Clean-Up Duty, with the Slimes

***Clean-Up Duty, with the Slimes*** is the fourth episode of the By the Grace of the Gods (anime).

## Summary

Ryoma Takebayashi arrives at Miya's house and believes that this would be his first and final task at the Adventurers Guild. The house is overflowing with trash. But even so, Ryoma and his slimes show their remarkable ability to clean. However, it isn't only Miya's house that needs cleaning. It turns out the town of Gimul desperately needs Ryoma's cleaning skills.

## Plot

Ryoma finds out that Miya's house is overflowing with trash from a nearby dump. The garbage kept pouring in faster than anyone could clean it until it got to the point where nobody wanted to do the job.

Ryoma uses his scavenging slimes to get rid of the garbage first. Then, he used his Mist Wash skill and cleaning slimes to clean Miya's basement. Next, Ryoma uses Create Blocks to patch up the hole at the garbage disposal plant. In just a few hours, Ryoma and his slimes have finished the assignment.

Miya can't contain her happiness and raises Ryoma's reward pay. The young boy runs into Worgan, and the latter asks him about his skills and offers Ryoma another job, to clean the communal toilets. The government issued the job, but they refused to pay someone to clean it since Gimul's resources are running low. But not only that, the government officials don't want to pay the cleaners a fair wage. So, the job of cleaning the communal has become a mission for the Adventurer Guild. Later that day, Ryoma informs Reinhart and the rest of the Jamil family about the town's situation. Reinhart, upon hearing this, concludes that the officials have embezzled the town's funds.

The following day, Ryoma and his slimes head out to clean the notoriously dirty communal toilets. The slimes run in first and get rid of all of the filth, and with a bit of magic, the first toilet is clean. Ryoma makes a harrowing discovery the toilets had countless amounts of miasma built up. The young boy wastes no time and rushes over to the Adventurer's Guild and informs the Jamil family and Worgan of his discovery. Eliaria Jamil and Elise Jamil are worried that Ryoma has gotten sick from the miasma, but the young boy is doing well. He appreciates the concern that two women show towards him.

Ryoma announces that he wants to continue with the job to get rid of the miasma and cut off the source. However, they are worried about Ryoma's safety. To convince them to let him do the task, Ryoma shows them his status board that displays Ryoma's resistance and other skills that make it harder for him to die. Even though they are worried, they are thankful that Ryoma will embark on such a dangerous mission.

A group of Adventurers and Miya Catt have gathered at the communal toilets and cheer for Ryoma but also keep watch while Ryoma works. Thus, ensuring that the civilians kept a safe distance from the danger. Meanwhile, Reinhart and his men go through countless documents to find out the source of the embezzlement. Ryoma works throughout the night and declines to take a break.

Ryoma finally finishes on the morning of the third day. All 30 toilets are clean and sanitized. The young boy starts to reminisce about the days he used to work until sunrise and how his mother would always stay up to greet Ryoma the moment he walked in. But one day, she passed, presumably due to how tired she was for staying up so late.

Ryoma walks into the Reinhart residence and is shocked that every member of the Jamil Household was waiting for him. The moment brings a bout of nostalgia and sends the young boy to tears.

## Characters

* Ryoma Takebayashi
* Miya Catt
* Worgan
* Reinhart Jamil
* Sebas
* Reinbach Jamil
* Eliaria Jamil
* Elise Jamil
* Jeff Grange
* Welanna
* Mizelia
* Asagi
* Leipin
* Ryoma's Mother
* Araune
* Lilian

## Trivia

* Miasma is a very destructive magic power that can harm a person physically and mentally
* King Scavenger Slime has a skill called "Gluttony"
* There's a few bad jokes in the English Dub about the public toilet issue.
	+ The Guild mastee said "everything literally went to crap"
	+ Ryoma says "there was a a crap ton of miasma."