The Unaware Atelier Master

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"The Guy In Charge of Chores With Low Self-Esteem Turned Out to Actually Possess Incredible Skills"Transliteration: "Jiko Hyōka no Hikui Zatsuyōgakari ga, Jitsuha Tondemo Sukiru no Mochinushi datta Toiu Yoku Aru Hanashi" (Japanese: 自己評価の低い雑用係が、実はとんでもスキルの持ち主だったというよくある話)

Hisashi Ishii

Deko Akao

Hisashi Ishii

April 6, 2025 (2025-04-06)

Kurt, a young handyman for the Flaming Dragon Fang adventuring party, is fired because the other members deem him completely useless and wish to replace him with a more competent adventurer. Despondent, he travels to the city of Samaela and looks for a job at the Hello Hello Work Station. While he flunks his combat aptitude tests, he is given a temporary job at repairing a border town's walls. Not only does he fix the walls in an impossibly fast time, he also improves on them; and with all the work done, the foreman has no more use of him, although he does transfer a handsome payout for Kurt's services. As he returns to the agency for another job, he encounters Yulicia, a former adventurer and new mine owner who is looking for help in proving her new mine's profitability to avoid having her inheritance impounded within the week. When Kurt offers his help, she reluctantly accepts it, but becomes shock-impressed by his uncanny skills, his naivety towards them, and the startlingly profitable results of his work after he effortlessly converts the crystals he found into extremely powerful magic stones. Mimico, the magic shop owner she sells the stones to, offers to promote the funding of a magic research atelier, with the stones' creator as its director. In order to protect Kurt, Yulicia decides to keep his identity and abilities secret from the public.

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"His First Atelier"Transliteration: "Hajimete no Kōbō" (Japanese: はじめての工房)

Harume Kosaka

Saeka Fujimoto

Hisashi Ishii

April 13, 2025 (2025-04-13)

Yulicia returns to discover that Kurt had built a cabin in her absence. She tells Kurt of Mimico's offer, but Kurt refuses as he still wants to work for her. While they continue mining, Kurt finds deposits of mithril and orichalcum, extremely rare minerals which are so common in his village that he treats them like everyday finds, and digs a tunnel right through the mountain in mere hours, providing Yulicia with a means to pay off her taxes by charging travelers for using this new shortcut. While conferring with Mimico, Yulicia agrees that Kurt needs to become an Atelier Meister so the kingdom can protect and monitor him. Meanwhile, the Flaming Dragon Fang disbands after their efficiency has dropped mysteriously after Kurt's dismissal and being replaced by another adventurer, and party leader Golnova has become a wanted fugitive because of his destructive rage over missing out on Kurt's cooking. Kurt bumps into Bandana, the Flaming Dragon Fang's ranger, who convinces Kurt to work for the Atelier Meister Ophelia. While cleaning the atelier, Kurt encounters a young girl named Lieselotte, who is suffering from a curse which Ophelia has been vainly trying to break, and makes her some rice porridge which inexplicably cures her. A shocked Ophelia takes Lieselotte to Mimico, where she is revealed to be Princess Lieselotte, daughter of the King of Homuross and his second wife, the princess of the Gurumak Empire. Her existence ensures peace between the two powerful nations, while her death would cause a war.

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"What Mining Means To Him"Transliteration: "Kare ni Totte no Saikutsu" (Japanese: 彼にとっての採掘)

Koji Sasaki

Azuki Shōzu

Yoshihiko Iwata

April 20, 2025 (2025-04-20)

Mimico suggests three suspects behind Lieselotte's curse: General Sannova Ristkatz, Bishop Tristan Meynolf, and Queen Isadora, the King's third wife. To draw out the culprit, Ophelia decides to open a fictional Atelier where Lieselotte will officially go for required magical training, and Kurt is chosen as the Meister. Kurt gets a job as porter with the adventuring party Sakura, which consists of warrior Kans, his sister Sina the ranger, and Danzo the samurai and group leader. While hunting iron golems in a dungeon, the group is attacked by goblins. Kans and Danzo stay behind while Sina gets Kurt to safety, but they encounter iron dragon golems, only for Sina to be shocked when Kurt singlehandedly dismantles the golems with his mining skills. Secretly directed by Bandana, Lieselotte and Yulicia follow Kurt to the dungeon and rescue the adventurers. Yulicia informs Kurt about the Atelier and hires him as a worker, though officially he is listed as Meister, and also hires Sakura as security. Yulicia sends Kurt to Mimico to rate his skills; Mimico lies and tells Kurt he is merely a mid-rank handyman, whereas in reality, his skills and magic are virtually unmeasurable.

