Rita Melpheus

Rita Melpheus is one of the female protagonist of the series and the second slave that Nagi have...

Appearance
Rita is a fox beast-kin

Background
She was a member of the beastmen race and was born with a skill that allowed her to be compatible with the sacred element, for this she was expelled because that element was incopatible with the beastmen race. Rita then lived her childhood in an orphanage of the church of Itulna, having to hide her beastman features for a long time. Once she reached her teens, became a member of the Itulna church thanks to the fact that she has a good compatibility with the sacred element.

Plot
After a long time working in the cult, Rita was chosen to hold the third most important position of the church of Itulna, great priestess, and was entrusted a job to do administration on Metakal to recruit people who possess a certain capacity for sacred power.

The pilgrimage to Metakal city and some incidents
Rita along with some escorts were traveling to the city of Metakal through the route that connects with the capital of the kingdom, two travelers asked to travel with them. The escorts denied him such thing because his slave was from a race they despise, but the traveler revealed that she was his wife role-playing as a slave and that she was purified with the "power of love", after hearing so many barbarities from the mouth of the traveler Rita came out of the carriage and allow them to accompany her while she would take care of scolding the traveler for such behaviors.

Once they both enter in, while they were talking, Rita clung on the young girl called Cecyl while stroking her head, on the other hand, insulting the traveler named Nagi every time he wanted to address her a word (although every time this happened Rita had to control his vocabulary so she could continue to clung more on Cecyl), after a while tehy reached a town and both Rita and Nagi's group took different paths.

The Itulna church members were preparing a camp near a lake, but were attacked by a monster that was living in the same lake, the escorts didn't last long and Rita was barely resisting the monster attacks. Then Nagi and Cecil appeared, but Rita got annoyed for Nagi's comments about how she ended up in that situation. Nagi tells her that he is willing tto help her in exchange for not much money once they finished with the monster, she decided to accept and, with some anger, makes the contract so that she would pay the debt and in the case of not being able to pay she would accept to be Nagi's slave.

After a while of fighting the monster, Rita noticed how strange the skills of both Nagi and Cecyl were, once the battle ended Rita aproached them and asked what kind of people were they and what with those skills, but Nagi ask her to not tell anybody about it and recommended that she leave that profession before it affects her negatively, thought she was outrageous by such statement she calmly refused saying that she would keep her decision to continue with the church, then Nagi invites her in case she would like to accompany them and both go separate ways once more.

After the conflict of the monster both Rita and her escorts had to recover from the damage of the battle so it took them a few days to reach Metakal, once they arrived in the city Rita explained what happened to the members who were in that city and told them that they had to pay what was agreed in the contract, however they refused to do so by putting the excuse that the appearance of the monster was a divine punishment for allowing a dark elf to get on one of the transports. Rita did not take it well and after a brief discussion she punished those who didn't want to pay by hitting them, this caused not only her expulsion from the church but also her compatibility with the sacred element was sealed, so she was forced to go where was Nagi to pay the debt. Since she did not posses any money to pay, the contract turned her into a slave.

After explaining the situation to Nagi, he tells Rita that he wanted to take revenge for the attitudes the members of the church took, however the priest in charge of the Metakal church appeared. He claims that he heard about Rita's contract and came with the intention of buying her, the priest then says a bunch of barbarities making Rita tremble in despair. Nagi after hearing such nonsense gave him an absurd cost that he would not be able to pay, the priest claims the price is unfair and then Nagi tells him that Rita will become a slave that he could never be able to obtain. Nagi feigns to create a permanent slave contract with Rita, making the priest despair to the point of threat Nagi, but Cecyl gets in the way and tells him that he will suffer if he dares to hurt his master, consequently he runs away terrified of the place to never return.

Once the situation ended, Nagi had to rethink staying in the city, Rita is decided to help in gaining some money although she regrets that her skills are more limited than before, to which Nagi decides to help her with that issue with a hidden skill he has. After several sensations Rita was able to obtain regain his connection with the sacred element with new skills, although this caused her to reveal her bestial characteristics. Feeling some shame she tells them about her past to both. In response, Cecyl revealed to her that she was a descendant of demons and Nagi revealed that he was someone summoned from another world. Once they finished talking, the group began to decide to work as adventurers so that they would earn enough money to move to the next city.

Abilities
She as a child of beastmen has the capabilities of a fighter using her bare hands alone, since birth she has a high apptitude for Divine Power and as a hybrid she posses the ability to hide her beastmen features to make her looks more like a human being.