After taking care of the many problems that piled up and getting at least some breathing room, Naofumi decides to begin restoring the village of Raftalia. But for that, money, construction resources, food, and, of course, the villagers themselves—Raftalia’s fellow villagers—are needed. Many of them were killed by the monsters of the First Wave, and the few survivors were captured and sold into slavery, because in Melromarc, half-people are traditionally considered creatures of the second sort. So they still have to be found and returned—by any means necessary…