis Order in devout worship of Aqua, though it was noted that afterwards she had been preaching at child followers of the Eris Order in Arcanletia to the point their parents sent them elsewhere.

## Journey to Axel Arc

Some days after spending all her money on a load of limited grape-flavoured Gelatinous Slime that she had to sustain herself with, Cecily noticed Mitsurugi at the doors of the Axis main cathedral hoping to recruit a healer into his party for the purpose of defeating the Devil King. Upon identifying his Gram as a precious cursed sword that indicated his prowess and wealth, she tried to make him treat her to a meal. As the dismayed Mitsurugi revealed how Soketto had divined about his need to protect a Priest of the Axis Order, Cecily fervently proceeded to woo him so she could live in luxury, and ended up scaring the Sword Master off. Despite Mitsurugi eventually giving Cecily something solid to eat for the next few days, she was left starving following his departure, thus she went to the local Eris Church and tricked the unfriendly Eris Priests with her tears, before suddenly making off with a sack of bread supposed to be for handing to the needy.

Cecily got cornered by those two Eris Priests some days later for defacing the portraits of Eris at their church, so she screamed and feigned being assaulted, which attracted the attention of Megumin as she came to her "rescue". Using the lovely loli as a distraction, Cecily slipped away and sought out a policewoman, to whom she reported that the Eris Priests were harassing a young girl. Cecily subsequently returned with the policewoman, then as the anxious Eris Priests were being questioned, she grabbed Megumin and escaped.

Although she failed to persuade Megumin into signing up for the Axis Order, Cecily still convinced the starving loli girl to the Axis main cathedral for food, where the ploy to forcibly convert her through offering her a meal also failed. While washing dishes with Zesta at the kitchen some hours subsequent, Cecily who anticipated bathing with Megumin was reminded by her superior of her rotation to clean the distribution system for hot springs water that night, so she took out her sack of limited Gelatinous Slime powder, which she planned to trade some of in exchange for Zesta taking over her cleaning duties, and merrily ran off following his approval. Cecily proceeded to harass Megumin at the baths and attempt crawling into her bed, but stayed at the cathedral while Megumin went into town with Zesta the following day, though she also ignored the complaints from inns all over the city about the abnormalities with their hot springs. She later joined the mob of Axis followers blurting out Zesta's perverted deeds and harassing the female knight in charge of arresting him for conspiring treason, before agreeing how nothing significant would change even with him gone.

Drinking herself into a stupor to celebrate Zesta's arrest and waking late the next morning as a result, Cecily enlisted Megumin and Yunyun's help on petitioning votes for the next head of the order as well as obstructing other candidates, in the process thwarting another candidate's attempt at using her panties to buy votes for himself instead of her. She treated some Gelatinous Slime to the exhausted Crimson Demons afterwards, and then accompanied them to inns complaining about their hot springs water turning into grape-flavoured Gelatinous Slime, much to her delight. Subsequently arriving at the distribution system where hot springs water running down from the main spring in the mountains are circulated, Cecily became elated at the water replaced by her favourite snack, before getting disappointed because the policemen who retrieved a sack of Gelatinous Slime powder from the facility prohibited her from drinking the evidence. When the three of them afterwards ran into Zesta as he was being released from the police station, Cecily changed her tune into claiming how she believed in his innocence all along, and accordingly tried to bribe Megumin and Yunyun with Gelatinous Slime powder.

At the appearance of Arnes, who the Crimson Demons explained was after Chomusuke, and her subsequent unmasking as a Demon, Cecily joined Zesta in accusing her for the incident with the hot springs, then proceeded to accompany him and other Axis followers into fanatically hunting after the baffled Arnes. Following them chasing off the Demon, at nightfall Cecily shared the order's hot springs with Megumin in the small baths that were Blasted out, prompting Megumin to create a bigger bath for them with Explosion. The next day as Megumin and Yunyun prepared boarding the caravan to Axel, Cecily gifted Megumin a packet of Axis conversion forms, which were immediately rejected.

