Bakuen Chapter 10

**The Troublemakers In The City Of Water** (水の都の迷惑教団, *Mizu no Miyako no Toraburumēkā*) is the tenth chapter of the *KonoSuba Bakuen* manga series, and covers Chapter 3 in Volume 2 of the light novels.

## Summary

Bringing Zesta out to show him how to improve the Axis Church's conversion numbers, Megumin's first idea is for her to pretend dropping her apples on the street so a passerby will come help her, then Zesta will show up to be told that the passerby helped her, and will accordingly invite them to a cafe as thanks, where they will convince the passerby to convert. With Zesta amazed by the plan, they decide to test it out on an approaching young woman. However, upon seeing her large bust, Zesta runs out and acts like he dropped his apples. The woman decides to help him, but the perverted looks he gives her while offering to thank her instead scares her away. Zesta afterwards tells Megumin that nothing works from the first time, but they can keep trying.

Megumin decides to change the premise and states that this time, Zesta will attack her. Seeing a tough man approaching, Megumin runs towards him asking for help from a man chasing her. Zesta however remains hidden, making the man who is actually an off-duty policeman wonder what Megumin is talking about. After managing to talk her way out, Megumin feels that she's had enough, and Zesta apologises for hiding since the man looked strong.

Zesta offers Megumin some food as an apology which she accepts, and when asked on why she is travelling alone while they eat, Megumin reveals that she is looking for a voluptuous woman who uses Explosion Magic, to which Zesta recalls having heard about a gorgeous beauty in the town of Axel, who can use Explosion Magic and runs a magical item shop. As thanks for the food and information, Megumin decides that they try recruiting people again.

The two then get in trouble as Zesta steals the toilet paper from the public toilets, with which he tries to hide his face, and leaves conversion forms that people will sign as they pray for divine aid. After the pair manages to escape from a pursuing policeman by hiding in a dumpster, Megumin is ready to head back following another failure, but at Zesta's begging agrees that they shall try once more, though this time she wishes to do it alone.

Zesta who waits for a target tells Megumin that a girl is approaching, so Megumin runs out and trips over, before acting like she injured her leg, only to discover the girl is actually Yunyun. Playing dead as an annoyed Yunyun interrogates her about what she is doing, Megumin gets rolled around by her rival. She then wonders if Yunyun is here due to being worried about her, which Yunyun tries to deny. Zesta subsequently comes out, and on the way back to the main cathedral reveals to Yunyun, who introduces herself as Megumin's rival, how Megumin was helping him recruit people for his church. As they arrive at the cathedral, however, a female knight accompanied by a team of policemen declares her intent to arrest him.

It so happened that when Cecily was confronted by the two Eris followers for all the pranks and harassments she had made against their church, she saw the intervening Megumin as a cute lolita who can fulfill her need of love after the swordsman with the cursed sword fled, so subsequent to running off and leaving Megumin to be chided by the Eris followers, Cecily sought out a policewoman before telling her of how some Eris followers are harassing a young girl.

## Characters

* Megumin
* Soketto
* Zesta
* Cecily
* Chomusuke
* Wolbach (flashback)
* Yunyun
* Soketto (cover)