Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - ep04

In the time that Yuusha has left to go search for the Mage, Maou has been preparing for her confrontation with the Alliance. That means that if her meeting with the Merchant goes poorly they might have abandon everything they have work for so far to make a run for it. Then as thing are it appears that Maou wants something different from them then what she desired from the Lake-shore Order. That by introducing them to corn, she wants them to send settlers to the northern lands. The reason that they haven't been settle yet was because they didn't have anything that could be grown up there but with the corn it is now possible. Then with this the Merchant realize what she is really trying to sell him is an idea, but he has yet to see what she would get out of it. When she conveys that she want the war to end in neither victory or defeat, he see it as nothing more than heresy.

The as the tension rises, Maou goes about reminding him of what he truly is. That his only true interest is profit and loss, that official the Alliance supports the war is justice. While in reality they really don't want the war to end because with it conclusion they will lose valuable business. Although on a personal level he is offended, but it also reminds him of the Alliances teachings. You are a merchant before you are human, and you are a merchant before you are a servant of the church. That nothing that was offered here is in violation of the Alliance doctrine, this truly amuse him to no end. Although before he leave he proposes to the Maou however he is turn down, but I don't think he is going to stop trying.

The rest of the episode focus on Yuusha avoidance of the Maou, that things haven't turn out the way he initially expected them to. That when she ask him to be her, he initially believe that he need his powers to do something like for instance closing the gate between the two realms or putting down a demon rebellion. Instead she intent on keeping him from dirtying his hands, that it is questionable that she even need him for anything in the first place. Although this is only one of the issue that is going on, it seems that central are going to force the southern nations to go to war. Although there really isn't anything that they will able to do about it because they are still dependent on Central to survive, no matter how much thing have improved recently. That next time things are going to be a bit more lively.