Also, I hope it's just overzealous conspiracy detectors going off, but the priest's sketchy expression in that one panel when the mage friend shows up, combined with the mage saying they found traces of "suspicious arts" in the frontier, just makes my brain recontextualize the priest saying "I wish these days could last forever..." as really meaning "Gee I wish I wasn't in charge of sacrificing these orphans for a messed up ritual eventually, wouldn't that be nice? And I'm also suspicious of the mage snooping around because I don't want him finding out about it."