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"New Friends in a New Atelier"Transliteration: "Shin e Bō no Atarashī Nakama" (Japanese: 新エ房の新しい仲間)

Ken Kiyota

Nora Mōri

Hisashi Ishii

April 27, 2025 (2025-04-27)

Mimico and Ophelia decide to open the Atelier in the frontier town whose walls Kurt had repaired. After their arrival, while Kurt is single-handedly building the atelier, Yulicia tells Sakura her and Lieselotte's true identities and about keeping Kurt ignorant of his uncanny skills. Sina is unhappy with lying, but Yulicia points out Kurt is so naïve that villains could take advantage of him; therefore, it will be their responsibility to guard both Kurt and Lieselotte. Bandana contacts Danzo with news that Sakura is targeted by a contract saboteur named Bibinokke. Danzo threatens Bibinokke, but leaves him alive and shortly after, Bibinokke is arrested by Phantom, Mimico's secret police. Bandana receives orders from her master to investigate Kurt's hometown. Sakura are flabbergasted when within only three days Kurt builds an Atelier more luxurious than a mansion, complete with gardens, a self-generating water source, a flameless lighting source, and luxurious bedrooms. Yulicia sets up anti-curse barriers around the Atelier to keep Lieselotte safe, only to find that they have been washed off by Kurt, who believed they were graffiti. With no more supplies to re-establish the barrier, Yulicia realizes she will have to protect Lieselotte herself until Mimico arrives in a few days.

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"A Frontier Town With Enemies at All Sides"Transliteration: "Shimensoka no Henkyō Machi" (Japanese: 四面楚歌の辺境町)

Masayuki Iimura

Nora Mōri

Koji Sasaki

May 4, 2025 (2025-05-04)

For the Flaming Dragon Fang's recent failures, Marlefiss is excommunicated by Bishop Tristan, but is offered forgiveness and promotion if she assassinates Lieselotte. To ensure her obedience, he afflicts her with the same curse he had placed on the princess. Another assassination attempt is foiled by a barrier on the whole atelier created by Kurt, reflecting the curse back on its caster, making him shine brilliantly without killing him; however, the caster is murdered for his failure before Mimico and Ophelia can arrest him. A demon lord, whom Tristan has consigned himself to, uses Marlefiss' magical power to raise and send an army of undead against the town, but General Alreid, the garrison commander (and site foreman from Kurt's renovation job), is shocked when the army is destroyed by the wall sections which Kurt had repaired and imbued with purification magic. Learning of the assault, Yulicia plans to attack the demon hiding in a disused fort with help from Alreid and Kurt's magic crystals. Feeling he is not contributing anything, Kurt distracts himself with blacksmithing, creating a smaller version of Danzo's samurai sword, which he gifts to Lieselotte. Kurt erroneously concludes that Lieselotte is scared of the vandal whose "graffiti" he had erased, and when told that Yulicia has gone to "clean up" the ruins decides to take Lieselotte to the ruined fort to confront the culprit.

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"The Ninth Direction"Transliteration: "Yomoha Kata no Kyū Hōme" (Japanese: 四方ハ方の九方目)

Shigenori Awai

Saeka Fujimoto

Hiroshi Yamamoto

May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)

Alreid and Yulicia confront the Demon Lord, but are unable to kill him because of a magic circle fueled by Marlefiss' magic protecting him, while slowly draining Marlefiss's life force. Kurt and Lieselotte tunnel into the fortress from under the floor. Kurt mistakes the Demon Lord's magic circle for more graffiti, concludes that Marlefiss is working with the graffiti culprit and remains behind to clean it up while Lieselotte goes to find Yulicia. The Demon Lord attacks the princess, but fails to slay her because a spell Kurt put into her new short sword "Butterfly" has created illusory doubles of her. Kurt's "clean up" erases the magic circle, rendering the Demon Lord vulnerable, and Lieselotte uses one of Kurt's magic crystals to banish him and his army. Kurt, with no idea what is really going on, shares his rice ball lunch with Marlefiss (which unintentionally removes her curse), and Marlefiss is arrested by Phantom for her involvement in the attack, but not before she reveals that Bishop Tristan is behind the assassination plot. Kurt cooks a celebratory feast for the army, who are all astonished when the food heals their injuries. Elsewhere, Margrave Taicone pays a visit to his captive, the demon girl Hildegard.

