Well the show needs him to be mistreated and bullied, so that he can get quick and easy revenge. And he can't very well be mistreated if those big mean bullies are relatively easy to avoid

Point. And also very pretentious of this show.

"It's legal, tho." - Shield Hero, Breaker of Laws

Hee.

This genre is still sorely lacking in emancipation heroes

Yeah, it's just...really lazy and creepy to embrace slavery as a thing.

No she's not

Whether she likes her current position or not, she still doesn't have the option of leaving. It's called a Gilded Cage, liking your imprisonment doesn't make it not-imprisonment.

Yep. But it's all shiny and golden, so comforting cocoon of denial.

And looking at that not-pope's outfit, you know what I'm noticing a distinct lack of?

Any kind of 3s, or weaponry, or anything that symbolizes the religion he's supposedly the leader of. It's just a copy-paste of the Catholic uniform. Nothing about this not-Pope is reflective of his church's beliefs.

I made a comment on the official mirror that his faith is about as Catholic as Yevon from FFX...the religion based on Shinto and Buddhism, with Catholic hierarchy. And actually looks it.

A brief glimpse into a world where the script doesn't bend over backwards to give Naofumi all the best lines

I'll take that as a compliment!

If this world's religion is based on the weapons of its heroes, shouldn't their sins be...whatever the opposite of Sword, Spear, Bow, and Shield are?

Pretty much, but that'd be work, so...

Sounds like she should be more concerned that he's doing slavery, in that case. Since if the demihuman slaver is doing the slavery, then they really have no hope left.

Also, it seems like she's at least a major reason why slavery is still legal

One does lead into the other...

Oh right, I remember that being a big plot point

I never understood why the solution wasn't just...send the heroes to where they were supposed to be summoned at

It was Melromarc seeks to monopolize, something something....

You see why not seeing the first episode makes it actually really hard to figure out what he was accused of? Context clues are kind of contradictory to what actually happened

I do. And really, one gets the sense the actual crime was...forgotten by the plot....

How the hell does the lord of this one village have immunity to taxes across the kingdom?

The path to ease of plot leads one through many studies the Jedi would call "contrivance"...