Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - ep08

It seems that their intent with this episode is to define how things have change this the absents of the Maou. They get start early with the use of the ring of illusion that the Maou left them, in trying to see if the Merchant could see through the illusion. Although he was capable of seeing through it, he explains the reason was quite simple intuition. That further more he understand the need to keep up appearances. Then from here Yuusha decides to trust the merchant, and let him in on the secret. This results in Yuusha taking the merchant to gate city, where he go about showing him the only city that both races coexist. Then later as they are having a drink together, Yuusha wants to hear his view on the city. When the Merchant comments that it is the orchard where the golden fruit goes, this leaves Yuusha to believe that he made the right decision to bring him hear. That with this in mind he is going to leave the city in his care because from meeting the Maou, Yuusha believe that merchants might be the first to try and find something beyond profit and loss.

Then from here we transition back to the human world where, it seems that tense are rising. The reason for this is that the church has called the Crimson Scholar a heretic. However from the merchants perspective we see that there are is a deeper political agenda going on here. It could be that this attack has been put into action by either the White-night King that what revenge against the Winter King for stealing what he felt should have been his victory. There is also the probability that central has put the church up to this because they see what the Crimson Scholar as a threat to their dominance over the southern nations. However whoever is pressuring the church doesn't really matter in the end, the question is how are they going to get out of this problem. Although Yuusha has time to come up with a plan since, the winter king came to warn them about whats going on. That it seems currently the only plan that they have is to allow them to capture the Maou then rescue her after she cross the winter kings border so that his kingdom would be free of guilt.