Those cheeks were more than "a bit" red
Looks like the church really is corrupt......which is a shame. I wish more isekai/other world/fantasy stories wouldn't just use them as half(Not even 1d) dimensional plot devices. Its always either church is just good(in a shallow way), or it's a rigged scam for power, or appears to be good at first and is a farce, with very little crossover between.
Now compare that to something like Barbarian Quest, which has a little bit of everything, the good and the bad, a complex web. Where you have a genuine belief system that is practiced for and brings about great good, but at the same time you have corrupt individuals who take advantage of that to amass power and use the institution for their own gains. You have the casual people who use it when it suits them but otherwise don't care about it, and you have the zealots who often take it too far. It's complex, like how people are complex. As opposed to simple and boring.
(This instance doesn't concern me, it just brought to mind that sentiment I have been for some time)
Anyways.... I wonder how many of the family actually survived. And I wonder if the dragon being asleep the curse for Mel herself, or is there something else.