Several days later, Cecily was shocked to find her whole sack of Gelatinous Slime gone, and grieved over her hunch that Arnes had used her Gelatinous Slime for sabotaging the hot springs (where in the anime, she already knew about Zesta being the one who poured the powder in). At that moment, she was notified by Zesta about a divine telepathy from Aqua herself, in which the goddess asked her follower to borrow her money. Upon Zesta identifying the message's source to be Axel and deciding to send somebody over for investigating, Cecily in accordance with Lady Aqua's teachings gratefully volunteered.

## Irregular of Axel Arc

Arriving at Axel the day when the hunting squadron assembled by the Guild was defeated by Host and prompted the male adventurers to look around for Aqua, Cecily took the disaster as a sign that she needed to use the order's funds for hiring people who could find her goddess and vanquish the Demon. Since the Axis followers in the city numbered pitifully few, she found her way into the inn room Megumin was staying in to seek the beloved loli girl's aid as well as sniff the bedsheets, and managed to secure her assistance with a 10 million eris reward. Heading into the city at dusk in search of Aqua, Cecily correctly guessed that she could be found at the public baths and bars, though Megumin dismissed it as nonsense and brought Cecily to the local Eris church. The Axis Priest proceeded to loathingly attempt breaking inside as the Eris Priest within did her best to keep her out, then while Megumin went to speak to the Eris Priest in her stead, Cecily threw a stone to break the church window, resulting in her and Megumin getting chased off by the enraged Eris Priest. She was next brought to the nearby orphanage despite wanting to enter a bar where Aqua was performing at, and shamelessly guzzled the charity meals provided. Finally searching the public cemetery after nightfall, Cecily purposefully scared Megumin into screaming, before Chomusuke noticed Wiz standing behind them, at which the girls panicked and fled. Despite failing to find Aqua, Cecily still drank late into the night at their inn's bar, so she let Megumin head to the Guild alone the next day while she got some sleep.

Cecily subsequent to waking up went to the Eris church for the purpose of throwing stones, where she pestered them into telling her the details regarding how the party of Rex who they had been treating had been defeated by Host. She returned to the inn shortly before Megumin came to her asking for an advance on the 10 million eris of rewards, so Cecily happily hugged Megumin as she handed over a bag that actually contained rocks. After giving an irate Megumin the real bag with money, Cecily revisited the Eris church to Heal Rex's party in a snub to the Eris Order, then went back to the inn just as Megumin asked her to take care of Chomusuke. Running into a Megumin hurrying to where Yunyun and Rex's party were battling Host the following morning, Cecily Blessed Megumin and saw her off.

A day later, Cecily, who realised that she needed to learn more powerful Priest Skills in order to sound cooler as well as vie for leading the Axis Order's branch at Axel, bid farewell to Megumin and Yunyun, before heading out on an adventuring journey.

## Beginner Adventurer Arc

Cecily at some point returned to Axel, and got wind about Mitsurugi's Gram being sold to a general store, thus she lay in wait for him to come buying back the cursed sword. Upon Dust purchasing Gram instead, Cecily confronted him in an attempt to make him hand it over for free so she could use it as leverage to force Mitsurugi into pampering her for life, and failing that tried to trick him into signing a conversion form though to no avail. She soon ran off to trick Eris followers for money without luck, then running back to Dust some time later offered to date him, only to discover in dismay about the sword already sold back to Mitsurugi. Cecily eventually hurried to prepare marriage certificates when Dust claimed that Mitsurugi was looking for her to join his party.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Interlude Theatre: Act II
2. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Interlude Theatre: Act I
3. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Interlude Theatre: Act III
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 3
5. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Interlude Theatre: Act IV
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 4
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Explosion Television Anime, Episode 8
8. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 2, Interlude Theatre: Act V
9. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 3
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 4
11. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 2