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"The New Papa of a Mysterious Egg"Transliteration: "Fushigina Tamago no Shin Papa" (Japanese: 不思議な卵の新パパ)

Koji Sasaki

Deko Akao

Takeshi Shirato

May 18, 2025 (2025-05-18)

While the Atelier is traveling to a village suffering from drought, Kurt remembers saving a girl called Hildegard, who ate poisonous berries. While Yulicia learns that the neighboring village is also suffering from drought, Kurt uses an underground spring to create a huge lake to help the local wildlife (thereby solving both villages' problems), and the villagers gift them baskets of waterfowl eggs. Lieselotte and Alreid visit Taicone, who insists on having their anonymous Meister named Viceroy of the Frontier despite Lieselotte's protests, since this would expose Kurt. Mimico discovers that Tristan was assassinated by unknown accomplices for his failures. One of Kurt's eggs mysteriously hatches a three-year-old girl that looks exactly like him and accepts him, Yulicia, and Lieselotte as her "parents", and sees Sina as her "big sister". Yulicia is certain she is a monster, but Kurt defends her, and when Sakura backs Kurt up, Yulicia agrees to leave the child, whom Kurt names Akuri, be. Yulicia passes Akuri's DNA to Phantom to identify her species, and Kurt builds a bedroom for her that doubles as a mithril-reinforced cell to prevent her escape. Somehow, Akuri turns up in the carriage heading to their next job, as Sena was supposed to be watching over her. They are shocked to learn that their job includes defeating the Demon King.

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"Akuri's Fwoosh"Transliteration: "Akuri no Byuntu" (Japanese: アクリのびゅんっ)

Harume Kosaka

Azuki Shōzu

Shirato Takeshi

May 25, 2025 (2025-05-25)

After that shocking announcement, Kurt and Yulicia meet their actual client, the daughter of the old wannabe doom prophet, who introduces them to their actual task: revitalizing the appetite of her farm's pigs. Kurt diagnoses the problem and produces a feed mix that the pigs hungrily consume, but which also attracts an immature dragon whom Kurt tames. Yulicia then finds and confronts a sinister pursuer, a dark-skinned demon woman who demands Akuri from them. Just as Yulicia is brought to her knees, Kurt and Akuri (who arrives via teleportation; therefore explaining how Akuri caught up to them) intervene, forcing the demon woman to break off the fight and escape. Kurt later finds her, heavily injured, and nurses her back to health, but also incapacitates her to face punishment; when he casually mentions his childhood demon girl friend Hildegard to her, he notices the woman's unusually strong reaction to that name. As they return to the atelier, Lieselotte introduces a handsome young man, who looks much like an adult Kurt, as the Atelier Master.

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"Lise's Confession"Transliteration: "Rīze no Kokuhaku" (Japanese: リーゼの告白)

Ken Kiyota

Azuki Shōzu

Koji Sasaki

June 1, 2025 (2025-06-01)

Yulicia realizes the man, Rikuto, is an illusion from Lieselotte's sword showing Kurt as a young adult, though Kurt is oblivious to this. Mimico reports Akuri's DNA is human, but her fingernails contain crystals attuned for ancient teleportation magic, meaning that she is not really human at all. They convince Mimico to let Akuri stay at Kurt's place. The imprisoned demon woman, Solflare, admits she needs to rescue her mistress Hildegard, who is imprisoned by Margrave Taicone, and that she had hoped to use Akuri's teleportation magic to do it. Mimico agrees they will rescue Hildegard as long as the woman stays at the Atelier. Phantom reports there is a room in Taicone's mansion that only he can open, so if Hildegard is there they will need to trick Taicone into opening the door. They plan to break in during a three-day festival, with Lieselotte deciding to take Kurt on a date on the first day while Yulicia gets the second day, then rescue Hildegard on the third. On Day One with Lieselotte and Akuri, Kurt admits he has never really been to festivals because of his maintenance worker duties for the Flaming Dragon Fang, so Lieselotte ensures they spend all day having fun. With Kurt all happy, Lieselotte plans to confess her feelings, only for Kurt to spot Taicone's castle nearby. With the mood gone, Lieselotte settles for telling Kurt she and everyone at the Atelier deeply respect and care about him and will continue working alongside him.

