This week has quite the pre-credits stinger: Elf gets a leaf in the mail and declares that it’s time to get married. Her phrasing initially makes her friends believe she’s the one who is marrying her cousin, but it’s actually her big sister; she’s simply been invited.
In fact everyone in the party is invited, as is Guild Girl, who like Slayer doesn’t take enough days off. But before they head off, the party deals with a couple goblin nests, including a church that was overrun by the little shits, where all the nuns were either tortured, raped, or killed.
The party spends the night in the church, and Priestess tries out one of her new Steel-ranked miracles, Purify, to heal and reinvigorate everyone around her. Upon Slayer’s return home, Cow Girl is happy and relieved to see him, as always, and Slayer tells her about the wedding she’s also invited to.
With the usual party enriched by two additional lovely ladies, they set off the next day on horse and carriage to the capital. Elf, Guild Girl and Cow Girl are excited to check out the shops for some wedding clothes, and insist Priestess comes with them, knowing she’s quite incorrect about not looking good in anything.
Slayer pays his first visit to the temple and to the Sword Maiden in a good long time, but he’s his usual cold, detached self around her. Despite how happy and comforted she is to see him, he’s just there to drop off the stone tablets they found in the church.
When she can’t immediately discern whether the ancient texts carved into them are about goblins, he skedaddles. You’re right, Sword Maiden, he is mean as hell! That night everyone eats, drinks, and checks out what they bought.
The next morning the group heads out on a raft, and the blue skies, clear waters, and dramatic rocky cliffs dotted with green make for some very lush and pretty scenery on the way. The only concern is that a lot of boats have been lost in this river of late, and Slayer assumes goblins.
While segueing from rescuing horribly traumatized nuns and hi-byeing the Sword Maiden to fun pre-wedding shopping and then being ambushed from above by hundreds of falling rocks makes for some tonal dissonance, that’s par for the course with Goblin Slayer. Hopefully everyone makes it to the wedding in one piece!
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