Gospels for Days of Passion!/Synopsis

## Audio Drama

Kazuma one day brings his party to visit Wiz's Shop, and while merrily sipping the tea served by Wiz, brags about himself now being among the wealthy. Megumin and Darkness thus criticise him for getting carried away after receiving a huge reward, though Kazuma goes on to boast of purchasing an expensive vase for the sake of demonstrating his artistic taste. When Wiz offers to refill their tea, however, she startles Aqua who had been worriedly contemplating something since morning despite her denying it. Vanir next pops out to mock the clumsy Priest lacking intelligence, before offering a merchandise she will need, and as the two of them stealthily discuss out of the others' earshot, Kazuma dismisses their commoner troubles, to the disgust of Megumin.

Luna then arrives to talk with Wiz about a quest against Ghouls spotted near a cave outside town, but while Darkness and Megumin express surprise over those middle-tier Undeads appearing so close to town, Aqua instead accuses Wiz of being the evil mage who created the Ghouls. Although Luna dismisses the accusation, she and Darkness agree on the part about the Ghouls getting created through magic by an even more powerful Undead dwelling in the cave, which calls for asking Wiz the powerful mage to help vanquish it. Vanir is accordingly pleased to have the sorry excuse of a shopkeeper work her body for paying off her debts, and Aqua meanwhile complains about everyone ignoring her who is the expert on dealing with Undeads here, before declaring her intent to join in so she can earn a fortune. Darkness and Megumin too propose joining the quest, elating Luna with the prospect of the four powerfully skilled women tackling the threat, though it dies down as soon as Kazuma who calls himself essential says he is going along as well.

On their way to the cave, Aqua still suspecting Wiz to be the culprit of raising those stray Undeads suggests purifying her anyways to see if the Ghouls will continue showing up afterwards, to the shopkeeper's horror. Megumin next comments on how Ghouls are a threat when attacking in a horde, a prospect that excites Darkness. Aqua thus boasts of taking all the Ghouls out with a widespread blast of purification magic, at which Wiz reminds the Archpriest not to catch her in it too since she is a Lich.

Despite feeling relieved by the presence of a Lich and a goddess in their gang, Kazuma soon considers himself an idiot for thinking that once he sees a panicky Aqua fleeing in tears from the horde of terrifying Ghouls all attracted to her while biting on something humanoid. After he and Megumin yell at Aqua for running towards their direction, in the process dragging an elated Darkness with them, Wiz takes out all the Ghouls with Cursed Crystal Prison. As she next finds herself being burned by the tears of the grateful Aqua embracing her, Kazuma clarifies that the humanoid munched on by the Ghouls was a Goblin. Upon Megumin and Darkness being surprised at the usually cowardy Kazuma appearing unperturbed by the gruesome sight, he reminisces on how he had grown accustomed to these types of graphics, which during his NEET days he had been tricked through temptations of erotic images into downloading.

Advancing into the dark cave, the gang is soon faced by a boss-like Undead man who promises doom to the beginner adventurers. His monologue of dread, however, is ignored by Wiz who identifies him as the culprit to Aqua's awkward agreement, as well as Megumin and Darkness who respectively express displeasure at that Vampire having red eyes and blond hair like them. After Kazuma deadpans for the girls to try listening, the irate Vampire who identifies himself as Wolfgang Crow unleashes his Hypnotic Gaze, only to discover in shock that it has no effect on Wiz, since being a Lich she is immune to status abnormality attacks.

Wolfgang though doesn't believe Wiz to be a Lich, which he describes as ugly skeletons no match for Vampires. As Aqua who tells Kazuma of how she can take out Wolfgang with one God Blow decides to watch the rivalry between Vampires and Liches play out, Wiz makes a retort by citing Vampires to be narcissists that have a lot of weaknesses. Enraged, Wolfgang casts Lightning at Wiz, and eventually believes her identity as a Lich upon his magic having little effect. The two self-proclaimed "Kings of Undead" proceed to bicker about who's the stronger, but just as they are about to fight it out, Aqua gleefully asks for a calm conversation.

After the gang hears Wolfgang explain his origins as a noble who got turned into a Vampire and decided to lurk around Axel where there are no powerful adventurers for the purpose of building his power, Wolfgang offers to make them his Vampire minions if they let him drink their blood, though they will only turn into Ghouls if they possess impure bodies that had already experienced sexual activity. Kazuma's party proceed to identify themselves as pure, with Darkness showing some hesitations upon her turn. When Aqua next talks of purifying Undead uniformly no matter if they are good or bad, Wolfgang expresses disbelief at the concept of "good Undead", and later feels disgusted at Wiz listing how "good" she had been when treating Aqua at her shop. He proceeds to declare humans as food and slaves, then upon Wiz calling him a narcissist over it, challenges her to a battle for deciding who is the "King of Undead".