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"Yulishia's Date"Transliteration: "Yūrishia no Dēto" (Japanese: ユーリシアのデート)

Fumio Maezono

Saeka Fujimoto

Hisashi Ishii

June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)

To replace the weapon broken in the fight with the Demon Lord, Kurt forges Yulishia a mithril/adamantite sword which she names Snowflake. Before she can begin her festival date with Kurt, he gets involved in a dispute between thugs and a meat bun seller. Phantom hints to Yulicia that Gargel, Taicone's favorite chef, sent the thugs as he is afraid of being defeated by the meat bun stall in the food-stall competition. With the stall owner badly injured and since the thugs had destroyed the meat bun stall's confections, Kurt designs a new sweet bun from ingredients available at the festival. Gargel tries to hire the thugs again, only for them to be revealed as Lieselotte and Phantom in magical disguises. Gargel tries to attack Lieselotte (unaware of her true status), so he is imprisoned for life, leaving Taicone with no chef at his mansion. As he has a meeting with Lieselotte the next day, Taicone hurriedly demands a replacement chef and settles on the winner of the food stall contest: Kurt. On the third day, Yulishia and Lieselotte head to Taicone's mansion with a plan to rescue Hildegard, only for Phantom to urgently report Kurt was forcibly taken to Taicone's kitchen to serve as chef, along with Akuri, ruining their plan at the last second.

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"The Margrave's Secret"Transliteration: "Henkyō Haku no Himitsu" (Japanese: 辺境伯の秘密)

Shigenori Awai

Nora Mōri

Yōko Īzuka

June 15, 2025 (2025-06-15)

Once inside the Margrave's mansion, Kurt gets pass the inaccessible area with the help of Akuri and easily opens the door there to the impregnable room, but instead of Hildegard, he finds an elderly woman named Famil, Taicone's daughter who supposedly died years ago. Lieselotte manipulates Taicone into believing he is alone with Rikuto and overhears Taicone asking about eternal youth. Taicone explains that since demons live for thousands of years, it should be possible to extend human life by transplanting demon cells into human bodies; however, this is declared illegal. Realizing from his desperation that Taicone wants the youth drug for someone else, Lieselotte fakes a break-in, then follows Taicone as he rushes to Famil's room. Famil leads Kurt to Hildegard's cell. After freeing her, Hildegard blames him for her imprisonment, claiming she has not aged since Kurt cured her of poison with a potion of Rainbow Flowers before Taicone finds them. Despite all the evidence that Famil suffers from a rapid-aging disease and Taicone hoped to use Hildegard to cure her, Kurt mistakenly concludes Taicone is a lolicon, and when Famil grew too old, he planned to adopt Hildegard to replace her since Hildegard would remain young forever. Astounded by his idiocy, Hildegard paralyses Kurt so she can have a sane conversation with everyone. Despite his motives for imprisoning her, Famil asks Hildegard to kill Taicone.

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"A Common Story About How the Former Head of Chores for a Party of Heroes Was Actually SSS-Rank in All Except Combat Skills"Transliteration: "Eiyū Pātī no Zatsuyō-gakari ga, Jitsuwa Sentō Igai ga SSS Ranku Datta to iu Yoku Aru Hanashi" (Japanese: 英雄パーティーの雑用係が, 実は戦闘以外がSSSランクだったというよくある話)

Hisashi Ishii

Deko Akao

Hisashi Ishii

June 22, 2025 (2025-06-22)

Confronted by Lieselotte, Hildegrad, and Yulishia, Taicone confesses but is still willing to sell even his own soul to have Famil cured. Famil suddenly intervenes, turned young again by Kurt's meat buns. The demon Scripter appears, admitting he was the one who cursed Famil, assassinated Bishop Tristan, and cursed Lieselotte. Yulicia attacks Scripter, who notes Snowflake is a holy sword, so he flees, but re-summons the defeated Demon Lord. They find themselves unable to defeat him. Hildegrad is almost killed, but is saved by a rock hard bread that Kurt gave her, which is strong enough to block the Demon Lord's attack. After undoing Hildegard's paralysis, Kurt and Akuri appear, and after the Demon Lord realizes Kurt must be from Hast Village, he flees the scene. Kurt explains that Demon Lords often attacked Hast, so the villagers became very good at defeating them. Scripter's summoning circle attempts to gather 100 souls worth of magic as payment for summoning the Demon Lord, but everyone is shocked when instead it seizes Kurt's meat buns and vanishes. The Church keeps the incident quiet, since the implication is Kurt could theoretically summon an infinite number of demons using meat buns instead of human sacrifices. Bandana reaches Hast and concludes that not only is Kurt even more powerful than he seems, but that Akuri is connected to the mythical Great Sage. Taicone grants Kurt the rank of Knight, elevates Yulicia to Baroness, and appoints Rikuto Viceroy of the Frontier. Returning to her home with Solflare, Hildegard reminisces how it has been 1,200 years since she and Kurt met as children. Kurt tries to return to his handyman job, but Rikuto announces he is leaving and may be gone for some time, appointing Lieselotte as proxy Viceroy and Kurt as proxy Atelier Meister.