Just as the two top-tier Undeads are about unleash their powerful magic, much to the horror of the humans present, Aqua who doesn't read the atmosphere blasts them both with Turn Undead, dissolving part of Wiz while reducing part of Wolfgang to ash. As the two Undeads complain over them nearly dying, Aqua makes a nonsensical proclamation that she being an Archpriest who's also the strongest Undead Killer in this world gets to decide which one of them is the "King of Undead".

Citing how the "King of Undead" should have high resistance to magic, Aqua asks Megumin to cast Explosion on the two Undeads to see which one can endure it, to the shock of them both especially Wolfgang, who tearfully begs for mercy in a way Darkness finds pitiful. Aqua though refuses to let Wolfgang who clearly holds malicious intent towards the townsfolk go, and threatens to purify anyone of them if they attempt to flee the contest. As both Undeads wail of how even they will be destroyed by the enthusiastic Megumin's Explosion, Kazuma seeing that Megumin has chosen the experience points from defeating two top-tier Undeads over Wiz calls for a more peaceful contest method such as Drain Touch, though his is subsequently piqued by Wolfgang lauding him for having dull eyes like an Undead in addition to Darkness yearning for getting Drain Touched.

Aqua accordingly tells the Undeads to Drain Touch her simultaneously, cutting off Wiz's protests before the puzzled Wolfgang accepts the idea. The Vampire proceeds to drain Aqua's magical power, then in response to him describing Liches as shut-ins who know nothing but researching magic, the initially hesitant Wiz who insists about some people turning into Liches for saving those they hold dear also Drain Touch Aqua. But when the Undeads begin wondering how victory is to be determined or how much magical power should they drain, Aqua suddenly grabs onto their hands in order to make them continue draining, following which the Undeads both start feeling awful. By the time Kazuma points out that Aqua doesn't care about their contest and only wants to torment the Undeads, much to their horror, it is already too late for stopping Aqua from forcing her magical power into them. Seeing the disintegrating Undeads unable to pull themselves free from the strengthened grip of Aqua, who haughtily declares wanting to see which of them can last longer after absorbing her holy magical power, Kazuma calls for Megumin and Darkness to stop her and save Wiz. The particularly unrelenting Aqua though shrugs off their efforts to make her relent, and faced with Wolfgang and Wiz respectively swearing to become a vegetarian Vampire who doesn't harm people and begging for more time for her to complete her mission, Aqua simply promises demise to any "King of Undead".

The next day at Wiz's Shop, Kazuma complains about the wearisome quest they had, then after Darkness grumbles over her getting no action, he becomes mad at Megumin who had released her pent-up Explosion somewhere outside town late last night. Aqua though forces the translucent and weakened Wiz into refilling their tea, making Kazuma yell at the useless goddess for nearly having Wiz follow the footsteps of the purified Vampire.

He then asks her if she knows anything about his precious vase, which he discovered earlier in the morning had actually been smashed but got its pieces stuck together by rice, a sure indication of the culprit. When Aqua tries to come up with excuses, Vanir makes an untimely notification of the magical item she had stealthily ordered yesterday for repairing smashed vases having arrived, so Kazuma at last understands why was Aqua so insistent on getting the quest reward. Aqua quickly asks to have the vase repaired so the misdeed can be written off, despite Kazuma claiming emotional damage and making Aqua be the one to pay for that magical item.

Vanir though feels puzzled at Kazuma thinking the vase to be precious, so the self-proclaimed "hero of the town" boasts of how he purchased it at a royal antique show for the discount price of 100 thousand eris, a deal Megumin and Darkness senses something wrong with. When Kazuma continues bragging of him identifying the vase to be a masterpiece, however, the laughing Vanir points out how he had actually been duped by a con man with something that's only worth 100 eris. Aqua accordingly cackles hysterically at the embarrassment of Kazuma, who Vanir describes as having only 100 eris worth of artistic sense, before the enraged Kazuma smashes the vase and bursts into tears. Relieved at simply having broken a 100 eris vase which she can buy plenty of, Aqua continues taunting Kazuma over his lack of artistic sense even though he got rich, then heads off to drink when Darkness and Megumin are puzzled at her reference of "100 eris shops", leaving behind a bawling Kazuma.